Fempreneur True Confessions Podcast

Vernessa Hopkins is a seasoned Global Operations Executive with a distinguished career leading within Fortune 500 companies. With more than a decade of experience driving operational excellence, innovation, and growth in high-stakes environments, she has mastered the art of influence and leadership. Vernessa is the creator of The Influence Equation, a transformative framework that equips professionals with the tools to strengthen s...

Chanel E. Martin is an award-winning chemical engineer turned serial entrepreneur, recognized for her impact in media, beauty-tech, and innovation. She is the founder and CEO of Beyond the Book Media, where she helps authors and brands publish manuscripts in as little as 30 days, and the author of Speak Up... We Deserve to Be Heard. Featured in outlets like Forbes, Business Insider, Essence, and BET, Chanel has a decade of experien...

In this insightful episode, Misty Mae joins us to talk about loneliness, walking the walk, and grief.  

Misty shared how lonely entrepreneurship was for her, especially when she first started out, and how she struggled with it. How both her personal and professional networks were not always supportive of the things she was trying to accomplish, so she had to take a long and hard look at the people she kept around her in order to...

In this inspiring episode, Melissa Alexander shares her powerful journey from corporate burnout to building a life of freedom, fulfillment, and purpose through entrepreneurship.

Melissa opens up about the moment she realized that the traditional path — career, retirement plan, “success” by society’s standards — wasn’t bringing her joy. Through home business ownership, she discovered not just time and money freedom, but something eve...

In this week’s episode, we dive deep into integrity — what it really means to live, work, and lead from a place of alignment.

Integrity isn’t just about honesty — it’s about when your actions, words, and inner truth line up. It’s about creating boundaries, choosing clients and opportunities that match your values, and having the courage to disappoint instead of betraying yourself.

We explore:

• Integrity as alignment → how to live i...
  

Meet Kash: She served as the chief financial officer for Icon Foods soon moving into the

CEO role (as of May 10, 2024). She oversees the financial operations, reporting, and compliance of these organizations, as well as drives their growth and profitability. She has a strong background in legal matters, such as acquisition negotiation, trademark applications, regulatory compliance, and contract drafting, which enables her to handle ...

Gözde Brake Guia, aka Goz, is the Cofounder of PodWritten, a podcast booking agency for health and wellness businesses. She started her career as a teacher and then became a content writer and editor for a PR company. 

In 2024, driven by a desire for freedom, she and her husband launched PodWritten despite having no prior business or sales experience. But Goz embraced the unknown and decided to learn and grow along the way. Today, t...

Amy Babish helps people who have tried everything and still feel stuck in their health, their marriage, or the impact they know they’re meant to have. She gets to the root, working with ancestral patterns, soul‑level assignments, the body itself, and even the home and land they live on.

For over twenty years, Amy has guided visionaries, executives, founders, and high‑impact leaders to release what was never theirs to carry and live ...

In this empowering episode, we sit down with Marta Mielcarek – designer, mentor, international speaker, and CEO of Glitter Key – to explore what it really means to align purpose with profession and build a business (and a life) you love.

Marta shares her deeply personal journey of losing everything – her company, her contracts, even coffee shop job applications – and how that rock-bottom moment became the catalyst for radical tr...

In this heartfelt and empowering episode, we sit down with Bri Alexander, a sound and energy healing practitioner, for a powerful conversation on transformation, grief, healing, and stepping into your soul’s purpose.

Bri shares how an unexpected loss became the catalyst for deep self-discovery, leading her to move across the world to Taiwan. Through solitude, mindfulness, and the cultural immersion of a slower, more intentional ...

In this powerful and deeply personal episode,we welcome back bestselling author, publisher, and speaker Lynda Sunshine West. Together, we explore the raw truths behind success—the struggles, healing, and self-discovery that don't make it into the highlight reels.

Lynda shares how running away at age five and not being "rescued" shaped decades of self-doubt, people-pleasing, and fear—and how she reclaimed her worth ...

We had such a fun conversation with Cristel on this episode of the podcast. Who said business has to be boring and serious? Not Cristel Sias that’s for sure! Cristel shared her story and powerful business insights with us about: 

• Her philosophy around competition

• Being a college drop out

• What her work playlist is like

• The story of resilience that inspired her 

• And the one piece of advice she’d give her younger self

  
  

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During Charity’s episode we hit it harder than burnout at a board meeting! Charity and Angelic got heart-to-heart about: 

• How she made the shift from corporate shackles to freedom and abundance

• How an abundant mindset isn’t just about monetizing and money, it’s about freedom and access to opportunities and options to live at your most fulfilled

• How we dial into our goals and hold ourselves accountable through the pitfalls, stumbli...

You know when you go into a conversation thinking you will talk about one thing and you end up talking about something else, but it turns into SUCH a great conversation?! That’s what happened with this week’s podcast with Sabrina Morris - while we did get around to talking about what we intended to - we also dove into some juicy nuggets about fear. 

Sabrina wasn’t just generous in sharing her wisdom and stories with us, she also...

Veronica is a two-time Amazon bestselling author, speaker, and the passionate founder of Carnelian Wealth Solutions, LLC. With over 20 years of expertise in financial services, Veronica specializes in empowering women in the sandwich generation to take control of their financial futures. 

Veronica’s mission is deeply personal, rooted in her own experience of navigating the financial and emotional challenges following her father’s pa...

We had a great time sitting down with Becky to talk about the messy, beautiful process of becoming who you really are — and why there’s no quick three-step solution to “figuring life out.”

In this candid episode (ok, for real, they are all pretty candid), Becky shares her personal journey from burnout to contentment, the importance of shedding “shoulds,” and how vulnerability has become one of her greatest strengths. We explore ...

Ever felt guilty for pivoting in your business—or your life—more than once? This episode is your permission slip to embrace change as a powerful tool for growth.

Join us as we chat with Nikia Burch, founder of Confident Bookkeeping Solutions and passionate entrepreneur who has turned life’s toughest challenges into fuel for her business journey.

Nikia shares how she left a corporate job she hated, launched her first VA busine...

In this powerful episode, we welcome Tatiana — therapist, trauma coach, and passionate advocate for women’s empowerment. Tatiana shares her personal story of surviving complex trauma, living in chronic anxiety, and how discovering somatic experiences completely transformed her life. From dissociation and burnout to building a thriving business and creating supportive communities, Tatiana opens up about the journey of healing her ne...