Mogul Chix® Chat Podcast

This episode teaches founders how to build a healthy, predictable people pipeline — the process of consistently attracting aligned candidates, hiring correctly, and retaining top talent. Adrienne gives practical guidance on role clarity, job descriptions, culture expectations, and performance.

Key Takeaways:

• You attract who your brand signals.
• Great hiring requires clear expectations and structured interviews.
• Retentio...

Adrienne breaks down the truth about scaling: you cannot do it yourself. This episode explains why most founders struggle with team-building, what high-performance teams actually look like, and the five elements that allow your team to run confidently without depending on you.

Key Takeaways:

• Helpers and task-doers are not the same as a real team.
• You must hire strategically — not reactively.
• High-performance teams ...

In this episode, Adrienne breaks down the four pathways every business can use to fund growth: debt, equity, revenue power plays, and asset leverage. She explains why under-capitalization kills more businesses than bad ideas and shares the mindset and structure required to become “fundable.”

Key Takeaways:

• You cannot scale without funding. Capital is strategy, not luck.
• Debt preserves ownership; equity accelerates gr...

This episode reframes profit as a leadership decision instead of a financial accident. Adrienne exposes the reasons most companies aren’t profitable and provides the five profit levers every CEO must pull to build a financially powerful company.

Key Takeaways

• Revenue feeds ego. Profit feeds legacy.
• Profit loss comes from underpricing, inefficient delivery, weak teams, chaotic operations, and emotional spending.
• Real pr...

If you're trying to raise capital for your business because you're struggling, you won't get it. And there is a major conversation happening right now in Black and Brown communities that only half address the investing problem. People often have a misconception about what it takes to get capital investment for their business. I'm here to dispel the myths for you. Capital investments aren't about saving your company or getting you b...

On the last episode, we talked about ease as a strategy, not a luxury. Today, we’re taking that conversation a little deeper. In this episode Adrienne guides CEOs through the architecture required to build a business that supports their life, not one that drains it. She identifies the four dysfunctional business models many women unknowingly operate from, and outlines what it takes to build a life-giving, legacy driven compan...

So, you want to build a multi-million dollar company. Well it takes more than "business as usual" to do that. It takes a focused, conscious, next level, intentional mindset and a series of actions a Founder must take to ensure growth. In this episode, Adrienne breaks down the five structural levers behind every fast-growth company. This episode teaches CEOs how to stop growing by accident and start scaling with intentional design, ...

Mogul Chix® Chat is back from hiatus! In this episode, Adrienne resets the tone for what’s coming next on the Mogul Chix Chat Podcast. It’s time to get real about why so many women founders are grinding, overwhelmed, and still feeling like the business isn’t giving what it needs to give. This episode breaks down the 10 universal questions that slow companies down, and gives clear, actionable advice so CEOs can shi...

Networking hasn't changed. But the way you approach it should. As a CEO you have to be discerning about  the rooms you enter. Be intentional about your long game and be mindful about who you associate with. If you're not clear about your "why" for networking, you won't find yourself in the appropriate rooms, circles or events. The last thing you want to do is waste your time and energy with anything that will prove fruitless. ...

Some entrepreneurs get a little busy, and the first thing they do is decide they need to hire. But they often try to hire before they're ready. Not ready in terms of need, but ready in terms of preparation. Hiring is strategy. And if you don't have a plan in place, you can set yourself up for a lot of headaches by making the wrong hires. Don't hire based on emotion or overwhelm. In this episode I discuss the things you need to do B...

Did you know you can negotiate terms with an investor? A lot of people don't know that. The assumption is that once an investor makes an offer, you to take it as is. But as in life, everything is negotiable. In this episode I give tips on how to effectively position yourself to negotiate the terms and get the best chance of securing a funding deal that you can be happy with. Also, you can buy the book The Mogul Chix® Guide to Getti...

When you have hiring needs, it's easy to start interviewing before understanding the salary landscape. Many entrepreneurs make that mistake. A lot try to fit their hired to their budget. In fact they end up losing on great talent when they take that approach. It's better to understand what salaries look like before even talking to the first candidate. It saves time and helps you find the right people and pay them what they're worth...

DISCLAIMER: I did this podcast episode as a Facebook/Youtube livestream. So the quality is a little different.

The political landscape has gotten hot! Biden is out, Harris is in. There have been coalitions breaking records in funding and Zoom calls. But not everyone is on board. People have questions, and rightly so. But now is the time to focus on things like policy. Women and people of color stay under attack. And Kamala H...