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She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI
You’re listening to She’s That Founder: the show for ambitious women ready to stop drowning in decisions and start running their businesses like the confident CEO they were born to be.
Here, we blend business strategy, leadership coaching, and a little AI magic to help you scale smarter—not harder.
I’m Dawn Andrews, your executive coach and business strategist. And if your to-do list is longer than a CVS receipt and you’re still the one refilling the printer paper... this episode is for you…
Episodes
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI162 | REPLAY: Command the Room: Female Leadership Secrets Unlocked with Samara Bay
What if your voice could become your most powerful leadership tool? In this episode, Samara Bay, Author of Permission to Speak and Coach to Hollywood stars and…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI161 | You Already Know Something Is Broken in Your Business. Here's How to Find It with AI Before It Costs You Another Quarter | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
What if the real reason your business can’t scale… is because you’re still the one holding the whole thing together? Most founders assume their growth problems…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI160 | Leone Baxter Invented the Full-Service Offer and Female Founders Are Still Catching Up | SHE BUILT THIS Ep. 5 | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Are you still selling pieces of your brilliance… when you should be selling the whole damn outcome? In this “She Built This” episode, Dawn Andrews unpacks how…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI159 | The Bottleneck Isn't Your Team. It's What You Haven't Been Willing to Say Out Loud | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
What if the most expensive line item in your business isn’t payroll — it’s the conversation you keep avoiding? This episode exposes a hidden growth ceiling…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI157 | Inez Kaiser and the Service Business Model Female Founders Are Still Sleeping On | SHE BUILT THIS Ep. 4 | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
What if the reason your service business isn’t scaling… is because you’re selling skills instead of insight? In this powerful “She Built This” episode, Dawn…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI158 | If Your $1M Business Lives in Your Head, It Can’t Scale. Here's The AI Workflow That Fixes It | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
What if the biggest reason your business can’t scale… is that everything still lives in your head? This episode tackles the hidden scaling problem most…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI156 | Hiring Is Not Your Solution (And the “Scale Fast” Crowd Won’t Like This) | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
What if the reason your business is stalled isn’t that you need more help, it’s a systems problem you can’t see? Most founders assume the next hire will fix…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI155 | Your Team Was Never Supposed to Care as Much as You Do. Here's What to Do With That | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Why does it feel like you’re the only one in your company who actually cares whether the business succeeds? Many founders quietly resent their team’s lack of…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI154 | Ruth Handler | SHE BUILT THIS Ep. 3 | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Are you selling a single offer over and over or building a system around your offer that creates multiple revenue streams? This episode breaks down the real…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI153 | Why $5M Founders Still Price Like Freelancers | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Are you scaling your company? Or just becoming the most expensive employee in it? This episode breaks down why founders at $500K - $5M still operate like…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI152 | Why $100M Leadership Advice Backfires at $500K–$5M. Here's Why and How AI Can Fix It | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Are you building a $2M business with a $100M playbook and wondering why everything feels harder? This episode breaks down why high-level corporate leadership…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI151 | She Invented the Marketing Strategy Every Brand Copies — and Never Gets Credit | SHE BUILT THIS Ep. 2 | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
What if the real reason people aren’t buying from you… is because they haven’t experienced your value yet? This episode breaks down the brilliant marketing…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI150 | Why Most Female Founders Are Losing Their Power, Confidence & Direction To AI & How The Top 1% Use AI Differently | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
What if the most dangerous thing AI can do isn’t give you the wrong answer… but give you a good enough one right when you’ve stopped trusting yourself? AI…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI149 | Is AI Stealing Your Confidence As a Leader? The Critical Difference Between AI As Thought partner vs Decision Maker Most Female Founders Miss | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
What if the thing you think is a productivity problem in your business is actually a design flaw, and AI can fix it if you see it clearly? AI isn’t the…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI148 | She Built a Scalable Empire in 1906 With No Tech Stack. What's Your Excuse? | SHE BUILT THIS Ep. 1 | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
