Empire Building

About Empire Building

It’s no secret that business owners face a unique set of challenges, often juggling marriage, parenthood, and career aspirations. Empire Building brings together five influential women who are unapologetic in their goals to build big businesses and live big lives. Another common goal? Helping others do the same. Tune in for authentic, unfiltered conversations with Wendy Papasan, Seychelle Van Poole, Sarah Reynolds, Kymber Lovett-Menkiti, and Tiffany Fykes, as they invite you to be a part of their journey.

Publisher

Keller Podcast Network

Category

business · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

11 May 2020

Latest episode

5 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

57 of 345 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   5 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   344. How to Keep Great People Growing With You (Part 1)

   Seychelle Van Poole and Sarah Reynolds discuss the PATH framework for aligning employee ambitions with business needs to foster growth without premature promotions.

2. 

   28 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   343. Why Culture Is Your Strongest Business Strategy with Dana Gentry

   Host Seychelle Van Poole interviews Dana Gentry, Senior Culture Advisor at Keller Williams, about building a powerful business culture through intentional standards and rewarding behaviors.

3. 

   21 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   342. The Next Stage of Scaling: From One Business to an Empire

   Host Seychelle Van Poole and industry experts Wendy Papasan and Sarah Reynolds discuss building a profitable empire by strategically scaling multiple synergistic businesses.

Inside a recent episode

344. How to Keep Great People Growing With You (Part 1)

Published 5 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Because a business does not really care how I feel about this person. The business does not care, right, who is in the seat. The business cares that the role is being done at a high level. And when I've failed personally, it's because I let my emotion get attached to the person in the match versus myself. the logic and the pressure around making sure that the role is fulfilled at the highest level possible. And, you know, if we think about that, like in our Her Best Life world, when we really pivoted to focusing in on Empire Circle and really leaning in on developing humans, we realized that That our org chart had to change and the needs of our organization were changing as our organization was growing and shifting directions to really going far and deep with fewer people instead of holding events for 400 and 500 people at a time. […]

Who has been a guest on Empire Building

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

• Dana Gentry
• Heather Hope
• Kristen Bernard

Podcast Authority Score: 49 / 100

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Quality

70

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

67

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