Women Innovators

About Women Innovators

Interviews with women with big messages and big missions to inspire you to step up to make a difference in the world.

Publisher

Tami Patzer

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

14 Dec 2016

Latest episode

20 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

126 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   20 Jul 2026

   Alpha Queens Rising: Sarah Bouse ASCEND — THE WOMAN BENEATH THE LABELS

   Sarah Bouse, FNTP, is a Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, speaker, mentor, and creator of the ASCEND Method™. Through her practice, Ascend Wellness, she helps high-achieving women reclaim command of their health and hormones using root-cause nutrition and lifestyle strategies. As a foster mother and advocate for generational healing, she champions safety, compassion, and listening to the body. Sarah lives in Nebraska with her husband, two children, and four foster children. THE ASCEND METHOD This is Sarah’s exact method: A – Alignment: hormones, lifestyle, and mindset working together S – Stress & Sleep: restore rest and regulate adrenals C – Cellular & Gut Health: heal digestion and reduce inflammation E – Energy & Blood Sugar: stabilize energy and eliminate burnout N – Nourish Liver & Immune: support detoxification and immunity D – Daily Resilience: sustainable habits for lasting results ASCEND is not about rules. It is about rising. Sarah Bouse is a woman who learned to listen when her body refused to be silenced. Long before she became a practitioner, mentor, and guide for women navigating burnout and hormonal imbalance, Sarah was doing what many women are taught to do: push through, stay quiet, and assume suffering was normal. Fatigue followed her through childhood and adolescence. Symptoms were dismissed, minimized, or treated as inconveniences rather than warnings. Sarah adapted. She endured. Until her body drew a hard line. In her early twenties, a medical emergency forced Sarah to confront a truth she could no longer ignore: her body was not failing her — it was demanding to be heard. As she entered motherhood and faced infertility diagnoses, miscarriages, and repeated medical dismissal, she realized compliance would cost her more than resistance ever could. She chose a different path. Instead of accepting surface answers, Sarah began asking deeper questions. Instead of managing symptoms, she sought root causes. Through functional nutrition, lifestyle alignment, and nervous system restoration, she experienced what few had prepared her for — her body responded. Healing was not only possible; it was intelligent. That awakening reshaped her life. Sarah went on to train as a Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, complete advanced clinical education, and mentor practitioners worldwide. She developed the ASCEND Method™, a framework that helps women move out of survival mode and into sustainable energy, clarity, and leadership by working with their bodies instead of fighting them. Today, Sarah has helped hundreds of women reclaim both their health and their authority. As a mother and foster parent, she advocates fiercely for those navigating systems that too often fail to listen. Her work is grounded not in perfection, but in lived experience. What makes Sarah a leader worth following is not that she mastered her body. It’s that she honored it. She is the woman who stopped apologizing for listening. She is the woman who chose advocacy over compliance. She is the woman who rose — and teaches others how to rise with her. Sarah Bouse is an Alpha Queen Rising. Read the book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GCVDSRRB (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GCVDSRRB) Women Innovators with Tami Patzer https://businessinnovatorsradio.com/women-innovators-with-tami-patzer/ (https://businessinnovatorsradio.com/women-innovators-with-tami-patzer/) Source: https://businessinnovatorsradio.com/alpha-queens-rising-sarah-bouse-ascend-the-woman-beneath-the-labels (https://businessinnovatorsradio.com/alpha-queens-rising-sarah-bouse-ascend-the-woman-beneath-the-labels)

