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When you fall short of having a strong agenda or lose control of the one you've set, the people you're leading will see you as disorganized, uncertain, insecure, and often defensive, it ain't a good look, y’all. - Somer Hamrick Today on When She Founded: -We are always, always driving an agenda -The importance of agendas -The three keys to a clear agenda -The lesson from the 2020 Democratic National Convention -The value of succinct talking points Subscribe, Rate & Share Your Favorite Episodes! Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of When She Founded with your host, Somer Hamrick. If you enjoyed this episode, please head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe and leave a rating and review. Don’t forget to visit our website channelclinical.com/, connect with Somer on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/somer-hamrick-a053374/, and share your favorite episodes across social media. If you are a female founder who needs more support please visit and sign up on our Launch to Leads Lab https://launchtoleadslab.com website.

Today on When She Founded Somer welcomes us back after a brief summer break to share her insights on the benefits of having a sales coach as a female founder. Subscribe, Rate & Share Your Favorite Episodes! Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of When She Founded with your host, Somer Hamrick. If you enjoyed this episode, please head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe and leave a rating and review. Don’t forget to visit our website channelclinical.com/, connect with Somer on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/somer-hamrick-a053374/, and share your favorite episodes across social media. If you are a female founder who needs more support please visit and sign up on our Launch to Leads Lab website launchtoleadslab.com.

JJ Ramberg is an award-winning journalist, entrepreneur, best-selling author and investor. JJ is the co-founder of two companies. Goodpods, a social network for podcast listeners and creators where users can follow groups, friends, and influencers . She was recently named as part of Inc Magazine's Female Founders 100 list and Goodpods was included in Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies. SearchKibble is a Bing-powered search engine which supports shelter animals with every search. For 12 years, JJ hosted MSNBC's then second longest-running program Your Business which focused on entrepreneurship and what it takes to run a successful venture. JJ is the author of two books, the best-selling It's Your Business and the children's book The Startup Club. Today on When She Founded: Subscribe, Rate & Share Your Favorite Episodes! Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of When She Founded with your host, Somer Hamrick. If you enjoyed this episode, please head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe and leave a rating and review. Don’t forget to visit our website, connect with Somer on LinkedIn, and share your favorite episodes across social media. If you are a female founder who needs more support please visit and sign up on our Launch to Leads Lab website.

Alexandra Carter is a Clinical Professor of Law and the Director of the Mediation Clinic at Columbia Law School. In 2019, Professor Carter was awarded the Columbia University Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching, Columbia University’s highest teaching honor. Professor Carter’s teaching and research interests lie in the field of alternative dispute resolution, primarily in mediation and negotiation. She is a leading trainer on negotiation and mediation for many from the private and public sectors, including the United Nations, where she designed a negotiation workshop as part of the first ever skills-building summit for female diplomats, entitled “Women Negotiating Peace;” U.S. courts and federal agencies; private corporations, such as Comcast NBCUniversal, Time Warner and Viacom; and law firms, including Cravath, Swaine & Moore, Morrison & Foerster and Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman. Back at home, she serves on the New York State Alternative Dispute Resolution Advisory Committee commissioned by Chief Judge Janet DiFiore; she previously served on the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee for the New York City Bar Association as well as the Mediator Ethics Advisory Committee for the New York State Unified Court System. She is an admitted mediator for the Southern District of New York. Prior to joining the Columbia faculty, Professor Carter was associated with Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, where she worked as part of a team defending against a multibillion dollar securities class action lawsuit related to the Enron collapse, served as the senior antitrust associate on several multibillion dollar mergers, and handled cases involving copyright law. She also worked as an analyst at Goldman Sachs. She is a former U.S. Fulbright Scholar to Taiwan. Professor Carter received her Juris Doctor degree in 2003 from Columbia Law School, where she earned James Kent and Harlan Fiske Stone academic honors. She also won the Jane Marks Murphy Prize for clinical advocacy and the Lawrence S. Greenbaum Prize for the best oral argument in the 2002 Harlan Fiske Stone Moot Court Competition. After earning her degree, Professor Carter clerked for the Hon. Mark L. Wolf, U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts in Boston. Professor Carter has been sought as a media commentator in the area of conflict resolution, with appearances on MSNBC Live, Hardball with Chris Matthews, the CBS Early Show and NPR Marketplace. Her first book, Ask for More: Ten Questions to Negotiate Anything, will be published by Simon & Schuster on May 5, 2020 and became an instant Wall Street Journal bestseller -- the first negotiation book solo-authored by a woman to make that list. Professor Carter is the Executive Director of Stand Up Girls, a New Jersey organization dedicated to the empowerment of girls and women. She lives in Maplewood, New Jersey with her husband, Greg Lembrich and their daughter Caroline. “The biggest negotiation you will have is within the four walls of your own brain.” -Alexandra Carter Today on When She Founded: The Elenor Beaton Episode The Brandi Bernoskie Episode Connect with Alexandra on her website alexcarterasks.com and on LinkedIn, Instagram and Clubhouse. Below is a link to her Free 7 Day challenge. The second link is for digital course - which will do a second launch at the end of the 7 day challenge (May 11) https://alexcarterasks.com/7days/ https://alexcarterasks.com/courses/ Subscribe, Rate & Share Your Favorite Episodes! Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of When She Founded with your host, Somer Hamrick. If you enjoyed this episode, please head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe and leave a rating and review. Don’t forget to visit our website, connect with Somer on LinkedIn, and share your favorite episodes across social media. If you are a female founder who needs more support please visit and sign up on our Launch to Leads Lab website.

