Liberty Sessions With Nada Jones | Celebrating Women Who Do & Inspiring Women Who Can |

Jessica Comingore Donais is an entrepreneur and creative consultant living in Portland, Oregon. With a deep-rooted passion for design and an intrinsic eye for aesthetics, she finds great satisfaction in helping business owners construct and elevate their brands through meticulously crafted identities, refined art direction, and strategy-driven consulting. Regardless of the project at hand, Jessica’s primary objective is to help her clients work more mindfully, grow more holistically, and lead more authentically.In this episode, Nada sits down with Jessica to discuss how she took a break from her branding business, Marbury, moved from LA to Portland and started a mom-and-pop pizzeria, Pizza Doughnais, with her husband. In this career and life pivot, Jessica rediscovered her strengths and reassessed her pivot from branding to the restaurant industry. Listen closely as she outlines the hard questions that need to be asked when starting a business, moving towards or away from a venture and the value of taking a b

Marrin Costello is an American businesswoman, designer, and brand-architect. Her entrepreneurial journey began at age 10 after falling in love with the art of jewelry making. Just two decades later, Costello has built a luxury lifestyle brand that has been featured in Vogue, Huffington Post, and Who What Wear, amongst many others — and whose collection can be found in over 100 retailers nationwide.In this episode, Nada sits down with Marrin to discuss how she listened to the market when they asked her “how she did it.” Leveraging the success of her international luxury jewelry business,  Marrin began consulting small businesses to share her best practices and expertise. While there are so many small business consultants out there, few have actually built a successful company from the ground up. This conversation is filled with so many entrepreneurial gems. Her balanced perspective will encourage you to take the leap, or keep your head down and move forward with strategy and purpose. You can learn more about M

Shira Gill is a home organizing expert, author, speaker, founder of the #15minwin, and the creative force behind Shira Gill Home. Shira’s mission is to inspire people to clear physical and mental clutter so they can reduce their environmental footprint, create space for what they truly care about, and live lives more aligned with their core values.In this episode, Nada sits down with Shira to discuss how she pivoted the majority of her business online due to the pandemic and found a new revenue stream and purpose along the way. With two adults working from home and two kids homeschooling, it takes effort and planning to be able to fully focus on work. Shira shares how with tiny shifts in her schedule and service offerings, she was able to write a manuscript in six months and diversify what it means to create space for people to live aligned with their values. Along with her organizing online programs, Shira designed and built a mentorship program for professionals. With work/home lines being more blurred than

Kimberly Lewis is the owner and buyer of Emerson Grace, a women’s elevated-casual contemporary boutique in Nashville, Tennessee. Kimberly oversees the creative and fashion direction for the store alongside a team of stellar managers and stylists who go beyond selling to build relationships to encourage women to discover and realize their own personal style.  Amy Williams is the CEO of Citizens of Humanity, a premium denim company headquartered in Los Angeles, California. In her role, Williams oversees all aspects of the business for the company’s family of brands including Citizens women’s and men’s divisions, as well as women’s denim labels AGOLDE and GOLDSIGN.In this episode, Nada sits down with Kimberly and Amy to reflect on their experiences as a retailer and fashion manufacturer navigating a year like no other. Listen as they share the lessons they’ve learned, how business as usual will never return and why that’s a good thing, and the ways they shifted their business for good. Whether Kimberly’s pivot w

Angela Mayhoe is the Founder of Angela Mayhoe | KNIT, a slow fashion, handcrafted knitwear brand. In addition to offering her knitwear line, Angela is creating a space for a community that longs to come back to their authentic selves. In this episode, Nada sits down with Angela to discuss how her 15 years of retail experience led her to launch her own company. Her love for knitting became a requested commodity from her friends and family. Understanding herself and her ‘Authentic Code’ guided her to build a slow fashion brand that integrated her lifestyle and musings. Angela pivoted this past year, partially due to the pandemic and also due to the racial unrest and movement for equity. She decided to further infuse her brand with her experience as a Black woman. She wanted to be fully seen and integrated into her brand. You can learn more about Angela and Angela Mayhoe | KNIT here. Please follow her on Instagram @angelamayhoe.Don't forget to follow us at @libertyforher on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Plea

