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The Entreprenista Podcast is a weekly show featuring the stories of successful female founders and what it's really like to run a business. Hosted by Stephanie Cartin & Courtney Spritzer, co-founders of Socialfly, a leading social media marketing agency, each episode goes beyond what you see on Instagram and into the nitty-gritty of growing and scaling a company effectively from women who’ve done it. Consider this the most fun business meeting you’ll ever have.

  1. 5D AGO

    Mary Seats, The Bakery Cowork: Her Secret Ingredient to Breaking Barriers and Building Million Dollar Dreams

    “I needed support, community, someone to reach their hand down and pull me up. And now I'm always reaching my hand down to pull someone else up.” Mary Seats is the founder of The Icing Agency and The Bakery CoWork, a co-working space designed for women entrepreneurs. From a young age, Mary showcased her entrepreneurial spirit by selling handmade Barbie clothes to all of her friends. Despite facing challenges, including being fired from her own company, Mary persevered and created a thriving business and is an Entreprenista 100 Award Winner. She is dedicated to empowering women founders, fostering community, and breaking barriers for minority women in business. Tune in and hear how Mary launched her first business with only $300, how she scaled her first company to $4 million in revenue, and the hard lessons she’s learned about navigating contracts and partnerships. What we talked about: The Marketing Strategy that Made Mary’s First Brand Successful [07:03] Lessons Learned from Selling to Retailers [13:48] The Vision Behind The Bakery CoWork [24:49] The Importance of Community Support [36:38] Connect with Mary:⁠⁠⁠ ⁠@MzSkittlez⁠ on IG ⁠@thebakerycowork⁠ on IG ⁠The Bakery Cowork⁠ ⁠The Icing Agency⁠⁠ Join our ⁠Entreprenista League⁠ community of women founders! You’ll have access to a private community of like-minded Entreprenistas who are making an impact in business every day, special discounts on business products and solutions, exclusive content, private events, the opportunity to have your story featured on our ⁠website⁠ and social channels, and access to Office Hours with top founders who have been on our show! We can’t wait to welcome you, support you, and be part of your business journey! Curious about joining the Entreprenista League? ⁠Sign up here⁠ for a free info session. Thanks for tuning into this week’s episode of The Entreprenista Podcast - the most fun business meeting for women founders and leaders. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to the show and leave a review wherever you get your podcasts. ⁠Apple Podcasts⁠ | ⁠TuneIn⁠ | ⁠Spotify⁠ | ⁠Stitcher⁠ | ⁠iHeart Radio⁠ | ⁠GooglePlay⁠ Be sure to share your favorite episodes across social media to help us reach more amazing female founders, like you. Relay is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided by Thread Bank member, FDIC.

    56 min

  2. JAN 12

    Kass Lazerow, Shoveling $hit: The Founder Lessons She Had to Learn the Hard Way

    “I want you to go buy a house or I want you to go, you know, pay off your student loans or your debt and to be tangible about what you're doing. And if you can't say it in an authentic way, I think that's where things kind of fall apart.”In this episode of the Entreprenista Podcast, we sit down with Kass Lazerow—serial founder, investor, and New York Times bestselling author of Shoveling $hit: A Love Story About the Entrepreneur’s Messy Path to Success. Kass shares the unfiltered reality of building companies from the ground up, from selling websites in the late ’90s when people were still asking “what’s the internet?” to building and scaling iconic businesses like Golf.com and Buddy Media, the latter reaching $50M in ARR in just three years. Kass takes us behind the scenes of the highs and devastating lows of entrepreneurship, including surviving the dot-com crash, going months without paying herself or her team, rebuilding after bankruptcy, and betting on radical transparency as her defining leadership principle. She dives deep into how and why she structured companies where everyone owned a piece of the pie, her unconventional approach to scaling (including why she sometimes laid people off after raising capital), and what most founders get wrong about incentives, focus, and growth. What we talked about:The First Business [6:57]The Rollercoaster of Entrepreneurship [9:31]Scaling Secrets [17:28]Know Your Employees [24:38]About the Book! [30:24] Connect with Kass: Instagram LinkedIn Website Join our Entreprenista League community of women founders! You’ll have access to a private community of like-minded Entreprenistas who are making an impact in business every day, special discounts on business products and solutions, exclusive content, private events, the opportunity to have your story featured on our website and social channels, and access to Office Hours with top founders who have been on our show! We can’t wait to welcome you, support you, and be part of your business journey! Curious about joining the Entreprenista League? Sign up here for a free info session. Thanks for tuning into this week’s episode of The Entreprenista Podcast - the most fun business meeting for women founders and leaders. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to the show and leave a review wherever you get your podcasts. Apple Podcasts | TuneIn | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Radio | GooglePlayBe sure to share your favorite episodes across social media to help us reach more amazing female founders, like you.

