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The Build The Damn Thing Podcast for Women Entrepreneurs
The Build the Damn Thing podcast is part storytelling, part mix tape and designed to teach you how to bring your business to the next level. The podcast features lessons and tips from leaders and entrepreneurs who have “Built the Damn Thing” themselves — from serial entrepreneurs to those who take risks to solve problems both abroad and locally.
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Lessons from people who’ve done it.
Hosted by Kathryn Finney — one of the most influential women in tech (INC Magazine), one of the first Black women to sell her startup, and Managing General Partner at Genius Guild.
All Episodes
51 episodes, every founder story.
- From Corporate Burnout to Finding Your Purpose: How to Build a Life You Actually Love
- How to Go From Layoff to $600k
- How to Use Storytelling to Make $$$
- How to Build a Powerful Network
- How to Turn a Side Hustle Into a Thriving Business with Andee Hart
- How to Use The Profit First Method To Get $$$ as an Entrepreneur
- Why 'Mastering Intentions' Beat Traditional Goal-Setting for This Real Estate Mogul and HBO Max Star
- From $25 Google Checks to 7-Figure Exit: OG Influencers Reveal the Business Behind Personal Branding
- How to Own Your Power Part 2: Say No, Stand Tall, and Build on Your Terms
- How to Own Your Power: The Mindset Every Entrepreneur Needs to Build Boldly
- How to Make Joy Part of Your Business Strategy
- How to Use AI to Grow Your Business
- What is Venture Capital?
- How to Turn Your Creativity Into Cash Without Selling Out
- How to Leverage Relationships to Power Your Next Move
- How to Be a Likeable Badass in Business
- How to Network Without Feeling Fake (or Exhausted)
- How to Launch a Food Brand From Your Home Kitchen
- How to Go From Corporate to CEO
- How to Create a Company Culture Before You Have a Team
- How to Thrive as a Mission-Driven Entrepreneur in a Broken System
- How to Buy a Business (and Make It Your Own)
- How to Date Like a CEO and Attract the Partnership You Deserve
- How to Grow a Multi-Million Dollar Business From Passion and Purpose
- How to Stop Running (Business) Races that Don’t Matter
- The Art of Leaving w/ Darlene Gillard Jones
- Global Impact w/ Gizelle George-Joseph
- What It Takes to Support a Black Woman Leader? w/ Kimberly Bryant
- The Power of Resilience w/Torian Richardson
- Adapting to Change w/Denise Hamilton
- Dating as an Entrepreneur w/AJ Johnson
- Motherhood and Entrepreneurship w/Laurence Basse
- Defying Convention w/Roger Carter
- Balancing Act: Work, Life, and Entrepreneurship w/Darlene Gillard Jones
- Centering Joy w/ Bevy Smith
- Sell The Damn Thing
- How To Get the Money You Need To Grow Your Company
- How To Build An Amazing Team
- How To Turn Your Solution Into a Money Making Business
- How to Make Sure Your Business Solves a Problem
- How to Build Your Personal Advisory Board
- How To Mentally Prepare For Entrepreneurship
- Build The Damn Thing: Leaning Into Your Purpose
- Black Muse: Sticking to Your Values and Investing in Black Excellence
- Money Don't Grow On Trees: How the Concept of Frictionless Investments Can Disrupt the World of Business
- When Doves Cry: Knowing When It's Time to Exit Your Business
- Black Sweat: How Data and Determination Can Disrupt an Industry for the Better
- Free: How to Successfully Exit a Company and Begin Again
- Baby I'm A Star: How to Build a Blog into a Successful Business
- The Question of U: What it Takes to be a Successful Entrepreneur
- Sign O' The Times: Building a Company that Ends Racism
Ep 51 · Feb 2026 · 44 min
From Corporate Burnout to Finding Your Purpose: How to Build a Life You Actually Love
In this episode of Build a Damn Thing, host Kathryn Finney speaks with Francesca Hogi, a lawyer turned entrepreneur and author, about her journey from corporate law to matchmaking. They discuss the importance of navigating life changes, finding one's pa
