Biz Women Rock
451 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 297 ratingsKatie Krimitsos is a mother, wife and high achieving woman entrepreneur who is on a mission to support the journeys of female entrepreneurs who want to grow purposeful, productive and profitable businesses. She's a Mastermind Leader, Coach and Business Growth Strategist, and live and online education provider for ambitious women entrepreneurs who want to see results! The Biz Women Rock podcast features interviews with successful business women, live coaching calls, and practical strategies for purposeful growth. We are in this together!
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BWR 051: Kim Garst: Building a 7 Figure Consulting Business and the Power of Your Personal Brand
June 06, 2014 07:00 - 52 minutes - 59.8 MBHow do you build a strong personal brand that thrives through many different companies? Listen to our Interview with Kim Garst, Founder of Boom! Social to find out! Kim Garst first started building a business from her home as a stay at home mom. She dove into technology and the internet when it was just getting started and quickly established herself as an expert. In a short amount of time, Kim had built a 7 figure business consulting and implementing the online business and marketing strate...
BWR 050: Sharon Lechter: From Rich Dad to Think & Grow Rich For Women
June 04, 2014 07:00 - 54 minutes - 62.5 MBHow do you impact the world with your passion? Listen to our Interview with Sharon Lechter, Author of Think and Grow Rich For Women to find out! You probably know Sharon Lechter from the Rich Dad Poor Dad Series she had with Robert Kiyosaki. But her experience as a business woman and a passionate advocate for financial literacy is so much more! Trained as a CPA, Sharon's interest in financial literacy began when her son racked up an enormous amount of credit card debt in college. She was liv...
BWR 049: Viveka Von Rosen: LinkedIn Tools That Every Business Women Should Use!
June 02, 2014 07:00 - 44 minutes - 51 MBHow do you leverage the POWER of LinkedIn? Listen to our Interview with Viveka Von Rosen, Founder of Linked Into Business to find out! With over 300 million users, LinkedIn is a HUGE platform that every business woman can leverage! Viveka Von Rosen started her company Linked Into Business back in 2007 as social networking was just getting out there. She has since built a very successful business as an expert just on this special platform. In this incredible interview, Viveka shares the top 5...
BWR 048: Katie's Top 3 Take-a-Ways and the BWR Update!
May 30, 2014 07:00 - 8 minutes - 9.84 MBWhat are the biggest lessons learned from the guests of the Business Women Rock! podcast this month? Listen to Your Host of the Business Women Rock! Podcast Katie Krimitsos to find out! Katie gives some cool updates on what's going on in the Business Women Rock community...30,000 downloads in just 16 weeks! She talks about her first meeting with her mentor and lessons she learned from that experience. And, of course, she re-hashes the top 3 take-a-ways from her guests this past month: Lesson...
BWR 047: Noelle Nieporte: Massive Growth For a Brand New Fashion Item
May 28, 2014 07:00 - 56 minutes - 65.5 MBHow do you have massive success in the fashion industry with a brand new product? Listen to our Interview with Noelle Nieporte, Owner of Half Tee to find out! Noelle Nieporte joined forces with Amanda Barker, Founder of Half Tee just one year after it had been launched. With their very different but complimentary strengths, the two have grown what was a business run out of a mall kiosk and had generated $160,000 in revenues to a strong brand that generated multi millions in revenues! In this...
BWR 046: Kitt Shapiro: Story-Driven Branding & Telling the Story of Eartha Kitt
May 26, 2014 07:00 - 44 minutes - 50.8 MBHow do you build a brand of products by telling the story first? Listen to our Interview with Kitt Shapiro, Founder of Simply Eartha to find out! Kitt Shapiro is the daughter of the famous Hollywood actress and singer, Eartha Kitt. You may best know Eartha from her role as Cat Woman in the Batman TV series, the original singer of the song Santa Baby, which was specifically written for her, and the voice of Yzma in The Emperor's New Groove, amongst MANY other accomplishments. She was an amazi...
