She Built It® Podcast

Melanie Barr

Booking Overview

This is an interview-led entrepreneurship and business show featuring women founders, executives, and operators who share how they built companies, teams, products, and sustainable careers. Credible pitches include women founders, product and technology innovators, service-business owners, and senior operators with demonstrated traction or distinctive lessons; booking difficulty is medium.

Metrics

Episodes: 303

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Female

Location: USA

YouTube: 75 subscribers

Instagram: 55.0k followers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

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melanie@shebuiltit.com

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Host

Melanie Barr - CEO of She Built It Media and host of a podcast focused on women building businesses and fulfilling careers.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Women founders, co-founders, executives, and experienced operators with a company, product, or service business to explain; strong candidates typically have measurable traction, meaningful industry expertise, or a distinctive entrepreneurial journey.

Required Achievements:

Founded or co-founded a growing company, Built and scaled a product, service business, or technology platform, Achieved meaningful retail, market, or operational traction, Developed specialized expertise connected to the company or customer problem

Recent Guest Discussions

Rachel Lee Lozina - Building And Scaling A Service Business, Skincare Expertise, Opening A Second Location, Team Compensation, Leadership, And Business Analytics.

Christy Shannon - Building An Artificial Intelligence Company, Reducing Family Mental Load, Product Pivots, Self-promotion, And Marketing A New Category.

Lauren Makler - Fertility Innovation, Founding A Healthcare Company, Improving Access To Egg Freezing, Artificial Intelligence Adoption, And Building A Sustainable Company.

Brynn MacLennan - Turning A Consumer Problem Into A Product, Retail Growth, Influencer Marketing, Leadership, Team Building, And Founder Resilience.

Recent Topics

Entrepreneurship, Women Founders, Leadership, Business Growth, Innovation

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

She Built It® Podcast

The Two Numbers This Founder Watches Above Everything Else?

September 08, 2026

Lillian Rafson got caught up in the press, the awards, and the pressure of "what's next," and grew her team faster than her demand could support. When growth plateaued, she had to lay people off to save the company, and then had to learn the hardest lesson of her career: she is not her business.Key Takeaways:Watch for validation-driven growth: press coverage and awards for growing quickly pulled Lillian into hiring ahead of actual demand, a trap that's easy to miss while i...

The Pivot That Launched Pizza Girl, Inc.

September 01, 2026

For seven years, Caroline D'Amore built Pizza Girl around one model: get it into supermarkets. Then a tragedy she never saw coming, the LA fires, handed her the business she'd actually been missing the whole time.Key Takeaways:Watch your crisis response for a business signal: Pizza Girl's turnkey B2B event program came directly out of the community pizza donations Caroline organized during the LA fires.Separate your personal story from your market research: Naming and building ...

Would AI Find Your Business? Here's the Test

August 25, 2026

Episode 300 feels like the right time to talk about something every CEO and business owner needs to be paying attention to right now.The way people find you is changing.Someone can open Claude, ChatGPT or another AI platform and ask who leads your industry, who they should hire, or what they need to know before making a decision. They get an answer in seconds.The question is, are you part of that answer?In this episode, I’m talking about what owned media really means in 2026, why the right co...

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