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Empowered by AI: Women Entrepreneurs Leading the Way
Welcome to Empowered by AI, where women entrepreneurs capitalize on the power of AI to transform their businesses, break new ground, and lead confidently. Hosted by Michelle Muncy-Silva, founder of Innovative AI Studio, this podcast is your go-to resource for stories, strategies, and tools that help women combine creativity with cutting-edge technology to build the brands of tomorrow.
Leslie Barreto Tate went from corporate layoffs — one of them while pregnant — to founding Everyday Digital, a business built on helping other leaders and small business owners show up online with intention. In this episode of Empowered by AI, she breaks down how she uses AI as a brainstorming partner and a self-care...
Rachel Zipsie spent 26 years building small businesses before she became one — and now she’s the founder helping other small business owners stop overpaying for software they barely use. In this episode of Empowered by AI, Michelle sits down with Rachel Zipsie, founder of Your Next Move and the Million Heart Movement, for a...
Erica Rooney spent almost a decade climbing to Chief People Officer before she hit a wall she’d seen coming: a 132-year pay gap, leadership rooms that weren’t built for her, and a moment where she realized she couldn’t hand her daughter the same fight. So she left — and started Her Collective, a company built...
Nakshathra Suresh is a cybercriminologist, founder of the safety-tech consultancy Iris, and a lecturer at the University of New South Wales, where she teaches Australia’s first criminology-backed cybersecurity course. In this episode, she brings a criminology lens to product design — showing how a 1979 theory about “the perfect crime” maps directly onto how AI...
In this episode of Empowered by AI, host Michelle Muncy-Silva talks with Noemi Reyes — founder of Magister and creator of the “courage first, then AI” framework — about building an AI-powered business as a woman entrepreneur while holding down a full-time government IT job. Noemi shares the unconventional routine that keeps her grounded in...
After 25 years in social work and homeless services, Michele Williams built MS Works Learning — an AI-driven training platform for the human services sector with the potential to reach up to 85,000 volunteers nationwide. Michele joins Michelle to talk about becoming a founder later in life, landing her first major national contract through a...
After a decade-plus leading learning-systems implementations inside major corporations — and most recently heading up AI adoption at Spirit Airlines before the airline shut down — Trudy-Ann Armand now helps women entrepreneurs turn their existing skills into a fully monetized business. In this episode, Michelle and Trudy-Ann get honest about the parts of corporate life...
In this episode, I sit down with Marline Paul — founder of Enilram Creative Solutions (yes, her name spelled backwards) and a former teacher who spent 17 years in the classroom before betting on herself. As her business celebrates its five-year anniversary, Marline gets honest about the leap from education to entrepreneurship, the very real...
What if the thing standing between you and your next opportunity isn’t your expertise? What if it’s your visibility? In this episode of Empowered by AI, Michelle sits down with therapist, social worker, researcher, AI entrepreneur, and founder Ngozi Cadmus for a powerful conversation about visibility, personal branding, entrepreneurship, and the opportunities artificial intelligence is...
What if the biggest obstacle to your success isn’t strategy? What if it’s the way you’ve been taught to define success in the first place? In this episode of Empowered by AI, Michelle sits down with nervous system coach, author, and founder Marta Czajkowska for a powerful conversation about entrepreneurship, burnout, identity, and the hidden...