FemExec

Donate to support female-owned small businesses affected by COVID-19 https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-female-owned-businesses-during-covid19?pc=fbcocampmgmtbnrw&rcid=r01-158743035729-c8f6a367f3f54df4&utmsource=facebook&utmmedium=social&utmcampaign=p_lico%2Bbanner&fbclid=IwAR2CaHWMeGXN3OTWlPY6xYA8qzOvqsQFoR4NcjMZL77kJHoG8AUbCpPClyg Find Amy Hartl at: https://amyhartl.com/. https://www.as-we-are-now.com/ In the eighteenth installment of the FemExec podcast, Aakruti Desai (host) sits down with Amy Hartl, from As We Are Now. She discusses how her and her family's diagnosis of breast cancer over the years helped fuel her passion to help other women affected. Tell us what you think! - Follow us on Instagram @femexec - Like our page on Facebook @femexecpod - Email us at contact.femexec@gmail.com Also available on all podcasting platforms including Apple Podcast, Stitcher, Pandora, Spotify, iHeart Radio, and more. Founded by Aakruti Desai. (@aakrutidesai)

Donate to support female-owned small businesses affected by COVID-19 https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-female-owned-businesses-during-covid19?pc=fb_co_campmgmtbnr_w&rcid=r01-158743035729-c8f6a367f3f54df4&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=p_lico%2Bbanner&fbclid=IwAR2CaHWMeGXN3OTWlPY6xYA8qzOvqsQFoR4NcjMZL77kJHoG8AUbCpPClygFind Meredith Walsh at: https://www.mindyourintuition.com In the seventeenth installment of the FemExec podcast, Aakruti Desai (host) sits down with Meredith Walsh, from Mind Your Intuition. She discusses her female empowering business that helps grow female owned small businesses in a short period of time. Listen to what this holistic business coach has learned throughout her career that landed her as CEO of her own company!Tell us what you think! - Follow us on Instagram @femexec- Like our page on Facebook @femexecpod - Email us at contact.femexec@gmail.com Also available on all podcasting platforms including Apple Podcast, Stitcher, Pandora, Spotify, iHeart Radio, and more. Founded by Aakruti Desai. (@aakrutidesai)SHOW LESS

Donate to support female-owned small businesses affected by COVID-19 https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-female-owned-businesses-during-covid19?pc=fb_co_campmgmtbnr_w&rcid=r01-158743035729-c8f6a367f3f54df4&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=p_lico%2Bbanner&fbclid=IwAR2CaHWMeGXN3OTWlPY6xYA8qzOvqsQFoR4NcjMZL77kJHoG8AUbCpPClygFind Marcella Kerwin at: www.bootcampla.com and www.happyhealthyfitgirls.comIn the sixteenth installment of the FemExec podcast, Aakruti Desai (host) sits down with Marcella Kerwin, from Boot Camp LA and Happy Healthy Fit Girls. She discusses how her love for fitness inspired her to quit her job at the American Heart Association and start two successful businesses.Tell us what you think!- Follow us on Instagram @femexec- Like our page on Facebook @femexecpod- Email us at contact.femexec@gmail.comAlso available on all podcasting platforms including Apple Podcast, Stitcher, Pandora, Spotify, iHeart Radio, and more. Founded by Aakruti Desai. (@aakrutidesai)

In the fifteenth installment of the FemExec podcast, Aakruti Desai (host) sits down with Jothi Dugar, from Power of Healing 360 and Bollynatyam Masala. She discusses her changing professional roles throughout everyday, including being a dance teacher to young kids, working in the government's cybersecurity sector, and starting a health and wellness small business. She also discusses how major corporation competition affects her businesses and the discrimination she faces for being a female executive in the heavily male dominated industry of cybersecurity.Tell us what you think! - Follow us on Instagram @femexec - Like our page on Facebook @femexecpod - Email us at contact.femexec@gmail.com Also available on all podcasting platforms including Apple Podcast, Stitcher, Pandora, Spotify, iHeart Radio, and more. Founded by Aakruti Desai. (@aakrutidesai)

In the fourteenth installment of the FemExec podcast, Aakruti Desai (host) sits down with Marlisse Hardamon, from Transformation Speaks. She discusses her own experiences with sexual abuse and how she overcame it. She also discusses how she is able to talk to other sexual abuse survivors and help them escape that dark place.

In the thirteenth installment of the FemExec podcast, Aakruti Desai (host) sits down with Denise Schroder, from Schroder Real Estate in Oklahoma City. She discusses what it's been like working during the pandemic, as real estate workers are classified as essential in her area. She takes listeners on her journey of being told she couldn't do real estate to finding a partner that only helped her blossom and become the top 1% of 6000 realtors in the OKC metro. From unique marketing tactics to being featured on HGTV, Denise Schroder's story is living proof that female executives can make it in the real estate industry.

In the twelfth installment of the FemExec podcast, Aakruti Desai (host) sits down with Kimberly Boone, from Mental Chatter Clinical Therapy. She discusses the stigma surrounding getting help for mental health. She also discusses the advent of telehealth to overcome COVID-19 constraints and how mental healthcare workers will be the new frontline after the disease is under control.

