She's That Founder: Business Strategy, Time Management and AI Magic for Impactful Female Leaders
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.
Each week, we talk smarter delegation, systems that don’t collapse when you take a nap, and AI tools that actually lighten your load—not add more tabs to your mental browser.
You’ll get:
- Proven strategies to grow your revenue and your impact
- Executive leadership frameworks that elevate you from manager to visionary
- Tools to build a business that runs without burning you out
So kick off your heels—or your high-performance sneakers—and let’s get to work.
Tuesdays are deep-dive episodes. Thursdays are quick hits and founder rants. All designed to make your business easier, your leadership sharper, and your results undeniable.
If you’re ready to turn your drive into results that don’t just increase sales but change the world, pop in your earbuds and listen to Ep. 10 | Trust Your Gut: Crafting a Career by Being Unapologetically You With Carrie Byalick
Episodes
102 episodes
101 | Stop Asking Permission to Lead—Just Lead
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 leadership book—you need to stop playing small in your own company. In this fier...
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Season 2
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Episode 101
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6:53
100 | What 1 Year, 1 Rebrand, and 89% Down Taught Me About Leadership
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 what it really took to hit 100 episodes—while living through the most...
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Season 2
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Episode 100
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23:39
99 | Stop Writing Terrible Prompts (Your AI Is Only As Smart As Your Instructions)
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 get one thing straight: getting great AI results isn’t magic, it’s instructions....
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Season 2
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Episode 99
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11:00
98 | The AI Content System That Sounds Like You (In 10 Minutes)
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, emails, and podcast promos because they just don’t sound like you, this episode is y...
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Episode 98
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31:18
097 | How One Firm Went From “12% Growth” To Industry Domination—By Finally Getting Honest
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 as leadership.This quick-hit episode delivers a $50K wake-up call—how on...
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Episode 97
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7:27
096 | The CEO Trap: How AI Ends Your Decision Fatigue and Frees You to Lead
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 leadership upgrade.If you're the CEO who still picks slid...
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Episode 96
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25:47
095 | 5 Meeting Mistakes Costing Founders $24K a Year (And How AI Fixes Them)
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 quick-hit episode, Dawn drops a $24K truth bomb—how bad meetings ...
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Episode 95
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8:50
094 | 3 Signs Your Loyal Employee Is Now Holding Your Business Back — And How To Use AI To Fix It Fast
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 strategy, spot the signs that loyalty has become a bottleneck, and use AI to ma...
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Episode 94
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12:41
093 | The Dirty Secret About AI No Female Executive Wants To Admit—And Why It’s Hurting You
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 costing influence, credibility, and growth.This episode is about str...
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Episode 93
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6:09
092 | The Founder's AI Stack: Tools, Prompts & Automations That Actually Work
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 systems — so you stop being the bottleneck and start leading like the CEO ...
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Episode 92
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14:05
091 | The 4-Day AI System That Ends Friday Afternoon Panic Forever
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 team is piling on questions at 4:47 PM Friday afternoon, it’s not because...
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Episode 91
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8:00
090 | The 2-Minute Rule: How Female Founders Use AI to Train Teams to Stop Asking Permission for Everything
If your team asks you to approve things like lunch orders, calendar invites, or formatting choices, you’ve accidentally become the Chief Permission Officer. This bottleneck drains your time, chips away at their confidence, ...
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Episode 90
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20:02
089 | The 3-Text Test: How Female Founders Use AI to Stop Their Team From Treating Them Like Google
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 being mean. It’s about breaking the habit of training your...
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Episode 89
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6:04
088 | How One Founder Lost a $1.2M Business & What AI Could Have Done To Save It
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 revenue depends on a single client, you’re not free — you’re trapp...
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087 | Stop Playing Therapist: How Female Founders Use AI to End Team Drama
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.But here’s the truth: your job is to ensure professional collaboration, not p...
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Episode 87
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8:18
086 | The Expert's AI Dilemma: How Female Founders Scale When They ARE the Product
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 they are the product. Clients only want you, the calen...
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Episode 86
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15:44
085 | 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 business. Suddenly, the challenges of moving your business forward seem insurm...
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Episode 85
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084 | 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 respected and sought-after media and publicity strategists, ran her own talent management f...
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Episode 84
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1:07:11
083 | 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 window — the pace slows, creativity rises, and you can refresh your visio...
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Episode 83
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24:54
082 | 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 the CEO and Founder of Fixer Advisory Group, Nicole works with some of the worl...
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Episode 82
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081 | Stop Asking AI to be your business therapist
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 trap I see founders fall into every day: dumping their overwhelm in...
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Episode 81
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9:57
080 | The Wednesday Panic Triage. How AI helped me to choose what matters in my business
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 triage: choosing what matters most so you can focus your energy where i...
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Episode 80
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14:06
079 | Your Attachment to the Founder Struggle is expensive
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 competitors pass them by.This episode isn’t about hustling harder — it...
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Season 2
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Episode 79
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078 | How I used AI To Run My Business Retreat (While Actually Resting)
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 ran the whole thing.In this episode, you’ll discover how to stop car...
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Episode 78
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15:14
077 | Why Your Team Keeps Waiting (and What to Do About It as a CEO)
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 doesn’t matter if you’re leading five people or fifty — when your team treats “I se...
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Season 2
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Episode 77
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