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Founding Well

by Chelsea Quenum

Founding Well is a podcast for early-stage founders, creatives, and business owners who are building for what they want their business to become—not just where it is right now. Hosted by Chelsea Quenum, wedding planner, designer, and founder of Chelsea Quenum Wedding Planning & Event Design, the show explores the early decisions, investments, standards, and support systems that shape a business from the beginning. Through honest reflections and thoughtful conversations, Founding Well invites listeners to think more intentionally about brand-building, visibility, creative entrepreneurship, business growth, mindset, systems, and the quiet foundational work that often happens before the outside world fully sees what they’re building. This is a podcast for the founder who wants to take their business seriously before everything feels fully established—the one learning how to make aligned decisions, invest with wisdom, build with clarity, and create something with depth, beau

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Episodes

  1. Why Visibility Feels Unsafe (Even When You're Ready)

    There's a fear a lot of founders carry quietly, even the confident ones: that being visible means being too much, or not qualified enough yet to be seen. In this episode, Chelsea sits down with visibility coach, Renée Dalo, to talk about where that fear actually comes from, and why there is no...

  2. When You're In It

    The first year of building a business is not a starting point, it’s a formation. In this season finale, Chelsea reflects honestly on what her first year as a founder actually taught her: about confidence, standards, alignment, visibility, and what it means to keep building while uncertainty is...

  3. The Unseen Work of Building Well

    There’s a kind of work that doesn’t show up in the highlight reel but shapes everything that does. In this episode, Chelsea talks about the quiet foundational work: the message you’re still refining, the systems you haven’t built yet, the behind-the-scenes investments that don’t get talked about...

  4. Building a Business Your Life Can Actually Hold

    What happens when momentum is real but the business starts costing you more than it’s giving back? In this episode, Chelsea sits down with Jazmin Portnow, founder of Anyvent Event Planning, Charlottesville Day of Wedding Coordinators, and Beyond the Bustle, for an honest conversation about…

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  5. Building Trust Before You Feel Established

    In this episode of Founding Well, Chelsea sits down with Lauren Domaas and Catherine Patel, the founders of Digital Cravings–the brand and web studio behind both the Chelsea Quenum Weddings brand and the Founding Well brand—for a conversation about what branding actually means for early-stage...

  6. Taking Your Business Seriously

    What does it actually look like to take your business seriously before the outside world does? In this episode, Chelsea sits down with MacKenzie Hultberg, founder of Pearl and Poppy Wedding Co., to talk about the early investments that shape a business long before anyone else sees the…

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  7. Building for What You Want to Become

    What would you do differently if you really believed your business had a future? In this first episode of Founding Well, Chelsea Quenum introduces the philosophy behind the podcast, and makes the case that how you build in the beginning shapes everything that follows. This is for the founder who...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Founding Well is a podcast for early-stage founders, creatives, and business owners who are building for what they want their business to become—not just where it is right now.

Hosted by Chelsea Quenum, wedding planner, designer, and founder of Chelsea Quenum Wedding Planning & Event Design, the show explores the early decisions, investments, standards, and support systems that shape a business from the beginning. Through honest reflections and thoughtful conversations, Founding Well invites listeners to think more intentionally about brand-building, visibility, creative entrepreneurship, business growth, mindset, systems, and the quiet foundational work that often happens before the outside world fully sees what they’re building.

This is a podcast for the founder who wants to take their business seriously before everything feels fully established—the one learning how to make aligned decisions, invest with wisdom, build with clarity, and create something with depth, beau

HOSTED BY

Chelsea Quenum

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How many episodes does Founding Well have?

Founding Well currently has 7 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.

What is Founding Well about?

Founding Well is a podcast for early-stage founders, creatives, and business owners who are building for what they want their business to become—not just where it is right now. Hosted by Chelsea Quenum, wedding planner, designer, and founder of Chelsea Quenum Wedding Planning & Event Design, the...

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Who hosts Founding Well?

Founding Well is created and hosted by Chelsea Quenum.
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