CEO School with Suneera Madhani

In this episode, you'll hear from Arlan Hamilton, Founder and Managing Partner of Backstage Capital, a fund that is dedicated to minimizing funding disparities in tech by investing in high-potential founders who are people of color, women, and/or LGBT. Arlan shares her journey from being broke to investing in 100 companies led by unrepresented founders. You'll hear the mindset and impact of someone raised in a home with abundant love, laughter and support but unsure where the next meal or roof would be. Arlan tells about the moment she knew she would make the vision come to fruition, while pacing a parking lot hotel in Texas. You'll hear step by step how she went to $15 million raised, 170 companies invested in over a six year period, and the vision for Backstage. Arlan speaks openly about the “pipeline” problem in the investor space and why it is not a real factor. Connect with Arlan: Buy Arlan's book: It's About Damn Time Invest in Backstage: https://republic.co/backstage Arlan's Academy: https://arlanwashere.teachable.com/ Website: https://backstagecapital.com/  This episode is sponsored by The Club, a Quarterly box and digital monthly community to help you level up and leadership and life. Learn more today at join.theceoschool.co/theclub Follow @ceoschool on Instagram for inspiration and exclusive behind-the-scenes you won’t find anywhere else. We also have an absolutely incredible FREE resource for you–it’s the 7 lessons we learned building 7 and 8 figure businesses, these are complete game changers and we want to give it to you, completely free. All you have to do is leave a review of the podcast–why you love listening–screenshot the review, and email it to hello@ceoschoolpodcast.com and we’ll send it your way.

In this week's Wine Down Wednesday, Suneera shares her own quarterly planning process she uses to set goals and map out how to achieve them. You'll learn how to assess the year so far and then create tangible and attainable, as well as exciting, goals for the quarter ahead. Suneera gives listeners a walkthrough of the zoom out process used in CEO School, available in the CEO School Planner, to identify next quarter’s goals. Suneera explains her why behind using the goal planning method in every area of her life: personal, family and professional, and encourages you to do it too. This episode is brought to you by the CEO School planner, we believe you should run your life like a business. It's time to boss up and change your life with incredible systems that are going to help you stay accountable for 90 days to ensure that you get your goals done. To purchase your CEO school planner, go to www.theceoschool.co/shop and if you want this planner to come to you in our quarterly subscription with the club, www.theceoschool.co/join where you can join the club and get exclusive workshops, mentoring sessions and a quarterly subscription box with the planner included in it. Follow @ceoschool on Instagram for inspiration and exclusive behind-the-scenes you won’t find anywhere else. We also have an absolutely incredible FREE resource for you–it’s the 7 lessons we learned building 7 and 8 figure businesses, these are complete game changers and we want to give it to you, completely free. All you have to do is leave a review of the podcast–why you love listening–screenshot the review, and email it to hello@ceoschoolpodcast.com and we’ll send it your way. See you in the next class!

In this episode, you'll hear from Molly Fienning, CEO of Red Clay Hot Sauce, a modern, Southern hot sauce and hot honey company that brings a new kind of heat by putting flavor over fire. Molly dives right in and shares what it’s been like to run a food service company during the pandemic and survive all the changes. She shares the background story of how Red Clay hot sauce came to be with a date night and Molly’s industry experience with consumer packaged goods. You'll hear her three biggest learnings in that first part of building a business from the zero to seven figures of a company, and how to find the right people and create a support network when you’re in the baby stages of growing your business. Molly gives her advice on what to do when you want to quit and throw in the towel, or think about finding a new project or something else to work on, and how she has found ways to move past her biggest obstacles as an entrepreneur. Connect with Molly: https://www.instagram.com/mollyfienning/ Shop Red Clay hot sauce: https://redclayhotsauce.com/ This episode is sponsored by The Club, a Quarterly box and digital monthly community to help you level up and leadership and life. Learn more today at join.theceoschool.co/theclub Follow @ceoschool on Instagram for inspiration and exclusive behind-the-scenes you won’t find anywhere else. We also have an absolutely incredible FREE resource for you–it’s the 7 lessons we learned building 7 and 8 figure businesses, these are complete game changers and we want to give it to you, completely free. All you have to do is leave a review of the podcast–why you love listening–screenshot the review, and email it to hello@ceoschoolpodcast.com and we’ll send it your way.

