Becoming Her with Melissa Thompson
Becoming Her is a podcast about lifelong evolution, hosted by Melissa Thompson — a believer, Latina CEO, and founder of a multimillion-dollar beauty brand navigating leadership, resilience, and reinvention.
For women who know they haven't arrived and don't need to...
You're not late. You're not behind. You're not finished.
You are in the making.
Stay becoming.
Becoming Her with Melissa Thompson
Latest Episodes
008. How Women Lead by Serving, Seeing, and Lifting Others
Real leadership isn't about positional power or fear-based tactics. It's about serving the people you lead. Seeing them. Mentoring them. And building them up until they're strong enough to do the same for someone else.Women are natural l...
007. Nobody Made a Seat for Me, So I Built My Own Table
I grew up wanting straight hair, green contacts, and a different nose. I wanted to be somebody else entirely. Then a boy in ninth grade told me he couldn't date a Mexican girl—and I carried that into every boardroom I ever walked into, no matte...
006. The Boardroom Moment That Changed Everything (Building Differently, Part 2)
I was in a boardroom presenting a compensation plan when I said we needed something for the people who just needed to pay the light bill, buy soccer shoes for their kids, or simply put milk on the table.The CEO looked at me and said:
005. When Success Doesn't Equal Happiness (Building Differently, Part 1)
My son hit his first home run. He knocked it out of the park. And I wasn't there to see it.I was in a hotel room in Manhattan, in my pajamas, eating room service chicken. I had the title. I had the career. I had everything I thought I wa...
004. How Discipline Leads to Freedom
Back when my little babies were small, I was a size 18. I didn't take care of myself because there were no checkoff sheets—and even if there were, I would have been last on that list.I didn't even have that.So taking care of mysel...