As a formulating, cosmetic chemist in the multicultural beauty space for over a decade, Erica has been the “brains” behind a number of popular products on the market. Erica earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. She then advanced to Northwestern University as a National Institute of Health Research Fellow where she conducted research in Biochemistry and Molecular and Cell Biology. However, her personal horror stories as a child who experienced hair and skin issues are what motivated her to dedicate her scientific career to developing innovative and quality products in beauty and personal grooming space. Ascending the ranks in a male dominated laboratory to the position of Director of Research & Development before the age of 30 for one of the category’s most successful brands, Organic Root Stimulator, Erica’s long-term impact and positive influence on natural hair and skin care is undeniable. After becoming frustrated with hearing the perpetual inaccuracies regarding ingredients and product claims, Erica started engaging with consumers as Sister Scientist to debunk myths and set the story straight by educating the masses on the science behind beauty. Using her expertise, experience and outgoing personality, Sister Scientist has become a fun and creative platform for consumers seeking a trusted source for scientific/technical information about their beauty and grooming products. Erica also uses this medium to motivate and encourage young women to pursue careers in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) related fields by exposing them to the fun side of science. Over time, Erica started to recognize that building successful brands only relied partially on developing quality products, and wanted to see more women and minority owned companies building long-term wealth in the space. Her desire to understand the full scope of building successful brands in consumer goods was the catalyst for her to return to academia, earning an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, with concentrations in Marketing Management, Business Strategy and Entrepreneurship & Innovation. In 2014, she founded mSEED group – a product development, manufacturing and brand development company focused on providing strategic growth solutions to aspiring entrepreneurs and established businesses in beauty and personal care. As Chief Executive Officer, Erica manages a 7- figure business and is spearheading mSEED’s corporate mission to grow a new generation of successful entrepreneurs, and drive innovation and creativity in the beauty space. Furthermore, proving that Science Never Looked This Good. Today on When She Founded: Connect with Erica on all the socials with the tag #SisterScientist, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube. Subscribe, Rate & Share Your Favorite Episodes! Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of When She Founded with your host, Somer Hamrick. If you enjoyed this episode, please head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe and leave a rating and review. Don’t forget to visit our website, connect with Somer on LinkedIn, and share your favorite episodes across social media. If you are a female founder who needs more support please visit and sign up on our Launch to Leads Lab website.

