At some point, every ambitious woman faces a moment that tests who she really is. When the title disappears, the safety net falls away, and all that’s left is her own voice. For Andy McNicol, that moment came after 22 years inside one of the most powerful talent agencies in the world. Laid off in the middle of a pandemic and preparing to become a single mom by choice, she had to decide whether to chase another job… or finally build something that was entirely her own.

What happened next wasn’t just a career pivot. It was a reclamation. Andy created AMstudio, rebuilt her identity from the inside out, and turned uncertainty into independence. Her story is every woman’s reminder that starting over isn’t a detour. It’s often the most direct path to your power.

Key Takeaways:

Learn More About Andy:

Website: amstudio.me

LinkedIn: Andy McNicol

Instagram: @mcnics

About Our Guest:

Andy McNicol is a Senior Agent at Aevitas Creative Management and founder of AMstudio - an advisory firm focused on content creation and its marketing. She has represented New York Times bestselling books for Sophia Amoruso, Chrissy Teigen, The Lady Gang, Tory Burch, and the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir, Melania and Me. She represents the writer and activist Tommy Dorfman, Jenna Lyons, as well as the national bestsellers -  All The Cool Girls Get Fired by Laura Brown and Kristina O'Neill, First Gen by Alejandra Campoverdi and We've Decided to Go in a Different Direction by Tess Sanchez. She works with the lifestyle brands La Double J and Flamingo Estates.  

Andy has spent her career in publishing, including 20 years with WME, where she was a partner and founding member of the Branded Lifestyle Group. She began her own strategic advisory - AMstudio in 2020, offering a holistic, 360-degree approach to multi hyphenate talent and market activation, and joined Aevitas Creative Management as a senior agent in 2024.

Andy and her work have been featured in The New York Times, Variety Magazine, and Adweek. She speaks regularly at industry events, on podcasts, and conferences on how to develop successful books and content platforms. Andy holds a bachelor’s degree in English and Art History from Yale University. She lives in Manhattan with her son Luke.

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There’s a moment every woman hits, that quiet breaking point between what the world expects of us and what we know we deserve. For Lisa Myers, that moment came somewhere between court filings, breast pumps, and 3 A.M. feedings. The world had innovated for everyone else except working moms.

Lisa didn’t have an engineering degree, a trust fund, or an army of advisors. What she had was an idea and the audacity to believe she could build it herself. That spark became Ceres Chill, a company changing how women move through motherhood, work, and life.

But this isn’t just Lisa’s story. It’s every woman’s story. The one where we’re told to stay quiet, be humble, play nice, and wait our turn. And like Lisa, it’s about what happens when we stop waiting and start building.

Key Takeaways:

Learn More About Lisa:

Website: cereschill.com

LinkedIn: Lisa Myers

Instagram: @cereschill

About Our Guest:

Lisa Myers is the Founder of Ceres Chill, a company dedicated to ensuring the success of breastfeeding parents and the health of the world’s most vulnerable infants. In just the last few years, Lisa became a mother of two, was promoted to equity partner at an international law firm and created a company - all while enduring universal breastfeeding challenges. She struggled and failed to meet her breastfeeding goals. Through her struggles, she was inspired to invent a patented breast milk chilling thermos to help women all over the world keep their breastmilk safe and achieve their breastfeeding goals. She will never stop advocating for working women and breastfeeding families.

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Erin Gallagher spent fifteen years doing everything right. Working hard, staying grateful, keeping her head down. But “doing everything right” almost cost her everything. When she became a mother, the illusion of safety in corporate America shattered. She realized she had been abandoning herself in service to everyone else. Her job, her bosses, her expectations.

So she walked away.

What started as a bold leap turned into a revolution. Erin launched companies built to empower women, led equity work for major brands, and created Hype Women, a global reminder of what happens when women celebrate each other without competition, apology, or restraint.

Key Takeaways:

Learn More About Erin:

Website: hypewomen.com

Instagram: @erin.gallag.her

Book: Hype Women

About Our Guest:

Erin Gallagher is the CEO and Founder of HYPE WOMEN, an inclusive ecosystem hyping women to remember who the f*ck they are; author of Hype Women: Breaking Free from Mean Girls, Patriarchy and Systems Silencing You; host and co-producer of the Hype Women Podcast; and creator of the global Hype Women Movement and “The Fairway” - a dinner series and membership invested in networthing for women. She began her career at Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN), a non-profit legal services watchdog dedicated to ending the ban on LGBTQAI+ in the military (which they ultimately achieved). A two-time founder, Erin has spent her 20+ year career creating movements and leading global marketing, branding, communications, strategy and PR for agencies and global brands. She has counseled The White House, Fortune 100 C-suite and senior leaders at some of the world’s biggest and best brands and companies.

