She's That Founder: Business Strategy, Time Management and AI Magic for Impactful Female Leaders
You’re listening to She’s That Founder: the show for ambitious women ready to stop drowning in decisions and start running their businesses like the confident CEO they were born to be.
Here, we blend business strategy, leadership coaching, and a little AI magic to help you scale smarter—not harder.
I’m Dawn Andrews, your executive coach and business strategist. And if your to-do list is longer than a CVS receipt and you’re still the one refilling the printer paper... this episode is for you.
Each week, we talk smarter delegation, systems that don’t collapse when you take a nap, and AI tools that actually lighten your load—not add more tabs to your mental browser.
You’ll get:
- Proven strategies to grow your revenue and your impact
- Executive leadership frameworks that elevate you from manager to visionary
- Tools to build a business that runs without burning you out
So kick off your heels—or your high-performance sneakers—and let’s get to work.
Tuesdays are deep-dive episodes. Thursdays are quick hits and founder rants. All designed to make your business easier, your leadership sharper, and your results undeniable.
If you’re ready to turn your drive into results that don’t just increase sales but change the world, pop in your earbuds and listen to Ep. 10 | Trust Your Gut: Crafting a Career by Being Unapologetically You With Carrie Byalick
Episodes
92 episodes
091 | The 4-Day AI System That Ends Friday Afternoon Panic Forever
Friday afternoon chaos doesn’t actually start on Friday. It starts Monday, when the week is designed in a way that guarantees last-minute emergencies. If your team is piling on questions at 4:47 PM Friday afternoon, it’s not because...
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Episode 91
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8:00
090 | The 2-Minute Rule: How Female Founders Use AI to Train Teams to Stop Asking Permission for Everything
If your team asks you to approve things like lunch orders, calendar invites, or formatting choices, you’ve accidentally become the Chief Permission Officer. This bottleneck drains your time, chips away at their confidence, ...
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Episode 90
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20:02
089 | The 3-Text Test: How Female Founders Use AI to Stop Their Team From Treating Them Like Google
If your team is texting “How do I…?” at 7PM, you’ve become their expensive search engine. At your CEO salary, that’s draining time and focus.This isn’t about being mean. It’s about breaking the habit of training your...
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Episode 89
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6:04
088 | How One Founder Lost a $1.2M Business & What AI Could Have Done To Save It
You hit $1.2M in revenue — but $840K comes from one client. One contract. One decision maker. One email away from unraveling everything. If more than half your revenue depends on a single client, you’re not free — you’re trapp...
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087 | Stop Playing Therapist: How Female Founders Use AI to End Team Drama
Your team isn’t bringing you drama because they’re needy — they’re bringing it because you’ve trained them to believe every hiccup requires CEO intervention.But here’s the truth: your job is to ensure professional collaboration, not p...
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Episode 87
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8:18
086 | The Expert's AI Dilemma: How Female Founders Scale When They ARE the Product
What if being irreplaceable in your business is actually the most replaceable position you could be in? Too many brilliant founders have built businesses where they are the product. Clients only want you, the calen...
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Episode 86
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15:44
085 | REPLAY: How to Get Motivated Again As a Female Leader (When You Stop Giving a F*#k): Business Strategy & Time Management
What happens when you're a leader but you've lost your motivation? It's hard to get momentum back when you’ve taken time off, or things are tough in your business. Suddenly, the challenges of moving your business forward seem insurm...
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Episode 85
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084 | REPLAY: Trust Your Gut: Crafting a Career by Being Unapologetically You As A Female Leader With Carrie Byalick
It’s tough to get noticed in Hollywood, and today's guest made a career by helping others do just that. She was one of the entertainment industry’s most respected and sought-after media and publicity strategists, ran her own talent management f...
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Episode 84
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083 | REPLAY: Why Summer is the Best Time To Reset Your Business Vision & Strategy as Female Leaders (And Here's Why)
Summer is the perfect time to reset your business vision. While most people wait until January to set goals, by then the momentum is gone. Summer offers a rare window — the pace slows, creativity rises, and you can refresh your visio...
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Episode 83
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082 | REPLAY: Leaving the "Perfect" Job So You Can Fly Even Higher As Female Leaders - with Nicole Marra, Strategic Partner to the World’s Most Dynamic Luxury Brands
Quitting your dream job to start a business is a risky decision, especially if you’re in a high-ranking, visible position. And Nicole Marra, did just that.As the CEO and Founder of Fixer Advisory Group, Nicole works with some of the worl...
