Jess King’s Journey From Dancer to Peloton Star & Creative Visionary
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What would change in your leadership if you honored your inner child instead of suppressing it?
In this episode, you’ll hear Jess King open up about her unconventional career path, her inner-healing journey, and the spiritual principles that guide her life. You’ll learn how to reconnect with yourself, find stillness in chaos, and build confidence rooted in authenticity—not perfection. This conversation invites you to step into your own light, trust your gifts, and embrace the version of yourself you’re becoming.
Jess King is a Peloton superstar, spiritual athlete, DJ, and creative force who empowers people to step into their light. From dance and Cirque du Soleil to digital fame and mindful coaching, Jess uses movement, storytelling, and honesty to help others rise into their most expansive lives.
What you’ll learn in this episode:
(02:46) How Jess’s dance career, early rejections, and determination set the foundation for her Peloton journey.
(05:14) Why healing her inner patterns and reconnecting with her inner child transformed every area of her life.
(08:23) How saying “yes” to possibility helped Jess step into bold new opportunities.
(14:49) Why Jess confidently told Peloton to “just hire me” and how self-belief shifts outcomes.
(19:06) What authentic leadership means to Jess.
(26:09) How to create calm and self-connection even in the busiest seasons of life.
(33:43) Why surrender—not control—is the true path to ease, trust, and aligned action.
(48:47) How Jess is building Mindfull3, her coaching and wellness company, to help others transform from the inside out.
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Thank you to Jess King for being on our show!
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Building a $30 Million Brand Without Millions of Followers with Lisa Jauregui
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Founders and CEOs, how would your business grow if you built relationships that weren’t transactional?
In this episode, you’ll hear how Lisa Jauregui built a beauty brand from a $30,000 living-room startup into a $30M+ category-leading cosmetics brand—all without millions of followers. You’ll discover the mindset, intuition, relationship-building, and community-driven strategies that fueled her explosive growth. You’ll also hear a deeply personal conversation about confidence, femininity, and redefining beauty in a world full of expectations.
Lisa Jauregui is a beauty entrepreneur and the visionary behind BK Beauty, a category-leading makeup tools company rooted in the belief that “beauty is kindness.”
What you’ll learn in this episode:
(01:32) Launching a multi-million-dollar direct-to-consumer brand.
(07:30) Why identifying white space in the beauty tools market gave BK Beauty its competitive edge.
(09:23) How the brand name “BK Beauty” was born from Lisa’s mission to teach her daughters that beauty is kindness.
(16:12) How organic creator collaborations became the backbone of BK Beauty’s early growth.
(19:54) What Lisa learned from scaling fast and navigating inventory challenges and customer experience.
(24:25) The exact moment Lisa realized BK Beauty had become bigger than herself.
(28:12) How she and her husband divide roles and maintain balance as co-founders and parents.
(30:12) Strategies product-based founders can use to generate excitement.
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Thank you to Lisa Jauregui for being on our show!
Learn more about Lisa: https://www.instagram.com/lisajmakeup/
BK Beauty on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebkbeauty/
BK Beauty’s website: https://www.bkbeauty.com
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Learn more about how Suneera Madhani is paving the way for badass female CEOs like you to take center stage not just in your industries but in your whole life.
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* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suneeramadhani/
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Bootstrapped To Millions. How Michelle Razavi Turned Elavi Into a Retail Powerhouse
Founders, what steps can you take to understand your retail category better than anyone else in your space?
In this episode, you’ll learn how Michelle Razavi built a capital-efficient consumer packaged goods (CPG) brand that broke into major retailers through resilience, community building, and strategic iteration. You’ll hear the real story behind pivots, failed first products, fundraising hurdles, and the discipline required to scale a product into big-box stores.
Michelle Razavi is the founder and CEO of Elavi, the protein-rich snack taking over Costco and major retailers. Michelle is on a mission to reinvent nostalgic treats with clean, functional ingredients, and to empower women to fuel their bodies with strength, confidence, and protein.
What you’ll learn in this episode:
(01:26) How Michelle scaled Elavi from a homemade concept into nationwide retail distribution.
(05:56) Why protein matters deeply for women and how to rethink your relationship with nutritional products.
(08:05) How Michelle navigated early failures and high-pressure pivots in year one.
(12:55) Why building a digital community is now table stakes for every founder.
(15:11) What it takes to commercialize a kitchen prototype into large-scale manufacturing.
(19:38) Why founders must embrace social media.
(26:46) The biggest mistakes founders make when pitching retail buyers.
(31:30) Why getting onto retail shelves is only the beginning and what sell-through really requires operationally.
Thank you to Michelle Razavi for being on the show!
Michelle’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/michellerazavi/
Michelle’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michellerazavi/
Elavi: http://www.elavi.co
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Subscribe to the CEO School podcast because only 2% of female founders ever break $1 million in revenue, and we’re changing that:
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Learn more about how Suneera Madhani is paving the way for badass female CEOs like you to take center stage not just in your industries but in your whole life.
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* Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/suneeramadhani/
* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suneeramadhani/
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The Leadership Patterns Every CEO Masters
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What are the five essential shifts you need to make to become a seven-figure or eight-figure CEO?
In this episode, Suneera breaks down the five patterns she sees among seven-figure and eight-figure CEOs at the Millionaire Founders Club retreat. She walks you through the mindset and operational shifts required to move from doing to leading—including clarity, systems, team, visibility, and alignment.
What you’ll learn in this episode:
(1:13) Why shifting your language from “Can I?” to “Who can?” accelerates your path to scalable leadership.
(2:18) How founders achieve total clarity in their business model and ideal customer profile (ICP).
(3:55) Why scalable systems and repeatable processes are essential for growth.
(4:48) How team leverage—human or AI—becomes the catalyst for moving from doing to leading.
(7:02) Why visibility is directly tied to your brand valuation and market share.
(8:02) How leveraging owned media channels gives you unprecedented access to your customers.
(8:39) Why alignment becomes a non-negotiable filter for clients, teams, and decisions.
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Learn more about how Suneera Madhani is paving the way for badass female CEOs like you to take center stage not just in your industries, but in your whole life.
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Breaking Free From Patriarchy AND Mean Girls As Hype Women with Erin Gallagher
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What if the secret to success wasn’t more hustle—but better alignment?
This episode of CEO School features Erin Gallagher, author and CEO of Hype Women, discussing the importance of women supporting and hyping each other rather than competing. Erin shares her personal journey of reclaiming her intuition and self-worth after years in corporate America, and explores the challenges women face from both societal systems and internalized scarcity mindsets. The conversation highlights the power of transferring different forms of capital—human, social, political, and financial—to uplift women and create meaningful change.
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(00:00:00) Reclaiming Intuition and Self-Worth
(00:05:30) The Power and Pitfalls of "Mean Girl" Culture
(00:08:00) Scarcity Mindset vs. Abundance for Women
(00:15:45) The Hype Women Economy: Transferring Capital
(00:22:30) Vulnerability, Motherhood, and Breaking the Mold
(00:35:00) Embracing Dualities and Building Community
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Less than 2% of female founders ever break 1M in revenue. We’re on a mission to change that. Welcome to CEO School. I'm your host, Suneera Madhani, and each week, you’ll learn from incredible mentors who’ve made it to the 2% club and women well on their way. But first, a few class rules. Grab your seat because we’re here to get sh*t done. We’re one team, one dream. And we believe that we deserve to have it all because nothing bad happens when women make more money. You’re a real business now. Class is officially in session.
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