Meet Megan Dolce of RIPE

Today we’d like to introduce you to Megan Dolce.

Hi Megan, please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story.
For over a decade, I’ve been coaching some of the most successful and high-performing people and teams in the world: billion-dollar founders, Fortune 100 leaders, top VCs, founders, and world-class athletes. I help them break limits, sharpen their edge, and step into their next level. I’ve spent years inside high-stakes rooms studying what high performance really demands, what leadership looks like under pressure, and what makes success sustainable instead of fragile.

But the truth is, my ability to coach at that level didn’t come out of nowhere. It came from my upbringing and my personal drive to be the best version of myself that I can be, in both business and life.

I grew up in Brooklyn, New York, in a family where helping people wasn’t a job; it was simply how we lived. Service was the heartbeat of our home. And right alongside that service was entrepreneurship. My grandparents and parents ran a dry-cleaning business that has taken care of our community for nearly 70 years and still stands today. Watching them build something that lasted through grit, love, and consistency taught me that real success isn’t just what you create. It’s who you serve while you’re creating it.

Because of them, I knew early that my life would hold two truths: I would dedicate myself to helping people, and I would become an entrepreneur like the people who raised me. I wanted to build something meaningful, something that could outlive me and impact others.

I started my career in corporate fashion, spending over a decade inside fast-paced, high-pressure environments where performance isn’t optional and leadership is tested daily. I learned how systems work, how leaders lead, and how culture gets shaped from the inside out. I developed a deep understanding of identity, execution, and what it takes to sustain excellence long term. But even while I was thriving there, I knew I wasn’t meant to spend my life inside someone else’s vision. I was meant to build my own.

That leap became RIPE.

When I founded RIPE with my husband and co-founder, Eric Posner, now our CEO, we had a simple vision for what modern leadership should look like.

RIPE is re-energizing personal and leadership development. We create tools and experiences that help people lead from intention, build sustainable momentum, and grow in ways that actually stick. We work with individuals, teams, and organizations across three realms: leadership, performance, and potential. This isn’t fluffy motivation or feel-good growth. This is real development that holds up in the pressure, in the pivot, and in the stretch seasons. Those are the moments where leadership actually happens.

And my work didn’t come from theory alone. It came from doing the work on myself. I’ve taken deep dives into my own personal growth for years, and I still do today. I’m a damn good coach, but I’m not a perfect one. I’m not chasing perfect. I’m chasing excellence. And I’m committed to living what I teach, not just teaching what sounds good.

At the core of RIPE is a belief I live by: your success should never cost you yourself. We created RIPE because we’ve seen too many high-capacity people performing at extraordinary levels while feeling disconnected, depleted, or trapped in someone else’s definition of winning. RIPE exists to change that. We help people build self-trust, lead with clarity, and create a pace of excellence they can actually sustain.

I also saw a clear gap in the coaching industry, especially for the next generation of leaders. To be frank, a lot of what’s out there feels outdated to me. The assessments. The frameworks that look good on paper but don’t translate into real life. People don’t just want insight; they want tangible, tactical tools that speak their language and drive real ROI. That’s what we do at RIPE.

We don’t just help people think differently.

We help them move differently. With intention, with strategy, and with a kind of leadership that lasts. RIPE turns intention into momentum and momentum into leadership that doesn’t burn you out to prove you’re powerful.

We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
Entrepreneurship is never a smooth road, and it’s not meant to be. That’s the point. When you choose this path, you’re choosing to grow fast, to stretch yourself, and to let your vision sharpen through both the wins and the messy middle.

The challenges I’ve faced haven’t been about strategy or execution. Those are solvable. The real challenges have been identity-driven. Learning how to trust myself at a higher level. Learning how to lead under real pressure. Learning how to hold the weight of my own potential without sacrificing my well-being. There were seasons where I had to choose between the life I had built and the life I knew I was truly meant for, and walking away from a successful corporate career required a level of courage and self-honesty that became a turning point for me.

This is why I believe the best coaches, entrepreneurs, and leaders are the ones who do the internal work. It’s uncomfortable. It’s confronting. And it’s the step most people avoid, which is exactly why it separates the good from the great. Every challenge I’ve moved through didn’t just shape me as a founder. It shaped the tools, the coaching, and the philosophy behind RIPE. My work is stronger because of the struggles, not in spite of them.

As you know, we’re big fans of RIPE. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about the brand?
At RIPE, we specialize in coaching across three core areas: leadership, performance, and potential. Our work comes to life in both the B2B and D2C spaces. On the organizational side, we partner with companies through executive coaching, leadership programs, high-impact offsites, workshops, and keynotes designed to elevate individuals, strengthen teams, and move businesses forward.

Beyond our corporate work, we also support founders and individuals who want to take actions towards their next level through one-on-one coaching, group coaching cohorts, and founder memberships. Our cohorts include access to exclusive RIPE workbooks and tools that are only available inside our coaching experiences. These tools were created through years of working with leaders in high-pressure, high-capacity environments and have been refined through real-world application.

In early 2026, we’re expanding that access with our first publicly available D2C product: a high-performance workbook called “Get Your Mind RIPE.” It’s a modern evolution of the classic goals-and-habits approach. We’ve taken the visual tools and journal prompts we use with leaders, founders, and athletes and built them into a visually powerful and accessible workbook for anyone looking to uplevel how they lead in business and in life.

We’re also launching our next Own Your Power cohort this January, a six-week leadership accelerator for high-performing women who want deeper clarity, stronger confidence, and a more powerful presence so they can fully unlock their potential.

What sets RIPE apart is the way we blend real-world leadership experience with tools we’ve created, tested, and refined inside high-pressure environments. Our brand is built on clarity, depth, and sustainable excellence. We deliver tools that work in real life, under real pressure, with real outcomes. That’s what I’m most proud of: everything we put into the world is designed to create transformation that lasts.

How do you think about happiness?
What makes me happy is that we change people’s lives. In a human services business, you don’t get to take that lightly. You have to take the work seriously because it doesn’t just touch people, it moves them. It impacts how they see themselves, how they lead, how they show up in their relationships, and what they believe they’re capable of. This work creates real shifts, and those shifts ripple outward into families, teams, communities, and businesses. Getting to be part of that kind of transformation is what makes me deeply happy. It’s meaningful, it’s real, and it matters.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.get-ripe.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/get_ripe/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/get-ripe/posts/?feedView=all
• Other: https://community.get-ripe.com/ownyourpower

Image Credits
Photos by Dakota Sage (Main photo, co-founder, Megan with mug, Megan at desk, Megan on stool); Photo by Maria Bentley (Megan in white blazer speaking), product photos (provided by RIPE)