Startup Hacks

Startup Hacks

A WE Global Studios podcast with host Fernanda Carapinha, founder of WE Global Studios, author, producer, and serial entrepreneur. Listen in as female founders share their journeys and secret strategies on how they saved time, money and gained a competitive edge while bootstrapping their businesses.

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June 8, 2023 46 mins

Executive Coach and Blueprint founder, Debra Bednar-Clark is guiding people through turning points in their careers—instilling the clarity, confidence, and tools they need to plot bold moves and next chapters. Her practice is defined by one core belief: life is most interesting and fulfilling when we give ourselves permission to lead with our truest, fullest selves.

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An accomplished CEO, entrepreneur and documentary film executive, Anne Devereux-Mills is the Founder of Parlay House, a global organization that gathers women both virtually and in person to spark authentic conversations and build meaningful, supportive relationships. Parlay House currently has over 10,000 participants that span countries, generations, races, sexual orientation, and more. Anne has been honored by a range of organiz...

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Guest Laurel Mintz is the founder of both the award-winning Los-Angeles based marketing agency, Elevate My Brand, as well as Fabric Venture Capital, a firm whose ESG fund is on a mission to weave together diverse, underrepresented founders with the funding they deserve and the critical marketing strategy they need to ensure success. Laurel shares her founder journey, the strategic thinking behind her expansion, and key startup hack...

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June 7, 2022 21 mins

Brooke is the Founder & CEO of Allobee, a managed marketplace, a one-stop business solution for small business owners and startups. She is a technical founder that took her tech skills and experience as a freelancer and business owner and merged them into her idea for Allobee. Brooke went to grad school and got a Master of Science degree in computer information systems, which helped her land a job at Postmates and assist their Sout...

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June 7, 2022 27 mins

Jessica Hershfield, an entrepreneur and the Founder of Just Enough Wines, is constantly growing and transforming her brand. She knows how important it is to stay competitive, regardless of the entrepreneur's industry. Before Just Enough Wines, Jess worked at some prominent tech companies - which has helped her through her entrepreneurial journey. The journey of building a successful brand requires commitment, self-drive, and the co...

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April 13, 2022 40 mins

Applauded by Forbes Magazine as "changing the influencer marketing platform between celebrities and startups," Denise & the LMS team build the most effective influencer marketing programs for companies looking to grow & scale. As founder of the LMS Agency,  Denise Lambertson pioneered the pairing of celebrities with venture-backed consumer startups by implementing sweat equity compensation for marketing services and capital investm...

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March 30, 2022 29 mins

HairDays Founder & CEO Dr. Tiffany St. Bernard knew that there had to be a better way to care for her hair health. Leveraging her background as a Biomedical/Neural Engineer Researcher, she worked to craft a scientific method to analyze hair type, design personalized hair health strategies digitally, and take the trial and error out of hair and scalp care. In 2016 right before she planned to launch the HairDays diary, Tiffany was ho...

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March 24, 2022 29 mins

Daniel Dobson-Smith is the Founder and CEO of Soul Trained, an executive coaching and growth leadership training consultancy. He recently released his latest book, You Can Be Yourself Here: A Pocket Guide To Creating Inclusive Workspaces, using the psychology of belonging. Daniel takes us through the journey of writing his book and the importance of the power of belonging through the lens of psychology.   

Website: https://soultrai...

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March 16, 2022 26 mins

Françoise Girard is the founder, and CEO of Feminism Makes Us Smarter. She is shining the light on incredible feminists around the world and making sure their work is lifted, elevated, and known. Françoise is an author, advocate, and expert on women’s health, human rights, sexuality, HIV and AIDS, and feminist movements. For over 20 years, she has advocated for women’s rights and gender justice in close partnership with feminist ac...