In this week's Wine Down Wednesday, Shannan and Suneera share the lessons they have learned the last year as their business and personal lives pivoted during the pandemic. Suneera discusses learning to let all the expectations and pressures go, and how the pandemic helped her to stop and smell the roses and positively changed views on professionalism. Shannan shares that her first lesson from the pandemic is to stay true to the vision but flexible on the details. She also speaks to the impact and power of online communities when the world was shut down and how it’s such an important connected point for women in your digital space. This episode is sponsored by The Club, a Quarterly box and digital monthly community to help you level up and leadership and life. Learn more today at join.theceoschool.co/theclub Follow @ceoschool on Instagram for inspiration and exclusive behind-the-scenes you won’t find anywhere else. We also have an absolutely incredible FREE resource for you–it’s the 7 lessons we learned building 7 and 8 figure businesses, these are complete game changers and we want to give it to you, completely free. All you have to do is leave a review of the podcast–why you love listening–screenshot the review, and email it to hello@ceoschoolpodcast.com and we’ll send it your way.

In this episode, you'll hear from Elise Darma, an Instagram educator who helps entrepreneurs turn their Instagram account into the next revenue stream in their business. Elise shares her 8 year journey to build a business, grow a platform, and join the 2% club through building a personal brand. You'll hear how for the majority of the people out there, you're not going to go viral overnight and be featured on yahoo.com and have a million views on your YouTube video, you are going to have to put in the consistency and the work and the learning. Listen in to the two decisions Elise made that allowed her to differentiate her business and push past a growth plateau of several years, and an instagram growth and content strategy Elise discovered while riding her bike during the summer in Toronto. This episode is sponsored by The Club, a Quarterly box and digital monthly community to help you level up and leadership and life. Learn more today at join.theceoschool.co/theclub Follow @ceoschool on Instagram for inspiration and exclusive behind-the-scenes you won’t find anywhere else. We also have an absolutely incredible FREE resource for you–it’s the 7 lessons we learned building 7 and 8 figure businesses, these are complete game changers and we want to give it to you, completely free. All you have to do is leave a review of the podcast–why you love listening–screenshot the review, and email it to hello@ceoschoolpodcast.com and we’ll send it your way.

In this week's Wine Down Wednesday, Suneera discusses a reality near and dear to Suneera’s heart; the leadership gap that exists in corporations everywhere in America today. Suneera shares statistics showing that while women are more educated than men, we not only earn less, we actually hold less positions of leadership in almost every industry. You'll hear several ways we can positively improve statistics for women, and why we need to put focus on not only raising up women in general, but understanding there's also a major inequality gap when it comes to minority women. Suneera explains the value of having equality in corporations, and how it creates a natural balance, encourages ideas, viewpoints, and strategies. This episode is sponsored by The Club, a Quarterly box and digital monthly community to help you level up and leadership and life. Learn more today at join.theceoschool.co/theclub Follow @ceoschool on Instagram for inspiration and exclusive behind-the-scenes you won’t find anywhere else. We also have an absolutely incredible FREE resource for you–it’s the 7 lessons we learned building 7 and 8 figure businesses, these are complete game changers and we want to give it to you, completely free. All you have to do is leave a review of the podcast–why you love listening–screenshot the review, and email it to hello@ceoschoolpodcast.com and we’ll send it your way.

