Finding Fearless

Welcome back to Finding Fearless! Bringing you a little fashion podcast this week. I had the pleasure of chatting with the Founder of Pretty Well Beauty, Jazmin Alvarez! 

Jazmin founded Pretty Well Beauty "to offer people an experience that felt inclusive, streamlined (read, less noisy) and [made] them feel good about their decision to take better care of themselves."

In this episode, Jazmin and I cover:

- How clean beauty is not a trend 
- That beauty is the answer to the functional, approachable, clean and sustainable questions that we've all been asking
- How Pretty Well Beauty is Jazmin's mission to offer up a space where everybody feels welcome

If you loved listening to Jazmin as much as we did, you can find more of her work at Pretty Well Beauty! You can also follow her on  Instagram and Twitter. 

Finding Fearless is an exploration of human-centric leadership and a celebration of ambition,  releasing every other week on Wednesdays, 6AM PST.  If you liked the show, please rate, review, and share! You can also visit our website to learn more about how to become a sponsor of Finding Fearless!

Finding Fearless is produced by Fearless Foundry, a creative consultancy focused on advancing ambitious humans from around the globe to amplify their impact through branding, marketing, and business development. You can contact us at [email protected] if you are interested in our services and can follow us on all social media @fearlessfoundry.

Season 4 music is by Premium Beats. All audio is recorded and owned by Fearless Foundry. 

Welcome back to Finding Fearless! This week we have Sara Dean on to talk about how she learned how to embrace change and step into her strengths in a major way. 

Sara Dean, Founder and President of The Shameless Mom Academy, is not only a business leader but a leadership coach, keynote speaker, and The Shameless Mom Academy Podcast host (boasting 4 million downloads, goals!). 

In this episode, Sara and I cover:

- How to stop staying stuck in your struggles
- Turn your struggles into strengths
- Learning about powerful and purposeful ways to manage the mental load of motherhood


If you loved listening to Sara as much as we did, you can follow her and The Shameless Mom Academy on Instagram and join her Facebook (Group). And be sure to take a listen to her amazing podcast!

Finding Fearless is an exploration of human-centric leadership and a celebration of ambition,  releasing every other week on Wednesdays, 6AM PST.  If you liked the show, please rate, review, and share! You can also visit our website to learn more about how to become a sponsor of Finding Fearless!

Finding Fearless is produced by Fearless Foundry, a creative consultancy focused on advancing ambitious humans from around the globe to amplify their impact through branding, marketing, and business development. You can contact us at [email protected] if you are interested in our services and can follow us on all social media @fearlessfoundry.

Season 4 music is by Premium Beats. All audio is recorded and owned by Fearless Foundry. 

We’re entering into the realm of business on this week’s episode of the Finding Fearless podcast with our host, Madeline Pratt! She dives into how building a strong team is extremely important to the success of a business, and gives us an inside peek at how the Fearless team came to be… A little bit of magic, but plenty of process, structure, and organization.

Whether you’re an employee or a business owner looking to hire, we hope you enjoy this episode and listen to the inner thoughts of a female founder!


In this episode, you’ll hear more about: 
 
- Building an organization where people have a clear growth path
- The process of finding the right candidates
- How homogeneity inside of an organization can lead to “sameness in ideas and a lack of innovation”

As always you can follow Madeline on Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn and Fearless Foundry on  Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

Finding Fearless is an exploration of human-centric leadership and a celebration of ambition,  releasing every other week on Wednesdays, 6AM PST.  If you liked the show, please rate, review, and share! You can also visit our website to learn more about how to become a sponsor of Finding Fearless!

Finding Fearless is produced by Fearless Foundry, a creative consultancy focused on advancing ambitious humans from around the globe to amplify their impact through branding, marketing, and business development. You can contact us at [email protected] if you are interested in our services and can follow us on all social media @fearlessfoundry.

Season 4 music is by Premium Beats. All audio is recorded and owned by Fearless Foundry. 

Welcome back to Finding Fearless! This week we have Elena Joy Thurston on to talk about her experience as a queer woman and how she has helped create a more inclusive world. 


Elena Joy Thurston is an LGBTQ+ speaker and founder of the nonprofit Pride and Joy Foundation. A Mormon mom of four who not only lost her marriage but also her church and her community when she came out as a lesbian. Elena recently launched the Pride and Joy Publishing Company, which is the only publisher of solely LGBTQ+ empowerment and business books. 

