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Since 2004, Diane Pleuss has matched hundreds of entrepreneurs with their perfect fit franchise opportunity, while successfully guiding them to avoid rookie mistakes – at no cost to her clients. As a result, they are creating wealth, making an impact in their marketplace and enjoying the systems already in place to accelerate their path to success.

She has a lot to share in this episode and you'll want to write down her contact info.  Franchising is not all about fast food anymore!

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Helena Fogarty is a rule breaking, magnetic CEO Founder Coach who's seen it all. She's a 4 time CEO and a 3 time founder. She is passionate about helping CEOs take action on the things that matter most. She's known for guiding companies through times of crisis. 

Helena’s mission is to help start-up founders and CEOS go bigger and increase the IMPACT of their company - and do it easier, faster, and more in alignment with their values. 

Prior to founding her first company, she worked for Chanel, Ferragamo, Zac Posen, Hearst, Bank of America and others.  Helena went to Penn undergrad and NYU Stern for her MBA in Finance, Accounting and Entrepreneurship. 

Outside of work, she loves spending time with her family, surfing, swimming, stand up paddling, and walking her 2 dogs. 

Helena’s work has been featured in NY Times, NY Post, Elle, Harper's Bazaar and others.

Connect with Helena:

www.helenafogarty.com

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Come meet Ari Krzyzek, the co-founder and chief creative officer of Chykalophia (read: see-ka-lo-fia).  Ari is helping women-led brands in FemTech & DTC transform their website into a platform that unlocks business opportunities.

She serves as a branding, UX consultant, and professional peer in support of fellow female entrepreneurs through the #1 ranked private business incubator in the world, 1871 Chicago.

She’s the co-host of Halo Femtech Podcast, a podcast that honors disruptive innovators and change-makers advancing women’s health. Furthermore, she helps women in tech and design break into the industry and succeeds in it by mentoring them for personal branding, career advancement, and entrepreneurship through Interaction Design Foundation and ADP list.

She's currently writing a book so be on the lookout for that in Summer 2022!!

Find and connect with Ari:

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Heesun Lho has spent over ten years in the entrepreneurship world as a founder, investor, and connector and is now empowering women entrepreneurs as the Director of Programs for the Tory Burch Foundation in New York. 

Prior to joining, Heesun was a Venture Partner at 500 Startups, an early-stage fund and seed accelerator with a global portfolio of over 2,000 companies. She moved from Seoul, Korea, where she was Co-Founder and CEO of Vengine, a recruiting platform for startups. 

Heesun began her career at YouNoodle, a startup based in San Francisco focused on building a meaningful platform for entrepreneurs around the world. Consulting closely with product and large-scale campaigns, Heesun helped develop YouNoodle’s technology as well as implement and support entrepreneurship programs for large corporates and governments as their VP of Projects. She has also mentored and coached hundreds of early-stage startups over the years. 

Find Heesun on LinkedIn.

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This musician turned downright inventor is someone you'll want to listen to for sure!

Amanda McIntosh is the Founder and CEO of Take My Face Off, a Los Angeles-based brand that creates reusable, super soft makeup removing Makeup Mittys and Mitty Minis that are much better for the environment than single-use products like makeup wipes and cotton balls.

She became interested in beauty after searching for soft washcloths for her own skincare routine. As she spent more time researching the beauty industry, McIntosh was dismayed to learn of the environmental costs of facial wipes and cheap cotton balls. Her idea of upgrading washcloths turned into something bigger.

TMFO is on the forefront of combating the beauty waste issue with gentle and effective beauty tools. Plus, they take off every trace of makeup, are way cuter than a gross old washcloth, and can even be used on eyelash extensions! Their newest launch is the Mitty Ex, the first-of-its-kind dual-sided reusable makeup remover that both cleanses and exfoliates the skin. In addition, there’s the Mitty Max, the largest Mitty yet that's meant for both face AND body.

TMFO also collaborated with world-famous lip artist, Vlada, to create Vlada's Mitty Pout, a reusable lip cleansing tool that removes even the most stubborn lip color with ease.

Connect with Mandy on IG: @takemyfaceoff or her website.

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Betsy Ludwig is a very impressive woman who is leading the way for young entrepreneurs to become impressive in their own rite!  She is the Executive Director of the Women's Entrepreneurship Program at Northeastern University.  Not only that, she has raised her children in London and Boston while doing all this as well as an incredible career in Europe.