Lindsay McCormick is the founder and CEO of Bite. Bite is an all-natural, zero-waste, tube-free, 100% vegan, gluten-free and cruelty-free toothpaste tablet on a mission to become the world’s most sustainable personal care company.  In this episode, Nada sits down with Lindsay to discuss how Bite’s business model for direct to consumer has flourished during the pandemic. Lindsay and her team have navigated how to continue to manufacture their products despite the lockdown protocols and also produce hand sanitizer to give to LA’s unhoused population. As the pandemic has increased consumer awareness for healthy and safe ingredients, Bite has focused their attention on satisfying that need while maintaining their core values around sustainability.You can learn more about Lindsay and Bite here. You can follow Bite on Instagram @bite, Facebook @bitetoothpastebits, Twitter @bitetoothpaste, and TikTok @bite.Don't forget to follow us at @libertyforher on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Please let us know your though

LaKeithea Nicole Anderson is the founder of For Us. The Agency, a creative agency that works with Black-owned brands and talent to expand reach and impact. LaKeithea is also the Community Engagement Coordinator for Nashville Community Education, board member of Tennessee Craft Midstate, and on the Marketing Committee for Free for Life International. In this episode, Nada sits down with LaKeithea to discuss the challenges that Black-owned businesses face on a daily basis and the heightened challenges due to the pandemic. LaKeithea educates our audience from a PR perspective on how NOT to be a performative ally as a business. She also offers insight into how small businesses can pivot forward to be participants in the movement for equity.You can learn more about LaKeithea and the For Us. The Agency here. You can follow For Us. The Agency on Instagram.Don't forget to follow us at @libertyforher on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Please let us know your thoughts about this episode by using the hashtag #libertyf

Molly Sonsteng is the Co-Founder of Madcap Factory and Caveday. Molly’s work focuses on experiences. Whether it is playful and eccentric in-person community events, a perfect s’more, or leading focused productivity sessions in The Cave, Molly is supporting humans to experience.In this episode, Nada sits down with Molly to discuss Caveday’s unique experience of exponential growth due to the global pandemic and the pivot to scale the business to adapt to the growth. Molly shares the importance of removing distractions and busy work so that people can accomplish deep focused work in a condensed amount of time. This is especially important as most of us are experiencing the lines between work-life and home-life are blurred during the pandemic.You can learn more about Molly’s work with Caveday here and Madcap Factory here. You can follow Molly on Instagram, Caveday on Instagram, and Madcap Factory on Instagram.Don't forget to follow us at @libertyforher on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Please let us know your

This season on LIBERTY For Her we are discussing the importance of pivoting. We are grateful to be launching this important discussion with Erica Courdae. Erica Courdae is what you call a multi-passionate entrepreneur. She is the owner of an inclusive beauty salon, Silver Immersion, and the host of Pause on the Play podcast and a certified diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) coach. Nada sits down with Erica to discuss all the different facets of each business but also the way her work has primarily pivoted to her DEI coaching in the wake of the racial unrest and movement for equity. In her DEI coaching, Erica seeks to guide founders and business to truly embody their values in the day to day of their businesses.Erica is steeped in wisdom and insight that we know will encourage you to make big or small pivots in the way you run your business.You can learn more about Erica’s DEI coaching here. Listen to Pause on the Play podcast here. Enjoy Silver Immersion’s services here. You can also follow Erica on Insta

