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Yehudis Kornfeld stopped being afraid of aging.

That's not where she started. She watched her grandmother suffer frp, Alzheimer's for years. Both her parents have heart disease. Her father has prostate cancer. Her father-in-law fell at 70 and was never the same. By the time Yehudis had her fifth baby at 39 and turned 40 the next month, the fear she'd carried for decades was finally sitting in her own body.

She went looking for a way out and found electrical muscle stimulation (EMS); a workout in a full-body suit that fires every major muscle at once. She tried it before buying a suit. First session, her muscles "woke up from the dead."

Power 20 Studios opened six months later in Tom's River, New Jersey. Priced deliberately below the $250-per-session industry standard so regular women could actually afford it.

Her thesis is the one her clients rarely walk in believing: modern medicine extends your lifespan. Muscle extends your healthspan. Those are two different things.

This episode goes into the fear, the body at 40, the suit, the bulky-weights myth, and the mitzvah of muscle that most people gloss over.

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She doesn't want to inspire change. She wants to create it. And she learned the difference at 17.

Mussie shares the Shabbaton at 17 that redirected her whole career, why she thinks the reason people avoid therapy is that we've called it "for broken people" too long, why the therapeutic relationship is a mirror of every other relationship in your life, and the line that stopped me mid-interview: "It's not pathological. It's just weird."

A conversation about therapy, advocacy, mental health, identity, self-worth, and why humble isn't the strategy for women who want to make change.

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📷 Instagram: ⁠itsnotmuss⁠

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Effort without structure is just chaos. That's the thesis Blimi Adler has spent six years proving.

She's a business structurist. She helps founders trade the busy-14-hour-day feeling for a business that actually moves. Plus two newer offerings, CEO Mode and Launch Mode, that meet earlier-stage founders and first-time business owners where they are.

Blimi shares how she got here. From a childhood spent trying to fit into a box that didn't have her shape, to an accounting career , to the coaching course she bought that reset her whole trajectory. Plus the business plan she wrote in a journal at twenty-two that turned up in her garage a decade later.

Plus: her "know the rules, then break them" framework, why every employee at every level deserves to know what success looks like for them, the reason she think we need to stop avoiding business conversations at girls' nights, and what it actually means to call yourself self-made.

A conversation about entrepreneurship, structure, clarity, self-made narratives, and how confidence is the output, not the input.

Connect with Blimi: ✉️ [email protected] 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/blimiadler/

Just getting started? Launch Mode gives you a clear, step-by-step guide to building your business, from education to community, with support and resources along the way. https://www.blimiadler.com/launchmode

Ready to hire your first few employees and strengthen your leadership, systems, and operations? Check out CEO Mode. https://www.blimiadler.com/ceomode

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One in three women describe their birth as traumatic. Toby Deutsch was one of them. Then she had a miscarriage, discovered neuroplasticity, and rewired herself into a completely different person for her second birth, which was redemptive, and the foundation of the company she now runs.

Toby shares how years of searching for her calling all pointed to the thing her own body finally taught her, and how she built Gentle Beginnings around helping other women prepare for birth the way she wishes someone had prepared her.

Plus: the neuroplasticity fact that reframes everything (pregnant brains rewire six times faster than regular ones), why she calls postpartum the whole thing, the Ayurvedic saying that says forty days influence forty years, and the founder truth that passion and execution live in different parts of the brain.

A conversation about birth, motherhood, neuroscience, founding, confidence, and doing it scared until the doing turns into the confidence.

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📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gentlebeginningsofficial/

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At twelve, she was running a nanny agency from the middle school bathroom. At fifteen, she'd hired her first CEO. At twenty-six, she's building the first digital infrastructure for post-intensive-care recovery, because modern medicine got so good at saving lives it created a whole new syndrome, and nobody built a system to catch it.

Noa played business the way other kids played house. She never really stopped.

Noa shares how her curiosity about people and problem-solving followed her from childhood into studying cognitive neuroscience at Brown University, working in healthcare technology, and eventually founding a company focused on helping people recover after intensive care.

Plus: her advice for women starting something of their own, why judgment might be the most important skill to develop, how to separate signal from noise, and why your failures may teach you more than your successes.

A conversation about entrepreneurship, identity, healthcare, AI, judgment, and staying true to yourself while building something that matters.

