Biz Women Rock! With Katie Krimitsos

How do you grow an amazing community with a podcast highlighting business women? Listen to Your Host of the Business Women Rock! Podcast Katie Krimitsos to find out! To conclude our series on the Women of Podcasting, Katie opens up about the Business Women Rock! podcast and shares a little more about her business journey and why it lays the foundation for the ever-growing Business Women Rock! Community! As the Co-Owner of the Tampa Bay Business Owners, Katie has taken her lessons learned and her love of building a passionate and positive community to building the Business Women Rock! Community. In this episode, she highlights her top 5 take-a-ways from her guests so far, some fun behind-the-scenes stories from her podcast and her vision of this community!

How do you build an entire community hungry for what you have to offer? Listen to our Interview with Kate Erickson of Entrepreneur on Fire to find out! Kate Erickson is the Content Manager and Community Leader for Entrepreneur On Fire, a Daily podcast featuring inspiring interviews with the hottest entrepreneurs. The podcast was started by her boyfriend, John Lee Dumas and since the beginning, she has been a core part of the podcast's massive growth and success! Entrepreneur on Fire has become a HUGE success in the podcasting space, averaging 500,000 downloads every single month and bringing in 6 figures of monthly revenues! Kate and John have done this by building a totally ON FIRE community that they provide tons of value for! They've become leaders in the podcasting space and are the biggest advocates for this platform. This inspiring interview shares Kate's business story and digs deep into the specifics of the podcasting industry and the power of this incredible platform! We discuss marketing and buildin

How do you leverage podcasting to build your audience? Listen to our Interview with Natalie Eckdahl, Host of the Biz Chix Podcast to find out! The special Women in Podcasting series kicks off with the fabulous Natalie Eckdahl, host of the Biz Chix Podcast. Natalie entered into the podcasting space because she was craving a community and because she wanted to reach a larger audience. She and her husband founded ScheduleMax.com in 2010, an online scheduling service that helps consultants, those in the salon/beauty industries and podcasters manage their meetings effectively and efficiently. In January 2014, Natalie launched the Biz Chix Podcast where she interviews amazing female entrepreneurs and some cool dudes. Her podcasting career, though new, has reaped her huge benefits! In this inspiring interview, Natalie discusses a bit about her background and her specific knowledge about podcasting and about how the platform is FULL of potential!

How do you get Super Stars like Madonna to wear your fashion?Listen to our Interview with Becca McCharen, Founder of Chromat to find out! Becca McCharen started her career as an architect. But her love for creating unique fashion pieces like bras, skirts and bathing suits in her "off time" snowballed into a full-fledged fashion force! Her company Chromat lives for creating structural experiments for the human body. Her architectural body cages have become her calling card, noticed and worn by Hollywood stars like Madonna, Beyonce and Nicki Minaj! Becca's inspiring story chronicles her company's inception, it's fantastic growth and insights into New York's fashion scene. She is raw, humble and making major dents in the fashion industry!

Jeni Larson is one of the very few 7 figure bloggers in the world. She has accomplished this level of success because of her philosophy on business, wealth, happiness and giving. The story of how she came into blogging is amazing as is her attitude. She has reached such success that her blogs have had over 100 million visitors! In this inspiring interview, Jeni reveals strategies and tips for creating a successful blog, and more importantly, shares with you her mindset on how easy it is to make six figures every month should you so choose! This interview will shift your entire mentality on how you look at your business!

How do you build an a program that helps women scale their companies with education and financing? Listen to our Interview with Amy Millman, President of Springboard Enterprises to find out! Fourteen years ago, Amy Millman was one of a handful of women advocates who decided to formalize Springboard Enterprises. Formerly the head of the women in business committee in DC, Amy was perfectly suited to lead the movement to help women formalize and succeed in their endeavors to successfully scale their businesses. Springboard is a business accelerator that offers a solid program that helps women entrepreneurs get all the resources and the training they need to showcase their businesses to investors. Their mission is to create opportunities and connections for women entrepreneurs who are seeking funding for their technology and life science businesses. It's an entire community of entrepreneurs, coaches, sponsor and investors who all come together to help women's businesses soar! Springboard has had 545 women (and co

Deborah Sweeney has a very eclectic professional background. Her entrepreneurial journey began when she bought a division of the company she worked for ... Intuit. Since then, she's been building an incredible business. MyCorporation has had 500,000 people use their online legal business filing services (LLCs, trademarks copyrights, etc.). In this inspiring interview, Deborah reveals the struggles she had in the beginning of that transition and her vision for her growing company!

How do you build an intimate apparel enterprise known all around the world? Listen to our Interview with Rhonda Shear, Founder of Shear Enterprises to find out! You may know Rhonda Shear best for her role in the series Up All Night. But there is soooo much more to this business woman than B Movies, Playboy and Pageants (although she has great stories about those too!). Shear Enterprises, which she founded in 2003 with her husband Van Fagan, creates intimate apparel for women all over the world! Her signature Ahh Bra made 2011 a banner year for her company, earning $72 million in revenues and selling 30 million bras in over 34 countries! In this inspiring interview, Rhonda tells us the stories of her Hollywood days and gives you an insiders view into her relationship with HSN, QVC and how her business is growing!

