SAYge Real Stories

SAYge Real Stories

Hosted by: Linda Nedell

We are not alone. There is another woman who has been there, has walked the same path. Through the Real Stories podcast, you can hear the inspiring stories of real women who faced real life issues and gained real...

Episodes

Female Founder Series: Emily Greenberg turns post partum struggles into a rapidly growing support platform for moms.

Emily Greenberg, co-founder of Joy Parenting Club, turned one of the hardest chapters of her life into a business serving 50,000 families. After a traumatic birth and postpartum challenges, she saw how isolating...
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Female Founder Series: Kat Weaver Fails, Learns, Shares, Repeat

Kat Weaver prefaces her founder story by informing us that she's made every mistake you can make. Those failures paved a path to scaling a wrist‑wallet startup from her college dorm all the way to acquisition—and...
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Female Founder Series: Lizzie Brown Builds an App on the Road Less Traveled

Despite all of the playbooks, every founder journey is unique like a snowflake. Sometimes you are cruising along and hit a sign: Road Work Ahead. It’s not a caution — it’s a truth. Things shift. You reroute. And...
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Female Founder Series: There's More to the Story - Beth Rudden on Building Better AI with Wisdom

After two decades at IBM leading global AI strategy, Beth Rudden made a bold shift—founding Bast.ai to build context-aware, human-centered AI for healthcare. In this episode, she shares what it took to leave a...
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Female Founder Series: Melissa Bernstein on What Can Lie Behind the Curtain of Success

Melissa Bernstein is the cofounder of Melissa & Doug, the billion-dollar toy company she built from her parents’ garage. But behind the bright products was a hidden darkness. Melissa spent decades battling...
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Female Founder Series: Beyond the Breaking Point: Lenore Kantor’s Path to Growth Warrior

After 20 years in corporate marketing and a pivotal role taking a fintech company public, Lenore Kantor hit a wall. What followed was not just a leap into entrepreneurship, but a full reorientation of how she works,...
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Scaling Success: Lessons from Tech Founder Zhenni Wu

Zhenni Wu, co-founder and go-to-market leader at Puppygraph, brings the wisdom of navigating her fourth startup to the conversation. With a background at Apple, Baidu, and multiple early-stage ventures, Zhenni shares...
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Female Founder Series: Elmira Bayrasli on a Mission to get Women into the Conversation

What if success isn’t about immediate wins, but about learning to trust the process—especially when the results aren’t visible yet? We sit down with Elmira Bayrasli, co-founder of Interruptrr - a platform and...
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Female Founder Series: Eliza Blank's Journey from Unscalable to Unstoppable

Eliza Blank is the founder and CEO of The Sill, the company that turned houseplants into a modern lifestyle essential and built a multi-million dollar, category-defining brand. But bringing her vision to life wasn’t...
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Female Founder Series: Luann Daniel on Founding an Impactful Non-Profit and the Art of Asking

LuAnn Daniel is the founder and executive director of Women Rock, Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to supporting women facing breast cancer. After three decades of experience in diagnostic imaging, she witnessed firsthand...
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Female Founder Series: HR Tech Founders Danika Khong & Elizabeth Wu on Fixing Hiring Gaps with Seismic

Danika Khong and Elizabeth Wu are the co-founders of Seismic, an HR tech platform transforming skills-based hiring for STEM professionals. Frustrated by the disconnect between academia and industry, they built a...
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Female Founder Series: Juliette Blake on Pivoting to Empower the Next Generation of Girls

Juliette Blake is the founder of Moxies, a gamified social platform designed to help girls build digital literacy and confidence in a safe online environment. A two-time founder and mom of three, Juliette launched her...
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