PLUTUS AWARDS PODCAST · SEASON 3 · EPISODE 53

The Creative Thinking That Strengthened This Business During the Pandemic with Stefanie O'Connell Rodriguez

Sarah Li Cain speaks with Stefanie O’Connell Rodriguez about her business and financial struggles during COVID. She shares how she dealt with the loss of income and stability and the ways she was able to pull through.

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The Creative Thinking That Strengthened This Business During the Pandemic

Stefanie O’Connell Rodriguez explains how the pandemic affected her income and sense of security as a creator. She describes working through that loss, reassessing her business, and forming new partnerships that helped her adapt.

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About the Host, Sarah Li Cain

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Stefanie O'Connell Rodriguez

Writer, Podcaster

Stefanie O’Connell is an award-winning writer covering ambition, money and power with bylines in The Guardian, Slate, Bloomberg, CNBC, Fast Company, MarketWatch, Glamour UK, Newsweek, USA Today and Business Insider. She also wrote, hosted and co-produced the WEBBY award-winning podcast “Money Confidential” for REAL SIMPLE magazine.

Her book The Ambition Penalty: How Corporate Culture Tells Women to Step Up — and Then Pushes Them Down (May 2026, Basic Venture) is an essential guide to dismantling the hidden forces that hold women back, burn them out & make us all pay.

With over 100,000 followers across her social media channels and Too Ambitious newsletter, Stefanie uses data to expose how power and gender collide to keep women “in their place.” And shows how liberating women’s ambitions can liberate us all.

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Stefanie O'Connell Rodriguez

Writer, Podcaster

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