Come listen as she shares how she works with startups because she loves helping them raise money introducing them to various venture capitalists and high net worth individuals.

You can reach out to Betsy via LinkedIn.

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Catherine Hover is the entrepreneur behind Saratoga and Burlington Paint and Sip Studios and Palette Community and Coworking spaces located in Upstate New York. Paint and Sip and its multiple locations were the first in the Capital Regions of New York and Vermont. Most recently, she created and grew the Palette coworking community alongside her growing family. Palette fills the need for support and resources in career and in life in the small urban market specifically for women. 

Originally from New Orleans, she has quickly made a home for herself in Saratoga Springs, New York with a strong desire to make a lasting impact in her community. Catherine is always seeking ways to encourage and inspire women like herself to believe in themselves to create whatever it is they feel called to do. 

Palette is a global community of like minded creatives who are committed to advancement in career and in life. Saratoga Paint and Sip Studio is a paint bar and the most exciting night out for anyone who doesn't take themselves too seriously.  

Connect with Catherine below!

• IG Handle(s).   : @catherinehover @thepalettecommunity @saratogapaintandsip
• LinkedIn.  : https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherinehover/
• Website.  www.palettecommunity.com.     www.paintandsipstudios.com 

For more than 20 years, Marie revolutionized small business marketing and sales in the Chicagoland area and nationally with her no-nonsense approach to how work can be crafted to support the person and their family first. With sophisticated tech stacks, personal development, upskilling, and reskilling, her work in the virtual workspace has challenged and elevated traditional work models and is poised to change the way work works.

An advocate for women's and LGBTQ rights, child care, and caregiver options, Marie is an expert in diverse options as well as custom-crafted solutions for families of every kind. Her fervent belief is that if you give people money and choices they have power, and don't need anyone to empower them. Power is a human right.

Connect with Marie: 
FB/IG/LI: @revenue @fwdrEvolution, @mariehalespeaker/personabrand

You'll love Nubia DuVall Wilson and her journey!  Here's a woman who owns a full-service PR agency full-service agency. Cielo Consulting, based right outside of New York City in South Orange, NJ, specializing in People, Places, and Products in the social impact and lifestyle verticals. The team has decades of experience supporting the public relations (PR) and marketing efforts of some of the world’s biggest brands.

Cielo’s small-to-midsize clients reap the benefits of receiving the same caliber of support of a Madison Avenue NYC agency, but with a boutique firm that takes a collaborative 1:1 approach with its business owners to facilitate growth and consumer confidence.  Clients range from thought leaders, published authors, celebrity talent, nonprofits, e-commerce entrepreneurs, and small-to-midsize businesses nationwide.

Not only that - she is the founder of Staryfury Productions.  Starfury Production carves pathways for traditionally underrepresented film and TV writers (especially women and writers of color) who have powerful content that deserves to be seen. Starfury's mission is to develop, package and pitch TV and film content that makes a social impact, empowers, educates and entertains. They do this through cultivating partnerships with TV networks, film studios and production companies that want a trusted partner to introduce them to new content by talented creators, which will connect with audiences impactfully.

Connect with Nubia -
IG: @starfuryproductions and @nubiadwilson
LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/nubia-duvall-wilson-58886b9/

Website: www.cieloconsulting.biz / www.starfuryproductions.com

My novella The Survivors Club gives a % of the sales to the nonprofit New York Center for Children, which offers free therapy services and trauma-focused evaluations to children who have been abused and their families.

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Prithvi Madhukar aka The Marketing Nomad is an entrepreneur, business owner, podcaster, youtuber, digital nomad and a nano-influencer with a zest for life! She started her company The Marketing Nomad in Delaware, USA with the sole purpose of  empowering entrepreneurs, solopreneurs and small business owners across the world to implement long-term actionable marketing strategies and help them grow their business with confidence. 

Her social media platforms guarantee a bucketload of marketing, mindset, & business tips along with her quirky sense of humor and a side of wit! She also does Bollywood dancing in her free time :)

Connect with Prit!
Instagram handle: @themarketingnomad (www.instagram.com/themarketingnomad)
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prithvimadhukar/
Website: https://www.themarketingnomad.co/

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