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Hosted by Emily Jean · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 51 episodes
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Founders in Jeans is your backstage pass to the real stories behind building a business. Hosted by Emily Jean, this podcast brings you casual, candid conversations with entrepreneurs, visionaries, and startup leaders who are reshaping the future of work and life. Forget the pitch-deck polish—this is where founders kick off their heels (or sneakers) and get real about the messy middle, unexpected pivots, and mindset shifts that actually make things work. Whether you're growing your own venture or just love hearing how great ideas get off the ground, Founders in Jeans delivers all that and more.
Emily Jean hosts Founders in Jeans, a business show with 51 episodes published.
One son applied to 12 schools, got into 11, and walked out with a full ride to Harvard without his family paying a single dollar. In this episode of Founders in Jeans, Shellee Howard, founder and CEO of College Ready, br
In this episode of Founders in Jeans, I sit with Noemi Ceapa, founder of The Consulting Studio and a branding expert who spent years working behind the scenes with brands like Coca-Cola and Colgate before helping women e
A hula hoop, a slice of cheesecake, and 100% meeting acceptance rate, that's how one guest landed nearly every meeting she ever wanted, before ever pitching a thing. In this episode of Founders in Jeans, I sit down with
A group of 50 local creators in Des Moines, Iowa turned into a platform with 40,000 creators across 40 cities, and it all started because one marketer couldn't find an agency doing community-centric marketing the right w
From a failed salon at 19, to a decade as a fractional CFO in corporate America, to coaching over 80 CEOs on her own podcast — Charity Brown's biggest lesson through it all? Trying to serve everyone is the fastest way to
She made $50 in 10 seconds. No followers, no face, no fame required. In this episode of Founders in Jeans, host Emily Jean talks with Meg Spencer (Meg the Creator), founder of The Anti-Influencer Method, about how she le
She spent 10+ years climbing the corporate ladder in management consulting — until motherhood made her stop and ask: who am I, really? In this episode of Founders in Jeans, host Emily Jean talks with Ralitsa Malcheva, a
She flipped ugly houses for fun. Staged them to sell fast. And accidentally built a luxury home staging franchise — with zero design degree and zero tech background. In this episode of Founders in Jeans, host Emily Jean
What if your brand wasn't a logo or a color palette, but a living thing you could actually listen to? This episode is with Luna Battalia — brand strategist, leadership mentor, and founder of a full-spectrum brand studio
What does it take to disrupt a category that's been around for millennia? In this episode of Founders in Jeans, I sit down with Clara Veniard, founder and CEO of Coro Foods, the company reinventing salami and pepperoni w
Most founders believe that if the work is good enough, the right people will eventually find it. Publicist KJ Blattenbauer is here to gently end that myth. In this episode, I sit down with KJ, founder of Hearsay PR and a
Fertility advice is broken, and most of what you've been told about periods, trackers, and "regulating your cycle" is flat-out wrong. In this episode, I sit down with Kirsten Karchmer, North America's first reproductive
Can you really build a personal brand on LinkedIn while working a full-time 9-to-5? Raina Das did exactly that, quietly building her personal brand after work until it turned into 150+ brand deals, 25,000 LinkedIn follow
What if the safest path to entrepreneurship isn't quitting your job, it's staying in it a little longer? Ksenia Votinova-Arnaud is the co-founder of LeVPN, a profitable SaaS business she's been building for 15 years with
I sat down with Yvette Boateng, creative strategist, UGC creator, and founder of The Good Yap, and she said something that stopped me mid sentence: You don't really know what your story was until you talk about it. Yvett
I sat down with Eraj Lodhi, founder of Plot Out Loud, a cheeky marketing agency and podcast based in the UK, and she said something that stopped me mid-conversation. "Audacity is my business plan." Eraj left the traditio
I had a blast with Palak Agarwal, London-based marketer and personal brand builder, and she said something that made me rethink everything I thought I knew about showing up online. Palak moved from Nepal to London with l
I sat down with Mafalda Johannsen, sales expert, author, and she said something that stopped me mid-conversation. Mafalda has spent 15 years in sales, starting at 22 on 100% commission selling timeshares in Florida with
I sat down with Viktoria Jancurova, LinkedIn personal brand strategist and founder of VJ Personal Branding, and she said something that made me stop and look at my own profile differently. Viktoria has published over 1,0
I sat down with Lauren Gibson, founder of Letter Launched and newsletter strategist to coaches, founders, and agency owners, and this one genuinely stopped me in my tracks! Lauren has lived in 44 countries, worked for th
Lauren Gibson
Pediatric Physical Therapist · Letter Launched
1 appearance on this show
Arielle Loupos
founder · Flower Girl Co.
1 appearance on this show
Shahd Alasaly
sociology instructor at the University of South Florida · Blue Meets Blue
1 appearance on this show
Shellee Howard
College Ready
1 appearance on this show
Alisa Sparks
Linden Creek
1 appearance on this show
Ksenia Votinova-Arnaud
LeVPN
1 appearance on this show
Eraj Lodhi
Plot Out Loud
1 appearance on this show
Viktoria Jancurova
VJ Personal Branding
1 appearance on this show
Adele Kamel Whitley
Buy Yourself
1 appearance on this show
Kiomi Barritt
Kiomi Jade
1 appearance on this show
Niluka Kavanagh
Imagine That
1 appearance on this show
Carrie Johnston
The Comms Connector
1 appearance on this show
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Founders in Jeans is hosted by Emily Jean. The show is categorised under business (entrepreneurship) and has published 51 episodes.
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