Elevate Your Brand

Nanxi Liu is the co-CEO of Blaze.tech, one of the fastest growing platforms to build software tools without writing code. The mission is to enable more people to create technical tools and make building technology more accessible. She previously founded and served as CEO of one of the largest global digital signage software companies, Enplug, which was acquired by Spectrio in 2021. Enplug was consistently named as one of the Top 10 leaders in the digital signage industry alongside Cisco Systems, Samsung and LG by independent research companies. 
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Elevate Your Brand is the #1 marketing podcast for entrepreneurs and “wantreprenuers” looking for insider tips and secrets from the most exciting new and growing brands in Los Angeles and the US at large. 

Each week, entrepreneurial special guests join Laurel Mintz, founder and CEO of award-winning marketing agency Elevate My Brand, to discuss the marketing failures and successes that have brought their brands to the next level. Learn from real-life experiences and be inspired by leaders in your industry about how smart digital and experiential marketing can elevate your brand.

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Paul Troiano is the President & Co-Founder of joyful, a culture innovation company based in Portland, Oregon. Joyful believes that why you work, how you work, and who you work with are just as important as what you’re working on. That purpose is what inspires people and cultivates the joy in what they do. Because when we care, when we feel we matter, when we are truly united toward a common goal, we do our best work.

Elevate Your Brand is the #1 marketing podcast for entrepreneurs and “wantreprenuers” looking for insider tips and secrets from the most exciting new and growing brands in Los Angeles and the US at large. 

Each week, entrepreneurial special guests join Laurel Mintz, founder and CEO of award-winning marketing agency Elevate My Brand, to discuss the marketing failures and successes that have brought their brands to the next level. Learn from real-life experiences and be inspired by leaders in your industry about how smart digital and experiential marketing can elevate your brand.

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Co-founder of FabFitFun, Katie Rosen Kitchens, has led its evolution as a female-focused media brand, from writing about great lifestyle products to getting them into people’s hands. Since launching the FabFitFun lifestyle box 2013, Rosen Kitchens has shifted her energy toward curating fresh and exciting brands for FabFitFun members and overseeing all brand partnerships and product development. Building on this to place the brand at the intersection of content, community and commerce, Rosen Kitchens has spearheaded FabFitFun’s evolution into one of the most-loved membership services that spans beauty, fashion, fitness, home, tech and more. As editor in chief, Rosen Kitchens continues to oversee all of FabFitFun’s content including its quarterly lifestyle magazine, video, online and social posts, and spearheads FabFitFun’s charity initiatives. After earning English and Sociology degrees from George Washington University, Rosen Kitchens joined the fashion, beauty, and nightlife guide Scheckys.com as its L.A. editor. She has written for an eclectic variety of magazines, newspapers and websites including the Los Angeles Times, Art and Living, Women’s Life, Dining Out, Pasadena Mag, LA Splash, and Venice News. Inbetween blogs and articles, Rosen Kitchens has worked in TV production on several shows including It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Jackass, and has also had a few of her own plays produced. On any given day Rosen Kitchens is testing out protein bars, experimenting with exfoliators, swinging kettlebells, seeking out sex secrets, hailing high/low styles, interviewing fit-lebrities, examining fast & slow food, investigating mood boosters, working out at work, cycling, and more, all to find the best in beauty, fashion, fitness, nutrition and wellness for her FabFitFun Subscribers. When Rosen Kitchens is not at FabFitFun, she can be found hiking, experimenting in the kitchen, and spending time with her husband Daniel and their daughters, Summer and Sienna.

Elevate Your Brand is the #1 marketing podcast for entrepreneurs and “wantreprenuers” looking for insider tips and secrets from the most exciting new and growing brands in Los Angeles and the US at large. 

Each week, entrepreneurial special guests join Laurel Mintz, founder and CEO of award-winning marketing agency Elevate My Brand, to discuss the marketing failures and successes that have brought their brands to the next level. Learn from real-life experiences and be inspired by leaders in your industry about how smart digital and experiential marketing can elevate your brand.

