Women I Want You to Know by Andrea L. Johnston™

About Women I Want You to Know by Andrea L. Johnston™

There are extraordinary women building companies every day, founders, operators, executives and investors whose actual stories rarely match the public version of a woman leader. Fuel for Female Founders® by Andrea L. Johnston are real conversations, thirty minutes and in person, about what it took to build, and the tradeoffs, risks and burnout behind the win. Candid, insightful and inspiring, this podcast fuels the next generation of female founders and proves that women's leadership is structural and durable, not a moment worth celebrating one founder at a time.

Publisher

Andrea L. Johnston

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

15 Dec 2025

Latest episode

3 Nov 2026

Latest episodes

24 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   3 Nov 2026

   Know Your Yes with Kate Groat | Ep 22

   What if the most generous thing a funder can do is stop giving a little to everyone? In this episode of Fuel for Female Founders, Andrea interviews Kate Groat, Director of Corporate Philanthropy at Live Oak Bank, the Wilmington, North Carolina lender ranked first in the country for SBA 7(a) lending by dollar volume. Kate is a teacher by trade who spent a few years as what she calls a “pretend banker” before being handed the bank's giving with no playbook. She built it by listening to everyo...

2. 

   27 Oct 2026

   Campaigns and Courage with Mary Wills Bode | Ep 21

   What does it take to win the most competitive seat in your state, and then decide the bigger job is filling the seats around you? In this episode of Fuel for Female Founders, Andrea interviews Mary Wills Bode, former North Carolina State Senator for District 18 and co-founder of Electing Women North Carolina. Mary was practicing law on Wall Street when the 2016 election pulled her into fundraising and phone banking, then home to North Carolina to run a bipartisan nonprofit working on extrem...

3. 

   20 Oct 2026

   More Ready Than You Think with Andrea L. Johnston

   What happens when the women you interview start holding up a mirror? In this episode of Fuel for Female Founders, Andrea goes solo for a mid-season check-in. She looks back at the first guests of Season 2. Laura Meyer built Envision Horizons with clear roles alongside her husband. Allyse Cirillo walked away from a brand she had scaled for someone else to build SAINT Jo around what is good for her. Heather Turner and Katherine Stueland, two CEOs, both told her the same thing: you are more read...

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

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