WorkParty

When I founded Create & Cultivate back in 2010, my goal was to create an intentional space for the next generation of creatives, entrepreneurs, CEOs, and leaders to spark conversation, collaborate on their passions, and enhance their businesses. What started as a networking event to connect like-minded women, soon grew into a multi-platform media and events company providing modern working women with content, community, and tools to create & cultivate the career of their dreams. And as our community grows, we grow with them. Which is why I'm so excited to introduce our new CEO Kate Spies. She’s a powerhouse media executive with a track-record for growing brands, connecting audiences, and has found a niche for stepping in when female founders are ready to take their businesses to the next level. She’s bringing her incredible expertise to further Create & Cultivate’s impact on the workplace, and what it means to be the brand. So without further ado, welcome to the WorkParty Kate!

In this episode we talk about:
• Her path from fashion, to digital media, to women's lifestyle, and more!
• The best way to keep growing and learning on your way to the top
• Her leadership must-haves: transparency, collaboration, and innovation
• How businesses can and should evolve and shift over time
• Why moving from Sydney to NY was the most rewarding risk she ever took
• How to find an impactful mentor you trust and look up to
• Table stakes of being a CEO in 2022
• What attracted her to Create & Cultivate
• Why she will only work at a mission-driven company
• Her plans for the future of Create & Cultivate

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Resources:

• To join the WorkParty click HERE
• To connect with Kate Spies click HERE
• To connect with Jaclyn Johnson click HERE
• To follow along with Create & Cultivate click HERE
• To submit your questions call the WorkParty Hotline: 1-(833)-57-PARTY (577-2789)

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Before becoming the COO at Pietra, Tala Akhavan was an executive at Uber for five years, coinciding with some of the app's most transformative years. As a first time mother, she struggled to balance work and motherhood, so she made the decision to extend her maternity leave and instead focus on being the mom she always dreamed of. She utilized this down time to search for a fulfilling career that would allow her to tend to both motherhood and entrepreneurship, and ultimately landed her current role at Pietra. Pietra continues to trailblaze and power the creator economy. As Pietra's COO, she's been spearheading the initiatives that make it possible for anyone to launch the brand of their dreams, and she's finally found her true passion which is democratizing access to female entrepreneurship. Her mission is to lower the barrier to entry for all creators alike. Welcome to WorkParty, Tala!

In this episode we talk about:
• How she landed the job at Uber
• What attracted her to the creator space
• Advice for balancing work and motherhood
• How Pietra can help you launch in under 90 days
• Lowering the barrier to entry for female founders
• Integrating innovation into your brand roadmap

Sponsors:

• Vinovest | Go to zen.ai/workparty and be sure to mention WorkParty to start investing in wine today.
• Bliss | Get 25% off your purchase of Block Star Daily Mineral Sunscreen on Blissworld.com and use code PARTY at checkout.
• Printfresh | Head to printfresh.com/workparty or use code PARTY for 15% off your first order!

Resources:

• To join the WorkParty click HERE
• To connect with Tala Akhavan click HERE
• To connect with Jaclyn Johnson click HERE
• To learn more about Pietra click HERE
• To follow along with Create & Cultivate click HERE
• To submit your questions call the WorkParty Hotline: 1-(833)-57-PARTY (577-2789)

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Get 15% off your Create & Cultivate Festival Tickets with code WORKPARTY15

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Have you ever felt uncomfortable speaking up at work? If the answer is yes, then you’re not alone. In 2021, over 68.9 million people joined The Great Resignation—with many attributing it to the feeling of being unable to voice their concerns or make meaningful change in their workplace. Claire Schmidt identified the root of this problem—ineffective feedback and reporting systems that lacked a modern and welcoming approach—and developed a way to fix it.  Using her unique background of problem solving through technology Claire founded AllVoices, an employee feedback platform that’s driving change. AllVoices provides employees with a way to speak up, provide feedback, ask questions, share positive input, report harassment, identify bias, or speak to broader culture issues directly to their company’s leadership. I’m so excited to spend time with Claire today and talk about her incredible career in Tech, how she’s paired it with her mission to make the world a better place—from her work with Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore to stop child sex trafficking, to her impact at Thrive market to increase the availability of healthy foods, she is clearly a thought leader in trying to champion new and innovative solutions.

