We chat about the kind of stories that don’t make it into Instagram captions. It's honest, messy, and full of aha moments that remind you: you're not doing this alone. Grab your headphones, dive in, and let’s get inspired together.
Dorothy Henke is the founder of Dot's Homestyle Pretzels, the seasoned pretzel brand she built from a borrowed kitchen in Velva, North Dakota and sold to Hershey in 2021 for $1.2 billion. In this episode of Fifteenish, I talk about how she started making pretzels in retirement with no business background, grew entirely at her own pace without a single outside investor, and what her story has to say about the pressure we all feel to move faster than we actually need to.
Jen Rubio is the co-founder of Away, the luggage brand that hit a $1.4 billion valuation and became one of the highest-funded female-backed startups in history. In this episode of Fifteenish, I talk about what it cost her to grow up as a Filipina immigrant in a New Jersey classroom where nobody looked like her — and what she built when she finally stopped hiding.
Jen Atkin is the founder of OUAI, the haircare brand acquired by Procter and Gamble in 2022. In this episode of Fifteenish, I talk about how she left a conservative Mormon community in Utah at nineteen with $300, spent a year in LA with no callbacks, worked her way from salon receptionist to the most influential hairstylist in the world, and built a nine-figure brand from a simple belief that women deserved better.
