Potential to Powerhouse: Success Secrets for Women Entrepreneurs

Amanda Gunawan, Co-Founding Principal of OWIU Design and an award-winning architectural designer, knows firsthand the undeniable power of taking a leap of faith. After a childhood spent in Indonesia and Singapore, Amanda came to California to study architecture, opening her own design studio at the age of 25 with partner Joel Wong in 2018.   At 29, Amanda is also an accomplished product designer a...

You may know  Kim Gravel  from her Belle apparel and beauty collection — QVC's highest-performing and fastest-growing line ever — or her Lifetime docuseries Kim of Queens or her regular appearances on The Steve Harvey Show. This former Miss Georgia isn't known as "America's Best Girlfriend" for nothing. But that's just the start. Not only is she a successful serial entrepreneur and a megawatt TV p...

What lights you up? Are you making decisions based on what you want to do or what you think you should do? Heidi Dugan lives her life as the antithesis of "shoulds" and solely listens to what excites her. Because of that guiding principle, she lives a passionate and joy-filled life surrounded by the people she loves most. And where did following her heart instead of the intrusive "shoulds" lead he...

Tracy Yates is a Transformational Architect and founder of Mindway, her mentorship practice for guiding changemakers, legendary leaders, and visionaries to boundary-less potential. Tracy shares with us her pathway to finding more purpose — no matter what stage of our career we're at. She teaches us how to soar beyond limitations to achieve personal evolution and business expansion in this soul-sti...

Nyakio Grieco wants you to feel seen. The beauty entrepreneur began her journey organically — by learning about the power of natural ingredients visiting her grandmother, a coffee farmer, and her grandfather, a medicine man, in Africa. Ancestral wisdom and world travel led to the birth of Nyakio Beauty , Grieco's first beauty brand, in 2002. Nyakio Beauty has been followed by Thirteen Lune , an in...

Dr. Joe Hirsch is an expert at helping individuals, leaders, and organizations design and deliver feedback without fear. He is now a renowned TEDx and global keynote speaker, but just seven years ago, Joe was living a very different reality in which he did everything he could to avoid receiving any feedback from anyone. Joe and Tracy's conversation centers on what happens when we infuse our conver...

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar is a global spiritual and humanitarian leader, changing lives around the world from all walks of life. Rooted in the innate desire to help people, he founded The Art of Living Foundation, which has transformed not just individual people, but companies, prisons, and schools. In this special episode of Potential to Powerhouse, Tracy speaks with the beloved Indian guru ab...

Andréa Bendewald discovered the power of circling early on in her acting career. Upon moving from New York to Los Angeles, she attended her first circle, which was comprised of actors, singers, writers, and producers, and found out that these successful and self-empowered women had the same complex inner emotional landscape as she did. She instantly felt less alone and more supported. She is now a...

Jessica Huie MBE is an entrepreneur and the author of the bestseller PURPOSE: Find Your Truth and Embrace Your Calling published by Hay House. Jessica enjoyed a glittering career as a journalist and publicist and has worked with some of the world's biggest stars and business people, including Samuel L. Jackson, Simon Cowell, Kelly Rowland, and the Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle. In 2006 Jessica l...

Taking a family business into the future can be a daunting venture. How do you best balance history with vision? And when that business is winegrowing in Oregon's Willamette Valley, home to more than 600 wineries, how do you stand out and continue to innovate? For Alison Sokol Blosser, Co-President, CEO, and second-generation winegrower of Sokol Blosser Winery, the answer lies in staying true to y...

Parenting is difficult. It is even more challenging when you are trying to be the best, most well-rounded parent you can be but you are still carrying the generational trauma that has been passed onto you by your own family. The good news is that it's never too late to reset your approach to parenting, and today's guest is a sage expert who can help guide you along this journey.  Katherine Sellery...

Victoria Thain Gioia, affectionately known as Tori, is the Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Perelel, the first OB/GYN-founded wellness company that offers women dynamic prenatal vitamins, supplements, resources, and community tailored to the varying stages of motherhood. As you'll discover in today's episode, Tori was inspired to launch Perelel with her co-founders, Alex Taylor and Dr. Banafsheh Bayati, i...