Here are three facts from Elena that she wants listeners to know:

1. We can find a way to make authenticity work for us. (“After my divorce, I applied to 166 jobs and got one interview. I started my own company and now I'm an HR consultant.”)
2. “I thought I was broken or something was wrong with me—which just wasn’t true.”
3. “Anyone can be susceptible to things like Conversion Therapy. Even privileged, college-educated, suburban moms.”


If you loved listening to Elena as much as we did, you can follow her on Instagram and visit the Pride and Joy Foundation, Pride and Joy Publishing Company, and Queers in The Country. 

Finding Fearless is an exploration of human-centric leadership and a celebration of ambition,  releasing every other week on Wednesdays, 6AM PST.  If you liked the show, please rate, review, and share! You can also visit our website to learn more about how to become a sponsor of Finding Fearless!

Finding Fearless is produced by Fearless Foundry, a creative consultancy focused on advancing ambitious humans from around the globe to amplify their impact through branding, marketing, and business development. You can contact us at [email protected] if you are interested in our services and can follow us on all social media @fearlessfoundry.

Season 4 music is by Premium Beats. All audio is recorded and owned by Fearless Foundry. 

Welcome back to Finding Fearless! This week we have Adrienne Hibbert on to talk about equity in healthcare and safety for Black people within our medical and healthcare fields.


Adrienne Hibbert is the Founder and CEO of Black Doctors Of South Florida and Black Health Doctors—a medical directory to help Black patients find Black medical practitioners. 

Here are three key quotes from Adrienne that she wants listeners to know: 

- “You can live the life you truly want to live.”
- “Learn to evolve or be left behind.”
- “Black people's lives are important and we deserve to feel safe.”

If you loved listening to Adrienne as much as we did, you can follow Black Doctors Of South Florida on Facebook. You can also follow Black Health Doctors on Instagram and contact them at: [email protected].

Finding Fearless is an exploration of human-centric leadership and a celebration of ambition,  releasing every other week on Wednesdays, 6AM PST.  If you liked the show, please rate, review, and share! You can also visit our website to learn more about how to become a sponsor of Finding Fearless!

Finding Fearless is produced by Fearless Foundry, a creative consultancy focused on advancing ambitious humans from around the globe to amplify their impact through branding, marketing, and business development. You can contact us at [email protected] if you are interested in our services and can follow us on all social media @fearlessfoundry.

Season 4 music is by Premium Beats. All audio is recorded and owned by Fearless Foundry. 

Welcome back to Finding Fearless! We’ve got a PSA for you on this week’s Finding Fearless podcast—change can be a GOOD thing! Our CEO and Founder Madeline Pratt is breaking down how to navigate a career change and why you won’t regret it!

Raise your hand if the pandemic shifted your personal priorities. So many of us were reevaluating our work lives and reconsidering what work means to us. Madeline understands more than most what it feels like to not just change careers, but industries.


In this episode, you’ll hear more about:

- Madeline’s unconventional journey to become a CEO and Founder
- How you can make a career change work for YOU
- Identifying your professional wants, needs, and goals


As always, you can follow Madeline on Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn and Fearless Foundry on Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

Finding Fearless is an exploration of human-centric leadership and a celebration of ambition,  releasing every other week on Wednesdays, 6AM PST.  If you liked the show, please rate, review, and share! You can also visit our website to learn more about how to become a sponsor of Finding Fearless!

Finding Fearless is produced by Fearless Foundry, a creative consultancy focused on advancing ambitious humans from around the globe to amplify their impact through branding, marketing, and business development. You can contact us at [email protected] if you are interested in our services and can follow us on all social media @fearlessfoundry.

Season 4 music is by Premium Beats. All audio is recorded and owned by Fearless Foundry. 

Please welcome our first guest of 2022, Co-Founder and CEO of Root + River, Emily Soccorsy! 


She's a visual and lingual artist who applies her creativity and intellect to both her work and her everyday life. Her experiences include teaching English in rural Japan, raising two daughters, living in two foreign countries, earning a master's, and enjoying a 20-year marriage.

In this episode, Emily and I cover:

- How branding is more about repelling than it is about attracting
- Why art and creativity have a place in business
- How feminine intelligence must rise and remake the old structures to help heal the world


If you loved listening to Emily as much as we did, you can find follow Root + River on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube.

