She Built It® Podcast

“Courage comes after you do something you're really terrified to do.” Nanea Reeves is the CEO of TRIPP - an award-winning digital therapeutic platform designed to address mental and emotional health. Join us as we talk about…

• How, despite her mother’s heroin addiction growing up, she persevered to build a successful career and business.
• How a love of gaming at a young age gave her a foundation and a path forward.
• Why more girls should play video games as a path to STEM.
• Why showing up with positive energy, bringing that energy into the room, providing solutions, and showing up with a contribution mindset is so important.
• Why her husband built a temple in Tibet and how, after he passed, she found a renewed sense to build and approach life with optimism and hope.

Prior to TRIPP, Nanea held senior leadership roles at Electronic Arts as SVP Global Online, President of TextPlus, Chief Strategy Officer of Gaikai - acquired by Sony, COO of Machinima - acquired by Warner Brothers, and more. She’s one of the few women in the video game industry to lead large scale tech initiatives and frequently speaks on why more girls should play video games as a path to getting more females into STEM.

Welcome to the She Built It™ Experience with Melanie. I bring you conversations with women who have made successful leaps in their life and career and chat about how they are “experiencing the life and business that they crave.” Meet Julie Spira. Julie is a Bestselling Author, America's Top Online Dating Expert, Award-Winning Dating Coach and the founder of Cyber Dating Expert. 

She’s been featured in over 1500 media interviews on almost every network and has given tips on The Today Show.  Join our conversation about finding love through tech, gain tips for dating online, and hear Julie's journey of building a successful business and career based on helping someone in search of love find it love and technology. 

Welcome to the She Built It™ Experience with Melanie. We bring you conversations with women who have made successful leaps in their life and career and chat about how they are “experiencing the life and business that they crave.” Meet Danielle Dietz, Director of Strategic Partnerships and Development with a focus on children's health at the University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to joining UCLA, Danielle served as Business Development Director for the American Heart Association. Her career expertise and social impact experience helps organizations advance their business development, cause-marketing, and philanthropic missions. Join our conversation about the importance of finding purpose in our work, working towards something that we believe in, and how to find the necessary courage when making career leaps.

Welcome to the She Built It™ Experience with Melanie. We bring you conversations with women who have made successful leaps in their life and career and chat about how they are “experiencing the life and business that they crave.” Meet Melanie Barr, Founder and CEO of She Built It™ and Producer and Host of the She Built It™ Experience with Melanie Podcast. Melanie launched She Built It™ in 2015 after years of experience in management and business development selling millions of dollars in products and services for Fortune 500 companies and entrepreneurs - Marriott Hotels, AT&T, and the Los Angeles Dodgers to name a few. 

Melanie learned the importance of finding work that she enjoyed when she accepted her first job at the age of 15. She made her first major life leap when she moved to Los Angeles at the age of 19 without knowing a single person who lived there because she wanted more opportunity. Even though she was fearful, she made the leap and found the confidence to figure it out along the way. She supported herself working a full time job while also attending college full time. This taught her grit and gratitude, and the experience carried into all other aspects of her work and life. She became a Regional Sales Manager for a Fortune 500 company by the age of 25, managing sales teams from Los Angeles to San Diego and has been making career and life leaps ever since. When her twins were born, after hours of sitting in the nursery with her family that she loves, she decided she was ready for another leap. She created and launched She Built It™ a Membership Community, Shop, Podcast, and Coaching platform.

Welcome to the She Built It™ Experience with Melanie. We bring you conversations with women who have made successful leaps in their life and career and chat about “how” they are “experiencing the life and business that they crave.” Meet Lauren LoGrasso - Lauren is a Singer/Songwriter, Podcast Host, Public Speaker, actor and Executive Producer of Female Content at a prominent podcasting company where she has helped create and produce multiple hit shows. She also independently executive produces and hosts her own show, Unleash Your Inner Creative, which was recently nominated for a People's Choice Podcast Award, and has been on New and Noteworthy 37 times and is frequently on the Apple Podcast Charts in Multiple Countries. As a singer/songwriter, Lauren has released four singles, including her songs, "Rise" and “Freakshow” both of  which were recently written about in People Magazine and on Yahoo.com . Her next single, “Therapy” comes out May 7th in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month. Other notable features for Lauren and her work include Podcast Magazine, Cheddar, Business Insider, In Touch Weekly and more!

Jennae Neustadt serves as the Sr. Manager of Government Affairs for SHI International Corporation, the largest female and minority owned business in the United States. As a Government Affairs Manager, Jennae oversees a team of lobbyists in Jefferson City, Missouri and helps to manage SHI’s consultants across the country. She also oversees strategic partnerships on the federal level with some of the nation’s most high-profile Governors, legislators, and leaders. She is an advocate for women in politics and public policy.

Marcy Tivol has found entrepreneurial and creative joy as the Co-Founder of Solving Fun - an online and virtual company that offers puzzles, activities, and games for kids that focus on perseverance and problem solving. She brings groups of kids and friends together for fun, twist your brain, outside the box, and laugh with other solvers, virtual experiences. Join us as we chat about entrepreneurship and using our interests and natural talents to create and scale a business doing what we love. 

Mitch Gilbert is the CEO and Co-Founder of OYA - the first women's leggings product engineered for women's health and comfort. After graduating from the University of Chicago with a bachelor’s degree in Public Policy, Mitch became a consultant for Deloitte and then worked as the Chief Product Officer at a sportswear start up. She became obsessed with women’s health and sportswear apparel. Today, she is attending UCLA Anderson with a full scholarship to create and build her company, OYA. Join us as we chat about Mitch’s leap into Femtech and learn about the importance of her product for all women. 

Domonique Townsend is the Founder and CEO of We Optimize Work. She is an engineer, entrepreneur, and working mother of four children who decided to combine her corporate experience with her passion to position working moms for success. 

Domonique applied principles that she used to solve complex problems in business and modeled it into a framework to meet both the personal and professional needs of working moms like herself. We Optimize Work supports working moms in their personal aspirations without having to downshift in their careers.

Join us and be inspired to optimize your work so that your days are tailored around your capacity, fulfillment, family, and career dreams. 

For as long as she can remember, D’Wan Carpenter wanted to be a doctor. Her path to becoming a physician was filled with the understanding that medicine would become her life. She has found that as a woman with a family of four young children, and as a doctor, she was often fraught with the challenges of trying to prove herself worthy of being able to prioritize both work and family. “I was constantly trying to show up and be the best for everyone at all times…the best wife, the best mom, the best doctor, the best sister, the best daughter, the best friend.” 

After the birth of her twins and ultimately becoming a mother of four, things started to change. She made the decision to get a new job, even though it required an interstate move, in order to not have to drive hours to and from work every day. She also started doing things for herself that she previously had put off because she “just didn’t have time.” 

Today, she is the founder and coach of Twin Mom Chronicles, a community and coaching business that helps other working moms of children and multiples to not feel so alone, to find the resources they need, and to be sure to find the time in their day to “fill their cup.” 

Listen and be inspired to accomplish your career dreams while also caring for yourself and your family.