Awesome Women Entrepreneurs

  Margie Warrell is the founder of Global Courage, a leadership consultancy that empowers people globally to live & lead more courageously. She's also a speaker, Forbes columnist, and bestselling author of four books. In today's podcast, she speaks about her background growing up on a small farm in rural Australia, traveling the world, her career success and her passion for courage and being brave. Margie encourages entrepreneurs to choose the path of faith over fear and growth over comfort. Find Margie: https://margiewarrell.com/ http://globalcourage.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/margiewarrell/?originalSubdomain=au https://www.facebook.com/margiewarrell https://www.instagram.com/margiewarrell/ https://twitter.com/margiewarrell Awesome Women Entrepreneurs: https://awesomewomen.org

Brent Weaver leads the vision for UGURUS, a business school for digital agencies. He creates educational programs that help agency owners work on their business to drive additional revenues, increase profits, and create freedom in their life. Brent speaks about his background, entrepreneurial ventures, UAcademy training programs, business models, and marketing. He's offering some free courses for our listeners! Shoot him an email at brent@ugurus.com

Karen Bate and Evelyn Powers, co-founders of AWE, chat about their inspiration from AWE member's stories, AWE chapter's and their passionate leaders, incredible upcoming events, and the heartfelt benefits of AWE: a women's networking group with a warm authentic culture that promotes sharing and support, actively hires from within, and is relaxing and fun. Join us for our upcoming meetings and AWE Summit on March 13th! Awesome Women Entrepreneurs: https://awesomewomen.org

Christina Tripodi, the Founder and Clinical Director of The Child & Family Practice, speaks about her background, education, her journey into entrepreneurship, and shares challenges and tips for fellow female founders. She is a licensed school and clinical psychologist who treats children, adolescents, and adults with psychoeducational testing and consultation to asses for different types of developmental pathology and to provide the highest quality psychological and educational support. Find Christina: http://www.childandfamilypractice.com/ https://www.facebook.com/childfamilypracticedc/ https://www.instagram.com/childandfamilypractice/ https://twitter.com/childfamilydc Awesome Women Entrepreneurs: https://awesomewomen.org/

Diana Waller, Founder, and CEO of Chasing Dragons, a relocation company that helps employees settle in new communities, talks about her entrepreneurial journey, company growth, and how their team supports client transition to the Washington D.C. area. Diana's advice for entrepreneurs: find a business community like AWE and connect!   Find Diana: https://www.chasingdragons.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/chasingdragonsdc/ https://www.instagram.com/chasingdragonsdc/ https://www.facebook.com/chasingdragonsdc/ https://twitter.com/chsingdragonsDC?lang=en Awesome Women Entrepreneurs:  https://awesomewomen.org

Melissa Henry is the founder of Melissa Demple Photography, a personal brand photography company in the Washington D.C. area. She speaks about her background, how and why she started her business and her mission to capture stories through authentic photographs to help entrepreneurs strongly connect with their clients and audience.  Find Melissa: http://www.melissademple.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissa-henry-731b892/ https://www.instagram.com/melissademplephotography/ https://www.facebook.com/melissademplephotography/ Awesome Women Entrepreneurs:  https://awesomewomen.org  

Pia Silva, partner and brand strategist at Worstofall Design, builds "Badass Brands without the BS." She talks about her business journey, branding, marketing, advice for entrepreneurs and how to start badassing YOUR brand. Find Pia: https://www.piasilva.com/ https://www.facebook.com/pialovesyourbiz/ https://www.instagram.com/pialovesyourbiz/ https://twitter.com/PiaLovesYourBiz https://www.linkedin.com/in/pia-silva-86b2723/ Awesome Women Entrepreneurs: https://awesomewomen.org  

Diana Veiga is the founder of Diana Delivers, a company that provides custom gift baskets that are unique, tailor-made for the recipient,for all occasions andare personally delivered within 20 miles of Washington, D.C. Diana shares her story of starting and running her business and insight into her custom gift basket services. Find Diana: http://dianadelivers.com/ https://www.facebook.com/DianaDelivers/ https://www.instagram.com/dianadelivers/ https://twitter.com/diana_delivers https://www.yelp.com/biz/diana-delivers-washington Awesome Women Entrepreneurs:  https://awesomewomen.org/

Alejandra Santaolalla is the founder of Bold + Mighty Kids, a children's literacy brand to help parents raise resilient kids through bilingual storytelling. Alejandra speaks about non-profit management, gender equality, leadership, empowerment, and education and how these topics inspire her to create a movement of love, kindness, and learning through books to help children see themselves as bold and mighty changemakers.  Find Alejandra: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alejandrasantaolalla/ https://www.bmkids.com/ https://www.facebook.com/boldandmightykids/?ref=br_rs https://www.instagram.com/boldandmightykids/ Awesome Women Entrepreneurs:  https://awesomewomen.org/

Janetta Brewer, the founder of Blue Alchemy Consulting, provides world-class legal, advisory and training solutions for start-ups, small business, nonprofits, and federal government clients. Janetta speaks about her background in social work, law, and public policy and how she transitioned to launch and manage her own business and personal empowerment initiative called Uncharted Heights which helps individuals develop self-confidence. Find Janetta: http://bluealchemyconsulting.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/janettabrewer/ https://www.instagram.com/unchartedheights/ https://twitter.com/janettalbrewer?lang=en Awesome Women Entrepreneurs: https://awesomewomen.org  