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Connect with Noa:

📷 https://www.instagram.com/noamintzz/

🌐 https://libyhealth.com/

🌐 https://nanniesbynoa.com/

💼 https://www.linkedin.com/in/noamintz

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What if the imposter syndrome you can't shake was actually a shared secret across every room you've ever walked into?

When Miriam Sheril was a Federal Reserve intern in January 2009, her job was to read the meeting agenda out loud. She spent three days a week nauseous leading up to it. Instead of asking am I in the wrong career?, she found herself asking who else in this room is faking it? a question that would carry her through fifteen years at the Fed, the launch of FedNow, and the leap to running US strategy at a UK-based fintech called Form3.

In this episode Miriam shares what fifteen years inside the Federal Reserve taught her about power, politics, and the imposter syndrome nobody escapes, and how being openly Orthodox in fintech turned out to be the strategy, not the risk. Deep on the five-item checklist she used to pivot in her career, the colleague who told her to stop saying "this might be a stupid question," and the American Bankers piece she calls her proudest work.

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What if every zig and zag in your career was actually the path, not the detour?

When Heidi Oshin was twenty years into a law career she didn't love, she didn't ask did I waste the time? She asked what's next? and pivoted to build a program for twice-exceptional children, then Menemsha Films, then during pandemic week one, Chaiflicks, the largest streaming service dedicated to Jewish-themed stories anywhere in the world.

In this episode Heidi shares how three completely different careers stacked into one life — and what that life taught her about pivoting, about being the only woman at the table, and about believing in a dream long enough to build it. Deep on rehearsing her way through misogynistic 1980s law rooms, the line every young woman needs about imposter syndrome, why twice-exceptional kids get missed, launching a streaming service in COVID week one, and the advice she'd give the woman sitting on her next pivot but too scared to move.

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What if the worst thing that ever happened to you turned out to be the thing that saved you?

When Amanda Spiro was 21, she was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma. Instead of asking "why me," she found herself asking something most people never get to ask: what is this trying to teach me?

In this episode, Amanda shares how cancer became the catalyst for the most precious chapter of her life, meeting her husband during chemo, deepening her Jewish identity, and finding a clarity she'd been searching for since childhood.

Connect with Amanda:

📷 Instagram: @amandadawnspiro

📷 Instagram: @amandaspiroshares

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She said to herself "I'm done being a victim," and started a business.

Malky grew up in Boulder, Colorado, Chabad shluchim's daughter, one of eleven, sandwiched in the middle. The quiet one who wanted to be seen and despised being seen at the same time. She found her one safe space in writing, first teenage angst, then poetry, then eventually a livelihood.

Malky's story isn't a comeback narrative. It's a flip. She'd been in postpartum depression, bills she couldn't cover, when one morning she decided she was done being a victim. The copywriting business launched inside thirty days. Clients came in two weeks. The philosophy she now teaches other founders: make your success non-negotiable, and be an original in a world of copies .

This episode goes deep on the morning that broke the postpartum cycle, the 5% tasks no one wants to do that actually build a business, why she says you have to make success non-negotiable before anything else works, why she rejects traditional gender roles, and the literal business strategy of going to a national park and watching the clients roll in.

Connect with Malky: 🌐 https://soulfulcopy.org/ 📸 Instagram: @malky.allouch 📸 Instagram: @soulful_copy 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/malky-allouch/

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Chaya grew up in Long Beach, California, Chabad rabbi's daughter, one of seven, smack in the middle. From thirteen, she had a job: a ninety-minute drive each way to teach Hebrew school. By her twenties she was teaching toddlers in Greenwich, Connecticut, building bulletin boards so elaborate the director asked her to write a curriculum book. She loved it. Then her husband Bruce bought a defunct furniture company. They spotted a gap: nothing in the furniture market was chic, stylish, and affordable. Tov Furniture was born in their basement.

Today Tov is a cult brand. While every competitor hid a shipping container crisis from customers, Chaya and Bruce flew to the ports and shot stories explaining what was actually going on. The customers stayed. The fans multiplied.

And underneath all of it: a personal reclamation. Chaya spent her teenage years hearing she looked like Barbie and spent years trying to prove she was more. Now pink is her signature color, on purpose. She says being a female founder in a male-dominated industry is her biggest superpower.

Connect with Chaya:

🌐 Tov: https://tovfurniture.com/collections/new-arrivals

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tovfurniture

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chayaxkrinsky/

💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chaya-krinsky-0466a3ba

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