Jordyn DiOrio is breaking into the world of freelance consulting after years of experience in senior business operations, project management, and marketing strategy. While she’s confident in the skills she’s honed throughout her career, Jordyn is looking to dive deeper into the meaning behind her business. Looking to sustainably scale her business, Jordyn asks the question “What defines a milestone?” 

At JDP Consult, Jordyn maximizes her expertise to help clients understand where they’re missing the mark, what is slowing them down, and how she can help them revamp their strategy. She’s well on her way to hit her revenue goal in the first six months, so then what? Host Karen Cahn, Founder & CEO of IFundWomen, sits down with Jordyn to discuss the “why” behind JDP Consult and how that is measured. 

Tune in to find out how Jordyn plans to secure projects with her bullseye client (hint: in collaboration with IFundWomen Services X), while creating meaningful work.

This episode was produced by Swell Podcasting Sofia Badalamenti at IFundWomen

Host: Karen Cahn, Founder & CEO of IFundWomen

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After exiting two successful companies and being one of pop culture’s biggest celebrity bloggers, Necole Kane is on the IFundWomen Show with Karen Cahn asking the question we’ve all pondered: “Do I really need a cofounder to be attractive to investors?”

Necole is the powerhouse behind My Happy Flo, a natural plant-based supplement that supports hormonal balance, alleviates heavy bleeding, bloating, cramping, and mood swings for a happier, healthier menstrual cycle. My Happy Flo is currently a DTC brand, but Necole has dreams of supporting people with periods on a global scale and getting her products in major retailers. The question that she’s up against is how to get there. Necole is a visionary who needs someone to fill in the gaps on the leadership and logistics side. Karen sees this as the perfect opportunity to bring on a Chief Operating Officer and offers up ways to make My Happy Flo an attractive venture for an experienced operational rockstar. Karen and Necole discuss the financial side of taking on a COO, vesting schedules, and the profile of what Necole’s ideal candidate might look like. What’s going to get My Happy Flo to the lucrative promised land? Tune in to find out. 

This episode was produced by Swell Podcasting Sofia Badalamenti at IFundWomen

Host: Karen Cahn, Founder & CEO of IFundWomen

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I’ve created this beast of a business... What have I done? Lauren Morris, founder and executive director of MOVE Inclusive Dance, is back with an update from when she was on the show last year. Lauren and Karen previously spoke about transitioning Lauren’s Nashville-based dance studio from non-profit to for-profit, and Karen helped Lauren create a plan to raise venture capital. Lauren was ready to take on that process, but we know the deal with life in startup land, and as life went on the vision for MOVE started to change. 

Even though Lauren says she’s made ‘zero progress’ since Karen’s coaching session, it’s clear that things have started taking off. MOVE recently had its first dance recital, Lauren has successfully hosted in-person fundraiser events, and she has developed MOVE’s virtual programming. So why does Lauren feel like she hasn’t made any moves? Karen and Lauren have an honest discussion about imposter syndrome and how it’s showing up in their professional lives. Luckily, the IFundWomen community is here to lift women founders up and remind them that they are exactly where they’re meant to be. 

This episode was produced by Swell Podcasting & Sofia Badalamenti at IFundWomen

Host: Karen Cahn, Founder & CEO of IFundWomen

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Everyone wants to hire a unicorn, but the reality is that they don’t exist. What every small business owner needs is a rockstar who wants to shine and share their talent. 

Gloria Chou, the founder of Gloria Chou PR, is looking for advice about how to make her first full-time hire. Karen Cahn, podcast host and Founder & CEO of IFundWomen, prides herself on her talent-hiring skills and can pinpoint exactly where Gloria is getting stuck.

Gloria needs a director of content who can transform Small Business PR with Gloria Chou podcast episodes into Reels, Tik Toks, email marketing, and more. Gloria realizes that this isn’t her zone of genius, and she needs to find someone who has a complimentary skillset to what already exists in her business. Karen also pinpoints where the leak is in Gloria’s sales funnel and offers up a few solutions for how to patch it. 

As a bonus for listeners, if you DM @gloriachoupr the word "IFW" on IG, she will send you a free pitching template that has gotten her onto 30+ podcasts! 

This episode was produced by Swell Podcasting and Sofia Badalamenti at IFundWomen

Host: Karen Cahn, Founder & CEO of IFundWomen

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What do ALL founders have in common? Every single entrepreneur who is starting a company needs to differentiate themselves and establish a unique brand for their business. But how does one do this in a concise way that actually portrays the anatomy of their business to their customers? Cue the experts.

This week on the IFundWomen Show, Karen Cahn is joined by co-founder and CEO of Entreprenista, Stephanie Cartin. Entreprenista helps female entrepreneurs ​create and build their personal brand through their private membership community. Stephanie wants to grow the Entreprenista League so her members can grow their businesses and gain access to more capital.

