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The She Leads® Podcast - Wealth Building & Business Growth

The She Leads® Podcast - Wealth Building & Business Growth

By: Adrienne Garland | Business Growth & Wealth Advisor
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The go-to podcast for women entrepreneurs and leaders growing and scaling to $1 million and beyond while building lasting wealth. Each week, Adrienne Garland offers real and insightful conversations that dive deep with bold women entrepreneurs, executives, and leaders across the globe — stripping away the sugar-coating to get at what actually matters. This podcast is for driven women entrepreneurs and leaders growing their businesses for profit and impact. Adrienne is a Professor at NYU and Rice University, an entrepreneur, and a business growth advisor. She's also an MBA grad, and that bold business friend who asks the questions other women in business podcasts shy away from. Topics covered: scaling to seven figures and why it matters for women and the world, funding women-owned businesses, amplifying your voice and visibility, building high-value networks, leadership, designing entrepreneurial ecosystems that benefit humanity, the importance of financial acumen and literacy, and wealth building strategies Less than 2% of women-owned businesses scale beyond seven figures. The She Leads® Podcast exists to change that. Subscribe now and follow @sheleadsmedia on Instagram for She Leads LIVE events, conferences and travel experiences. website: https://www.sheleadsmedia.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adriennegarland© She Leads Media Economics Leadership Management & Leadership Marketing Marketing & Sales
Episodes
  • Why Women Founders Get 2.3% of VC Funding and the Tactical Playbook to Change It with Anna Mazarsky

    Why Women Founders Get 2.3% of VC Funding and the Tactical Playbook to Change It with Anna Mazarsky
    May 1 2026

    Women founders get 2.3% of VC funding. Not because they lack vision, grit, or ideas, but because the playbook they've been handed was built for men.

    In this episode, I sit down with Anna Mazarsky, founder of PinkX PowerCore, the first tactical platform built to close the funding gap from the inside out. Anna spent nearly two decades inside the fundraising world. When she pulled the data, she didn't find a confidence problem. She found a systems problem, a bias problem, and a pattern-matching problem no amount of mindset coaching was ever going to fix.

    So she stopped coaching and started building.

    We get into why female-led VC funds aren't moving the needle, why women consistently ask for less than they've earned the right to raise, and why 80% of something will always beat 100% of nothing.

    The system wasn't built for us. Anna is building the one that is.

    Chapters:
    🌍 01:34 Meet Anna Mazarsky: two decades, 500+ startups, and the 2.3% gap that broke her

    🇰🇿 04:37 From Kazakhstan to Greece: from bartender to fundraising powerhouse

    📊 08:46 The article that changed everything and the data that made her stop coaching

    🚫 11:04 "Not another women's program": the pushback that pushed her further

    💸 24:22 Why women ask for one million when men ask for ten

    👀 33:28 The companies that get funded versus the ones that should

    🛠️ 52:54 Inside PinkX PowerCore: the platform built to make women investor-inevitable

    🌱 01:00:30 Plant the startup seed in all the girls: why Anna is reaching the next generation


    Links:
    Website: pinkxpwr.com
    LinkedIn: Anna Mazarsky

    If you're a founder who's ever asked for less than you were worth, Anna is the person to follow next.


    Thank you to our podcast sponsor

    Go From Expert to Thought Leader with the Genius Discovery Program.

    Book Directly with Kent: http://talktokent.com

    Learn more at: geniusdiscovery.org

    We're always seeking aligned sponsors.
    ⭐️ If you're interested in supporting our podcast - one episode or a season, reach out to Adrienne at     Adrienne@sheleadsmedia.com.⭐️

    Reach out to Adrienne: hello@sheleadsmedia.com

    Visit our website: www.sheleadsmedia.com to learn about upcoming events or to work with me directly and get the clarity you’re seeking.

    As a gesture of support for this podcast and sharing women's voices everywhere - I would greatly appreciate if you would take a moment and give our podcast a 5 Star rating and review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

    By you taking this simple action, you are making a difference in sharing women's voices, thoughts and opinions.

    One last thing - if you haven’t done so already, please hit the plus sign + to follow the podcast so you never miss an episode. Thank you so much!!