Marcia Kilgore, a Canadian-born entrepreneur and founder of several global companies in the beauty and footwear industries, joins Tracy Holland today on this episode of the Potential to Powerhouse Podcast. Marcia discusses her life growing up with a single mom after losing her father at a young age and how that defining experience led to her path to entrepreneurship. From bodybuilding, skincare, a...

Gender disparity in the C-suite remains a pervasive issue, even as strides in closing the gender gap are made elsewhere in the corporate world. Our guest on the Potential to Powerhouse Podcast has defied odds and overcome obstacles with her hard work, determination, and vision. Linda Duncombe is the executive vice president and chief marketing, product, and digital officer of City National Bank, a...

On this episode of Potential to Powerhouse, we welcome Pat Mitchell, an incredible media mogul and the editorial director of TEDWomen. As a journalist, Pat focused on sharing women's stories throughout her career. As the author of Becoming A Dangerous Woman, Embracing Risk to Change the World , Pat advocates for women, creating platforms, networking, and helping others shine. Today she chats with...

Being a prominent woman in power is not easy. You are constantly scrutinized by the media, and there are plenty of bad-faith actors who will criticize you no matter what you do. Nowhere is this judgment more apparent than with the experience of Kamala Harris, Vice President of the United States and the first woman of color to hold this esteemed level of office. Today on the Potential to Powerhouse...

Since co-founding Sakara Life at the age of 26, Whitney Tingle has become a tour-de-force, named in Forbes' 30 under 30, MindBodyGreen's 100 Women in Wellness, Goldman Sachs' Most Interesting Entrepreneurs, and Oprah's SuperSoul 100. Join us today as we talk to Whitney about her journey into entrepreneurship and what inspired her and her Co-Founder Danielle Duboise to launch Sakara Life, an organi...

Today's guest is a powerhouse personified: a visionary real estate entrepreneur, a reality TV star, and a devoted mom. Real talk: Tracy Tutor didn't always have everything as together in her life as she does now, and she's as candid about the challenging times she's faced as she is about her successes. There are many parallels between our guest Tracy and me, and in today's episode we delve into ma...

Do you know what your tampons are made of? This isn't a question that many women ask themselves, but when Alex Friedman and Jordana Kier started to think about the answer, they couldn't stop. After establishing that they had the same level of passion for bringing eco-conscious menstrual products to women in the most convenient way, they began their journey as entrepreneurs through the co-founding...

Our guest today has always wanted to have a positive impact on the world. But her methods for doing so have drastically shifted since she started out, along with her career trajectory. Sarah Dusek first began her career in Africa working with NGOs. After experiencing burnout and frustration at their lack of impact, she and her husband decided to start their entrepreneurial journey in America. They...

With a list of accolades and awards that spans multiple pages, Sarah Kunst is one of the guests who we were most excited to talk to! Tune in today to find out how this impressive entrepreneur has challenged the status quo by empowering other women to find opportunities to invest. Sarah talks to us about her childhood, how her parents shaped her views on gender roles and hard work, and why she feel...

Fawn Weaver is an enterprising entrepreneur, CEO, and the founder of Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey, the fastest-growing American whiskey brand and African American-founded spirit of all time. She's also the CEO and founder of GSI, an investment company. A popular TED speaker and best-selling author, Fawn joins us to share pivotal moments in her life, including her decision to leave her home and fa...

Maria Quiban Whitesell is a powerhouse media weather anchor on Fox 11 news who has been a positive force on television for two decades. She built an award-winning reputation as a trusted go-to for weather and reporting on human interest stories and has developed a fan base that celebrates her bubbly personality on TV. While having to put a smile on her face every day in front of millions on LA's p...

Surviving 11 days in a snowed-in car is an enormous feat in and of itself, but achieving what Jami Marseilles has after having both her legs amputated as a result of this harrowing ordeal is an entirely new level of powerhouse. Jami is a mother, a teacher, an author, and the first woman bilateral below-the-knee amputee to have completed a full marathon (and she's done two!). Everything she does is...

Today on the podcast we have an amazing conversation with a truly inspiring guest to share with you! Fashion designer, business owner, and author. Cynthia Rowley has built an enviable career and life through hard work and dedication to her passion and practice. In our chat, we get to hear about the bigger picture and some of the finer details too. Cynthia talks about her early attraction to fashio...