Nicole Staple – Co-Founder & CEO of Brideside

Nicole Staple is the CEO and co-founder of Brideside, which is an amazing online boutique that has completely disrupted how people shop for bridal apparel. Instead of focusing on a brick and mortar bride and bridesmaid experience, Brideside has automated the bridal process and made it easy to do as much bridal apparel and dress shopping as possible over the internet. On this show, Nicole talks about how Brideside has dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic (over 50% of weddings were canceled in 2020), how Brideside has leveraged technology to pivot their business, Nicole’s biggest lessons from her entrepreneurial journey so far, and much more.

Joey Grassia – Co-Founder of Shef

Joey Grassia is a serial entrepreneur, and in particular, a serial *food* entrepreneur. He is a co-founder of Shef, which is an incredibly innovative community-based food platform that is providing people the opportunity to sell their home cooked meals. However, before Joey co-founded Shef, he had already founded and sold a couple of other food and beverage companies. Joey was the founder and CEO of Steamm bottled expresso, and the founder of the KUTOA health food brand. He sold both of those companies in 2017, but his entrepreneurial spirit led him to co-found Shef just a couple years later. Joey has been recognized for his entrepreneurial success as one of Forbes 30 Under 30, and his passion and drive is truly motivating and inspiring. On today’s show, Joey talks about his entrepreneurial path and how and why he has sold companies to make room for new innovative ideas, how he and his team at Shef have dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic, the importance of community, and much more.

Daniel Kasidi – Founder & CEO of Rastaclat

Daniel Kasidi took some extra shoe laces and created his first Rastaclat bracelet when he was in high school. He knew that he had made something special when he gave the bracelets to his high school classmates, and they were inspired to be more confident and creative because of his creation. Then, after working as a designer at Levi’s, Levoc, and Disney early in his career, Daniel decided to apply the knowledge he’d learned working with these other brands to his Rastaclat bracelets. Daniel’s unique product combined with his understanding of design and fashion has resulted in an extremely successful business. In the past 10 years, Rastaclat bracelets have become incredibly popular, and they are sold all over the world. On this show, Daniel talks about his entrepreneurial journey, how he’s dealt with the COVID pandemic as an entrepreneur, his advice to a younger self, and much more.

Tracy McLaughlin – Top Real Estate Agent & Author of Real Estate Rescue

I’m so excited to have real estate mogul and author, Tracy McLaughlin, on this episode. Tracy is an incredible real estate agent (full disclosure, she was *my* real estate agent). She’s been named Marin County’s Top Real Estate Agent for the past 14 years, and Tracy recently came about with a great new book called *Real Estate Rescue: How America Leaves Billions Behind in Residential Real Estate and How To Maximize Your Home’s Value*. On this show, Tracy talks about how she has built her business, how to manage your home as an asset, the keys to becoming a successful real estate agent, what her book is about, and much more.

Julie Wainwright – Founder & CEO of The RealReal

Julie Wainwright, founder of The RealReal luxury consignment, joins me on this episode. Through creating The RealReal, Julie has introduced a whole new way of buying and selling luxury consignment items. She created one of the first luxury e-commerce companies, and she has turned into an incredible empire. Julie has so many incredible insights to share as an entrepreneur, and as someone who has been the first woman to sore in the industry many times throughout her professional life. On today’s show, Julie talks about how to deal with rejection, how and why she built The RealReal, the keys to growing and scaling, how she has become one of the sustainability movements in fashion, and much more.

Emma Isaacs – CEO of Business Chicks & Author of Winging It

My guest, Emma Isaacs, is the CEO and owner of Business Chicks, which is a global women’s business community. Emma just came out with her new book *Winging It* which I just read, and I highly recommend it. Emma has been an entrepreneur ever since she was 18 years old. She’s had multiple successful businesses, and her book *Winging It* is about what holds women back (and what propels them forward) in business and in life. On this show, Emma talks about what she has learned as an entrepreneur, how to excel as a leader, how she has managed to have six kids and build a family while also being an entrepreneur, some of the greatest lessons and takeaways of *Winging It*, and more.

Kurt Seidensticker – Founder & CEO of Vital Proteins

My guest, Kurt Seidensticker, is a a serial entrepreneur and he has always been on the cutting edge of new information and products. After going into aerospace engineering and working at NASA, Kurt went to work Motorola and then moved into the e-commerce space. Eventually, he merged his interests in health with entrepreneurship and created Vital Proteins. On this show, Kurt talks about how he decided to create a collagen peptides product that was accessible to consumers, how he has approached digital marketing and working with influencers, what it has been like to build his company so quickly, and much more.

Daniella Yacobovsky – Co-Founder of BaubleBar

When Daniella Yacobovsky and her good friend, Amy Jain, were in Business School at Harvard, they let off steam by shopping together and vamping up their wardrobes for Wall Street. Inspired by their love for fashion jewelry, they decided to partner on a fashion jewelry line project during the last couple of years of business school. They then turned their project into a business which we know today as BaubleBar, which sells on-trend fashion jewelry and works directly with designers to sell jewelry at an affordable price. BaubleBar has been named and featured by *Fast Company*, *Forbes*, and *Tech Crunch* for their amazing work. Daniella joins me on this episode to talk about how she and Amy started BaubleBar, what she’s learned in the last 10 years of business, the importance of understanding data and the “back-end” of the business, and much more.

Janie Brooks Heuck – Managing Director of Brooks Winery

Janie Brooks Heuck, Managing Director of Brooks Winery, joins me on this episode. After Janie’s brother died suddenly in 2004, she was asked to take over his winery business. Since then, Brooks Winery has received many accolades, including “Top Five Wineries Not to Miss in Oregon” from *USA Today*. The Brooks’ family story has also been featured in the documentary *American Wine Story* which is available on Amazon Prime. On this show, Janie talks about how she moved from the health care industry to entrepreneurship, the role of her family in her current business, how she has pivoted the business during COVID-19 to make wine tasting more socially distant, and more.

Mindy Grossman – President & CEO of WW (formerly Weight Watchers)

Mindy is a business icon, President & CEO of WW, and a self-proclaimed “accidental CEO”. She is one of *Fast Company’s* “Most Creative People in Business”, and Mindy has been named “Business Person of the Year” by *Fortune*. She has nearly four decades of experience in building and transforming consumer brands. I’m so excited to have Mindy join us on the show. She’s had an incredible and non-conventional career path. On this show, Mindy talks about her entrepreneurial journey and the entrepreneurial mindsets that have helped her become the incredibly successful executive that she is today.