BWR 045: Melina Boswell: How to Build a Powerful Real Estate Investor Community
May 23, 2014 07:00 - 37 minutes - 42.9 MBHow do you build a community of real estate investors that supports one another? Listen to our Interview with Melina Boswell, Founder of the New Wealth Advisors Club to find out! Melina Boswell jumped into the real estate investor market because she wanted to help people. After making her first deal, she was hooked. Through the down turn in 2008, Melina and her husband chose to look at the real estate as being "on sale," and capitalized on the marketplace. She focused on helping those with d...
BWR 044: Becky McKinnell: How to Distinguish Yourself in a Sea of Other Website Builders
May 21, 2014 07:00 - 34 minutes - 40.3 MBHow do you stand out from all the others in your industry? Listen to our Interview with Becky McKinnell, Founder of iBec Creative to find out! Becky McKinnell spent her senior year of college building out a business plan for her website design company. And courageously made it a reality once she graduated. What started out as a meek, but determined young company specializing in the medical space has turned into a million dollar website design and marketing company that attracts an array of c...
BWR 043: Barbara Kasoff: How to Lead and Connect Business Women All Over the Nation
May 19, 2014 07:00 - 43 minutes - 50 MBHow do you build an entire movement that is impacting women in business? Listen to our Interview with Barbara Kasoff, Founder of WIPP (Women Impacting Public Policy) to find out! Barbara Kasoff is President and Co-Founder of Women Impacting Public Policy, Inc. (WIPP), a nonpartisan public policy advocacy organization advocating on its coalition of 4.7 million businesswomen including 75 business organizations. WIPP identifies important trends and opportunities and provides a collaborative mod...
BWR 042: Anastasia Leng: Former Google Gal Is Shifting The Way You Buy Gifts Online
May 16, 2014 07:00 - 53 minutes - 61.1 MBHow do you completely shift the paradigm of shopping? Listen to our Interview with Anastasia Leng, Co-Founder of Hatch.co to find out! Anastasia Leng spent much of her professional career as a Google team member. There, she focused on building out new and innovative programs and engineering how and if they would stick or not. By doing so, she was well-poised to have her own start up! In 2012, she and her fellow Google employee Ryan Hayward, founded Hatch.co, an online store that completely s...
BWR 041: Karen Hough: Improv + Business = Success!
May 14, 2014 07:00 - 49 minutes - 56.4 MBHow do you build a successful consulting practice using your skills as an actor? Listen to our Interview with Karen Hough, Founder of ImprovEdge to find out! Karen Hough is the Founder and CEO of ImprovEdge, and has been using improvisation as an engaging learning tool for over 12 years. She is the author of the Amazon #1 category Bestseller, The Improvisation Edge: Secrets to Building Trust and Radical Collaboration at Work published by Berrett-Koehler, and the Yes! Deck, a handy deck of ca...
BWR 040 : Chicke Fitzgerald: From Corporate America To Entrepreneurial Success
May 12, 2014 07:00 - 54 minutes - 62.2 MBHow do you leverage a successful corporate career into an entrepreneurial win? Listen to our Interview with Chicke Fitzgerald, Founder of Solutionz to find out! Chicke Fitzgerald started her business career as a high level executive in some of the biggest companies in the travel industry like Sabre (owned by American Airlines) and Worldspan (owned by Delta, Northwest and TWA). Before sites like travelocity.com or kayak.com existed, she was creating and implementing effective campaigns for mu...
BWR 039: Kellee Khalil: A Whole New Way to Plan & Shop For Weddings
May 09, 2014 06:49 - 29 minutes - 34.1 MBHow do you create a wedding business that is FUN and EASY? Listen to our Interview with Kellee Khalil, Founder of Lover.ly to find out! Lover.ly's mission is to make wedding planning easier and more fun. And Founder, Kellee Khalil does just that with this innovative and totally off-the-wall business! After working in the wedding business, she experienced the not-so-pleasant experience of helping her sister plan her wedding. She figured if it had been so difficult for her - someone who actual...