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   20 Jul 2026

   Alpha Queens Rising – Wellness for Any Body with Samantha Rambo, FNP-C

   Samantha Rambo, FNP-C, did not set out to build a movement. She set out to survive — to protect her daughter, to finish her education, and to show up for patients who were often scared, unheard, and left behind by a system that moved too fast to notice them. What began as a practical decision to work in healthcare became a reckoning with loss, responsibility, and purpose. From hospital rooms marked by silence, to dorm rooms shared with textbooks and toys, Samantha’s path was shaped by the moments when care arrived too late — and the conviction that it didn’t have to be that way. Today, she stands as a healthcare leader and founder of Wellness for Any Body™, committed to empowering people before crisis strikes. This chapter is not just the story of a nurse practitioner — it is the story of a woman who refused to accept a system that fails the vulnerable, and chose instead to rise and rebuild it from the inside out. Read the Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GCVDSRRB (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GCVDSRRB) Women Innovators with Tami Patzer https://businessinnovatorsradio.com/women-innovators-with-tami-patzer/ (https://businessinnovatorsradio.com/women-innovators-with-tami-patzer/) Source: https://businessinnovatorsradio.com/alpha-queens-rising-wellness-for-any-body-with-samantha-rambo-fnp-c (https://businessinnovatorsradio.com/alpha-queens-rising-wellness-for-any-body-with-samantha-rambo-fnp-c)

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   20 Jul 2026

   Alpha Queens Rising with Jennifer Jorgensen – Every System Failed Her Daughter — So She Built a New One

   Every System Failed Her Daughter — So She Built a New One Jennifer Jorgensen never imagined she would become a mental health advocate. She was simply a mother. Trying to protect her daughter. Doing what mothers do when they see their child hurting — asking for help, demanding intervention, refusing to accept dismissal as an answer. Every system failed her. And then came the call that no parent should ever receive. What Jennifer did next — not in spite of her grief but because of it — is a story about what happens when a woman refuses to let tragedy be the final word. She Saw It Before Anyone Else Jennifer’s daughter was a sensitive, deeply feeling child whose emotional world was often overwhelming. She was also the girl who wholeheartedly embraced a community project her mother created called Cookies with Cops — a simple, intentional idea that children and police officers who decorated cookies together might see each other with more compassion. Her daughter wanted to build bridges in a world full of walls. That was the essence of who she was. When the brightness began to dim, Jennifer noticed immediately. She writes in her chapter of Alpha Queens Rising: Where Purpose Meets Power: “I always knew my daughter was special. Her heart was sensitive, deep, and intuitive. When something shifted — when her brightness dimmed — I noticed immediately.” She asked for help from doctors, therapists, anyone who might intervene. The responses were dismissive. She is overreacting. Teenagers are emotional. She will grow out of it. “But I knew the difference between dramatic and drowning.” The Concussion That Changed Everything Then came the concussion — a head injury that altered the entire landscape of her daughter’s health. Jennifer watched her struggle to think clearly, to regulate her emotions, to simply feel like herself again. What many families don’t know — and what Jennifer now teaches others — is that head injuries alter brain chemistry in ways that even medical professionals routinely underestimate. When you add hormonal changes and a nervous system already running on overload, the result is a storm that looks invisible from the outside. Jennifer could see it clearly. She asked for help. She was told to wait. Hormones, emotional sensitivity, and brain trauma created a crisis that no one in the medical system would acknowledge with the urgency it deserved. Still no safety plan. No immediate intervention. No one who treated her mother’s instinct as data worth acting on. The First Attempt The day her daughter attempted suicide for the first time was the day Jennifer’s world permanently bent. Emergency room. Minimal evaluation. A checklist. A discharge. The label attached to the chart: attention-seeking behavior. Outpatient therapy was offered — weeks out. Not days. Weeks. In a crisis that required immediate care, the system handed them a waiting list. “It felt like screaming into a void,” Jennifer writes. She screamed anyway. She called. She followed up. She advocated louder and longer than any parent should have to. She documented everything. She did not accept the system’s pace when her daughter’s life was the stakes. None of it was enough. The Call And then came the call that ended everything. One sentence. Her daughter was gone. All the warnings Jennifer had raised. All the doors she had knocked on. All the late nights monitoring her daughter’s breathing, sitting outside her room, checking and rechecking. None of it mattered because the world did not listen. Grief after losing a child is not a wound — it is a world. Everything inside it reorganizes. The air is different. Time moves differently. Jennifer questioned...

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