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Leadership aficionado, Ram Charan rejoins Moe Abdou to explore why modern leaders have to become diverse, iterative, and digitized.

Georgina Gooley and Jenna go behind the scenes at Billie to discuss how they’re designing best-in class body care and shaving products specifically for women, creating content through the female gaze, and slashing the Pink Tax. We also walk through formative lessons Georgina’s learned through her life and career on discovering and stepping into your voice as well as the importance of acknowledging and savoring life’s daily joys.

Penn Mutual's Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Eileen McDonnell joins Moe Abdou to discuss her approach to leadership, innovation, and to look at the decade ahead in insurance and financial services.

Zachariah Reitano and Jenna discuss how a life-threatening health scare at only 17-years-old planted the seed to launch Roman and empower men take long-term control of their health. We chat about the process of eroding and eventually breaking taboos, replacing men’s former health habits, often influenced by norms of toxic masculinity, with an open and proactive mindset, as well as the importance of raising awareness for and coming together around sexual health concerns rather than delegating topics like fertility or ED as ‘men’s issues’ and ‘women’s issues.’

Kapil Gupta, MD rejoins Moe Abdou to dig deeper into the essence of mind mastery & the pursuit of Truth - both in life and in business.

Melody Koh and Jenna discuss her goal to create the most impactful product offering for startups in NYC at NextView Ventures. We then walk through the lessons Melody learned at Blue Apron during the company's ascent from 20 to 500 people in four years, including: How to constantly reinvent yourself with a growth mindset, a weekly time management system that syncs your priorities with your energy management, and daily questions to ask yourself to escape inertia.

Kevin Lavelle and Jenna walk through Mizzen+Main’s founding story, from storing inventory in their bedroom to partnering with Houston Texans defensive end JJ Watt and being sold in over 450 retailers across the U.S.. Kevin shares how gratitude helped him survive early challenges, like days when no sales were made, and navigate growing pains when customer demand outpaced the team's ability to scale processes. He opens up about his personal evolution as a leader, how vulnerability directly influences and accelerates our growth, and why the path of self-improvement is much better traveled with others. We close chatting about two of the tactics - the Memento Mori and The Tail End framework - that help Kevin live and lead with gratitude, and the importance of detaching from things that take you away from living a fulfilling life.

Peter Reinhardt and Jenna discuss how Segment empowers companies to harness their data to create a ‘memory’ of every customer. We walk through the team’s journey to product-market fit, from deciding to drop out of MIT through the turning point when Y Combinator Founder Paul Graham asked them: 'So, you have spent $500,000 and you have nothing to show for it?' Peter then shares how increasing their customer pain meter to an 11 out of 10 helped them land on the right product. We close chatting about Peter’s personal evolution as a leader and how he works with a series of coaches who can support him based on the challenges he encounters at each phase of growth.

Rachel Drori and Jenna walk through Daily Harvest’s founding story, from making and delivering everything on her own to acquiring over 100,000 subscribers across the U.S. Rachel takes us behind the scenes at Daily Harvest’s R&D lab, explains the evolution of the frozen food aisle, and why her team believes that frozen food is the perfect way to solve our modern eating dilemma. We also chat about key lessons from Rachel’s journey including: Having the self-restraint to pitch only a small part of your vision to give people something to latch onto, trusting your instincts to make big decisions and relying on Stoic philosophy to put them in perspective, as well as embracing the relative joy of entrepreneurship; “If you can live with the worst possible outcome of taking a risk it’s worth taking.”

Kathryn Retzer, Patrick Herning, and Jenna discuss 11 Honoré's multi-dimensional approach to advancing the size inclusive fashion movement, from assembling the world’s best luxury brands on a single discovery platform to equipping upcoming brands with the resources and support they need to add to their collections. We walk through how the team is fundamentally shifting the view of the size inclusive customer by demanding that she is seen and respected as a woman who deserves equal access to luxury products. Kathryn and Patrick also share the team’s drive signing over 75 brands for pre-fall 2018 to create a go-to collection for editorial platforms to radically change size inclusion representation in the media.We close chatting about life lessons that the best friends of 15 years have learned from each other, including the power of partnership, how positivity creates serendipity in our lives and business, and the belief that authentic living means always putting people first.