Lauren Wang, founder of The Flex Company, is transforming the menstrual product industry with bold innovations and a tendency to break taboos. Driven by her own health needs and a staggering lack of progress in menstrual care, she spent years developing Flex Co’s unique menstrual disc and menstrual cups. She shares challenges, including scaling an unknown pr ... Show More
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Chicago Fed President on inflation, recession, and Trump’s attacks
The economy is strong, prices are still too high, and the job market is sending mixed signals. The Federal Reserve is navigating all of it while fending off the most overt political pressure in its modern history. Austan Goolsbee, President of the Chicago Fed, joins Rapid Respons ... Show More
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Aug 25
Ford's Jim Farley on beating China, and the storm nobody sees coming
With the ongoing disruption in the Strait of Hormuz and fuel prices still elevated, few auto executives are feeling the pressure more acutely than Ford Motor Company CEO Jim Farley. He joins Rapid Response to give a candid account of what the turmoil means for the auto industry, ... Show More
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How Barnes & Noble made a comeback, with CEO James Daunt
CEO James Daunt has now rescued two iconic bookstore chains: Barnes & Noble and Waterstones. He joins host Jeff Berman to discuss the turnarounds, plus how bookstores are preparing for an onslaught of AI-written content, his BookTok strategy, and why local control is the key to m ... Show More
32m 54s
Apr 2025
Bringing Innovation to an Underserved Market
Founded in 2014, Thinx, Inc. makes absorbent underwear that can be worn during menstruation. But the feminine care market had seen virtually no innovation in half a century because of the taboo against discussing the topic of menstruation. As a result, the startup was competing a ... Show More
26m 32s
Oct 2024
631. Scaling a Product Empire: Aunt Flow’s Journey from $250 to $16 Million with Founder, Claire Coder
Welcome back, product bosses! Today, I am so excited to share a live recording I did at Inbound this year with Claire Coder, the founder of Aunt Flow—a company dedicated to making period products accessible in public spaces and creating a supportive community around normalizing m ... Show More
31m 1s
Nov 2021
How This Woman Built Multiple $100M+ Companies Out of Pizza, Poop and Periods - Miki Agrawal
How do you build million-dollar brands from scratch? It all begins with the disruptive innovation to fearlessly change the game. The founder of several internationally acclaimed social enterprises, Miki Agrawal, built million-dollar companies from pizza, period, pee, and poop. Sh ... Show More
31m 13s
May 2022
S2 001: Hélène Guillaume, founder of Wild.AI. Femtech, Sports, Female Representation 🏄🏽♀️🚴🏼♀️
<p>Ultra-marathoner, ice-swimmer and surfer Hélène Guillame founded Wild.AI to help women to train, eat and recover across all stages of their menstrual cycle and through all stages of life. A former quant in a Hedge fund and a data scientist, Hélène is bringing finance, data and ... Show More
27m 37s
May 2025
The Truth About Period Products, Sustainability, and Building an 8-Figure Business with Jen Eden
What’s really in the products we use every single month? In this episode, I sit down with Jen Eden, founder of Tampon Tribe. We talk about what’s really in your period products and why it might be hurting your hormones. She shares how to choose safer, cleaner, certified-organic p ... Show More
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