Female Leadership

After conquering the male-dominated boardrooms of Wall Street, Sallie Krawcheck turned her attention to an underserved market worth at least $7 billion: women. But how do you transform a customer exp...Show More

At age 22, Whitney Wolfe helped launch Tinder, one of the world's most popular dating apps. But a few years later, she left Tinder and filed a lawsuit against the company alleging sexual harassment. T...Show More

Released Oct, 15, 2018 When Melinda Gates learned about the creativity involved in coding in high school, her interests in STEM really took hold. After graduating with a BS and an MBA from Duke Unive...Show More

Payal Kadakia struggled to find a dance class to take in New York City, leading her to leave her life in corporate America to found ClassPass, an app, and website that compiles fitness classes and mak...Show More

Emily Chang began writing her book "Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley" 2 years ago when a top venture capitalist told her that in order to hire more women at the firm, they would ...Show More

In today’s episode we are thrilled to be joined by serial entrepreneur and badass business woman, Devon Brooks. Devon started her entrepreneurial journey in her early 20s when she co-founded Blo, the ...Show More

If you look up “pivot” in the dictionary, Marisa Ricciardi’s picture should be front and center. From an intern at a white-shoe financial services firm to a business development and marketing executiv...Show More

It's a special crossover edition of No Limits and Skimm'd from The Couch! Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg were in their mid-twenties when they quit their jobs at NBC to create theSkimm, in their New...Show More

In a special panel discussion, experts join the Wall Street Journal's Veronica Dagher with their top health and financial wellness tips. Jennifer Walsh, Founder of Walk with Walsh, Rebecca Parekh, CEO...Show More

Anu Duggal and Sutian Dong are the partners of Female Founders Fund, where they invest in tech companies started by women. Anu began her career as an entrepreneur -- including starting India’s first w...Show More

Rebecca Jarvis grew up with two passions: journalism and econ. As a teenager, she was even a reporter for a local kids’ program in Minnesota. But after college, Rebecca decided to go into finance. Yea...Show More

In this episode, Claudia unpacks a new, more appealing and accessible definition of leadership that is essential to your potential, destiny, and for humanity.

Would-be entrepreneurs, this one's for you. It’s never too late to join the entrepreneurial party. We've all heard the stories of young geniuses, but plenty of influential entrepreneurs founded compan...Show More

After high school, Marcia Kilgore moved to New York City with $300 in her pocket and no real plan. One step at a time, she became a successful serial entrepreneur. First, she used her high school body...Show More

Barbara Corcoran grew up in a working-class Irish Catholic family in Jersey – with nine brothers and sisters. But she used her charisma to conquer the streets of Manhattan and build the real estate co...Show More

Jenn Hyman got the idea for Rent the Runway in 2008, after she watched her sister overspend on a new dress rather than wear an old one to a party. Jenn and her business partner built a web site where ...Show More

We're hard at work planning our upcoming live shows, so we bring you this favorite from the last year: Spanx. At 27, Sara Blakely was selling fax machines and desperate to reinvent her life. So she ca...Show More

Before the Grammys, before the platinum records, before Destiny’s Child, there was just a shy girl growing up in Houston. We follow Beyoncé Knowles from the stages of local talent shows to her first c...Show More

Our first episode from the 2019 How I Built This Summit features Sara Blakely, founder of Spanx. In front of a live audience, she tells Guy how she stayed confident in the earliest days of building th...Show More

In 2000, Mariam Naficy sold her first company, an online cosmetics store called Eve.com, for $110 million. Several years later, she got the entrepreneurial itch once again: she founded Minted.com, an ...Show More

At the height of the first dot-com boom, Selina Tobaccowala and college friend Al Lieb were determined to start a tech company. After a few false starts, they landed on the idea for Evite—an on-line i...Show More

When Alexa von Tobel was just 14, her father passed away unexpectedly, leaving her mother to manage the family's finances. The tragedy made Alexa determined to understand money – and help others plan ...Show More

In 2000, Mariam Naficy sold her first company, an online cosmetics store called Eve.com, for $110 million. Several years later, she got the entrepreneurial itch once again: she founded Minted.com, an ...Show More

For many of us, chicken salad is just another sandwich filling, but Stacy Brown turned it into a $75 million business. In 2007, she was a divorced mother of three looking for a way to make ends meet. ...Show More

Getting older should be something to celebrate. Instead, our youth-obsessed culture tells us we need to get rid of our wrinkles, dye our gray hair, and shave years off of our LinkedIn profiles, or ris...Show More

Holly Thaggard, the founder of infamous skincare brand Supergoop!, has built a company with the mission to reduce the epidemic of skin cancer by shattering sunscreen stereotypes. Previously beginning ...Show More

For Christina Tosi, baking wasn't just a delicious childhood hobby – it was a daily creative outlet and a way to blow off steam. After college, she went to culinary school and honed her pastry techniq...Show More

Tina Craig, globally known as Bag Snob, is a creative force in the industry paving her own career path, while remaining fearless every step of the way. On this episode of Second Life, find out how exa...Show More

Reshma Saujani, the CEO and founder of Girls Who Code, discusses her political background and how she's hoping to close the gender gap in technology.