From an early age, Kari Block was an environmental activist who understood the circle of life of all living things. After a run-in with death, she did a lot of soul searching to figure out what she was meant to do. Having married a farmer, she began to see opportunity all around her. She developed her first product Fresh Cab as a way to eliminate the huge mouse problem on the farms without killing them. She is a creative inventor who has built a $5 million dollar business by creating a market (environmentally friendly products) in an industry where that didn't exist at all. Listen in for Kari's incredible story on how she's built Earth Kind!

Anu Shukla's first attempt as an entrepreneur turned out to be a super success. Nineteen months and a $366 million buy out later, she continued her business journey as a successful business builder. Her current company, RewardsPay is an innovative technology that allows YOU to use ANY rewards and loyalty points you have (from your bank, your fav airline, your American Express card) to pay for real things online...like items on Overstock.com. Anu looks at business on an entirely different stratosphere and her passion for business building is evident throughout this interview. If you want to see what it looks like to THINK BIG WITHOUT LIMITS, then listening to her interview is a must!

Shradha Agarwal has had business running through her veins since she was a little girl. Fueled by the memory of accompanying her grandparents to the doctors offices often when she was young, she started ContextMedia as a way to help communicate targeted health messages and education to patients at a time when they are most likely to accept it (in the doctor's office). Picture customized, relevant television programming in the lobby, specific information available on iPads strategically placed in the doctor's room to peruse during those "the doctor will be right in" moments and communication on the back end to ensure your all questions are answered before and after an appointment. Her unique technology reaches 1 million patients EVERY month! Shradha was honored at the White House as Empact's top 100 young entrepreneurs in the country. She's an angel investor, a startup advisor and an all around rockstar business woman! Listen to the interview and you'll hear why!

Trina Spear and her Co-Founder Heather Hasson want to change the world. And they're going to do it by selling and giving high quality, fashion scrubs to healthcare professionals all around the world!! The unique business is not just about their super suave (and highly functional and comfortable) scrubs. It's about the attitude and vision of its leaders! Listen to Trina's interview and I guarantee you'll leave with your own business on fire (in a good way). :)

Dr. Catherine Havasi has been interested in and researching language for quite a long time. Her company Luminoso is a software that makes computers decipher language the same way that humans do. The fact that Siri often gives you some less-than-appropriate replies to your requests should tell you that this is not super easy to do! In this interview, Catherine talks about how she got started, how she built out the technology and what business lessons she's learned along the way!

Jessica Rivelli began Working Women of Tampa Bay because she couldn't find the kind of networking group she was craving as a young professional. Five years and 850 members later, the Working Women Enterprise has grown into other markets throughout the state of Florida (and national growth isn too far away!). In this inspiring interview, Jessica shares her story of how she’s built her company and how she's leading the movement of women supporting and motivating women in business!

Just months after she opened her franchise territory of Radiance Med Spa, Stephanie Schlageter was hit with a sonic BOOM that nearly killed her business. With a mountain of resilience and an overwhelming positive attitude, Stephanie has spent the years since digging herself out of this hole and building a HUGE MedSpa business! In this inspiring interview, you'll hear her approach to every challenge she's faced and why she never - for one second - doubted her success!

How do you create and leverage technology to provide a huge value to businesses? Listen to our interview with Pamela O'Hara, Founder of BatchBook.com to find out! Pamela O'Hara started BatchBook.com in 2006 as a way to create a "digital rolodex." As a business woman and a mother, Pam is committed to running a company that can adapt to the unique needs of both its employees and its customers to foster better organization, increased productivity and a more balanced life.

The idea of MamaBargains.com came to Jessica in a dream and she couldn't shake it. With very little business experience and zero website experience, Jessica ventured out to create an online one-deal-at-a-time website offering 50-80% discounts on products for moms and babies. With tons of persistence and patience, Jessica's company has grown tremendously!

Joanna Penn is an author, speaker, and creative entrepreneur. She founded TheCreativePenn.com as a home for all her her writing projects. She jumped from corporate years ago to begin her writing career. She creates fiction, non-fiction and blogs and shares her story about what it takes to produce content in droves, her advice on how to be in the business of writing and how to self-publish successfully. She is full of great information!

Consultant, author, speaker and educator, Linda Galindo teaches leaders how to bring accountability into their organizations to significantly improve performance. She specializes in working in healthcare and government, bringing the principles of accountability to organizations where it is truly needed at the leadership level. She's written 3 books and shares her story about how she's built such a successful consulting practice, how she wrote her books and how she trains CEOs to completely shift their companies through accountability. She is full of passion and shares tons of resources on how YOU can succeed in business!

Nicole Levine moved to the US from Israel when she was 18 years old and eventually began her company Home Clean Home. While raising two kids, she built her business by knocking on doors and acquiring one client at a time. She's been named Business Women of the Year and made the Inc. 5000 list. Her companies include Home Clean Home, Bed Bug 911, Hygea Naturals, Labor to the Rescue and her real estate portfolio. She is a fire woman who loves business and demands her monthly vacation!