Her Success Story

About Her Success Story

Ivy Slater interviews gutsy business women as they share their success journey.

Publisher

Ivy Slater, Slater Success Coaching

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

2 May 2022

Latest episode

12 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

140 of 233 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   12 Oct 2026

   Lessons in Leadership: Peter Dolch on Empowering Women and Growing Impactful Startups

   This week, Ivy Slater, host of Her Success Story, chats with her guest, Peter Dolch. The two talk about Peter's journey from founding and running a boutique software development firm in New York, his creation of the MIT Female Founders Pitch Competition to support women entrepreneurs, and the importance of diversity and strong advisory networks in building successful startups, all with clear insight into his company's evolution and the impactful work he continues in the startup ecosystem. In this episode, we discuss: How Peter Dolch transitioned from consulting for large Fortune 500 companies to helping launch over 50 startups, discovering his passion for working with entrepreneurs and early-stage ventures. What gender diversity means for founding teams, with Peter highlighting evidence that mixed-gender teams tend to outperform all-male or all-female teams. When solo female founders in tech face challenges, including the expectation to add a male technical co-founder, an expectation that persists despite advances in no-code and low-code platforms. Why Peter Dolch chose to focus on supporting female founders, motivated by witnessing disparities in how women entrepreneurs were treated by investors compared to their male counterparts. How virtual work is transforming team dynamics and talent acquisition, making it easier for startups to build teams across geographies, but that in-person collaboration still provides unique value. Peter Dolch is a technology entrepreneur and venture investor based in New York. His career started at MIT, where he studied Management Science, and has wound through two decades of building — first at Thaumaturgix (Tgix), the technology consulting firm Peter co-founded in the mid-90s, and later as co-founder and CTO of companies like Biospectal (non-invasive blood pressure monitoring) and Psyber (AI-driven cyber risk assessment). Until recently Peter ran AEON Foundry, a venture studio and fund focused on early-stage technology companies, where he wore the hats of investor, advisor, and occasional builder depending on what a portfolio company needed most. He is currently working on his second fund. Outside of the firm, Peter serves as Chairman of the MIT Sloan Club of New York and runs the MIT Women's Venture Challenge — an annual competition that brings together women-founded startups, investors, and the MIT community. Getting more capital and visibility to underrepresented founders is something Peter feels strongly about, and the WVC has become a meaningful vehicle for that. On the personal side, he lives in New York with his wife and two kids (one in college). Peter is a curious generalist —he gets genuinely excited by the intersection of technology and human behavior, which probably explains why he keeps ending up as CxO in healthcare and risk-related startups. Peter is also a tinkerer by nature:and currently has an AI chief-of-staff system he has been building and iterating on, which has become something of a passion project in its own right. Website: https://aeonfoundry.com/ Social Media Links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterdolch/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterdolch/)

2. 

   5 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Embracing Change: Terry Tateossian's Story of Entrepreneurship, Wellness, and Finding True Passion

   Ivy Slater interviews serial entrepreneur Terry Tateossian about her inspiring transition to wellness and building THOR: The House of Rose to empower women over 40.

3. 

   28 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Finding Your Niche and Saying Yes: Lindsey Busfield's Secrets to Growth

   Ivy Slater interviews Lindsey Busfield, Vice President of Optimize My Firm, about her entrepreneurial journey, finding a niche in legal SEO, and disrupting client relationships.

Inside a recent episode

Embracing Change: Terry Tateossian's Story of Entrepreneurship, Wellness, and Finding True Passion

Published 5 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And so it's very interesting, but he symbolizes fertility and strength. right? So abundance, abundance and strength and love. And it's masculine. So you have the feminine side and the masculine side uniting together in one place where we can feel the alignment of all parts of us. And we honor our own body, our house with the love that we have been granted from the universe. Let's go back to What has surprised you in building this company today? What has surprised me that business doesn't have to be painful. Business does not have to be hard. It doesn't need to feel forced. Business and being in business, being an entrepreneur can come from loving what you do. […]

Who has been a guest on Her Success Story

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

• Terry Tateossian
• Lindsey Busfield
• Anna Murray
• Jo Stewart-Rattray
• Sayre Blake

Reach and audience

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

YouTube views

208,572

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

19 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 80 / 100

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

Quality

91

Social presence

0

YouTube

86

Engagement

85

Contact Her Success Story

Guest appearances

Books guests

Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.

Questions about Her Success Story