In the eleventh installment of the FemExec podcast, Aakruti Desai (host) sits down with Becky Kilimnik, from the Concept Spot in Atlanta, Georgia. She discusses the incredible discrimination she faced being a female in graphic design and in the STEM field. She also discusses dealing with sexual assault and other things that pushed her to leave corporate America to start a business of her own.

In the tenth installment of the FemExec podcast, Aakruti Desai (host) sits down with Lisa Conto, a life coach, based in Los Angeles, California. She explains how she let go of her nursing career to pursue life coaching to help other women achieve their own dreams. Listen to her inspiring words on how she made a life for herself following her passion.

In the ninth installment of the FemExec podcast, Aakruti Desai (host) sits down with Jennifer Dixon, from Thrive and Wellness Yoga Studios in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She explains how she was able to expand her yoga studio with various different streams of income. With this yoga studio's unique switch to online classes, her business is overcoming the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the eighth installment of the FemExec podcast, Aakruti Desai (host) sits down with Payal Sawhney, the founder of Saahas For Cause, a nonprofit aiming to help South Asian immigrants. She explains the hard truth of the difference between the glorified version of America and the things immigrants actually go through. This nonprofit aims to help immigrant kids know that they have a voice, curb the loneliness and unhealthiness many seniors may face, and help victims of sexual assault and domestic abuse.

In the seventh installment of the FemExec podcast, Aakruti Desai (host) sits down with Tosha Patel, the director of RRB Dance Company, an international dance academy. She discusses how her passion for dance and choreography lead her to teaching. She gives the inside scoop on the business model and modern marketing touch that keeps students coming back to the fastest growing dance academy.

In the sixth installment of the FemExec podcast, Aakruti Desai (host) sits down with Dr. Dipti Doshi, the owner of Advanced Arthritis and Rheumatology Center, a clinic based in Cerritos, CA. Dr. Doshi shares meaningful anecdotes about her family and her own life that helped shape her career into becoming the success it is today.

In the fifth installment of the FemExec podcast, Aakruti Desai (host) sits down with Radhika Shah, the owner of Color My World, an art studio based in Artesia, CA. She explains how her passion for art and teaching morphed into a successful business. She continues to inspire people of all ages to use art as a medium of expression.Tell us what you think!- Follow us on Instagram @femexec- Like our page on Facebook @femexecpod- Email us at contact.femexec@gmail.comAlso available on all podcasting platforms including Apple Podcast, Stitcher, Pandora, Spotify, iHeart Radio, and more. Founded by Aakruti Desai. (@aakrutidesai)

In the fourth installment of the FemExec podcast, Aakruti Desai (host) sits down with Rupa Naik, the CEO of Cake Korner, a bakery based in Artesia, California. The success of her bakery plays into the more recent desire for the American public's awareness of their diets. The rise in vegetarianism can be seen across all industries. Cake Korner shows the effects of the spread of vegetarianism's impact on small businesses. Tell us what you think! - Follow us on Instagram @femexec - Like our page on Facebook @femexecpod - Email us at contact.femexec@gmail.com Also available on all podcasting platforms including Apple Podcast, Stitcher, Pandora, Spotify, iHeart Radio, and more. Founded by Aakruti Desai. (@aakrutidesai)

In the third installment of the FemExec podcast, Aakruti Desai (host) sits down with Smita Vasant, the CEO of Saffron Spot in Artesia, CA. She explains her journey from pursuing industrial psychology to letting her passion for food take over and push her to start her own ice cream store. Saffron Spot is a fusion of her love for her Indian culture with her love for nutrition. Tell us what you think! - Follow us on Instagram @femexec - Like our page on Facebook @femexecpod - Email us at contact.femexec@gmail.com Also available on all podcasting platforms including Apple Podcast, Stitcher, Pandora, Spotify, iHeart radio, and more. Founded by Aakruti Desai. (@aakrutidesai)

In the second installment of the FemExec podcast, Aakruti Desai (host) sits down with Loreen Avakian, the CEO of So Low Drugs, a small business pharmacy based in Los Alamitos. In this, Avakian discusses how small business pharmacies deal with break ins and competing with corporate giants like CVS. She offers great advice on being a pharmacy owner and gets real about her experience in this industry. Tell us what you think! - Follow us on Instagram @femexec - Like our page on Facebook @femexecpod - Email us at contact.femexec@gmail.com Also available on all podcasting platforms including Apple Podcast, Stitcher, Pandora, Spotify, iHeart Radio, and more. Founded by Aakruti Desai. (@aakrutidesai)

In the first installment of the FemExec podcast, Aakruti Desai (host) sits down with Vickie Chiang, the CEO of HS2 Academy, which is based in Southern California. She explains how her success in her business had beginnings in the maternal desire to take care of her children. Her story brings up parallels from news stories about Marissa Myers' (Yahoo CEO) pregnancy in 2012.