Piloting your Life
Terri Mead explores women's angst in today's world through the lens of her lived experience.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 37 minutes
- Episodes
- 100
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2020
Bringing groups of women together to introduce them to angel investing and funding female-led startups with Lynn-Ann Gries
Who is Lynn-Ann Gries?
Lynn-Ann Gries has spent her career in the financial arena. From investment banking to venture capital she has experience working with a wide range of companies, from…
Using IoT innovation to make infrastructure smarter and safe and have a positive impact on the environment with Cécile Villette
Who is Cécile Villette?
Cécile Villette is the CEO of Altaroad. A telecommunication engineer by degree, she spent 10 years as a Digital Strategy consultant deploying connected devices and n…
Using an equity crowdfunding platform to get funding in the hands of small businesses and startups
Who is Gabrielle Katsnelson?
Gabrielle Katsnelson is co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of SMBX. She has a decade of financial accounting, strategy, and operations experience; including…
Investing in startups and helping them reach their goals as an angel investor with Gotham Gal, Joanne Wilson
Joanne Wilson is a New York City based investor and has had many careers. She started out in retail, eventually moving to the wholesale arena. She then transitioned to the med…
How To Survive The Turbulence As A Founder Of A Small Company In A Big Market
Terri talks to Laura Fleet about how a personal experience gave her the idea and inspiration to start SendaRide and that she is both loving the roller coaster ride of entrepreneurship and challenged …
How to improve funding for women entrepreneurs as an angel investor
An unusual and circuitous path to becoming an angel investor with Alicia Castillo Holley
Terri talks to Alicia Castillo about her circuitous path into angel investing that started in a rural town in Venezuela that has landed her in Silicon Valley and how her global experience has made he…
Imène Maharzi's vision to educate and train 2000 female business angels and get female founders greater access to capital for their startups.
Who is Imène Maharzi? Imène Maharzi is a French based professional, who started working in the French Private Equity space 18 years ago. She started out her career as an auditor with Arthur Andersen…
How Accidental Entrepreneur, Fran Dunaway of TomboyX, launched an apparel company
Terri talks to Fran Dunaway of TomboyX about how she and her partner and wife Naomi Gonzalez started TomboyX in 2014 to create a better shirt and ended up launching an underwear company. Fran and N…
The positive economic impact of investing in startups with female founders with fellow investor Shannon Grant
Who is Shannon Grant?
Shannon Grant is an investor, community builder and startup advisor. She leads knowledge programs for the best and brightest minds in tech to facilitate high-level kno…
Supporting Women entrepreneurs with capital and peer support with Jennifer Ehlen CEO of Brazen Global
Terri talks to Jennifer Ehlen of Brazen Global about her focus on supporting the advancement of women-led companies including why she created Brazen Global, a for-profit company, to better serve fema…
Lesley Jane Seymour discusses leveraging the power of women over the age of 40 to change the world.
Who is Lesley Jane Seymour?
Lesley Jane Seymour. Lesley is a media entrepreneur and founder of CoveyClub, a new club for lifelong learners that she launched in February of this year. The …
May Samali of Urban Innovation Fund talks about her path into her dream job in venture capital which started out in law.
Who is May Samali?
May Samali is an investor at the Urban Innovation Fund, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm. May has had extensive experiences advising both early-stage startups a…
Why Darryl Grant started Inspiring Connectivity to bring women together.
Who is Darryl Grant?
Darryl Grant is a New York native, born in Harlem. He has 20 siblings and is uncle to over 50 nieces and nephews. He has been a Bay Area resident for the last 4.5 years…
Begin with the end in mind -project management for measurable success in technical projects
Show Highlights
- Terri talks about having to complete her professional education hours for her PMP (project management professional) certification. She talks about writing some blog posts and putt…
Terri and Jacqueline talk to Anne Cocquyt of the Guild about Serendipity, the annual unconference for women held at the end of October in San Francisco
Show Highlights
- Terri, Jacqueline and Anne talk about Serendipity. Serendipity is anything but the typical conference. There will be more than 80 speakers sharing their skills and expertise. Att…
Anne Cocquyt moved across the world and finally ended in San Francisco and started a company
Who is Anne Cocquyt?
Anne Cocquyt is originally from Germany where she studied computer sciences and got her undergrad and master’s degree. She left Germany for Australia and ultimately landed i…
IT compliance and IT strategy consulting for biotech, medical device, diagnostic, and digital health companies with Terri
Terri talks with Jacqueline about her work consulting with biotech, medical device, diagnostic, and digital health companies providing IT strategy and IT compliance services.
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Terri talks to Christine Tao about founding SoundingBoard and how she was taught to dream big and ask for what she wants
Who is Christine Tao?
Christine Tao is the CEO/Co-founder of Sounding Board, a VC-backed startup bringing personalized, continuous leadership development to the $40B+ leadership & training …
How Stan Mirzayev immigrated from the former Soviet Union, started his own business out of filling a need
Who is Stan Mirzayev?
Stan Mirzayev is a serial entrepreneur and an auto enthusiast in Phoenix, Arizona. He is CEO of Parts Detect and COO of his family’s business, In & Out Lube and Repai…