BWR 038: Laura Sherman: Company Culture, 97% Client Retention and Insuring the Wealthy...Oh My!
May 07, 2014 07:00 - 36 minutes - 42 MBHow do you build a company that offers an unbeatable client experience? Listen to our Interview with Laura Sherman of Baldwin Krystin Sherman Partners Insurance to find out! Laura Sherman insures some of the wealthiest people in the country and she does it with grace and class. Her company, Baldwin Krystin Sherman Partners Insurance (BKS Partners Insurance) is the exact opposite of what you would think an insurance company is all about! They've been in Inc. 5000 as one of the nation's fastes...
BWR 037: Bea Arthur: Shark Tank Changed Everything - But Not In The Way You Think!
May 05, 2014 06:51 - 51 minutes - 58.7 MBHow do you come back after a business blow to build something BIG? Listen to our Interview with Bea Arthur, Founder of PrettyPaddedRoom.com to find out! Called innovative and inspiring by the American Counseling Association, successful psychotherapist and entrepreneur Bea Arthur has worked with a variety of populations including addicts in recovery, couples in crisis, and survivors of domestic violence. Her passion for the field of psychotherapy led her to start two wellness-based businesses...
BWR 036: Alexis Wolfer: Online Magazine That's Raising Women Up
May 02, 2014 06:01 - 48 minutes - 55.3 MBHow do you build a media company with a purpose? Listen to our Interview with Alexis Wolfer, Founder of TheBeautyBean.com to find out! Alexis Wolfer started her online magazine TheBeautyBean.com as a way to give women an amazing beauty magazine with subtle empowerment to love themselves and their bodies. Having struggled with body image and an eating disorder at a younger age, Alexis was determined to have an impact on women's sense of self in a fashionable and trendy way! Her unique company...
BWR 035: Cynthia Sanchez: How To Establish Yourself As The Expert
April 30, 2014 07:19 - 37 minutes - 43.2 MBHow do you build a successful consulting practice accentuating your area of expertise? Listen to our Interview with Cynthia Sanchez, Founder of Oh So Pinteresting to find out! Hands down, Cynthia Sanchez knows Pinterest. Her company Oh So Pinteresting helps business owners all over create Pinterest Strategies and Pinterest campaigns and conducts Pinterest Workshops. But how has she positioned herself to do this? Listen to our interview with Cynthia to hear about her prior career as a nurse, ...
BWR 034: Michelle Bomberger: Not Your Average Law Firm
April 28, 2014 07:00 - 45 minutes - 52.6 MBHow do you build a successful law firm doing everything differently? Listen to our Interview with Michelle Bomberger, Founder of Equinox Business Law Group to find out! This ain't yo average law firm! Michelle Bomberger has built her law firm by doing everything backwards. She builds her team by acquiring people with business skills first and she has an amazing flat fee service model, which she goes into great detail about. She believes in having a life-long relationship with her clients so ...
BWR 033: Lauren Tobin: A Fighter Through Business Tragedy
April 25, 2014 07:05 - 33 minutes - 38.9 MBHow do you live through a traumatic personal and professional blow? Listen to our Interview with Lauren Tobin to find out! Lauren Tobin was a very successful professional in the eye care industry. When her husband's company was going under and about to file bankruptcy, she jumped on board to help him out and totally turned the company around in 5 months! A while later, her husband fired her and filed for a divorce. Lauren's incredible roller coaster ride is an absolutely incredible and inspi...
BWR 032: Renee Strickland: Inside a Million Dollar Ranching Business
April 23, 2014 04:20 - 37 minutes - 43 MBHow do you create a super successful business the ranching industry? Listen to our Interview with Renee Strickland, Founder of Strickland Ranch and Exports to find out! Renee Strickland founded Strickland Ranch and Exports in 2007 and oversees almost 3,600 acres of land in Florida. Her two businesses consist of a cow-calf ranch (mama cows give birth to calves every season when old enough, those calves are sold around the country) and her exporting business, where she helps coordinate the pur...
