Ania Wysocka is founder of Rootd, the #1 panic and anxiety relief mobile app. In her fourth year of university, Ania experienced her first panic attack, which changed the path she was planning for her career to something more introverted than she'd thought originally. Ania was able to figure out the app she wished existed, in order to help with her mental health, and created it herself. 

Ania is a BC Business 30 Under 30 winner and Rootd has been featured by numerous publications including Cosmopolitan, Bustle and Women's Health. Beyond founding an app with little technical experience, Ania works full time leading a marketing boot camp.

We talk about our own mental health, the challenges of being a nontechnical tech founder, balancing her startup with full time work and marketing and networking advice.

Mary Young is the founder of her namesake lingerie brand, Mary Young. In her fourth-year fashion design thesis, Mary created modern lingerie that championed every woman and lifestyle, not just the dated pinup archetype of lingerie. This idea was so well received Mary knew she needed to really bring her thesis into the world, with Mary Young. 

In doing so, Mary has not only created beautiful intimates to be enjoyed by all shapes and sizes, but she has created a community known as the 'Self Love Club', building conversation around body image, self-love and acceptance. Mary Young also donates $1 from every item sold to a new women-focused organization each year.

In this episode, we talk about the universality of body image issues and how Mary Young is addressing them, the psychology of having a namesake brand, how to network and share your "thing" the right way, and how Canadian and US shoppers differ. 

I hope you enjoy! 

www.maryyoung.com

@itsmaryyoung

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Paulina Cameron is the CEO of Forum for Women Entrepreneurs, a non-profit that educates, mentors and connects female entrepreneurs. She is also the founder of Young Women in Business, which now has nine chapters across Canada, and the author of Canada 150 Women featuring the stories of 150 incredible Canadian women. 

Beyond her amazing resume and career successes, in this episode, we talk about "having it all" as a mother, wife and woman in business. Paulina shares her advice on how you can create a life with room for a great home life and career, without feeling the pressure to chose one or the other. 

We talk about why women make amazing entrepreneurs, whether or not entrepreneurs are born or made, and how we can all be feminists in the workplace. 

www.fwe.ca

@fwecanada

@paulinaacameron

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Lulu Liang is the CEO of Luxy Hair and co-founder of Evergreen Journals. She left her corporate consulting job to be an assistant at a startup, and from there grew to be their CEO in under four years where she led their sale. 

Beyond being the CEO of a luxury hair brand with clients like Ariana Grande, Hailey Beiber and Kim Kardashian, Lulu is a self-growth expert. Her love of self-growth and living intentionally led her and her best friend to founding Evergreen Journals and The Habit Journal. 

We chat about her career growth and advice for those at similar crossroads, landing a job at cool startups like Luxy, what she wishes she knew when she was younger, her top book recommendations (she reads a book a week!!), and advice on living a happier, more intentional life. 

Books mentioned:

1) The Success Principles by Jack Canfield 

2) Sapiens: A Brief History of Mankind by Yuval Noah Harai 

3) Shoe Dog by Phil Knight 

www.luxyhair.com

www.theevergreenjournals.com

@luxyhair

@evergreenjournals

@lululiang

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Liv Schreiber graduated university early, went into real estate, realized she hated it and pitched herself to the founders of Spanx and Teen Vogue to work for them - launching her to founding an NYC marketing agency with her twin brother.

Liv also holds 1:1 coaching calls with other young ambitious women to talk through their personal and professional lives. 

We talk about the myth of college being the best four years of your life, being more than a "hot girl on Instagram", creative job applications, and the things we're all insecure about. 

Karen Lee is self-proclaimed "not fashionable", and founded a fashion line, LEZE The Label, with her best friend.

In this episode, we chat about balancing friendship with business, how to launch an amazing Kickstarter campaign, and how to create more boundaries and balance in your life. 

@lezethelabel

https://lezethelabel.ca

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Heather Hopkins knew the exact dating app she wishes existed in the world and created it herself, as the founder and CEO of the Graze app. 

We talk about hiring her dream team, building an app with no experience, validating her idea in the market, and how breakups suck for everyone (even founders of dating apps!). 

@thegrazeapp

@heatherahopkins

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Ruthie Friedlander has held incredible positions with Chanel, Instyle Magazine, The Row and Elle Magazine. Her own eating disorder story inspired the Netflix movie 'To The Bone'. She now works to help others dealing with eating disorders as the co-founder of The Chain, as well as the founder of New York City digital agency At Large Agency. 

Ruthie and I have an important conversation opening up to the reality of working in magazines. She also opens up about how being laid off isn't always the amazing "blessing in disguise" it's made out to be. 

@ruthiefrieds

@thechain

www.thechain.com

National Eating Disorder Information Centre - https://nedic.ca - 416-340-4156 - instant chat available as well

Eating Disorder Association of Canada - https://edac-atac.com  - [email protected]

National Eating Disorder Association Hotline - 1-800-931-2237

Hopeline Network - 1-800-442-4673

Crisis Textline - text CONNECT to 741741

@pickherbrainpodcast - dm me if you ever need someone to talk to!! 

Connie Lo and Laura Burget - co-founders of Three Ships Beauty, are my guests this week. Three Ships is my all-time favourite skincare brand - it’s completely transparent and completely natural and seriously puts their money where their mouth is. They’ve been featured everywhere - in Elle, Chatelaine, Refinery 29 and The Social to name a few. Connie and Laura have also been named finalists for the 2020 RBC Canadian Women Entrepreneur of the Year award. 

We chat about how they co-founded Three Ships at 23, as essentially strangers, and have built out the dream co-founder relationship, how they got their products from their kitchens to being sold all over the world, and how Laura’s tumour has shifted their perspectives both personally and within the business. They share such amazing advice, this is an episode I absolutely loved listening back to, so I hope you enjoy it!

Mentioned Links - 

www.threeshipsbeauty.com

@threeshipsbeauty

@itsconnielo

@lauraaburget

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Lauren Clark is the founder of LC Designs NYC, a gourmet grazing board company. We talk about how a degree in fashion merchandising and a DM from Alice and Olivia rocketed Lauren into founding a gourmet grazing board company in New York City. 

Lauren shares her best tips for creating a great board on a budget, as well as advice for following your gut when your goals feel a little bit more obscure. 

Check out Lauren at wwww.lcdesignsnyc.com and @lc_designsnyc on Instagram. 

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