Renegade Ventures

About Renegade Ventures

For decades women have been climbing corporate ladders and asking for a seat at the table when we really should just buy the whole damn company. Welcome to Renegade Ventures Podcast where we uncover a different path to business ownership.

Publisher

Ellie Puckett

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

28 Mar 2023

Latest episode

13 May 2026

Latest episodes

13 of 42 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   13 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Betting the House on Ice Cream: How Toa Green Built Crank & Boom Ice Cream

   Host Ellie interviews Toa Green, founder of Crank & Boom Ice Cream, about building a thriving business that supports her dream life through calculated risks and resilience.

2. 

   23 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Biscuits, Branding & Bold Bets: Lauren Coulter’s Path to Franchising

   Host Alex Lieberman interviews Lauren Coulter, founder of Biscuit Belly, about her journey scaling a restaurant into a franchise brand and the realities of growth.

3. 

   1 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT

   From Conflict to Clarity: Leading Through Divorce and Business Breakup

   Ellie and Maggie welcome Mary Kay Shields, owner of Triple Crown Dentistry in Louisville, to discuss the often-unspoken reality of owning a business with a spouse and navigating divorce alongside a partnership split. Mary shares her path from starting her dental practice in 2012 to expanding into a larger, purchased 8,000-square-foot building in 2019, and how differing leadership styles created team division and conflict despite years of intensive counseling. After deciding the marriage and business partnership couldn’t continue, she describes employee turnover, the relief of resolved conflict, and rebuilding culture and leadership through executive groups like Vistage. Mary also recounts a major mistake made during a tax-related entity change when she unintentionally documented 50/50 ownership, complicating the divorce and buyout, and emphasizes leaning on experts—attorneys, accountants, and advisors—and following through on their guidance. 00:00 Podcast Catch Up 01:10 Meet Mary Shields 03:45 Mary’s Dental Journey 06:25 Building The Practice 09:21 Marriage And Leadership Rift 14:10 Decision To Separate 16:45 Rebuilding With Vistage 22:46 The 50 Percent Mistake 28:42 New Culture And Confidence 32:28 Advice For Business Divorce 35:33 Behind the Scenes Shoutouts 36:15 Why This Topic Matters 38:16 Meeting Through Vistage 38:59 Marys Dental Journey 41:47 Building the Practice Together 44:40 When Partnership Breaks Down 49:36 Divorce Decision and Team Fallout 53:39 Rebuilding Leadership and Culture 58:43 The 50 Percent Ownership Mistake 01:04:35 Confidence Returns and New Culture 01:08:43 Advice for Others Mid Divorce 01:10:21 Final Thanks and Wrap Up

Inside a recent episode

Betting the House on Ice Cream: How Toa Green Built Crank & Boom Ice Cream

Published 13 May 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] I was just waiting to go home. And this lady comes in, and she's covered in snow, and I asked, how can I help you? And she said, I'm just here for ice cream. I'm going to take a few of these little containers. At the time, I was packing them in little soup containers, and she's like, I'm just going to grab a couple of these, and that's it. I was like, you don't want any food food? She was like, nope, that's it. So that moment, my husband, I looked at each other, and I was like, there's nothing about this whole ice cream thing that people were more excited about that than the Thai food that we're here for. […]

Who has been a guest on Renegade Ventures

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

• Jodi Scott
• Kristina Pohl
• Lauren Broadus
• Pamela Broadus
• Diane Prince

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

22 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 40 / 100

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

Quality

61

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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