BWR 031: Kelsey Doorey: Making Life Easier For Bridesmaids
April 21, 2014 05:45 - 37 minutes - 43.6 MBHow do you make Brides and Bridesmaids Super Happy? Listen to our Interview with Kelsey Doorey, Founder of Vow To Be Chic to find out! Kelsey Doorey has solved a major problem for many women. Her company Vow to Be Chic is the first ever online store dedicated to bridesmaid’s dresses for rent. That’s right…for rent! Did you know the average bridesmaid spends about $1800 per wedding and a huge chunk of that is for the dress? Kelsey has solved that problem by giving bridesmaids a unique purchas...
BWR 030: Women of Podcasting – Katie & the Business Women Rock! Vision
April 18, 2014 06:46 - 29 minutes - 34.4 MBHow do you grow an amazing community with a podcast highlighting business women? Listen to Your Host of the Business Women Rock! Podcast Katie Krimitsos to find out! To conclude our series on the Women of Podcasting, Katie opens up about the Business Women Rock! podcast and shares a little more about her business journey and why it lays the foundation for the ever-growing Business Women Rock! Community! As the Co-Owner of the Tampa Bay Business Owners, Katie has taken her lessons learned and...
BWR 029: Kate Erickson | Women of Podcasting - Entrepreneur On Fire
April 16, 2014 06:02 - 37 minutes - 43.4 MBHow do you build an entire community hungry for what you have to offer? Listen to our Interview with Kate Erickson of Entrepreneur on Fire to find out! Kate Erickson is the Content Manager and Community Leader for Entrepreneur On Fire, a Daily podcast featuring inspiring interviews with the hottest entrepreneurs. The podcast was started by her boyfriend, John Lee Dumas and since the beginning, she has been a core part of the podcast's massive growth and success! Entrepreneur on Fire has beco...
BWR 028: Natalie Eckdahl - Women of Podcasting - The Biz Chix Podcast
April 14, 2014 09:15 - 51 minutes - 59.4 MBHow do you leverage podcasting to build your audience? Listen to our Interview with Natalie Eckdahl, Host of the Biz Chix Podcast to find out! The special Women in Podcasting series kicks off with the fabulous Natalie Eckdahl, host of the Biz Chix Podcast. Natalie entered into the podcasting space because she was craving a community and because she wanted to reach a larger audience. She and her husband founded ScheduleMax.com in 2010, an online scheduling service that helps consultants, thos...
BWR 027: Becca McCharen: Out of the Box Fashion Hits it BIG!
April 11, 2014 08:01 - 35 minutes - 16.6 MBHow do you get Super Stars like Madonna to wear your fashion?Listen to our Interview with Becca McCharen, Founder of Chromat to find out! Becca McCharen started her career as an architect. But her love for creating unique fashion pieces like bras, skirts and bathing suits in her "off time" snowballed into a full-fledged fashion force! Her company Chromat lives for creating structural experiments for the human body. Her architectural body cages have become her calling card, noticed and worn b...
BWR 026: Jeni Larson: How To Be a 7 Figure Blogger
April 09, 2014 06:55 - 44 minutes - 20.6 MBJeni Larson is one of the very few 7 figure bloggers in the world. She has accomplished this level of success because of her philosophy on business, wealth, happiness and giving. The story of how she came into blogging is amazing as is her attitude. She has reached such success that her blogs have had over 100 million visitors! In this inspiring interview, Jeni reveals strategies and tips for creating a successful blog, and more importantly, shares with you her mindset on how easy it is to m...
BWR 025: Amy Millman: Helping Women Raise Capital and Think BIG About Their Businesses
April 07, 2014 07:30 - 46 minutes - 21.7 MBHow do you build an a program that helps women scale their companies with education and financing? Listen to our Interview with Amy Millman, President of Springboard Enterprises to find out! Fourteen years ago, Amy Millman was one of a handful of women advocates who decided to formalize Springboard Enterprises. Formerly the head of the women in business committee in DC, Amy was perfectly suited to lead the movement to help women formalize and succeed in their endeavors to successfully scale ...
