LIBERTY ROAD with Nada Jones

We've come to the end of our Female Founder Over 40 Season! In this episode, Nada shares a recap of each episode in our Female Founder Over 40 Season and highlights her favorite quotes from our guests. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

April Uchitel is the Co-Founder of THE BOARD, a vetted network of value-driven consultants bringing C-level “dream team” expertise to brands. April most recently held CEO positions at ONDA Beauty and at Violet Grey. Before that, April was the Chief Brand Officer and founding team member at Spring where she led brand strategy and curation. Prior to Spring, she spent 25 years in the fashion industry...

Susan Feldman is the founder of In The Groove, a new lifestyle destination for age-defying women. In The Groove is a community that celebrates and engages their audience as the evolving and relevant women they are. Founded with a sense of humor, community, and self-awareness, In The Groove is on a mission to free women from rules, age limits, and expectations. In this episode, Nada sits down with...

Shari Boyer founded Plant Society with the mission of educating and providing access to natural remedies for optimal wellness. She was motivated to action by seeing the influence of pharmaceutical companies on our health care system, as well as the poor food available through most mainstream food companies.  In this episode, Nada sits down with Shari Boyer to discuss her passion and her company, P...

Nan Simonsen is a certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach and author of Aging Powerfully: Accept Your Past and Take Control of Your Future.  In this episode, Nada sits down with Nan to discuss her many reinventions and the success she has found, and the lessons she has learned along the way. Nan has had many amazing careers simply by choosing to walk through doors that opened to her.  As a yo...

Alli Webb is the Co-Founder of Drybar and Squeeze and an N.Y. Times Bestselling Author. After spending 15 years as a professional hairstylist, Webb left the hair industry in 2005 to start a family. Alli was a stay-at-home mom for 5 years before deciding it was time to pursue the creative side of hairstyling at a new mom-pace. She began offering affordable in-home blowout services to her mommy frie...

Erica Reitman is teaching online coaches to break the rules in order to break through the noise and find their voice and their people. She is helping them reinvent their businesses, make money and change their corner of the world. In her past life, she was a successful interior designer, and her home has now appeared in two best-selling design books. She’s written for HGTV, Elle Decor, House Beaut...

Heidi Krupp is the founder and CEO of Krupp Kommunications. She is a powerhouse in the world of marketing, promotion and media. Over the last 25 years, her namesake PR agency specializes in creating moments and movements for brands and products. By consciously connecting her network of influencers, media, and personalities, she has cultivated unparalleled relationships across the industry, advocat...

Dr. Sophia Yen is the Founder of Pandia Health is the only Doctor-Led, Women-Founded, Women-Led birth control delivery company.  In this episode, Nada sits down with Dr. Sophia Yen to discuss her passions: women’s health, birth control, and female founders.  As a woman over 40 and someone who had a career before becoming a founder, Dr. Yen speaks on how life’s experiences equipped her to successfu...

Maha Ibrahim is a General Partner of Canaan Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm, where she has worked since March 2000. Maha isn’t our typical guest...Maha isn’t a female founder but she is a female “FINDER”.  In this episode, Nada sits down with Maha and discusses how she approaches her decision-making to invest in early-stage ventures. For many female entrepreneurs, raising capital see...

We've come to the end of our Pivot Season! In this episode, Nada shares a recap of each episode in our Pivot Season and highlights her favorite quotes from our guests. Follow us at @libertyforher on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Please let us know your thoughts about this episode by using the hashtag #libertyforher and please rate and review us—it helps to know if this podcast is inspiring and...

Jessica Comingore Donais is an entrepreneur and creative consultant living in Portland, Oregon. With a deep-rooted passion for design and an intrinsic eye for aesthetics, she finds great satisfaction in helping business owners construct and elevate their brands through meticulously crafted identities, refined art direction, and strategy-driven consulting. Regardless of the project at hand, Jessica...

Marrin Costello is an American businesswoman, designer, and brand-architect. Her entrepreneurial journey began at age 10 after falling in love with the art of jewelry making. Just two decades later, Costello has built a luxury lifestyle brand that has been featured in Vogue, Huffington Post, and Who What Wear, amongst many others — and whose collection can be found in over 100 retailers nationwide...

