Intentional journeys and vacations allow you to experience the world around you and discover your truest self. Evan Freed is a founder of Family Journey. Evan believes in intentional travel experiences as well as intentional communication and healthy relationships, which in turn allow a person to avoid burnout. He likens intentional communication with incomplete information while on vacation surrounded by a language different to our own, to communication within entrepreneurship. The goal of an intentional vacation is to be changed, to take things which are experienced back home, in order to ..read more

If you don’t believe in what you’re doing, how can you expect anyone else to? Jane Hanson is an Emmy award-winning television journalist, a coach, and a media trainer, working on helping people to communicate better. Jane believes in putting ourselves in someone else’s shoes, being respectful, and remembering there is no magic formula to good communication and relationship building. Statistics tell us that most of the people who are becoming entrepreneurs now are women. Jane encourages women to look around and see how many opportunities there are to help each other on our journey. We are sur ..read more

Experts get in the way of their own discoveries! Carol Sanford is a positive contrarian who believes that no matter the outcome, it can be a meaningful one. As a professor, Carol ensures never to use the same idea twice, which provides a space for creating useful and valuable evolution in her thinking. Being an expert blocks people’s learning, as she emphasizes and Carol does not class herself as one.  Carol believes that discovering who you are, takes a lifetime - the secret is not in deciding who you are, but rather discovering it. We all have work to do, we show up for our businesses ..read more

Take that chance - go down a different path! Nasrin Yafari is a Japanese-Iranian-American, designer, and entrepreneur who began her career in education, straight out of NYU, where she worked with people, and learned and grew into marketing.  Nasrin shares her experiences in building a successful Brooklyn-based fashion brand, with a focus on taking risks and being true to herself. Taking a chance, Nasrin started her own business, going from manufacturing face masks during the pandemic to colorful jumpsuits. Nasrin believes strongly that it is good to go down a different path while trusti ..read more

Your business is not your baby; it is there to help and support you - not the other way around! With a degree in marketing, Lucy Vincent began her career in corporate sales and marketing where she worked for several top brands. Not wanting to build someone else’s dream, she quit without a backup plan. She knew she had the persistence it takes to succeed and launched The Agency Accelerator to equip women with strategy and support to build, grow, and scale their marketing businesses to six and multi-six figures online. Lucy helps freelancer social media managers make more than they ever thought ..read more

 Knowledge is power - and we can never have too much!  A native of Pennsylvania, Dr. Cathleen Brown, is a board-certified OB/GYN, trained in Hawaii. She went on to serve on Army bases across the country, and is now the medical director at Winona. Dr. Cat has dedicated her career to women’s health and improving access to care and achieving positive health outcomes. Winona is a tele-health company that aims to empower, educate, and treat women throughout the entirety of their menopause journey. Now available in 30+ states, Winona allows women to access healthcare without having to ph ..read more

It is important to give ourselves credit for what we have accomplished. Hayley Foster, Founder & CFO of Foster Inc., began her career in advertising before the Internet became popular. Moving onto digital advertising, Hayley partnered with a friend to start her first business, a promotional marketing company with offices in New York, LA, and China. Hayley refers to her time building and running her business as attending the school of hard knocks for entrepreneurs, acknowledging the lessons she learned and what she had to offer to other women.  Haley's resilience and ability to pivot ..read more

When you do your marketing right, clients will come ready to buy. With a background in psychology, Alexis Caldicott is known to many as the queen of event marketing. As an international speaker, messaging consultant and marketing strategist, Alexis supports entrepreneurs and business owners in creating six figures in three days from their events and marketing. Not everyone who is successful is passionate about everything that they do each day, many people are passionate about what their business allows them to do and about the results clients will get. Good business decisions are not made on ..read more

Being a part of family business means being a part of long-lasting values and reputation. Guillermo Salazar, a renowned family business consultant and global speaker, brings invaluable insights into effective family business governance and communication, empowering enterprises for success. Guillermo dives deep into the world of family business governance, communication, and legacy-building. Whether you're an entrepreneur or involved in a family business. He seriously takes into account the blood, sweat, and tears that the entrepreneur put into the business and describes owners as heroes who ..read more

If you believe in yourself, others will too! A dear friend of the She Leads Media, Cheryl Eisen, is know as 'the celebrity interior designer', and she is a huge supporter of the female founder community and women entrepreneurs everywhere. Cheryl believes strongly in a solid work ethic, resilience, and learning as much as you can as you create your routine and build your business. To become the person you want to become, you have to dig deep and become passionate as well as tough. The reality is that only 2.1% of the total capital invested in venture-backed startups go to women.  Therefor ..read more