BWR 024: Deborah Sweeney: How To Buy Out Intuit and Rock It!
April 04, 2014 07:04 - 43 minutes - 20.3 MBDeborah Sweeney has a very eclectic professional background. Her entrepreneurial journey began when she bought a division of the company she worked for ... Intuit. Since then, she's been building an incredible business. MyCorporation has had 500,000 people use their online legal business filing services (LLCs, trademarks copyrights, etc.). In this inspiring interview, Deborah reveals the struggles she had in the beginning of that transition and her vision for her growing company!
BWR 023: Rhonda Shear: From Hollywood To A World Wide Lingerie Brand
April 02, 2014 03:45 - 1 hour - 39.6 MBHow do you build an intimate apparel enterprise known all around the world? Listen to our Interview with Rhonda Shear, Founder of Shear Enterprises to find out! You may know Rhonda Shear best for her role in the series Up All Night. But there is soooo much more to this business woman than B Movies, Playboy and Pageants (although she has great stories about those too!). Shear Enterprises, which she founded in 2003 with her husband Van Fagan, creates intimate apparel for women all over the wor...
BWR 022: Kari Block: An Agricultural Invention That Earns Millions For NOT Killing Rodents
March 31, 2014 07:17 - 51 minutes - 23.7 MBFrom an early age, Kari Block was an environmental activist who understood the circle of life of all living things. After a run-in with death, she did a lot of soul searching to figure out what she was meant to do. Having married a farmer, she began to see opportunity all around her. She developed her first product Fresh Cab as a way to eliminate the huge mouse problem on the farms without killing them. She is a creative inventor who has built a $5 million dollar business by creating a marke...
BWR 021: Anu Shukla: How to Sell Your Company for $366 Million...And Build Even Bigger Ones
March 28, 2014 06:41 - 1 hour - 29.5 MBAnu Shukla's first attempt as an entrepreneur turned out to be a super success. Nineteen months and a $366 million buy out later, she continued her business journey as a successful business builder. Her current company, RewardsPay is an innovative technology that allows YOU to use ANY rewards and loyalty points you have (from your bank, your fav airline, your American Express card) to pay for real things online...like items on Overstock.com. Anu looks at business on an entirely different str...
BWR 020: Shradha Agarwal: How to Bring Customized Education to 1 Million People Every Month!
March 26, 2014 07:28 - 46 minutes - 21.6 MBShradha Agarwal has had business running through her veins since she was a little girl. Fueled by the memory of accompanying her grandparents to the doctors offices often when she was young, she started ContextMedia as a way to help communicate targeted health messages and education to patients at a time when they are most likely to accept it (in the doctor's office). Picture customized, relevant television programming in the lobby, specific information available on iPads strategically place...
BWR 019: Trina Spear: Building a Medical Movement With Scrubs
March 24, 2014 10:50 - 46 minutes - 21.5 MBTrina Spear and her Co-Founder Heather Hasson want to change the world. And they're going to do it by selling and giving high quality, fashion scrubs to healthcare professionals all around the world!! The unique business is not just about their super suave (and highly functional and comfortable) scrubs. It's about the attitude and vision of its leaders! Listen to Trina's interview and I guarantee you'll leave with your own business on fire (in a good way). :)
BWR 018: Dr. Catherine Havasi: How to Bring Technology to Market Successfully
March 21, 2014 04:43 - 38 minutes - 18 MBDr. Catherine Havasi has been interested in and researching language for quite a long time. Her company Luminoso is a software that makes computers decipher language the same way that humans do. The fact that Siri often gives you some less-than-appropriate replies to your requests should tell you that this is not super easy to do! In this interview, Catherine talks about how she got started, how she built out the technology and what business lessons she's learned along the way!
BWR 017: Jessica Rivelli: How to Build a Working Women Enterprise
March 19, 2014 05:52 - 38 minutes - 18 MBJessica Rivelli began Working Women of Tampa Bay because she couldn't find the kind of networking group she was craving as a young professional. Five years and 850 members later, the Working Women Enterprise has grown into other markets throughout the state of Florida (and national growth isn too far away!). In this inspiring interview, Jessica shares her story of how she’s built her company and how she's leading the movement of women supporting and motivating women in business!
