Women In Business Episodes

A majority of the general population fears public speaking. Where does the trauma of public speaking stem from? Kenia Thompson has made it her mission to demystify public speaking to help people gain confidence in sharing the...

How can you learn if you're hungry?" Margo Newkirk, one half of the dynamic duo that is Blend of Soul, asked this during our conversation. Margo Newkirk and Kiera Gardner set out to make healthy smoothies accessible to unders...

What do you truly want your life to look like? This important question is the driving force behind how to define your sales goals based on the life you want to lead. Elyse Archer is a sales coach, speaker, and consultant that...

What should a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion executive add to company culture? I asked Carolyn Rhodes while sitting at the Durham Bottling Co. to give me her opinion on the matter. With career experience in human resources,...

I sat down with Joye Speight at American Underground to talk about all things event planning. When you build a business around making others feel special it can be hard to remember to make time for yourself. Entrepreneurship ...

What's your favorite local business in Durham? Think about how many unique places you could discover by asking this question. Sheila Amir started The Bulls of Durham out of complete curiosity. We talked about her perspective ...

I sat down with the founder of we are, Dr. Ronda Taylor-Bullock, at the Durham Bottling Co. As the executive director of a nonprofit, she has her own definition of what it means to "scale" or grow a nonprofit. We also talked ...

I sat down with the co-founders of Rofhiwa Book Cafe at the Durham Bottling Co to talk about their journey to co-founding their community-centered bookstore. They shared with me their partnership dynamic, the importance of or...

I sat down with Dionne McGee at the Durham Bottling Co. to talk about her journey from being an intrapreneur to a multi-hyphenate entrepreneur. As the founder of DG McGee Enterprises, she is here to help you find your ROAR. S...

I sat down with Rebekah Miel, the founder of Miel Design Studio, at the Durham Bottling Co. to learn all the secrets she learned from being a full-time designer and social enterprise owner for almost 20 years. We discussed al...

I sat down with Raleigh-based CPA Faith Bynum Patterson at the Durham Bottling Co. We discussed how her college experience helped shape her career as an entrepreneur, how relationships with her peers and professors created a ...

Azul is a music artist based in Raleigh, North Carolina. We sat down at the Durham Bottling Co. to discuss how we all have overlapping identities, how music artists are combatting queer erasure, what you need to be a successf...

I sat down with Anne-Claire Broughton, the founder of Broughton Consulting, at the Durham Bottling Co to unpack her career as a social entrepreneur and nonprofit leader. We talked about employee ownership, building a business...

Amie Thompson is the CEO of Creative Allies, a digital marketing company based in North Carolina. We sat down at the Durham Bottling Co. to talk about her experience buying an existing service-based creative business, buildin...

I sat down with Danae Edmonds, the founder of Aspiring Co, at the Durham Bottling Co. She's an incredible designer building a media agency featuring stories of womxn and nonbinary folx. We talked about creative partnerships, ...