Influential Women Announces New Podcast Episode with Businesswoman and Impact Investor Angélica Fuentes

Nowful founder and CEO Angélica Fuentes discusses leadership, resilience, gender equality, wellness, reinvention, and creating a future on your own terms.

ST. PETERSBURG, FL, UNITED STATES, October 23, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — The Influential Women Podcast welcomes Mexican-American businesswoman, impact investor, and founder and CEO of Nowful, Angélica Fuentes, for a wide-ranging conversation about finding your voice, navigating adversity, redefining success, and continuing to grow through every stage of life.

Fuentes has spent decades leading across multiple industries while advocating for gender equality and women’s empowerment. But her understanding of personal agency began much earlier. At 11 years old, while working at her family’s gas station, she noticed that male workers received tips while she did not. When a customer explained that it was because she was a girl, Fuentes challenged the disparity. Looking back, she says the experience helped teach her that she needed to raise her hand and her voice to advocate for the future she wanted.

That determination would later be tested during one of the most difficult periods of her life. Faced with profound personal and professional upheaval, Fuentes describes making a conscious decision not to allow her circumstances to determine what came next.

“I chose me. I chose my two daughters. I chose my life,” Fuentes shares.

The conversation also explores Fuentes’ evolving understanding of ambition and wellness. Through Nowful, she is bringing decades of leadership and advocacy into the holistic wellness space, encouraging people to reconnect with themselves through intentional practices and everyday rituals.

“Wellness is not a luxury. It’s actually your superpower,” Fuentes says, explaining that physical, mental, and spiritual well-being can support greater clarity and focus in both life and leadership.

For women questioning whether they have missed their opportunity to change careers, build something new, or redefine themselves, Fuentes rejects the idea that life must follow a predetermined schedule.

“It’s never too late to start anything you want to in your life,” she says. She later adds, “You never start from scratch. You always start from wisdom and experience.”

Fuentes also discusses the responsibility that comes with influence. After decades advocating for greater equality, she encourages women who have reached positions of leadership to use their access to make the path easier for others.

“Open doors for all the other women who are behind you,” Fuentes says. Her philosophy culminates in another defining leadership principle: “True leaders build, create, inspire other leaders.”

The episode offers a deeply personal look at leadership that extends beyond professional achievement. Fuentes reflects on the importance of vision, integrity, humility, adaptability, self-care, and having the courage to build a life according to one’s own values.

Listeners can watch and listen to “Raise Your Hand, Raise Your Voice: Leadership, Equality, and Owning Your Future” and subscribe to the Influential Women Podcast on Spotify, where new conversations with women leaders, founders, entrepreneurs, executives, and industry experts are released regularly.

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The Influential Women Podcast features honest, thoughtful conversations with women shaping their industries and building meaningful careers. Produced by Influential Women, a media platform with more than 92,000 followers on LinkedIn and the publisher of Influential Women Magazine, the podcast goes beyond titles to explore the real stories behind leadership and impact. Each episode highlights the lessons, challenges, and pivotal moments that have shaped these women’s journeys across business, leadership, entrepreneurship, sports, and creative industries.

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