Woman Owned: The Growth Podcast for Women Entrepreneurs

As your life, your business, and your career continue to evolve, it's common to need to make tweaks and changes within your personal and professional life to continue your journey to achieving success. Even small changes can have a significant impact on how you show up in the world. Keep Reading >> Today, I want to share with you one small tweak that I recently made in my personal life and how it...

In an age where fame is celebrated for fame, many fierce feminine leaders hold themselves back from building a powerful personal brand. Some even believe that building a personal brand is little more than a vacuous, attention-seeking activity when, in reality, it is so much more than that. Keep Reading >> On today's episode, I'm sharing a replay of a recent personal branding training seminar calle...

Susan Richards is an entrepreneur, accountant, and the Co-Founder of two highly successful businesses - Numbercrunch, Inc. , and Givopoly . Numbercrunch is a forward-thinking accounting support company focused on helping startups and small and mid-sized enterprises manage their business finances through Virtual CFO, accounting, and bookkeeping services. Keep Reading >> In 2012, she founded Givopol...

Lolly Daskal is the CEO of Lead From Within, a New York Times best-selling author, and one of the most sought-after executive leadership coaches in the world who has worked with executive leaders in hundreds of companies across 14 countries. Her proprietary leadership program has helped leaders enhance their performance to make meaningful impacts in their companies, their lives, and the world. She...

As highly ambitious women, striving to reach our goals, dreams, and meet the needs of our clients often leads us to striving for the near-impossible – perfection. Highly ambitious, professional women and female entrepreneurs often find themselves spending countless hours changing, tweaking, revising, and polishing our work – whether it's that next blog post or the next big course we want to launch...

Lainey Lui is a world-renowned celebrity gossip and news maven, a reporter on CTV's etalk , and the Co-Host of the CTV's new daytime talk show, The Social. She is the founder and Editor of the Lainey Gossip blog, a website that attracts millions of celebrity gossip enthusiasts per month and has covered hot celebrity stories such as Prince Harry's and Meghan Markle's Royal Wedding, Prince William's...

As a woman, it can be challenging to gain the respect you deserve if you are working in a male-dominate industry and now one knows that better than today's guest. Keep Reading >> Elem Rinomato's journey into the construction industry began at the tender age of 8 when she asked her father the simple question, "Daddy, what is drywall?" Today, she is the president of Torino Drywall, a company that bu...

When it comes to personal branding, there is a lot of conventional wisdom, information, and insight floating around the internet. From articles in business magazines and on LinkedIn to professional development workshops, training, and books - there are dozens of "experts" teaching others how to build their personal brand through conventional methods and wisdom. On the surface, most of this advice...

Michelle Froah is the Vice President of Marketing Excellence, Strategy, and Integration at Samsung Electronics America. She played a crucial role in the marketing efforts of Samsung to regain consumer trust after the recall of Galaxy Notes 7. She is also the director of Brandable, a Singapore-based marketing and branding consultancy company.

Andrea Mallard is the Chief Marketing Officer at Athleta , an ethical apparel brand recognized for their yoga wear and clothing line designed to inspire women and girls to reach their full potential. Andrea received her bachelor's degree in International Politics and English Literature from Queens University in 1999 and her master's degree in Media from the London School of Economics in 2001 - gra...

Do you strongly believe that working hard produces its own results and rewards? That if you work hard enough, you won't need to "toot your own horn" and share your accomplishments with others because, ultimately, your hard work is proof of your success and accomplishments? Keep Reading >> Many brilliant, high-achieving professional women shy away from talking about themselves, their accomplishment...

Sue Jacobson is the founder and CEO of Jacobson Strategic Communications , a media and public relations firm brainstormed with legendary GE CEO Jack Welsh and New York Times bestselling author Susie Welch in 2010. She has provided public relations services to dozens of companies and organizations including the University of Pennsylvania, Education Testing Services, Pennsylvania Tourism Economic De...

