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She Leads

She Leads

By: ROC Vox Podcast Network
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She Leads is a leadership archive documenting women who are shaping Rochester through clarity, conviction, and conscious authority.For decades, business growth and power structures have followed a single dominant blueprint; one built on competition, hierarchy, and pursuit. While that model built infrastructure, it was never designed for how women naturally lead.This podcast explores a different framework.Hosted by Stephanie Armstrong, brand alchemist, authority architect and founder of Moxie Creative Studios, She Leads features thoughtful, prepared conversations with women whose decisions, discipline, and discernment are influencing business, community, culture, and systems in real time.©2026 Moxie Creative Studios Economics Leadership Management & Leadership
Episodes
  • Lead the Team, Not the Game: Confidence, Capacity, and the Courage to Be Seen

    Lead the Team, Not the Game: Confidence, Capacity, and the Courage to Be Seen
    Mar 17 2026
    Aubre Fox builds rooms where ambition becomes visible. As CEO of A Fox Interiors and founder of the Next Level Collective, she brings ambitious women together to grow, collaborate, and stretch beyond the limits they once placed on themselves. In this conversation, Aubre reflects on the moment she stopped writing resumes and started designing her own path. She realized she was not just good at her work. She was a problem solver who loved building systems, creating solutions, and leading teams. She shares a simple leadership philosophy that shaped her approach to entrepreneurship. You can lead without being the MVP. Leadership is not about knowing everything. It is about building the right team and trusting people to do the things you do not need to master. We also talk about confidence and visibility. Aubre noticed a pattern among many women she worked with. If they felt uncomfortable in their bodies or worried about how they looked on camera, they hesitated to step onto stages, into interviews, or behind microphones. Their ideas were strong. Their voices still mattered. Motherhood, chronic illness, and a journey through autoimmune disease also reshaped Aubre’s leadership. Studying neuroplasticity helped her retrain her mind through chronic pain and develop a deeper empathy for what women carry while building businesses and families. This conversation explores confidence, leadership, and the courage to be seen.

    Recorded at ROC Vox Recording & Production Studios Rochester, NY www.rocvox.com
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    53 mins
  • Equity Is Not a Slogan: Designing Systems That Change Lives

    Equity Is Not a Slogan: Designing Systems That Change Lives
    Mar 16 2026
    Constance Mitchell Jefferson grew up at the center of Rochester’s civil rights movement. Her mother, Connie Mitchell, was a pioneering political leader who helped establish Action for a Better Community and worked inside government to expand access and opportunity. Their home was filled with community leaders, organizers, and difficult conversations about justice.Constance grew up listening.

    She watched policy debates unfold at the dinner table. She saw the courage required to stand for change when systems resist it. She also experienced the cost. Bomb threats against her family home. The tension of carrying a public legacy while trying to build an identity of her own.

    Those early experiences shaped the work she would later lead inside city government.
    As the City of Rochester’s MWBE officer and procurement leader, Constance stepped into the systems that determine how public dollars move through a community.

    • Contracts.

    • Purchasing.

    • Infrastructure.


    The mechanics that quietly shape economic opportunity.

    She studied the system closely before changing it.Instead of treating equity as a symbolic commitment, she redesigned procurement structures to make accountability measurable. Supplier diversity requirements. Compliance systems that ensured subcontractors were paid. Processes that expanded access for minority and women owned businesses.

    Her work helped transform Rochester into one of the most respected supplier diversity models in New York State.In this conversation we explore what equity looks like when it becomes operational. What integrity costs when you challenge entrenched systems. Why accountability is the backbone of real change.Constance also reflects on the unfinished work of the civil rights generation. Housing. Education. Economic opportunity. The same issues her parents fought for decades ago still shaping communities today.Real change requires courage, structure, and leaders who are willing to choose what is right over what is popular.

    Recorded at ROC Vox Recording & Production Studios Rochester, NY www.rocvox.com
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    59 mins
  • Soft and Unshakable: Grief, Boundaries, and Sacred Self-Return

    Soft and Unshakable: Grief, Boundaries, and Sacred Self-Return
    Mar 10 2026
    There is a moment in a woman’s life when she realizes no one is coming to save her.
    For Maisha, that moment came after her mother exhaled for the last time. She felt the oxygen leave her body and had to remember how to inhale on her ownEverything shifted from there.
    In this episode, we talk about what it means to become your own protector. To stop managing other people’s perceptions. To release the need to prove your integrity. To use your voice because it is yours.Maisha shares the surrender that changed her life. Letting go of attachment to what others think. Allowing relationships to complete without bitterness. Accepting betrayal without allowing it to live in her nervous system. Refusing to betray herselfWe move through conversations most women whisper about:
    • Advocating for your health
    • Mammograms and medical literacy
    • Menopause and hormone therapy without shame
    • Boundaries that honor your evolution
    • Forgiveness that frees your body
    • Letting seasons close with dignity
    • Holding grief and joy at the same time
    • Spiritual expansiveness without confinement
    She speaks about being Cheryl’s daughter with reverence and strength. About becoming her own mama bear when her greatest protector transitionedShe speaks about consciousness and the responsibility that comes with awareness. About recognizing your people by frequency. About loving across spiritual traditions without narrowing the Divine to one expression.

    Recorded at ROC Vox Recording & Production Studios Rochester, NY www.rocvox.com
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    43 mins
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