How prepared are you when you show up for a client call? Have you really done your homework and know all of their pain points? Today on When She Founded Somer invites you to attend an upcoming webinar that focuses on this topic. On April 8th, Channel Clinical is hosting this business development webinar to help you hone the work that you need to do well before the client call that will set you apart from the pack. Today on When She Founded: To sign up for the webinar, please register here Subscribe, Rate & Share Your Favorite Episodes! Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of When She Founded with your host, Somer Hamrick. If you enjoyed this episode, please head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe and leave a rating and review. Don’t forget to visit our website, connect with Somer on LinkedIn, and share your favorite episodes across social media. If you are a female founder who needs more support please visit and sign up on our Launch to Leads Lab website.

Jenn Halweil is an electrical engineer turned story engineer on a mission to amplify inspiring stories of individuals breaking ground in science, technology, leadership and beyond, to inspire a new wave of innovation in the process. Jenn is the Founder and Chief Story Engineer of #GoBeyond, a full service production and educational media company dedicated to uncovering stories that challenge what we as humans know to be possible. When she is not documenting VR for the USGA, digital transformation for EXL, or machine learning algorithms for Ferrari, she is focused on championing diversity and inclusion in STEM through a number of initiatives, including documenting Chloe Capital's #InvestInWomen tour to deploy over $1.5M in capital to female led tech startups across the country and this Forbes piece on the developer of the Brooklyn Bridge: Emily Warren Roebling. Most recently, she directed and executive produced, Financially Naked, which broke 1M+ views online. Financially Naked focuses on financial literacy, following the journeys of six individuals as they work with their trainers to overcome student loan, medical, and credit debt. Her work has been featured in more than 100 publications, and her content has received millions of views, including features in Forbes, Scientific American, The Economist, and most recently a Marvel comic as a real life superhero. "And so I think if we're going to shift viewing and trusting women as authority figures and society at large, this (STEM) is the place to start to really crack that ceiling enough that we can go on to the next level” - Jenn Halweil Today on When She Founded: Connect with Jenn and #GoBeyond - You can also connect with Jenn on LinkedIn or Twitter For information on Somer’s April Webinar you can connect with Somer through When She Founded LinkedIn, Chanel Clinical LinkedIn, or Somer’s own LinkedIn Subscribe, Rate & Share Your Favorite Episodes! Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of When She Founded with your host, Somer Hamrick. If you enjoyed this episode, please head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe and leave a rating and review. Don’t forget to visit our website, connect with Somer on LinkedIn, and share your favorite episodes across social media. If you are a female founder who needs more support please visit and sign up on our Launch to Leads Lab website.

Somer is fired up today and she wants to share it. Inspired by interviews of Lin-Manuel Miranda sharing his creative process Somer shares why now more than ever is the time to get in the game. If you have been waiting for a sign, this is it. Somer shares some trends that she is seeing in the industry and some that were talked about at the SCOPE Summit that she attended recently. She also tells us why it is important to be following her on LinkedIn especially on Wednesdays. This mini episode is packed with vital information that you need to hear. “New markets are opening up, gaps in service solutions are happening, and new technology platforms are in demand.” - Somer Hamrick Today on When She Founded: Connect with Somer on LinkedIN Schedule a thirty minute consultation with Somer with this scheduler link Subscribe, Rate & Share Your Favorite Episodes! Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of When She Founded with your host, Somer Hamrick. If you enjoyed this episode, please head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe and leave a rating and review. Don’t forget to visit our website, connect with Somer on LinkedIn, and share your favorite episodes across social media. If you are a female founder who needs more support please visit and sign up on our Launch to Leads Lab website.