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Tara Health Foundation promotes health, well-being and opportunity for women and girls by strategically investing their financial and human capital in innovative, evidence-informed programs.

Ruth Shaber, M.D., founder & president of Tara Health Foundation, started her career in 1990 as an obstetrician and gynecologist at the Kaiser Permanente South San Francisco Medical Center. She served as chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology from 1997 to 2003 and spent six years as director of Women’s Health for the Northern California division of Kaiser Permanente. She is the founder of the Women’s Health Research Institute in Kaiser Permanente’s Northern California region. Ruth was medical director at the Kaiser Permanente Care Management Institute (CMI) from 2007 to 2012. At CMI she worked with Kaiser Permanente’s regional and national leaders to apply the best evidence-based and successful systems approaches to create reliable clinical performance. Ruth is the co-founder and board chair of Rhia Ventures, a group of foundations and investors that collaborate to bring new types of capital and enterprise to the field of reproductive health in the United States. She is also a board member at the Women of the World Endowment and Toniic. She received her B.A. from Yale University and her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Most recently Ruth published an audiobook, The XX Edge which you can listen to here.

Robyn Russell is the Senior Director of the Gender Diverse Investing Collective at Tara Health Foundation. She consults on projects aimed at driving systemic change for women and communities of color. She currently leads an initiative with the Tara Health Foundation and Women of the World Endowment to put more capital in the hands of women to increase returns and drive economic growth. She also works with the DC Primary Care Association (DCPCA) on innovative approaches to improve the health and well-being of low-income women of color.
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Elevate Your Brand is the #1 marketing podcast for entrepreneurs and “wantreprenuers” looking for insider tips and secrets from the most exciting new and growing brands in Los Angeles and the US at large. 

Each week, entrepreneurial special guests join Laurel Mintz, founder and CEO of award-winning marketing agency Elevate My Brand, to discuss the marketing failures and successes that have brought their brands to the next level. Learn from real-life experiences and be inspired by leaders in your industry about how smart digital and experiential marketing can elevate your brand.

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Abby Listo is the Founder & Designer of Smart Birdy. She was inspired by her favorite hat box case that she traveled with for years, and she wanted to design a beautiful and  smart carry-on-sized bag that she could travel with that had the same round hat box aesthetic. With a passion for empowering female travelers worldwide, Abby launched Smart Birdy, designing and perfecting their signature round Birdy suitcase. Designed with amenities for the modern woman, this bag has become an iconic piece in the travel industry. 

Elevate Your Brand is the #1 marketing podcast for entrepreneurs and “wantreprenuers” looking for insider tips and secrets from the most exciting new and growing brands in Los Angeles and the US at large. 

Each week, entrepreneurial special guests join Laurel Mintz, founder and CEO of award-winning marketing agency Elevate My Brand, to discuss the marketing failures and successes that have brought their brands to the next level. Learn from real-life experiences and be inspired by leaders in your industry about how smart digital and experiential marketing can elevate your brand.

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Richa was born and raised in India. She grew up eating fresh home-cooked meals every night, a blessing she often took for granted. As an adult, Richa strived to cook the same kind of wholesome, hearty meals she grew up on, but the lack of options that were both convenient and nutritious made it increasingly difficult to eat healthy on busy nights. After becoming a mother, Richa knew there was something she needed to do to make a change. How could people be expected to compromise health for convenience?

Driven by her growing desire to make a difference in the world through food, Richa launched Good Food For Good. Richa’s fierce belief in the power of real, whole food and her love for cooking empowered her to create food products that were both nutritious and delicious. No longer would people have to sacrifice their health for the sake of convenience: They could have both.  

Elevate Your Brand is the #1 marketing podcast for entrepreneurs and “wantreprenuers” looking for insider tips and secrets from the most exciting new and growing brands in Los Angeles and the US at large. 

