She Built It® Podcast

Sarah K Peck is the founder and CEO of Startup Parent and the host of The Startup Parent Podcast, an award-winning podcast featuring women in entrepreneurship, business, and parenting. She writes about work, culture, and parenting, and her work has been featured in Forbes, Inc, Fast Company, The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, and more.

Charlotta Pettersson is a Medical Aesthetician and Business Owner of The Laser Image Company & MD Needle Pen in Los Angeles, CA. As an immigrant from Sweden, she took a leap to move to America and started a business that sells microneedling pens to medical and aesthetic professionals both nationwide and internationally. They also educate these professionals so they use it correctly for the best possible results.

Charlotta believes that our skincare is so important for our self esteem and can impact how we feel about ourselves both personally and professionally. She finds joy in helping women feel confident both inside and out.

Bringing wit to drama and depth to comedy, Sharon appears as globe-trotting philanthropist Delphine Rism in the upcoming comedy "Me Time" with Kevin Hart & Regina Hall on Netflix, and in thrillers "The Portrait" with Virginia Madsen and "The Death That Awaits", both premiering in early 2023 on major streamers. Television appearances include "Modern Family", "NCIS", "The Bold And The Beautiful", "Passions", and "Cost Of Capital". Sharon has an extensive theater background and works in VO and commercials as well. She's also a writer, producer, and coach and the mom of two children in elementary school. Sharon lives in Los Angeles with her family.

Melanie Barr, Founder + CEO of She Built it™ leads this week’s episode. Melanie launched She Built It™ in 2015 after selling millions in products and services for Fortune 500 companies and entrepreneurs - Marriott Hotels, AT&T, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and Millennium Corporate Solutions to name a few. Her experience leading Boards and assisting organizations with female-focused missions inspired her to establish the She Built it™ community, a collective that comes together to empower you to "experience the life and business that you crave." She Built It™ fosters meaningful member connections and shares knowledge and resources that inspire you to make your next leap - big or small.

Stacy Bahrenfuss, Founder of Truth Teachers™, joins us on this podcast. Known as The Truth Teacher, and a visionary intuitive Stacy works privately consulting 7- and 8-figure women leaders and their teams, leading them to activate all of their power and accelerate their success personally and professionally. Stacy and her Truth Teachers™ are on a mission to revolutionize the entire self-help industry by eliminating gurus and empowering people with the tools and framework to transform their own lives.

Miki Reynolds, CEO & Co-founder of Grid110, joins us on the podcast this week. Her LA-based company, Grid 110, is an early-stage startup accelerator and community development non-profit for entrepreneurs. Since 2014, Miki has focused on activating the startup ecosystem in Los Angeles through her work with Grid110, fostering community, and connecting the dots for entrepreneurs through access to mentoring and critical resources. Prior to co-founding Grid110, Miki launched the Downtown LA location for tech education company, General Assembly.

Meg Mothershed is a brand specialist and co-owner at Mothershed Design Co., a boutique brand and web design studio near sunny Denver, Colorado. Together with her husband, Josiah, they help small businesses succeed by creating brands and websites for a variety of companies. They work with their clients to tailor each brand to meet their unique needs.

Award-winning author Monica McGurk joins us on the She Built It™ Experience podcast. Her work weaves together complex, multi-layered stories that bring contemporary issues and strong female characters to life through different genres of popular fiction. Her previous work includes three volumes of paranormal YA romance The Archangel Prophecies: Dark Hope, Dark Rising, and Dark Before Dawn, along with numerous works of fanfiction under the name Consultant by Day.

Naomi Seddon is an international lawyer, thought-leader, and author of Milk and Margaritas. Her legal career spans 3 countries where she has worked with over 2,000 companies. Naomi also advocates and presents on workplace equality and issues impacting women at work. She was named by Legal 500 as a top attorney in the United States for legal advice and counseling. In addition to her role as an international lawyer, Naomi is regularly called upon to advise boards and executive management on their people issues. 

Deborah Smith, Co-Founder and Principal of The CenterCap Group, LLC, joins us on the podcast. She started the only female-founded boutique investment bank for ‘All Things Real Estate, and heads the firm’s Strategic Capital and M&A and Execution efforts. Deborah shares how she works with clients to find unique and creative solutions to ensure growth and success. Over her career she has been involved in more than $100 billion of mergers, acquisitions and restructuring transactions.