Terry Tateossian's life reads like three different biographies stitched together — refugee at 11, tech entrepreneur through the dot-com boom, Forbes contributor and 40 Under 40 founder running a 40-person agency, and now a health and mindset coach after her own body forced a reckoning. Jen and Terry talk about what it actually felt like fleeing communist Bulgaria as a kid, why Terry never internalized being "the only woman in the room" as a disadvantage, the uncomfortable truth about women undermining other women at work, and the eighty-pound weight gain and undiagnosed perimenopause that finally slowed her down. It's a conversation about immigration, ambition, burnout, and what it means to stop measuring your worth by a number on a scale.

In this episode:

• Fleeing Bulgaria at 11 and the 30-day asylum interrogation in Austria
• Landing at JFK in 1989 and learning five languages in a refugee housing complex
• Becoming a "40 Under 40" tech founder during the dot-com boom
• Why Terry never saw being a woman in tech as a disadvantage — and the surprising place she actually faced pushback
• The real conversation about women undermining other women in the workplace
• Burnout, an 80-pound weight gain, and perimenopause hitting at 37 with zero warning
• Two ER visits she thought were heart attacks
• Walking away from the business she built to rebuild her health instead
• Why "paper thin" isn't the goal — the case for strength, muscle, and resilience over a number on the scale
• Terry's retreats and coaching work with 700+ women
• Her take on AI music (and why she started making her own)

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• Website: houseofrose.com
• Instagram: @howgoodcanitget
• Facebook: How Good Can It Get

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