Girlfriends & Business

About Girlfriends & Business

Girlfriends & Business is for ambitious women who want to take their business, career, and life to the next level. Hosts Alli Webb, the founder of Drybar; Lori Harder, the founder of Lite Pink; and Brittany Driscoll, the founder of Squeeze, are your new virtual business besties bringing you the conversations, mentorship, and advice they wish they had while building their businesses. They're the girlfriends you've always wanted and they're bringing you conversations and real-world insights with other female entrepreneurs, founders, and experts to help you grow and scale your business while balancing your life and relationships. Also available weekly - a roundtable chat between this powerhouse trio, who all have very unique and distinctive backgrounds ready to share their takeaways from their own experiences and ups and downs. Get ready to laugh, cry, and be inspired while listening to real, approachable advice and authentic stories that will motivate you along your journey. They'll be that reassuring voice you need to remind you, you don't need to be an expert to start your own thing or get that raise! We got you and believe in you!Â

Publisher

Lori Harder, Alli Webb, Brittany Driscoll

Category

business · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

25 Mar 2021

Latest episode

7 Jun 2022

Latest episodes

82 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   7 Jun 2022

   81. Julie Solomon On Accepting Shame, Making Bold Decisions And Getting What You Want

   Brit is joined by brand expert, educator, podcaster, and author Julie Solomon. She’s the ultimate powerhouse woman who recently published her first book called Get What You Want: How to Go From Unseen to Unstoppable. Julie was one of the first influencers to use her PR background to monetize her social media and pitch herself to major brands. We talk about how she’s learned to hone in on her bold decision making skills and break out of the ‘stuck’ mentality. We discuss how to be vulnerable online while still respecting your own boundaries, and the importance of finding a medium that makes you feel safe and heard. Julie also pulls back the curtain on the writing process for her book and shares what she hopes readers will get out of it. IN THIS EPISODE, WE TALK ABOUT: How Julie went from managing herself to consulting for other people, and eventually creating the personal branding playbook How to be more solutions-focused A time in Julie’s life when her relentlessness and limiting beliefs about money was her downfall How to take your expertise and disrupt an industry What to expect from her book RESOURCES Text GIRLFRIENDS to 310-496-8363 for updates and a chance to be featured on the show! CONNECT WITH JULIE Follow Julie: @julssolomon Get your copy of her new book: Get What You Want: How to Go From Unseen to Unstoppable Listen to The Influencer Podcast CONNECT WITH BRIT Follow Brit: @britdrisc Follow her business, Squeeze: @squeeze CONNECT WITH LORI Follow Lori: @loriharder Follow her business, Lite Pink: @drinklitepink Follow her podcast, Earn Your Happy: @earnyourhappy (https://www.instagram.com/earnyourhappy/) Listen to Earn Your Happy: CONNECT WITH ALLI Follow Alli: @alliwebb Follow her business, Becket & Quill: @becketandquill (https://www.instagram.com/becketandquill/) Follow her business, Squeeze: @squeeze ABOUT JULIE For more than fifteen years, Julie Solomon has been empowering lives—including her own. The host of The Influencer Podcast, Julie, has launched several successful online programs and masterminds, including Pitch It Perfect, The Influencer Academy, and SHINE Mastermind. She helps women turn messages into movements and empowers entrepreneurs to grow their influence and impact through her work. Julie was recently named one of the Top 100 leaders in influencer marketing. In her weekly chart-topping podcast, The Influencer Podcast, she offers up real-time coaching, straight talk, and conversations about business growth and personal development to her millions of listeners worldwide. From her start as a publicist representing some of the top music acts and thought leaders of our generation, Julie has grown to teach tens of thousands of students worldwide. Her work is featured in outlets including FORBES, Entrepreneur, Business Weekly, SUCCESS, and People Magazine. Julie currently lives in Nashville with her husband, award-winning actor and activist Johnathon Schaech, two children, Camden and Lily Jo, and their sassy pomeranian Foxy.

2. 

   21 Feb 2022

   80. How Hannah Skvarla, Co-Founder Of The Little Market, Started A Non-Profit Dedicated To Creating Economic Opportunities For Underserved Women Worldwide

