Fearless Female CEOs

Halogen’s impressive portfolio of notable start-ups that have achieved financial success and star-status include:

Third Love (thirdlove.com) — This re-imagined bra brand also features sleepwear, loungewear, and activewear that will take you from the desk to the dancefloor without missing a beat.

HEIDI ZAK

Founder

MONICA ROYER

Founder

Monica + Andy

(monicaandandy.com) — An original, baby lifestyle brand featuring organic, eco-friendly, and sustainable essentials for both baby and mama.

Senreve (senreve.com) — Luxury-level, vegan, handcrafted handbags that are seriously sustainable and fashionably functional.

CORAL CHUNG

Founder

MARINA CURRY

Founder BeautyCon (Beautycon.com) — Annual tradeshow summit featuring legendary as well as burgeoning brands in cosmetics, skincare, haircare, aesthetics, and more. Conferences are slated to start up again in summer 2022.

Ellevest (ellevest.com) — With the mission to “get more money in the hands of women,” Ellevest is the premier financial platform for investing, budgeting, planning, retirement, wealth management, business-building, banking, insurance, and more. A one-stop-shop for all-things-finances for GoGirls – and girls on-the-go – Ellevest also includes professional coaching on when to save and when to splurge.

SALLIE KRAWCHECK

Founder

Sugarfina (sugarfina.com) — Treat yourself to the “Tiffany of candy” with the brand’s iconic, bestselling champagne-infused, gummy Champagne Bears®, including a mouthwatering, colorful ROSIE O'NEILL Founder collection of cocktail candies, gourmet chocolates, tangy sours, scrumptious cookies, and so much more. We don’t know what’s better? The equally delicious décor or the sweet stuff itself!

The Skimm (theskimm.com) — A mission-driven, media mecca for millennial women spotlighting the latest in news, politics, culture, career, finance, and wellness, the Skimm continually seeks to innovate and find ways to positively impact the busy lives of women every day.

CARLY ZAKIN & DANIELLE WEISBERG

Founders

Eloquii (eloquii.com) — Cute, curvy, and inclusive, Eloquii is a fashion brand bringing the best in trendsetting styles to the full-figured female. Sometimes, size doesn’t matter.

Flex Company (flexfits.com) — Flex it, fold it, fit it, and forget it! Foldable, flexible, reusable, and reliable period products that make menstruation manageable.

Carbon38 (carbon38.com) — “Luxury that moves you” is the motto to this upscale athleisure wear brand that takes your look from work to workout seamlessly.

MARIAH CHASE

CEO

LAUREN WANG

Founder-CEO

KATIE WARNER JOHNSON AND CAROLINE GOGOLAK

Co-Founders

DEEPICA MUTYALA

Founder Live Tinted (livetinted.com) — Innovative, routine-simplifying, complexion-correcting cosmetics meet beauty positivity all wrapped up in one pretty package. Live Tinted is a thoughtful beauty brand backed by inclusive values and positive vibes.

Preemadonna (preemadonna.com) — Maker of the first-ever, at-home smart mani system that prints over Bluetooth technology, NailbotTM is sure to nail the interactive beauty movement.

PREE WALIA

Founder

Weelicious (weelicious.com) — A former “frustrated mother’s” solution to feeding her family delicious – and nutritious meals, Weelicious takes the guesswork at creating delectable dishes by providing easy recipes, meal plans, cooking videos, and indispensable information CATHERINE MCCORD centered around food and family.

Founder

Weecare (weecare.com) — An interactive platform that unites childcare providers, babysitters, nannies, caregivers, families, and employers, making quality, reliable childcare accessible and JESSICA CHANG Co-Founder/CEO affordable.

Brella (hellobrella.com) — On-demand, custom-created childcare and education that fits your ever-changing schedule.

MELANIE WOLFF & DARIEN WILLIAMS

Co-Founders

Tea Drops (myteadrop.com) — From latte kits to sampler packages to subscription boxes, this re-imagined tea brand is steeped in sustainability, eco-conscious sourcing, and celebrity customer satisfaction. Their bagless, organic, whole-leaf tea options shed 15% less waste than traditional bagged tea. Now, SASHEE CHANDRAN that’s something to sip to!

