Womansplain

Womansplain
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Womansplain is where female founders say the quiet parts out loud. Hosts Brooke Sowa and Sola Park, operators and investors themselves, sit down with the women building the next generation of companies: the raises, the pivots, the exits, and the moments nobody posts about. Join 200K+ listeners and a 5,000-strong founder community. New episodes every Tuesday. Newsletter, community, and the Womansplain Summit: womansplainpod.com Instagram: @womansplainpod

  1. 5d ago

    Barbora Samieian: "It's Gonna Get Harder Before It Gets Easier" (From Salad Shop Survival Mode to Cult Furniture Brand)

    Barbora Samieian went from nonprofit fundraiser to co-founder of Sundays, the award-winning furniture brand she launched with her husband, his sister, and a 20-year friend, three months before the pandemic. She also co-founded Vancouver salad chain Field & Social and Sundays' sister brand Hetta, all while raising four kids. We cover the chef who quit mid-shift days after she took over her first business, the shuttered restaurant that became the first Sundays showroom, why free delivery and assembly lowered their returns, keeping the collection small when more SKUs mean more revenue, and the immigrant parents who shaped her appetite for risk. The inaugural Womansplain Summit is October 16 at The Malin Chelsea, NYC, keynoted by Robinhood CIO Stephanie Guild. 120 seats, most already spoken for: luma.com/7bxd1137 The Womansplain Collective+ is open: founder matching, member dinners, and priority Summit access. womansplainpod.com/membership Find Sundays: sundays-company.com | @sundaysfurniture Find Hetta: hetta.com | @hettahome Find Womansplain: @womansplainpod | hello@womansplainpod.com | womansplainpod.com/newsletter

    Barbora Samieian: "It's Gonna Get Harder Before It Gets Easier" (From Salad Shop Survival Mode to Cult Furniture Brand)

  2. Aug 11

    Laura Rubin: "I Was Early, But It Wasn't Wrong" (From Corporate Refugee to Simon & Schuster Author)

    Laura Rubin spent 15+ years running a marketing boutique after leaving a top job at USA Networks, then shut it all down to bet on AllSwell Creative and a belief that journaling had a PR problem. Today she's a Simon & Schuster author (The Big Unlock), a New York Times feature subject, and has led hundreds of science-backed workshops at Adobe, Goop, Google, and the CAA (Creative Artists Agency). We cover the day she cried at her desk over a "dream" promotion, why she gave her agency away instead of selling it, the 4x4x4 method for reluctant journalers, the UCLA research on men and journaling, when journaling can do harm, and the creative block that hit her the moment the book deal was real. The inaugural Womansplain Summit is October 16 at The Malin Chelsea, NYC, keynoted by Robinhood CIO Stephanie Guild. 120 seats, most already spoken for: luma.com/7bxd1137 The Womansplain Collective+ is open: founder matching, member dinners, and priority Summit access. womansplainpod.com/membership Find AllSwell: allswellcreative.com | @allswellcreative | @lauralrubin Find Womansplain: @womansplainpod | hello@womansplainpod.com | womansplainpod.com/newsletter

    Laura Rubin: "I Was Early, But It Wasn't Wrong" (From Corporate Refugee to Simon & Schuster Author)

  3. Aug 4

    Odellia Etaat: "Just Show Up and Make It Good" (From Financial Planning to Booked-Out Private Chef)

    Odellia Etaat left three years in corporate financial planning to launch Mize Dining, the luxury private dining brand that made her the chef New York's most discerning hosts call first, from Manhattan to the Hamptons. It started with her sister's birthday brunch: the group skipped hiring a private chef because "Odellia cooks," and she woke the next morning to a hundred screenshots of her food by 8am. Weeks after quitting, a stranger's phone call handed her a 60-person investor dinner for The Coconut Cult with one week's notice; her aunt and sister were the staff. We cover the month she tested 10-course menus on her family, her quit-or-go-back deadline, the overbooked stretch of four dinners a week on two hours of sleep, building a team of sous chefs and servers, four pounds of caviar, why no client has ever gotten a repeat menu, and her advice for leaving a stable job for the thing you'd stay up all night thinking about. The inaugural Womansplain Summit is October 16 at The Malin Chelsea, NYC, keynoted by Robinhood CIO Stephanie Guild. 120 seats, most already spoken for: luma.com/7bxd1137 The Womansplain Collective+ is open: founder matching, member dinners, and priority Summit access. womansplainpod.com/membership Find Mize Dining: mizedining.com | IG @mizedining | TikTok @mizedining Find Womansplain: IG @womansplainpod | hello@womansplainpod.com | womansplainpod.com/newsletter

    Odellia Etaat: "Just Show Up and Make It Good" (From Financial Planning to Booked-Out Private Chef)

  4. Jul 28

    Madeleine Cohen: Her Sister Said "You're Not Doing Anything Else" (From 30 Ill-Fitting Jeans to a $1M Petite Denim Brand)

