Christie Ellis runs towards the monsters women founders are most afraid to name — because she has battled every version of them herself.

A five-time founder featured on the Today Show, ABC News, and the Secret Leaders podcast, she has failed nationally with one company and turned that setback into the foundation of her life's work. She has lectured at Boston University's MBA program and created programs for SUNY.

Before any of that, she lived through an origin story that makes you wonder where she's hiding her spandex suit and cape. What she found on the other side was not relief. It was joy — the strategy that makes success sustainable, rewarding, and worth the fight. And it's a skill that can be learned.

Christie works with women founders to help them build success that actually feels like winning — grounded in the science of human thriving.

Christie lives in Hudson Valley, New York on 12 acres with her husband, three dogs, two chickens, one cat, and 40,000 honeybees.

In a noisy world guided by buzzwords, Christie's point of view cuts through the static to help listeners use their current circumstances as the starting point for exactly the lives they want.

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