Founder/CEO

Stylerow (stylerow.com) — A fashion designer’s dream-come-true, this one-stop-shop platform connects designers to brands, showrooms, and other pertinent vendors. An ingenious project management software program made simple, ERINN VALENCICH Founder/CEO Stylerow is a must for any-level, independent designers.

Sarah Flint (sarahflint.com) — Shoe lovers rejoice! From stilettos to sandals to scarves, this luxury-level footwear and accessory collection is a step in the right direction. All products are artisan crafted, expert manufactured, and 100% certified Italian-made alongside legendary, leading names in fashion. Shoe gurus can enjoy directSARAH FLINT Founder/CEO to-consumer pricing and original, enduring styles.

A member of multiple boards of the companies Halogen has invested in, Draper continues to attend events and conferences as a keynote speaker and is a regular contributor for Forbes and Marie Claire. Like a true GoGirl, Draper claims her inspiration for helping women realize their financial

dreams and business-building goals comes from seeing other women strive to attain their achievements and looks forward to the day the maleto-female investor dynamics finally shift.

A devoted wife and doting mother to three energetic, young boys, Jesse is a founding partner of Halogen Ventures, fourth generation venture capitalist, and former host of Emmy-nominated tech talk show, “The Valley Girl Show.” A staunch proponent for investing in women and leveraging technology and innovation to help solve some of the most challenging issues affecting women and families today, including childcare, Halogen’s prominent portfolio of over 70 companies continues to grow. Draper has been selected as one of the top ten early-stage female investors by Business Insider and was listed as one of the “50 Most Connected Women in America” by Marie Claire. She is frequently featured as the premier tech personality and investing guru on Cheddar, CNBC, and CNN and currently serves on the Board of Directors for Flex, My Style Row, Trust & Will, Carbon38, and Preemadonna, including non-profits

Bizworld and Project Glimmer. Draper is an on-going supporter of the Parkinson’s Institute and UCLA’s prestigious female entrepreneurial community and has cocreated the “Halogen Fellowship in Venture Capital” in an effort to boost diversity and inclusion in the world of business and venture capital investing.

Got a great business idea or looking for start-up capital to help turn your passion into a paycheck? Visit halogenvc.com. To learn more about Jesse and to peek into the private life of a creative career capitalist, business-builder, and gender equality advocate and crusader, be sure to follow her on the ‘Gram @jessedraper and @halogenvc.

Jennifer Murphy “GoGirl” thoroughly enjoyed getting to know Jesse Draper, founder of Halogen Ventures during their one-on-one interview at GoGirl Worldwide Studio Headquarters.

Both women have backgrounds in entertainment and business, and Jesse felt reminiscent of her former pink infused studio while she sat in Jen’s studio’s that also had pops of pink in every nook and cranny. The audience, full of female founders and CEO’s, witnessed how much in common the two entrepreneurs had, and saw a bond that formed during the live interview right in for of their eyes. Jen asked Jesse everything from how she balances it all as a mother, wife, and entrepreneur, to what it was like to interview geniuses like Elon Musk on her “Valley Girl” show several years prior. Jesse’s fun personality, deep commitment to helping women, and passion for helping affordable childcare solutions were just a few of the highlights the audience took away.

Jesse took questions from multiple female CEO's from the audience and shared wonderful answers, insights and suggestions, Jen couldn’t resist showing the audience clips from Jesse’s wedding to Brian McInnes where she and her entire bridal party put on a surprise “Flash Mob” to “Call Me Maybe”.

It was apparent that both Jesse and Jen share a love for making others laugh and smile, and a shared love for empowering female entrepreneurs.

Jen had a few surprises up her sleeve for Jesse including a tiny pink unicorn, martinis sponsored by Spa Girl Cocktails and a beautiful corset and feather purse sponsored by Fee Frey.

Thank you Spa Girl Cocktails for sponsoring this episode!

Watch Jen interview Jesse Draper LIVE at GoGirl Studios!

Jesse gives shout-outs to female entrepreneurs in the audience. Jesse and Jen connect in a meaningful way during the interview.