    Madeleine Cohen built her career inside the hottest consumer brands of the DTC era (Estée Lauder, Casper, Bala), then got laid off from her dream job and found her next company in her own closet: 30 pairs of jeans, none that fit her 5'1" frame. Today Nelle Atelier is a premium petite denim brand for women 5'4" and under, made in LA from Italian denim, past $1M in revenue and sold on Nordstrom.com. 🎁 A gift from us + Nelle Atelier: use code WOMANSPLAIN at nelleatelier.com for 15% off orders of $200+. We get into the 500,000-person Reddit thread that validated the idea, launching in 11 months, the factory that tried to rip her off, why rise and knee placement can't be tailored in, and building a profitable-minded brand on $290K while her old employers raised millions. 🎟️ The inaugural Womansplain Summit is October 16 at The Malin Chelsea, NYC, keynoted by Robinhood CIO Stephanie Guild. 120 seats, most already spoken for: luma.com/7bxd1137 💌 The Womansplain Collective+ is open: founder matching, member dinners, and priority Summit access. womansplainpod.com/membership Find Nelle Atelier: nelleatelier.com | @nelleatelier Find Womansplain: @womansplainpod | hello@womansplainpod.com | womansplainpod.com/newsletter

    Madeleine Cohen: Her Sister Said "You're Not Doing Anything Else" (From 30 Ill-Fitting Jeans to a $1M Petite Denim Brand)

  5. Jul 21

    Pamela Anderson Asked "Why Isn't Kailey CEO?" | Kailey Bradt, Sonsie Skin

    🎁 A gift from us + Sonsie: use code WOMANSPLAIN15 at sonsieskin.com for 15% off. Valid on individual SKUs, one per customer, through 7/31/26. Kailey Bradt was 16 years old, running around her high school telling anyone who'd listen that she was going to start a sustainable beauty brand. So she studied chemical engineering to earn the right to do it. Her first company, Susteau, took a waterless formula from her bedroom floor to Sephora shelves after she discovered that liquid shampoo is 80% water on average (some conditioners hit 94%), and she decided she was done packaging and shipping water. Now she's CEO of Sonsie, Pamela Anderson's skincare brand, leading what she calls clean beauty 2.0. In this episode, Kailey gets into what it takes to formulate for truly sensitive skin, how the team scented the cleanser with rose from Pamela's own garden without ever putting fragrance on the label, and why the hero Adapt Cream is designed to be the product you come home to. She also talks about why clean beauty 1.0 left everyone exhausted, what transparency actually looks like when you show the lab instead of the ad, being perpetually underestimated as a young female CEO (and over-delivering every time), and the mindset that got her here: never give yourself a plan B. 🎟️ The inaugural Womansplain Summit is October 16 at The Malin Chelsea, NYC, keynoted by Robinhood CIO Stephanie Guild. 120 seats, most already spoken for: luma.com/7bxd1137 💌 The Womansplain Collective+ is open: founder matching, member dinners, and priority Summit access. womansplainpod.com/membership Find Sonsie: 🔗 sonsieskin.com 📲 @sonsieskin 🎵 @sonsie Find Womansplain: 📲 @womansplainpod ✉️ hello@womansplainpod.com 📰 womansplainpod.com/newsletter

    Pamela Anderson Asked "Why Isn't Kailey CEO?" | Kailey Bradt, Sonsie Skin

  6. Jul 14

    She Ran Barefoot Through Penn Station, Then Built the Fix | Sandra Powers Murphy

    🎁 A gift from us + Scarlett Chase: Use code WOMANSPLAIN10 at checkout on scarlettchase.com for 10% off, valid through the end of August. Sandra Powers Murphy spent decades at the top of institutional finance: an early career at State Street, her own broker dealer, a book (The Road to AUM), and six kids at home. Then one rainy day in New York, ten blocks from Penn Station with no cab in sight, she took off her heels and ran barefoot for the train. On board, feet aching, she called her assistant and said the thing every founder eventually says: someone should fix this. So she did. In this episode, Sandra gets into the five years of R&D behind a single black pump, why her patented removable insoles are handcrafted in Spain by the same hands that make custom orthotics, and what it took to convince third generation Italian artisans (in factories shared with Jimmy Choo and Prada) to build performance tech into a luxury shoe. She also tells the story of firing her factory mid production run, the boots so stretchy women cry trying them on, and why the brand is named for her youngest daughter Scarlett, a type 1 diabetes warrior, and her grandmother Chase. If you've ever kept a backup pair of flats in your tote, changed shoes three times in one workday, or wondered why beautiful and comfortable still feel like a choice, this one's for you. 🎟️ The inaugural Womansplain Summit is October 16 at The Malin Chelsea, NYC, keynoted by Robinhood CIO Stephanie Guild. 120 seats, most already spoken for: luma.com/7bxd1137 💌 The Womansplain Collective+ is open: founder matching, member dinners, and priority Summit access. womansplainpod.com/membership Find Scarlett Chase: 🔗 scarlettchase.com 📲 @scarlettchase.co Find Womansplain: 📲 @womansplainpod ✉️ hello@womansplainpod.com 📰 womansplainpod.com/newsletter

