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Clover: Conversations with Women in Leadership - Founders, Executives, & Change-Makers
Erin Geiger - Muscle Creative
119 episodes
6 days ago
More than a decade ago, I wrote The Snow Globe, a middle-grade novel about courage, belonging, and discovering strength you didn’t know you had. I wrote it before I had kids, before many of the leadership experiences that now shape my life. For years, the manuscript sat quietly as my life changed around it. Two years ago, I was ready to self-publish. The book had been edited. The cover was complete. And then someone asked me a single question: Is it your best work? The honest answer forced me...
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More than a decade ago, I wrote The Snow Globe, a middle-grade novel about courage, belonging, and discovering strength you didn’t know you had. I wrote it before I had kids, before many of the leadership experiences that now shape my life. For years, the manuscript sat quietly as my life changed around it. Two years ago, I was ready to self-publish. The book had been edited. The cover was complete. And then someone asked me a single question: Is it your best work? The honest answer forced me...
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Entrepreneurship
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Clover: Conversations with Women in Leadership - Founders, Executives, & Change-Makers
Writing the Book I Almost Didn't Publish
More than a decade ago, I wrote The Snow Globe, a middle-grade novel about courage, belonging, and discovering strength you didn’t know you had. I wrote it before I had kids, before many of the leadership experiences that now shape my life. For years, the manuscript sat quietly as my life changed around it. Two years ago, I was ready to self-publish. The book had been edited. The cover was complete. And then someone asked me a single question: Is it your best work? The honest answer forced me...
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6 days ago
6 minutes

Clover: Conversations with Women in Leadership - Founders, Executives, & Change-Makers
The Leadership Hangover
The latest episode of Clover went live today, and this one is just me, naming something I think a lot of us are feeling, especially in December, but rarely talk about out loud. In this episode, I unpack what I’ve been calling the leadership hangover. It’s not burnout or a breakdown. It’s that quieter, harder-to-explain exhaustion that shows up after a long year of leading, deciding, carrying responsibility, and being “on” for everyone else, even when things look good from the outside. I talk ...
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1 week ago
4 minutes

Clover: Conversations with Women in Leadership - Founders, Executives, & Change-Makers
Rewriting the Story: From NBC Journalist to Chief Growth Officer with Heather Trumpfheller
In this episode of Clover, I sit down with fellow Austinite, community builder, and multi-pivot queen Heather Trumpfheller for a conversation that hits on career, identity, sobriety, boundaries, and what it really means to build community with intention. We talk about: Her winding career path & permission to pivotGrowing up a storytelling-obsessed kid in Dallas, studying broadcast journalism at Mizzou, and working at an NBC stationThe scary identity shift of leaving journalism, trying PR,...
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2 weeks ago
44 minutes

Clover: Conversations with Women in Leadership - Founders, Executives, & Change-Makers
Build What Doesn’t Exist — with Tina Sharkey (iVillage, AOL, BabyCenter, USC)
In this episode of Clover, I sit down with the brilliant and wildly accomplished Tina Sharkey for a conversation that honestly feels like three masterclasses in one: community-building, career design, and the future of human connection in an AI-driven world. Tina walks me through her very non-linear career path—from hanging out in her mom’s New York fashion office as a teen, to an unexpected pivot into tech and investing, to co-founding iVillage, bringing Sesame Street online, scaling BabyCen...
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3 weeks ago
49 minutes

Clover: Conversations with Women in Leadership - Founders, Executives, & Change-Makers
AI, CX, and the Human Factor: The Future of Customer Experience Leadership with Jordan Lea
In this episode of Clover, I sit down with my former teammate Jordan Lea, now VP of Customer Experience at Plum, to talk about bold career leaps, people-first leadership, and building a meaningful career on your own terms. Jordan shares her journey from a tiny town in North Carolina with dirt roads and cornfields to moving to New York City with no job lined up, flying standby for interviews, taking an unpaid internship in fashion, becoming employee #5 at a fashion tech startup, and eventually...
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1 month ago
45 minutes

Clover: Conversations with Women in Leadership - Founders, Executives, & Change-Makers
What Actually Works in Podcasting: Monetization, Partnerships, and the Playbook from Tracy Kaplan
In this episode of Clover, I get to catch up with my longtime friend and powerhouse media executive, Tracy Kaplan, and her “hodgepodge” career that turned out to be a masterclass in building a bold, non-linear path in media, tech, and podcasts. Tracy walks us through her journey from WGBH and ABC News to CBS Interactive, SnappyTV, Twitter, TuneIn, Patreon, Tenderfoot TV, and now Courier Newsroom, all while launching her own company, Small But Mighty Media, and creating The 10 News, an award-w...
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1 month ago
50 minutes

