Emily Greenberg, co-founder of Joy Parenting Club, turned one of the hardest chapters of her life into a business serving 50,000 families. After a traumatic birth and postpartum challenges, she saw how isolating parenthood can be without real-time support. That experience became the spark for Joy, a platform offering 24/7 access to parent coaches and experts that just closed its Series A. Emily shares how the “lows” shaped her journey and why perspective is essential.

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Kat Weaver prefaces her founder story by informing us that she's made every mistake you can make. Those failures paved a path to scaling a wrist‑wallet startup from her college dorm all the way to acquisition—and winning 22 of 23 pitch competitions to fund her second venture, Power to Pitch. Kat Weaver built Power to Pitch to use her learnings to flip the fundraising game for early‑stage founders. Her virtual programs have already unlocked more than $50 million in grants and venture capital for founders.

In this episode, Kat unpacks the repeatable system behind those wins and the many bumps she had on the road to success.

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Despite all of the playbooks, every founder journey is unique like a snowflake. Sometimes you are cruising along and hit a sign: Road Work Ahead. It’s not a caution — it’s a truth. Things shift. You reroute. And sometimes, what looks like a delay is actually the work that makes everything stronger.

In this episode, we talk with Lizzie Brown, co-founder of Yoga Wake Up, about what it means to build a business on your own terms, in sync with your life, your timing, and your gut. From launching her app without venture capital, to pausing for an MBA, to focusing on what her customers actually needed, Lizzie’s story is a powerful reminder: growth doesn’t always follow a map. It can look like slower seasons, pivots, or even a move to Spain. Sometimes, the freedom to choose your own road is the measure of success.

After two decades at IBM leading global AI strategy, Beth Rudden made a bold shift—founding Bast.ai to build context-aware, human-centered AI for healthcare. In this episode, she shares what it took to leave a high-profile role, unlearn old systems, and trust her instincts as a founder. Beth offers hard-earned wisdom on raising capital, shutting out unhelpful feedback, and remembering what you bring to the table—especially when the world tells you it’s not enough. Her message is clear: the context of our stories is one of the most powerful things we have.

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Melissa Bernstein is the cofounder of Melissa & Doug, the billion-dollar toy company she built from her parents’ garage. But behind the bright products was a hidden darkness. Melissa spent decades battling existential despair—until she finally came out as her true self. She then built her newest venture Lifelines to help others do the same. In this episode, she shares how creativity, purpose, and radical self-acceptance changed everything.

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After 20 years in corporate marketing and a pivotal role taking a fintech company public, Lenore Kantor hit a wall. What followed was not just a leap into entrepreneurship, but a full reorientation of how she works, who she serves, and how she lives. Now the founder of ⁠Growth Warrior⁠, a ⁠SAYge Pro⁠ coach, and author of “So What Do You Do?” Lenore helps leaders evolve by aligning their inner clarity with outer action. In this episode, she shares how she went from overbuilt to intentional, from burned out to boundaried — and why less, when it’s aligned, is so often more.

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Zhenni Wu, co-founder and go-to-market leader at Puppygraph, brings the wisdom of navigating her fourth startup to the conversation. With a background at Apple, Baidu, and multiple early-stage ventures, Zhenni shares her expertise on building the right team, leveraging strategic hiring, and fostering support networks. Alongside additional growth hacking tips, Zhenni also offers insightful advice on balancing the entrepreneurial hustle with self-care.

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What if success isn’t about immediate wins, but about learning to trust the process—especially when the results aren’t visible yet? We sit down with Elmira Bayrasli, co-founder of Interruptrr - a platform and newsletter providing a stage for women to be heard. After years in foreign policy, that brought from being a presidential appointee under Madeleine Albright to spearheading media communication strategies for The Organization for Security & Cooperation in Europe, she saw a recurring pattern: women weren’t just being left out; they weren’t being invited in. She built the platform that she needed, one that amplifies female expertise in traditionally male-dominated spaces. She founded Interruptrr to have women to be a bigger part of the conversation. Despite an impressive career and incredible accomplishments, Elmira has wrestled with a challenge so many founders face: an internal battle with not feeling capable, questioning her impact. The struggle with lack of tangible proof of success is real for many of us. Elmira learned that progress isn’t always visible. The key is persistence, trusting the work, and showing up even when self-doubt tries to keep you quiet. They key to moving past this fear, is to redefine what success looks like on a daily basis.

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