Tune in to hear Stephanie and Karen talk about all things funding, consolidating go-to-market messaging, marketing, and of course, what life is really like when you’re a woman running a business.

This episode was produced by Swell Podcasting & Sofia Badalamenti at IFundWomen

Host: Karen Cahn, Founder & CEO of IFundWomen

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• Website: https://bit.ly/3vq90TI 

Did you feel the sting of paying rent on a space you couldn’t use during the height of the pandemic?

For Laci Chisholm, founder of Fit4Dance, paying rent for 18 months for a studio she could not use made her realize she’s ready to own her own space. Laci wants to create some real roots in Brooklyn and own a building that she can use for her dance studio, to grow her future family, and to have tenants. This is her chance to create generational wealth and pay it forward to her community. 

Karen Cahn, Founder & CEO of IFundWomen, assures Laci that the hardest part is out of the way一she’s set on Crown Heights and knows that she wants to stay in the neighborhood for the foreseeable future. The next step is to do some research on what kind of insurance policies she needs and what the taxes are going to look like. Karen suggests that Laci tap into city and state grants for land ownership for people of color, plus she gives an overview of how venture capital funding can come into play here. They touch on some ideas for equity crowdfunding and discuss how to overcome the fear and shame around asking for money. Laci leaves the coaching session feeling ready for an IFW coaching call and a clear idea on how to get concrete numbers to make this dream into a reality. 

This episode was produced by Swell Podcasting & Sofia Badalamenti at IFundWomen

Host: Karen Cahn, Founder & CEO of IFundWomen

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Plug in your headphones, grab your diplomas, and join us as we graduate from Hangover University.

Stephanie Rice is the Founder & CEO of Better Bar, a full-service event planning business centered around low and no-alcohol experiences. Better Bar’s mission is to see a world where bars don't need as much booze to create buzz, or as Steph puts it, get lit without the hit and still have a great time. The problem? She is a one woman show with a day job and wants to scale her side hustle to take it beyond the Bay Area. How can she do this without going to every event in person? Karen Cahn, Founder & CEO of IFundWomen and your lovely podcast host has the answer. Tune in to find out! 

This episode was produced by Swell Podcasting & Sofia Badalamenti at IFundWomen.

Host: Karen Cahn, Founder & CEO of IFundWomen

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How does a solo founder balance bringing rock icon Melissa Etheridge onto their advisory board, run a growing business, and raise a round of venture capital, all at the same time? This problem of how do I successfully raise VC while running my growing startup looms in the minds of all startup founders, especially solo-founders. Tune into this week’s episode of the IFundWomen Show with Karen Cahn, as she gives Shira Yevin, founder of Gritty In Pink, a platform that connects music industry execs to freelance talent, some actionable steps she can take to get her raise done. 

Host: Karen Cahn, Founder & CEO, IFundWomen

Producer: Sofia Badalamenti, IFundWomen

Editors: Swell Podcasting

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In this episode of the IFundWomen Show with Karen Cahn, Tinia Pina, Founder & CEO of Re-Nuble, is looking for advice on how to socialize her mission and connect with Gen Z and Millennials on social media. Re-Nuble makes food scraps a compatible plant food for indoor growers, which reduces the need for chemical fertilizers that contribute to air and water pollution. 

Tinia doesn’t have any issues getting her B2B consumers to align with her mission, but she’s having trouble tapping into the families who can benefit from Re-Nuble. Where are kids and their parents consuming content and getting ideas these days? Answer: TikTok, Instagram Reels, and Instagram Stories. TikTok has trained people to only want ‘edutainment’ in bite-sized videos. Coach Karen suggests that instead of starting from scratch, Tinia should find the young people and influencers who are already on the platform and creating content about the environment and organic food. 

Coach Karen gives Tinia a weekend homework assignment to claim the TikTok handle and start interacting with those people and studying the trends. Let’s see how she makes food waste understandable, funny, and most importantly, shareable. 

This episode was produced by Swell Podcasting & Sofia Badalamenti at IFundWomen

Host: Karen Cahn, Founder & CEO of IFundWomen

Music: “Street Dance Hip-Hop Party” by StereoNuts from Envato Elements

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In this episode of the IFundWomen Show with Karen Cahn, Carina Glover, Founder of HerHeadquarters, tells us first hand the challenges she faced raising venture capital as a Black woman startup founder in the U.S. and how she is now crushing it. ICYMI: in 2021, just 2.1% of all VC dollars deployed in the United States went toward women-owned businesses, and just a fraction of a percent went toward women of color business owners.

Carina Glover came to the IFundWomen Show to get expert coaching on how to secure the enterprise partners of her dreams, and left with tactical, strategic steps on how to make her enterprise partnership dreams come true.

This episode was produced by Sofia Badalamenti at IFundWomen

Host: Karen Cahn, Founder & CEO of IFundWomen

Music: “Street Dance Hip-Hop Party” by StereoNuts from Envato Elements

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• Website: https://herheadquarters.app/