In this episode of Founders Future, with host Olivia Sammons, Debra Mansfield, a dating coach and matchmaker with over 20 years of experience, shares her entrepreneurial journey and how she built a career helping people create meaningful relationships. From launching her first business at just 18 years old to evolving her work from image and first-impression coaching into relationship coaching, Debra explains how her passion for human connection ultimately led to the creation of Love & Dating.

Debra discusses the realities of modern dating, particularly for people re-entering the dating world after divorce or long-term relationships. She explains why self-awareness, values, and emotional clarity are essential before pursuing a relationship and how authentic connection is often overlooked in today’s swipe-driven dating culture. Debra also shares how she helps clients rebuild confidence, break unhealthy patterns, and approach dating with intention in order to build healthy, lasting partnerships.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Olivia Sammons, Leslie Andrews, founder of Turning Point Women’s Health Transitions, LLC, shares how her two-decade career as a massage therapist led her to recognize a deeper health challenge many women face as they enter perimenopause and menopause. After repeatedly seeing clients struggle with exhaustion, anxiety, hormonal shifts, and unexplained physical discomfort despite “doing everything right,” Leslie realized that traditional wellness approaches were not addressing the root causes. The global shutdown in 2020 became a pivotal moment that pushed her to expand beyond bodywork and create a program designed to help women support their health from the inside out.

Through Turning Point Women’s Health Transitions, Leslie now works with women—primarily between the ages of 35 and 60—who want clear guidance on navigating hormonal changes with confidence. Her approach combines personalized nutrition plans based on lab work, structured lifestyle habits, and coaching support designed to simplify health strategies during a time of major physiological change. By helping women cut through confusing health trends and misinformation, Leslie empowers her clients to better understand their bodies, restore metabolic balance, and approach midlife health transitions with greater clarity and control.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Olivia Sammons, Tamara Brown, founder of iPropel YOU, shares how a corporate layoff unexpectedly led her to launch a coaching and business transformation platform dedicated to helping professionals and entrepreneurs build purposeful careers and scalable businesses. With a background in technology and communications at a Fortune 1 company, Tamara initially began helping colleagues navigate career transitions, which eventually evolved into leadership coaching, personal brand development, and entrepreneurship support through her company.

Tamara also opens up about a major turning point in her life when she was diagnosed with a memory disorder, forcing her to rethink how she operated her business. This challenge led her to develop systems, automation, and AI-powered workflows that allow founders to focus on their strengths while building scalable operations. Through the iPropel YOU platform and her Business Operations Success System (BOSS), Tamara helps leaders transform their expertise into impactful brands and service-based businesses that create long-term legacy and freedom.