We’re back! LIBERTY listeners, it has been a minute. We are excited to let you know that this podcast is now called LIBERTY For Her to match our brand. This year we will be bringing you 4 seasons. Each season has a specific theme and starting next week our theme will be PIVOTING.Join Nada each week as she sits down with a female founder sharing her story of pivoting due to the pandemic or the racial uprising that has marked the last year of our collective lives. Listen to how each founder has responded differently to sustain and even grow her business. If you haven’t already, please subscribe, rate and review our podcast. We want to know how these stories are inspiring and equipping you to launch and grow your own ventures.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When good friends and busy, working moms Karey Burke, Dawn Olmstead and Jenn Worley couldn’t find a great facial that they could afford on a regular basis, they decided to build it.The powerhouse trio envisioned a place where men, women & teens could get spa-grade facials without all the fuss sans dark rooms and Peruvian flute music. Their goal was to create a fun, fresh, modern destination with an upbeat and uplifting vibe. Together with celebrity dermatologist, Dr. Harold Lancer, and a team of superstar estheticians the Face Haus was launched in Los Angeles in 2013, and the brand hasn’t stopped growing—or glowing—since.Join our conversation with CCO, Jenn Worley, for a look at how she built a disruptive service brand, took on investors to expand into multiple locations, and cultivate a culture of inclusivity with employees and customers alike.Follow Jenn at @jenn_worley  and Face Haus @facehaus on Instagram. Be sure to check out Face Haus services at thefacehaus.com.Don't forget to follow us at @liberty

We loved sitting down with the sunny personality that is Amy Tan, not only because her smiles and energy are infectious but because she is serious about creativity in a way I had never experienced before. She is the brand and the brand is her. This hand-lettering enthusiast is the founder of Amy Tangerine, a brand committed to providing creatives with the tools and space to see the bright, shiny side of life. Whether you follow her on IG, watch her on YouTube, listen to her on her podcast or read her new book Craft A Life You Love, it’s clear that Amy is on a mission to impact the world with her positive message. In this podcast, Amy shares how she went from stylist to fashion designer to product design and even teacher. She is a lesson in what it looks like to pay attention and pivot when necessary. One of the best things about our time with Amy, aside from her mom's homemade egg rolls, is how she details what she did to get to where she is.  If you’re looking to pivot or trying to understand how to integrat

Join us for a live podcast interview with Chelsea Shukov and Jamie Grobecker of Sugar Paper.This honest and open conversation about what it takes to create a healthy partnership in business is one of the best we’ve heard. Jamie and Chelsea’s transparency and accessibility are so refreshing. The two cover everything from how they negotiate with one another and set common goals to assigning roles and structuring equity. In a partnership? You’ve gotta listen! Thinking about a partnership? Listen!Follow Chelsea at @sugarpaper_chelsea, Jamie at @sugarpaper_jamie and Sugar Paper @sugarpaperla on Instagram. Be sure to check out all of Sugar Paper’s amazing products at sugarpaper.com. Don't forget to follow us at @libertyforher on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Please let us know your thoughts about this episode by using the hashtag #libertysessions  and please rate and review us—it helps to know if this podcast is inspiring and equipping you to launch and grow your ventures. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

Join us for a live podcast interview with Alli Webb and Brittany Driscoll of Drybar and the newly launched Squeeze Massage. Most of us are just hoping for one successful business, but Alli Webb, Co-Founder of Drybar, is going after her second entrepreneurial win with Brittany Driscoll, Squeeze’s CEO and Co-Founder, at the helm.  Join Nada and these two powerhouse entrepreneurs as the share their backstory, expert advice and a few things to avoid when launching a new venture. Alli Webb is an Entrepreneur, N.Y. Times Bestselling Author, and Founder of Drybar. After spending 15 years as a professional hair stylist, Webb left the professional hair industry in 2005 to start a family, but decided to find a way to continue pursuing the creative side of hairstyling at a new-mom pace. She began offering affordable in-home blowout services to her mommy friends, which quickly expanded into a mobile operation by 2009. In 2010, Webb opened the first Drybar in Brentwood, CA. Eight years later, over 100. Prior to launching

Learn how English born, bread and trained Interior Designer fell in love with LA and a cute boy (now husband), cultivated her own golden ticket as the Design Director for Emily Henderson, and turned a job search into launching her namesake business. Ginny is open, honest and down to earth and has earned her reputation as a true collaborator. She is always willing to share her life and work hacks and connections with others in her industry and is beloved for her “let’s do this together” attitude.Follow Ginny at @ginny_macdonald on Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter and @ginnymacdonalddesign on Facebook. Be sure to check out Ginny’s services and lastest projects at ginnymacdonalddesign.com.Don't forget to follow us at @libertyforher on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Please let us know your thoughts about this episode by using the hashtag #libertysessions  and please rate and review us—it helps to know if this podcast is inspiring and equipping you to launch and grow your ventures. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/p