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August 18, 2021 29 mins

Deborah is the Founder & General Partner at Willow Growth Partners. Willow provides early growth capital to entrepreneurs building the next generation of transformative consumer brands and the disruptive technologies that power them. In 2014, Deborah launched a family office investment vehicle focused on seed-stage consumer brands and enabling tech companies.  Website: WillowGrowth.com

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August 11, 2021 27 mins

Valarie J. McCall is Chief of Communications, Government & International Affairs for the City of Cleveland. She is a sought-after speaker, panelist, political strategist, and legislative expert who has garnered countless accolades for her work. From around the globe to the neighborhoods of Cleveland, McCall lends her expertise to affect change and improve the quality of life for all people. Website: www.cleveland-oh.gov

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Jemie is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Psychable, the #1 trusted and comprehensive online community dedicated to connecting those interested in legally exploring psychedelic-assisted therapy with practitioners who can support them. Psychable is now transitioning to a telehealth platform where they connect individuals to ketamine therapy.  Website: www.psychable.com FB: https://www.facebook.com/PsychableDotCom

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July 28, 2021 31 mins

Kimberly Brooks is a contemporary American artist and author of The New Oil Painting by Chronicle Books. A prolific painter known for her portraits and landscape series, Kimberly explores identity and memory in her work. As an Artist, Hacks take the form of developing your own creative process that works for you. Tapping into her own creativity is a process that she describes as starting with a Vision, having Hope, finally Diving I...

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July 21, 2021 25 mins

Shivani Dallas, a successful owner of a top-ranked mortgage company, has set her sights on the Cannabis startup world in Massachusetts. Hub Craft is a vertically integrated Cannabis company with several celebrity products launching this year. A successful salesperson with a strong strategic bent, Shivani values relationships, authenticity, and providing value in business. A strong network is the biggest hack any business person can...

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Katharine McKee is the founder of Morphology Consulting, a digital commerce consultancy that uses algorithms to optimize a company’s GTM for exponential growth. Katharine’s own hacks that have fueled the growth of her business were driven by an acute self-awareness of what living your best life means. A fact many busy founders forget as their company drives their lives. Katharine feels goal setting plays a big factor in that and be...

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Filipa Carvalho is a Lisbon-based attorney and co-founder of Moss & Cooper, a consulting firm aimed at assisting startups by providing strategic and financial consulting to Portugal-based startups and as well as to those considering moving to Portugal. Filipa's top business hacks are the importance of building, nurturing, and connecting your network to clients to facilitate deal flow. Partnership building is another key hack she fe...

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June 23, 2021 26 mins

Kate Miller’s career spanned bud-tending in College to developing entertainment company brand partnership deals before she set off to turn a side hustle into a full-time career as the founder of Miss Grass, a cannabis products platform for consumers. Kate’s bootstrapping hacks are inspired by her early days where brand partnership and affiliate marketing deal-making, accelerated growth, exposure, and reach.

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Before launching her Workplace Productivity Consultancy, Wendy Ellin spent years in radio and writing her well-timed NY Times Best Seller, “Working From Home, How’s That Working For You?” pre-Covid. As her book details, Wendy has hundreds of work from home hacks to drive productivity, performance, and peace of mind. She shares those and her own secret hacks that have guided the success of her growing business and kept her sane and ...

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Stephanie Lee is the founder of SelfMade, a beauty brand for consumers committed to well-being. With products such as True Grit Resilience Scrub to combat scalp and Secure Attachment Serum to lower cortisol, the company is a great blend of high-grade beauty products and mental health boosters given its well-being mindset and positive intention mission. Stephanie’s secret founder hacks include energy management and mental health tec...

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Actress, entrepreneur, and presentation coach to Fortune 500 companies, Allison McGuire successfully blends her many career tracks to fuel her current passion, coaching professionals and founders on applying acting skills and methods to elevate the business pitch drive the close. Founder of the McGuire Method, her biggest hacks utilize the power of manifestation, a prosperity mindset, and working smarter, not harder. 

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