She Leads with Carly

**TW: disordered eating, depression, and anxiety** Gracie is an American figure skater. She is a 2014 Olympic bronze medalist, a six-time Grand Prix medalist, and a two-time U.S. national champion - both in 2014 and 2016.  In 2017, Gracie stepped away from the ice to seek help for her mental health around depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, and an eating disorder. She recently returned to the...

Raegan is the Co-Founder and former CEO of Aden + Anais – the baby lifestyle brand globally recognized for its high-quality design-driven muslin swaddles and baby products. Her success with Aden + Anais earned her reputable awards, including being named as one of EY’s Entrepreneurs of the Year, considered one of the most prestigious business awards in the world.  Aside from founding,  Raegan sits...

With over twenty years’ of experience, Charlene is one of the most renowned celebrity and editorial stylists of her generation. Her work has graced the Oscars, the Golden Globes and the Cannes Film Festival, earning her recognition in Vogue, Vanity Fair, Forbes and many more. She has become a recognized stylist and designer  for today’s icons including Sofia Vergara, Eva Longoria, and Vince Vaughn...

This episode was first recorded and released in September, 2020. Angie Bastian , the visionary co-founder of Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP , ignited a global popcorn revolution from the confines of her Minnesota garage in 2001. She crafted a beloved brand of gluten-free, non-GMO popcorn that has taken the world by storm. In 2017, Conagra Brands recognized the exceptional appeal of Angie's BOOMCH...

Aisha is the founder of Bossy Cosmetics , a hyper-growth independent beauty company that inspires, empowers, and champions ambitious working women. Under her leadership, the company has grown from a purely digitally native footprint to retailing in over 600 retail doors across the country, including JCPenney and Nordstrom, as well as on Amazon.com. The brand was selected (numerous times) as one of...

My guest today is Wendy Weston. Wendy Weston started Perfect Picnic with a dream, a small blanket and endless drive and passion. She decided to hang up her figure skates, moving on from her career as a successful competitive skating coach. She has worked her way from the bottom literally - from the basements of Chinatown to her Perfect Picnic storefront across from Central Park. Wendy now delivers...

Holly is the Co-Founder of Kabam – a mobile gaming company that sold for approximately $1B to NetMarble in 2017. They grew Kabam to over 1500 employees with 6 offices worldwide.  Prior to Kabam, Holly graduated from UCLA with a degree in Communications and East Asian studies and received her Masters from Berkeley in Information Management and Systems. She started her professional career in consult...

Fran is a serial entrepreneur and Super Founder with over 25 years of experience pioneering category-disrupting B2C and B2B internet businesses. Fran is widely recognized for her leadership as Co-Founder and first General Manager of the online dating service Match.com, Founder of the privacy compliance tech company TRUSTe (now known as TrustArc), and Founder and CEO of her current venture, BabyQui...

My guest today is Emily Harburg .  Emily is the Cofounder and CEO of PairUp, a B2B SaaS platform that boosts workplace knowledge-sharing, increases connectivity, and helps you solve problems more efficiently at work  Emily’s background spans industry, startups, and academia. She has worked at Walt Disney Imagineering where she designed technology for the Disney theme parks, at Facebook (Meta) wher...

Fiona is the Chief Technology Officer at Wayfair, an American e-commerce company that is the destination for all things home  – a place to find the right furniture and home goods online. With 25+ years of experience leading technology teams, Fiona began her professional career working at top technical companies, including Oracle, TIBCO Software and Ariba. At TIBCO, she rose up to be the Vice Presi...

Emily is an American former figure skater and Olympian.  She competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics. She then was the 2007 U.S. National silver medalist.  After retiring from Figure Skating, Emily attended Harvard University and earned her Bachelors degree in Sociology. Her professional career began as a Consultant at Deloitte. After Deloitte, she worked at a handful of reputable companies, includin...

Polly is the CEO and Co-Founder of Unbound, a rebellious sexual wellness company  with the goal to make sexual health accessible to all through elevated design, body safe products, affordable prices, and educational content. As you will soon discover, Unbound’s inspiration stemmed largely from Polly’s experience at 21 years old. She was diagnosed with cancer that resulted in early onset menopause....

To put it most simply: Linda is a biologist and entrepreneur at heart . Perhaps most notably, she is the co-founder of 23andMe, a publicly held consumer genetic data company. She was the co-president of the company from 2006 to 2009. Linda is also the cofounder and former CEO of Precise.ly, an intelligent assistant for clinical care settings. Linda is currently a member on the board of directors o...