When you are working on your website development, are you looking at the intersection of your business strategy and user experience while leaving room for creativity? Today’s founder, Brandi Bernoskie, is a digital strategist, website developer, and founder of Alchemy+Aim and North Star Sites, companies that help entrepreneurs and business owners elevate their online presence, enhance their digital experience, and embrace their authentic online selves -- what she calls their fifth dimensionality, or the extension of their selves into the digital world. She is an advocate for using technology in ways that humanize, connect and serve people as well as for asking deeper philosophical questions and teaching others to think more broadly about impact when they create, particularly in STEAM fields. Brandi’s academic background in theatre, philosophy and physics was the perfect foundation for launching her business, where her team has worked with thought leaders like Brené Brown, Laverne Cox, Judy Smith, Kate Northrup, and Alexandra Carter as well as other notable change makers since 2013. Brandi is a natural connector and business matchmaker, who is always working to help others step into their genius work and leverage the expertise of those around them to achieve new levels of success and community along the way. Quote: “When a lot of people start out, their natural tendency is to have a little bit of that imposter syndrome no matter what degrees or experience they've had. And they want to firehose people with all the information that they have in their brains, and that is not actually digestible by your audience.” - Brandi Bernoskie Today on When She Founded: Connect with Brandi through the contact us form on her website Alchemy & Aim or Instagram Subscribe, Rate & Share Your Favorite Episodes! Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of When She Founded with your host, Somer Hamrick. If you enjoyed this episode, please head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe and leave a raDng and review. Don’t forget to visit our website, connect with Somer on LinkedIn, and share your favorite episodes across social media. Also, if you are a female founder and want more support in business development please visit us on our Launch to Leads Lab website.

Margaret Atwood commented that her book, Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner? a "Smart, funny, readable book on economics, money and women". It was named one of The Guardian's Books of the year in 2015 and Somer completely agrees. This one hooked Somer quickly and engaged her on so many levels. In this discussion with Katrine and Somer they discuss the book and the the many economic layers that go into our daily life even the simple task of making dinner and who is making that dinner. Katrine’s second book "Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in An Economy Built For Men" became an instant bestseller in Sweden in 2020. It will be published in the UK, US, Canada, South Korea and Italy in 2021. Katrine works for Dagens Nyheter, the largest broadsheet newspaper in Sweden. As a financial journalist she has interviewed many of the world’s most influential economic thinkers like Nouriel Roubini and Nassim Taleb. Some of her broadcast interviews have been viewed more than a million times by international audiences on YouTube. She is also an international keynote speaker on the economic impact of women: with particular focus on how inclusion of women is the missing key to innovation for modern business. “I mean, the reason why women earn less than men, is has primarily to do with the fact that women do more of this unpaid care work, whether that's, you know, in its unpaid form, or the fact that women tend to specialized in, in the care sector in many economies, which is paid less than many other comparable jobs, because care used to be something that women were just expected to do for free.” - Katrine Marçal Today on When She Founded: Connect with Katrine on Twitter or LinkedIn. Here is the link for Katrine's book is called Mother of Invention. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mother-Invention-Ideas-Ignored-Economy/dp/0008430772/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=mother+of+invention+marcal&qid=1613628415&sr=8-1 She also has a newsletter called Wealth of Women, it’s a weekly feminist take on economics and business that you might be interested in. Click here to subscribe. https://wealthofwomen.substack.com/ Subscribe, Rate & Share Your Favorite Episodes! Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of When She Founded with your host, Somer Hamrick. If you enjoyed this episode, please head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe and leave a rating and review. Don’t forget to visit our website, connect with Somer on LinkedIn, and share your favorite episodes across social media. And don’t forget to go sign up for more support at Launch to Leads Lab