In this episode, you'll hear from Raena Boston, table shakin', sailor talkin', and truth teller at her expanding corner of the internet, The Working Momtras community. Raena shares why she chose to create Working Momtras and the supportive community she wanted to build for working moms. You'll hear Raena's advice for moms whose identity lines are blurred, and her favorite rituals, habits and routines to feel peace as a working mother and how she has adapted with COVID-19 restrictions. Raena gives encouragement to shift the way we traditionally identify career goals, and how she is able to create space to write, curate and grow a community while working and raising children during a pandemic. She shares her top three tips to start building a community in the online space and lessons she has learned over the last year. This episode is sponsored by The Club, a Quarterly box and digital monthly community to help you level up and leadership and life. Learn more today at join.theceoschool.co/theclub Follow @ceoschool on Instagram for inspiration and exclusive behind-the-scenes you won’t find anywhere else. We also have an absolutely incredible FREE resource for you–it’s the 7 lessons we learned building 7 and 8 figure businesses, these are complete game changers and we want to give it to you, completely free. All you have to do is leave a review of the podcast–why you love listening–screenshot the review, and email it to hello@ceoschoolpodcast.com and we’ll send it your way.

In this week's Wine Down Wednesday, Shannan shares confessions from fellow entrepreneurs sent in via Instagram to help one another know we are not alone in the journey. You'll hear how the fear of failure is more commonly talked about than the fear of fear of success and why it’s important to open up this conversation, and a confession about intellectual property and asking for help in the entrepreneurship journey. Shannan talks about giving yourself permission to rest when you need to take back your privacy and reset your boundaries. A six figure business owner confesses to not paying themselves regularly and encouragement on what to do next. This episode is sponsored by The Club, a Quarterly box and digital monthly community to help you level up and leadership and life. Learn more today at join.theceoschool.co/theclub Follow @ceoschool on Instagram for inspiration and exclusive behind-the-scenes you won’t find anywhere else. We also have an absolutely incredible FREE resource for you–it’s the 7 lessons we learned building 7 and 8 figure businesses, these are complete game changers and we want to give it to you, completely free. All you have to do is leave a review of the podcast–why you love listening–screenshot the review, and email it to hello@ceoschoolpodcast.com and we’ll send it your way.

In this episode, you'll hear from Nicole Walters, CEO of Inherit Learning Company and star of the USA network show, "She's The Boss." Nicole shares what made her choose to leave her job when she was at the top of her career and how she went from one on one client work to earning passive income as the CEO of a female, black owned business. You'll learn why she said no to TV opportunities, book deals and other offers and what she focused on instead. You'll hear that part of her mission is to teach people the tools needed to be a credible business owner, and the worst moment of entrepreneurship for Nicole. Connect with Nicole on IG: @nicolewalters Listen to The Nicole Walters Podcast This episode is sponsored by The Club, a Quarterly box and digital monthly community to help you level up and leadership and life. Learn more today at join.theceoschool.co/theclub Follow @ceoschool on Instagram for inspiration and exclusive behind-the-scenes you won’t find anywhere else. We also have an absolutely incredible FREE resource for you–it’s the 7 lessons we learned building 7 and 8 figure businesses, these are complete game changers and we want to give it to you, completely free. All you have to do is leave a review of the podcast–why you love listening–screenshot the review, and email it to hello@ceoschoolpodcast.com and we’ll send it your way.

In this week's Wine Down Wednesday, Suneera answers a question she gets frequently in the DM’s and shares how she manages her inboxes so she can remain productive and not feel overwhelmed by email. You'll hear about the importance of decluttering your inbox why you should create rules in your inbox to bring the most important emails to the top so you can prioritize them easily. Suneera explains what Inbox Zero means and how to complete it daily so you know exactly what emails need to be followed up on and any to-dos to execute on. Learn more about the 2.0 Mastermind: join.theceoschool.co/2-0 This episode is sponsored by The Club, a Quarterly box and digital monthly community to help you level up and leadership and life. Learn more today at join.theceoschool.co/theclub Follow @ceoschool on Instagram for inspiration and exclusive behind-the-scenes you won’t find anywhere else. We also have an absolutely incredible FREE resource for you–it’s the 7 lessons we learned building 7 and 8 figure businesses, these are complete game changers and we want to give it to you, completely free. All you have to do is leave a review of the podcast–why you love listening–screenshot the review, and email it to hello@ceoschoolpodcast.com and we’ll send it your way.