The TrailBLAZER Pod

Faye Lax - Rosenberg

Jewish women entrepreneurs, founders, and leaders share their stories every week on The TrailBLAZER Pod. Host Faye Lax-Rosenberg sits down with Jewish women who built businesses, broke barriers, and refused to shrink, and asks them to share it honestly. The wins, the pivots, the moments they almost turned back. Jewish mentorship at your fingertips.

  1. 1 day ago

    She Had Cancer at 21. Here's Why She Calls It a Gift I Amanda Spiro

    What if the worst thing that ever happened to you turned out to be the thing that saved you? When Amanda Spiro was 21, she was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma. Instead of asking "why me," she found herself asking something most people never get to ask: what is this trying to teach me? In this episode, Amanda shares how cancer became the catalyst for the most precious chapter of her life, meeting her husband during chemo, deepening her Jewish identity, and finding a clarity she'd been searching for since childhood. Connect with Amanda: 📷 Instagram: @amandadawnspiro 📷 Instagram: @amandaspiroshares 🌐Chabad of Trois-Rivières: https://www.chabad3r.com/   Connect with Faye: 📷 @thetrailblazerpod 🌐 https://thetrailblazerpod.com/

    41 min

  2. 23 Jun

    On Refusing to Be a Copy | Malky Allouch

    She said to herself "I'm done being a victim," and started a business.  Malky grew up in Boulder, Colorado, Chabad shluchim's daughter, one of eleven, sandwiched in the middle. The quiet one who wanted to be seen and despised being seen at the same time. She found her one safe space in writing, first teenage angst, then poetry, then eventually a livelihood. Malky's story isn't a comeback narrative. It's a flip. She'd been in postpartum depression, bills she couldn't cover, when one morning she decided she was done being a victim. The copywriting business launched inside thirty days. Clients came in two weeks. The philosophy she now teaches other founders: make your success non-negotiable, and be an original in a world of copies . This episode goes deep on the morning that broke the postpartum cycle, the 5% tasks no one wants to do that actually build a business, why she says you have to make success non-negotiable before anything else works, why she rejects traditional gender roles, and the literal business strategy of going to a national park and watching the clients roll in. Connect with Malky: 🌐 https://soulfulcopy.org/ 📸 Instagram: @malky.allouch 📸 Instagram: @soulful_copy 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/malky-allouch/ Connect with Faye: 🌐 https://thetrailblazerpod.com/ 📸 @thetrailblazerpod 📩 https://trailblazerpod.substack.com/ 🔔 New episodes every week. Subscribe so you never miss one.

    53 min

  3. 15 Jun

    On Being the One They Didn't See Coming | Chaya Krinsky

    Chaya grew up in Long Beach, California, Chabad rabbi's daughter, one of seven, smack in the middle. From thirteen, she had a job: a ninety-minute drive each way to teach Hebrew school. By her twenties she was teaching toddlers in Greenwich, Connecticut, building bulletin boards so elaborate the director asked her to write a curriculum book. She loved it. Then her husband Bruce bought a defunct furniture company. They spotted a gap: nothing in the furniture market was chic, stylish, and affordable. Tov Furniture was born in their basement. Today Tov is a cult brand. While every competitor hid a shipping container crisis from customers, Chaya and Bruce flew to the ports and shot stories explaining what was actually going on. The customers stayed. The fans multiplied. And underneath all of it: a personal reclamation. Chaya spent her teenage years hearing she looked like Barbie and spent years trying to prove she was more. Now pink is her signature color, on purpose. She says being a female founder in a male-dominated industry is her biggest superpower. Connect with Chaya: 🌐 Tov: https://tovfurniture.com/collections/new-arrivals 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tovfurniture 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chayaxkrinsky/ 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chaya-krinsky-0466a3ba   Connect with Faye: 🌐 https://thetrailblazerpod.com/ 📸 @thetrailblazerpod

    47 min

  4. 2 Jun

    On Asking the Questions Everyone Else Is Afraid to Ask | Yael Morris

    She got labeled with a learning disability. Turns out that was the superpower. Yael Morris, founder and CEO of Decode, joins Faye for a conversation that doubles as a masterclass in listening. As a young girl, Yael got labeled with a learning disability and spent years convinced she wasn't capable. She ran a marketing agency during COVID, and discovered her clients couldn't answer the most basic question about their own customers. So she went and asked them herself. Decode runs third-party interviews with lost-deal prospects and churned customers to get the truth no salesperson can pull out of them. This episode goes deep on the dating-as-sales metaphor that explains why your prospects ghost you, why you should never try to objection-handle, the Toronto vs Tel Aviv risk-tolerance gap, and the two definitions of success: the one with a number on it, and the one where you can actually go to sleep at night. New episodes every week. Subscribe so you never miss one. Connect with Yael: Decode: https://decodeinsights.com/ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/yaelmorris Connect with Faye: Website: https://thetrailblazerpod.com/ IG: @thetrailblazerpod

