The Badass CEO
Each week, The Badass CEO brings you entrepreneurs and high-level executives to discuss business strategies, life experiences, lessons learned, tipping points, and what it takes to become and continue to be a Badass CEO. We will give you the motivation and tools needed to follow your dreams and be successful.
Episodes
102 episodes
RE RELEASE: How Female CEO Kathy Bloomgarden Is Guiding Ruder Finn to Becoming the Leader in PR
How do you run one of the largest PR firms in the world, set standards for the industry, and continue to innovate and expand? Kathy Bloomgarden joins us this week on the podcast to tell us about her career journey and running a global PR agency...
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Nadine Crocker Talks Her Debut Feature "Continue" (Re-Release)
Nadine Crocker is a director, writer, actress, and producer. Her debut feature “Continue” will be released in 2021. “Continue” is based on Nadine’s life and true-story of surviving a suicide attempt when she was 23. I’ve had the opportunity to ...
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EP 102: Innovating in the Women’s Health Industry with Flex Co. Founder Lauren Wang
Lauren Wang sought to change the women’s health industry's status quo by creating sustainable, innovative, and supportive period products. Lauren founded Flex Co in 2016 as a new product for women everywhere and as a way to open up the conversa...
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EP 101: Female Tech CEO Elizabeth Cholawsky on Growing SaaS-Based Companies
Interested in leading or starting a tech company? This is the episode for you! Elizabeth Cholawsky is a seasoned executive with years of experience running tech-based and SaaS companies. She has led and worked with companies to build market-lea...
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EP 100: Leading a High Growth Baby Tech Company with Female CEO Sarah Dorsett
Sarah Dorsett is a mom of three, an experienced eCommerce leader, and the founder of a rapidly growing tech company for new parents. Nanit was born out of the need to support the parenting journey with products that connect parents to their chi...
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EP 99: Self Funding and Creating a New Designer Good with Founder Emily Vaca
Emily Vaca is the founder of MINNIDIP and La Vaca Design House, a non-toxic inflatable pool design that she self-funded and spent over two years working on before officially launching! Her company is family-run, ethically sourced, and operated ...
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EP 98: Advocating for Fair Compensation and Being on Forbes 30 Under 30 with Female CEO Marcela Sapone
Marcela Sapone is not only the co-founder of an innovative and groundbreaking company but she has also made the elusive Forbes 30 Under 30 list! Marcela is the co-founder and CEO of Alfred, a company with a mission to create universal utilities...
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EP 97: Leaving The Corporate World to Become a Successful Entrepreneur with Tiny Tags Founder Melissa Clayton
Creating a meaningful business that celebrates mothers across the country is the exact mission Melissa Clayton set out to achieve when she left corporate America and started Tiny Tags. Tiny Tags is an online jewelry store that designs and creat...
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EP 96: Changing the Way People Feel About Cooking with Female Founder Alison Cayne
Female founder Alison Cayne started the popular cooking brand, Haven’s Sauce- yes the aesthetic sauce pouches you always see in Whole Foods! Alison founded her company in 2018 as a creative way to change the way people feel about cooking and ma...
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EP 95: Monetize Your Expertise As A Female Entrepreneur with Andrea Del a Torre
Monetizing your passion and growing a business from side hustle to multi-figure is the goal for many female entrepreneurs. Andrea Del La Torre is the perfect example of monetizing her passion - her company Baby Sleep Answers teaches parents how...
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EP 94: Building Connections to Grow your Business with Female Entrepreneur Sarah Zapp
Sarah Zapp founded Beyond Board in order to raise board diversification and place an emphasis on thought leadership. Her mission is to foster peer-to-peer networking and reinvent the recruiting process in order to increase diversity and leaders...
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EP 93: Bringing Broadway Abroad with Industry Vet and Female CEO Valentina Berger
Valentina Berger is a Broadway industry vet with experience in press work for shows like Spiderman Turn Off The Dark. She founded and ran GO Broadway, an accredited theater program that focuses on bringing shows and lessons to clients worldwide...