    XO
    Adrienne

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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Your brain listens to everything: Mindset, neuroscience, and building a million dollar business as a woman — with Julie Anderson

    Your brain listens to everything: Mindset, neuroscience, and building a million dollar business as a woman — with Julie Anderson
    Apr 24 2026

    Brain lady Julie Anderson spent thirty years studying how neuroscience shapes women's success, and what keeps them from the million dollar mark is not capability. It is mindset, and specifically what their brains have been trained to listen to.

    In this episode, Adrienne sits down with Julie Anderson, certified brain health professional and international speaker, to talk about the mindset and neuroscience behind how women build and scale. Julie breaks down why women take on too much, why the word "challenge" activates fight response while "opportunity" opens the prefrontal cortex, and why that small shift changes what the brain looks for. They talk through the evening gratitude practice that has to include something about you, the visualization work elite athletes actually do, and something Adrienne noticed in an AI class that morning: a male instructor typing messy prompts and getting ten times the output of a brilliant woman correcting every comma.

    If you are building toward a million and wondering why the same patterns keep repeating, this one is worth your time.

    Chapters:

    01:38 🧠 Meet Julie Anderson, the brain lady with 30 years in brain science

    03:58 🌱 From homeschooling to psychoneuroimmunology: how it all started

    08:06 ⚖️ Why women spread themselves too thin and what it costs them

    15:44 🔄 Challenge vs. opportunity: brain treats them differently

    18:46 🌙 The evening gratitude practice that has to include you

    30:29 🏆 What brain scans of elite athletes reveal about visualization

    38:16 💻 The AI class moment: perfectionism vs. messy progress

    47:16 🔬 One word can activate fight, flight or open the prefrontal cortex

    50:34 💰 Normalize the million, and everything after it


    Links:

    Email: info@brainladyspeaker.com
    Website: BrainLadySpeaker.com
    Social: @brainladyjulie
    Reach out to Julie Anderson to learn more about the neuroscience behind high performance and the mindset work that helps women leaders scale.

    Thank you to our podcast sponsor

    Go From Expert to Thought Leader with the Genius Discovery Program.

    Book Directly with Kent: http://talktokent.com

    Learn more at: geniusdiscovery.org

    We're always seeking aligned sponsors.
    ⭐️ If you're interested in supporting our podcast - one episode or a season, reach out to Adrienne at     Adrienne@sheleadsmedia.com.⭐️

    Reach out to Adrienne: hello@sheleadsmedia.com

    Visit our website: www.sheleadsmedia.com to learn about upcoming events or to work with me directly and get the clarity you’re seeking.

    As a gesture of support for this podcast and sharing women's voices everywhere - I would greatly appreciate if you would take a moment and give our podcast a 5 Star rating and review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

    By you taking this simple action, you are making a difference in sharing women's voices, thoughts and opinions.

    One last thing - if you haven’t done so already, please hit the plus sign + to follow the podcast so you never miss an episode. Thank you so much!!

    XO
    Adrienne

    • (01:38) - 🧠 Meet Julie Anderson, the brain lady with 30 years in brain science
    • (03:58) - 🌱 From homeschooling to psychoneuroimmunology: how it all started
    • (08:06) - ⚖️ Why women spread themselves too thin and what it costs them
    • (15:44) - 🔄 Challenge vs. opportunity: brain treats them differently
    • (18:46) - 🌙 The evening gratitude practice that has to include you
    • (30:29) - 🏆 What brain scans of elite athletes reveal about visualization
    • (38:16) - 💻 The AI class moment: perfectionism vs. messy progress
    • (47:16) - 🔬 One word can activate fight, flight or open the prefrontal cortex
    • (50:34) - 💰 Normalize the million, and everything after it
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    55 mins
  • What No One Tells You About What to Wear During Cancer Recovery — and the Entrepreneur Who Fixed It with Dr. Cindy Trice