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Before anyone was swiping right, Fran Maier was already rewriting the rules. As the co-founder of Match.com, she didn’t just help people find love online. She helped women feel safe doing it. And when her company was sold for a fraction of what it’s worth today, she didn’t quit. She started again.

Fran’s story isn’t just about startups. It’s about stamina. It’s about the quiet power of women who see what’s missing and decide to build it themselves. From creating trust in the earliest days of the internet to leading a company that helps thousands of moms become entrepreneurs, Fran embodies what it means to take risks, get back up, and redefine what success looks like on your own terms.

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Learn More About Fran:

LinkedIn: Fran Maier

Website: babyquip.com

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About Our Guest:

Fran Maier is a pioneering serial entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience launching and scaling disruptive B2C and B2B internet businesses. Best known as Co-Founder and first General Manager of Match.com, Founder of privacy compliance leader TRUSTe (now TrustArc), and now Founder and CEO of BabyQuip—the world’s leading baby gear rental platform—Fran has built a career transforming industries and breaking boundaries as a Latina business leader.

Since founding BabyQuip in 2016, Fran has redefined family travel and gig economy innovation. Through proprietary technology and a thriving community of independent contractors called Quality Providers, BabyQuip gives traveling families easy access to high-quality baby gear in over 2,000 markets. Under Fran’s leadership, the company has raised more than $12 million in seed funding and become a recognized leader in both the travel and parenting tech spaces.

Earlier in her career, Fran helped launch and scale Match.com, where she built the company’s initial partnerships, introduced the first membership model, and focused on attracting women—a key differentiator that helped establish Match.com as the market leader. At TRUSTe, she led the transformation of the organization from a nonprofit to a for-profit, venture-backed company, raising over $10 million and positioning it as a pioneer in online privacy compliance. She also played a key role in launching BlueLight.com, a Kmart and SoftBank joint venture aimed at expanding internet access and e-commerce reach.

A sought-after voice on entrepreneurship, tech innovation, and women in leadership, Fran has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Forbes, Travel + Leisure, CNBC, and more. She appeared on ABC’s Shark Tank and was profiled in the documentary She Started It, showcasing female founders.

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There comes a moment for every ambitious woman when the grind no longer feels like growth. When the late nights, the accolades, and the endless “yeses” stop feeling like success and start feeling like survival.

For Sehreen Noor Ali, that moment became a turning point. A venture-backed founder who had built her reputation in the fast-moving world of AI and startups, Sehreen had done everything “right.” Until life forced her to stop. And in that stillness, she discovered something most women never get the chance to find: space.

Space to ask what do I really want?Space to imagine ambition that includes family, health, and joy.Space to say no without apology.

Her story is a mirror for every woman who’s ever been told to keep pushing, keep performing, keep proving her worth. It’s proof that success doesn’t have to mean burnout and that the most radical thing a woman can do is redefine what achievement looks like on her own terms.

Key Takeaways:

• Saying “no” is often the most powerful yes to yourself.
• Burnout can be the catalyst for a more aligned, intentional career.
• You don’t have to be an AI expert, just AI literate for the expert you already are.
• Mindset shifts can redefine what success looks like in every season of life.
• You can build ambition and balance if you make space for both.

Learn More About Sehreen:

LinkedIn: Sehreen Noor Ali

Website: sehreen.com

About Our Guest:

Sehreen Noor Ali spent years launching startups, most recently co-founding Sleuth, a Fast Company award winning platform that used crowdsourced data and AI to rethink how we approach children’s health. Today, she runs Te Cura Labs, helping modern leaders enter their next chapter with a thoughtful startup-style launch plan and a practical grasp of how AI can authentically extend their reach and reinforce their hard-earned expertise. She lives in New York City with her husband and two daughters.

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For too long, women have been told to “just deal with it” when it comes to menopause. Symptoms dismissed, pain minimized, hormones ignored. Joanna Strober wasn’t willing to accept that, and she’s making sure the rest of us don’t have to either.

