Dr. Anne O'Brien realized that her career in production would be an uphill battle, and after a few events it became time to quit. Because of her circumstances and experiences, Dr. O'Brien continued on to be an educator as an assistant professor at Maynooth University in Ireland. She now also serves as a researcher on gender inequality in media work.

Dr. Nikki Blacksmith has focused her research on venture funding and why only 2-3% of companies that receive venture funding are owned by women. She uncovered four things venture capital companies do to select firms in which to invest. And none of those things are equitable nor predictors of success. And so Nikki, along with her co-founder, set out to offer up a better and more equitable solution.

Dr. Katina Sawyer has been studying the intersection of gender at work for a long time. And what she has discovered is that there are companies that boast equitable workplaces and there are companies that truly have equitable workplaces. Katina explains the difference and the tactics that women are taking to make work safer and more equitable.

It's been 12 months and 24 episodes of The Female Entrepreneur Show. And it's time for a change. Not just in the world of female entrepreneurship but for this podcast, too. Starting with the next episode, I'll be interviewing academics and researchers who are studying female equity at work and in female entrepreneurship. This episode explains the reason for this change.

Jennifer Eckhardt, fractional COO, helps entrepreneurs—both male and female—get out of their own way. She creates systems and helps them delegate in a way where they're delegating outcomes versus just delegating. We all can use a little advice that Jennifer offers, and this episode may help you break through something you're stuck on—it did for me!

Ever wonder what it's like to uncover the revenue and business models that exist within male-dominated industries? My guest, Joanna Jones, has that kind of access. By being raised in a family of male entrepreneurs, being a business owner was totally normal to Joanna. She also had a front-row seat to the business model and revenue models of male-dominated fields.

If you see a void in the marketplace for a service, how do you launch when borrowing can be challenging? As a female entrepreneur with a great market research idea for Instagram, Kayte Hamilton struggled. Discover Kayte's fascinating service offering and hear how she views borrowing inequities for female entrepreneurs.

Have the inequities associated with being a female entrepreneur ever caused imposter syndrome for you? In this episode, Torre Capistran of Hooked On Code LLC talks about how being a female entrepreneur changed from being a liability to being her asset.

What if you don't love what you're doing when you're an entrepreneur? What if your gut is telling you that something is not right? In this episode, Sue Meitner of Centennial Lending Group talks about breaking up with her business partners, ceasing her role as CEO, and pivoting.

It isn't often that a female founder can say she has generations of female entrepreneurs in her family. But that's true for Taylor McMaster, founder of Dot & Company. Hear about how entrepreneurialism runs in her family—on her mother and grandmother's side.