    What No One Tells You About What to Wear During Cancer Recovery — and the Entrepreneur Who Fixed It with Dr. Cindy Trice
    Apr 17 2026
    Hospital gowns strip your dignity. That's what Dr. Cindy Trice learned firsthand during treatment for advanced cervical cancer. When a friend brought her a pair of pajamas, it changed everything: she felt like a person again, not just a patient. That moment became the origin story for Kickit Recovery Wear, a company designing stylish, functional post-surgery clothing and chemo-friendly apparel for women at every stage of recovery. In this episode, Cindy shares the 16-year journey from idea to launch — including a paralyzing car accident at 18, a career as a veterinarian, a sold software company, and the fourth-grade friend who helped her finally bring it all to life.During chemo, a friend brought her a pair of cute pajamas. She put them on and everything changed. She walked laps around the nurses' station. She let visitors in. But the nurses could not work around them, and she realized the hospital gown exists for a reason. The question was: why has nobody made something that works for patients and medical staff?That idea sat for sixteen years. In the meantime, Cindy became a veterinarian, built and sold a software company called Relief Rover, and eventually launched KickIt with three co-founders, including her best friend since the fourth grade. They split ownership equally and built the whole thing together.She is also a patient advocate for Cervivor and wants you to know: cervical cancer is preventable. Get screened.If you are building something from a problem you lived through, this conversation will feel familiar.Chapters:🎙️ 01:04 Rate, review, and share the show 🐾 03:11 Meet Dr. Cindy Trice: veterinarian, cancer survivor, and lover of long and low dogs 🏥 05:17 Breaking her back at 18 and learning what dignity in healthcare really means 🐋 12:47 Volunteering at the Marine Mammal Center and lying her way into a pet clinic job 🩺 21:13 Advanced cervical cancer diagnosis right out of vet school 👗 24:41 The hospital gown that stripped her identity and the pajamas that gave it back 🔧 27:30 Why hospital gowns are designed for function and why nobody fixed them 🚀 30:29 Sixteen years from idea to launch: some ideas need to bake 🤝 33:05 A fourth-grade best friend, two garment makers, and a company built by four women 🔄 36:49 Relief Rover, simultaneous entrepreneurship, and selling the first company 🌱 42:51 The roller coaster is real: confidence, hustle, and building your network 🎁 46:20 KickIt slipper socks giveaway: tag @sheleadsmedia and @kickitrecoverywear Links:Website: kickitrecoverywear.com Instagram: @kickitrecoverywear Email: cindy@kickitpajamas.com If this conversation made you think differently about what recovery can look and feel like, follow KickIt and see what they are building. GIVEAWAY 🎁 Slipper Socks Giveaway! At our most recent Pitch The Media event in NYC, KickIt donated the most beautiful, luxurious Slipper Socks. I have a few pairs left and I would love to give them away to 3 lucky listeners. Here is how to enter: give the show a 5-star rating and review, tag both @sheleadsmedia and @kickitrecoverywear on Instagram. I will choose 3 women to receive a pair of these incredibly cozy slipper socks. Thank you to our podcast sponsorGo From Expert to Thought Leader with the Genius Discovery Program.Book Directly with Kent: http://talktokent.com Learn more at: geniusdiscovery.org We're always seeking aligned sponsors.⭐️ If you're interested in supporting our podcast - one episode or a season, reach out to Adrienne at Adrienne@sheleadsmedia.com.⭐️Reach out to Adrienne: hello@sheleadsmedia.com Visit our website: www.sheleadsmedia.com to learn about upcoming events or to work with me directly and get the clarity you’re seeking.As a gesture of support for this podcast and sharing women's voices everywhere - I would greatly appreciate if you would take a moment and give our podcast a 5 Star rating and review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. By you taking this simple action, you are making a difference in sharing women's voices, thoughts and opinions. One last thing - if you haven’t done so already, please hit the plus sign + to follow the podcast so you never miss an episode. Thank you so much!!XOAdrienne (01:04) - 🎙️ Rate, review, and share the show (03:11) - 🐾 Meet Dr. Cindy Trice: veterinarian, cancer survivor, and lover of long and low dogs (05:17) - 🏥 Breaking her back at 18 and learning what dignity in healthcare really means (12:47) - 🐋 Volunteering at the Marine Mammal Center and lying her way into a pet clinic job (21:13) - 🩺 Advanced cervical cancer diagnosis right out of vet school (24:41) - 👗 The hospital gown that stripped her identity and the pajamas that gave it back (27:30) - 🔧 Why hospital gowns are designed for function and why nobody fixed them (30:29) - 🚀 Sixteen years from idea to launch: some ideas need to bake (33:05) - 🤝 A fourth-grade best friend, two garment ...
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    51 mins
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