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Badass Women in Business

Aggie & Cristy

132 episodes

6 days ago

Send us a text Molly McCartan, Founder and CEO of The Mom Pact, joins Aggie and Cristy for a direct conversation about why nearly half of working moms are leaving the workforce and why this is not a motivation or confidence issue. This episode looks at leadership, incentives, and systems that were never built to support real life transitions. Maternity leave, flexibility, childcare, career gaps, and return to work are not fringe topics. They are core business and leadership decisions with lon...

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Entrepreneurship

Self-Improvement

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Send us a text Molly McCartan, Founder and CEO of The Mom Pact, joins Aggie and Cristy for a direct conversation about why nearly half of working moms are leaving the workforce and why this is not a motivation or confidence issue. This episode looks at leadership, incentives, and systems that were never built to support real life transitions. Maternity leave, flexibility, childcare, career gaps, and return to work are not fringe topics. They are core business and leadership decisions with lon...

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Entrepreneurship

Self-Improvement

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Badass Women in Business

Maria Onesto Moran: Being Where Your Feet Are and Building a Values-Driven Business

Send us a text Maria Onesto Moran, founder and CEO of Green Home Experts, joins the Badass Women in Business podcast to share the real story of building a sustainable, values-driven company through recession, pivots, leadership challenges, and motherhood. Maria started Green Home Experts in 2007 as a green building supply showroom just before the housing market crashed. What followed was not failure, but evolution. Today, Green Home Experts is a WBE-certified energy efficiency logistics and f...

3 days ago

46 minutes

Badass Women in Business

Molly McCartan: Why Working Moms Are Leaving and What It Says About Leadership

Send us a text Molly McCartan, Founder and CEO of The Mom Pact, joins Aggie and Cristy for a direct conversation about why nearly half of working moms are leaving the workforce and why this is not a motivation or confidence issue. This episode looks at leadership, incentives, and systems that were never built to support real life transitions. Maternity leave, flexibility, childcare, career gaps, and return to work are not fringe topics. They are core business and leadership decisions with lon...

1 week ago

46 minutes

Badass Women in Business

Dr. Laura James ND: Why Modern Healthcare Overwhelms Women and What Actually Helps

Send us a text This episode is about health in the real world, not textbook medicine. Aggie and Cristy sit down with Dr. Laura James ND, a naturopathic oncologist with more than twenty years of experience working with women inside an overwhelmed healthcare system. Together, they explore why modern healthcare leaves so many women confused, exhausted, and unsupported, especially while they are managing work, family, caregiving, and their own health. Dr. Laura explains how rushed appointments, f...

2 weeks ago

44 minutes

Badass Women in Business

Hon. Leela Sharon Aheer: How a 15-Year-Old Targeted by Hate Became a National Leader

Send us a text The Honourable Leela Sharon Aheer shares the story that shaped her life and leadership. Growing up in Alberta as the daughter of an Indian immigrant father and a Canadian mother, Leela learned early what it meant to stand out, speak up, and build community. At just 15 years old, she was directly confronted by white supremacist hate. Instead of shrinking, that moment became the catalyst for using her voice and stepping into leadership. In this episode, Leela walks through her un...

3 weeks ago

55 minutes

Badass Women in Business

Sarah Angello: The Startup Founder Rebuilding Trust in Philanthropy

Send us a text Most people donate because they want to help. Few ever find out what actually happens to their money. Philanthropy has a trust problem. Nonprofits have a transparency problem. Donors want clarity but rarely get it. And donor-advised funds have become a quiet holding place for billions of untapped charitable capital. After fifteen years working inside philanthropy, Sarah Angello could not ignore the friction anymore. She saw the outdated systems. She saw the lost potential. She ...

1 month ago

49 minutes

Badass Women in Business

Rachael Wonderlin: How She Built a Thriving Consulting Business, Broke Out of Her Niche, and Learned to Trust Her Gut

Send us a text Rachael Wonderlin built a national dementia consulting firm from a Tumblr blog, three Johns Hopkins books, and a decade of hands-on work inside senior living communities. But the real story is what she learned along the way about boundaries, burnout, and trusting her intuition long before the data caught up. In this conversation, Rachael shares the full arc of building Dementia By Day from a one-woman hustle into a recurring revenue business that now operates like fractional op...