Jenny Sullivan, the Editor of Arlington Magazine, speaks about her background in art, design, and English, beginning her career with a publishing company that specialized in magazines and books with creative people, freelance writing and moving to the DC area. Jenny dives deep into behind the scenes work at Arlington Magazine and talks about how they create diverse visual and written journalism content that voices pulse points and issues in the evolving, living, breathing community of Arlington.  Find Jenny: arlingtonmagazine.com jenny.sullivan@arlingtonmagazine.com LinkedIn   Awesome Women Entrepreneurs: https://awesomewomen.org    

Dr. Pagliano is the founder and owner of Carrie Pagliano Physical Therapy, a private women's health/pediatric pelvic health clinic in Arlington, VA. Carrie shares her 20+ years of professional experience with patient care in the DC Metro area and her journey running a business. Carrie talks about educating women, mothers and children about pelvic health, female incontinence, painful intercourse, pregnancy, potty training and more.  Find Carrie: https://carriepagliano.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/carrie-pagliano-75a78aba/ https://www.facebook.com/CarriePaglianoPT/ https://www.instagram.com/carriepagliano/ https://twitter.com/CarriePagliano Awesome Women Entrepreneurs: https://awesomewomen.org

Listen to the expertise of Carla D. Bass, Colonel, USAF (Ret), who is an award-winning author and literary coach. She shares how she teaches her clients to transform their words in Write to Influence. Find Carla:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/carladbass/ https://www.amazon.com/Write-Influence-Appraisals-Scholarships-Internships-ebook/dp/B01MSL1XF9 Awesome Women Entrepreneurs:  https://awesomewomen.org   

Karen Rosales, CEO of the Arlington Community Federal Credit Union, community leader and generous AWE partner, helping us support female founders in Arlington and beyond.  Find Karen: https://www.arlingtoncu.org/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-rosales-07725b13/ https://www.facebook.com/ArlingtonCommunityFCU/ https://twitter.com/arlingtoncu https://www.instagram.com/arlingtoncu/ https://www.yelp.com/biz/arlington-community-federal-credit-union-arlington Awesome Women Entrepreneurs: https://awesomewomen.org  

I had a great convo with Alex Suchman about her business, AIS Collaborations, where she provides much-needed business operations and systems support and expertise to small business owners and nonprofits, mostly with 1 - 20 staff. She also offers workshops about how focusing on operations and setting up good systems can be a real stress-buster, especially as your business grows.  Find Alex:  https://www.aiscollaborations.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandra-suchman-52909045/ https://www.facebook.com/dogoodworkbetter/ https://www.instagram.com/aiscollaborations/ Awesome Women: https://awesomewomen.org  

In 2013 Sue Di Filippo left the corporate world to start a business to help guide high school graduates and their families design an enriching gap year before heading off to college. Sue shares how she charted her journey to establish Gap Year Explorer. Find Sue: http://www.gapyearexplorer.com/index.html https://www.linkedin.com/in/sue-di-filippo-91265b9/   Awesome Women Entrepreneurs: https://awesomewomen.org

Dedee Cai, a immigrant from Vietnam who grew up in the Northern Virginia area, uses her expertise in psychology, cognitive science, holistic wellness, physical training and business to help executive leaders and entrepreneurs attain peak performance. She's also considering launching an AWE chapter in Old Town, Alexandria. Find Dedee: www.fittoprofit.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/dedee-cai-468033167/ https://www.facebook.com/Fit-to-Profit-LLC-199643704023863/?modal=admin_todo_tour   Awesome Women Entrepreneurs:  https://awesomewomen.org  

Miriam Gennari, Metro Makeovers founder, documentary filmmaker and environmental activist Styrofoam Mom is raising awareness about our massive plastics problem and the complex solutions we face.  Find Miriam: http://styrofoammom.com/ https://www.facebook.com/styromommovie https://twitter.com/StyroMomMovie https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbpN1aegATVIImb7xYUFWZA https://www.gofundme.com/styrofoammom Awesome Women Entrepreneurs: http://awesomewomen.org

Lynn Veronneau is a successful musician and lead singer of Veronneau, a jazz, blues and world music band in the DC area. She shares her journey, including the thrills and challenges of a career in the music industry. Find Lynn: http://www.veronneaumusic.com/ https://www.youtube.com/user/VeronneauMusic https://www.facebook.com/VeronneauMusic/ https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/veronneau/428508121 https://www.instagram.com/veronneaumusic/?hl=en Awesome Women Entrepreneurs: http://awesomewomen.org

Great conversation with Becky O'Neil of Becky's Pet Care. We talked about how she started her pet care business twenty years ago in her basement, walking dogs with her young son in tow, handing out flyers and putting an ad in WAPO. Now she has over 4,500 active clients throughout the Northern Virginia area. She describes current day struggles and how she manages all the personnel and programs. Insightful and aspirational. Find Becky: http://beckyspetcare.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/becky-oneil-1872b12/ https://www.instagram.com/beckyspetcare/?hl=en Awesome Women Entrepreneurs:  https://awesomewomen.org/