Going behind the spotlight to meet Vanessa Bruce, co-founder + CEO of Dough. Vanessa is an award-winning, patent holding, founder, operator, and designer passionate about transparent commerce, driving change with our purchase power, and financial independence. Dough was founded when Vanessa and co-founder Anna caught up over coffee and chatted about the struggles of being a female-founder. The conversation quickly led to late-night texts sharing articles on the capital gap (can you believe women receive only 2.7% of investment dollars?), the pink tax (did you hear women get charged on average 7% more products like razors?), and spending power (wait, we as women control 80% of consumer-driven purchases?). The duo thought, "What if we could direct spending dollars back to women-owned companies to create economic equity?"

Beth and Vanessa discuss:

• How her family inspired her to create her own path
• Conscious consumerism
• Creating Dough
• Transparency and some of Dough’s other company values
• How Vanessa balances family and business
• How Dough really embodies collaboration and community over competition
• What’s to come for the brand
• And more!

Vanessa’s work has been featured in Fortune, Bustle, and the New York Times as well as recognized by the Stevie Awards, Adobe Creative Jams and W3 – just to name a few. She believes in building a more inclusive, compassionate, and equitable community and volunteers as a mentor at Hack.Diversity as well as advises early stage DTC founders. She is a first generation college graduate, an alumni of Simmons University, a women's college in the heart of Boston, where she studied Design and Public Relations.

Connect with Vanessa:

https://www.joindough.com/

https://www.instagram.com/joindough/

Beth is joined by fierce coach, intensely driven entrepreneur and comically authentic speaker and connector, Melanie Curtis. Melanie has jumped out of an airplane over 11,000 times in over 20 years and has circled the globe as a headlining professional skydiver and eventually founded How to Fly, Inc. where she works with Type A high-achievers through fear and the feelings that come with it across widely varied life challenges and business pursuits. She helps her clients get through the super unsexy work of building the internal emotional skills external high-achievers so often lack and only realize when faced with a life challenge they can’t seem to figure out how to get through. 

Melanie shares on:

• How she got into skydiving (and why she avoided it for many years before facing her fears)
• Some pivotal and transcendental moments in her life
• Holding positive space for clients
• Accountability and communication
• How she operates as a life coach
• Identifying fear, clarifying values and employing courage
• Tapping into ones creative abilities

Melanie leads through her keynote speaking and significant online presence, extracting useful insight and inspiration for others in all the content she contributes to or creates. She has been featured in Fast Company, Elle Magazine, Give Me Sport, Ellevate Podcast, Success IQ and on numerous other podcasts and in other publications over the years.

Connect with Melanie:

http://melaniecurtis.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/melanie-curtis-she-her-74ab3540/

Join Jacklyn Mellone and I talk all thing digital entrepreneurship. The pitfalls, the tragedy as well as the triumph.

Get your brand in the media in 5 easy steps.

Beth is joined by Founder of Blissful Eats, teacher, community leader and mom, Nicole Culver. Nicole helps influencers transform into successful digital product creators. She’s run two businesses for the past 9+ years and has helped hundreds of students step into their money making, freedom finding, inner CEO role. She’s spent the past years researching exactly what works to transform herself AND her students with the simplest strategies that work, so they can build a business they LOVE and have time to spend with family. 

Beth and Nicole discuss:

• Nicole’s path from special education to online business
• Working closely with a spouse
• Evolving together and separately through career and personal growth
• Separating yourself from your business
• Following intuition
• Allowing and accepting our emotions
• Finding your zone of genius and sticking to
• Getting out of your comfort zone

Nicole helps women figure out their goals and make a strategic plan to reach them. She also has a podcast, Blissful Bites: A Food Entrepreneur Podcast, which focuses on sharing the stories of successful women in the food industry. She is a New Yorker through and though since birth as well as a wife and mom of two girls, Olivia and Mila. She loves waking up early, at home fitness, coffee and writing to-do lists. Others obsessions include podcasts, spending time with my family (always my #1 priority!), online shopping, and meal planning and recipe creation. 

Connect with Nicole:

https://nicoleculver.co/

https://nicoleculver.co/facebook-map/

This week Beth is joined by Pam Christian to discuss mindset and changing our realities as a result. Pam has suffered devastating loss, trauma, and has dealt with countless struggles in her life and is proud to say, “I crawled out.” Now, she helps others stand up and move into a new light. She’s found clarity through self-exploration, self-examination, meditation, time alone with herself, as well as many other modalities. 