Listen →Ep 50 · Nov 2025 · 31 min
How to Go From Layoff to $600k
In this episode of Build a Damn Thing, host Kathryn Finney speaks with Elina Pantelyeva, the founder of Dood Woof, about her journey from being laid off in the tech industry to building a successful brand for dog lovers. Elina shares her insights on ide
Listen →Ep 49 · Oct 2025 · 40 min
How to Use Storytelling to Make $$$
In this episode of Build the Damn Thing, host Kathryn Finney speaks with expert authority coach Christine Blosdale about the importance of visibility and storytelling in entrepreneurship. Christine shares insights on overcoming imposter syndrome, the si
Listen →Ep 48 · Sep 2025 · 30 min
How to Build a Powerful Network
How do you build a network that actually fuels your business and life? In this special compilation episode of Build the Damn Thing, Kathryn Finney brings together some of the most powerful insights from past guests on the importance of relationships, ri
Listen →Ep 47 · Sep 2025 · 36 min
How to Turn a Side Hustle Into a Thriving Business with Andee Hart
What does it really take to turn a kitchen side hustle into a thriving wholesale business? In this episode of Build the Damn Thing, Kathryn Finney talks with entrepreneur and sales strategist Andee Hart, founder of Hart Design Co. and host of She Sells
Listen →Ep 46 · Sep 2025 · 32 min
How to Use The Profit First Method To Get $$$ as an Entrepreneur
In this episode of Build the Damn Thing, host Kathryn Finney interviews financial advisor and money mindset expert Shari Rash, host of Everyone’s Talking Money, a show recognized by The New York Times. The conversation gives new and early stage entrep
Listen →Ep 45 · Sep 2025 · 34 min
Why 'Mastering Intentions' Beat Traditional Goal-Setting for This Real Estate Mogul and HBO Max Star
What happens when you achieve everything you thought you wanted but feel completely empty inside? Bianca D'Alessio, author of "Mastering Intentions," HBO Max's Selling Tampa star, and top real estate broker, found herself at the pinnacle of success,an
Listen →Ep 44 · Sep 2025 · 43 min
From $25 Google Checks to 7-Figure Exit: OG Influencers Reveal the Business Behind Personal Branding
What happens when you turn a fashion blog into a business empire worth acquiring? Marie Denée, founder of The Curvy Fashionista, sits down with Kathryn Finney to break down the real economics of influence - from the wild west days of $12 CPMs and $50K
Listen →Ep 43 · Aug 2025 · 22 min
How to Own Your Power Part 2: Say No, Stand Tall, and Build on Your Terms
Owning your power isn’t a personality trait,it’s a strategy. In this special Build the Damn Thing compilation, Kathryn Finney brings together bold voices who know what it takes to lead, negotiate, and build with intention. From navigating bias to
Listen →Ep 42 · Aug 2025 · 16 min
How to Own Your Power: The Mindset Every Entrepreneur Needs to Build Boldly
What does it really take to build the business,and life,you want? In this special compilation episode of Build the Damn Thing, host Kathryn Finney brings together powerful insights from founders and leaders who are redefining what it means to be an
Listen →Ep 41 · Aug 2025 · 39 min
How to Make Joy Part of Your Business Strategy
What if leadership didn’t have to be lonely? What if building your business could feel like a joyful act of service,not just a climb to the top? In this episode of Build the Damn Thing, Kathryn Finney sits down with her longtime collaborator and fr
Listen →Ep 40 · Aug 2025 · 41 min
How to Use AI to Grow Your Business
It's time to use AI to save you time and grow your business In this episode of Build the Damn Thing, Kathryn Finney sits down with Cheryl Contee,tech futurist, serial entrepreneur, and author of AI for Nonprofits,to break down how underestimated fou
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