    49 min

  3. JAN 5

    Halle Tecco, Massively Better Healthcare: Building Innovation Inside a Broken System

    “So the tools that are being used behind the scenes that are hopefully reducing administration costs and that will hopefully trickle down to our costs as health care consumers. But I think where it really gets exciting is applying AI to what we call personalized medicine.”‍In this episode, we’re joined by Halle Tecco, founder, investor, professor, and author of the new book Massively Better Healthcare. Hallie has done it all: she founded and sold women’s health company Natalist in under three years, launched one of the first venture funds focused on healthcare tech, invested in over 50 healthcare startups, and now teaches at Columbia Business School while advising the next generation of founders.Halle shares the lessons she wishes every healthcare innovator knew from day one—why great ideas often stall, how to de-risk a business without dimming your ambition, and what truly separates breakthroughs from dead ends. We dive into her journey of publishing a book without an agent, why healthcare’s biggest challenges can actually become a founder’s moat, and the four emotional stages every entrepreneur cycles through while building a company.What we talked about:Women’s Health Founder [5:24]Getting Hit With Reality [12:57]The Next Big Thing in Women’s Healthcare [18:53]Coaching Different Founders [24:48]The Talk of Incumbents [32:26]Connect with Halle: ⁠Instagram⁠ ⁠LinkedIn⁠ Grab a copy of her book, Massively Better Healthcare‍Join our ⁠Entreprenista League⁠ community of women founders! You’ll have access to a private community of like-minded Entreprenistas who are making an impact in business every day, special discounts on business products and solutions, exclusive content, private events, the opportunity to have your story featured on our ⁠website⁠ and social channels, and access to Office Hours with top founders who have been on our show! We can’t wait to welcome you, support you, and be part of your business journey!Curious about joining the Entreprenista League? ⁠Sign up here⁠ for a free info session.Thanks for tuning into this week’s episode of The Entreprenista Podcast - the most fun business meeting for women founders and leaders. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to the show and leave a review wherever you get your podcasts.⁠Apple Podcasts⁠ | ⁠TuneIn⁠ | ⁠Spotify⁠ | ⁠Stitcher⁠ | ⁠iHeart Radio⁠ | ⁠GooglePlay ⁠‍Be sure to share your favorite episodes across social media to help us reach more amazing female founders, like you. ‍

    47 min

  4. 12/29/2025

    Ambika Singh, Armoire: Building a Thriving Wardrobe Rental Business

    “​​I grew up sharing clothes and thought it was lovely and fun. And so rental to me is like that expression helped by the internet.”Ambika always had exuberant ideas for what she wanted to do for work. It wasn’t until she decided to quit corporate America to go to business school that she was able to combine her passion for helping women with her need to start her own company. Today, we sit down with Ambika Singh, Founder of Armoire, a subscription based clothing rental company. She shares all about her career path, her advice on fundraising, the challenges she’s faced growing a company like hers, and so much more. This week's takeaways from Entreprenista:The career pivot that changed everything(6:18) Fundraising advice every Entreprenista should hear before pitching (22:05) Navigating tough investor feedback (27:48) The challenges that test you most—and what it takes to keep going (31:34) The biggest surprise she didn’t see coming as a founder (34:46) Connect with Ambika Singh: Instagram LinkedIn Website Join our Entreprenista League community of women founders! You’ll have access to a private community of like-minded Entreprenistas who are making an impact in business every day, special discounts on business products and solutions, exclusive content, private events, the opportunity to have your story featured on our website and social channels, and access to Office Hours with top founders who have been on our show! We can’t wait to welcome you, support you, and be part of your business journey! Curious about joining the Entreprenista League? Sign up here for a free info session. Thanks for tuning into this week’s episode of The Entreprenista Podcast - the most fun business meeting for women founders and leaders. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to the show and leave a review wherever you get your podcasts. Apple Podcasts | TuneIn | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Radio | GooglePlayBe sure to share your favorite episodes across social media to help us reach more amazing female founders, like you.

