Lipstick Economy

Anas Saba of Nashville Hidden Gems talks about his popular Instagram account that highlights many of the wonderful family-owned restaurants around the area.

Kate Guerra of the Tennessee Titans discusses exciting changes for the team as well as the roles women play in sports marketing.

Bridgestone Americas marketing leaders Elizabeth Lewis and Merritt Gilbert talk about the Bridgestone brand purpose What Really Matters and how it brings new cultural relevancy to their brand.

HR consultant Jenni Bedell of OneDigital discusses the barriers to leadership positions for women and how those issues can be addressed and overcome.

Vui and John Hunt talk about starting and running their successful and popular restaurants and juice bars.

April Britt is the co-founder, EVP, and Chief Experience Officer of Studio Bank, Nashville’s first start-up bank in more than a decade. Through her Studio Women’s Collective, Britt has created a business network program for women with regular events to foster engagement and peer networking.

The latest podcast was recorded LIVE! Ogechi Anyatonwu, Michael Frazier, and Stacey Thomas joined us at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center to share the story of the Tennessee Minority Owned Wine and Spirits Association, and how the association benefits their own personal brands, and each other.

Mandy Arola of the Nashville Software School discusses the importance of bringing underrepresented groups and financially disadvantaged into tech careers.

Cookbook author, television host, and restaurateur Lidia Bastianich joins the podcast just ahead of her event with Nashville Public Television, Breakfast with Lidia to discuss her 25 years of success on PBS, her new season of Lidia’s Kitchen and her recent special, Lidia Celebrates America: The Flavors that Define Us.

From ChatGPT to the importance of boosting tech jobs in Nashville, Elise Cambournac joins the Lipstick Economy Podcast to talk about all things tech-related.

Jennifer Turner and Tony Marks of the Tennessee Performing Arts Center discuss the magic of viewing live performances, the opportunities of the post-COVID era, and their efforts to curate the shows for Nashville as well as expand program offerings to appeal to new audiences.

Anyone hungry for hot chicken? We know we are after this delicious conversation with Ms. André Prince Jeffries and Tamara Kelly of Prince’s Hot Chicken royalty.

From Middle Tennessee State University’s College of Media and Entertainment, Billy Pittard, Michael (Mike) Forbes and Synethia Blackmon join the Lipstick Economy Podcast to discuss the future of virtual production and how it's preparing its students for the new world of extended reality (XR) production.

Nancy Keil at Second Harvest Food Bank Middle Tennessee is making a longer table to serve those with food insecurity in the region. Nancy, her expert team at Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee, donors, volunteers and Partner Agencies take a leading role in meeting the needs of thousands of neighbors impacted by hunger. Second Harvest has met the challenges with amazing innovation and collaboration.

We speak with Jessica Entner, a music producer and founder of JEM, about the role of music in advertising and social media today. Jessica created JEM, a 100% percent female-owned full service music agency, to help uplift underrepresented talent such as women in the composition space and to build more transparency between the advertising and music industries.

We get to talk all things lipstick with our guests Vanessa Costa and Diana Peinado of Lip Lab. Lip Lab is a new custom lipstick retail experience available in ten locations, including the Nashville, New York, Las Vegas, Toronto and Paris. Learn how this new concept is giving a new face to lipstick!

Rachel Tenpenny Oxford and Savannah Grimm are helping to empower women through boudoir photography. This genre of photography gives women an amazing opportunity to celebrate themselves as they work through happy and sad times.

In anticipation of Antiques Roadshow’s visit to Nashville, Executive Producer Marsha Bemko provides insight into what makes Roadshow the most-watched-ongoing series on PBS.

A conversation with new Nashville Public Television CEO Becky Magura on the importance of public TV programming.

Jonah Bloom and Dan Tulloh share what it’s like leading creative, marketing, and product design for Asurion, the world’s largest tech startup. They discuss the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion in these creative spaces and how they empower their teams to take time off to be creative in non-work spaces.