Finding Brave

“Instead of dismissing women’s unique needs and wants as a product of cultural oppression, I really think we need to adjust the corporate structure to better meet the needs of women.” - Marissa Orr

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“I really want these women to get funding, so they can build businesses that are building the future and that we can break the cycle of what we’ve seen in technology and finance. Through these new te…

“You really do have to understand that if you look around and everybody looks and acts just like you, and nobody is asking any questions, you’ve got a problem with curiosity.” - Diane Hamilton

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"By taking that first leadership step--that boss move-- the door then opened to identity expansion, to see myself as actually capable of garnering support and capable of commanding respect.”  - Emili…

“Listen, kids are resilient, we all know that, but what happened to us when we grew up? We’re a trainwreck and we’re a dumpster fire by the time we become adults. You know we all intrinsically have r…

“I think this is the massive thing for introverts. You have to be congruent with what you’re selling, so you can’t just put a price tag out there and be ok with it. You need to have that validated, a…

“One of the biggest mistakes I made at Leverage was premature scaling. We grew too quickly, and we didn’t have our internal processes and operations well dialed in. We didn’t have our product perfect…

“People are compelling not only because of credentials and accomplishments. They’re compelling because they are likable. What makes you likeable? When you talk about what you’re passionate about, whe…

“My fundamental truth behind The Thought Leader Formula, besides the solution to #MeToo, is that 90% of people have the ability to be a thought leader, we just have to understand how to follow that p…

“A connector is someone who is people-focused in their approach to interactions, to life, to business and to everything. If we prioritize our relationships and our people, whether they are profession…

“Once you start focusing on using your strengths, once you know what those are, you have the ability to add a different value to the world and contribute in a way that you weren’t contributing before…

“If you know what your best is, then you know your best colors and you know your style personality. You can take all of those and enhance yourself to be memorable, to be recognizable and to have an i…

“There’s cash to be made, but don’t go in it just to make the money. You need to figure out why you’re wanting to serve on a corporate board. I always say that our members are life learnings, because…

“It was actually a friend of mine that pointed out the juxtaposition of these two independent wake-up calls that put it all together. The juxtaposition here that was so powerful was that in that mome…

“So part of it is being really clear on what your goal is, and then think about who you need to help you get there, and then where do those people hang out?” - Judy Robinett

A major challenge today f…

“I began to realize I couldn’t make a difference by myself, and that if I was going to make a difference, I had to shift the light off of me and onto the people. Leadership was not about me, leadersh…

“Now that I’m older, I truly think about it differently. Every single rejection you get, I have learned, if you listen and observe carefully without all the defensiveness and the ego getting hysteric…

“When we internalize these negative assumptions about ourselves as aging women, and start to believe them, we belittle ourselves. We diminish ourselves, we hold ourselves back, and we become invisibl…

“Generally speaking, I think it’s at one level no different for men and women. If you’re in a comfortable place, sometimes it’s hard to be willing to become uncomfortable, but if you want to do great…

“I’m grateful for those hard challenges, because I probably wouldn’t have been brave enough to have thought big without them. If my life had been good, and perfect, and wonderful, and there was nothi…