She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Leader Smarter with AI
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
168 episodes
167 | Generic AI Content Is Killing Your Credibility as a Female Founder (Fix This Fast with 3 Simple Inputs) | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
If your AI-generated content sounds polished… but not like you, how much trust are you silently losing every time you hit publish?Let’s be honest “good enough” AI content is quietly wrecking your authority. ...
166 | Stop Blaming AI for the Output You're Getting. Female Founders, This One's On You. | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
What if the reason AI “isn’t working” for you… is you?You’re overwhelmed, overworked, and running your business on caffeine and sheer willpower but still refusing the very tool that could give you your time back. In this Thursday ...
165 | The System Your Business NEEDS to Stop the Bottleneck Before You Add Any Other System | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Why are you still rewriting everything… even after hiring a team and investing in AI?This episode breaks down the hidden cost of constantly fixing your team’s and AI’s work – what Dawn calls the Rewrite Tax.You’ll learn why...
164 | REPLAY: Stop Asking Permission to Lead—Just Lead | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
What if the only thing standing between you and next-level leadership… is waiting for permission that no one’s coming to give?You don’t need another leadership book—you need to stop playing small in your own company. I...
163 | REPLAY: 3 Standard Operating Procedures Every Founder Should Build in 30 Minutes (Using AI to Write Your SOPs) | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Is your business secretly held together by your memory?If you walked away for two weeks, would things run—or fall apart?If the answer makes you sweat, this episode is your lifeline. We're breaking down the three essenti...
162 | REPLAY: 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...
161 | You Already Know Something Is Broken in Your Business. Here's How to Find It with AI Before It Costs You Another Quarter.
What if the real reason your business can’t scale… is because you’re still the one holding the whole thing together?Most founders assume their growth problems are people problems. But more often than not, the real issue is structu...
160 | Leone Baxter Invented the Full-Service Offer and Female Founders Are Still Catching Up | SHE BUILT THIS Ep. 5
Are you still selling pieces of your brilliance… when you should be selling the whole damn outcome?In this “She Built This” episode, Dawn Andrews unpacks how Leone Baxter co-created the first modern political consulting firm and, ...
159 | The Bottleneck Isn't Your Team. It's What You Haven't Been Willing to Say Out Loud.
What if the most expensive line item in your business isn’t payroll — it’s the conversation you keep avoiding?This episode exposes a hidden growth ceiling most founders don’t recognize: avoided conversations. When leaders d...
158 | If Your $1M Business Lives in Your Head, It Can’t Scale. Here's The AI Workflow That Fixes It
What if the biggest reason your business can’t scale… is that everything still lives in your head?This episode tackles the hidden scaling problem most founders miss: documentation debt. When your knowledge, standards, and decision...
157 | Inez Kaiser and the Service Business Model Female Founders Are Still Sleeping On | SHE BUILT THIS Ep. 4
What if the reason your service business isn’t scaling… is because you’re selling skills instead of insight?In this powerful “She Built This” episode, Dawn Andrews breaks down how Inez Kaiser, America’s first Black woman to found ...
156 | Hiring Is Not Your Solution (And the “Scale Fast” Crowd Won’t Like This) | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
What if the reason your business is stalled isn’t that you need more help, it’s a systems problem you can’t see?Most founders assume the next hire will fix their overwhelm. But if your systems, workflows, and decision structures s...
155 | Your Team Was Never Supposed to Care as Much as You Do. Here's What to Do With That
Why does it feel like you’re the only one in your company who actually cares whether the business succeeds?Many founders quietly resent their team’s lack of ownership, but the real issue isn’t commitment. It’s business design....
154 | Ruth Handler | SHE BUILT THIS Ep. 3
Are you selling a single offer over and over or building a system around your offer that creates multiple revenue streams?This episode breaks down the real genius behind Barbie, the business system Ruth Handler built around it.
153 | Why $5M Founders Still Price Like Freelancers
Are you scaling your company? Or just becoming the most expensive employee in it?This episode breaks down why founders at $500K - $5M still operate like high-performing freelancers, approving everything, answering every question, ...
152 | Why $100M Leadership Advice Backfires at $500K–$5M. Here's Why and How AI Can Fix It.
Are you building a $2M business with a $100M playbook and wondering why everything feels harder?This episode breaks down why high-level corporate leadership advice often creates more bottlenecks at the $500K–$5M stage. Dawn disman...
151 | She Invented the Marketing Strategy Every Brand Copies — and Never Gets Credit | SHE BUILT THIS Ep. 2
What if the real reason people aren’t buying from you… is because they haven’t experienced your value yet?This episode breaks down the brilliant marketing system Estée Lauder built long before influencer marketing, social media, o...
150 | Why Most Female Founders Are Losing Their Power, Confidence & Direction To AI & How The Top 1% Use AI Differently
What if the most dangerous thing AI can do isn’t give you the wrong answer… but give you a good enough one right when you’ve stopped trusting yourself?AI doesn’t erode your leadership overnight. It happens quietly when relie...
149 | Is AI Stealing Your Confidence As a Leader? The Critical Difference Between AI As Thought partner vs Decision Maker Most Female Founders Miss | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
What if the thing you think is a productivity problem in your business is actually a design flaw, and AI can fix it if you see it clearly?AI isn’t the shortcut most founders think it is, and it’s definitely not a replacement for y...
148 | She Built a Scalable Empire in 1906 With No Tech Stack. What's Your Excuse? | SHE BUILT THIS Ep. 1
If she could build a scalable sales system in 1906… what’s your excuse?Madam C.J. Walker didn’t just sell haircare products.She built a repeatable leadership system that trained thousands of women to distribute them without he...
147 | I Read the Scary AI Headlines and Almost Dumped My Stack | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Are you apiraling and ready to delete every AI tool from your business?After scrolling headlines about AI choosing itself over humans 80% of the time, researchers quitting on safety teams, and existential risk narratives flooding ...
146 | The Delegation Mistake That's Keeping You Stuck Working 60 Hours a Week & The 1 AI Trick to Overcome It | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Are you actually bad at delegation… or are you carrying executive thinking your team has never been trained to see?You don’t have a time management problem. You have a cognitive labor problem. In this episode, Dawn breaks down the...
145 | Why You Need To Stop Outsourcing Your CEO Decisions To Unqualified People & Do THIS Instead | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Are you collecting opinions like evidence instead of leading like the CEO you are?If you're asking your barista, mastermind, or therapist for permission to lead your company, you're not leading, you're hesitating. And it's costing...
144 | The Solo Trap: Why Your Service Business Is Stuck at $300K (And How AI Gets You Out) | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Are you actually “choosing” to stay boutique… or are you trapped in a business model that requires you to stay small?Let’s be honest. You don’t have a hiring problem.You have a capacity problem disguised as a virtue.
143 | This 1 Hack Will Save You $10k Per Month By Showing You Which Tasks Are Eating Up Your Time & Who To Delegate Them To | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Still saying, “It’s faster if I just do it myself”?That phrase is costing you $10K–$15K a month—and keeping you stuck as your team’s overpaid Google.Every time you redo your team's work, you're not just wasting time—you’re ...