As the co-founder and CEO of Midi Health, Joanna is rewriting the rules for women’s healthcare. Menopause isn’t a niche issue. It’s a universal experience for women. And yet the system wasn’t built for us. Joanna’s story is about building power in an overlooked market, creating access where there was none, and showing that women’s health is not only necessary, it’s non-negotiable.

Key Takeaways:

• The best time to optimize women’s health is now
• How Joanna turned her personal health struggles into a national company
• The myths about perimenopause and menopause that are holding women back
• Women need choices, not gatekeepers, when it comes to their health
• Menopause is inevitable, but suffering through it doesn’t have to be

Learn More About Joanna:

Website: joinmidi.com

LinkedIn: Joanna Strober

Instagram: @joannastrober

About Our Guest:

Joanna Strober is a visionary healthcare leader and CEO/co-founder of Midi Health, the fastest-growing national telehealth clinic transforming how women navigate menopause and midlife. Since launching in 2021, Joanna has propelled Midi to serve tens of thousands of patients with insurance-covered, personalized care in all 50 states—filling a massive gap in women’s healthcare. Before Midi, she founded and scaled Kurbo Health, a digital platform tackling childhood obesity, which was acquired by WW in 2018.

Recognized as a CNBC 2025 Changemakers and TIME100 Most Influential People in Health 2025, Joanna is a fierce advocate for women’s health equity. Her leadership has earned national honors—including a White House award for her groundbreaking campaign protecting women’s healthcare access—and sparked viral conversations that challenge the status quo, like forcing Noom to retract an ageist ad. Backed by visionary investors such as Sheryl Sandberg, Connie Britton, and Amy Schumer, Joanna is at the forefront of redefining care for women at midlife, driving real, systemic change in a historically neglected space.

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Julie Bornstein was told she didn’t fit the mold of a founder. That the venture world doesn’t fund women at scale. That maybe she’d missed her chance. Instead, she raised $50 million and built Daydream, a company poised to transform the way we shop forever.

Julie’s path proves a truth too often ignored: women with experience are not a liability, they are a force. They know how to lead. They know how to scale. They know how to create the future.

This isn’t just Julie’s story. It’s the story of every woman who has ever been underestimated. Of every woman told she was “too much” or “too late.” Of every woman who knows in her bones that conviction, resilience, and vision matter more than anyone else’s doubt.

Julie is living proof: women founders don’t just belong at the table. They build the table.

Key Takeaways:

• Conviction is the most valuable currency when raising capital.
• Starting from scratch creates the freedom to innovate without old limits.
• The future belongs to the builders, not the bystanders.
• You’re never “too old” or “too late” to build something transformative.
• Resilience and risk-taking are essential muscles every founder must build.
  

Learn More About Julie:

Website: daydream.ing

Instagram: @daydream

LinkedIn: Julie Bornstein

Instagram: @julie.bornstein

About Our Guest:

Julie Bornstein is the Founder and CEO of Daydream, the world’s first AI-powered, chat-based shopping agent built exclusively for fashion that introduces a radically new way to shop through personalized, conversational discovery. Daydream is backed by $50M in seed funding from top-tier investors, including Forerunner Ventures, Index Ventures, Google Ventures, and True Ventures. Previously, Bornstein was the Founder and CEO of THE YES, an AI-powered shopping startup for women’s fashion that was acquired by Pinterest in 2022 for its groundbreaking technology and extensive brand partnerships roster. Prior, Bornstein held leadership roles at startups including Stitch Fix, where she served as the COO and Board Member, helping to scale the company to $1 billion in under six years. She also built and led e-commerce at multi-channel retailers including Sephora as the CMO and Chief Digital Officer, as well as at Nordstrom and Urban Outfitters. Bornstein received a B.A. in Government from Harvard College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. In addition, Bornstein currently holds board positions at Sweetgreen, WeightWatched and Redfin.

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Hannah Habes didn’t set out to spark a matcha movement. She set out to heal herself. What started as a personal health journey became the foundation for Matchaful, a brand that’s grown from Hannah biking around New York with a backpack full of matcha to seven thriving cafes and a wholesale business across the U.S.

Too often, women are told to play it safe. Don’t quit the job. Don’t take the risk. Don’t go it alone. Hannah did the opposite. Along the way, she ignored the “rules,” trusted her instincts, and built her business with grit, creativity, and persistence.

