Life has a way of interrupting even the best-laid plans. After nearly 30 years helping founder CEOs grow revenue - including working with companies that later became unicorns and helping many businesses increase their valuation and successfully exit - Alice Heiman is relaunching Sales Talk for CEOs with a specific focus on female founders. Going forward, the podcast will explore the realities women navigate behind the scenes while building companies and driving revenue, while providing practical strategies, support, and conversations designed to help them succeed.
Alice Heiman is the founder and CEO of her sales consulting firm, where she has spent nearly 30 years helping founder CEOs increase sales, grow valuation, and exit, with two unicorn companies among her clients. She has hosted more than 190 episodes of Sales Talk for CEOs and is now building dedicated programs and resources specifically for female founder CEOs. Her approach centers on the premise that driving revenue is a solvable problem, and that the real barriers for female founders are the compounding pressures no one talks about: caregiving, hormonal health shifts, and operating in a system where women receive roughly 2% of venture capital funding.
Alice explains:
◼️ Why she stepped away from the podcast for six months without advance planning
◼️ What happens when grief, hormones, and business stress converge simultaneously
◼️ How 30 years of advising CEOs exposed an unmet need in support services
◼️ Why female founders require more than just sales strategy to succeed
◼️ What the 2 percent funding reality reveals about women building companies
◼️ Why menopause should be part of conversations about revenue growth
◼️ What shifts when family life and founder life are no longer treated separately