  Sramana Mitra is Founder of One Million by One Million, the first and only global virtual accelerator. She is the author of the Entrepreneur Journeys book series as well as the Vision India 2020 and Billion Dollar Unicorns books. As an entrepreneur and CEO, she successfully ran multiple businesses, including Intarka, DAIS Infotech, and Uuma, Inc. and holds a master's degree in Electrical Enginee...

Brilliant women like you are brave enough to create their own businesses, build an exceptional team, and have life-changing ideas they want to share with the world. Sadly, not all brilliant women are brave enough to speak in front of an audience or make their voice heard in a boardroom or show their capable and competent selves because of this genuine and crippling fear - the fear of being visible...

If you want to make a strong impact in the world while doing the work you love, you need to build your personal brand. Many fierce leaders struggle with building their personal brand, so they turn to information on the internet or published books to seek tips and strategies that will help them create the brand they desire. Unfortunately, most of these tips and strategies are either outdated or ine...

The ability to have clarity on your message and what you bring to the table at your organization is critical to your career. It helps instill a sense of confidence, certainty, and self-clarity in everything you do.   Keep Reading >> My guest today, Kathryn Ferrero, is the Chief Marketing Officer at AXA Equitable Life Insurance where she oversees all aspects of the company's marketing outreach incl...

Born in Scotland and growing up as a shy girl in British Columbia, Mari Smith is now one of the world-renowned experts on Facebook and social media and has been coined the "Queen of Facebook." With a passion for both people and technology, she provides training and consulting services to entrepreneurs and businesses through her digital marketing agency . She is the author of the book The New Relat...

Rachel Drori is the founder of Daily Harvest , a frozen meal subscription service that provides healthy, whole, and unrefined foods without compromising nutritional value. In 2016, Rachel's company went national and had over one million smoothie sales. Due to its success, the company has attracted celebrity investors such as Gwyneth Paltrow, Serena Williams, Olympic gold-medal winner Shaun White,...

Gender inclusion in the corporate and working world has come a long way over the last several decades. However, now that more women are starting to hold seats at the tables where the big decisions are made - many female leaders struggle with speaking up, providing their valuable insight, and making meaningful contributions to the conversations and decisions that are being made. Keep Reading >> On...

Rachel Glaser is the Chief Financial Officer at Etsy , an e-commerce company with a unique focus on offering handmade and vintage products and supplies. She has over 30 years of experience serving in senior executive roles within finance departments at several well-known brands such as Leaf Group and Move, Inc as well as serving as the Senior Vice President of Operations Finance at Yahoo and The W...

Tonya Flickinger and Christine Poulon are two of the five co-founders of the FinTech startup company, Blispay - a company dedicated to pioneering the next generation of point-of-sale financing solutions for merchants and consumers. As Head of Operations with the company, Tonya is responsible for designing, implementing, and launching consumer lending and merchant financing products as well as buil...

Many women tend to downplay their achievements. They are worried that their efforts to get out there and own their accomplishments may come across negatively - as if they're showing off. This worry is only one of the many fears that prevent women from moving forward and from knowing what they are capable of accomplishing. Keep Reading >> Today, I'm sharing five self-promotion fears that could be h...

While society thinks that being selfish is something negative, there are advantages - especially when it comes to your professional life. This "selfishness" does not mean you should neglect your responsibilities and valuable relationships. It simply means giving yourself time to focus on your priorities so you can have the energy to make progress on the things that are essential to you and your ca...

Many women obtain a certain level of success by following the rules in the world of business -- a world initially built for and by men. These rules have taught us that if we keep working hard and striving for our goals, we'll reach that next level of success. Some women decide to play a smaller game, neglecting their dreams and ambitions out of fear of being overworked, overwhelmed, and disrupting...

Michelle Zatlyn is a co-founder and the Chief Operating Officer of CloudFlare , a web performance and security company that helps make the Internet fast, safe, and reliable for users around the world. She has been recognized locally and globally for her entrepreneurial efforts and success, including Fortune Magazine's Most Influential Young People in Business and Elle Magazine's Women Who Rule Sil...