To join the WorkParty click HERE
To connect with Claire Schmidt click HERE
To connect with Jaclyn Johnson click HERE
To learn more about AllVoices click HERE
To follow along with Create & Cultivate click HERE
To submit your questions call the WorkParty Hotline: 1-(833)-57-PARTY (577-2789)

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Join Us for 2027 World’s Largest Festival for Women in Business here: https://www.createcultivate.com/festival
Get 15% off your Create & Cultivate Festival Tickets with code WORKPARTY15

To follow along with Create & Cultivate:
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To connect with Jaclyn Johnson: https://www.instagram.com/jaclynrjohnson
To connect with Marina Middleton: https://www.instagram.com/marinaamiddleton

When Payal Kadakia let go of the pressure to achieve a traditional kind of success, she leaned into her passions. The result? ClassPass, a billion-dollar business. She’s been featured on Fortune’s 40 Under 40 list and listed as Fast Company’s 100 most creative people, profiled in Fortune, Marie Claire, and Vogue, and just added author to her resume. Payal has uprooted the limits that prevent us from fulfilling our true potential and uncovered groundbreaking ways to make progress by breaking through these limiting beliefs. She’s filled with the knowledge and experience that proves it is possible to accomplish more of what’s meaningful to you—I’m so excited to share this stage with her!

To join the WorkParty click HERE
To connect with Payal Kadakia click HERE
To connect with Jaclyn Johnson click HERE
To learn more about ClassPass click HERE
To learn more about her book LifePass click HERE
To follow along with Create & Cultivate click HERE
To submit your questions call the WorkParty Hotline: 1-(833)-57-PARTY (577-2789)

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Produced by Dear Media

Join Us for 2027 World’s Largest Festival for Women in Business here: https://www.createcultivate.com/festival
Get 15% off your Create & Cultivate Festival Tickets with code WORKPARTY15

To follow along with Create & Cultivate:
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www.createcultivate.com
To connect with Jaclyn Johnson: https://www.instagram.com/jaclynrjohnson
To connect with Marina Middleton: https://www.instagram.com/marinaamiddleton

Lauryn Bosstick is a serial entrepreneur who’s turned a passion for beauty, wellness, and uncensored advice into one of the most distinctive blogs online today—The Skinny Confidential. With over 1 million followers on Instagram and 90 Million podcast downloads, Lauryn has—and continues to—build and expand a lifestyle brand rooted in empowerment and total wellness—mind, body, and soul. On this special LIVE episode of WorkParty, we’re in Austin, Texas at our Pop-Up event chatting with Lauryn on all things Skinny Confidential and how to build your brand from scratch—straight from the method she mastered on her journey to success. 

To join the WorkParty click HERE
To connect with Lauryn Bosstick click HERE
To connect with Jaclyn Johnson click HERE
To learn more about The Skinny Confidential click HERE
To learn more about TSC Podcast click HERE
To follow along with Create & Cultivate click HERE
To submit your questions call the WorkParty Hotline: 1-(833)-57-PARTY (577-2789)

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Join Us for 2027 World’s Largest Festival for Women in Business here: https://www.createcultivate.com/festival
Get 15% off your Create & Cultivate Festival Tickets with code WORKPARTY15

To follow along with Create & Cultivate:
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To connect with Jaclyn Johnson: https://www.instagram.com/jaclynrjohnson
To connect with Marina Middleton: https://www.instagram.com/marinaamiddleton

If you're into wellness, open Instagram from time to time, or like to browse the shelves of Target for fun, then you’ve probably already been introduced to Golde—the modern superfood wellness brand. With vibrant packaging, affordable price points, and good, clean ingredients, it’s no wonder Golde has amassed a huge following. When Trinity Mouzon Wofford embarked on her entrepreneurial wellness journey, she rooted Golde's mission in the idea that wellness should be approachable, inclusive, and fun. Her fresh approach was a stroke of genius, because within a few years after launch, Trinity and her partner had organically grown their bootstrapped biz into a profitable brand attracting partnerships with the likes of Urban Outfitters, Goop, Target and more! On this episode, I talk with Trinity about how she built a trusted brand at such a young age, her commitment to changing the wellness industry, and the incredible journey her very first product has taken her on thus far.

