Catherine Gray, the host of Invest In Her, interviews Isabella Mandis, an undergraduate student at Harvard. She is the founder of Girls Into VC (the first organization dedicated to empowering the next generation of female venture capitalists and championing women-led startups) and Rising Stars Review (a platform to highlight young talent). She is a Kleiner Perkins Fellow and was one of the youngest people to be listed on Forbes 30 Under 30’s regional list.

Starting at a young age, Isabella was interested in entrepreneurship and helping others. In high school, she did academic research for university professors and built her own algorithm to reduce racial and gender bias in machine learning—her research was published in an international peer-reviewed journal. Isabella also worked at several startups and is certified to teach English as a second language. Since arriving at Harvard, she has pursued her interest in venture capital, acting as a Venture Scout for Alumni Ventures under Yard Ventures & Women's Fund, and the first and sole Harvard undergraduate Campus Investment Partner for The MBA Fund Isabella recognized the grave gender disparities in venture capital and wanted to help make the field more diverse—leading her to create Girls Into VC. Rising Stars Review was founded to promote and inspire young talent.

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Catherine Gray, the host of Invest In Her, interviews Laura Nix Gerson, the CEO & Co-founder of Nix|Gerson Media. She develops and produces content that celebrates women. She is also the co-founder of Venture:F and the producer and host of the Venture:F podcast, the destination for women investing in women.

Laura serves as a Board Director of the Los Angeles Venture Association and as the Co-Chair for Women@LAVA.

She is a business development expert with more than twenty years of expertise and has advised start-ups, entrepreneurs, and major corporations on growth strategy. She has led both agency and corporate environments, where her extensive background in lead generation, marketing, and communications have been the cornerstone of her expertise. Laura has a knack for seeing the opportunities in specific introductions and is known for creating strategic partnerships that garner results.

In her previous role at Worth Media Group she reinstated the Women & Worth community, building out the business and content strategy, to include producing the Leading Voices Series and the 2023 Women & Worth Summit booking such luminaries as Stacey Abrams, Valerie Jarrett, Jenny Just, Gloria Feldt and Sallie Krawcheck.

Prior to this Laura launched FOUNDED, a curated community focused on strategic introductions, to help founders grow and scale their businesses and was the Founder & CEO of MomAngeles Media, where she spent 10 years working with brands in the parenting and women's health & wellness space. During this time she booked 200+ top tier women speakers, all experts in their field, for events and series including: The Riveter Stories, United State of Women Summit, SoCal Wellness Annual Summit, and The MomFair. This was a formative time in her career that she credits with a deeper appreciation for the ability of women to innovate, launching businesses that solve challenges women and moms deal with every day.

As a writer she has contributed to Worth, CBS Local Los Angeles, Babble, and Modern Mom.

https://www.nixgersonmedia.com/

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Catherine Gray, the host of Invest In Her, interviews Dr. Julie Ducharme, President of Lead and Empower Her She Talks, President of Synergy Learning Institute, Keynote Speaker, TEDx Speaker, Entrepreneur, Award-winning Author, and Pro bball/vball Athlete. Dr. Ducharme’s first love was sports, and she pursued college athletics despite being told she wasn’t smart enough for higher education. She persevered, earning three degrees: a BA in Communication with a specialization in public speaking, an MBA with a specialization in Marketing, and a Doctorate of Business Administration (DBA) with a specialization in Leadership.

After playing volleyball and basketball overseas, Dr. Ducharme returned to become a head volleyball coach at a local college, which led to her becoming a professor at the young age of 23. As an overachiever, within seven years, she became the chair of three programs, then a dean overseeing 20 business colleges, before retiring to start her own technical vocational college, where she has served as president for the last decade at Synergy Learning Institute.

Dr. Ducharme has authored several bestsellers, including “Authentically You: Empower Your Way to Success.” While advancing her academic career, she also built multiple businesses. Her first venture, Julie’s Party People, an event company, has successfully served San Diego for 23 years and continues to thrive.

Not stopping there, Dr. Ducharme founded JD Consulting, a company that has evolved over the past 20 years into a digital design agency, course design firm, and commercial production company. She once said, “Once I started building businesses, I was hooked. I am an entrepreneur through and through.”

She then established a sports Equipment company Taylor Elite sports and co-founded Your Authentic Genius, a PR company focused on branding women, with Shelby Jo-Long. Additionally, Dr. Ducharme has been developing Lead and Empower Her She Talks for the past seven years. This initiative has grown from a conference into a magazine, a membership organization, and a movement. She is passionate about this work and dedicated to changing the paradigm for women, expressing her commitment to this cause for the rest of her life.