   Co-founder of The Little Market, Hannah Skvarla, shares her journey of starting a non-profit rooted in fair trade with her friend, Lauren Conrad. The Little Market is a nonprofit fair trade shop featuring ethically sourced products that are handmade by artisans around the world. Lori and Hannah discuss everything from communicating expectations with business partners to the power of in-person events and even how motherhood has impacted her approach to entrepreneurship. Hannah shares how she has navigated the ever-changing e-commerce industry and overcome major challenges, including the recent supply chain issues that the pandemic has brought on. Listen in to hear more of Lori and Hannah’s conversation about staying focused, intentional and proactive in business. IN THIS EPISODE, WE TALK ABOUT: How she and her co-founder Lauren Conrad launched The Little Market Overcoming challenges that she has faced in the non-profit, human rights, and retail spaces The best ways to support The Little Market How she’s seen The Little Market impact its artisans’ lives Her top advice for people who want to start a business Getting specific with your network Rethinking what balance looks like for entrepreneurs RESOURCES Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself by Nedra Glover Tawwab Text GIRLFRIENDS to 310-496-8363 for updates and a chance to be featured on the show! CONNECT WITH HANNAH The Little Market: thelittlemarket.com (https://www.thelittlemarket.com/) Follow The Little Market: @thelittlemarket Follow Hannah: @hannahskvarla CONNECT WITH BRIT Instagram: @britdrisc Squeeze: @squeeze CONNECT WITH LORI Instagram: @loriharder Lite Pink: @drinklitepink Earn Your Happy: @earnyourhappy Listen to Earn Your Happy CONNECT WITH ALLI Instagram: @alliwebb Becket & Quill: @becketandquill Squeeze: @squeeze GUEST BIO Hannah Skvarla is the co-founder of The Little Market, a nonprofit fair trade shop featuring ethically sourced products that are handmade by artisans around the world. She has traveled extensively to see and experience the impact of top human rights nonprofit organizations. These trips inspired her to dedicate her life to helping women break the cycle of poverty so they can create a better future for themselves and their families. Hannah has visited projects sponsored by Landmine Survivors Network in Vietnam and Cambodia, American Jewish World Services (AJWS) in El Salvador, and CARE in Uganda. She has traveled with Human Rights Watch to Burma, Congo, Colombia, Thailand, and Turkey. To meet with artisans and source handcrafted goods for The Little Market, she has traveled to Bolivia, India, Guatemala, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, Peru, and Thailand. She has been featured in MyDomaine, Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls, People, The Chalkboard Mag, The Good Trade, Parents, and POPSUGAR. Hannah was honored to be named Chapman University’s first recipient of the Albert Schweitzer Institute Rising Star Award in recognition of the work of The Little Market. Hannah is committed to empowering women and advocating for human rights. She is proud to bring together gifted artisans with customers who value their talents, changing the lives of families with fair wages, safe workplaces, and a commitment to family well-being.

3. 

   14 Feb 2022

   79. How To Take Ownership Of Your Role Working For A Large Corporation with Digital Product Manager at Citi, Zoia Kozakov

   Today, Brit is joined by Digital Product Manager at Citi, Zoia Kozakov! Zoia’s path hasn’t exactly been linear, but the common thread through it all is that she starts every new endeavor by setting goals and asking herself what she wants to learn from each experience. Zoia and Brit discuss how her military experience has influenced her varied career, her top tips for setting yourself up for financial freedom, and how she navigates being a woman in a male-dominated industry. Tune in to hear more of their conversation about lighting your own path to success. IN THIS EPISODE, WE TALK ABOUT: The importance of taking every opportunity to learn from and to grow from How Zoia transitioned out of the fashion industry Taking true project ownership within corporations The decision to create her will before the age of 30 Zoia’s advice for getting a handle on your finances The best financial apps for budgeting and investing RESOURCES Text GIRLFRIENDS to 310-496-8363 for updates and a chance to be featured on the show! CONNECT WITH ZOIA Website: zoia-kozakov.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/zoia-kozakov Instagram: instagram.com/zoia.kozakov Kozakov Foundation: kozakov.co Listen to WIN/WIN: Women in Innovation podcast CONNECT WITH BRIT Instagram: @britdrisc Squeeze: @squeeze CONNECT WITH LORI Instagram: @loriharder Lite Pink: @drinklitepink Earn Your Happy: @earnyourhappy Listen to Earn Your Happy: CONNECT WITH ALLI Instagram: @alliwebb Becket & Quill: @becketandquill Squeeze: @squeeze GUEST BIO In her day job, Zoia Kozakov is a Vice President, Digital Product Manager at Citi, working on building out digital payment platforms and apps with (and for) other major companies, such as Google. Zoia is responsible for both the vision and the strategy behind her digital products, as well as the day-to-day execution, developing new offerings with a team of designers, engineers, marketers, and other business partners. By night, Zoia focuses on disseminating and sharing her knowledge in a variety of capacities: as a lead instructor at Brainstation (a digital education company), as a founder of her own nonprofit, Kozakov Foundation, and as an advisor to other start-ups and nonprofits. She is also Global Product Lead at the 501c3 nonprofit WIN: Women in Innovation, where she hosts the WIN/WIN: Women in Innovation podcast (30,000+ downloads in 30+ countries). The podcast features senior-level women innovators from companies such as PepsiCo, Oracle, EY, Pantone, Omnicom, IDEO, and others. Prior to working at Citi, Zoia spent several years overseeing digital advertising campaigns for companies like Richemont (Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, IWC, Jaeger LeCoultre), EY, Shiseido, and others. She also spent two years as a Chief of Staff in theSpecial Operations unit in the Israeli Intelligence and as a Product Lead at an early stage blockchain company, Yup, where she helped the company raise a 3.5-million-dollar venture capital seed round. Zoia got her MS at Columbia University and her BBA at Parsons School of Design, where she graduated with honors, as the commencement Student Speaker.

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