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. As Kristin is more sensitive than others to scents, her fierce dedication to find the purest ingredients led her to hand pouring soy and coconut blend wax candles and creating proprietary essential oil blends that she now sources from France. Instead of letting the sudden onset of an unpredictable condition stop her from moving forward, Kristin created a remarkable product line as an act of resistance against it.

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. Candles are not only Kristin's thing, they are a symbol of personal growth and hope.

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. Greetabl was founded by Joe Fischer and Zoë Scharf after being introduced by a mutual friend. Zoë shares their entrepreneurial journey of how a cereal box inspired the idea for Greetabl, how the first version of Greetabl flopped and by watching customers interact with their product, they redesigned to what Greetabl is today. She also shares how having a great product and website doesn't mean instant growth in your customer base.

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. Kristen's unique take on the formerly forbidden treat became a huge success and has inspired fans worldwide, including Reese Witherspoon, Kim Kardashian, Ryan Seacrest, and Chrissy Teigen, to eat cookie dough just how we all like it, with a spoon straight out of the mixing bowl!

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. Angelica is on a mission to tickle funny bones, one sassy card at a time. 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. Cait shares how a life changing experience in Bali ultimately gave her time to invest in herself and dream big. She launched her business, Cait Scudder Interntional, in mid 2017 and scaled to 6 figures in under a year. She has taught hundreds of women how to leverage their unique gifts and rise to next level and serves a tribe of over 20,000, all from her laptop while traveling the world.

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. Jana has worked with elite athletes across North America such as players from NHL, NFL, MLB, NBA and Olympians and has grown her brand internationally with over 500 JOGA coaches teaching her program. JOGA can now be found on the FitPlan App for anyone to do JOGA from the comfort of their own home!

On today's episode, 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 met people from all over the world and came to the realization that no matter their nationality, conversations had consistencies. People want more happiness, more purpose and more clarity. When Jess moved back from Peru, she was inspired to create happiness experiments that evolved into her business as a personal and business coach, What's Happynig?

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 a fateful google search for a chic gift box and a Gchat later, they created their company, BlankBox, for the same reason a lot of founders create their product – they needed it! What started as wanting to give a thoughtful 'just because' gift soon turned into the realization that they couldn't find chic and customizable gift packaging that made it easy to send a beautiful thoughtful gift. BlankBox is your ready to gift box that creates an elevated unboxing experience, featuring chic designs, no visible blankbox branding, foldover magnetic closure + a built-in satin ribbon for that effortless first impression.

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.