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You can’t help but feel completely at ease in the presence of our guest Kalen Kaminski. She’s light-hearted and playful, but make no mistake–the girl knows what she wants. Kalen is the owner and designer of Upstate, a shibori dyed women’s apparel and home goods line. From her days dyeing silk scarves in her bathtub to opening up her studio in Brook…

When you hear the word “entrepreneur”, do you picture an 11-year-old girl who recently emigrated from Russia? Our guest, Yulia Laricheva, started her first successful venture at age 11 and hasn’t slowed down since. Her ventures have ranged from an online publication to promote women artists, to a children’s apparel line, to a crowdfunding platform …

Hailing from Paris, France our guest, Alex Qin, carries herself with a confidence and energy that you can’t help but get carried away with but she’s also unflinchingly honest. She currently is a Brooklyn-based developer, teacher and activist. She’s also the creator and leader of the Code Cooperative, a prison reentry program in which former inmates…

What kind of women becomes a painter, illustrator, photographer, documentary filmmaker, producer, co-founder, and mother? One that does not house the expectations of anyone around her. Kate Cunningham identifies as all of the above, leaving no time for anyone to tell her what she can and cannot do and who she can and cannot be.…

It’s with a true sense of purpose that our guest this week, Maurya Couvares, approaches everything in her life. In fact, just being in her presence makes you feel your own sense of purpose and the desire to start doing. From her time spent with Teach For America, to founding and running a nationally recognized non-profit, she’s out to change the wo…