SheVentures

Amanda Lannert raised $20 million in venture capital for Jellyvision, a SaaS (Software as a Service) platform that helps employees make financially sound choices about their benefits. Lannert gives smart tips for other women trying to make headway.

Lannert managed global brands for global advertising giant Leo Burnett before becoming CEO of Jellyvision. She completely changed the direction of Jellyvision with her sharp instinct and talented team. Lannert's pivots come from reading the marketplace and not being afraid to adapt in order to survive — a huge feat for anyone following the tech crash of 2001. (Yes, Lannert has been at the helm for that long!)

The company has grown to serve hundreds of mostly Fortune 1000 clients with ALEX®, the most helpful employee decision support platform on the planet. In 2017, nearly 17 million employees and $101 billion dollars' worth of premium decisions were entrusted to ALEX.

How did she do it? Find out on this episode of SheVentures.

She's a former Brooklyn high school English and theater teacher who transitioned to founding a conflict resolution business. Who is this incredible woman?

Sara Steinweiss takes center stage when she talks to SheVentures about how she coped with her father's death, her debilitating anxiety disorder, bullying — and the importance of getting help. Steinweiss provides wisdom for meeting one's teen where she or he is and discusses how the arts saves lives.

What if you could receive a 0 percent small business loan from a group of SheEOs? It's called #radicalgenerosity, created to focus on time-sensitive world issues through entrepreneurship. That's what today's guest, Vicki Saunders, has dedicated her life to by founding the transgressive SheEO.

With a society more focused on the financial return of an investment than on its environmental or social return, Saunders has vowed to blow up the system and press the reset button. SheEO has rejected the traditional business loan paradigm and created a community of mostly female "activators" who collectively fund loans at a 0 percent interest rate.

How can this possibly work, you may ask? Saunders will tell you how simple it is on this episode of SheVentures.

This woman won more than $100 million in sales for Broadridge — a company that offers financial advisors a platform to connect with their clients — so when it comes to the industry, Linda Wittich knows a thing or two.

With her pivot to industry giant IBM, Wittich embraced AI — and advised fintech startups that brought this technology to the forefront of financial services, a major pivot for the industry as well.

Today, Wittich, founder of Top Line Focus, acts as both a consultant and an advisor to the fintech sector.

Discover how she navigated these male-dominated fields, what made her an effective sales leader, and the inside scoop on the 2008 financial crisis, on this episode of SheVentures.

Anyone who creates a product knows how important a supply chain is, especially if you lose control of it.

That's what happened to Flores in her first entrepreneurial venture. Starting with creating hair extensions — after a long stint in financial services — Flores and her partner found that importing hair first from China and later India provided challenges in quality and logistics.

Her "come to Jesus" moment involved a business pivot to an entirely new product for the customers she already attracted with her hair extensions. Enter her mid-tier line of CBD-infused beauty products, Victoria Flores, our fiftieth guest, shares lessons galore.

Lux Beauty Club is a brand of holistic beauty products that are "from farm to shelf." Flores and her team directly oversee the entire process to ensure the best quality as well as total control over their supply chain. Find out how she navigates an industry that is still illegal on the federal level during this episode of SheVentures.

Sally Outlaw created something remarkable. She took on the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to be able to create a bond that yields a 5 percent return, can be bought in $10 increments, and her company, Worthy Peer Capital, reinvests that money as a loan to small U.S. businesses. What happens if a company defaults? Outlaw invests only in asset-backed/inventory-based companies, so Worthy would theoretically recoup any losses.

Making bonds understandable and accessible, as well as providing customers an app to easily withdraw or add money, is a pioneering concept in the financial services industry. Outlaw speaks about helping the 99 percent gain financial security.

Find out about her early career as a documentary maker and how she took on the SEC on this episode of SheVentures.

What would you do if divine intervention careened your career in a wildly different direction? In the midst of retirement after a 24-year stint in teaching, school administration, and graduate and doctorate studies, that's exactly what happened to Sara Thurman.

Thurman never picked up a paintbrush or easel, or took an art class before her faith spoke to her and she became an artist. Since 2014, she has sold more than 750 paintings and written a book about her experience. The proceeds from sales of the paintings go to missionary workers around the globe.

Now, Thurman has come full circle and is a speaker and mentor once more, hosting e-courses and retreats, all to spread the message she received from God. Curious? Listen to her speak authentically about her life-changing pivot.

The U.S. cannabis industry is on fire — last year it grew to $11.3B. Genifer Murray has played a key role in the weed world since cannabis was legalized in Colorado, and now boasts more than nine years of experience in the business. She is also a staunch advocate for women in the hemp and cannabis industries.

As a lobbyist, scientist, speaker, entrepreneur, and influencer, Murray helped found one of the first analytical cannabis testing labs in the U.S. She was ranked one of the 100 most influential people in the cannabis industry by Cannabis Business Executive magazine. She now runs her own cannabis-inspired jewelry line, High Point Jewelry (formerly GENIFER M).

Murray explains the state and federal laws impacting cannabis, her passion for enforcing testing standards, and alludes to where she sees the future of this commodity headed. You'll get it all on this episode of SheVentures.

A pioneer in her field who started in her early 20s, Nicole Dahlstrom is leveling the playing field for female-health related startups across the U.S. and beyond.

Dahlstrom is the founder of FemTech Collective, a 500 female-founder strong network that connects innovators in female-focused health tech through events, media, and an online platform. It's a place for women to join forces and strive to solve bias and barriers to entry in the tech industry.

Listen as Dahlstrom discusses these barriers, especially when it comes to female sexual health and the stigma surrounding it. All this and so much more, on SheVentures.

These two women hope to change the stigma at-home caregivers routinely face through their app and platform.

Lifelong friends Aileen Kelly and Felicia Kashevaroff were able to stay home after their children were born. Like many stay-at-home caregivers, they felt their work was invisible, undervalued, and unappreciated.

Kelly and Kashevaroff created Persistiny, a web platform to address the inherent inequality of at-home caregivers. Check out the hundreds of articles encouraging women to speak about their experiences with other women and their partners.

The duo then created an app: Tend is a task manager and journal. Its purpose? To promote self-care, acceptance, and an open and honest dialogue around caregiving. Kelly and Kashevaroff hope that journaling will enable caregivers to realize just how much they do. The women also hope to use the data from the app to understand user pain points even better.