Badass Women in Business

Welcome to The Badass Women in Business Podcast, the definitive space for unfiltered, tactical insights into female entrepreneurship, enterprise scaling, and business monetization.

Hosted by seasoned business owners, growth partners, and exit strategists Cristy O’Connor and Aggie Chydzinski, this podcast moves past passive advisory to bring you directly inside the high-stakes execution of building and successfully exiting companies on your own terms.

As hands-on growth partners who actively engineer scale and value alongside founders, we deliberately strip away the superficiality of traditional corporate highlight reels. Instead, we dissect the raw, hard-earned operational strategies and profound psychological shifts required to unlock true enterprise value.

Each week, our conversations turn systemic business obstacles into high-velocity execution plans, offering sophisticated, real-world frameworks for ambitious women who are leading teams, optimizing cash flow, and engineering highly scalable, exit-ready companies.

Whether you are in the trenches of bootstrapping an innovative startup, navigating complex partnership dynamics, or designing the ultimate monetization strategy for your life's work, this podcast provides the active strategy needed to drive valuation and claim full autonomy over your future.

Subscribe now to join a premier movement of women rewriting the rules of modern commerce, one definitive story at a time. New episodes deliver partner-level value every Tuesday.

Podcasting since 2022 • 160 episodes

Badass Women in Business

Latest Episodes

The Risk of Doing Nothing: Stephanie Georges on Midlife Reinvention for Women Over 50

The most dangerous career risk for many experienced women is not the leap, but staying in roles and systems that keep minimizing their power. Stephanie Georges brings four decades of Wall Street and C suite transformation experience to a sharpe...

August 18, 2026 • Season 5 • Episode 27 • 53:04

Turning Fandom Into Revenue Without Losing the Brand with Veronica Hart

Growth in entertainment is no longer just about getting attention; it is about turning emotional connection into live experiences, licensing, merchandise, sports, and global partnerships without diluting what people loved in the first place. Ve...

August 11, 2026 • Season 5 • Episode 26 • 51:53

AI Transformation Is a People Problem: Megan Malli

Megan Malli, CEO of AnswerLab, reframes transformation as a deeply human discipline, where AI, customer insight, and leadership all fail when they are layered onto broken workflows or disconnected cultures. In this conversation, she shows why c...

August 04, 2026 • Season 5 • Episode 25 • 52:35

How to Modernize a Legacy Business Without Losing Its Core: Anne Huntington Sharma

Anne Huntington Sharma explains how leaders can honor a company’s history while still making the difficult decisions required for its next chapter. Drawing from her path from “center number 17” to President and CEO of Huntington Learning Center...

July 28, 2026 • Season 5 • Episode 24 • 53:30

Reinvention Without Permission: Jane Bertch on Building La Cuisine Paris and Starting Again at Any Age

Jane Bertch left corporate banking, moved through London into Paris, and built La Cuisine Paris into the largest English language French cooking school in the city, despite having no culinary ...

July 21, 2026 • Season 5 • Episode 23 • 48:57

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