As a part of WW presents Oprah’s 2020 Vision: Your Life in Focus Tour, Grammy- and Oscar-winner Lady Gaga sits down with Oprah in front of a live audience in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Lady Gaga talks ...Show More

It’s no secret that the media landscape has changed dramatically with the growth of social media apps. (Think: Click bait headlines and inflated viewership that make it harder to decipher what content...Show More

There was a time when Aurora James never thought she'd have a seat at the proverbial table. Now, after dipping her toes in multiple industries, she's at the helm of the sustainable fashion company Bro...Show More

Behind every successful business is a hidden back-end business powering it behind the scenes. No one knows this better than Jenn Hyman, CEO of Rent the Runway. RTR is known for creating a glamorous "c...Show More

This week, we're live from Create & Cultivate's Small Business Summit with Sophia Bush and Stacy London. The real-life gal pals open up about learning to say no, goal setting, and the power of a simpl...Show More

Ju has created a consumer brand that is growing lightening fast, with just a small team of 5 people. What's her secret? And, since she is in Paris and her team is in New York, how does she ensure her ...Show More

When she was working corporate jobs in New York City, Sarah LaFleur hated getting dressed in the morning; the choices in her closet felt overwhelming, many items didn't fit right or wore out too quick...Show More

Nicole Gibbons, founder of first-ever direct-to-consumer paint brand, Clare, is completely disrupting the paint industry. On this episode of Second Life, find out how this former Global PR Director tu...Show More

On this week's episode Lynn Perkins, of Urban Sitters talks about her journey as an entrepreneur, the challenges faced when fundraising, and advice on how to find the right investors and partners for ...Show More

On this episode, Cindy Eckert, Founder & CEO of Sprout Pharmaceuticals and The Pink Ceiling, talks about how she got her start in the male-dominated healthcare industry, the gendered narrative around ...Show More

Men are often the default subjects of design, which can have a huge impact on big and critical aspects of everyday life. Caroline Criado Perez is the author of Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World De...Show More

Shine app co-founders, Naomi Hirabayshi and Marah Lidey, tell WSJ's Veronica Dagher how as two young, female tech founders and women of color what it's like to start a company with a friend, raise ven...Show More

A new year, a new decade, and the question is this: why not now? It is time to take bold, decisive action towards your business goals and look at the significant factors that will set the trajectory f...Show More

Sali Christeson has worked in industries from banking to big tech, but one thing has remained consistent about her day-to-day work life: "I've always been frustrated with shopping for workwear," she s...Show More

Erica Williams Simon is a writer, host, and the CEO of Sage House media. Her new book reveals how she re-wrote her life story and shares how you can do the same. She walked us through how she makes to...Show More

In the sixth episode of Popaganda’s GLAMOUR season, host Carmen Rios meets up with Davida Hall from Lipstick Lobby in Los Angeles—and finds out the stories behind each shade of the feminist beauty bra...Show More

Shellye Archambeau (@ShelArchambeau), one of tech’s first black female CEOs and author of Unapologetically Ambitious, joins Village Global co-founder and partner Anne Dwane for this masterclass held i...Show More

She might not be a household name, but Suzanne Gluck is one of the most powerful people in the book industry. Her slush pile is a key entry point to the biggest publishers in the U.S., and the authors...Show More

The runoff Senate elections in the state of Georgia have been big news, and a driving force behind the scenes for Democrats is Stacey Abrams. She's a lawyer, politician, author, and founder of Fair Fi...Show More

“The pivot is real.” That phrase has defined Tamron Hall’s professional and personal life: from walking away from her job at NBC News, to hustling to get her own talk show on air, to her IVF journey. ...Show More

Rachel Rodgers is a prime example of someone who is breaking the glass ceiling. She is the CEO and founder of Hello Seven, a female-run company dedicated to teaching women of all backgrounds how to i...Show More