Beyond The Handshake

About Beyond The Handshake

Welcome to Beyond The Handshake, hosted by Lucy Miller—Founder of Women Connect and a passionate advocate for building meaningful business relationships. On this podcast, we dive deep into the stories behind businesses and their leaders, exploring what drives their success, what keeps them going, and the challenges they face. We’ll uncover the “why” behind their work, their biggest struggles, triumphs, and the valuable lessons they’ve learned along the way. It’s time we go beyond the handshake—beyond the business card exchange and initial introduction—to cultivate deeper, more authentic relationships. Lucy’s experience creating Women Connect, a fast-growing professional women's networking group with chapters across Tennessee, Alabama, and Kentucky, fuels her love for helping others build lasting connections. What began in 2020 as local networking events has expanded into a thriving community, hosting monthly events and the annual LIVE conference—a highlight of Lucy’s year. Join us as we take business relationships to the next level and learn from the best in the business world. Learn more: https://wearewomenconnect.com/ (https://wearewomenconnect.com/)

Publisher

Lucy Miller

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

23 Sept 2024

Latest episode

3 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

7 of 21 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   3 Aug 2026

   Ruchi Pinniger | Prosperity is an inside job

   Ruchi Pinneger spent years on Wall Street as a hedge fund CFO before doing something most people don't — she walked away and asked a bigger question: What do women actually need when it comes to money? The answer became Watch Her Prosper, a financial guidance company that doesn't just do your bookkeeping. They listen for what's underneath. In this conversation, Ruchi and I dig into the real stuff — the money stories we've been carrying since childhood, why so many of us hesitate to raise our ...

2. 

   28 May 2026

   Going Back to the Future| Reclaiming Who You Were Always Meant to Be with Kimberly Mitchell

   Kimberly has served her country, broken barriers in corporate America, and built businesses — but the most courageous thing she's ever done might be going all the way back to find herself. After years of functional depression and what she describes as leaving little pieces of herself behind with every inauthentic choice, she built a framework to help women do what she had to do the hard way: go back, gather themselves up, and come home to who they actually are. In this conversation, Kimberly ...

3. 

   23 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT

   She Built It Anyway. Growing a Business, Raising a Family & Asking for Help with Luba Patlakh

   Speech-language pathologist Luba Patlakh shares her inspiring journey of building a pediatric therapy practice while raising a family, revealing how grit and a willingness to ask for help fueled her success.

Inside a recent episode

She Built It Anyway. Growing a Business, Raising a Family & Asking for Help with Luba Patlakh

Published 23 Apr 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] That's awesome. So tell us, we'll jump right into talking about kidology. So let's talk about that, who you serve, what makes you all special in the marketplace. Kidology is a very special place. We are a multilingual, multidisciplinary practice, so that means we serve a variety of languages and a variety of services. We offer speech therapy, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and behavior services. And we also offer in the behavior side, special instruction, behavior support. So we do go into the schools and homes, and now we have the brick and mortar clinics. So we're serving a lot of people. […]

Who has been a guest on Beyond The Handshake

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Shea Smith
• Misty Bolt
• Kimmy Powell
• Tracy Litt
• John Sharpe

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

11 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 14 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

8

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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Does not typically book guests

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