Shira Gill is a home organizing expert, author, speaker, founder of the #15minwin, and the creative force behind Shira Gill Home. Shira’s mission is to inspire people to clear physical and mental clutter so they can reduce their environmental footprint, create space for what they truly care about, and live lives more aligned with their core values. In this episode, Nada sits down with Shira to dis...

Kimberly Lewis is the owner and buyer of Emerson Grace, a women’s elevated-casual contemporary boutique in Nashville, Tennessee. Kimberly oversees the creative and fashion direction for the store alongside a team of stellar managers and stylists who go beyond selling to build relationships to encourage women to discover and realize their own personal style.   Amy Williams is the CEO of Citizens of...

Angela Mayhoe is the Founder of Angela Mayhoe | KNIT, a slow fashion, handcrafted knitwear brand. In addition to offering her knitwear line, Angela is creating a space for a community that longs to come back to their authentic selves.  In this episode, Nada sits down with Angela to discuss how her 15 years of retail experience led her to launch her own company. Her love for knitting became a reque...

Lindsay McCormick is the founder and CEO of Bite. Bite is an all-natural, zero-waste, tube-free, 100% vegan, gluten-free and cruelty-free toothpaste tablet on a mission to become the world’s most sustainable personal care company.   In this episode, Nada sits down with Lindsay to discuss how Bite’s business model for direct to consumer has flourished during the pandemic. Lindsay and her team have...

LaKeithea Nicole Anderson is the founder of For Us. The Agency, a creative agency that works with Black-owned brands and talent to expand reach and impact. LaKeithea is also the Community Engagement Coordinator for Nashville Community Education, board member of Tennessee Craft Midstate, and on the Marketing Committee for Free for Life International.  In this episode, Nada sits down with LaKeithea...

Molly Sonsteng is the Co-Founder of Madcap Factory and Caveday. Molly’s work focuses on experiences. Whether it is playful and eccentric in-person community events, a perfect s’more, or leading focused productivity sessions in The Cave, Molly is supporting humans to experience. In this episode, Nada sits down with Molly to discuss Caveday’s unique experience of exponential growth due to the global...

This season on LIBERTY For Her we are discussing the importance of pivoting. We are grateful to be launching this important discussion with Erica Courdae. Erica Courdae is what you call a multi-passionate entrepreneur. She is the owner of an inclusive beauty salon, Silver Immersion, and the host of Pause on the Play podcast and a certified diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) coach.  Nada sits d...

We’re back! LIBERTY listeners, it has been a minute. We are excited to let you know that this podcast is now called LIBERTY For Her to match our brand. This year we will be bringing you 4 seasons. Each season has a specific theme and starting next week our theme will be PIVOTING. Join Nada each week as she sits down with a female founder sharing her story of pivoting due to the pandemic or the rac...

When good friends and busy, working moms Karey Burke, Dawn Olmstead and Jenn Worley couldn’t find a great facial that they could afford on a regular basis, they decided to build it. The powerhouse trio envisioned a place where men, women & teens could get spa-grade facials without all the fuss sans dark rooms and Peruvian flute music. Their goal was to create a fun, fresh, modern destination with...

We loved sitting down with the sunny personality that is Amy Tan, not only because her smiles and energy are infectious but because she is serious about creativity in a way I had never experienced before. She is the brand and the brand is her.  This hand-lettering enthusiast is the founder of Amy Tangerine, a brand committed to providing creatives with the tools and space to see the bright, shiny...

Join us for a live podcast interview with Chelsea Shukov and Jamie Grobecker of Sugar Paper. This honest and open conversation about what it takes to create a healthy partnership in business is one of the best we’ve heard. Jamie and Chelsea’s transparency and accessibility are so refreshing. The two cover everything from how they negotiate with one another and set common goals to assigning roles a...

Join us for a live podcast interview with Alli Webb and Brittany Driscoll of Drybar and the newly launched Squeeze Massage.  Most of us are just hoping for one successful business, but Alli Webb, Co-Founder of Drybar, is going after her second entrepreneurial win with Brittany Driscoll, Squeeze’s CEO and Co-Founder, at the helm.  Join Nada and these two powerhouse entrepreneurs as the share their...