BWR 016: Stephanie Schlageter: MedSpa Queen Arises From the Ashes
March 17, 2014 05:47 - 51 minutes - 23.9 MBJust months after she opened her franchise territory of Radiance Med Spa, Stephanie Schlageter was hit with a sonic BOOM that nearly killed her business. With a mountain of resilience and an overwhelming positive attitude, Stephanie has spent the years since digging herself out of this hole and building a HUGE MedSpa business! In this inspiring interview, you'll hear her approach to every challenge she's faced and why she never - for one second - doubted her success!
BWR 015: Pamela O'Hara: The Story Behind the Social CRM
March 14, 2014 12:14 - 38 minutes - 17.9 MBHow do you create and leverage technology to provide a huge value to businesses? Listen to our interview with Pamela O'Hara, Founder of BatchBook.com to find out! Pamela O'Hara started BatchBook.com in 2006 as a way to create a "digital rolodex." As a business woman and a mother, Pam is committed to running a company that can adapt to the unique needs of both its employees and its customers to foster better organization, increased productivity and a more balanced life.
BWR 014: Jessica Singer: A Booming Mama Website Business
March 12, 2014 09:16 - 36 minutes - 16.8 MBThe idea of MamaBargains.com came to Jessica in a dream and she couldn't shake it. With very little business experience and zero website experience, Jessica ventured out to create an online one-deal-at-a-time website offering 50-80% discounts on products for moms and babies. With tons of persistence and patience, Jessica's company has grown tremendously!
BWR 013: Joanna Penn: Writer and Self-Publishing Diva
March 10, 2014 06:31 - 39 minutes - 18.5 MBJoanna Penn is an author, speaker, and creative entrepreneur. She founded TheCreativePenn.com as a home for all her her writing projects. She jumped from corporate years ago to begin her writing career. She creates fiction, non-fiction and blogs and shares her story about what it takes to produce content in droves, her advice on how to be in the business of writing and how to self-publish successfully. She is full of great information!
BWR 012: Linda Galindo: How to Build a Million Dollar Consulting Practice
March 07, 2014 06:59 - 45 minutes - 21.3 MBConsultant, author, speaker and educator, Linda Galindo teaches leaders how to bring accountability into their organizations to significantly improve performance. She specializes in working in healthcare and government, bringing the principles of accountability to organizations where it is truly needed at the leadership level. She's written 3 books and shares her story about how she's built such a successful consulting practice, how she wrote her books and how she trains CEOs to completely s...
BWR 011: Nicole Levine: Multi Million Dollar Business Builder
March 05, 2014 11:42 - 36 minutes - 17.2 MBNicole Levine moved to the US from Israel when she was 18 years old and eventually began her company Home Clean Home. While raising two kids, she built her business by knocking on doors and acquiring one client at a time. She's been named Business Women of the Year and made the Inc. 5000 list. Her companies include Home Clean Home, Bed Bug 911, Hygea Naturals, Labor to the Rescue and her real estate portfolio. She is a fire woman who loves business and demands her monthly vacation!
BWR 010: Andrea Heuston: Solopreneur Turned Business Builder
March 03, 2014 05:26 - 33 minutes - 15.5 MBA happy solopreneur for 10 years, Andrea Heuston finally made the move to build her own team to fulfill the demand for Artitudes Design. Engrossed in 15-16 hour days, she was forced to let go of her control freak nature when she almost died during a medical procedure that took her out of her business for 8 months. Her ability to delegate has allowed her company to grow to $1.7 million in revenue and be super involved in giving back to the community. She has also started up two new businesses...
