The TrailBLAZER Pod

Faye Lax - Rosenberg
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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.

  1. 2d ago

    She Was Too Nervous to Read the Agenda. Now She Speaks at Money 20/20 I Miriam Sheril

    What if the imposter syndrome you can't shake was actually a shared secret across every room you've ever walked into? When Miriam Sheril was a Federal Reserve intern in January 2009, her job was to read the meeting agenda out loud. She spent three days a week nauseous leading up to it. Instead of asking am I in the wrong career?, she found herself asking who else in this room is faking it? a question that would carry her through fifteen years at the Fed, the launch of FedNow, and the leap to running US strategy at a UK-based fintech called Form3. In this episode Miriam shares what fifteen years inside the Federal Reserve taught her about power, politics, and the imposter syndrome nobody escapes, and how being openly Orthodox in fintech turned out to be the strategy, not the risk. Deep on the five-item checklist she used to pivot in her career, the colleague who told her to stop saying "this might be a stupid question," and the American Bankers piece she calls her proudest work. New episodes every week. Subscribe so you never miss one.

  2. 2d ago ·  Bonus

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  3. Jul 14

    She Practiced Law for 20 Years. Then She Built a Jewish Netflix. | Heidi Oshin

    What if every zig and zag in your career was actually the path, not the detour? When Heidi Oshin was twenty years into a law career she didn't love, she didn't ask did I waste the time? She asked what's next? and pivoted to build a program for twice-exceptional children, then Menemsha Films, then during pandemic week one, Chaiflicks, the largest streaming service dedicated to Jewish-themed stories anywhere in the world. In this episode Heidi shares how three completely different careers stacked into one life — and what that life taught her about pivoting, about being the only woman at the table, and about believing in a dream long enough to build it. Deep on rehearsing her way through misogynistic 1980s law rooms, the line every young woman needs about imposter syndrome, why twice-exceptional kids get missed, launching a streaming service in COVID week one, and the advice she'd give the woman sitting on her next pivot but too scared to move. Use code TRAILBLAZERS36 for you Chaiflicks discount code Connect with Heidi:  https://www.chaiflicks.com/  Instagram: @ChaiFlicks Connect with Faye:  https://thetrailblazerpod.com/  @thetrailblazerpod  https://trailblazerpod.substack.com/ New episodes every week. Subscribe so you never miss one.

  4. Jun 30

    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/

  5. Jun 23

    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.

  6. Jun 15

    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

  7. Jun 2

    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

  8. May 26

    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

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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
    79
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 2024
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    The TrailBLAZER Pod

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