Behind Her Empire

Behind Her Empire is an entrepreneurial interview series focused on women who have built recognizable consumer brands through persistence, timing, and a high tolerance for uncertainty. The show is polished, but its best material is not cosmetic. It pays close attention to what happens before a business looks obvious from the outside. Recent episodes follow founders who started with a personal frustration, a bodily reality, a wellness practice, a side project, or a social trend and then turned that spark into a company. Sahara Lotti’s Lashify story brings the listener into patents, manufacturing resistance, legal fights, and the loneliness of defending an idea that did not yet exist. Joanna Griffiths’ Knix episode links a Kickstarter launch and a $320 million exit with depression, investor bias, frightening pivots, and open conversations about women’s bodies. Leah Marcus and Yasaman Bakhtiar’s Good Girl Snacks story is more chaotic and digital-native: TikTok obsession, zero food experience, a food scientist, a Massachusetts manufacturer, sold-out inventory, fundraising, a Khloe Kardashian collaboration, and retail shelves at Erewhon, Whole Foods, and Bristol Farms. Cyndi Ramirez-Fulton’s Chill House episode tracks a founder who dropped out of college twice, worked nightlife, questioned her talent, and learned the hard mechanics of margins, staff, seasonality, expansion, and payroll. Rebecca Hessel-Cohen’s Love Shack Fancy conversation turns a bridesmaid-dress problem into trunk sales, then into a fashion and lifestyle brand. Miranda Kerr’s Cora Organics episode adds a quieter register, with resilience, intuition, meditation, prayer, motherhood, and the effort of proving herself beyond modeling. Amanda Chantal Bacon’s Moon Juice episode connects wellness entrepreneurship with personal health experience, traditional wisdom, daily practices, and long-term conviction. Ty Hiss’s Fresh Sends story emphasizes imperfect launches, self-funding, viral bouquets, creative partnerships, and the emotional toll of growing a gifting brand. Across these stories, the show favors founders who are direct about doubt as well as success. It is not just about exits, celebrity collaborations, or glossy brand worlds. It is about the grind behind them. Listeners hear how companies are shaped by resourcefulness, customer insight, legal pressure, category gaps, personal identity, and the founder’s willingness to keep learning every corner of the business. The result is business storytelling with a strong female-founder lens and a steady interest in what ambition costs.