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Founders in Jeans is your backstage pass to the real stories behind building a business. Hosted by Emily Jean, this podcast brings you casual, candid conversations with entrepreneurs, visionaries, and startup leaders who are reshaping the future of work and life.
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How to Become a More Interesting Woman: The Trope Method (opens the original)
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How do you become a more interesting woman? This year I stopped trying to become prettier, fitter or more productive, and started with one question: who do I want to be mistaken for?In this solo episode, I share the trope method, the goal setting process I've used all year. I chose a woman whose life made me lean in, kept her skills, left the fantasy, and turned what she knows into small weekly habits I could actually keep. I talk about learning Italian in 40 minutes a week, how kickboxing chang
Being Underestimated as a Female Founder: Sophie Auyeung, founder of Myrrar (opens the original)
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I sat down with Sophie Auyeung, founder of Myrrar, to talk about what happens when a room decides not to take you seriously and you build the company anyway. Sophie is a female founder building a beauty tech app that recommends makeup products and techniques for your unique face. She is doing it in startup rooms that still skew male, as a woman of color, pitching a beauty product to people who don't always see the point. I asked her what she does with that. Her answer is not the polished version
How to Get Into College Debt-Free, with Shellee Howard (opens the original)
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One son applied to 12 schools, got into 11, and walked out with a full ride to Harvard without his family paying a single dollar. In this episode of Founders in Jeans, Shellee Howard, founder and CEO of College Ready, breaks down how a business born 18 years ago when her son asked for help getting into college turned into a company that's helped thousands of students get into top schools debt-free. Shellee shares the moment she realized the system was failing students (a graduation-day comment t
Why Your Logo Isn't Your Brand, with Noemi Ceapa (opens the original)
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In this episode of Founders in Jeans, I sit with Noemi Ceapa, founder of The Consulting Studio and a branding expert who spent years working behind the scenes with brands like Coca-Cola and Colgate before helping women entrepreneurs build brands of their own. Noemi shares the moment that changed how she saw branding forever, watching a three-generation family business transform not by changing their product, but by finally showing up as who they truly were, and breaks down why most small busines
April Palmer on Why You Should Just Ask for Advice (opens the original)
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A hula hoop, a slice of cheesecake, and 100% meeting acceptance rate, that's how one guest landed nearly every meeting she ever wanted, before ever pitching a thing. In this episode of Founders in Jeans, I sit down with April Palmer, founder of Rev Amp, an Agile professor at VCU, and self-proclaimed "Hot Mess Boss," who juggles sales consulting, teaching, mentoring startups, and life with two kids, six cats, and a blind dog. April opens up about the wild, winding road that led her from a 911 dis
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