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Episode 82
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081 | Stop Asking AI to be your business therapist
Stop asking AI to fix your decision paralysis.It’s not here to validate your feelings, tell you you’re special, or magically solve your problems.Here’s the trap I see founders fall into every day: dumping their overwhelm in...
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Episode 81
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9:57
080 | The Wednesday Panic Triage. How AI helped me to choose what matters in my business
The panic is real.Too many priorities, not enough time, and your brain is spinning instead of deciding.This isn’t about doing it all, it’s about strategic triage: choosing what matters most so you can focus your energy where i...
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Episode 80
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14:06
079 | Your Attachment to the Founder Struggle is expensive
Real talk, your attachment to struggle is costing you. Too many brilliant founders choose the hard way every time… and end up burned out, behind, and watching competitors pass them by.This episode isn’t about hustling harder — it...
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Episode 79
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078 | How I used AI To Run My Business Retreat (While Actually Resting)
Ever wish you could step away from your business and have it keep moving without you? Last week in San Francisco, I did exactly that because my AI assistant ran the whole thing.In this episode, you’ll discover how to stop car...
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Episode 78
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15:14
077 | Why Your Team Keeps Waiting (and What to Do About It as a CEO)
Let me tell you about a moment that happens in Zoom rooms every day. A founder hears five words that make her stomach drop: “I’m waiting to hear back.”It doesn’t matter if you’re leading five people or fifty — when your team treats “I se...
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Season 2
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Episode 77
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8:21
076 | How Smart CEOs Build SOPs Without Boring Themselves (or Their Teams)
Let me guess — your team still pings you for every little thing, and that SOP you swore you'd write is still just a blank Google Doc mocking you from your drive.This episode isn’t about operations — it’s about freedom. Because if your bu...
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Season 2
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Episode 76
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16:01
075 | Drop the Act: Why Transparent Leaders Build Stronger Teams
Pretending you're unbothered as a leader? It’s like wearing emotional Spanx; smooth on the outside, can’t breathe on the inside.In this short and sharp episode, I’m calling out the pressure to perform instead of lead, and why trying to a...
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Season 2
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Episode 75
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4:43
074 | 3 Business Systems That Secretly Sabotage Female Founders and How To Break Free
Every founder is running systems even if they’re chaos.In this episode, I’m naming the three hidden systems that high-achieving women accidentally build that lead to bottlenecks, burnout, and stalled growth. These are the surviv...
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Season 2
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Episode 74
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073 | The Hidden Cost of Doing It All, A Wake Up Call for Female Founders
Are you cramming 40 hours of work into a 20-hour week? If you're the approvals queen, the Slack oracle, and the one everyone’s waiting on; you're not running a business, you’re babysitting one.In this episode, I walk through the real...
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Season 2
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Episode 73
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12:00
072 | How Female Founders Delegate Like a CEO Before They Burn Out
Hey founder friend, if you're overwhelmed, overbooked, and over it? Delegation is your way out.In this episode, I’m sharing the moment I realized I was the bottleneck in my own business and how I started shifting from gatekee...
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Season 2
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Episode 72
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8:34
071 | Say It Like a Leader: The Feedback Framework Every Female Founder Needs
Ever had that stomach-drop moment when someone gives it to you straight? I did, right in the middle of a team Zoom. I thought I was being empowering, but what they really needed was clarity. And they told me so.That moment was uncomforta...
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Season 2
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Episode 71
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8:32
070 | Why Giving Feedback Isn't Mean, It Makes You a Great Leader
If giving feedback makes you feel like the bad guy… let me ask you this: when was the last time silence got you the result you actually wanted?In this quick hit, I’m sharing the story of a client who learned—painfully—that staying quiet ...
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Season 2
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Episode 70
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4:33
069 | Realigning Your Business When Life Gets Loud: Strategy + Time Management for Women CEOs
Let me be real: I didn’t expect to hit record this year while juggling caregiving, teen stress, a fifth round of COVID, and still trying to run a business. But here we are.This episode is for every high-capacity woman trying to keep it a...
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Season 2
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Episode 69
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17:17
068 | Top 10 Must Have AI Tools for Female Founders
I used to wonder where all my time was going — until I realized AI could give me a whole lot of it back.In this episode, I’m sharing 10 AI tools that save me over 60 hours a month and help me lead, create, and scale with way more ease. T...
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Episode 68
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16:38
067 | Command the Room: Female Leadership Secrets Unlocked with Samara Bay
What if your voice could become your most powerful leadership tool?In this episode, Samara Bay—Author of Permission to Speak and Coach to Hollywood stars and badass CEOs—hands you the keys to turn your voice into a superpower. We’re divi...
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Season 1
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Episode 67
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