130 - Forbes Named This 23y/o One Of The Most Influential Women Today. She's A Speaker, Best Selling Author And Boss Woman | Haley Hoffman Smith

In this episode, I welcome Haley Hoffman Smith, a professional speaker who was recently named one of today’s most influential speakers by Forbes. 

She is the author of Her Big Idea, a book on creativity, ideation, and women's empowerment which debuted as a Top 3 Bestseller in Women & Business and was named a must-read by the Tory Burch Foundation.  

In her honors thesis in university, she wrote on how women develop their sense of self-agency in entrepreneurship and venture capital. 

She is the founder of the Her Big Idea Fund in partnership with Brown University's Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship, which awards grants to women who apply with big ideas. Listen in and enjoy the show as she talks about influence, success, entrepreneurship, our lives, and so much more.

Key Points Discussed:

• One of today’s most influential speakers (03:51)
• Growing up mediocre and the huge epiphany that led to a shift (05:51)
• Connecting to a vision of what your dream life would look like (10:18)
• Haley’s speaking gigs and working on her new book (13:40)
• How having an audience has changed Haley’s life (18:23)
• Instilling a sense of empowerment in people (23:24)
• Learning how to write a book and doing it for brand rather than money (30:21)
• Getting ideas in spin class and during showers (37:50)
• Building up a thick skin in the sense of trusting people in business (41:43)
• The cultural pressures on women in business (46:26)
• The workplace issue of paternity and maternity leave (50:23)

Additional Resources:

• Her Big Idea By Haley Hoffman Smith
• Haley on Instagram

You can find the transcripts and more at www.thinkdifferenttheory.com/130

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