Dr. Cortney Baker is an award-winning entrepreneur, host of The Women in Business podcast, TEDx speaker, and a nationally-recognized authority on women’s leadership. She’s been featured on Fox News, Forbes, iHeartRadio, and Huffington Post, among other publications. As a leadership expert, mentor, business coach to female entrepreneurs and mother of three, she is passionate about empowering women to close the gender gap through the power of entrepreneurship.
Dr. Cortney Baker is also the author of the best selling book The 10 Dos and Don’ts for Business Leadership: Lessons to Lead Effectively and her most recent book Unlimited: Conquering the Myth of the Glass Ceiling. She was named the 2016-2017 Texas Businesswoman of the Year and the top 100 in HealthCare in America. She’s the Founder and CEO of KidsCare Home Health, a multi-million dollar healthcare organization with 11 locations across Texas, Colorado and Idaho. She holds a Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in Organizational Leadership from Pepperdine University, where she concentrated her studies on understanding and advancing women to the highest levels of leadership.
Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:
- Dr. Cortney Baker recalls her entrepreneurship journey and how it led to the founding of KidsCare Home Health
- Why Dr. Baker decided to start a podcast and go into mentorship
- Dr. Baker explains how women are holding other women back
- Dr. Baker shares the before and afters of her life and how she fought her way through them
- Dr. Baker talks about being a TEDx speaker and becoming a painter
- What most people don’t know about Dr. Baker and her vision behind the Scaling Society community
- Dr. Baker reveals a big mistake she made in business and what she is most curious about right now
- Dr. Baker’s advice to fellow women entrepreneurs and leaders
- Dr. Baker explains why she thinks that her superpower is her capacity to speak the truth in love
- How to get in touch with Dr. Cortney Baker
In this episode…
When a young lady approached Dr. Cortney Baker after an event and asked Dr. Baker to be her mentor, she readily agreed because she is a big advocate of women supporting other women. Dr. Baker mentored the young lady who ended up achieving much success in her career and eventually starting her own business. And so being an award-winning entrepreneur and leader, Dr. Baker decided to take up coaching to be able to help other women in their entrepreneurship and leadership roles.
In this week’s episode of the Lead Like a Woman Show, Andrea Heuston talks with Dr. Cortney Baker about the importance of women mentoring and supporting each other, the before and afters in Dr. Baker’s life, and why women don’t need to have it all to be happy and successful. Stay tuned.
Resources Mentioned in this episode
- Artitudes Design
- KidsCare Home Health
- Dr. Cortney Baker’s website
- Dr. Cortney Baker on LinkedIn
- Dr. Cortney Baker’s email: cortney@cortneybaker.com
- The Women in Business Podcast
- Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO)
- The 10 Do’s and Don’ts for Business Leaders: How to Lead Effectively by Dr. Cortney Baker
- Unlimited: Conquering the Myth of the Glass Ceiling by Dr. Cortney Baker
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