Company She Keeps
Company She Keeps is the podcast that goes beyond the highlight reel. Hosted by Christa McCourt, Brand Photographer and founder of Houston Studio and Erin Beavers, Podcast Producer and founder of The Intuitive Beavers Agency. This show digs into the real, raw, unfiltered stories of women in business; the pivotal moments, the messy middles, and the grit it takes to build something that matters. Powered by Kingwood Business Women Association, this is where community meets conversation and no topic is off the table. Business is not meant to be done alone, we're in this together!
Episodes
Hosts Christa McCourt and Erin Beavers sit down with Marlary Jarue, Certified Business Analyst, commercial banking professional, and Co-Founder of Redeem Advisory Group. Marlary shares her path from a refugee camp in Nigeria and a childhood shaped by the Liberian civil war to grant writing, government work, and commercial lending in the U.S. Along the way she saw the same pattern again and again: good business owners getting denied...
This week hosts Christa McCourt and Erin Beavers sit down with Melanie Perez, co-owner of Leo & Mel's Gardening Services in the Lake Houston area. Melanie was born and raised in Los Angeles, became a mom at 15, and raised three children as a single mother before meeting her husband Leo, building a landscaping business, and moving her whole family to Texas in 2023 to start over and break generational cycles.
This is an honest, ...
In this episode, hosts Christa McCourt and Erin Beavers sit down with Coach Paula Tobey, a Certified Life and Health Coach, best-selling author, and speaker who helps entrepreneurs create harmony between faith, family, and business. Paula shares how chronic migraines, joint pain, and IBS pushed her out of a teaching career she'd dreamed of since age nine, and how healing her own gut set her on the path to coaching.
It's a warm, fun...
Hosts Christa McCourt and Erin Beavers sit down with Dr. Dawn Harrell, owner of Bear Paw Medical in Kingwood. Dawn spent 20 years as an athletic trainer before going back to school for her chiropractic degree at 40-something and then found out the night before she walked across the graduation stage that she hadn't passed her final boards. Six months later she passed, got licensed, and bought the practice she was working in within w...
Hosts Christa McCourt and Erin Beavers sit down with Kristi Hernandez, VP of Lending at Rate Mortgage, who has spent 24 years in the mortgage industry and 37 years in finance. Kristi shares how she landed in mortgages by accident (the woman who hired her thought she was someone else), why she left processing to become a loan officer, and the three-part question she asks every borrower before she ever pulls a credit report.
This epi...
Hosts Christa McCourt and Erin Beavers sit down with Tiffany Blakely, HCS Director, and Kinsey Crabtree, Director of Development at The Village Centers, an organization that's served adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) across the greater Houston area for 26 years. Together they open up about what daily life looks like for their “Villagers”, the systemic hurdles families face after their ki...
In our very first guest episode, hosts Christa McCourt and Erin Beavers sit down with Mandy Rivers, Founder, CEO, and Master Artist behind The Spa at Salon M and Kingwood Business Women's 2026 Woman of the Year.
Mandy opens up about launching her storefront just two weeks before COVID shut the world down, why she built her business around a team-based model, and what it actually took to grow from a talented stylist into a leader w...
Company She Keeps is the podcast that goes beyond the highlight reel.
Powered by Kingwood Business Women, this show digs into the real, raw, unfiltered stories of women in business. The pivotal moments, the messy middles, and the grit it takes to build something that matters. This is where community meets conversation and no topic is off the table.
Meet your hosts:
Christa McCourt, brand photographer and founder of Houston Studio,...
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