Dr. Chilman-Blair, founder and President of Medicine X, brought together the world’s best storytellers, world renowned artists and skilled doctors to create digital stories explaining complicated medical conditions in an animated and understandable format. All medicine ‘xplained’ stories are based on real patients, who describe their journey with a complicated condition—the normal anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology, symptoms, investigations, treatments and how to become involved in clinical trials. In addition to the digital stories, over 170 Facebook support groups have been formed for patients to ask Medicine X in house doctors medical questions about their specific medical affliction. Dr. Chilman-Blair joins me today to discuss her background and how her daily efforts to help patients understand their diagnosis led her to creating Medicine X. She shares with us the metamorphosis from Medikids to Medicine X. She explains how she structures her trials and how she is scaling the company to different diagnoses and different regions. Her career began with a Bachelor of Science degree in Pharmacology, followed by a Postgraduate Diploma in Pharmacology and Psychological Medicine. Throughout her undergraduate studies, Dr. Chilman-Blair trained and worked as a freelance academic medical writer and editor, writing both for medical journals, and as an international medical journalist. She then undertook a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery degree at Otago Medical School to become a clinical doctor. During her years as a junior doctor, Dr. Chilman-Blair also studied a Masters in Entrepreneurship through the Otago Business School. After two years as a house surgeon, Dr. Chilman-Blair left her clinical job to create Medikidz—an initiative dedicated to explaining complex medical information to children through comic books. After seven years as Founder and CEO of Medikidz, Dr. Chilman-Blair left to start up a new initiative to explain medical information to all patients regardless of age, condition, gender or ethnicity—Medicine X: (ie Medicine Xplained by doctors, for patients)—of which she is currently the Founder and President. “Now more than ever, patients are needing to be able to access information they can understand from in a digital way and not have to leave the house if they don't have to. So I think that we have been lucky enough to be able to keep continue to serve people in this way. So this year, it's it's tricky because it's hard for anybody to really be able to plan for anything. We know that life will probably not go back to anywhere normal as we know, until at least September, in terms of just you know, travel and things. So we're really just focusing on innovation and growing, what we can provide to patients.” - Dr. Chilman-Blair Today on When She Founded: Connect with Dr. Chilman-Blair on LinkedIn or the website of Medicine X The link for the interview with vaccine legend Moncef Slaoui about the upcoming COVID vaccine/s at the White House. To view Interview. Click here Subscribe, Rate & Share Your Favorite Episodes! Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of When She Founded with your host, Somer Hamrick. If you enjoyed this episode, please head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe and leave a rating and review. Don’t forget to visit our website, connect with Somer on LinkedIn, and share your favorite episodes across social media. Are you are female founder that would like some support with business development, visit us at Launch to Leads Lab?

Dr. Karen Wilson is a Clinical Neuropsychologist, the owner of West LA Neuropsychology, PC, and the founder of ChildNEXUS.com. She specializes in the assessment of neurodevelopmental disorders in children and adolescents, and she has extensive experience evaluating children, adolescents and young adults who present with learning, processing or social-emotional challenges. As a clinician, her goal is to use her in-depth understanding of brain-behavior relationships to help identify the causes of difficulties individuals are experiencing, and she utilizes comprehensive and evidence-based approaches to determine one’s unique neurocognitive profile, which includes the identification of strengths and weaknesses, in order to help her develop a treatment plan tailored to each child, adolescent or young adult. She is the former Graduate Coordinator and Chair of the Department of Psychology at California State University, Dominguez Hills (retired), and she currently supervises interns and pre-doctoral neuropsychology trainees at UCLA. She is frequently invited to speak about brain development, assessment, learning differences, and social-emotional issues in children and adolescents. She has given a number of presentations at national conferences, and she has published articles in national journals. Dr. Wilson joins me today to discuss her background as a pediatric neuropsychologist. She also tells us about her founders story and the her company, ChildNEXUS. Dr. Wilson’s passion for this arena and the children that are impacted is apparent in our discussion. She shares why she left academia to create this central location of information and resources for parents of children dealing with social-emotional challenges. “It's also one of the reasons why I wanted to start child Nexus because what I was finding is that there was a disconnect between the science and all of this great information that was coming out about the neurobiology of dyslexia and ADHD, and what's happening in the brain and what we can do, what changes can be, can be can occur when you have specific interventions that target the neuroplasticity of the brain” - Dr. Karen Wilson Diverse Thinking Different Learning To connect with Dr. Wilson at ChildNEXUS and Instagram or with Dr. Wilson on LinkedIn Subscribe, Rate & Share Your Favorite Episodes! Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of When She Founded with your host, Somer Hamrick. If you enjoyed this episode, please head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe and leave a rating and review. Don’t forget to visit our website, connect with Somer on LinkedIn, and share your favorite episodes across social media.