To join the WorkParty click HERE
To connect with Trinity Mouzon Wofford click HERE
To connect with Jaclyn Johnson click HERE
To learn more about Golde click HERE
To follow along with Create & Cultivate click HERE
To submit your questions call the WorkParty Hotline: 1-(833)-57-PARTY (577-2789)

Visit Foursigmatic.com/workparty to get up to 40% off on Mushroom Coffee bundles

When you purchase a 3-month Babbel subscription, you'll get an additional 3 months for free. Visit Babbel.com and use code PARTY

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Join Us for 2027 World’s Largest Festival for Women in Business here: https://www.createcultivate.com/festival
Get 15% off your Create & Cultivate Festival Tickets with code WORKPARTY15

To follow along with Create & Cultivate:
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To connect with Jaclyn Johnson: https://www.instagram.com/jaclynrjohnson
To connect with Marina Middleton: https://www.instagram.com/marinaamiddleton

If you’re an avid Peloton user, you probably already know and hang out with today's guest all the time. Known for her high energy, contagious smile, and bright lipstick—Tunde Oyeneyin coaches thousands of riders every day through confidence-boosting classes—proving that anyone can be an athlete.

Not only has she emerged as one of the most sought-after motivational speakers, but she’s also a Revlon ambassador (stay tuned for her go-to shade of lipstick!), was recently the first fitness instructor to be named a Nike Athlete, and will be releasing her debut memoir this May.

From addressing human rights and racial injustice, to advocating the importance of  “Soul Care,” Tunde has created a global community of changemakers that were moved by her selfless mission to inspire and empower. 

There’s no doubt I’m excited about today’s episode—We’re going to talk about resilience and rising up after hardship, the beauty of uncertainty, and why it’s important to lean in and trust your intuition.

To join the WorkParty click HERE
To connect with Tunde Oyeneyin click HERE
To connect with Jaclyn Johnson click HERE
To learn more and pre-order her book Speak click HERE
To follow along with Create & Cultivate click HERE
To submit your questions call the WorkParty Hotline: 1-(833)-57-PARTY (577-2789)

Visit Foursigmatic.com/workparty to get up to 40% off on Mushroom Coffee bundles

Visit Masterclass.com/PARTY for 15% off

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Join Us for 2027 World’s Largest Festival for Women in Business here: https://www.createcultivate.com/festival
Get 15% off your Create & Cultivate Festival Tickets with code WORKPARTY15

To follow along with Create & Cultivate:
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To connect with Jaclyn Johnson: https://www.instagram.com/jaclynrjohnson
To connect with Marina Middleton: https://www.instagram.com/marinaamiddleton

After years of battling health issues, Siffat Haider took matters into her own hands. By leaning into holistic care, solace was found through a unique combination of herbs, vitamins, and minerals she developed on her own under the guidance and support of wellness experts. While on this journey, Siffat noticed huge whitespace in wellness—information was not easily accessible or digestible for the average person with no professional background in holistic health. So together with her husband, they set out to create all-natural, targeted supplements that work in under an hour to help women battle everyday issues like bloat and anxiety. In 2019 they launched Arrae, a chic and effective all-natural supplement brand. Today,  fans like Molly Sims, Melissa Wood, and Hailey Bieber, Arrae are slowly becoming every woman’s go-to wellness staple. On this episode of WorkParty, I talk to Siffat about how she realized that holistic remedies have the power to address women’s toughest day-to-day health issues, what it was like building a company with her partner turned husband, and what the future of the wellness landscape looks like.