Key Takeaways:

• The real story behind bootstrapping and scaling Matchaful in New York City

• Why sustainable growth matters more than rapid expansion

• The importance of owning your customer experience

• Why staying connected to your product’s source builds authenticity and trust

• Believing in your product sometimes matters more than convincing skeptics
  

Learn More About Hannah:

Website: matchaful.com

Instagram: @chiefmatchaofficer

Instagram: @matchaful

LinkedIn: Hannah Habes

About Our Guest:

Hannah Habes is the founder of Matchaful, a female-led botanical nutrition brand offering direct-trade, single-origin matcha, and plant-based snacks. After experiencing burnout in the food industry, she built Matchaful around transparency, ritual, and intentional sourcing, knocking on café doors with samples and whisking drinks herself, while holding off on launch until she found the perfect farm partner. From a solar-shaded tea farm in Shizuoka to NYC cafés known for refined sugar-free lattes and functional snacks, Hannah is reshaping wellness culture with sustainably sourced ingredients and calming, restorative experiences rooted in Japanese tradition.

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So many women spend years building a life that looks good on paper—degrees earned, careers established, families raised—while quietly carrying the weight of survival. We push harder, achieve more, and numb the rest. Until one moment demands we face the truth: this isn’t happiness.

For Shamina Taylor, that moment came on a yoga mat in 2013 when she found herself unraveling in the stillness she had always avoided. That breakdown became a breakthrough. She turned her pain into purpose, her hustle into harmony, and her scarcity into abundance. Her story isn’t just about one woman’s wealth. It’s about the power of women everywhere to step into their own.

Key Takeaways:

• Operating solely in masculine “do mode” keeps women in survival cycles.
• Wealth consciousness isn’t about saving every penny; it’s about identity shifts.
• Fear disguises itself as safety; intuition requires nervous system regulation.
• Investing in yourself accelerates growth and collapses timelines.
• When women rise in abundance, they change generations.
  

Learn More About Shamina:

Website: shaminataylor.com

Instagram: @shaminataylor

Podcast: The Unapologetically Rich Show

YouTube: @shaminataylor

Book: Unlocking The Quantum Woman

Event: The Wealth Consciousness Experience 2025

About Our Guest:

Shamina Taylor—former attorney turned Wealth Consciousness Mentor, bestselling author, mother of two and host of top rated podcast The Unapologetically Rich Show dedicated to normalizing big money for women. Shamina is a renowned wealth expert on a mission to lift income ceilings, break financial barriers, and make being wealthy the new standard for women everywhere. With a proven track record of helping over 51 women become millionaires and multimillionaires, and thousands more reach their highest cash months, she's passionate about showing what's possible when women unapologetically claim their power and wealth. 

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What happens when women dare to question the systems designed to keep them small? Julianna Glasse knows firsthand. Once a Christian pop singer at the center of evangelical culture, she walked away from it all after realizing the cost of her silence and submission. When a man in her church sneered, “This is what happens when women read,” Julianna turned that insult into a global movement to reclaim the inherent worth of women and dismantle the internalized fear and shame that keeps them trapped.

But her story isn’t just about leaving religion. It’s about what every woman faces when she decides her worth isn’t defined by anyone else. It’s about courage, liberation, and the radical act of self-actualization.

Key Takeaways:

• Women who refuse silence change everything
• Autonomy is non-negotiable
• Systems built on control crumble when women rise
• Oppression wears many faces
• When one woman rises, she gives others the courage to do the same
  

Learn More About Julianna:

Website: thisiswhathappenswhenwomenread.org

Instagram: @juliannaglasse

LinkedIn: Julianna Glasse

About Our Guest:

Julianna Glasse is a dynamic thought leader, and the Founder and CEO of This Is What Happens When Women Read, a global initiative advancing women’s liberation through education and safe community. Formerly a celebrated Christian pop singer and author, she rose to prominence within evangelical circles and was even invited to perform at the 2017 National Prayer Breakfast hosted by Donald Trump. In the years that followed, she experienced a profound personal and ideological shift, ultimately leaving religion in 2019 and becoming a dedicated advocate for women’s rights and the LGBTQ+ community. An alumna of Oxford University, Julianna partners with Saïd Business School to fund scholarships for emerging feminist leaders. She also collaborates with global fashion houses, including Alexander McQueen and Gucci. Her forthcoming memoir, This Is What Happens When Women Read, explores her personal journey from indoctrination to liberation through literature and is slated for global release in 2026.

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