She Built It® Podcast

Welcome to the She Built It™ Experience with Melanie. We bring you conversations with women who have made successful leaps in their life and career and chat about how they are “experiencing the life and business that they crave.” Meet Danielle Dietz, Director of Strategic Partnerships and Development with a focus on children's health at the University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to join...

Welcome to the She Built It™ Experience with Melanie. We bring you conversations with women who have made successful leaps in their life and career and chat about how they are “experiencing the life and business that they crave.” Meet Melanie Barr, Founder and CEO of She Built It™ and Producer and Host of the She Built It™ Experience with Melanie Podcast. Melanie launched She Built It™ in 2015 aft...

Welcome to the She Built It™ Experience with Melanie. We bring you conversations with women who have made successful leaps in their life and career and chat about “how” they are “experiencing the life and business that they crave.” Meet Lauren LoGrasso - Lauren is a Singer/Songwriter, Podcast Host, Public Speaker, actor and Executive Producer of Female Content at a prominent podcasting company whe...

Jennae Neustadt serves as the Sr. Manager of Government Affairs for SHI International Corporation, the largest female and minority owned business in the United States. As a Government Affairs Manager, Jennae oversees a team of lobbyists in Jefferson City, Missouri and helps to manage SHI’s consultants across the country. She also oversees strategic partnerships on the federal level with some of th...

Marcy Tivol has found entrepreneurial and creative joy as the Co-Founder of Solving Fun - an online and virtual company that offers puzzles, activities, and games for kids that focus on perseverance and problem solving. She brings groups of kids and friends together for fun, twist your brain, outside the box, and laugh with other solvers, virtual experiences. Join us as we chat about entrepreneurs...

Mitch Gilbert is the CEO and Co-Founder of OYA - the first women's leggings product engineered for women's health and comfort. After graduating from the University of Chicago with a bachelor’s degree in Public Policy, Mitch became a consultant for Deloitte and then worked as the Chief Product Officer at a sportswear start up. She became obsessed with women’s health and sportswear apparel...

Domonique Townsend is the Founder and CEO of We Optimize Work. She is an engineer, entrepreneur, and working mother of four children who decided to combine her corporate experience with her passion to position working moms for success.  Domonique applied principles that she used to solve complex problems in business and modeled it into a framework to meet both the personal and professional needs o...

For as long as she can remember, D’Wan Carpenter wanted to be a doctor. Her path to becoming a physician was filled with the understanding that medicine would become her life. She has found that as a woman with a family of four young children, and as a doctor, she was often fraught with the challenges of trying to prove herself worthy of being able to prioritize both work and family. “I was consta...

Felicia Alexander, Chief Revenue Officer, TITLE Boxing Club & Co-Founder, BoxUnion, has always had a love of fitness. From a young age, her family encouraged a healthy lifestyle, and she believes that fitness and boxing changes lives for the better. She experienced this personally when she put on her first pair of boxing gloves at the age of 16 after the sudden death of her father. Felicia is...

Carissa Wright can’t remember a time when she wasn’t interested in real estate. Growing up, she often found herself reading magazines with homes for sale and scouring the listings. After college, she spent time in banking where she oversaw branch operations and managed teams of people. Carissa realized she wanted to own her own business so she decided to take her management, customer service, and...

Tracy Seng is conscious about making sure there is joy in her life. “I've been abiding by the philosophy - the more you practice something, the better at it you get. If you practice positivity, you practice being happy, then you're going to get better at being happy. So I've been very cognizant of trying to practice things that are good and positive.” She previously served as SVP Ma...

“When building a brand you always have to have a presence and a voice. When working with clients at Who What Wear, we insisted that brands follow a consistent ‘always on’ approach. So whether we were preparing a campaign for Gucci, Cartier or a new skincare brand, we focused on being ‘always on’ with social, email outreach, and through our expansive digital channels.”  Tracy Seng is unstoppable wh...

When hiring for your businesses finding the right people to work within your business is so important to scale, grow, and make progress. Or, if you're looking for a job, finding the right company and fit for you is equally important. Natasha Myers has great advice if you are hiring or you’re looking for a job. She is the founder of People Tree, a full service recruitment company. “I think it...

We know what we want to accomplish in 2021, from a business and personal perspective, but what if we allow ourselves to go a step further — allow ourselves to dream about making things happen that might be a bit out of our comfort zone and our normal realm of everyday life — what would that look like? Often, we set goals for projects that we’ve already started or for businesses we’re currently run...

I don’t know about you, but I’m determined to make 2021 a better year than this one. Setting intentions, goals, and reviewing business practices are a big part of that process. Magic happens when we focus on the part of ourselves and our business that brings us joy. It helps when our business structure, team, and strategy are created with as much space as possible for us to do what we most enjoy a...

“My passion is to educate women and families on the importance of cyber protection. I designed my product Kamshield specifically with families in mind. While developing the Kamsheild webcam cover I'd go into business meetings all over the world, London, China, the US, and everyone had a little piece of tape or something on their webcam.”  Kameron Miller, Innovator of the webcam cover and Pres...

“We have to applaud the businesses and the brands that are willing to take risks and chances with new technologies. The businesses that decide, ‘we don't know what the future will bring but let's try new technologies and see the response,’ then we can pivot and innovate from there.” Meet Natascha French - Principal at Scale Strategies and the Los Angeles Chapter President of the Augmente...

“When thinking about your web presence, be super clear and concise about your offerings, and have offerings that can be used in different ways throughout your business.” Meet Chelsea Pimienta, Senior Art Director at TIME Magazine and Owner of the successful side hustle, 23&9 Creative. She has an eye for creative genius, she’s a complete joy to work with, and knowledgeable to learn from. Grab a...

The She Built It Experience with Melanie is coming soon! Be sure to subscribe to the feed to get the debut episode in your feed as soon as it drops. Each week, this podcast will bring you new tech innovation, ways to improve business strategies, and look at how to scale your business for revenue and profit. We can't wait to bring you this fantastic new podcast!