To join the WorkParty click HERE
To connect with Siffat Haider click HERE
To connect with Jaclyn Johnson click HERE
To learn more about Arrae click HERE
To learn more about The Dream Bigger Podcast click HERE
To follow along with Create & Cultivate click HERE
To submit your questions call the WorkParty Hotline: 1-(833)-57-PARTY (577-2789)

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Join Us for 2027 World’s Largest Festival for Women in Business here: https://www.createcultivate.com/festival
Get 15% off your Create & Cultivate Festival Tickets with code WORKPARTY15

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To connect with Jaclyn Johnson: https://www.instagram.com/jaclynrjohnson
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The beauty industry has a major influence on women, and there’s no question about it. Since the dawn of advertising, we’ve looked to unrealistic images of beauty that have resulted in negative self-talk, low self-confidence, and unrealistic beauty standards among women. 

But as today’s guest can attest: a new, much-needed wave in the beauty movement has arrived, and she is paving the way. Long gone are the days of using self-deprecating language to sell products that make us “more lovable”. When launching OUI The People, CEO & Founder Karen Young took note of the shaving ads from the ’50s and realized that modern brands using similar language needed to make a change.

As someone who had firmly established herself in both the luxury fashion and beauty industries before branching out and starting her own Black-Owned, Brooklyn-based direct-to-consumer skincare brand, Karen was on a mission to inform our culture and change the beauty conversation.

Her brand OUI The People offers a beautiful heirloom safety razor and all-natural luxury grooming products that cater to modern women’s needs. Named one of the top-searched, Black-owned beauty brands in 2020 with an increase of 1,150%, her brand continues to make a name for itself, while promoting inclusivity and product efficacy. Now one of less than 100 Black Women to ever raise over $1 million dollars, she recently closed an oversubscribed seed round and has now raised more than $3 million dollars! 

Today, I’m so excited to be joined by the lovely Karen Young who can share first-hand what it takes to lead a movement in the beauty industry, how to raise capital, how her upbringing impacted her outlook on self-care, and how her background in psychology informs her highly personalized customer experience. There is so much I want to chat with her about today, so without further ado, let’s get into it!

To join the WorkParty click HERE
To connect with Karen Young click HERE
To connect with Jaclyn Johnson click HERE
To learn more about OUI The People click HERE
To follow along with Create & Cultivate click HERE
To submit your questions call the WorkParty Hotline: 1-(833)-57-PARTY (577-2789)

Visit Shopify.com/party for a free 14 day trial and get full access to Shopify's entire suite of features.

Produced by Dear Media

Join Us for 2027 World’s Largest Festival for Women in Business here: https://www.createcultivate.com/festival
Get 15% off your Create & Cultivate Festival Tickets with code WORKPARTY15

To follow along with Create & Cultivate:
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To connect with Jaclyn Johnson: https://www.instagram.com/jaclynrjohnson
To connect with Marina Middleton: https://www.instagram.com/marinaamiddleton

Collaboration over competition is a core belief of our team at Create & Cultivate. And it’s clear that Nana Agyemang is someone who abides by this philosophy as well. As the founder and CEO of EveryStylishGirl, Nana is at the helm of a multimedia platform that provides young women with the skills and access to obtain fashion media jobs. This is fitting because Nana’s own résumé as a fashion editor is stacked with major media outlets, including New York Magazine’s The Cut, Refinery29, Elle, and The New York Times. Needless to say, I can’t wait to chat with Nana about how she broke into the competitive world of fashion media herself and how she’s helping others do the same.

To join the WorkParty click HERE
To connect with Nana Agyemang click HERE
To connect with Jaclyn Johnson click HERE
To learn more about EveryStylishGirl click HERE
To learn more about EveryStylishGirl Biz click HERE
To download the EveryStylishGirl E-Book click HERE
To follow along with Create & Cultivate click HERE
To submit your questions call the WorkParty Hotline: 1-(833)-57-PARTY (577-2789)

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Produced by Dear Media

Join Us for 2027 World’s Largest Festival for Women in Business here: https://www.createcultivate.com/festival
Get 15% off your Create & Cultivate Festival Tickets with code WORKPARTY15

To follow along with Create & Cultivate:
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To connect with Jaclyn Johnson: https://www.instagram.com/jaclynrjohnson
To connect with Marina Middleton: https://www.instagram.com/marinaamiddleton