Former CEO of Spa Girl Cocktails surprises Jesse with a cocktail. Jesse enjoys hearing about the female founded and led cocktail brand.

Founder of Fee Frey surprises Jesse with a Corset from her brand. Jesse is also surprised with a Fee Frey purse made with beautiful feathers.

Jesse poses with Jen (GoGirl), Valeria and Lana of Fee Frey. (We think she loves her new purse!)

Special guests in the audience include Maribel Zuniga (GoGirl Latina) and Coleen McNutt, Founder of Lightning Fit

Jesse and Jen take pink carpet pics after the show with many female entrepreneurs and CEOs from the audience.

Jesse and Jen take pink carpet pics with Annette (owner of RegenOc) and Gigi (Actress, former Olympic swimmer and Athlete).

Jen poses with her Spa Girl Swag Bag after the filming of the Jesse Draper GoGirl Interview on the Jennifer Murphy

GoGirl Show.

Our GoGirl DJ’s name is EVOL, which is LOVE spelled backwards. Very fitting that Jesse Draper wore a jacket with “LOVE” on the back!

She backpacked through the United States to find out “what was working and what wasn’t” in America’s classrooms, while giving underrepresented educators in marginalized communities a voice. Meet the teacher who’s making the grade.

AGeorgetown University graduate and devoted high school educator in Detroit, Sierah Tyson has been earning quite the extra credit amongst her peers. Prior to her current fellowship with the Strategic Community Partners in collaboration with Teach for America in Detroit, Sierah served as a 10th grade teacher at University Preparatory High School in Detroit, Michigan upon earning her bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University. Sierah would go on to obtain her master’s in education from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.

As part of her fellowship with Strategic Community Partners, Sierah’s position is part of another organization, the Michigan Education Policy Fellowship, which seeks to match current or former PreK-12 teachers with progressive policy organizations for a 1-year program to support the development and launch of the Southeastern Michigan Teacher Pipeline. This initiative is in direct partnership with a key local and national philanthropic partner specifically focused on black males and men of color. Her primary role consists of the conducting

and implementation of data and policy reviews to aptly identify short and longterm organic solutions that address recruitment, development, and support of classroom teachers.

Sierah’s unwavering passion for shining the spotlight on teachers making a difference, building strategic partnerships, and facilitating coalitions to create systemic change for disenfranchised communities around the U. S. is her number one goal. Sierah also served as a Director of English Language Arts where she developed critical teaching materials and professional learning tools and resources for the purpose of driving targeted solutions in the entire teacher-student construct, building teacher capacity, and improving student outcomes, i.e., better test scores, grade progression, increased graduation rate, and boosted college admission. Sierah’s breakout role was curating The Education Nomad Project, where she literally backpacked around the United States to capture best – and worst – practices unfolding in America’s classrooms, while also giving a platform to teachers’ woes and wonders. Her eye-opening experiences have been documented on her diary-style blog, UnBoundEd, and @theeducationnomad on Instagram. Some of the things Sierah uncovered during her teacher travels across the States:

• Teachers often struggle with creating their own curriculum from scratch.

When asked, “What are you currently struggling most with?” most of the teachers Sierah interviewed lamented about curriculum creation. Creating a viable curriculum takes up valuable time which otherwise can be spent with students’ studies, as well as fostering relationships with said students.

• The work teachers do require an unrelenting focus on equity.

Sierah makes a point that it’s imperative classroom educators be well-versed on the standards and equitable education practices for students to thrive educationally and compete with peers in more economicallyliberated communities.

• The work of today’s educators is adaptive.

A teacher should invariably ask, “Is what I am doing in the best interest of myself or my students?” An essential aspect of teaching is understanding part of the work we do is knowing that it’s adaptive and a work-in-progress, involving shifts in habits, values, and philosophies, as well as incessant introspection and reflection to make the change we want for our students.

Sierah continues to be involved in extracurricular activities that steal the GoGirl Pink Spotlight. She is currently involved in coordinating a Woman of Color Affinity group and The Kindness Project – both which seek to empower, educator, and elevate through wellness and unity.

“Plan intentionally for intentional results.” — UnBoundEd #lightbulbmoment

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