Sarah co-founded Nextdoor, the world's largest private social network of neighborhoods used by over 75 million members in over 285,000 neighborhoods across 11 countries (NYSE: KIND). Sarah led product, marketing, growth, and international expansion over 10 years at Nextdoor. Sarah started her career at Microsoft and served as the VP of Product + Marketing at Epinions and Shopping.com before t...

Margaret is a mother of two, the daughter of immigrants, and the Founder and CEO of Three Wishes Cereal, a healthy-while-delicious cereal. Before founding Three Wishes, Margaret was Chief of Staff at BigEyedWish, an ad-agency where she worked with Fortune 100 to seed-round startup businesses. After welcoming her first son, Ellis, with her husband and Cofounder, Ian, in 2017, Margaret realized ther...

Celine is the founder and CEO of Loyal - a biotech startup developing drugs to extend dog lifespan. Before founding Loyal, Celine worked at the Longevity Fund - a venture capital fund investing in therapies with the potential to extend human lifespan. Celine studied the health economics of gene therapy while attending Oxford for her PhD. Prior to Oxford, she received her Bachelors in Neuroscience...

Annie is the VP of Growth and Ecosystems at Microsoft. Prior to Microsoft, Annie has an extensive 10+ year experience in leading product teams. She began her product career at a financial tech startup - before joining Box. Throughout her time at Box, she rose up the ranks to become the Director of Product Management. Thereafter, she joined Glassdoor as a VP of Product and then became the Chief Pro...

Lauren is an executive turned entrepreneur with 19+ years of experience building brands, products, and communities across a diverse set of industries. Lauren is the founder and CEO of Conceive, a digital health platform aiming to change fertility and pregnancy outcomes and experiences. Prior to Conceive, Lauren was VP, Global Head of Strategy and M&A at WeightWatchers, a Senior Partner at Andr...

Becky is a 2X World Cup Champion and an Olympic Gold Medalist - with 216 national team appearances. She serves as the U.S Women's National Team captain and is the first ever President of the USWNT Players’ Association, where she has fought for equal pay for the women’s side. Beyond the national squad, Becky is a 4X NWSL Defender of the Year and 3X NWSL Champion. She led the Portland Thorns to...

Nicole is a 25+ year marketing executive who held leadership roles at Aon Hewitt, Zendesk, and Logitech. Rising from a product marketing specialist, she became Corporate VP and Head of Marketing at Aon Hewitt and COO/CMO at Logitech Sports and Human Performance. In 2022, Nicole left Logitech to start a fitness coaching business. Recently, she founded her full-service marketing consultancy, Baer Co...

Kathryn is an American professional volleyball player who plays as an outside hitter for the United States Women's National Volleyball team and the Italian club Imoco Volley.  Prior to playing volleyball professionally, Kat played for the Stanford Women’s Volleyball team.  She led Stanford  to win NCAA Division 1 National Championships in 2016, 2018 and 2019. She was named to the NCAA all-tou...

Sara holds a Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering from the University of Waterloo. She has an extensive career, primarily at Twitter, while also working at an early-stage startup and Periscope.tv, a live video streaming application. After Periscope got acquired by Twitter in 2015, Sara ended up returning to Twitter and working there over a span of approximately 11 years. She successfully...

Olivia is the Head of Operations and Strategy at Haus, a decision science platform who helps brands make informed investment decisions. Prior to Haus, Olivia led growth marketing at Sonos, Netflix, and Quibi. Before diving into marketing, Olivia worked in the advertising space; and worked for an AdsTech startup called TubeMogul where she joined as the 100th employee. She saw the company grow to ab...

Tamar Yehoshua is a venture partner at IVP, where she shares her experience leading and scaling innovative products with the next generation of market leaders. She joined IVP from Slack where she led product, design and research as CPO through 10x revenue growth, IPO and acquisition by Salesforce. Prior to that, Tamar was a Vice President at Google holding product and engineering leadership roles...

Dorothy is the Head of Public Affairs at DeepMind, an artificial intelligence lab within Google. Prior to DeepMind, Dorothy led Public Policy, Safety, and Corporate Communications at Uber, Dropbox and Google respectively - bringing 15+ years of experience in this sector. She is also an active angel investor, and sees this as a vehicle for social change. She received her Bachelors in International...