If she could build a scalable sales system in 1906… what’s your excuse? Madam C.J. Walker didn’t just sell haircare products. She built a repeatable leadership…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI147 | I Read the Scary AI Headlines and Almost Dumped My Stack | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Are you apiraling and ready to delete every AI tool from your business? After scrolling headlines about AI choosing itself over humans 80% of the time…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI146 | The Delegation Mistake That's Keeping You Stuck Working 60 Hours a Week & The 1 AI Trick to Overcome It | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Are you actually bad at delegation… or are you carrying executive thinking your team has never been trained to see? You don’t have a time management problem…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI145 | Why You Need To Stop Outsourcing Your CEO Decisions To Unqualified People & Do THIS Instead | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Are you collecting opinions like evidence instead of leading like the CEO you are? If you're asking your barista, mastermind, or therapist for permission to…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI144 | The Solo Trap: Why Your Service Business Is Stuck at $300K (And How AI Gets You Out) | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Are you actually “choosing” to stay boutique… or are you trapped in a business model that requires you to stay small? Let’s be honest. You don’t have a hiring…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI143 | This 1 Hack Will Save You $10k Per Month By Showing You Which Tasks Are Eating Up Your Time & Who To Delegate Them To | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Still saying, “It’s faster if I just do it myself”? That phrase is costing you $10K–$15K a month—and keeping you stuck as your team’s overpaid Google. Every…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI142 | Why Female Founders Unknowingly Underprice by 30% & the AI Prompt You Can Use to Fix It Fast | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Are you using your personal buying anxiety to set your business prices? You’re not undercharging because of imposter syndrome. You’re undercharging because…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI141 | The #1 Skill You Need to Give Clear Feedback Without Worrying About Hurting Your Team Members Feelings | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
What if the reason you’re burned out isn’t delegation—but the fact that you’re managing other people’s approval instead of leading? You don’t struggle with…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI140 | Why the Smartest Female Founders are Still the Bottleneck in Their Business and the AI Audit that Fixes It | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Are you doing $200/hour thinking... while stuck in $25/hour tasks? If you're grinding out 40 hours of work in a 20-hour window and still can't find space to…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI139 | Female Founders Stop Carrying Marketing When AI Becomes the Team w/Pam Langord (Part 2) | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Are your marketing systems secretly built for burnout? If you’ve ever ghosted your own funnel because it felt like a second full-time job, you are not alone…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI138 | Female Founders Waste 20 Hours Weekly On Marketing Until They Do This With AI w/ Pam Langord (Part 1) | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Exhausted from posting nonstop and still hearing crickets? It’s not your content, It’s your system. If you’ve ever felt like marketing is a full-time job on…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI137 | REPLAY: The 3-Text Test: How Female Founders Use AI to Stop Their Team From Treating Them Like Google | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
If your team is texting “How do I…?” at 7PM, you’ve become their expensive search engine. At your CEO salary, that’s draining time and focus. This isn’t about…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI136 | REPLAY: How Smart CEOs Build SOPs Without Boring Themselves (or Their Teams) | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Let me guess — your team still pings you for every little thing, and that SOP you swore you'd write is still just a blank Google Doc mocking you from your…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI135 | Renee Nicole Good. A Thursday Rant on Power, Leadership, and the Cost to Women | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Is it still leadership if it leaves you exposed? Renee Nicole Good’s death is a tragedy and a mirror. In this Thursday quick-hit, Dawn Andrews confronts the…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI134 | The 10-Minute AI Hiring Workflow Female Founders Use to Stop Hiring Dud Employees (Saves 6 Months + $30K) | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Are you hiring help or headaches? If you're tired of cycling through hires who “seemed great” but still need hand-holding six months later this episode is your…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI133 | Stop Planning Backwards! Why Female Founders Need a Champagne Moment Before Setting Goals | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Are you planning goals that secretly exhaust you before you even begin? Every January, you’re fired up and ready to plan the hell out of your year. By March?…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI132 | How Female Founders Delegate High-Stakes Tasks Without Losing Sleep (Using DiSC + AI Pattern Recognition) | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Ever wonder why your delegation flops—even when your hire was totally qualified? Let’s be real: It’s not a competence issue. It’s an instruction mismatch and…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI131 | I Almost Deleted This. What Every Female Founder Must Stop Doing in 2026 To Lead Like They Mean It | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
