Kristin D’Aliso, founder of Hudson Candle, was diagnosed with Lupus + Scleroderma 5 years ago and found solace and ritual in lighting candles and taking long baths to help ease the pain on her most challenging days. This was the spark to create a line of candles inspiring hope and relief. Kristin shares how she taught herself the beautiful art of candle making and the complex nature behind the wax, the wick and the essential oil blends.

Zoë Scharf is the Co-Founder and Chief Brand Officer at Greetabl - a total package gift complete with a custom greeting and a special present, neatly packaged into a personalized parcel that is sent directly to your loved one through an easy online transaction.

Everyone knows the best part of baking cookies is eating the dough! That is why St. Louis native, Kristen Tomlan, took her passion of baking and combined it with her love of cookie dough to open the world's first edible cookie dough confectionary, DŌ Cookie Dough Confections in New York City. She started the business out of her 450 square foot New York City apartment all while working full time and DO quickly became more popular than she ever anticipated.

Angelica Demiris has the creative ability to turn what she sees into a cute and clever pun.  Not only was this a common joke between Angelica and her husband, but she was inspired to turn her puns into a card business called A Couple Puns. What started as an Etsy side hustle turned into landing her cards at Paper Source, boutiques and grocery stores around the US, judging the Pun Off in Austin, Texas and being selected to be part of a business accelerator group at Snapchat.

No more settling sister, now is your time to rise! This is the story of Cait Scudder, a business coach and success catalyst for women who want it all.  Cait’s mission is to equip ambitious, visionary women with the structure, systems and support they need to launch and lead a wildly profitable business and have a damn good time doing it.

It was 20 years ago that Jana Webb, CEO and Founder of JOGA, turned to yoga to help rehabilitate after a car accident. In doing yoga, she developed a passion for learning how bodies move and traveled to Japan to learn Ishta Yoga. As a lifelong athlete and a trained yoga instructor, Jana developed JOGA, a unique blend of yoga and sport that has revolutionized how people strengthen their mind and bodies.

Jessica McKinley, a happiness scientist, business coach and founder of What’s Happying? shares how her decision after college to move to South America and manage a Youth Hostel in Peru changed her life.  She came back and started a blog which eventually turned into a business coach career.

As Jess says, business isn’t personal, but it is emotional…..

In this bonus episode, I share how I started my podcast to hopefully provide help and insight on how to get into the podcasting world.

Best friends, Gabi Koshgarian and Catherine Wang, never planned to go into business together, but they created their company, BlankBox, for the same reason a lot of founders create their product – they needed it! BlankBox are the ‘ready to gift’ box you need to give the perfect gift…without the gift.

Gabi and Catherine share how they started and self funded BlankBox all while working full time careers and truly break the stigma that best friends shouldn’t be business partners.

In this episode, I chat with Kacia Fitzgerald about her journey of how she found her calling as a mentor and launched her company, She Goes, to empower women with products and online learning platforms to build strong mindsets and have tactical tools to take purpose and driven action to build a life you love. In addition to She Goes, Kacia is the host of a top rated business podcast called EmpowerHER.