Clover: Conversations with Women in Leadership - Founders, Executives, & Change-Makers
How to Build a Coaching Culture that Scales: Lessons from Carrie Guarrero
In this episode, I sit down with mortgage industry veteran and coach Carrie Guarrero to trace a three-decade career built on service, community, and relentless growth. Carrie shares how an 11-year-old’s flyer route in her mom’s mortgage office became a billion-dollar origination career—and why the trophies eventually mattered less than the names and stories behind each loan. She opens up about a career “pause” that didn’t go as planned, the humbling return that led her to Fairway, and how tha...
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1 month ago
44 minutes

Clover: Conversations with Women in Leadership - Founders, Executives, & Change-Makers
From Startup Chaos to Scalable Growth: How to Win the First 5 Years with Stephanie Quay
In this conversation, I catch up with longtime friend and operator, Stephanie Quay—a five-time acquisition veteran who recently launched Five Experts, a platform matching early-stage companies with proven operators to drive value creation in the first five years. We trace her zig-zag path from film school and TV.com (hi, CNET days!) to growth-stage leadership across PE- and VC-backed companies, and the playbooks she now packages for founders, investors, and fractional experts. Stephanie opens...
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1 month ago
40 minutes

Clover: Conversations with Women in Leadership - Founders, Executives, & Change-Makers
Forget Balance — Here’s What Women Leaders Actually Need
For years, women in leadership have been told to “find balance” — as if the secret to thriving careers, healthy families, and full lives could fit neatly into a color-coded planner. But what if balance isn’t the goal at all? What if it’s the trap? In this solo episode of Clover, I unpack the myth of balance — how it was sold to women as a shiny standard we could never meet, and why it’s time to let it go for good. From early-morning Zoom calls in yesterday’s t-shirt to late-night Slack pings ...
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2 months ago
19 minutes

Clover: Conversations with Women in Leadership - Founders, Executives, & Change-Makers
How to Rethink Career Growth: Why Your Path Isn’t a Ladder, It’s a Jungle Gym
In this episode of Clover, I’m rethinking one of the biggest myths about career growth — the idea that success is about climbing a ladder. For many of us, especially women, that ladder was never built for the way our careers actually unfold. So let’s talk about a better metaphor: the jungle gym. It’s flexible, unpredictable, and a whole lot more real. I share lessons from my own path — from film school to marketing, from startups to enterprise leadership — and how every pivot, pause, and side...
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2 months ago
14 minutes

Clover: Conversations with Women in Leadership - Founders, Executives, & Change-Makers
Leading Through Mergers and Uncertainty: Paramount’s Erin Rich on Reinvention and Influence
In this episode of Clover, I sit down with the incredible Erin Rich, VP of Trade Marketing & Communications at Paramount, for a conversation that feels like a time capsule of the tech, media, and entertainment worlds over the last three decades — and a masterclass in reinvention. Erin takes us through her journey from the early Bay Area startup scene and the heyday of Yahoo and CNET, through mergers at CBS Interactive and ViacomCBS, to her current leadership role at Paramount. She shares ...
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2 months ago
45 minutes

Clover: Conversations with Women in Leadership - Founders, Executives, & Change-Makers
How to Keep Your Rights, Voice, and Royalties: Conni Francini’s Hybrid Approach to Book Publishing
I sit down with Conni Francini, CEO of Soro Publishing, to explore how she’s building a more author-friendly path to publishing. Conni traces her unconventional route—from journalism/PR into education, then a 15-year run in educational publishing where she rose to editor-in-chief and developed award-winning products with partners like the Smithsonian and TIME for Kids. After dozens of candid chats with writers—frustrated by low royalties, limited marketing, slow timelines, and losing creative...
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2 months ago
40 minutes

Clover: Conversations with Women in Leadership - Founders, Executives, & Change-Makers
Warner Bros, Rotten Tomatoes, Netflix & Chief: Lessons That Led to Truly Care
In this heartfelt, high-energy conversation, Stephanie Bohn—entertainment veteran turned startup founder—traces her journey from American Express to 13 years at Warner Bros., scaling Rotten Tomatoes, a pivotal stint at Netflix, and ultimately to purpose-built entrepreneurship. Stephanie shares how “raising your hand before you feel 100% ready” opened doors to building new business lines (hello, early App Store days) and leading through ambiguity. We dig into her time as CMO at Chief, the powe...
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3 months ago
50 minutes

