Joulez Founder Stephanie Rowe (@StephanieLRowe) is giving tween girl permission, and a medium, to learn STEM skills while expressing their creativity. To reverse the discouraging trend of fewer women receiving technical degrees and pursuing STEM fields for their careers, Joulez is preparing to launch an IoT lamp kit that introduces coding and elementary electronics alongside arts and crafts.

In this episode, Stephanie shares her personal story driving this passion. An early stage founder, she discusses balancing consulting with the demands of her startup, assembling an all-star team to build the product and help with testing, and mapping out communication with the public and potential partners/investors.

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When Patrick Boyaggi (@patrickboyaggi) and Mike Tassone (@mike_tassone) left Leader Bank to create RateGravity, their goal was to make the home mortgage process easier by providing transparency, cutting human processes out of the equation, and supporting local and regional lenders -- those who know the market and can service customers the best.

This episode is a deep dive into the origin of their startup, when they decided to make the jump, how they built out the founding team, their strategies to make their product a painkiller instead of a vitamin, and what's next for their startup. Hidden within the discussions are lessons all current or future entrepreneurs can take to their own companies.