    54 min

  5. 12/22/2025

    Meenakshi Lala, Urban Stems: Turning Perishables Into a Premium Brand

    “So that is what I shifted my focus to, really partnering with the marketing team on, what are the channels that we want to invest in today for future growth? What are the channels that we want to really build loyalty and build loyalty with our customers, create excitement for them, so they display that repeat purchase behavior with us? And that's where I invested a lot of my time.”In this episode of The Entreprenista Podcast, we sit down with Meenakshi Lala, CEO of Urban Stems, to go behind the scenes of one of the most complex and emotionally driven e-commerce businesses out there: flowers.Meenakshi shares her journey from two decades in fashion retail to leading a high-growth floral brand with one of the most demanding supply chains in the world. From forecasting blooms a year in advance to navigating Valentine’s Day weather chaos, she reveals how trend forecasting, brand obsession, and operational excellence come together to deliver happiness—one bouquet at a time. What we talked about:Business of Flowers [3:38]Extreme Forecasting [9:52]How Fashion Operates [15:58]Partnering with the Marketing Team [22:31]Trust Your Gut [30:30] Follow Meenakshi:Website Instagram LinkedInUse code ENTREPRENISTA for a special offering from UrbanStems Join our Entreprenista League community of women founders! You’ll have access to a private community of like-minded Entreprenistas who are making an impact in business every day, special discounts on business products and solutions, exclusive content, private events, the opportunity to have your story featured on our website and social channels, and access to Office Hours with top founders who have been on our show! We can’t wait to welcome you, support you, and be part of your business journey! Curious about joining the Entreprenista League? Sign up here for a free info session. Thanks for tuning into this week’s episode of The Entreprenista Podcast - the most fun business meeting for women founders and leaders. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to the show and leave a review wherever you get your podcasts. Apple Podcasts | TuneIn | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Radio | GooglePlayBe sure to share your favorite episodes across social media to help us reach more amazing female founders, like you.

    45 min

  6. 12/15/2025

    2025 End of Year Note with Steph + Court

    “I'm like, there just has to be a better way to help all of these women. And like, this is just everything that has happened. And we don't even know everything that's happening, right? These are just the messages people are telling us of what's happening. This is the impact. And I'm just so glad we took that risk many years ago” In this powerful end-of-year episode of The Entreprenista Podcast, Stephanie and Courtney take you behind the scenes of their most transformational year yet. From selling their first company and navigating the emotional aftermath, to scaling a 3,000-member community and returning to work together full-time, this candid conversation is the ultimate real-life look at what it actually takes to build, grow, and reinvent a business you love. They open up about the roller coaster of 2025—the highs, the lows, the identity shifts that come with letting go of a company, and the clarity that comes from starting fresh. You’ll hear how they restructured the Entreprenista ecosystem to support massive growth, the systems and tools powering their next chapter, and the intentional planning fueling their bold vision for 2026 and beyond. What we talked about:Reflections of the Year [4:36]Always Recalibrating [14:37]Community Success [32:51]Founder’s Weekend [37:18]Word of the Year [47:21] Support Mollie's Entreprenista journey, buy your favorite girl scout cookies today! Tools We Love: Hubspot  Copper Circle Klaviyo SamCart Riverside HighLevel JustWorks Smart Podcast Solutions Join our Entreprenista League community of women founders! You’ll have access to a private community of like-minded Entreprenistas who are making an impact in business every day, special discounts on business products and solutions, exclusive content, private events, the opportunity to have your story featured on our website and social channels, and access to Office Hours with top founders who have been on our show! We can’t wait to welcome you, support you, and be part of your business journey!Curious about joining the Entreprenista League? Sign up here for a free info session. Thanks for tuning into this week’s episode of The Entreprenista Podcast - the most fun business meeting for women founders and leaders. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to the show and leave a review wherever you get your podcasts. Apple Podcasts | TuneIn | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Radio | GooglePlayBe sure to share your favorite episodes across social media to help us reach more amazing female founders, like you.

