Mara Smith is Founder & CEO of Inspiro Tequila. Mara began her legal career at a large law firm in Chicago before joining the corporate strategy team at a Fortune 500 Company. In this episode we discuss what it takes to build a women-focused tequila business from the ground up and how to give back in the process.

Laurel Mintz is the Founder of Fabric VC, a venture fund backing underrepresented founders at the earliest stage. She is also the founder of Elevate My Brand an award-winning agency that serves both startups and blue chip global brands. In this episode we talk about what it takes to launch and raise capital for a venture fund and why investing in diverse founders is a smart strategy.

Michelle Jacobs the Co-Founder and COO at Womaness. A strategic development leader with a sweet spot in brand building, leading sales (e-commerce and traditional), branding, partnerships, licensing, logistics, inventory planning and financial management she provides keen insight into what it takes to build and launch and consumer brand. In this episode we discuss Michelle’s founder journey, her partnership with co-founder Sally Mueller, why women’s health and menopause solutions have become such a hot topic.

Jesse Draper was the first women GP to launch a fund in Los Angeles, paving the way for the growing female fund manager community. She has invested in 70+ female led companies and is focused on the Future of Care.

Recognized as the queens of the SPV, Annie and Kelley help angel investors build their portfolios matching investors to investments, one select fundraise at a time.

Attorney and entrepreneur, Jessie Gabriel built a practice solely focused on women founders in the venture community. Her clients include leading CPG, fashion, and tech companies and the funds that invest in them.

In this episode Carlissia and I discuss the importance of democratizing dollars through investing and how New Media Ventures thesis is implementing change.

Catherine and the cast of Show Her the Money have been on a global tour, screening the groundbreaking film about the fundraising challenges for female founders. Thousands of people have now seen the film!

In this episode Marcia Dawood, partner at MINDSHIFT Capital, and I discuss the why and how of angel investing and how you can do good while doing well with your investing strategy.

Jaclyn Johnson is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor, known for producing some of the most iconic women's events and programs through her platform Create & Cultivate. She is putting her own personal experience to work helping founders from launch to legacy and creating a runway for angel investors to fly.

In this episode we discuss Lara O’Connor Hodgson and her business partner Stacey Abrams’ founder journey and how their fintech company NOW has solved the cash flow challenge for small business owners nationwide.

Tracy Prigmore creates new pathways to commercial real estate ownership and development for women and BIPOC through She Has a Deal, an EdTech platform, real estate investment accelerator and ecosystem.

Dr. Ruth Shaber is a changemaker and innovator, moving from a robust career as an OBGYN and senior executive at Kaiser Permanente to empowering women across finance and healthcare. She is the co-author of The XX Edge: Unlocking Higher Returns and Lower Risk and the founder of the Diverse Investing Collective.

Cheryl Kellond, Co-Founder of Play Money reminds us all that angel investing is fun! And doesn’t have to be challenging. Which is why she and her co-founder launched Play Money! She has invested in nearly 50 startups using the funds in her IRA. Now, she is bringing all of these experiences together with her latest venture, Play Money.

Cassandra Cummings is the author of Fearless Finances: A Timeless Guide to Building Wealth, and founder of The Stocks & Stilettos Society, an online community of more than 100,000 women investors. She is a Registered Investment Advisor, a Real Estate and Angel Investor and has provided investment, retirement and wealth-building strategies to women across the country for more than 20 years.

Taryn Jones Laeben is the President and Founder of IRL Ventures. You may know of her from her previous role as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of SoulCycle, the revolutionary indoor cycling brand, founded in New York City in 2006. Before her time at SoulCycle, Taryn was the Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) at Casper, the fast-growing sleep company, where she led rapid expansion across retail, wholesale, partnerships, customer experience, and strategy at large.

Emmeline Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital fund based in Los Angeles investing across women’s health, financial services, and sustainability with a focus on tech & innovation that is helping women live & thrive. The portfolio has 23 companies in its portfolio including Alloy, LunaJoy, WealthMore, and The Beans.

In this episode we talk about financial wellness with Bobbi Rebell, Founder & CEO of Financial Wellness Strategies and author of Launching Financial Grownups and How to be a Financial Grownup. Bobbi was previously a global business news anchor and personal finance columnist at Thomson Reuters and held various journalist positions at top news outlets including CNBC, CNN and PBS.

After an almost two-decade career as an award-winning Financial Advisor at Merrrill Lynch, Mina Black founded The RainMakers Collective, a private investment and peer membership organization for women. In this episode we discuss why joining an investing community is helpful when learning to invest.

In this episode MonaLisa Raass Como, President of The IDAC Foundation and the CEO of IDAC, Inc., and I discuss why diversity & inclusion ins finaince matters and what her organization is doing to further this mission.