Cleo Davis-Urman: "There Was No Good Reason" (From Saks Fashion Director to 4,300 Retail Doors)
Cleo Davis-Urman is the co-founder and CEO of Barrière, the transdermal vitamin patch brand now in more than 4,300 retail doors including Target, Walmart, and Anthropologie. She got there from luxury ...
22 Sep 43min
Mithu Malik: "He Slept on Top of the Container" (From Importing Ice Cream in Lagos to a Michelin Star in Houston)
Mithu Malik is a trained pharmacist who co-owns Musaafer, the Michelin-starred Indian restaurant in Houston, now with a second location in Tribeca and a speakeasy, SAAQI, downstairs. She and her husba...
15 Sep 45min
"Pain Isn't a Problem to Be Solved" (From Laid Off and Cheated On to Breakup Bootcamp Founder)
Amy Chan got laid off and cheated on in the same stretch, then built the first science-based breakup bootcamp from what she learned crawling out of it. Twenty years a dating columnist and a former CMO...
8 Sep 43min
Robyn Berkley: "The Dumbest Idea I've Ever Heard" (From Fashion PR Burnout to a Bootstrapped Luxury Brand)
Robyn Berkley spent seven years as fashion director at Kelly Cutrone's People's Revolution before her health forced her out: 16 shows in a New York season, midnight most nights, and a body that stoppe...
1 Sep 45min
Ochi Vongerichten: "Finish What You Started" (From Per Se Food Runner to Michelin Guide Restaurateur)
Ochi Latjuba Vongerichten co-owns Wayan and Ma•dé, and Wayan is the only Indonesian restaurant on the Michelin Guide in America. She got there by leaving Jakarta at 18 for the Culinary Institute of Am...
25 Aug 30min
Barbora Samieian: "It's Gonna Get Harder Before It Gets Easier" (From Salad Shop Survival Mode to Cult Furniture Brand)
Barbora Samieian went from nonprofit fundraiser to co-founder of Sundays, the award-winning furniture brand she launched with her husband, his sister, and a 20-year friend, three months before the pan...
18 Aug 37min
Laura Rubin: "I Was Early, But It Wasn't Wrong" (From Corporate Refugee to Simon & Schuster Author)
Laura Rubin spent 15+ years running a marketing boutique after leaving a top job at USA Networks, then shut it all down to bet on AllSwell Creative and a belief that journaling had a PR problem. Today...
11 Aug 51min
