The Stories Changing How Female Founders Are Seen.
Shop the latest issue of LeadHer Magazine - a quarterly publication spotlighting the raw, real journeys behind women building businesses.
Our Approach
We don’t publish highlight reels.
We publish the real story.
LeadHer Magazine exists to amplify the raw, unfiltered realities of women building across every stage of business. We spotlight the late nights, the pivots, the losses, the motherhood moments, the doubt, and the breakthroughs. Because visibility builds credibility. And credibility builds access.
July Issue 3
Coming July 13th!
Cassie Blakely spent years believing she needed to fix herself. What she found instead was something far more powerful: compassion for the woman she had spent so long criticizing. In learning to understand herself, she became a voice of hope for countless others navigating the same journey.
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Jessica Zacharias
She wondered when life would finally begin. The answer led her through grief, healing, self-discovery, and eventually into the work she would spend the next decade building. -
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Candice Van Dertholen
She built something real when everything inside of her said she should stop, and something deeper says you can't. -
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Christina Collura
What began as one mother’s search to help her son feel seen slowly became her mission to help children everywhere learn with confidence, inclusion, and joy. -
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Gloria Ogbemudia
Unable to find the environment she envisioned for her daughters, she began following a feeling she couldn't ignore.
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Valentina MacGregor
She spent years believing confidence, visibility, and belonging were waiting somewhere ahead. What she discovered changed the course of her life, and the lives of hundreds of women. -
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Dr. Dominique Carson
She thought she knew exactly where her life was headed. What she discovered instead was a calling she never saw coming. -
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Kayla Kugler
For years, she believed exhaustion, overwhelm, and carrying everything alone were simply part of being a mom. -
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Julia Anthony
She is reimagining emergency care for rare disease patients, and it started with her own story. -
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Lilian Sue
After years of helping entrepreneurs get noticed, she discovered the hardest person to believe in was sometimes herself.
April Issue 2
When everything she built fell apart, Erica Rankin chose to begin again. She turned failure into freedom, letting go of who she thought she had to be. She stopped hiding, and in doing so, became the voice so many founders didn’t know they needed.
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Kora Franco
In the space between survival and intention, Kora Franco rebuilt her identity, reclaimed her belonging, and chose to rise with grace. -
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Alex DiMattia
Her journey through burnout, reinvention, and the courage to follow creativity somewhere new. -
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Natalya Borakowski
How she came to question what it means to recognize the woman in the mirror. -
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Terry Grahl
Her story on faith, healing, and building places where women and children can begin again.
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Erica Wood
Her story on loss, reinvention, and discovering purpose in unexpected places -
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Amy Turner
Her story on success, humanity, and the moment she realized achievement wasn’t the whole story -
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Trisha Dork
How she walked away from medicine to build a legacy rooted in resilience, leadership, and impact. -
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Denise Beers Kiepper
How she chose change before it chose her, and built a business guiding others through the moments that redefine everything -
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Amy Pierre-Russo
How she redefined work, ambition, and what it means to truly support a life, after becoming a mother
January Issue 1
When faced with a crossroads, Susana Briscoe-Alba chose to build something bigger. She turned a career setback into a platform for women to rise. She built the very table she wasn’t invited to sit at. Creating a platform where women of color can be seen, heard, and paid what they deserve.
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Alexis Campisi
How Burnout, Grief, and Grit Inspired Her to Build a Legal Practice Rooted in Purpose and Protection -
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Gunjan Sud
She Traded Stability for Self-Belief - with Persistence Turned a Decade-Old Dream into Reality -
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Danielle Nelson
Creative and strategic in equal measure, our marketing director brings fresh ideas to every campaign. They turn insights into action and help our message resonate with the right audience. -
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Christina Fair
A story of Resilience, Rebirth, and The Radical Act of Leading Without Losing Yourself. -
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Kate Milligan
How She Transformed Grief into a Mission to Amplify Women’s Voices -
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Maria Haugen
She Turned Dismissal into Determination - Giving Women Back Control of Their Bodies, Their Data, and Their Voice. -
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Abby Gates
How She Turned Grief, Doubt, and Decades of Building for Others into Courage to Build for Herself. -
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Emefa Boamah
A Journey Through Loss, Lineage, and The Sacred Return to Self. -
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Derya Karaarslan
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Tiffany Spalding
Her Quiet Battle with Burnout, Balance, and Becoming the Woman She Didn’t Know She Was Allowed to Be. -
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Lauren Daniels
How An Unexpected Realization Became a Vision That Would Redefine What Celebration Should Feel Like -
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Karolina Powalka
She Walked Away From Traditional Legal Culture to Build a Firm Rooted in Humanity and Empowerment -
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Laurel Mintz
Investor Story
She didn’t wait for a seat at the table - Proving that Diverse Founders Aren’t a Risk; They’re a Return.
