The Alpha Female Podcast

Robyn talks to Hanieh Sigari about her experience as an entrepreneur, her passion about learning about the aging process and her journey as a mom so far. 

Hanieh Sigari is an entrepreneur, biochemist, and anti-aging industry disruptor. Her Al-driven skincare start-up brand, Qyral, is the culmination of a lifelong mission to improve lives and increase longevity. No stranger to entrepreneurship, Hanieh has the experience of driving 600% YoY growth with her healthcare startup and taking an e-commerce startup from zero to over $20M in revenue over five years. Combining her business acumen, bioscience knowledge, and passion for empowerment, Qyral delivers far more than skincare. In addition to individualized, science-based products, the brand offers an opportunity for entrepreneurship. Following in the footsteps of her mother, whose efforts lifted hundreds of wartime widows out of poverty, Hanieh sees Qyral as a pathway for women to change their skin, their incomes, and their lives for the better.

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Robyn talks to Kristina Mand-Lakhiani about her experience as an entrepreneur, international speaker, and artist. 

She started her career in a government office in her native Estonia and, by her mid-20s, achieved a level of success mostly known to male politicians at the end of their careers. It was shortly after that Kristina and her husband Vishen founded Mindvalley. From a small meditation business operating out of the couple’s apartment in New York, the company quickly grew into a global educational organization offering top training for peak human performance to hundreds of thousands of students all around the world. 

Kristina believes life is too important to be taken seriously and makes sure to bring fun into every one of her roles: as a teacher, mother, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and world traveler. Kristina helps her students to virtually hack happiness by taking them through her unique framework. 

Kristina advocates that everyone is 100% responsible for their happiness and is entirely in charge of their own life. Whether it’s singing her two children to sleep, playing the harp, going on a solo trip to the Amazon Jungle to recharge, or joining groups of entrepreneurs, such as Maverick1000 on Richard Branson’s Necker Island, Kristina is set on taking in every moment and invites us to do the same. Her honesty and authenticity are breathtaking in a genuinely educational conversation on dealing with emotions and searching for the true meaning of happiness.

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Robyn talks to Rachelle Ganesh Bain about her experience as a performer, dancer, fitness instructor and mom!

Rachelle has always been passionate about movement. Movement and teaching people to love how they move became a focus for her as she eventually became a professional performer, dance, and fitness instructor. 

In recent years, while pregnant with her first child, Rachelle became certified as a pre/postnatal fitness specialist and is now passionate about working with women as they transition into motherhood. Rachelle is currently the Head Trainer of Soul Fuel Fitness in Toronto, where she instructs a variety of classes and clients and also develops programming and workshops for children, teens and Pre/Postnatal clientele. Along with auditioning and volunteering as a fitness coach for MoveCamp, she is now pregnant with her second child who is due to arrive earth side in September.

Rachelle believes in helping and encouraging others to reach their full potential in all aspects of their lives. With this in mind, she promotes freedom of movement and expression as well as active and healthy living for all.

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Robyn talks to Meghan Ward about her experience as a working mom/entrepreneur transitioning to a mom, a mom of 2 and now a working mom. 

Meghan J. Ward is an outdoor, travel, and adventure writer based in Banff, Canada, and a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. Meghan has written several books, as well as produced content for films, anthologies, blogs, and some of North America’s top outdoor, fitness and adventure publications. She has a forthcoming travel memoir (Fall 2022), to be published by Rocky Mountain Books. Meghan is also wife and partner in business and creativity with Paul Zizka, a mountain landscape, and adventure photographer. They love to explore the wild and the world together and take their two young daughters along for the ride.

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In this episode, I share what's been going on since my last solo episode including returning to work full-time. 

I also share what to expect for the next topic series around working women turned mom turned working mom. 

Robyn talks to Sharita Day about leaving the corporate workplace to become a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion advocate. 

Sharita Daya is a purpose-driven Innovator and a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion advocate, Coach, and Advisor. She is passionate about leveraging the power of technology to drive social change and to create an equitable and inclusive society for everyone.  Sharita also frequently speaks, writes, and mentors on the subject of DEI and advocates for social change.  In 2020, Sharita left the corporate workplace and followed her calling to invest her time intentionally to focus on social change advocacy, which she believes allows her to operate at the intersection of her purpose and her impact. Sharita is committed to actively pursuing work that is close to her heart and her purpose, which is to build an inclusive and equitable world for everyone.

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Robyn talks to Mallory Rowan about working while in school, launching a six-figure business and hitting burnout and then what she does now to take care of herself as an online entrepreneur.

When Mallory Rowan was 22, she built a global, multi-six-figure e-commerce business on a student budget. They were scaling incredible fast but then it happened: she burned out. She started losing her hair, getting unexplainable rashes all over her, and she didn't even notice she had pneumonia until a doctor heard her trying to catch a breath. 

Now she helps entrepreneurs build without burnout: more specifically, she helps them skip the burnout entirely, work less but actually start earning more, and do it on their OWN terms.

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Robyn talks to Karen Yaworsky about leaving the corporate fitness world to become an entrepreneur and how she came to launch The Chaos to Calm Method. 

Karen has been in the Health and Fitness industry for over 22 years. She is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, Culinary Nutrition Expert, Personal Trainer, Yoga Instructor, Fascial Stretch Therapist, and Thai Massage practitioner. She is the owner of Yaworsky Wellness and the founder of The Chaos to Calm Method. She has dedicated her life to helping busy and bloated women improve their broken digestion by embracing a healing, whole foods lifestyle without the overwhelm so they can lose weight with ease. 

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Robyn talks to Nadine Dumas about leaving the corporate world of accounting to become an entrepreneur. 

Eating Psychology Practitioner, Mind-Body Nutrition Coach, mother, a former accountant turned entrepreneur, 11x international cover model, and a leading businesswoman and influencer in the worldwide fitness market.  I have spent the last decade helping women lose weight and gain their power back.  Women that have lost themselves over the years have 'failed' time and time again with their diets, struggle with burnout and fatigue, and are caught in the endless cycle of compulsive eating and food addiction.

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In this episode, I share what's been going on since the start of 2021 and our move back across the country home to Ottawa, Ontario.

I also share what to expect for the next topic series around corporate women turned entrepreneurs (online entrepreneurs).