Evie Smith - Evie is the founder of Rebellious PR & Consulting. After almost a decade working for traditional PR agencies, Evie was pretty sure she hated PR and was done making rich white CIS men, richer. After some soul searching she decided to give this whole PR thing one more shot, but on her terms. Rebellious was founded with the principles that the client-agency relationship would be a true partnership, the work would be thoughtful, the standards would be high and the overall approach to PR would be BS-free. Rachel Johnston - Rachel loves to tell remarkable stories. Her work experience has spanned a number of industries, with the common thread of storytelling through marketing, communication, production, and efficient operations. She owes her industry flexibility to a love of people, ideas, experiences, and a willingness to change lanes and learn often. Early in her career, she was deep in the first big waves of social media lifestyle integration, producing social media content and user experiences at live events — well before content was king, when it was barely courting the social channels of the internet. From there, she went on to manage event partnerships for live events broadcasts on ESPN2, ESPN3and Twitch, and has transformed the companies she’s worked at as a Director of Marketing & Communications with direct measurable growth. Evie and Rachel join me today to share the necessity for PR firms like Rebellious and the “accidental” beginning of the company.They share the relationship between messaging and communicating to the public. Evie and Rachel discuss their clients vast industries for example, sexual health and wellness, femme tech, cannabis, tech, food and apparel. They share a case study on how to handle what appears to be a PR nightmare into a gold brick. “If you think you can do it better, you probably can and you should” - Evie Smith Today on When She Founded: Connect with Evie and Rachael on Instagram and Rebellious on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook Subscribe, Rate & Share Your Favorite Episodes! Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of When She Founded with your host, Somer Hamrick. If you enjoyed this episode, please head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe and leave a rating and review. Don’t forget to visit our website, connect with Somer on LinkedIn, and share your favorite episodes across social media.

Hillary Lin, MD is the CEO and Founder of Curio, a creativity-driven mental health ecosystem backed by science and rooted in community. Hillary is a board-certified physician trained at Stanford, where she obtained her BS, MD, internal medicine residency, and a GSB certificate in entrepreneurship. She has published and presented on peer-reviewed research on medical education, oncology, and neuroscience. She founded Curio as a creative, experiential training ecosystem to address the emotional skills gap left in our formal education which leads to burnout, depression, and other such obstacles for fulfilled living. Hillary joins me today to discuss her background and game design and how that coupled with her extensive education at Stanford to become a doctor helped to found her new company, Curio. She shares with us her passion for oncology and making a big impact on how people receive care. We find out she has major love of escape rooms and puzzle solving. Hillary tells us how she became comfortable with sales and how she has tackled marketing and engaged with her customers thus far. “If you take a risk then yes, very likely you may fail but at the very least you will know that you tried to do all you could to reach a certain dream. If you don’t take the risk then you actually face an even more sure outcome of failure because you didn’t even attempt to reach your dream.” - Hillary Lin Today on When She Founded: Connect with Hillary: Solve It Game: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/solve-it-a-visual-novel/id1461894305 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.solve.it.visual.novel.death.of.a.ceo.text.adventure&hl=en_US&gl=US Curio: https://www.joincurio.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/joincurio https://www.instagram.com/joincurio/ Subscribe, Rate & Share Your Favorite Episodes! Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of When She Founded with your host, Somer Hamrick. If you enjoyed this episode, please head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe and leave a rating and review. Don’t forget to visit our website, connect with Somer on LinkedIn, and share your favorite episodes across social media.

On this B Side today Somer celebrates Female Entrepreneur Day with a discussion on women who break the rules and make more money. She challenges the norms and what female founders can do to “break the rules” to challenge those norms. Somer questions what will be the outcome of the loss of women in the workplace due to the pandemic. Somer shares advice on how to improve sales by breaking rules and how to advocate for others to break rules. She also discusses how female entrepreneurs can be supported by the Launch to Leads Lab and Channel Clinical Subscribe, Rate & Share Your Favorite Episodes! Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of When She Founded with your host, Somer Hamrick. If you enjoyed this episode, please head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe and leave a rating and review. Don’t forget to visit our website, connect with Somer on Instagram and LinkedIn, and share your favorite episodes across social media.

