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The She Leads Podcast, with Adrienne Garland
The She Leads Podcast, with Adrienne Garland
The She Leads Podcast, hosted by Adrienne Garland, is the podcast for women leaders and women entrepreneurs who are sick of sugar coating what they say and how they say it. Each week, Adrienne explores entrepreneurial stories, businesses, and challenges that women entrepreneurs face with a wide range of guests who are open to sharing their authentic stories in a refreshing and real way. For far too long, women have been sugar coating our voices, thoughts, and opinions, but that stops here and now! The She Leads Podcast, formerly Sugar Coated, is the place where women leaders can express their brilliance without sugar-coating anything. This podcast offers a platform for super-practical, actionable advice for women to overcome challenges and to make a significant impact on our families, our communities, and our world. Adrienne Garland, CEO of She Leads Media - entrepreneur, media producer, and adjunct professor rejects the notion that women must be deferential to those currently in power and pull back our opinions. Join Adrienne as she dives into raw conversations with brilliant women leaders and entrepreneurs - sans Sugar Coating!
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The She Leads Podcast, with Adrienne Garland

The She Leads Podcast, with Adrienne Garland

The She Leads Podcast, hosted by Adrienne Garland, is the podcast for women leaders and women entrepreneurs who are sick of sugar coating what they say and how they say it. Each week, Adrienne explores entrepreneurial stories, businesses, and challenges that women entrepreneurs face with a wide range of guests who are open to sharing their authentic stories in a refreshing and real way. For far too long, women have been sugar coating our voices, thoughts, and opinions, but that stops here and now! The She Leads Podcast, formerly Sugar Coated, is the place where women leaders can express their brilliance without sugar-coating anything. This podcast offers a platform for super-practical, actionable advice for women to overcome challenges and to make a significant impact on our families, our communities, and our world. Adrienne Garland, CEO of She Leads Media - entrepreneur, media producer, and adjunct professor rejects the notion that women must be deferential to those currently in power and pull back our opinions. Join Adrienne as she dives into raw conversations with brilliant women leaders and entrepreneurs - sans Sugar Coating!

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The She Leads Podcast, with Adrienne Garland
Why Women Can't Scale on a System Built Against Them and How AI Changes That with Melissa McCann Tilton

About the Host

Adrienne Garland

Adrienne Garland

Adrienne, the CEO of She Leads Media, is a women’s leadership and entrepreneurship expert that’s dedicated to promoting women’s voices, thoughts and opinions via podcasts, conferences and other media platforms.

Live in Sea Cliff, NY (Long Island), work mainly in NY Metro Area, but now virtually, like the rest of us! :-)

Social handles:
IG: @SheLeadsMedia
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/adriennegarland
Twitter: @SheLeadsMedia_

Recent Episodes

Why Women Can't Scale on a System Built Against Them and How AI Changes That with Melissa McCann Tilton
June 5, 2026

Why Women Can't Scale on a System Built Against Them and How AI Changes That with Melissa McCann Tilton

Most business frameworks women are taught were designed for someone else. The playbook says pattern your company after proven models of success, but those models were built for a different kind of founder operating inside a d...
How to Build a Tech Company Without a Tech Background with Meghann Butcher
May 29, 2026

How to Build a Tech Company Without a Tech Background with Meghann Butcher

Meghann Butcher built RepSpark, a B2B wholesale e-commerce platform now moving over a billion dollars a year, without a single line of tech on her resume. She grew up in her dad's apparel and footwear business, hanging around...
Why Most Networking Advice Fails Women and the Two-Network Formula That Actually Scales with J. Kelly Hoey
May 22, 2026

Why Most Networking Advice Fails Women and the Two-Network Formula That Actually Scales with J. Kelly Hoey

Most networking advice was built for men and tested on men. It tells you to work the room, collect contacts, and follow up fast. But research across four continents and fifteen years of longitudinal studies shows that women w...
Why the Founder to CEO Shift Is Really a Communication Shift with Christina Cassotis, CEO of Pittsburgh International Airport
May 15, 2026

Why the Founder to CEO Shift Is Really a Communication Shift with Christina Cassotis, CEO of Pittsburgh International Airport

The hardest shift in business is learning to lead your team without doing their jobs for them. Christina Cassotis, CEO of the Allegheny County Airport Authority, runs a 6,000-person, 24/7/365 operation where a communication b...
Why Your Pricing Strategy Won't Scale and the Formula to Fix It with Linda Hunt
May 8, 2026

Why Your Pricing Strategy Won't Scale and the Formula to Fix It with Linda Hunt

If your service business has hit a revenue ceiling, the problem probably isn't your offer, it's your pricing. In this episode, pricing strategist and author Linda Hunt introduces the concept of the "minimum aligned price," th...
Why Women Founders Get 2.3% of VC Funding and the Tactical Playbook to Change It with Anna Mazarsky
May 1, 2026

Why Women Founders Get 2.3% of VC Funding and the Tactical Playbook to Change It with Anna Mazarsky

Women founders get 2.3% of VC funding. Not because they lack vision, grit, or ideas, but because the playbook they've been handed was built for men.In this episode, I sit down with Anna Mazarsky, founder of PinkX PowerCore, the first tactical platform built to close the funding gap from the ins…

Reviews

Million Dollar Insights

"Thank you Adrienne and your guests for these topical conversations, and personal insights, aimed at helping more women entrepreneurs build million dollar businesses."

@jkhoey | March 15, 2026

Inspired!

"Great podcast. Adrienne gives simple, actionable advice and always has incredible guests on that teach me so much."

Anna Olivia Dixon | March 18, 2026

Vulnerability At It's Finest

"This show was recommended to me by Eva Jannotta and it didn't disappoint. Adrienne speaks with full transparency and in a highly relatable way as a female business owner and woman. As an executive co…"

Teresa | April 3, 2023

Powerful women speaking the truth!

"Have you ever starting taking to someone new and instantly felt a deep connection? Adrienne has this ability to seemingly ask the perfect questions that open up your mind to a sense of confidence and…"

Live the Change | May 19, 2023

Love this podcast!

"As a bootstrapped serial entrepreneur, these podcasts always give me a lift of inspiration, a spark of an idea, and a feeling that I’m not in this alone. Thanks for sharing these great conversations!"

gwtei | April 6, 2026

Recent Blog Posts

We are a #2 Indie Podcast on the Goodpods Charts!!
Aug. 20, 2025

We are a #2 Indie Podcast on the Goodpods Charts!!

Goodpods Top 100 Leader Indie Podcasts Listen now to The She Leads Podcast | Rewriting the Rules of EntrepreneurshipWe are thrilled to holdthe #2 Indie Podcast Positionon Goodpods!

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The Power of Engagement and Connection: Unlocking Success in Business and Life
March 29, 2024

The Power of Engagement and Connection: Unlocking Success in Business…

In the bustling world of entrepreneurship and personal development, one fundamental truth stands: success is often not achieved in isolation but through meaningful engagement and connection with others.Our conversation with Hayley Foster on the Sh…

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Motivated Woman Create the Best Products, with Joyce Dales - founder and CEO of Buzzagogo
April 20, 2022

Motivated Woman Create the Best Products, with Joyce Dales - founder …

Adrienne: Welcome to Sugarcoated.Adrienne: I'm your host, Adrienne Garland, the CEO and founder of She Leads Media.Adrienne: For far too long, women have been conditioned to sugarcoat their words, their actions, and the way they show up in the…

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