BWR 009: Amy Clover – From Rock Bottom to Leader of a Movement
February 28, 2014 10:08 - 32 minutes - 15.4 MBAfter attempting suicide as a teenager, Amy Clover turned her life around and fell in love with fitness. She built her personal training business and started a blog, which has attracted a huge audience. She knew she wanted to do something BIG, so she started the 30x30 Project, which was a Bootcamp tour in 30 cities before her 30th birthday in 2013. She led a super successful crowdfunding campaign and continues to build her business so she can have massive impact!
BWR 008: Melissa Thompson Brings Innovation to Mental Health
February 26, 2014 11:02 - 35 minutes - 16.3 MBMelissa Thompson has been mentioned by Bill Gates as one of the people to watch who is out to change the world. Her startup company TalkSession is an innovative platform that allows patients who need mental health services to connect with providers who can help them. It's the future of teletherapy. Only two years into her business, she has acquired great knowledge on how to build her company to make a big impact on the healthcare industry and how to be an investor for other businesses herself!
BWR 007: Shama Kabani: The Zen Master of Social Media & Digital Marketing
February 24, 2014 07:23 - 36 minutes - 16.9 MBIn 2008, Shama was a college student fascinated with social media. She wrote a paper on why people use Twitter (back when Twitter had just 2,000 users!) and ignited a flame of interest that has only brightened since. Out of sheer curiosity and passion, she began speaking and writing on the topic and quickly earned a reputation as someone who really got it. Her book, The Zen of Social Media Marketing, is one of Amazon's best sellers and is used as a part of the curriculum in many universities...
BWR 006: Zoe Barry: $1 Million Raised for Healthcare Technology
February 21, 2014 10:56 - 53 minutes - 24.7 MBZoe Barry is the Founder of ZappRx, a mobile technology company whose mission it is to revolutionize the prescription process. Their technology connects the patient, physician and pharmacist with a mobile platform that makes the prescription process a heck of a lot easier and user friendly. She has a great story about how she took her idea and built it into a solid company who secured $1 million in funding in 2013.
BWR 005: Maxine Turner: A Catering Business With Olympic Size Growth
February 19, 2014 07:29 - 30 minutes - 14.1 MBMaxine Turner started her company in 1985 and all these decades later, Cuisine Unlimited Catering and Events has 130 employees and brings in $3.5 million in revenue each year. Her company has become known for catering huge events, such as multiple Olympic games, the Republican National Convention and the Sundance Film Festival. She is full of passion and shares with you how she's grown her family business, the countless times she had to be uncomfortable and change for the sake of the busines...
BWR 004: Kerstin Block: 40 Years & $81 Million Later: Affordable Fashion Rocks!
February 17, 2014 06:16 - 32 minutes - 15.1 MBKerstin Block is the Founder of the Buffalo Exchange, a consignment clothing store that focuses on quality and great fashion! and only obtains clothing that is visually appealing. The Buffalo Exchange started as a 400 square foot store in Tucson, Arizona and has now expanded to over 46 stores, 3 franchises and employes 700-800 people! In this episode, Kerstin explains the adventures of starting a business, the secret to how she keeps her employees engaged, her endeavor with franchising, and ...
BWR 003: Laura Johnson: An Artist Who Manufactured Her Way to $10 million
February 14, 2014 11:36 - 35 minutes - 16.3 MBLaura is the rare combination of artist and business woman. Not only has she always loved creating art, she equally loves selling it! What started as a small, home-based artistic endeavor has turned into a $10 million dollar international company. Laura's daughters, parents, husband and sister are all in the business and during our interview, she discusses what manufacturing an artistic product is really like and what it takes to run a successful eCommerce business.
BWR 002: Dorian Howard: eCommerce + Shoes = Business Bliss!
February 12, 2014 10:01 - 38 minutes - 17.7 MBDorian (Dori) Howard left a very comfortable corporate job as the Vice President of Paramount Pictures to start her company with her sister. All she knew was that she loved to shop online and she loved the custom made shoes her sister would bring back from her work abroad. Launching and building an eCommerce business is not for the faint of heart and in our interview with Dori, she speaks candidly about how it started, how it's evolved and what it's like working with her sister.