From Contracts and Candy to CEO: Building Businesses (and Balance) with Lakeisha Robichaux Artwork

Badass Women in Business

Welcome to The Badass Women in Business Podcast, where real women share the unfiltered stories behind their success.

Hosted by Cristy O’Connor and Aggie Chydzinski, this podcast brings you inside the minds of founders, CEOs, and changemakers who have built, rebuilt, and redefined what leadership looks like.

Each week, you will hear how these women turned obstacles into opportunity, silence into strategy, and ambition into impact. These are not highlight reels. They are hard-earned lessons from women who built empires, challenged norms, and did it all on their own terms.

If you are building something, leading something, or dreaming of more, this show will light the fire that keeps you moving.

Subscribe now and join the movement of women rewriting the rules of business, one badass story at a time.

New episodes drop every Tuesday.

All Episodes

Badass Women in Business

From Contracts and Candy to CEO: Building Businesses (and Balance) with Lakeisha Robichaux

April 01, 2025 • Aggie & Cristy • Season 4 • Episode 19

Send us a text

What happens when you mix childhood hustle, a deep commitment to faith, and two decades of leadership experience? You get Lakeisha Robichaux—CEO of Chief of Minds and a total force in the HR and business strategy space.

In this episode, Lakeisha walks us through her journey from selling candy in middle school to building a thriving HR consultancy that’s redefining how businesses grow through people. She shares what she learned from her first failed business, how she leads with intention and integrity, and why HR should never be an afterthought.

We dig into:

The mindset shift that changed everything
Why hiring a “mini-me” is a red flag
How to build diverse, high-performing teams
The difference between work-life balance and integration
The role of faith and prayer in her leadership decisions
What’s ahead for Chief of Minds in 2025

If you’re leading a team, growing a business, or trying to figure out how to do both without losing yourself, this episode is for you.

📇 Connect with Lakeisha Robichaux
Website: https://www.chiefofminds.com
Email: lakeisha@chiefofminds.com
Phone: (516) 306-0229
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/lakeisharobichaux
Instagram: @chiefofminds
Facebook: facebook.com/chiefofminds
X (Twitter): @chiefofminds

🎙️ About the Show
Badass Women in Business is hosted by Cristy and Aggie. We spotlight powerhouse women doing business differently—women who are leading with vision, scaling with purpose, and building businesses that actually fit their lives. If you enjoy the episode, don’t forget to rate, review, and follow wherever you listen!

---

Subscribe and Review
If you loved this episode, drop us a review, share it with a badass woman in your life, and subscribe to Badass Women in Business wherever you get your podcasts.

Stay badass. Stay bold. Build it your way.

Keep up with more content from Aggie and Cristy here: