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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 AI102 | 3 Standard Operating Procedures Every Founder Should Build in 30 Minutes (Using AI to Write Your SOPs) | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Is your business secretly held together by your memory? If you walked away for two weeks, would things run—or fall apart? If the answer makes you sweat, this…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI101 | Stop Asking Permission to Lead—Just Lead | AI Series Day 12 | 12 Days of AI | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
What if the only thing standing between you and next-level leadership… is waiting for permission that no one’s coming to give? You don’t need another…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI100 | What 1 Year, 1 Rebrand, and 89% Down Taught Me About Leadership | AI Series Day 12 | 12 Days of AI | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Are you holding it all together while quietly falling apart? In this raw and radically honest milestone episode, Dawn Andrews peels back the curtain and shares…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI99 | Stop Writing Terrible Prompts (Your AI Is Only As Smart As Your Instructions) | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Is your AI tool sounding like a corporate robot with a word salad problem? It’s not broken, you’re just briefing it like an intern you secretly resent. Let’s…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI98 | The AI Content System That Sounds Like You (In 10 Minutes) | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Still rewriting everything your team writes "to sound more like you"? It's not your team—it's your system. If you’re spending hours editing social posts…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI097 | How One Firm Went From “12% Growth” To Industry Domination—By Finally Getting Honest | AI Series Day 12 | 12 Days of AI | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
What if your growth plan isn’t strategy—but just a percentage in a power suit? Let’s be real: “Grow revenue by 12%” isn’t visionary. It’s just math dressed up…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI096 | The CEO Trap: How AI Ends Your Decision Fatigue and Frees You to Lead | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Are you crushed under the weight of being the decision czar in your business? Does your to-do list include tasks your team should handle? Then it's time for a…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI095 | 5 Meeting Mistakes Costing Founders $24K a Year (And How AI Fixes Them | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks)
What if the reason your meetings suck… isn’t your team—but your system? Let’s be real: unstructured meetings are silently bleeding your business dry. In this…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI094 | 3 Signs Your Loyal Employee Is Now Holding Your Business Back — And How To Use AI To Fix It Fast | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
What happens when the employee who once saved your business is now the one holding it back? In this episode, you’ll learn how to separate gratitude from…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI093 | The Dirty Secret About AI No Female Executive Wants To Admit—And Why It’s Hurting You | AI Series Day 12 | 12 Days of AI | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Too many female leaders are secretly avoiding AI, downloading tools but never using them, delegating it away, or pretending it’s not urgent. That silence is…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI092 | The Founder's AI Stack: Tools, Prompts & Automations That Actually Work | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
You don’t need 17 software subscriptions to run your business. You need a simple AI stack that connects your clients, creates your content, and commands your…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI091 | The 4-Day AI System That Ends Friday Afternoon Panic Forever | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Friday afternoon chaos doesn’t actually start on Friday. It starts Monday, when the week is designed in a way that guarantees last-minute emergencies. If your…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI090 | The 2-Minute Rule: How Female Founders Use AI to Train Teams to Stop Asking Permission for Everything | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
If your team asks you to approve things like lunch orders, calendar invites, or formatting choices, you’ve accidentally become the Chief Permission Officer…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI089 | 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 AI088 | How One Founder Lost a $1.2M Business & What AI Could Have Done To Save It | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
You hit $1.2M in revenue — but $840K comes from one client. One contract. One decision maker. One email away from unraveling everything. If more than half your…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI087 | Stop Playing Therapist: How Female Founders Use AI to End Team Drama | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Your team isn’t bringing you drama because they’re needy — they’re bringing it because you’ve trained them to believe every hiccup requires CEO intervention…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI086 | The Expert's AI Dilemma: How Female Founders Scale When They ARE the Product | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
What if being irreplaceable in your business is actually the most replaceable position you could be in? Too many brilliant founders have built businesses where…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI085 | REPLAY: How to Get Motivated Again As a Female Leader (When You Stop Giving a F*#k): Business Strategy & Time Management
What happens when you're a leader but you've lost your motivation? It's hard to get momentum back when you’ve taken time off, or things are tough in your…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI084 | REPLAY: Trust Your Gut: Crafting a Career by Being Unapologetically You As A Female Leader With Carrie Byalick
It’s tough to get noticed in Hollywood, and today's guest made a career by helping others do just that. She was one of the entertainment industry’s most…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI083 | REPLAY: Why Summer is the Best Time To Reset Your Business Vision & Strategy as Female Leaders (And Here's Why)
Summer is the perfect time to reset your business vision. While most people wait until January to set goals, by then the momentum is gone. Summer offers a rare…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI082 | REPLAY: Leaving the "Perfect" Job So You Can Fly Even Higher As Female Leaders - with Nicole Marra, Strategic Partner to the World’s Most Dynamic Luxury Brands
Quitting your dream job to start a business is a risky decision, especially if you’re in a high-ranking, visible position. And Nicole Marra, did just that. As…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI081 | Stop Asking AI to be your business therapist | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Stop asking AI to fix your decision paralysis. It’s not here to validate your feelings, tell you you’re special, or magically solve your problems. Here’s the…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI080 | The Wednesday Panic Triage. How AI helped me to choose what matters in my business | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
The panic is real. Too many priorities, not enough time, and your brain is spinning instead of deciding. This isn’t about doing it all, it’s about strategic…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI079 | Your Attachment to the Founder Struggle is Expensive | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Real talk, your attachment to struggle is costing you. Too many brilliant founders choose the hard way every time… and end up burned out, behind, and watching…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI078 | How I used AI To Run My Business Retreat (While Actually Resting) | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Ever wish you could step away from your business and have it keep moving without you? Last week in San Francisco, I did exactly that because my AI assistant…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI077 | Why Your Team Keeps Waiting (and What to Do About It as a CEO) | AI Series Day 12 | 12 Days of AI | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Let me tell you about a moment that happens in Zoom rooms every day. A founder hears five words that make her stomach drop: “I’m waiting to hear back.” It…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI076 | 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 AI072 | How Female Founders Delegate Like a CEO Before They Burn Out | AI Series Day 12 | 12 Days of AI | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Hey founder friend, if you're overwhelmed, overbooked, and over it? Delegation is your way out. In this episode, I’m sharing the moment I realized I was the…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI073 | The Hidden Cost of Doing It All, A Wake Up Call for Female Founders | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Are you cramming 40 hours of work into a 20-hour week? If you're the approvals queen, the Slack oracle, and the one everyone’s waiting on; you're not running a…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI074 | 3 Business Systems That Secretly Sabotage Female Founders and How To Break Free | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Every founder is running systems even if they’re chaos. In this episode, I’m naming the three hidden systems that high-achieving women accidentally build that…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI075 | Drop the Act: Why Transparent Leaders Build Stronger Teams | AI Series Day 12 | 12 Days of AI | 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 AI071 | Say It Like a Leader: The Feedback Framework Every Female Founder Needs | AI Series Day 12 | 12 Days of AI | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Ever had that stomach-drop moment when someone gives it to you straight? I did, right in the middle of a team Zoom. I thought I was being empowering, but what…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI070 | Why Giving Feedback Isn't Mean, It Makes You a Great Leader | AI Series Day 12 | 12 Days of AI | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
If giving feedback makes you feel like the bad guy… let me ask you this: when was the last time silence got you the result you actually wanted? In this quick…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI069 | Realigning Your Business When Life Gets Loud: Strategy + Time Management for Women CEOs | AI Series Day 12 | 12 Days of AI | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
Let me be real: I didn’t expect to hit record this year while juggling caregiving, teen stress, a fifth round of COVID, and still trying to run a business. But…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI068 | Top 10 Must Have AI Tools for Female Founders | Leadership, Delegation & Systems with AI Frameworks
I used to wonder where all my time was going — until I realized AI could give me a whole lot of it back. In this episode, I’m sharing 10 AI tools that save me…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI067 | 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 AI066 | Resilience Lessons for Female Founders with Nika Stewart
You know those moments when life throws you a major plot twist, and you’re left wondering what the heck to do next? In this episode, we sit down with the…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI065 | Building a Community-First Business: Strategy Tips for Female Founders with Jessy Grossman
Do you feel like you're stuck in a cycle of transaction after transaction, struggling to build lasting connections in your business? Or maybe you're unsure how…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI064 | She’s That Founder: A New Beginning for Us All
Big News Alert, Fabulous Leaders! Dawn Andrews here, and today I’m bringing you something bittersweet but oh-so-exciting. After 63 amazing episodes of "My Good…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI063 | How To Master Remote Hiring So You Can Manage Your Time & Find Top Talent Faster
Are your hiring decisions costing you time and money? The truth is, building a high-performing hybrid team is the key to saving resources and boosting…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI062 | Business, Motherhood, and Mental Health with Dr. Catherine Birndorf
What happens when a successful entrepreneur, fierce advocate for women’s health, and accidental CEO takes the helm of a game-changing business? In this…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI061 | The Secret to Closing Deals Faster
Are you tired of sales feeling like a never-ending game of cat and mouse? In this episode, I’m spilling the beans on how to close deals faster by understanding…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI060 | Building Your Dream Business: Crafting Your Business Identity and Personal Branding
Ever wondered what it really takes to build a business from scratch? In this episode, you'll get a peek behind the curtain as I coach Rebecca, a budding…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI059 | Scaling Success: 10 Strategies to Build a Thriving Creative Agency with Octavia Gilmore
Picture this: a teenage passion turning into a global empire, complete with the rollercoaster of entrepreneurial highs and lows. In this episode, Octavia…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI058 | The Power of Active Listening, MGW: A World Listening Day Special
Did you know that listening could be your superpower in business? In this episode we’re celebrating World Listening Day by exploring the incredible impact of…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI057 | Leveraging Technology for Sustainable Business Growth
Can technology really boost your business growth? Today, we are diving into the transformative role of technology in business growth, exploring game-changing…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI056 | Unlocking Success: Is Hiring a Mentor a Game Changer or a Money Waster?
Is hiring a paid mentor the secret to unlocking your business’s full potential with one key move—sounds dreamy, right? From real-world success stories and…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI055 | Expand Your Reach: 8 Strategies for Niche-Bound Businesses
Ever wonder if your niche is too narrow to grow? In this episode, we unlock the secret to scaling by mastering your niche, finding the perfect balance between…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI054 | Beyond The Wardrobe: Breaking Business Growth Barriers with Style with Courtney Robinson
How do you show up authentically in business without compromising your faith and values? In this episode, we get real about the struggle many female…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI053 | Building Success: Real-Time Coaching for Female Founders (Part One)
Ever wondered what it really takes to build a business from scratch? In this episode, get ready for a game-changer: you'll get a peek behind the curtain as I…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI052 | Power Up Your Mid-Year Review With Your Secret Sauce
Is your business feeling the mid-year slump? You are not alone! In this episode, we’re jumping headfirst into the juicy, game-changing secrets that will yank…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI051 | 3 Essential Strategies for Expanding Your Business without Sacrificing Your Time
Have you ever felt like growing your business means sacrificing your sanity? In this episode, I'm serving up a triple scoop of business wisdom. I'm delving…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI050 | No Plan B: Transforming HR into a Strategic Driver for Business Growth with Sel Watts
Do you believe in having a Plan B in business, or is it a setup for failure? In this episode of My Good Woman, I sit down with Sel Watts, Founder and CEO of…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI049 | 3 Crucial Lessons the USPS Taught Me About Service Businesses
What can a trip to the post office teach you about running a successful service-based business? A lot! Remember those warm, fuzzy feelings of childhood visits…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI048 | Reignite Mentorship: Transform Your Training Culture
Feeling the mayhem of training your team? In this episode, we tackle the chaos of post-pandemic team training and why it’s driving us all nuts. You’ll discover…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI047 | Why Layoffs and Cultural Shifts Are Your Launchpad
Ready to seize the moment and turn industry chaos into your launchpad? In this episode, we're exploring how to build something extraordinary on a shoestring…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI046 | The Female Founder Redefining an Industry: April Moss on Innovation
Ever wonder how to leap from a corporate gig to becoming an industry-changing entrepreneur? In this episode, you’ll learn how one trailblazing woman…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI045 | Cultivating Culture: The Unique Impact of Female Founders
Are you ready to discover how female founders can transform company culture into a powerhouse of innovation and collaboration? In today's rapidly evolving…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI044 | Mastering Executive Presence: 5 Essential Traits of Magnetic Leaders
Are you ready to step up your leadership game and truly inspire your team? Together we will learn the art of magnetic leadership that makes leaders…
She's That Founder: Stop Being The Bottleneck and Lead Smarter with AI043 | Keep Your Sparkle. 7 Strategies to Scale A Personal Brand-Centered Business as Female Leaders
In this episode, delve into the art of scaling your personal brand. Navigate through the delicate balance between expansion and resource management, ensuring…