1 month ago

46 minutes

Badass Women in Business

Kristin Heideman: How I Built a Lifestyle Business, Walked Away From the Scale-at-All-Costs Trap, and Found Success on My Own Terms

Send us a text Kristin Heideman spent more than twenty years working inside the insurance industry before she realized she was ready to build something of her own. When she was let go from a job she excelled in, she walked into Best Buy the next morning, bought a laptop, registered her business the day after, and stepped into a version of her career she had never imagined. In this Diary of a CEO style conversation, Kristin breaks down the real story behind The Brinkman Group, why she never wa...

1 month ago

49 minutes

Badass Women in Business

Amanda DuBois: How She Built a Successful Law Firm After Being Told She Would Fail

Send us a text Amanda DuBois was once told she was nothing more than a doctor’s wife who should stop dabbling at the law. Instead of shrinking, she built one of Washington’s longest standing women owned law firms, created a workplace that supports and mentors women, founded a nonprofit that has helped change more than twenty five state laws, and became an award winning author who writes about injustice in the legal system. In this episode, Amanda talks with Aggie and Cristy about confidence, ...

1 month ago

50 minutes

Badass Women in Business

How to Build a Brand That Blooms: Ashley King on Letting Go, Leveling Up, and Creating Brands That Convert

Send us a text What happens when a fashion designer and magazine editor turns her creative eye toward helping women entrepreneurs grow their brands and themselves? Ashley King, founder and CEO of BLOOM Virtual.co, joins Aggie and Cristy to share how she built a thriving creative agency that helps women step into their next level of growth with confidence, clarity, and purpose. From her early days in luxury fashion to launching BLOOM as a way to reclaim her independence and rediscover her voic...

1 month ago

53 minutes

Badass Women in Business

Burn It Down and Build It Better: Sarah Noel Block on Confidence, Clients, and Control

Send us a text In this Season 4 episode of Badass Women in Business, Aggie and Cristy sit down with Sarah Noel Block, founder of Tiny Marketing, to talk about what happens when you stop playing small and start building a business that actually fits your life. Sarah shares how she went from being laid off in 2008 to creating a thriving solo business that helps consultants and small B2B teams grow without burnout. She breaks down the process of testing new offers, using Gateway Offers to bridge...

2 months ago

42 minutes

Badass Women in Business

From the Fairway to the Field: Jenn Harris on Reinvention, Leadership, and Owning Every Pivot

Send us a text Jenn Harris’s journey is a lesson in reinvention, resilience, and trusting yourself through change. Before becoming President and CEO of AirX Utility Surveyors, she built her career on curiosity and connection. She studied psychology, dreamed of becoming a golf pro, and went on to build golf-centered businesses that helped women gain confidence, build relationships, and find their voice in male-dominated spaces. When the pandemic halted her event-based ventures, Jenn pivoted in...

3 months ago

46 minutes

Badass Women in Business

From Pathology to Purpose: Angela Zeng on Building Karviva and Bringing Ancient Wisdom to Modern Wellness

Send us a text Angela Zeng, PhD, MBA, is the founder and CEO of Karviva, an award-winning wellness beverage company that blends Traditional Chinese Medicine with modern nutritional science. A pathologist by training, Angela immigrated from China to the U.S., built her own factory in St. Louis when co-packers couldn’t support her unique formulations, and has since carved out a space in the competitive natural food and beverage industry. In this episode of Badass Women in Business, she shares h...

3 months ago

51 minutes

Badass Women in Business

Julie Smolyansky: Building Lifeway Foods, Leading with Resilience, and the Power of Gut Health

Send us a text At just 27 years old, Julie Smolyansky became the youngest female CEO of a publicly traded company when she stepped into leadership at Lifeway Foods in 2002. What began as her family’s immigrant dream has grown into the dominant kefir brand in the U.S., with revenues projected at over $185 million in 2024 and distribution across the U.S., Mexico, Europe, and beyond. In this episode, Julie shares her remarkable journey from Soviet refugee to global business leader. She talks abo...