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EP 92: How an Internship led to creating a Company with Katrina Markoff, Founder of Vosges Chocolate
Katrina Markoff is the founder and CEO of Vosges, a chocolate brand with a mission to share quality, meaningful food with the world. She began her chocolatier apprenticeship in Spain under the direction of Ferran and Albert Adria of the famed E...
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EP 91: How Hillary Schafer is Elevating Public Service with One of the Longest Running Nonprofits
Hillary Schafer is the female CEO of one of the longest-running nonprofits in the USA - Multiplying Good. Multiplying Good focuses on elevating public service as a means to empower individuals. Prior to joining Multiplying Good in September 201...
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EP 89: How Female Business Leader Inna Braverman Is Turning Waves Into Energy and Helping The Planet
Interested in creating change with your business? Inna Braverman is a female business leader with a bold mission to create change through wave energy. She is the founder of Eco Wave Power, the leading onshore wave energy company that turns wave...
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EP 88: Building Purpose-Driven Brands with Female Founder Bassima Mroue
Positioned at the intersection of skincare and wellness, SkinTe was started by female founder and badass CEO Bassima Mroue. Bassima's background in strategy, supply chain, and IT helped her create one of the fastest-growing wellness companies. ...
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EP 87: Finding A Mentor and a C-Suite Title with COO Christine Augustine
This week, female COO of Bloomreach, Christine Augustine joined the Badass CEO podcast to talk about reaching a C-Suite position and how important mentors are. She's a leading thinker in e-commerce and has been a manager at Bain & Company, ...
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EP 86: Female Co-Founder Alana Arnold On Selling Luxury Cookies and Utilizing Marketing Trends
Alana Arnold is the co-founder and director of operations of Last Crumb, a luxury direct-to-consumer cookie company. Alana has grown her business by utilizing previous marketing experience and trends such as “drop culture” to build hype and pop...
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EP 85: Investor Vanessa Dawson and Serial Entrepreneur starts a Green Plant Care Company, Arber
A female investor and serial entrepreneur with a background in digital development, Vanessa Dawson starts a green plant care company to fill a void. As founder and CEO, Vanessa knew that Arber is the first of its kind, emphasizing green plant c...
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EP 84: Female CEO Taynaah Reis Started her first company at 16 then started a Block Chain Bank
Taynaah Reis represents the saying ” It is never too early to start!” because believe it or not she started her first company at age 16! Taynaah is CEO and founder of Moeda, a company that works to create a more inclusive and egalitarian world ...
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EP 83: Female Founder, Daina Trout on Starting and Selling Health-Ade
Daina Trout is co-founder of the multi-million dollar and space-disruptor brand Health-Ade . Known for their bubbly beverages that are good for your gut, Health-Ade is one of the fastest-growing refrigerated functional beverage brands in the co...
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EP 82: NuFace Founder Tera Peterson on Bringing Microcurrent Treatment to Customers At Home
Tera Peterson is the founder of NuFace, a leader in at-home microcurrent skincare and devices. She founded the business in 2005 with her mother and sister with the goal to deliver clinical results and skin confidence to customers from the comfo...
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EP 81: Emmy Winning Producer Cindy Cowan on being a Female CEO in Hollywood
Cindy Cowan joins us on the podcast to talk about her exciting career and being a female CEO in Hollywood as an award-winning producer and Chief Strategy Officer at Mogul Productions. Cindy’s current work in the industry focuses on revolutioniz...
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EP 80: How to Empower your Badass CEO Innerself with Michelle Wolf
Embracing your Badass CEO Innerself is the focus for Michelle Wolf. Empowering yourself to be the best businesswoman and person is Michelle’s expertise. She believes that wellness and support are the keys to success. As the fo...
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EP 79: How Female CEO Madeline Lauf Pivoted Her Business Idea and Secured Funding
As a Female CEO, Madeline Lauf started her company with a different product than she ultimately grew her company with. Madeline is the founder of Begin Health, a children’s prebiotic company to boost immune systems and help families acro...
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