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Tracy Goodwin embodies the phrase "you had me at hello".
The owner of "Captivate The Room," Tracy uses over 30 years of experience to teach clients how to harness the power of their voices simply by shifting sounds that were sending the wrong message. In today's episode, Aggie & Cristy learn how your tone, your speed, and even a pause... tell your entire story and can dramatically impact how your pitch comes across to customers or investors.
Learn more about Tracy's work here: https://captivatetheroom.com/
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Desirea is a proud mom of two great kids, Claire and Anthony. Hence CLAIRANT! She was born and raised in Vancouver, Canada and now lives in New Jersey with her family, including a dog, chickens, and honeybees.
In this episode, Desirae shares how she built her agency with a focus on not being the center of the brand but building value with a team. She also shares her love of data research and science and how she journeyed from being a neuroscientist to becoming an expert marketer.
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Sherry Quam Taylor has spent more than a decade transforming the way nonprofit leaders think about growth, money, and mission. After leaving a successful corporate career in architecture and design, she founded QuamTaylor LLC to help nonprofit CEOs raise the unrestricted, investment-level revenue they need to scale their impact. Sherry teaches leaders how to run their organizations like thriving businesses while staying true to their purpose—because long-term success requires both heart and financial strength.
In this episode, Aggie and Cristy sit down with Sherry to talk about sustainable growth, the power of saying no, raising future CEOs at home, and how investing in yourself as a leader can transform your business and your life.
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She's back, and the discussion about Mergers and Acquisitions is better than ever. Trusted M&A advisor Natalie Roberts of iKadre rejoins the program to give listeners the inside scoop on how to create your own legacy for your business. Aggie and Cristy learn what scenarios lead a business to M&A, and what pieces should be in place to set the transition up for success.
- Learn more about Natalie's work here: https://ikadre.com/
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How can a business create long-lasting relationships with their clients? Carolyn Seeger is here to answer, joining the program to share how she created a successful career in promotional marketing. Carolyn explains how her nonlinear career path allows her to bond with clients, and Aggie and Cristy dive further into the highs and lows that come with running a business.
- Learn more about Carolyn's work here: https://www.keystonegifts.com/
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According to Kelly Maxwell, there are two things that every woman is looking for: a good hair stylist, and a good OB-GYN, in that order. Maxwell is a world-renowned hair stylist who has launched a website that allows customers to search for a hair stylist in their area that fits the specific needs for their hair. Aggie & Cristy learn why declaring a niche is the future of the salon industry, and how Kelly’s website can create autonomy for stylists and salons alike.
- Learn more about Kelly's work here: https://findyourhairstylist.com/
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Alison Arnoff wants to be your champion. After a successful career in engineering, which featured her becoming one of the first women to serve as an application engineer for Intel, she used her talents of navigating the workforce to become an executive coach and strategy consultant. Aggie and Cristy learn how having champions along your journey can motivate an employee through a tough transition, and how Alison used a near-death experience to propel her forward through her own journey.
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Kristi Robison needed a change of scenery. Originally based in Texas in the oil and gas industry, Kristi totally overhauled her career trajectory by moving herself to a small town in Wyoming and opening her own consulting businesses specializing in IT services. Aggie and Cristy learn more about life is life in Wyoming and how Kristi adjusted to a significant and rapid location change.
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Pam Foley has always been a storyteller. From her early days working in marketing, to becoming an attorney and even through selling real-estate, she recognized the power words had to provide solutions and create opportunities for the clients she worked with. Aggie and Cristy discuss with Pam her journey through these variety of fields and how she decided to take each new step to progress her career and become an Every Day Bad Ass Women Leader.
- Learn more about Pam's work here: https://aoucreative.com/
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Reclaim. Reimagine. Rebuild. Those three words are not only at the center of Cora Lee Poole's nonprofit Undestructable, they represent a journey that consumed her throughout her career in the fashion industry. Aggie and Cristy learn why Cora Lee hires survivors of intimate partner violence to help create environmentally sustainable products and fosters an environment of economic independence.
- Learn more about Cora Lee's work here: https://www.undestructable.org/
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Welcome to The Badass Women in Business Podcast, the definitive space for unfiltered, tactical insights into female entrepreneurship, enterprise scaling, and business…
Hosted by seasoned business owners, growth partners, and exit strategists Cristy O’Connor and Aggie Chydzinski, this podcast moves past passive advisory to bring you directly inside the high-stakes execution of building and successfully exiting companies on your own terms.
As hands-on growth partners who actively engineer scale and value alongside founders, we deliberately strip away the superficiality of traditional corporate highlight reels. Instead, we dissect the raw, hard-earned operational strategies and profound psychological shifts required to unlock true enterprise value.
Each week, our conversations turn systemic business obstacles into high-velocity execution plans, offering sophisticated, real-world frameworks for ambitious women who are leading teams, optimizing cash flow, and engineering highly scalable, exit-ready companies.
Whether you are in the trenches of bootstrapping an innovative startup, navigating complex partnership dynamics, or designing the ultimate monetization strategy for your life's work, this podcast provides the active strategy needed to drive valuation and claim full autonomy over your future.
Subscribe now to join a premier movement of women rewriting the rules of modern commerce, one definitive story at a time. New episodes deliver partner-level value every Tuesday.