3 months ago

45 minutes

Badass Women in Business

From Teacher to Tech Leader: Jennifer Dulski on Resilience, Leadership, and Building Connected Teams

Send us a text Jennifer Dulski’s career journey is anything but linear. She started as a high school teacher, moved into the nonprofit world, and went on to hold executive roles at Yahoo, Google, Facebook, and Change.org. Today she is the Founder and CEO of Rising Team, a platform that equips managers with the tools to build trust, connection, and effectiveness across distributed teams, while also serving on the faculty at Stanford Graduate School of Business. In this episode of Badass Women ...

3 months ago

51 minutes

Badass Women in Business

Scaling Impact, Breaking Silos: How Anne Marie Dougherty Built a $40M Force for Veterans

Send us a text Anne Marie Dougherty is the CEO of the Bob Woodruff Foundation, where she has led the organization from $4.3 million to nearly $40 million in annual revenue. With no formal business training, she built a high-performing, data-driven nonprofit by applying principles from the for-profit world and building long-term partnerships with companies like the NFL, UBS, and Capital One. In this episode, she shares how her identity as a military child, spouse, and mother informs the way sh...

4 months ago

49 minutes

Badass Women in Business

Burn the Playbook: How Kate Wolff Built Four Companies, Raised Millions, and Rewrote the Rules

Send us a text Kate Wolff walked away from big agency life with no safety net and built four companies from the ground up. Lupine Creative. No Sheep Studios. Do the WeRQ. LumiTerra. Each one different. Each one intentional. And each one pushing against the industry norms she was told to follow. In this episode, Kate tells the truth about launching a business weeks before the pandemic hit, losing everything, then rebuilding on her own terms. She shares what it really takes to close a Series A ...

4 months ago

49 minutes

Badass Women in Business

From Best Kept Secret to Booked Out: The Visibility Playbook with Christina Lenkowski

Send us a text What if the real ROI of being on a podcast isn't the interview itself, but the relationships that come afterward? In this high-energy, straight-talking episode, we sit down with Christina Lenkowski, founder of Publicity by Christina, to hear how she transformed her PR background into a niche agency that helps women entrepreneurs get visible, get paid, and get taken seriously. Christina has landed her clients on more than 900 top-rated shows and has appeared on 100 podcasts hers...

4 months ago

46 minutes

Badass Women in Business

Beyond the Highlight Reel: Yuki Bi on Cross-Cultural Growth, Resilient Leadership, and Owning Your Weakness

Send us a text In this episode of Badass Women in Business, we sit down with Yuki Bi, global advertising executive and co-founder of Helios Worldwide. Yuki shares how her journey from a Canadian ad intern to leading a private equity-backed global consultancy has been shaped by risk, reinvention, and relentless self-awareness. This conversation goes beyond the polished version of success. Yuki opens up about leading a 500-person team at the height of her career, losing half that team in one di...

4 months ago

48 minutes

Badass Women in Business

Pinterest as a Business Powerhouse: From Hustle to Freedom with Laura Rike

Send us a text In this episode of the Badass Women in Business podcast, Laura Rike, Pinterest strategist and founder of SimplyPintastic®, shares her incredible journey from a burned-out VA to a thriving CEO leveraging Pinterest to create sustainable business growth. Laura’s story is a testament to the power of smart strategies, overcoming obstacles, and finding work-life balance as a mompreneur. Tune in to hear how Pinterest became her secret weapon for passive income, why it’s more than just...

5 months ago

48 minutes

Badass Women in Business

From Elephant Handler to Software CEO: Betting on Yourself with Libby DeLucien

Send us a text What do Asian elephants, a messy divorce, a housecleaning hustle, and a tech company have in common? Libby DeLucien. In this episode, Libby shares her unapologetically bold journey from growing up in a family of elephant handlers to becoming a serial entrepreneur and systems expert. She opens up about the real reason she started her first company in the middle of a custody battle, the mindset shift that helped her reclaim her time as a mother, and how she scaled her businesses ...

5 months ago

35 minutes