What if the real reason your 2026 goals feel flat… is because you set them from fear instead of truth? In this raw, unfiltered Founder’s Rant, Dawn Andrews…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI130 | How Female Founders Use AI to Stop Feeling Like Failures (The Year-End Audit That Reveals What You Really Built) | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Are you secretly labeling your year a failure just because it didn’t look flashy on Instagram? If your calendar is full but your confidence is low, this…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI129 | Christmas Episode: I've Watched 300+ Founders Transform—Here's Exactly What's Coming for You in 2026 | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
What if your biggest breakthrough in 2026 isn't about doing more, but finally letting go? In this raw and radically uplifting Christmas Day episode, Dawn…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI128 | How Female Founders Use AI to Stop Being December's Bottleneck (The August Delegation Fix) | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Are You the Bottleneck in Your Own Business... Again? Every December, ambitious founders hit the same wall: doing too much, too late again. But what if your…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI127 | REPLAY: Drop the Act: Why Transparent Leaders Build Stronger Teams | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Pretending you're unbothered as a leader? It’s like wearing emotional Spanx; smooth on the outside, can’t breathe on the inside. In this short and sharp…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI126 | Female Founders Stop Planning Like You're Corporate. Use AI to Build a Business You Want Without the Soul-Crushing Burnout | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Are you scaling the wrong thing... successfully? If your 2025 planning feels heavy, misaligned, or nonexistent — it’s not because you're lazy. It's because…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI125 | Stop The 2 AM Decision Spiral. How Female Founders Pressure-Test Their Biggest Decision in 15 Minutes | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Still wide awake at 2AM, spinning through every possible scenario? If you're stuck between the "safe" job that's slowly draining your soul and the scary leap…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI124 | How Female Founders Use AI to Build 90-Day Plans They Actually Execute (So You Stop Abandoning Goals by February) | AI Series Day 12 | 12 Days of AI | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
January goals fade fast. Let’s build a Q1 Game Plan you’ll actually execute—with help from AI and one powerful 90-day sprint structure. By February, most goals…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI123 | 10-Minute AI Planning for Female Founders So You Actually Accomplish What Matters (Not Just Survive Your Calendar) | AI Series Day 11 | 12 Days of AI | AI Series Day 12 | 12 Days of AI | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
You’ve got a full calendar and zero clarity. Here’s how to flip the script in just 10 minutes using AI. If your week starts in panic-scroll mode and ends in…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI122 | The 4-Stage AI process Female Founders Use to Stop Losing 10 hours Each Week Answering Questions Their Team Should Own | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Still doing your team’s job for them? If your team still needs you to weigh in on every little thing, you don’t have a performance problem. You have a…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI121 | The AI Decision Making Framework Female Founders Use to Stop Overthinking, Choose Confidently, and Move On | AI Series Day 10 | 12 Days of AI | AI Series Day 12 | 12 Days of AI | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Hiring. Pricing. Saying yes. Saying no. When the stakes feel high and your brain is foggy, this 3-question AI decision framework brings the clarity you need…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI120 | How Female Founders Use AI to Create SOPs in 10 Minutes So They Never Explain the Same Thing Twice | AI Series Day 9 | 12 Days of AI | AI Series Day 12 | 12 Days of AI | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Tired of Explaining the Same Thing Twice? Turn It Into an SOP—in 10 Minutes You keep saying, “I should really write this down.” But let’s be honest—you won’t…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI119 | Stop Rewriting the Same Emails: Build Your AI Template Library (15 Minutes) | AI Series Day 8 | 12 Days of AI | AI Series Day 12 | 12 Days of AI | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
You’ve already written it once—why keep starting from scratch? It’s time to stop wasting time and start building your AI-powered email template library. You’re…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI118 | The 5-Minute AI Brain Dump Female Founders Use to Stop Waking Up Overwhelmed at 3am | AI Series Day 7 | 12 Days of AI | AI Series Day 12 | 12 Days of AI | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