Laura Grier, known as the “Indiana Jones of Adventure Travel Photography,” has been a photojournalist for the past 19 years exploring the world and documenting her findings on all seven continents. Her most notable work has been shooting for Novica, National Geographic’s catalog that represents global artisans practicing “Vanishing Arts.” This work has led Laura to her newest adventure, becoming an entrepreneur. She is the Co-founder of Andeana Hats, a hat company on a mission to empower women and help global artisans continue their cultural traditions; enabling them to support themselves and lead their communities out of poverty.Follow Laura at @lauragriertravel on Instagram and Facebook. Be sure to check out and learn more about Andeana Hats at andeanahats.com.Don't forget to follow us at @libertyforher on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Please let us know your thoughts about this episode by using the hashtag #libertysessions  and please rate and review us—it helps to know if this podcast is inspiring and

Rudayna Abdo is the Founder and CEO of Thaki, a non-profit created to help educational organizations provide motivational learning opportunities to refugee children through e-learning and digital literacy tools. Join this conversation and learn more about why Rudayna launched Thaki, and how she decided it should be a non-profit venture vs. a for-profit, social impact business.Follow Rudayna at @rudayna.abdo on Instagram & Facebook and  @RudaynaAbdo on Twitter. Follow Thaki at @thakiunlocks on Instagram, @Thaki_Unlocks on Twitter and @thakiunlockspotential Facebook. Be sure to check out and learn more about Thaki at www.thaki.org.Don't forget to follow us at @libertyforher on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Please let us know your thoughts about this episode by using the hashtag #libertysessions  and please rate and review us—it helps to know if this podcast is inspiring and equipping you to launch and grow your ventures. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nicole Giordano wanted to help women in the fashion industry build successful businesses around the life they wanted, and not the other way around. She created StartUp FASHION, a membership community that supports independent designers (both newbies and seasoned) to build and grow their ventures on their own terms. Her community provides video workshops, templates and tools specific to those growing their fashion businesses. Listen in as Nicole shares how she grew her membership platform, invited her life partner to join the business, and how she practices what she preaches by setting goals that fuel her life goals.Follow Nicole at @startupfashion on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Be sure to check out and learn more about StartUp FASHION's community at https://startupfashion.com.Don't forget to follow us at @libertyforher on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Please let us know your thoughts about this episode by using the hashtag #libertysessions  and please rate and review us—it helps to know if this podca

We have big plans for Season 3 of LIBERTY Sessions with Nada Jones, but before we share amazing stories of female founders, we want to reflect on LIBERTY's last year and what we are doing in 2019! So give this mini-episode a listen and share with us your comments and suggestions at info@libertyforher.com. “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” African Proverb Don't forget to follow us at @libertyforher on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Please let us know your thoughts about this episode by using the hashtag #libertysessions  and please rate and review us—it helps to know if this podcast is inspiring and equipping you to launch and grow your ventures. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week Nada continues her conversation with Dyan Dolfi-Offutt of Soda Pop PR. In Part 1, Dyan explains that through hard work and humility she was able to climb up the PR ladder, eventually launching her own firm. This week, Part 2, Dyan details how her company winds down at the end of the year and prepares for the upcoming one. Reviewing of goals, campaigns and clients all come into consideration. She also shares some DIY PR tips for those of us on a bootstrap budget. Follow Dyan at @sodapoppr  and @dyanmichele on Instagram. And if you are looking for a partnership building PR company, be sure to check out Soda Pop PR at www.sodapop-pr.com.Don't forget to follow us at @libertyforher on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Please let us know your thoughts about this episode by using the hashtag #libertysessions  and please rate and review us—it helps to know if this podcast is inspiring and equipping you to launch and grow your ventures. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.