    58 min

  7. 12/08/2025

    Demi Schweers, Iris: Building a Wellness Brand Rooted in Community

    “If you're already going through health issues and hormonal changes, I don't want you to have to, you know, dip into savings to do this for yourself. I really wanted it to be accessible”‍What if your hardest battles became the blueprint for your greatest impact? For Demi Schweers, a former teacher turned Entreprenista, that’s exactly what happened. After being diagnosed with MS in 2020—followed by infertility, pregnancy loss, IVF, and a PCOS diagnosis—Demi began sharing her story online simply to find support. What she built instead was a global community of women who saw themselves in her vulnerability.That community became the catalyst for Iris, a women’s wellness brand redefining what it means to hydrate with intention. Rooted in empathy, science, and lived experience, Iris was born from Demi’s late-night symptom flares, early-morning product testing, and a deep desire to make hormonal and gut health more accessible. Co-founded with another female founder, Iris is a testament to what can happen when storytelling, purpose, and community collide.What we talked about:Early Jobs and Giving Back [2:58]The Diagnosis [5:41]The Partnership [12:06]Marketing for Iris [18:48]Trends on Social Media [23:29]Connect with Demi:‍⁠Website⁠‍ ⁠Instagram⁠ ⁠TikTok⁠⁠ YouTube⁠‍Resources Mentioned: ⁠Klayvio⁠ ⁠ Euka⁠‍Join our ⁠Entreprenista League⁠ community of women founders! You’ll have access to a private community of like-minded Entreprenistas who are making an impact in business every day, special discounts on business products and solutions, exclusive content, private events, the opportunity to have your story featured on our ⁠website⁠ and social channels, and access to Office Hours with top founders who have been on our show! We can’t wait to welcome you, support you, and be part of your business journey! Curious about joining the Entreprenista League? ⁠Sign up here⁠ for a free info session.Thanks for tuning into this week’s episode of The Entreprenista Podcast - the most fun business meeting for women founders and leaders. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to the show and leave a review wherever you get your podcasts. ⁠Apple Podcasts⁠ | ⁠TuneIn⁠ | ⁠Spotify⁠ | ⁠Stitcher⁠ | ⁠iHeart Radio⁠ | ⁠GooglePlay⁠‍Be sure to share your favorite episodes across social media to help us reach more amazing female founders, like you. ‍

    38 min

  8. 12/01/2025

    Tiffany Moon, LeadHer Summit: From Reality TV to Finding Real Success and Joy

    “If you want to do something, you can read a couple of books, listen to some podcasts, have some good mentors, and you can figure it out. You don't have to reinvent the wheel by yourself.” In this episode of the Entreprenista Podcast, Stephanie sits down with founder, physician, writer, and reality TV star Tiffany Moon. She shares her extraordinary journey from anesthesiologist, to pouring candles in her basement, to creating a thriving brand and a life rooted in joy and authenticity. Tiffany opens up about the lessons she’s learned about building a sustainable business, how embracing her true self transformed her personal and professional life, and all about her deeply personal memoir, Joy Prescriptions. Join us as Tiffany offers candid insights on overcoming challenges, the importance of mindset shifts, and why showing up authentically is the key to standing out in today’s crowded market. Plus, she shares what it was like to be on The Real Housewives of Dallas. ⁠⁠What we talked about: Tiffany’s Entrepreneurial Journey [4:15] How Tiffany Started Her Social Media Brand [18:20] Tiffany Gets Candid About Real Housewives [24:50] Tiffany’s Advice for Mamaprenistas [33:40] ‍Connect with Tiffany: ⁠Website⁠⁠@tiffanymoonmd⁠ on Instagram ⁠@tiffanymoonmd⁠ on TikTok ⁠X/Twitter⁠⁠Linkedin⁠⁠Facebook⁠ ⁠Joy Prescriptions⁠ ⁠⁠LeadHer Summit⁠⁠ Join our ⁠Entreprenista League⁠ community of women founders! You’ll have access to a private community of like-minded Entreprenistas who are making an impact in business every day, special discounts on business products and solutions, exclusive content, private events, the opportunity to have your story featured on our ⁠website⁠ and social channels, and access to Office Hours with top founders who have been on our show! We can’t wait to welcome you, support you, and be part of your business journey! Curious about joining the Entreprenista League? ⁠Sign up here⁠ for a free info session. Thanks for tuning into this week’s episode of The Entreprenista Podcast - the most fun business meeting for women founders and leaders. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to the show and leave a review wherever you get your podcasts. ⁠Apple Podcasts⁠ | ⁠TuneIn⁠ | ⁠Spotify⁠ | ⁠Stitcher⁠ | ⁠iHeart Radio⁠ | ⁠GooglePlay⁠ Be sure to share your favorite episodes across social media to help us reach more amazing female founders, like you.

    40 min
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The Entreprenista Podcast is a weekly show featuring the stories of successful female founders and what it's really like to run a business. Hosted by Stephanie Cartin & Courtney Spritzer, co-founders of Socialfly, a leading social media marketing agency, each episode goes beyond what you see on Instagram and into the nitty-gritty of growing and scaling a company effectively from women who’ve done it. Consider this the most fun business meeting you’ll ever have.

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  • Creator
    Entreprenista Media
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2026
  • Episodes
    376
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    2022 Copyright © All Rights Reserved Entreprenista Media
  • Show Website
    Entreprenista

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