The Naked Truth About OnlyFans’ Billion-Dollar Business
While tech investors chased ad-based creator platforms, OnlyFans did the opposite—and made billions. Today, Sammi unpacks the counterintuitive decisions that turned OnlyFans into a cultural lightning ...
9 Jan 12min
Jenn Hyman (Rent the Runway) on Creating a Category, Stock Highs and Lows, and Seeing the Future
Jenn Hyman built Rent the Runway on a contrarian insight back in 2009: women were already “renting” their clothes—borrowing from friends, cycling through fast fashion, and returning special-occasion o...
6 Jan 1h 4min
The Credit Card War Behind Your Dinner Plans
Most people think restaurant reservations are about demand. They’re not. Today, Sammi breaks down the quiet power struggle happening behind your hardest-to-get dinner reservations — and why credit ca...
2 Jan 11min
Rebecca Rittenhouse (Privet Beauty) on Hero Products, Hollywood and Identity Shifts
Building a business in public is hard. Building one when people already think they know you? Even harder. Today, Sammi sits down with actor and founder Rebecca Rittenhouse to talk about reinvention—o...
30 Des 20251h
Actionable Lessons From Launching Social Currency
2025 was a transformative year. In this episode, Sammi shares the biggest lessons she’s internalized since launching her podcast this spring. She leaves no stone unturned and recounts her biggest mile...
26 Des 202520min
Rebecca Minkoff on Building a Fashion Empire, Fundraising Myths and Tupperware Parties
Rebecca Minkoff’s origin story is not a glossy founder fairy tale—it’s a closet-bedroom apartment, a $3.25/hour internship, $60K in debt, and a single Rebecca Minkoff designed tee that ended up on Jay...
23 Des 202550min
What the Gender “Ambition Gap” Research Got Wrong
Women in corporate America aren’t burned out because of how much they’re working—they’re burned out by how much the system isn’t working for them. Today, Sammi breaks down the latest Women in the Wor...
19 Des 202512min
Andrew Chau (Boba Guys) on Turning Bubble Tea Into a Cultural Movement, the Future of Cafe Culture and Strawberry Matcha
Today, Sammi sits down with Andrew Chau, co-founder of Boba Guys—the brand that helped turn boba from a niche drink into a mainstream American obsession. Andrew takes us back to the very first 2011 p...
16 Des 20251h 8min
