Your dose of entrepreneurial inspiration.
Brilliant, bold female founders at all stages of the entrepreneurial journey share their stories – the challenges, successes, and lessons learned – in our new podcast, hosted by Carrie Regan.
Debuts January 15, 2026.
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Latest Episodes
101: Alice Park
January 15
Alice shares how she left a secure corporate engineering job to launch her own photography business, Park Studios, in Atlanta, Georgia. She speaks about her entrepreneurial parents as a source of inspiration, the challenges of making pivotal business decisions, and the importance of adapting to ever-evolving market needs. With the support of her partner and community, Alice details how she successfully built a unique photography and events studio. Her story is a testament to perseverance, adaptability, and the pursuit of one’s passion.
102: Naama Nicotra
January 29
Naama details the journey of NakedPak, an innovative startup developing edible food packaging to eliminate plastic waste. She shares valuable advice on bootstrapping, raising initial investments from friends and family, and finding the right co-founder. Naama explains how her background in industrial design and an inspiring experience abroad led to the inception of NakedPak. The conversation delves into the startup ecosystem, the importance of market testing, and strategic fundraising, offering insightful lessons for aspiring entrepreneurs.
103: Kacie Darden
February 13
Kacie Darden details how a traumatic childbirth led to her pivot from middle school teacher to owner of a successful, client-focused travel agency, Blue Pineapple Travel. She discusses how she’s overcome challenges like the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic – which nearly led to her business’s collapse – and emphasizes the importance of mentorship and continuous learning in her industry. She also shares how she’s grown – and plans to continue to grow – her business through acquisitions while minimizing risk.
104: Lindsay Scherr Burgess
February 27
Lindsay shares the challenges and triumphs of building her business, Green Wallscapes, from an Etsy side-hustle to a vibrant business that’s generated millions in revenue, creating moss walls for corporate and residential clients. The conversation delves into marketing strategies, the significance of quality and customer service, and the dynamics of hiring and team management. Lindsay also reflects on the impact of motherhood on her business and emphasizes the need for adaptability in entrepreneurship.
105: Erica Tuggle
March 12
Erica shares her journey from successful Fortune 100 marketing executive to founder of Livin, a lifestyle platform that makes the “home chef experience” accessible to the average family. Her insights include how she filtered startup ideas to know she’d landed on the right one, and critical decisions she made during her own entrepreneurial journey – including those she feels she managed well and those she’d change the next time around. She also details her experience with an accelerator program, how she secured $1M in pre-seed funding, how she manages her runway to properly time her fundraising rounds, and the importance of choosing the right investors.
106: Carrie De Martini
March 26
Carrie, founder of Knoxville’s Wishing Well Center, shares her journey from copywriter to end-of-life doula, providing clients with values-based end-of-life planning, healthcare advocacy, death education, and grief tending. For someone with an admitted hospital phobia, it was an unlikely career move. Carrie shares the inspiration behind this pivot, and how she identified the right certification program, mentors, and partners. We probe the challenges of monetizing a calling, and how she makes her services accessible to all through a range of offerings that include one-on-one counseling, group courses like “Live Like You’re Dying,” grief retreats, and free drop-in community events.
107: Breanna Hoepner
April 9
Breanna shares how she left a 24-year career in unscripted television to open her own custom cake business, Once Upon a Cake Studio. She details how an assumption nearly kept her from pursuing this dream, and how a friend’s challenge and single Google search revealed that her dream was far more accessible than she’d ever imagined. The conversation covers how her television production background has helped shape her client process and the design of her custom cakes, why each cake she produces is a more powerful marketing tool than any paid advertising, her plans to scale, and how motherhood and a family legacy in the bakery business have informed each stage of her entrepreneurial journey.
108: Niole Lipkin
April 23
Nicole, an organizational and clinical psychologist with more than two decades in the field, shares how she built one of Philly’s largest psychology practices before launching Hey Kiddo, a parenting app for caregivers of children ages zero to twelve. She traces her inspiration to her late parents — school teachers who turned their home into a psychologically safe space for every kid in the neighborhood — and discusses why she turned down private equity to sell her practice on her own terms. Nicole also reflects on the surprising emotional rollercoaster of startup life, countless product iterations, and landing that first investor.