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Feminist Founders

By: Becky Mollenkamp
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  • You are a business owner who wants to prioritize people and planet over profits (without sacrificing success). That can feel lonely—but you are not alone! Join host Becky Mollenkamp for in-depth conversations with experts and other founders about how to build a more equitable world through entrepreneurship. It’s time to change the business landscape for good!
    2023
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  • Fighting for Accessibility with Nichole Beiner Powell-Newman

    Fighting for Accessibility with Nichole Beiner Powell-Newman
    May 22 2024
    Check it out: The Feminist Founders Guide to Building Your Dream LifeA guided workbook to clarify your equity-centered vision and craft a you-centered plan for making it happen ($15, available on Amazon): https://amzn.to/4aSzeBkSUMMARY: Nichole Beiner Powell-Newman, an unwavering advocate for intersectional wellness and CEO of Nichole Gabrielle and Co., LLC. shares her transformative journey from law to leadership consulting, and back to blogging. We delve into the challenges of disability in traditional workspaces, visionary steps towards truly inclusive workplaces, and creating liberatory communities. Nichole challenges us to consider how ableism might infiltrate our business practices and invites us to turn our professed values into actionable, everyday guides. Join us for a conversation that redefines community and courage in leadership.Nichole Alcántara Beiner Powell-Newman (she/her) is an intersectional wellness advocate, speaker and consultant. She seeks equity, belonging and liberation at the crossroads of race, gender, and (dis)ability, through courageous conversations about lived truths, collective healing/care, and through community-centered action. She enjoys creating spaces that allow vulnerable explorations of unbridled joy for those who hold multiple marginalized identities and cultivating communities committed to intersectional belonging.Nichole serves as the CEO and Co-Founder of Nichole Gabrielle and Co., LLC, a Leadership and Culture Consultancy focused on creating cultures of belonging for people with marginalized identities. Using the skills she's gained from years of facilitation work, legal practice, and her own experiences as a disabled and chronically ill Afro-Latina, Nichole is able to help companies tackle systemic inequities, have hard conversations, and create spaces where people feel safe and confident that they can be their full selves.When she’s not spending time in community, Nichole enjoys reading, spending time with her husband, Vince, and learning about new foods and places. Lately, you can find her reconnecting with her roots in food anthropology, studying yoga philosophy, or planning out the big, beautiful life she believes we’re all deserving of.Website | Instagram | TikTok | LinkedInDiscussed in this episode:Nichole’s exploration of feminism and womanism Why working as a lawyer and have a disability became incompatible for NicholeThe journey from lawyer to blogger to DEI consultant and back to bloggingFinding a truly liberatory yoga practice and how it helped Nichole shift her thinkingNichole’s vision for inclusive workplacesWhy return-to-work orders are ableist (and may not be financially wise)How ableism may be showing up in your businessWhy it’s liberatory to be in aligned communityThe problem with turning community into an industryHow to reimagine community through a womanist lensHaving difficult (and political) conversations as a business thought leaderTurning values from words on a website into a guide for every choiceScience fiction as a pathway to reimagining a more liberated worldResources mentioned:“All the Black Girls Are Activists” by Ebony JaniceMelanin and MoxieSpoon TheorySusana Barkataki“The Power of Sitting in the Mess,” Nichole’s Fearless Fire talkSins Invalid“The Myth of Normal” by Gabor Maté“Parable of the Sower” by Octavia ButlerFeminist Book ClubLearn more about accountability coaching with host Becky Mollenkamp at https://beckymollenkamp.com
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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • Creating Inclusive Communities with Mai Moore

    Creating Inclusive Communities with Mai Moore
    May 15 2024

    Check it out: The Feminist Founders Guide to Building Your Dream Life
    A guided workbook to clarify your equity-centered vision and craft a you-centered plan for making it happen ($15, available on Amazon): https://amzn.to/4aSzeBk


    NOTE: Feminist Founders is a listener-funded podcast. Your contributions enable me to continue bringing you these important conversations. To support the mission, sign up for a paid Substack subscription at https://feministfounders.substack.com/


    SUMMARY: In this episode of the Feminist Founders podcast, we chat with Mai Moore, founder of Boss Me In, exploring her shift from corporate leadership to championing values-aligned networking for Gen Z women. We discuss creating safer spaces and the unique challenges anti-capitalist startups face. Mai offers impactful leadership tips for building inclusive communities and navigating the non-traditional paths of mentorship and funding. Her insights inspire entrepreneurs to lead with authenticity and purpose, aiming to transform societal norms and foster real change in the business world.

