Radio Recap: Defy Ventures + 5 to 9 Podcast
Catherine Hoke is the founder and CEO of Defy Ventures, a United States-backed nonprofit that transforms the street hustle skills of the formerly incarcerated into legal entrepreneurship. During Defy’s first year, they recruited 1,000 business executives who invested 8,000+ hours to help Entrepreneurs in Training—or EITs. Defy has served 550+ formerly incarcerated EITs across 24 states [Read More]
Radio Recap: Gwynnie Bee + 3D Printed Knitwear
Following the big successes of Netflix, Airbnb, and Lyft, the sharing and rental model is causing disruption in more niche industries, such as shaving products, LEGOS, and even women’s apparel—a $120 billion industry alone. While there are already women’s apparel and rental subscription services on the market, only one has successfully targeted the 70% of [Read More]
Radio Recap: Isabel Castilla + Lisette Titre-Montgomery
Isabel Castilla is a Principal designer at James Corner Field Operations, where she’s leading the Section 4 redesign of New York City’s innovative High Line, a 23-city block elevated railway reclaimed as a public space. She’s also the Principal on Miami’s Underline, a 10-mile long corridor of parkland, trails and neighborhood connections. Originally from Puerto Rico, [Read More]
Radio Recap: Work, Pause, Thrive + Wine N Dine App
The ever-elusive work/life balance is difficult to attain when the workplace has still not adjusted to the realities of working parents—particularly for women. Today, only 48% of mothers work-full time. In the meantime, 64 million Millennials are expected to become parents in the next decade. While women are struggling to rise to the highest ranks in [Read More]
Radio Recap: BanterGirl + SHEROES
By Wikipedia’s standards only 13% of women make up their list of ‘American Stand-up Comedians’, but my first guest aims to change that. BanterGirl is the brainchild of comedian, actor, writer, and producer Trish Nelson. Born out of a successfully crowdfunded campaign, an unexpected internship, and long nights working in the restaurant industry, Trish has [Read More]
Radio Recap: Kathleen Stetson + Stephanie Breedlove
Figuring out what to do in a town where arts and entertainment thrive can be a real pain—especially when you don't know where to look. Luckily there's Trill which gives you all the current information on performing arts happenings around town all at your fingertips. From music to dance, Trill quickly aggregates a host of information from [Read More]
Radio Recap: Sallie Krawcheck + SCAD Augmented Reality
If Own It: The Power of Women at Work is not already the number one book on your 2017 reading list, it should be. Often called the ‘Most Powerful Woman on Wall Street,’ former CEO of Merrill Lynch Wealth, Smith Barney, and Citi Wealth Management, finance titan cum-author-and-investor Sallie Krawcheck is now redefining investing for [Read More]
Radio Recap: Indiegogo Co-Founder Danae Ringelmann + Jeane Lee Tahnk
Danae Ringelmann is an entrepreneur enabling other entrepreneurs to succeed. Having founded crowdfunding site Indiegogo before ‘crowdfunding’ was even a part of our popular lexicon, Danae knows the struggle of startups—having experienced her own share of closed doors after being denied for funding 90 times before getting a YES. With over 600,000 campaigns since its inception [Read More]