    She Ran Barefoot Through Penn Station, Then Built the Fix | Sandra Powers Murphy

  7. Jul 7

    She Turned Down Robinhood, Then Called Back | Stephanie Guild, CIO of Robinhood

    🎟️ Stephanie is keynoting the inaugural Womansplain Summit, October 16 at The Malin Chelsea, NYC. 120 seats, most already spoken for: luma.com/7bxd1137 Season 6 is here, and we're opening with someone who walked away from 21 years of white-glove finance to help everyone else get in the game. Stephanie Guild, CFA, spent two decades at JPMorgan, most recently as a Managing Director at the Private Bank, building portfolios for the kind of clients who can always find help. Then she left to become Chief Investment Officer of Robinhood, the mobile-first platform with 27 million customers and over 300 billion dollars in assets. She turned the offer down, woke up the next morning asking what she'd done, and called her would-be boss to take it back. Four and a half years later she's built First Trade Recommendations, the Investors Guild blog, retirement accounts with a match, and Robinhood Strategies, the managed-portfolio product she calls her baby. In this episode, Stephanie gets into why she left the exclusivity of private banking to open investing up to everyone, how she builds client trust through a phone app instead of a corner office, why she refuses to dumb finance down with cute alliterations, and how she decides what to say when she's one of the most quoted voices in the market (see: "stagflation-ish"). She walks through the three phases of the AI buildout and where we actually are, why she won't let AI trade a dollar of client money, her real worry about a generation learning to model with AI as a crutch, and how to think about the balance between equity, cash, and the angel investing everyone suddenly wants in on. Plus the line from her dad she still hears before every hard room: act like you belong, because you do. Whether you're managing your own money for the first time, building something and wondering if you can afford the risk, or just tired of finance being made to feel harder than it is, this one's for you. 💌 The Womansplain Collective+ is open: founder matching, member dinners, priority Summit access. womansplainpod.com/membership Find Robinhood: 🔗 robinhood.com 📚 Investors Guild at learn.robinhood.com 📲 @stephguildNYC Find Womansplain: 📲 @womansplainpod ✉️ hello@womansplainpod.com 📰 womansplainpod.com/newsletter

    She Turned Down Robinhood, Then Called Back | Stephanie Guild, CIO of Robinhood

  8. Jun 9

    Season 5 Wrap-Up: The Founder Moments We Couldn't Stop Thinking About | Womansplain

    Season 5 is officially a wrap, and we're closing it out the only way that felt right: by going back to the moments that stuck with us. This compilation pulls together the founders who defined the season. The ones building real, durable businesses in categories most people overlook, dismiss, or assume could never be made desirable. Listening back, a throughline emerged that we did not plan for: over and over, these women started with their own bodies and their own frustrations (a sore back, a gut health reset, a fertility class nobody remembers from grade ten), found the gap nobody else was solving for, and then bet everything on brand and education to make people actually care. You'll hear how the right kind of brand work can make a "weird" product feel legit before anyone has even tried it, why Alice Mushrooms spent more on photography and web design pre-launch than most unfunded brands ever would, and how that paid off in trust. You'll hear founders treat the body as a teacher: Elix on reading your own tongue the way you'd check an Aura ring, the full breakdown of the pillars of Chinese medicine, Fulton on why your back pain might actually start in your feet, and Butter Be Kind on delivering "reproductive health 2.0" to people young enough to remember it. You'll hear the unglamorous truths too: staying ferociously lean, taking one step in front of the next instead of waiting on the perfect business plan, and the moment a $500 brand deal made one creator believe she could do this full time. It's a season about making the overlooked beautiful, the clinical approachable, and the "uncool" something people want to talk about. Whether you're a founder trying to bring credibility to a category people underestimate, or someone who just loves hearing women build things from the ground up, this one is a love letter to everyone who tuned in. Thank you for an unbelievable Season 5. We could not do this without you. 🎧 Catch up on any full episodes you missed wherever you listen. Find Womansplain:📲 @womansplainpod✉️ ⁠hello@womansplainpod.com

    Season 5 Wrap-Up: The Founder Moments We Couldn't Stop Thinking About | Womansplain
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Womansplain is where female founders say the quiet parts out loud. Hosts Brooke Sowa and Sola Park, operators and investors themselves, sit down with the women building the next generation of companies: the raises, the pivots, the exits, and the moments nobody posts about. Join 200K+ listeners and a 5,000-strong founder community. New episodes every Tuesday. Newsletter, community, and the Womansplain Summit: womansplainpod.com Instagram: @womansplainpod

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  • Creator
    Womansplain
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    75
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Show Website
    Womansplain
  • Provider
    Nomosalads LLC