When your mental to-do list is a full-blown swirl of chaos, you don’t need more time—you need a system. This one clears the clutter in under five minutes. 47…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI117 | Stop Rewriting Everything AI Writes: The 10-Minute Voice Training for Founders | AI Series Day 6 | 12 Days of AI | AI Series Day 12 | 12 Days of AI | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Using AI to write—but spending 10 minutes rewriting everything because it “doesn’t sound like you”? That ends today. Professional? Sure. Polished? Fine. But if…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI116 | The 5-Minute Meeting Prep AI Hack That Makes You Look Totally Prepared | AI Series Day 5 | 12 Days of AI | AI Series Day 12 | 12 Days of AI | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
You’ve got 10 minutes until your next meeting. What if you could show up sounding sharp, strategic, and like you actually had time to prepare? Most founders…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI115 | Hey Girl, Stop Playing Santa and Use AI to Set December Boundaries So That You Start Q1 Energized Not Resentful | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Is your calendar full of holiday chaos and client deadlines, but you’re the one burning the midnight oil? A yes in December = resentment in January. In this…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI114 | Your Inbox is Overwhelming You: AI Email Triage for Female Founders (5 Minutes) | AI Series Day 4 | 12 Days of AI | AI Series Day 12 | 12 Days of AI | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
You’re not bad at email, you’re overwhelmed. AI can triage your inbox before it hijacks your morning. Let’s fix your overwhelm with one simple daily ritual. In…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI113 | Your AI Prompts Are Trash. Here's Why (And How Top Female Founders Fix It in 10 Seconds) | AI Series Day 3 | 12 Days of AI | AI Series Day 12 | 12 Days of AI | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Ever asked ChatGPT for help and gotten a bland, robotic response? Yeah, that’s not AI’s fault—it’s yours. But don’t worry, there’s an easy fix. If AI’s answers…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI112 | The 3 AI Prompts Every Female Founder Needs in Her Phone to Stop Overthinking Every Email, Meeting, and Decision | AI Series Day 2 | 12 Days of AI | AI Series Day 12 | 12 Days of AI | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks.
You opened ChatGPT… now what? If the blinking cursor of doom has ever stared back at you, this one’s for you. You don’t need 1,000 prompts. You need three that…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI111 | 3 Custom GPTs That Save Female Founders 16 Hours a Week (+ Build Your First in 10 Minutes) | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Still explaining your business to ChatGPT like it’s a temp with amnesia? You’re wasting 12 weeks a year—and I’m about to help you win them back. In this…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI110 | Stop Overthinking ChatGPT: Free vs. $20? Here's What ACTUALLY Matters for Founders | AI Series Day 1 | 12 Days of AI | AI Series Day 12 | 12 Days of AI | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Are you spinning in circles trying to figure out if ChatGPT Plus is worth the $20? Let’s cut through the tech noise and make a clear, founder-focused call…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI109 | How AI Caught Me Right Before I Broke: A Female Founders Thanksgiving Reflection | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
What if the tool you keep ignoring could be the thing that saves your sanity next year? This isn’t your typical "thankful" episode. In this raw and revealing…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI108 | 3 AI Systems That Help Female Founders Manage Time, Clients, and Business During the Holidays | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Are you actually resting? Or just pretending to unplug while silently panicking about your inbox? If the holidays have you caught between client deadlines and…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI107 | The Client Costing You Six Figures: AI Business Audit Series Finale (Part 3) | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Is one of your clients quietly draining your time, energy, and profits? In this fiery finale of the 3-part AI Business Audit series, Dawn exposes the hidden…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI106 | AI Ethics and Security with Elizabeth Goede (Part 2) | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Are you feeding your AI tools private info you’d never hand to a stranger? If you’re dropping sensitive data into ChatGPT, Canva, or Notion without blinking…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI105 | The Time Tax: How Founders Waste 24 Hours a Week (AI Business Audit Part 2) | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Are you secretly paying a 24-hour-a-week tax that’s draining your profits and sanity? In part two of the AI Business Audit series, Dawn dives into the hidden…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI104 | AI Ethics and Security with Elizabeth Goede (Part 1) | AI Series Day 12 | 12 Days of AI | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Is your AI use exposing your business to risks you can’t see coming? It’s not just about saving time — it’s about protecting your clients, your content, and…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI103 | Your Bank Account Is Lying to You: The AI Business Audit Series (Part 1) | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
What if the offer or service you’re most proud of is the one that’s secretly draining your profits? Welcome to Part 1 of the "AI Business Audit" series. In…