Erica Rankin is the founder of Doozi, a video-first travel discovery and planning app that helps people find and plan where to eat, stay, and explore through real video content.

She explains:

— Why her first successful business still led to financial collapse

— The reality of personal bankruptcy and what people don’t talk about

— What it feels like to carry a part of your life as a secret for years

— Why you can’t expect people to accept you if you don’t accept yourself

— What it takes to build Doozi in an industry she had no experience in

Doozi app: https://www.doozi.app

Doozi on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doozi.app/

Erica Rankin on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/acceptingerica/

Mia is a licensed CPA, former forensic accountant at top multinational firms in New York, high-end escort, exotic dancer, and Chief Financial Officer of Petit Mort magazine.

She explains:


- Why she chose escorting over another corporate job when anxiety ended her finance career
- What 12 years on Wall Street and 6 years as an escort have in common
- What it's like to not experience fear, shame, or grief and how she learned to fake them

- Why she faced more judgment for working in finance than for being an escort

Tigran spent 10 years in theoretical physics, worked at NASA, got rejected by over 100 companies before landing a job at a hedge fund, earned enough to invest, and quit.

He explains:



- Why he kept a rejection resume with 100+ failures and what it taught him

- The one rule he uses to decide whether any idea is worth trying

- Why it took a year to get one job offer after NASA

Anna Morgenstern is a New York City-based dating coach and matchmaker with nearly a decade in the industry. She works with single professionals worldwide, built an entirely referral-based client roster, and will tell you to your face that you don't deserve a relationship, you earn one.

She explains:
- Why the most successful, good-looking people in NYC can't find relationships on their own
- Why she fired a client for splitting the bill on a lunch date
- The month she couldn't pay rent and called her mom with one condition attached
- Why telling yourself "I deserve love" is the most dangerous thing you can do in dating

Find Anna at annamorgenstern.com or on Instagram @annamorgenstern

Koura Linda is the founder and CEO of Space Dream Productions, an independent film and media production company she started in 2013. A self-taught filmmaker with nearly 30 years of experience across film, marketing, and event production.

She explains:

- Why she fires clients the moment they get weird about contracts and why she's never been wrong

- What knowing every job on set does to the way you manage people under pressure

- Why almost 50% of consumers won't buy from brands using generative AI and what that means for creatives

- The Snow White moment in 2020 when the savings ran out — and why she turned the page anyway

Mallory Dana is a serial entrepreneur, founder of a children's clothing brand featured in Vogue Magazine, and creator of Play Day — a lifestyle brand built around reconnecting adults with childhood joy.

She explains:

- Why she was fired from every corporate job she ever held and what that told her about herself

- The night she had $18 in her bank account, her car got towed, and no one would help her

- Why leaving a financially successful business felt like the biggest failure of her life

- Why success can feel just as destabilizing as failure and what your nervous system has to do with it

- The voice that told her she wasn't good enough for 10 years and why she's still fighting it