Each week, entrepreneurial special guests join Laurel Mintz, founder and CEO of award-winning marketing agency Elevate My Brand, to discuss the marketing failures and successes that have brought their brands to the next level. Learn from real-life experiences and be inspired by leaders in your industry about how smart digital and experiential marketing can elevate your brand.

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Tucker co-founded CHi Foods in 2021, after ten years of pioneering novel plant-based proteins around the globe. He is a serial entrepreneur who founded his first company at the age of 13. An avid regenerative agriculture practitioner, surfer, global traveler, and eco-social entrepreneur, Tucker co-founded Imlak’esh Organics in 2012.

Elevate Your Brand is the #1 marketing podcast for entrepreneurs and “wantreprenuers” looking for insider tips and secrets from the most exciting new and growing brands in Los Angeles and the US at large. 

Each week, entrepreneurial special guests join Laurel Mintz, founder and CEO of award-winning marketing agency Elevate My Brand, to discuss the marketing failures and successes that have brought their brands to the next level. Learn from real-life experiences and be inspired by leaders in your industry about how smart digital and experiential marketing can elevate your brand.

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Ammy Emmerich is passionate about inspiring real people around her to do extraordinary things. As the Chief Content Officer at Refinery29, the leading digital lifestyle media company for women, Amy has more than 20 years of experience developing content and programming for brands including Refinery29, MTV Networks, Travel Channel, and Vice Media.

Elevate Your Brand is the #1 marketing podcast for entrepreneurs and “wantreprenuers” looking for insider tips and secrets from the most exciting new and growing brands in Los Angeles and the US at large. 

Each week, entrepreneurial special guests join Laurel Mintz, founder and CEO of award-winning marketing agency Elevate My Brand, to discuss the marketing failures and successes that have brought their brands to the next level. Learn from real-life experiences and be inspired by leaders in your industry about how smart digital and experiential marketing can elevate your brand.

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Dr. Shubhra Sharma, founder and CEO of CRIA Hair, has a doctorate in Socio-cultural anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin. She has served as Associate Director of Women's and Gender Studies at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN and was the co-founding member of Khabar Lehriya, a rural women's newspaper in India, that is now the subject of an Oscar-nominated documentary, "Writing With Fire" (2022). She has written an award-winning book on women's education in South Asia as well as 2 children's graphic novels: Zoya, the Cat's Baker, and Manners Matter. 

Elevate Your Brand is the #1 marketing podcast for entrepreneurs and “wantreprenuers” looking for insider tips and secrets from the most exciting new and growing brands in Los Angeles and the US at large. 

Each week, entrepreneurial special guests join Laurel Mintz, founder and CEO of award-winning marketing agency Elevate My Brand, to discuss the marketing failures and successes that have brought their brands to the next level. Learn from real-life experiences and be inspired by leaders in your industry about how smart digital and experiential marketing can elevate your brand.

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Based in Washington DC, investor & entrepreneur Sarah Chen-Spellings is Co-Founder of Beyond The Billion (launched as The Billion Dollar Fund for Women), the world's first and largest global consortium of over 100 venture funds and limited partner investors that have pledged to invest and are actively deploying beyond $1B towards women-founded companies. In under two years, the consortium has deployed $638M and counting into close to 800 female-founded companies, of which 11 have been recognized as unicorns. Previously, she was on the pioneer team of a corporate venture capital unit within a $13B publicly traded Asian conglomerate, investing in later-stage biotechnology companies. Since then, she has been at the forefront of multi-million cross border investments, structuring and executing commercialization plans with her portfolio companies.

Elevate Your Brand is the #1 marketing podcast for entrepreneurs and “wantreprenuers” looking for insider tips and secrets from the most exciting new and growing brands in Los Angeles and the US at large. 

Each week, entrepreneurial special guests join Laurel Mintz, founder and CEO of award-winning marketing agency Elevate My Brand, to discuss the marketing failures and successes that have brought their brands to the next level. Learn from real-life experiences and be inspired by leaders in your industry about how smart digital and experiential marketing can elevate your brand.

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