Finding Fearless is an exploration of human-centric leadership and a celebration of ambition,  releasing every other week on Wednesdays, 6AM PST.  If you liked the show, please rate, review, and share! You can also visit our website to learn more about how to become a sponsor of Finding Fearless!

Finding Fearless is produced by Fearless Foundry, a creative consultancy focused on advancing ambitious humans from around the globe to amplify their impact through branding, marketing, and business development. You can contact us at [email protected] if you are interested in our services and can follow us on all social media @fearlessfoundry.

Season 4 music is by Premium Beats. All audio is recorded and owned by Fearless Foundry. 

2022 has arrived and we’re kicking off the THIRD season of the Finding Fearless podcast. To quote our host and Fearless Foundry CEO Madeline Pratt, “It feels wild.” We couldn’t be more grateful for our audience and all the amazing female founders, leaders, and mothers that have shared their stories.

 In this episode, you’ll hear more about: 

- Madeline’s background and why she started the Finding Fearless podcast 
- A passion for underrepresented female founders
- Prioritizing diverse voices that go beyond the binary and cover the full gender spectrum

We’re excited to see what 2022 will bring. Wishing you all a wonderful year and happy listening!

Finding Fearless is an exploration of human-centric leadership and a celebration of ambition,  releasing every other week on Wednesdays, 6AM PST.  If you liked the show, please rate, review, and share! You can also visit our website to learn more about how to become a sponsor of Finding Fearless!

Finding Fearless is produced by Fearless Foundry, a creative consultancy focused on advancing ambitious humans from around the globe to amplify their impact through branding, marketing, and business development. You can contact us at [email protected] if you are interested in our services and can follow us on all social media @fearlessfoundry.

Season 4 music is by Premium Beats. All audio is recorded and owned by Fearless Foundry. 

We’re bringing you another solo episode by our podcast host and CEO of Fearless Foundry, Madeline Pratt! As we all close out another crazy calendar year, this topic becomes top of mind for many—self-care. “A topic that is near and dear to my heart, particularly this time of the year. I’m going to share why it’s important to me and how I make it a priority,” says Madeline.

In this episode, Madeline covers:

- Some amazing tips that have been shared by other incredible women on this podcast
- Why she believes self-care has been “commercialized"
- How to transition self-care from revolving around purchases to building resilience

As always, you can follow Madeline on Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn. You can also follow Fearless Foundry on Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

Finding Fearless is an exploration of human-centric leadership and a celebration of ambition,  releasing every other week on Wednesdays, 6AM PST.  If you liked the show, please rate, review, and share! You can also visit our website to learn more about how to become a sponsor of Finding Fearless!

Finding Fearless is produced by Fearless Foundry, a creative consultancy focused on advancing ambitious humans from around the globe to amplify their impact through branding, marketing, and business development. You can contact us at [email protected] if you are interested in our services and can follow us on all social media @fearlessfoundry.

Season 4 music is by Premium Beats. All audio is recorded and owned by Fearless Foundry. 

Welcome back to Finding Fearless! This week we have Michelle Keefe on to talk about how to redefine the workplace for moms. 

We’re thrilled to share this wonderful conversation Madeline had with Michelle Keefe, CEO of MomUp! She leads MomUp in its quest to connect organizations with an untapped network of high level talent while bringing more fulfilling work to women. Prior to MomUp, Michelle successfully ran and sold her first business, Misha K. 

In this episode, Michelle and I cover:

- How companies can support women in the workplace
- How women can prepare themselves for re-entering the work world
- The major value MomUp offers to women

If you loved listening to Michelle as much as we did, you can find follow MomUp on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. 

Finding Fearless is an exploration of human-centric leadership and a celebration of ambition,  releasing every other week on Wednesdays, 6AM PST.  If you liked the show, please rate, review, and share! You can also visit our website to learn more about how to become a sponsor of Finding Fearless!

Finding Fearless is produced by Fearless Foundry, a creative consultancy focused on advancing ambitious humans from around the globe to amplify their impact through branding, marketing, and business development. You can contact us at [email protected] if you are interested in our services and can follow us on all social media @fearlessfoundry.

Season 4 music is by Premium Beats. All audio is recorded and owned by Fearless Foundry.