Tag: Behind her empire
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‘Look at It as a No For Now’: Halogen Ventures’ Jesse Draper on How to Handle Rejection as an Entrepreneur
As the founding partner of Halogen Ventures, Jesse Draper and her team are betting big on early-stage, female-founded companies with billion-dollar potential. In this episode of the Behind Her Empire podcast, Draper discusses how she deals with re…
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Behind Her Empire Podcast: Modrn Med Founder Dr. Mary Pardee on How Stress Impacts Your Gut
Dr. Mary Pardee has made gut health her life’s work, leading her to found Modrn Med, a telemedicine and virtual wellness company based in Sherman Oaks.And it was her own personal experience with intestinal issues that led her to become the kind of d…
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Behind Her Empire: How Natalie Gordon Took Babylist from a Side Project to an Industry Leader
Two weeks before her first son was born, entrepreneur Natalie Gordon became frustrated with the limited options for baby registries. So she created her own — as a side project.That side project is now a fast-growing, multimillion-dollar business known…
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Behind Her Empire: Dermalogica Founder Jane Wurwand on Developing a Skill
“Learn to do something.” Dermalogica founder Jane Wurwand credits her mother’s advice for motivating her and her sisters into higher education and independence. Two of her sisters became nurses. Another became a lab technician. Wurwand studied skin th…
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Behind Her Empire: Dr. Sara Gottfried on Keeping Hormones Balanced In Stressful Times
When Dr. Sara Gottfried speaks with her patients about stress and what it does to the body, she speaks from experience. “I would park in my driveway, knowing that my precious daughter was inside with a nanny, and that I needed to get in that front doo…
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Behind Her Empire: Industry Exec Sandra Campos on Her Rise and the Future of Fashion Tech
Sandra Campos has been a rising star in the fashion industry. Today, she is the CEO of the retail tech startup Project Verte and the founder of Fashion Launchpad, an online education platform. On this episode of the Behind Her Empire podcast, Camp…
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Behind Her Empire: Hitha Palepu on Women Founders and the ‘True’ Failure
Rhoshan Pharmaceuticals CEO Hitha Palepu joins this week’s Behind Her Empire to talk about how she became an angel investor focused on women-founded businesses and her latest book, “We’re Speaking: The Life Lessons of Kamala Harris.”Palepu is the daug…
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Behind Her Empire: How Yumi CEO Angela Sutherland Overcame Self Doubt
In starting her baby food delivery company, Yumi, Angela Sutherland wondered what options parents have when it comes to food they can feed to their children. As a new mother herself, she sought to make her own fresh and organic baby food. On this week…
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Behind Her Empire: By the Way Bakery CEO on Quitting Corporate Life — and Keeping the Hustle
Helene Godin spent 22 years working as a lawyer in senior positions and reputable firms, mostly in the media and tech worlds. One day, she decided to open her own bakery. Today she is the CEO of By The Way Bakery, a bakery that now has four locati…
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Behind Her Empire: JIGGY Founder Kaylin Marcotte on Scaling a Hobby to a Startup
It started out as a way to relax after work. On the episode of Behind Her Empire, JIGGY founder and CEO Kaylin Marcotte talks about how she turned her fascination with jigsaw puzzles into a thriving business. Marcotte worked at the digital medi…