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    Mai Moore (she/her) is an Award-Winning Social Impact Leader, Co-Founder of EYEJ: Empowering Youth, Exploring Justice; Founder of Setting Off Social Impact, and Boss Me In. Mai helped two tech start-ups go public; Travelzoo Inc. and United Online. She believes in diverse women, BIPOC persons, and our young people to help create a more equitable and inclusive world. Mai is from Cleveland Heights, Ohio.

    Website | LinkedIn


    Discussed this episode:

    • Mai’s relationship with feminism
    • Why Mai moved from the C-suite to helping Gen Z women kick off their careers
    • What founders need to understand about Gen Z
    • The challenging (and different) future that Gen Z professionals face
    • What is missing in many mentoring and networking programs and what makes Boss Me In different
    • How Mai chose the name Boss Me In
    • The “no-mask” policy that appeals to Gen Z’s value of authenticity
    • Creating truly inclusive communities
    • Steps Boss Me In takes to create safer spaces
    • The importance of harm repair inside of communities
    • Personal growth and the ebbs and flows of finding values-aligned communities
    • How Mai deals with imperfect communities
    • Tips for finding truly inclusive communities
    • Finding a mentor at any age
    • Mai’s best tip for moving beyond the fears of getting visible
    • Why founders need community
    • The ways Boss Me In is challenging capitalist norms
    • VC funding, KPIs, and burnout
    • What’s different about Boss Me In’s approach to funding


    Resources mentioned:

    • Boss Me In
    • Empowering Youth, Exploring Justice
    • “The Four Agreements” by don Miguel Ruiz


    Learn more about accountability coaching with host Becky Mollenkamp at https://beckymollenkamp.com
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    56 mins
  • Revolutionizing Business with Elisa Camahort Page

    Revolutionizing Business with Elisa Camahort Page
    May 8 2024

    Check it out: The Feminist Founders Guide to Building Your Dream Life
    A guided workbook to clarify your equity-centered vision and craft a you-centered plan for making it happen ($15, available on Amazon): https://amzn.to/4aSzeBk


    NOTE: Feminist Founders is a listener-funded podcast. Your contributions enable me to continue bringing you these important conversations. To support the mission, sign up for a paid Substack subscription at https://feministfounders.substack.com/


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    Elisa Camahort Page (she/her) is a fractional executive and strategic consultant who launches and scales businesses, products, and authentic user communities. Elisa was co-founder and COO of BlogHer, Inc. In that role, Elisa had oversight of the practices, policies, and procedures that modeled how organizations can build community, grow a business, and support inclusion in words and action.


    Since leaving the company that acquired BlogHer, Elisa has consulted with organizations to define and deliver on content, product, community, and communications strategies and resource plans that are in alignment with their brand values. A frequent public speaker, LinkedIn Learning course instructor, and freelance writer, Elisa is also the host of The Op-Ed Page podcast and the This Week-ish and Optionality newsletters on Substack, as well as the co-author of “Road Map for Revolutionaries: Resistance, Activism, and Advocacy for All.”


    Website | LinkedIn | Instagram | Threads | TikTok | Facebook

    Discussed in this episode:

    • Elisa’s relationship with feminism and how it evolved to be more intersectional
    • How BlogHer was created to address the early days of blogging
    • How values were more than something “laminated on the wall”
    • Bootstrapping the rollout, and the growth pains of adding payroll
    • Pursuing Series A funding, and who shouldn’t go for VC funding
    • Challenges for women pursuing VC funding
    • Why Elisa will not go for VC funding again (despite a decent first experience)
    • How public and private funding negatively impacts decision making
    • Choosing to sell vs. securing another round of funding for growth
    • Managing the transition period of a buyout
    • Navigating personal values while running a company that has grown beyond you
    • The benefit of having an odd number of owners
    • Male-dominated leadership of women-dominated products
    • Why Elisa’s book wasn’t the one she originally thought she’d write
    • The 20 years that destroyed worker trust, and how the pandemic shifted things
    • Rethinking employee mentorship models
    • New models for making money as content creators (ie, Substack)


    Resources mentioned:

    • “Roadmap for Revolutionaries: Resistance, Activism and Advocacy for All,” by Elisa Camahort Page, Carolyn Gerin, and Jamia Wilson
    • “The Man Who Broke Capitalism” by David Gelles
    • Center for Reproductive Rights
    • National Network of Abortion Funds
    • Our Hen House


    Learn more about accountability coaching with host Becky Mollenkamp at https://beckymollenkamp.com
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    1 hr and 11 mins
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