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Feminist Founders: Building Profitable People-First Businesses

Feminist Founders: Building Profitable People-First Businesses

Written by: Becky Mollenkamp
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You are a business owner who wants to prioritize people and planet over profits (without sacrificing success). That can feel lonely—but you are not alone! Join host Becky Mollenkamp for in-depth conversations with experts and other founders about how to build a more equitable world through entrepreneurship. It’s time to change the business landscape for good!2023 Economics Leadership Management & Leadership Marketing Marketing & Sales
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  • Another show you may love from the Feminist Podcasters Collective
    Jan 26 2026


    Check out the Season 10 trailer for Here’s What I Learned with Jacki Hayes, a fellow member of the Feminist Podcasters Collective.

    This season is built around real experiments. Jacki isn’t just talking about ideas. She’s inviting coaches and service providers to assign her an actual experiment from their area of expertise. She runs it in her business, then they come back together to break down what worked, what didn’t, and what the results actually show.


    If you like practical insight, honest reflection, and learning from real-world tests instead of polished theories, this season is worth a listen.


    Find the show wherever you listen to podcasts or visit https://www.jackihayes.co/podcast

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    1 min
  • New podcast! Check out Just Rest with Nicole Havelka
    Dec 30 2025

    Our friend Nicole just dropped the trailer for her new podcast Just Rest — and we're SOOO excited!

    We’re both part of the Feminist Podcast Collective, and watching this show come to life has been such a joy. Just Rest is for people who care deeply, work hard, and are tired of being told burnout is just the price of caring.


    This podcast is all about rest as resistance, sustainable change, and staying human in a grind-obsessed world. It’s thoughtful, grounded, and deeply compassionate — the kind of show that feels like a long exhale.

    Give the trailer a listen, then rate & review if it resonates. It makes a huge difference for indie, values-driven podcasts.


    🎧 https://justrest.buzzsprout.com

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    4 mins
  • Rest, Time, and Rebuilding Capacity: Feminist Leadership in Transition
    Dec 17 2025

    What happens when feminist founders stop trying to outrun burnout—and start redesigning work around care, capacity, and real life?

    In this episode of Feminist Founders, Becky Mollenkamp and Faith Clarke are joined by Meg Buzzi and Sarah Durlacher, co-founders of Fixchr, a boutique consulting firm that helps organizations navigate change through behavior, engagement, and collective practice.

    Together, they unpack what abundance actually means when you’re juggling caregiving, leadership, partnership, and survival inside systems that were never built for human needs. This is a conversation about decolonizing time, rebuilding capacity after burnout, refusing urgency culture, and reimagining work that flows—rather than drains.

    If you’re a founder who feels stretched thin, caught between care work and paid work, or craving a more spacious way to lead, this episode will feel like an exhale.

    In This Episode, We Talk About:
    • Why abundance isn’t just about money—it’s also about time, restoration, and choice
    • How caregiving (especially for elders) reshapes leadership capacity
    • What it means to decolonize time and stop moralizing productivity
    • Moving from crisis-driven work to preventative, sustainable change
    • The tension between billable work and long-term investments in community and ideas
    • Why founders often become the last people to receive the care they offer others
    • Designing businesses that can bend without breaking when life happens

    Meg Buzzi and Sarah Durlacher are the co-founders of Fixchr, a boutique consulting organization that supports organizations, teams, and leaders through periods of transition and change. Their work focuses on behavior change, engagement, and helping groups move together—without defaulting to urgency, extraction, or burnout. https://www.fixchr.com/

    About Feminist Founders
    Feminist Founders is a podcast and community for business owners who want to challenge capitalist norms and build human-first, equity-aligned businesses. Hosted by Becky Mollenkamp and Faith Clarke, the show blends real conversations, feminist analysis, and practical reflection for founders who refuse to hustle themselves into the ground.

    👉 Learn more and join the community at feministfounders.co

    🎤 JOIN US IN THE FEMINIST PODCASTERS COLLECTIVE: http://feministpodcastcollective.com/

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    57 mins
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