Founded By Women

Lundyn Carter — Changing the Narrative: Experience Over Ownership, Disrupting the Wedding Industrial Complex, Setting Healthy Boundaries, Serving your Community, Slow and Steady . . . , and much more (#010)

“If you feel like you can do it, if you have that grit and that determination to take the risk—you have to be willing to jump out of the plane one day.”

“Focus on one thing, do that well, and you’ll thrive.” —Lundyn Carter

Vriti Saraf — Origins of the k20 Eduverse | Dismantling Global Silos in Education | Education in the Age of Innovation | Build in Public | Focus on the Human Experience First | Much More (#009)

“I've always been very open to feedback because I know that in order to keep up with the world and to be the most successful human, in whatever sense you deem success, you have to constantly be evolving. You have to constantly be progressing. And the only way that you can evolve is if you take feedback and you apply it and you change the way that you think about things." —Vriti Saraf

Mindy McCutcheon and Tara Garland — Building a Line of Emergency Equipment Products, Being a Launchpad for Learning, Strong and Supportive Co-founder Relationships, Setting Realistic and Achievable Goals, and Much More (#008)!

Marian Leitner-Waldman — Democratizing Fine Wine, The Art of Storytelling, Creating a Memorable Brand, Building Collaborative Partnerships, Imagination is the Key to Empathy and Much More (#007)!

“Imagination, whether that be used for storytelling and all these different facets of the human experience, are ultimately about creating a sense of empathy, so that you can understand other people’s experience. At the end of the day, we’re trying to find these ways to connect with one another. And so, it’s super important that we instill that in our children and hopefully create a better world because of that. Ultimately, it's an ancient desire that has been around since as long as humans have been sharing or fermented drink over a fire." —Marian Leitner-Waldman

Laura Kleiman — Improving the Lives of Cancer Patients, Repurposing Non-Cancer Generic Drugs, AI-Driven Technology, Practicing Patience, The Power of Collaboration, and Much More (#006)!

“It's just so important to build that community, because look, we're all going through the same things, we're all figuring out solutions to the same problems of building companies. We might be working on completely different problems, but it’s so important to learn from one another." —Laura Kleiman

Ora D. Tanner —Working at the Intersection of Education, Technology, Research, and Design, Helping Students Thrive in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Game-Based Learning, Turning Adversity into Opportunities for Growth, and Much More (#005)!

“Wherever I'm at, I try to transform the space, because that's also a misconception that people think, ‘Oh, if you put technology in a classroom, the kids are just going to learn better.’ No, they're not. It's about using the technology to design an experience. That's when students learn.” —Ora D. Tanner

"Whatever I can do to help people make things better through my gifts, talents, and abilities, then that’s what I'm going to do. I look for opportunities to do good." —Ora D. Tanner

Episode Summary

Jaime-Alexis Fowler — Leading with Empathy, Meeting People Where They Are, Increasing Diversity and Equity Within Teams, Following the Need, Creating Ripple Effects, and Much More (#004)!

“What do you do for people in that moment? Because you have to change that trajectory. If you're going to say that you want to support the opportunity for everyone to thrive, then one of the key pieces of that is helping get over that barrier when people experience it.” —Jaime-Alexis Fowler

AJ Thomas — Career-Forager, The Communi-team, Mentoring At-Risk Youth, Activating Questions, Life as a First Generation Immigrant, Raising a Daughter Who Builds, and Much More!

AJ Thomas (@itsajthomas) is the founder of Infuse Program Foundation (@infuseprogram) and the founder and chief explorer at BrainCandy Labs , powered by Women In Technology International (@witi). She also works at X, the moonshot factory, leading the human experience design team.

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Episode #003: AJ Thomas — Career-Forager, The Communi-team, Mentoring At-Risk Youth, Activating Questions, Life as a First Generation Immigrant, Raising a Daughter Who Builds, and Much More!

“When you're so vulnerable and you show up in such an authentic way, you give others permission to do it. That's what inspires me.”

—AJ Thomas

“Playing for a team means you're aware of all of the team members that are there, that are contributing. You see them, you tap into their strengths, you help coach, you have the hard conversations.”

—AJ Thomas

Terri Brax — Lessons in Resilience, The Power of the Collective, Rightful Spotlights, Women in Tech, Dialing Up the Change, and Much More!

Terri Brax (@terribrax) is an entrepreneur, connector and community builder. She is the founder of TeacherCare (@teachercare), a nationwide agency for private teachers and the founder and CEO of Women Tech Founders (@womentechfounders), a leading voice for the tech startup ecosystem around female entrepreneurs.

Terri Brax — Lessons in Resilience, The Power of the Collective, Rightful Spotlights, Women in Tech, Dialing Up the Change, and much more (#002)!

“I was able to come into the tech community that was happening in Chicago at that time, and things were just kind of lifting off the ground. There was so much work to do on so many different levels.

But there was also this community of people there that I found, that I had never been exposed to before, that felt like, let's go change the world. As difficult as it was being a woman of color coming into that, there was also a very special camaraderie and we have your back at the same time. At that point, less than 3% of all startups were led by women.” —Terri Brax

Founded By Women is a podcast about inspirational women building inspirational things, hosted by Margie Chuang. Whether they’re founding companies, blazing a new career path, or reinventing themselves, join Margie as she learns about what inspires women to start their own journeys, what keeps them motivated, and what it’s really like to build things that bring them joy.