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Catherine Gray, the host of Invest In Her, interviews Cheryl Kellond, a 3x founder, 3x Ironman, and 4x Mom. As a founder, she’s raised $20M in VC for her own companies and worked 1:1 with 200 early-stage entrepreneurs. As a funder, she’s a loud and proud baby-check writer who has invested in more than 50 startups using the funds in her IRA. Her current startup, Play Money, brings all these passions together.

Play Money is Instagram for Angel — enabling everyday angles to build their dream startup portfolios without making investing a full-time job and at just about any budget. Connecting deal flow and aspiring investors from the best-emerging fund managers, trusted communities, and well-known influencers, Play Money is on track to put a $1B in motion for the next generation of founders and funders.

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Catherine Gray, the host of Invest In Her, interviews Dr. Farnoush Fadavi, the founder of Bala Enzyme. Dr. Fadavi, along with her husband, Dr. Arash Aftabi, are retired dental surgeons based in Southern California.

Dr. Fadavi’s journey began with years of research at Boston University focused on plant-based enzymes as a natural alternative to pharmaceuticals for reducing bruising and inflammation after oral surgery. Over the past 20 years, she integrated plant-based therapy into her clinical practice, and eventually, she and her husband took all the research and clinical data to develop the Bala formula.

In 2018, Dr. Fadavi was involved in an accident that left her with chronic pain and forced her to retire early. Sensitive to pharmaceuticals, she turned to Bala as a natural solution for her recovery. The profound impact Bala had on her life inspired her to share the formula and her story with the world.

Dr. Fadavi believes that a balanced life is one without inflammation, which is why she named the product "Bala," short for Balance. Tune in to hear how her personal experience and dedication to natural healing led to the creation of Bala Enzyme, a product that is changing lives by promoting a balanced, inflammation-free life.

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Catherine Gray, the host of Invest In Her, interviews Nekei Lewis, the founder of American Dreamers, a groundbreaking membership-based financial platform for wealth empowerment. With a strong belief in a foundation in finance for individuals and business owners, Nekei has created a community that brings together corporate and real estate partners along with a host of other resources and opportunities. Resources include consulting in business credit, loans & grants, personal credit, Wills & Trust, and passive investment opportunities.

In addition to her work with American Dreamers, Nekei is also the creator of a unique financial organizer bag that helps individuals get their finances organized. Her commitment to education and advancement extends beyond her platform, as she actively participates in city and non-profit initiatives focused on workforce development and renewable energy.

https://www.americandreamers.club/

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Catherine Gray, the host of Invest In Her, interviews Gloria Feldt, a nationally acclaimed expert on women, power, and leadership with expertise from frontline leadership experience, a bestselling author, and in-demand keynote speaker. Selected for Forbes 50 over 50, she is cofounder and president of Take The Lead, whose mission reflects her life’s passion: to prepare, develop, inspire, and propel women of all diversities to take their fair and equal share of leadership positions across all sectors by 2025 by providing breakthrough training, mentoring and coaching role modeling, and thought leadership.

They discuss the Take The Lead, Power Up Concert and Conference, on August 26th, in Washington DC on Women’s Equality Day! Get your tickets here:

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Show Her the Money will be screening after the conference on August 26th! Get your tickets here:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/womens-equality-day-dc-show-her-the-money-screening-panel-afterparty-tickets-977207212077

She is the bestselling author of five books. Her latest, Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics and How Women Will Take The Lead, shows how we can seize the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity of massive disruption to build back stronger with women at the center of the recovery. Through the lens of women’s stories, it delivers a fresh set of leadership tools, skills, and concepts that help all women reach their own highest intentions, purposefully creating new norms, while guiding institutions to break through the remaining barriers to gender and racial parity for everyone’s good.

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Catherine Gray, the host of Invest In Her, interviews Jasmine Jones, the Co-founder and CEO of Myya, the only online direct-to-consumer, insurance-billable, post-mastectomy intimates brand. Inspired by her grandmother’s battle with breast cancer, Jasmine created Myya to address the challenge of finding well-fitting post-mastectomy bras that provide support when you need it most. Incubated at Cherry Blossom Intimates, the brand’s retail space, Myya is the next step in the company’s evolution, connecting women across the country with certified mastectomy fitters. Myya offers breast cancer survivors a completely customizable virtual post-mastectomy bra fitting, ensuring that all women get the perfect fit. Myya is the only online boutique that can bill insurance directly for its customers, making the shopping process seamless for them. In October 2020, Cherry Blossom Intimates, the Techstars-backed company, closed its $1.25 million seed round, making Jasmine one of the few Black women in the world to close over $1 million in venture funding. A former Miss District of Columbia USA, Jasmine was named a Forbes Under 30 Listmaker in the Retail and E-Commerce category, as well as a Fashion Institute of Technology award-winning lingerie designer, and a Tory Burch fellow.

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