She's That Founder: Business Strategy, Time Management and AI Magic for Impactful Female Leaders
You’re listening to She’s That Founder: the show for ambitious women ready to stop drowning in decisions and start running their businesses like the confident CEO they were born to be. Here, we blend business strategy, leadership coaching, and a little AI magic to help you scale smarter—not harder. I’m Dawn Andrews, your executive coach and business strategist. And if your to-do list is longer than a CVS receipt and you’re still the one refilling the printer paper... this episode is for you. Each week, we talk smarter delegation, systems that don’t collapse when you take a nap, and AI tools that actually lighten your load—not add more tabs to your mental browser. You’ll get: Proven strategies to grow your revenue and your impact Executive leadership frameworks that elevate you from manager to visionary Tools to build a business that runs without burning you out So kick off your heels—or your high-performance sneakers—and let’s get to work. Tuesdays are deep-dive episodes. Thursdays are quick hits and founder rants. All designed to make your business easier, your leadership sharper, and your results undeniable. If you’re ready to turn your drive into results that don’t just increase sales but change the world, pop in your earbuds and listen to Ep. 10 | Trust Your Gut: Crafting a Career by Being Unapologetically You With Carrie Byalick
Episodes
What if the only thing standing between you and next-level leadership… is waiting for permission that no one’s coming to give?
You don’t need another leadership book—you need to stop playing small in your own company.
In this fiery Thursday Rant, Dawn calls out a silent epidemic among female founders: waiting for permission to lead the very business they built.
From shrinking in the boardroom to apo...
Are you holding it all together while quietly falling apart?
In this raw and radically honest milestone episode, Dawn Andrews peels back the curtain and shares what it really took to hit 100 episodes—while living through the most unrelenting year of her life. We're talking an 89% business drop, a full rebrand, marathon training, eldercare chaos, and teen parenting drama.
This is not your tidy “12 leadership tips” ...
Is your AI tool sounding like a corporate robot with a word salad problem? It’s not broken, you’re just briefing it like an intern you secretly resent.
Let’s get one thing straight: getting great AI results isn’t magic, it’s instructions. In this founder-fire Thursday episode, Dawn Andrews reveals why most female founders are getting mediocre results from AI and what to do about it.
She shares the exact 5-part framewor...
Still rewriting everything your team writes "to sound more like you"? It's not your team—it's your system.
If you’re spending hours editing social posts, emails, and podcast promos because they just don’t sound like you, this episode is your game-changer. Dawn Andrews reveals how to train AI and your team to write in your authentic voice—so you can stop being the bottleneck in your business.
Learn t...
What if your growth plan isn’t strategy—but just a percentage in a power suit?
Let’s be real: “Grow revenue by 12%” isn’t visionary. It’s just math dressed up as leadership.
This quick-hit episode delivers a $50K wake-up call—how one professional firm went from playing small to owning their entire market, just by ditching their safe goal and getting brutally honest about what they actually wanted.
You’ll learn how to shi...
Are you crushed under the weight of being the decision czar in your business?
Does your to-do list include tasks your team should handle? Then it's time for a leadership upgrade.
If you're the CEO who still picks slide colors, approves every invoice, and solves all the "quick questions," this episode is your wake-up call.
Today, we break down why great decision-making isn't your superpower anym...
What if the reason your meetings suck… isn’t your team—but your system?
Let’s be real: unstructured meetings are silently bleeding your business dry.
In this quick-hit episode, Dawn drops a $24K truth bomb—how bad meetings drain your time, energy, and profits. But here’s the fix: a smarter meeting system powered by AI.
You’ll walk away knowing how to turn time-wasting chaos into high-leverage clarity—with tools, scripts,...
What happens when the employee who once saved your business is now the one holding it back?
In this episode, you’ll learn how to separate gratitude from strategy, spot the signs that loyalty has become a bottleneck, and use AI to make confident decisions without the guilt spiral.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- Why loyal employees sometimes can’t scale with your vision
- The Growth or Go filter: capability, curiosity, a...
