Gina Duncan started her career in film programming, with a lifelong focus on diverse programming that led her to become the president of BAM, the Brooklyn Academy of Music. This episode will highlight Gina’s career working within and running cultural institutions such as Sundance and BAM, focusing on rethinking the role of cultural institutions to be more diverse in their programming.

Lauren Yoshiko is a freelance writer and editor, who writes the Broccoli Report, a bi-weekly newsletter for creative cannabis entrepreneurs. Lauren has been blogging through the unprecedented wave of growth and change in the Cannabis industry, as recreational use is slowly getting legalized throughout the country. This podcast episode will highlight her experience navigating and documenting the strange world of weed.

Ep 180: Space Is The New Frontier - Rema Matevosyan, Near Space Labs

Rema Matevosyan is a scientist turned entrepreneur, who co-founded Near Space Labs, a start-up that provides timely, wide-scaler, commercially available imagery with the largest zero-emission balloon fleet in the stratosphere. For Rema and her cofounders, space is the exciting new frontier. This podcast episode will highlight her unique entrepreneurial journey, and her experience building and scaling her company as a foreign female founder.

Natasha Halesworth is the founder of the Consistency Project, a new women-led sustainable fashion and lifestyle studio, focusing on secondhand and reworked vintage. Through The Consistency Project, Natasha is reimagining the relationship between fashion and sustainability. She is also changing the retail experience, imagining shopping appointments with elevated service for her clients. This podcast episode will highlight her unique entrepreneurial journey toward the world of sustainable fashion.

Robin Steinberg is an American lawyer and social justice advocate, with over 30 years of experience as a public defender. Robin also is the founder and CEO of the bailout project, the first-of-its-kind nonprofit revolving bail fund. Robin is a friend of the podcast, having been one of the early guests on the Pod three years ago. For this second episode with Robin, we will focus on how the Bailout project has evolved over the past three years, after a change in presidency, a pandemic, and a moment of national reckoning for systemic racism. This podcast episode will represent the perspective of a woman who has dedicated her career to fighting for criminal justice and against systemic racism.

Amy Chin is the founder of Calm Better Day, a cannabis and CBD consultancy company that educates and guides her clients toward their custom CBD regimens. Amy's career has spanned across different industries, from the retail world with experience in buying and merchandising, to hospitality. As always, the dots connect, and in 2019, Amy decided to turn towards entrepreneurship and founded Calm Better Days. Through her coaching work at CBD but also, the events she throws, Amy is seeking to educate the consumer. This podcast episode will highlight her unique entrepreneurial journey, and lessons learned while navigating the emerging world of the cannabis industry.

Joy Howard is the founder of Early Majority, a new women-led, membership-based outdoor brand, and community. Joy's career has spanned across different industries, from being a full-time musician in the indie-rock band Seely to marketing, working for iconic brands such as Coca-Cola, Converse, Patagonia, and Sonos. As always, the dots always connect, and during the pandemic, Joy turned towards entrepreneurship and launched Early Majority, an environmentally conscious membership-based outdoor brand with a crypto and NFT angle. This podcast episode will highlight her unique entrepreneurial journey from music towards marketing and community, and her experience as a female founder.

Kelly Perez and Courtney Mathis are the brains behind Cannabis Doing Good, a cannabis consultancy that inspires a standard for social responsibility in the cannabis sector. As the Cannabis industry is going through an unprecedented wave of growth, new challenges--ranging from sustainability to social responsibility, are emerging. Through CDG, and their nonprofit, the Cannabis Impact Fund, Courtney and Kelly are creating opportunities for cannabis businesses to engage with nonprofits and their community. This podcast episode will highlight the co-founder's entrepreneurial journey, and lessons learned while navigating the emerging world of the cannabis industry.

Samara Daly is a nonprofit expect who launched Let's Talk about Menopause. After making a career working in city government, nonprofits, and community development, she created Let's Talk about Menopause in 2021, hoping to break the taboo of that highly stigmatized period of a woman’s life. This episode will highlight Samara’s entrepreneurial journey and the challenges of launching a feminist non-profit during a pandemic.

Pelin Thorogood is the tech executive turned impact entrepreneur behind Radicle, a health tech company revolutionizing clinical trials for natural medicine. After a successful career in tech, she co-founded Wholistic Research and Education Foundation: a public non-profit dedicated to cannabis & CBD research, education, and advocacy, before co-founding Radicle Science. This podcast episode will highlight Pelin's unique entrepreneurial journey, and lessons learned while navigating the world of tech and natural medicine.