Dr. Isfahan Chambers-Harris earned her B.S. in Biology from the City University of New York- Medgar Evers College and Ph.D. in Bio-Medical Sciences from Morehouse School of Medicine, Cardiovascular Research Institute. She officially began her medical career as a postdoctoral fellow at Vanderbilt School of Medicine. She conducted genetic research on an autoimmune disease, Sarcoidosis and Lupus. While at Vanderbilt, Dr. Isfahan also earned her Master’s in Public Health, which allowed her to focus on diseases that affect disadvantage populations. After earning her Masters, she went on to become a Presidential STEM Fellow at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda Maryland. Alodia Hair Care was birthed out of Dr. Isfahan’s’ personal experiences with unnatural, toxic hair care products. Facing excessive hair damage, she turned to her expertise in biology and chemistry. Over a 3-year period filled with countless research and experimentation, she developed transformative products made with organic and natural ingredients. In 2017, Dr. Isfahan officially launched Alodia. Alodia is a science based organic hair care product company that's focused on personalizing product choices based on scalp health, unique hair type and styling preferences. Alodia provides customizable kits, virtual consultations (with hair trichologists including our founder Dr. Isfahan) and use A.I technology to curate your product choices taking the guesswork out of having a healthy hair and scalp. All 3 areas connect to Alodia Hair Care’s mission to help women Learn Love and Grow their hair. Dr. Isfahan resides in the DC metropolitan area with her husband, Dr. Rashad Dupree-Harris, MD and their beautiful 7-year old twin boys and 11month old son. Dr. Chambers-Harris joins me today to discuss her background research at the National Institute for Health and how that helped to position her to use those same set of skills in understanding her customer base better. She discusses how she bootstrapped the company and how she manages supply lines and products. We discuss how important hair care is to people with textured hair and how some beauty regimens are handed down through the generations. Listen to this episode and be inspired by this extraordinary woman. “Being a scientist, my skill set was transferrable because I was able to utilize and lean in on the skill sets as a researcher and apply it to creating an understanding to my consumer market:” - Dr. Isfahan Chambers-Harris Today on When She Founded: Connect with Dr. Isfahan Chamber-Harris on her website: www.alodiahaircare.com Email her at: info@alodiahaircare.com To find Alodia on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube search for Alodia Hair Care Coupon Code: shefounded20 for all of you When She Founded Listeners Subscribe, Rate & Share Your Favorite Episodes! Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of When She Founded with your host, Somer Hamrick. If you enjoyed this episode, please head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe and leave a rating and review. Don’t forget to visit our website, connect with Somer on LinkedIn, and share your favorite episodes across social media.

Maxim Cramer is the technical coach and consultant who helps women entrepreneurs create world-class software. With her ability to erase the gap between the technology and business, she’s worked on apps that have seen a million downloads on the first day and been featured in Apple retail stores around the globe. Maxim has worked as a technical consultant, UX designer and software engineer. She was integral to the team that developed Swiftkey, a keyboard app that saw over a million downloads on its first day and whose success was profiled in the New York Times (Microsoft has since acquired the app). She has also been a developer for fine arts collection app Artsy, and a technical consultant for IT firm Hewlett-Packard. Today she works as a principal design technologist at Autodesk on a software product revolutionizing the film and gaming industry. Maxim has also been invited to speak at multiple conferences, including events for Google and Facebook in places from London to Japan. As founder of MENNENIA, Maxim empowers female founders to leverage technology and make their biggest impact yet. Repeatedly called out for her ability to turn technology into everyday English, flattening communications barriers between technical teams and visionaries, she’s taken on the audacious goal of securing a digital future for women by doubling the number of female founded tech businesses worldwide. Maxim joins me today to discuss the pivotal moment in the industry that things changed for Maxim as well as in the industry. She talks about her start developing for the iPhone in 2009. Her desire for diversity in the type of products and services that were offered and wanted the developers behind them to represent the users. She tells us about her podcast, Cutting Through Tech, and all of the great tech tips that are available on it. We learn about how she helps evaluate the feasibility, desirability and the viability of a product idea. And which one is the most important and often overlooked. Listen and learn as Maxim makes tech strategies easier for beginning entrepreneurs. “Because it's your business. And it's such a big part of what you're trying to do, you can't leave that in its entirety in the hands of others, you have to steer the ship.” - Maxim Cramer Today on When She Founded: If you would like to connect with Maxim: She is on Instagram @Mennenia and her website is: mennenia.com Maxim’s podcast is called Cutting Through Tech In the introduction here is the link to the Forbes article that Somer referenced: https://www.forbes.com/sites/allysonkapin/2020/01/15/why-women-make-better-venture-capitalists/#7bebc9254faf Subscribe, Rate & Share Your Favorite Episodes! Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of When She Founded with your host, Somer Hamrick. If you enjoyed this episode, please head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe and leave a rating and review. Don’t forget to visit our website, connect with Somer on LinkedIn, and share your favorite episodes across social media.

