What do you do when you're good at your job, respected, well paid, and still know there's something bigger to build? If you're Laura Davis, you leave a secure job in the Texas Senate, start working out of an Austin apartment, and build the fix yourself.

Laura Davis is co-founder and Chief Business Officer of USLege, an AI-powered legislative intelligence platform that now tracks all 50 state legislatures and Congress. She spent 10 years in and around the Texas Capitol, watching brilliant people do impossible work with terrible tools. She knew the problem firsthand: spending hours hunting for a 20-second clip from two sessions ago. So she took the biggest risk of her career. Within nine months, USLege had taken over the Texas market and passed $1 million in revenue.

Rebecca and Laura go back to where her steel came from. She was born in England, fell in love with Texas, and moved here at 17 to chase a career in government. She spent a freshman year at military school, where she learned how strong she could be and stood up for the women around her. And she had a mom whose simple question, "Do you like it? Then it is cool," taught her to stop waiting for the crowd's permission.

Topics include:

• Leaving a secure career to start a company, and why you only regret what you don't do
• Being underestimated as a young woman in politics and tech
• "Chewing glass and staring into the abyss": the reality of early-stage startup life
• What to do when your first customer walks out the door
• Women supporting women in the Capitol community
• Why she stopped ruminating, and the problem-solving mindset every founder needs
• "Ride the tiger": her company's motto for pushing through discomfort toward growth

And yes, Laura names her horse. She's burgundy, she's sparkly, she rides through the desert, and her name is Champion.

Relevant for women entrepreneurs, female founders, women in government affairs and public policy, and anyone standing at the edge of her own leap.

"Start it and do it, but don't give up. Usually it's right at that time that you're ready to give up that everything shifts." — Laura Davis

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Rosa Navejar — founder and president of Fort Worth utility-engineering firm The Rios Group and the first woman to lead a chamber of commerce in Fort Worth — on being the only woman in the room, taking risks late in your career, and why you don't wait for a seat at the table when you can build your own.

Told in high school that "girls like her" were meant to get married and have babies, Rosa turned that into fuel: 25 years in banking, 11 years transforming the Fort Worth Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (from 250 to nearly 1,400 members), and — at 56, in a church pew, deciding she didn't want to be 70 thinking what if — the leap that grew The Rios Group from $5.3M to over $12M.

In this episode:

• Why she tells women to "make your own table" instead of waiting to be invited
• "Do your homework so you can tell the story instead of being told the story"
• Handling being talked over, dismissed, and underestimated in the room
• The good, the bad, and the ugly — and why we learn more from failure than success
• Taking a career-defining risk at 56

A conversation for women in business, aspiring entrepreneurs, and anyone ready to stop waiting and go for it.

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Six years old. A cold winter night. A knock that would define the rest of her life.

Kenya Rashard — founder of On Track Truck Driving School, the first African American to open a commercial driving school in Arlington, and a woman known across North Texas for giving second chances to people the world has written off — sits down with Rebecca for a conversation unlike any other on this show.

Kenya calls herself "God's favorite." After you hear her story, you'll understand exactly why she means it.

This episode goes to places most podcasts don't go — a loss no child should carry, a rebellion that nearly cost her everything, and a decades-long climb back toward a life she built entirely on faith, grit, and one unshakable belief: that she is not what happened to her.

There's a bank loan that shouldn't have been possible. A landlord who saw something in her before she ever said a word. A dream about trucks that turned into a business built from nothing. And a metaphor about the cape every woman wears that we haven't been able to stop thinking about since we recorded it.

Kenya is a woman who defies the odds - inspiring us to break past the excuses and go for it!

A note before you press play: this conversation touches on themes of domestic violence and loss. Kenya shares it with grace, but listener discretion is advised.

Moment-Makers — bring tissues, and bring an open heart. This one will stay with you.

📥 Download "Take the Cape Off" — a reflection guide and let this be your permission slip to “Take the Cape Off” with Kenya. -> https://bit.ly/CapeOff