Women Get Funded: 3 Leading VCs Tell You How To Do It
Powerful Conversations: Interviews with best-selling authors, executives, and innovators
Release Date: 10/17/2019
How To Build Communities That Matter w/ SC Moatti, Darryl Grant & Anne Devereux-Mills
Powerful Conversations: Interviews with best-selling authors, executives, and innovators
Having a supportive community full of inspirational people surrounding you can be the difference between success and failure. You can find your community online, through social networks, but it’s even better to find a group local to you to get that inspiration face-to-face. Today’s guests, SC Moatti, Darryl Grant, Anne Devereux-Mills, are all founding members of women’s communities who find great comfort and support within their groups.
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Leslie Schrock on Bumpin
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If you want to write a book, the best advice out there is that you really need to like writing because the whole process is time-consuming and, to be perfectly honest, kind of hard! My guest, Leslie Schrock, joins me to talk about the process she went through writing Bumpin’ while she was pregnant and some of the best parts of her book.
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What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the Table w/ Minda Harts
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Black women exist in corporate America and the more we talk about, advocate, and acknowledge them and their differences, the better their experience will be. Minda Harts is here to talk about how black women can be their own advocates to advance in their life and career.
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Gender Equality In Corporate America w/ Julie Des Jardins
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Opening the conversation about gender equity in and out of the workplace is the first step to creating productive and positive allies. Women have always been in positions that promote a culturally feminine leadership, often behind the scenes or beside strong men. Historian Julie Des Jardins joins Powerful Conversations to discuss feminine modes of leadership in today’s political climate.
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The state of our nation’s food industry is in complete disarray. From pesticide use to over-farming to ads for sugar-laden drinks and snacks targeting our children, we need to completely overhaul the system. Anna Lappé is here to talk about food sustainability, health, and justice.
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Anita Sands On Board Service And Being A Leader
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Being the only woman in the boardroom doesn’t have to be a bad thing. In fact, Dr. Anita Sands thinks this situation can actually be something positive and memorable. It’s all about making a difference, standing out, and being recognized, something every professional woman should aspire to.
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Entrepreneurs and the Power of Being Young
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If you haven't started following through on your dreams yet, I hope this episode will inspire you to start now. We are going to hear from three young entrepreneurs who share their passion and engagement with us and the stories of their journeys and their incredible accomplishments.
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Innovation and Opportunity in Virtual Reality
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Bringing Diversity To The Tech C-Suite w/ Sandra Lopez
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Will the actions you take today have a positive impact on tomorrow’s society? That’s a question that Sandra Lopez, VP of Intel Sports Group asks herself every day. She’s not only creating a new world of sports technology, but she’s also a diversity advocate for women in C-level careers.
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The Power of a Warm Embrace w/ Jane Chen
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Jane Chen has spent years working on health issues in the developing world. Listen in and learn more about the impact she is making in the world so that mothers don't lose their babies because of a lack of access.
info_outlineAre you an entrepreneur lacking the money and resources you need?
Don't miss this expert VC line-up. Learn how to get connected to the mentors and advisors who want you to succeed. In this episode you'll get expert advice from the women who connect entrepreneurs to money and traction. They've done it and they share with you their strategies and experience on what works.
Expert line-up: Nancy Hayes of Golden Seeds, Alicia Castillo Holley of Women Get Funded, and Jory Des Jardins, co-founder of BlogHer.
About Nancy Hayes:
Nancy Hayes mentors women and men starting or growing small businesses, as well as those launching high growth technology-based firms. She is also an angel investor and member of Golden Seeds angel group. She is cofounder of MoolaHoop, a rewards-based crowdfunding site for women-led small businesses that launched in July 2013.
Nancy left the IBM Corporation, where she was a senior executive to become CEO of a national nonprofit serving seriously ill children. She later was CEO of a nonprofit that served the elderly. She was then Dean of the College of Business at San Francisco State University, and later CFO and VP of the university. She has an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago.
About Alicia Castillo Holley:
Alicia Castillo Holley is an angel investor, speaker and academic.
Castillo Holley’s career started as a young scientist and professor on Agronomy before becoming involved in product development for a Bayer-Shell joint venture and eventually turning into an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and angel investor. Along the way, she has authored numerous articles and books and taught at many universities worldwide.
As an entrepreneur, she has started nine companies -successfully exiting from five of them- and two non-for-profit. She played a pivotal role in the Development for the Entrepreneurial Curriculum and the Venture Capital Industry in Chile, where she lived between 1996 and 2002 and founded the country’s first Seed Capital micro VC.
An avid traveler, she has lived in 6 countries and visited more than 100.
Her latest initiative “Women Get Funded” seeks to demystify funding for women, and empower them to be in control of their funding process.
About Jory Des Jardins:
Jory Des Jardins co-founded BlogHer, a venture-backed, category-defining women’s digital lifestyle company that was sold to SheKnows Media in late 2014. She spent 10 years on the founding team, enabling strategy from pre-venture funding through post-acquisition phase.
While with BlogHer, Jory evangelized best practices in social and influencer marketing to Fortune 500 Marketing Leads and digital/media agency leadership. She served for six years on the Board of Directors of the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB). She started her career in print editorial, as an editor for Penguin Books, The New York Times Syndicate, and Time Inc. Custom Publishing.
Jory is a tireless crusader for women entrepreneurs and business leaders, sharing her personal growth story, contacts, and insights learned from 10 years of growth hacking, digital community building, strategy development and fundraising. She sits on the boards of several female-led or founded startups.
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