Why She Left Corporate America to Bet on Herself | Ingrid Smith

Next Level Women with Jennifer Perri · Oct 22, 2026 · 28m

What if the next level of your life requires walking away from the success you've already built?

After more than 15 years helping build some of the world's biggest beverage brands, Ingrid Smith found herself asking a question she couldn't ignore: What would happen if she took everything she'd learned and invested it in something of her own?

That question eventually led her to leave corporate America and launch Nirvana, her own ready-to-drink cocktail brand.

But taking the leap was only the beginning.

In this episode of the Next Level Women Podcast, Jennifer Perri sits down with Ingrid for an…