Too many female leaders are secretly avoiding AI, downloading tools but never using them, delegating it away, or pretending it’s not urgent.
That silence is costing influence, credibility, and growth.
This episode is about stripping away the perfectionism that keeps founders stuck on the sidelines of the biggest business tool of our lifetime. You’ll see why leadership has never been about having every answer. It’s abou...
You don’t need 17 software subscriptions to run your business.
You need a simple AI stack that connects your clients, creates your content, and commands your systems — so you stop being the bottleneck and start leading like the CEO you are.
In this episode, you’ll discover how to cut through tool overwhelm and finally build systems that actually work for you. From automation that runs while you sleep to AI that writes ...
Friday afternoon chaos doesn’t actually start on Friday.
It starts Monday, when the week is designed in a way that guarantees last-minute emergencies. If your team is piling on questions at 4:47 PM Friday afternoon, it’s not because they’re disorganized. It’s because you’ve built a system that rewards procrastination and punishes planning ahead.
In this episode, I’m showing you how to break that cycle. You’ll learn how...
If your team asks you to approve things like lunch orders, calendar invites, or formatting choices, you’ve accidentally become the Chief Permission Officer.
This bottleneck drains your time, chips away at their confidence, and slows the whole company down.
In this episode of She’s That Founder, I’m sharing the 2-Minute Rule and how to use AI to retrain your team so they stop asking for permission on every little thing ...
If your team is texting “How do I…?” at 7PM, you’ve become their expensive search engine. At your CEO salary, that’s draining time and focus.
This isn’t about being mean.
It’s about breaking the habit of training your team to lean on you for every answer—and giving them tools to solve problems on their own. That’s where the 3-Text Test comes in, with a little AI backup to take you out of the loop for good.
In this episo...
You hit $1.2M in revenue — but $840K comes from one client. One contract. One decision maker. One email away from unraveling everything.
If more than half your revenue depends on a single client, you’re not free — you’re trapped in golden handcuffs.
This episode isn’t about losing your biggest client — it’s about building a business where no single client holds your future hostage. With AI as your strategic partner, ...
Your team isn’t bringing you drama because they’re needy — they’re bringing it because you’ve trained them to believe every hiccup requires CEO intervention.
But here’s the truth: your job is to ensure professional collaboration, not personal comfort.
This episode is your reminder that you’re not the office therapist. You’re the CEO. And with the Function First Framework (plus a little AI backup), you can redirect emoti...
What if being irreplaceable in your business is actually the most replaceable position you could be in?
Too many brilliant founders have built businesses where they are the product. Clients only want you, the calendar is maxed, and suddenly you’ve created the perfect prison: a company that can’t run without you.
This isn’t about hustling harder — it’s about breaking free of the expertise trap and learning how to packag...
What happens when you're a leader but you've lost your motivation?
It's hard to get momentum back when you’ve taken time off, or things are tough in your business. Suddenly, the challenges of moving your business forward seem insurmountable; what if you stay stuck? What happens to your company? Your family?
Seriously though, how do you find your mojo again so you can be the leader you were meant to be? ...
It’s tough to get noticed in Hollywood, and today's guest made a career by helping others do just that. She was one of the entertainment industry’s most respected and sought-after media and publicity strategists, ran her own talent management firm (B. Company), and now she works with Late Show legend, Stephen Colbert… as president of his production company Spartina.
Carrie inspires me and so many other women by b...
Summer is the perfect time to reset your business vision.
While most people wait until January to set goals, by then the momentum is gone. Summer offers a rare window — the pace slows, creativity rises, and you can refresh your vision without the pressure of year-end.
This episode shares why summertime is the ideal season to rethink your business vision, how to reset it without hustle or overwhelm, and the steps t...
Quitting your dream job to start a business is a risky decision, especially if you’re in a high-ranking, visible position. And Nicole Marra, did just that.
As the CEO and Founder of Fixer Advisory Group, Nicole works with some of the world's most dynamic luxury brands.
Nicole led Gucci America's legal, real estate, compliance, security, and crisis management functions for over a decade before taking the leap a...
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