Beth and Pam discuss:

• Pam’s personal journey to healing
• Her entrepreneurial journey from real estate agent to mindset coach
• Different modalities she implements daily that she contributes to changing her life
• How she instills knowledge in her kids and her clients
• Why self-love is the way forward
• societally-imposed programming

Pam believes each of us have the ability within ourselves to be and have anything we want in life. Her work is influenced by her personal experiences and professional knowledge and it truly comes from the heart.

Connect with Pam:

https://thepamchristiangroup.com/

https://www.instagram.com/pamchristiann/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/pam-christian-489bb142/

In this episode Beth sits with Chic CEO, Stephanie Burns. In 2009 when all of her friends were getting laid off from their jobs, Stephanie was getting her MBA. Her friends assumed she was learning how to start a business which wasn’t quite the case but she started researching. She quickly found a lot of information telling her what was possible but not how to get there so she took measures into her own hands and now provides others with all of the info one needs to get a business off the ground and Chic CEO was born.

Beth & Stephanie discuss: 

• How Stephanie came up with the idea for Chic CEO and where she came up with the money to build the website 
• Finding her niche 
• The importance of infusing brand with personality
• Why the corporate path is not conducive to many women’s lifestyles
• Why she hates the term ‘work-life balance’
• Her favorite part about working and running a business
• Why and how men are integral in the future of female entrepreneurship
• What’s to come with Chic CEO and how you can become 

Connect with Stephanie:

https://www.stephanie-burns.com/

https://www.chic-ceo.com/

https://www.instagram.com/chicceo/

In this episode Beth is joined by Jaclyn Mellone who helps experts exponentially grow their business by becoming the Go-To Authority in their space. She is a coach, strategist, Keynote speaker, mama, guac lover, and host of the Go-To Gal podcast. Jaclyn helps her clients get out of their own way, package their expertise to scale, position themselves as the go-to authority, and have their dream clients and opportunities landing on their lap! 

Beth & Jaclyn chat about:

• The evolution of Jaclyn’s many businesses
• Following instinct and intuition
• Rebranding
• Why we should always be learning
• Understanding your strengths
• Her experience in launching a membership
• Managing motherhood and business
• And more!

Jaclyn’s signature approach combines restructuring her clients’ business models, reframing their mindset, and revamping their marketing so that they become the go-to authority from the inside out. She has spoken at marketing conferences around the US, grown her social media channels to total over 50K followers and has been featured in Entrepreneur, Yahoo Finance, Reader’s Digest, Parents, Well + Good, and on dozens of podcasts and radio appearances. Jaclyn has proudly built the Go-To Gal empire in her slippers from her living room in Rochester, NY.

Connect with Jaclyn:

https://jaclynmellone.com/

https://www.instagram.com/jaclyn_mellone/

https://www.instagram.com/go.to.gal/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/withjaclynmellone

In this episode Beth hosts a 1:1 coaching session with Claire Owen. For many years Claire thought of alcohol as a release, drinking 10 bottles of wine a week. She enjoyed a party lifestyle but felt trapped in a vicious cycle of drink-regret-repeat. After losing her friend to alcohol at the age of 52, Claire had a lightbulb moment and decided it was time to take action however she struggled with society’s portrayal of alcohol as synonymous with having fun.  Having experienced for herself the benefits of being sober, Claire is optimistic in turning the tide of popular opinion – to dispel the idea that sober is boring, that we deserve alcohol as a treat & that we need it to cope with our busy lives. She now helps others to reframe their perception of alcohol & to help them to discover healthier alternatives.

Beth and Claire discuss the pain points in Claire’s business and where she feels most challenged, where Claire should seek media and PR opportunities, actionable changes Claire can make immediately, and a reminder that it’s important to celebrate the big and small wins! 

Connect with Claire:

https://www.thesoberholic.com/

Beth is joined by business coach Cassie Howard. Cassie helps ambitious women create thriving online businesses, through digital marketing. She started her first online business when she was 18 years old, after being tired of working endless hours at the local coffee shop for minimum wage and then spent over a decade becoming completely self-taught in online sales & marketing. 

Beth and Cassie discuss:

• Why Cassie made the decision to not finish school and how she got her parents on board
• Her entrepreneurial path that took her from blogging to business coach
• How she moves through fear
• A unique perspective on pain points
• Looking for and finding evidence and
• Abundance vs. lack mentality
• How she works with clients and helps them to achieve their goals
• Her best and worst experiences with online coaches
• And more!

Cassie has worked with hundreds of women to grow their online business (and a few men, too!) - and believes nothing is more satisfying than seeing someone go from feeling overwhelmed and stuck, to clear, focused, and hitting their money goals. Her mission is to help women create freedom by creating and growing a business that they’re wildly in love with.

Connect with Cassie:

https://www.instagram.com/cassiehowardbiz/

https://www.facebook.com/cassiehowardbiz/