Brooke started her career in nonprofit management and then discovered a love of all things technology (she was fixing everyones computer issues and suggesting ways to upgrade their systems) and decided to get a Masters in Computer Information Systems from Boston University. She went on to work at Postmates in Operations until she left 5 years ago when she realized the lack of flexibility it provided for her as a new mother. Brooke went on to do freelance Web Development and IT Project Management before helping to co-found a co-working space for moms in Tacoma, WA, The Pod Works. There she saw that moms had created their own little economy buying and selling each other's goods and services. In an effort to get moms paid more and on a bigger scale, Brooke took her tech skills and love for supporting mom-owned businesses and merged them into one idea, Allobee. Allobee is an agile, all encompassing business team solution. Brooke has a Bachelors in History & Education from Appalachian State University and a Masters of Computer Information Systems from Boston University. She lives in Durham, NC with her two kids, Lily & Lukas, her husband and their two rescue dogs. Brooke joins me today to discuss how her beginnings in tech coupled with her families example of service has brought her to today. Brooke pairs mostly small business owners with vetted professional women to support their business needs like development, digital marketing, consulting and support. Brooke talked about how she gave her first pitch in front of a large audience with many people from the press present. She inspires us by sharing how you need to trust your instincts on decision making like when to take on capital and when to adjust your company strategies. “That is the thing, if you always go back to that movement and mission…that is one thing that female founders are so great at. We are very mission driven and very much focused on that and I think that helps to build a better company over time.” - Brooke Markevicius Connect with Brooke Markevicius, Founder and CEO of Allobee Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hireallobee LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hireallobee/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hireallobee/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/hireAllobee Subscribe, Rate & Share Your Favorite Episodes! Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of When She Founded with your host, Somer Hamrick. If you enjoyed this episode, please head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe and leave a rating and review. Don’t forget to visit our website, connect with Somer on LinkedIn, and share your favorite episodes across social media.

How are you coping with the challenges today of entrepreneurship, parenting, educating your children, dealing with the two pandemics of COVID-19 and the heightened racial inequality and injustice? Parenting a toddler is hard y’all, especially when you can’t count on them sleeping when they should. Today I felt that we all needed a reminder and a respite from the grind. In today’s episode I share with you some advice from some wise women about what we are all facing these days. I also share with you some small victories and why we need to celebrate them. I talked about that we are not alone and many women are also feeling these same pains and the toll it is taking on all of us is unique, yet we are all feeling it. “Surge capacity is a collection of adaptive systems — mental and physical — that humans draw on for short-term survival in acutely stressful situations, such as natural disasters. But natural disasters occur over a short period, even if recovery is long. Pandemics are different — the disaster itself stretches out indefinitely” - Ann Masten Today on When She Founded: Resources mentioned: Insight Timer with Sarah Blondin Launch to lead website: https://launchtoleadslab.com Somer’s Instagram handle: Somer_hamrick Somer’s Mentor Elanor Beaton Your surge capacity is depleted- it’s why you feel awful by Tara Haell from Medium.com https://elemental.medium.com/your-surge-capacity-is-depleted-it-s-why-you-feel-awful-de285d542f4c Sandra Shpilberg’s article: New Startup Mindset: Ten Mindset Shifts to Build the Company of Your Dreams Subscribe, Rate & Share Your Favorite Episodes! Thanks for tuning into today’s episode of When She Founded with your host, Somer Hamrick. If you enjoyed this episode, please head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe and leave a rating and review. Don’t forget to visit our website, connect with Somer on LinkedIn, and share your favorite episodes across social media.