Clover: Conversations with Women in Leadership - Founders, Executives, & Change-Makers
How to Pivot Your Career and Thrive in Tech Leadership with Emily Gupton
This week on Clover, I sit down with Emily Gupton—a technology leader, community builder, and soon-to-be President of Austin Women in Technology. Emily’s career path has been anything but linear: from studying neuroscience and working in radiology, to project management in commercial furniture, to building a SaaS platform from the ground up, and now serving as CTO at SKG. In this conversation, Emily shares how curiosity, resilience, and community have shaped her many pivots. She opens up abou...
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3 months ago
33 minutes

Clover: Conversations with Women in Leadership - Founders, Executives, & Change-Makers
Lead with Welcome: How FIESTA's Cherie Werner Connects Austin’s Startup Scene
In this episode of Clover, I sit down with Cherie Werner, the force behind Fiesta, the largest community for founders and investors in Austin, and FoundHERs, a dedicated space for women entrepreneurs. Cherie shares her journey from startup life to building Fiesta almost by accident, and how “leading with welcome” has become her guiding principle. We talk about what it really takes to turn a crowded room into genuine connections, why consistency and inclusivity matter, and how women founders c...
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3 months ago
50 minutes

Clover: Conversations with Women in Leadership - Founders, Executives, & Change-Makers
Camille Ricketts on Lessons from Tesla, Scaling Community at Notion, and Life in Venture Capital
In this episode of Clover, I’m joined by Camille Ricketts, now a partner at XYZ Venture Capital and formerly a marketing leader at Tesla, First Round Capital, and Notion. Camille’s career journey has been anything but linear—starting as a journalist at The Wall Street Journal, moving into communications at Tesla, where she worked directly with Elon Musk, then pioneering content marketing with First Round Review, and later scaling community-led growth at Notion. Today, she brings that breadth ...
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3 months ago
39 minutes

Clover: Conversations with Women in Leadership - Founders, Executives, & Change-Makers
How to Turn Vision into Impact with Amina Mohamed of Cameras For Girls
In this very first episode of Clover, I chat with Amina Mohamed, founder of Cameras For Girls, an organization using photography and storytelling to help young women in Africa break into male-dominated media spaces. Amina’s story begins with her family’s journey as refugees from Uganda to Canada, a career in film and television, and a life-changing return to Uganda that revealed the inequities facing girls denied education and opportunity. That experience inspired her to launch Cameras For Gi...
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3 months ago
39 minutes

Clover: Conversations with Women in Leadership - Founders, Executives, & Change-Makers
A New Chapter: From Small Business, Big Mindset to Clover
After 100 episodes of Small Business, Big Mindset, it’s time for something new. In this special episode, I share why I’m rebranding the podcast and what you can expect from the next chapter: Clover. Clover is a show dedicated to spotlighting women redefining leadership—founders, executives, and change-makers who are shaping the future. The name comes from the phrase “to be in clover,” which means to live in prosperity, comfort, and joy. That’s the spirit behind this next season of conversatio...
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4 months ago
1 minute

Clover: Conversations with Women in Leadership - Founders, Executives, & Change-Makers
Clover Podcast Trailer: Spotlighting Women Redefining Leadership
Welcome to Clover. I created this podcast to spotlight women who are redefining leadership. Each week, I connect with founders, executives, and change-makers to share real stories of bold leadership, lasting impact, and what it truly takes to thrive at the top. Whether you’re just starting out in your career, aiming to take it to the next level, or already leading and looking for ways to give back, Clover will leave you with insights, inspiration, and strategies to fuel your own leadership jo...
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4 months ago
1 minute

Clover: Conversations with Women in Leadership - Founders, Executives, & Change-Makers
Laura Belgray - Tough Titties: On Living Your Best Life When You're the F-ing Worst
This week on the show we have the one, the only, soon-to-be New York Times Bestselling author, Laura F*ing Belgray!When I thought of who I would want to help ring in my 100th episode, my mentor, my friend, Laura Belgray catapulted to mind first.She has a long list of accolades which you can learn more about on her Talking Shrimp website...as well as learn why her company is named after a chatty crustacean to begin with.A bonafide celebrity and icon in the copywriting world, she's about to lau...
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2 years ago
51 minutes

Clover: Conversations with Women in Leadership - Founders, Executives, & Change-Makers
More than a decade ago, I wrote The Snow Globe, a middle-grade novel about courage, belonging, and discovering strength you didn’t know you had. I wrote it before I had kids, before many of the leadership experiences that now shape my life. For years, the manuscript sat quietly as my life changed around it. Two years ago, I was ready to self-publish. The book had been edited. The cover was complete. And then someone asked me a single question: Is it your best work? The honest answer forced me...