    45 min

  5. 26 May

    On Being a Professional Problem Solver | Lizzy Livne

    She built the company she wished existed: real humans, real problems. Not a task app. Not a chatbot. A partner. Lizzy's parents used to ask her: "did you try?" instead of "what'd you get?", the kind of message that builds a kid who finishes a degree in two and a half years against everyone telling her not to risk it. At twelve, she saw an Israeli soldier and decided she was going to be one. She fought her way into combat command course as an Jewish American: Hebrew not great, shoes not the right size, mental block on the three-meter rope. She passed at the last possible second. Twice she's been active duty in war. After October 7, she fought her way back in as a reservist. Now she runs Quiet Lux, a personal life management service where real humans handle everything quietly piling up in the background, from school forms to sold-out Chanel bags to MRIs that didn't reach your doctor. This episode goes deep on the conversation every founder needs to have with their spouse before they start, the framework for knowing when to quit, and how most people aren't thinking about you as much as you think they are. New episodes every week. Subscribe so you never miss one. Connect with Lizzy: 🌐 Quietlux: https://www.thequietlux.com/ 📸 Instagram: @⁠thequietlux⁠ 💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/lizzy-livne-93792b45?skipRedirect=true   Connect with Faye: 🌐 https://thetrailblazerpod.com/ 📸 @thetrailblazerpod

    47 min

  6. 19 May

    Discipline Builds Plan A. Adaptability Writes Plan B. | Hadas Frank

    What does it look like to make a plan, follow it perfectly, and then have to write a better one in a new country at 19? Hadas Frank, AI strategic consultant and educator, joins Faye for one of the most clear-eyed founder conversations on the show. Hadas was diagnosed in third grade with learning challenges, told to lower her expectations, and pushed by her mother into grinding 90s, an accelerated university program in tenth grade, and a meticulous plan for an Israeli government career. Then at 19 she married an American, moved to New York, and used her work-permit waiting period to teach herself the markets, tech, and finally generative AI, building Next Gen AI from scratch. This episode goes deep on what it really means to throw out a decade-old plan, prompt engineering vs prompt design, when to use ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini, why she sees her Orthodox Jewish identity as leverage at non-Jewish business conferences, and the advice she gives every woman whose original plan no longer fits her life. New episodes every week. Subscribe so you never miss one.Connect with Hadas: 🌐 Website: https://nextgenaiadvisors.com/  📸 Instagram: @hadas_frank 💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hadas-frank-ai1/   Connect with Faye: 🌐 https://thetrailblazerpod.com/ 📸 @thetrailblazerpod 📩 https://trailblazerpod.substack.com/

    51 min

  7. 12 May

    On Learning to Take Up Space | Melissa Weisz

    What does it look like to use the tools of acting to live a fuller life? Melissa Weisz, actor, writer, producer, and facilitator, joins Faye for a personal and powerful conversation around identity and taking up space. Melissa opens up about stumbling into acting through a Yiddish-language Romeo and Juliet, discovering on her first scene that her messy emotions finally had a place to go, and how she now teaches women to use acting techniques as life tools, to feel their own feelings, take up space in a room, and stop performing the polite version of themselves. This episode goes deep on the difference between feeling and acting on a feeling, why anger was the hardest emotion to access, the most important real estate in a person's life (the moment between trigger and response), and what it means as a Jewish woman to refuse to perform a smaller version of yourself. New episodes every week. Subscribe so you never miss one. Connect with Melissa: Website: www.melissamalkyweisz.com Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/melissaweisz/ Connect with Faye: Website: https://thetrailblazerpod.com/ IG: @thetrailblazerpod Substack: https://trailblazerpod.substack.com/

    46 min

  8. 28 Apr

    She Grew Up Jewish in the USSR. Here's What She Sees Happening in America | Izabella Tabarovsky

    She grew up Jewish in Siberia, where being Jewish was encoded in your passport but impossible to practice. Then in 2017, she saw something on American TV that looked exactly like Soviet anti-Zionist propaganda. That moment changed everything. This week, scholar and author Izabella Tabarovsky joins Faye to talk about Soviet Jewish identity, anti-Zionism on American campuses, and what the refuseniks can teach Jewish students today. Connect with Izabella:  Book: https://www.amazon.com/Be-Refusenik-Jewish-Students-Survival/dp/B0G2GKWKCJ Instagram: @IzaTabaro https://www.instagram.com/izatabaro?igsh=dWNobXo1NXIzZGZs&utm_source=qr X: @IzaTabaro https://x.com/izatabaro?s=21

    48 min
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Jewish women entrepreneurs, founders, and leaders share their stories every week on The TrailBLAZER Pod. Host Faye Lax-Rosenberg sits down with Jewish women who built businesses, broke barriers, and refused to shrink, and asks them to share it honestly. The wins, the pivots, the moments they almost turned back. Jewish mentorship at your fingertips.

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  • Creator
    Faye Lax - Rosenberg
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    76
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2024
  • Show Website
    The TrailBLAZER Pod

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