Podcast Episode: 009 Do What You Love: Entrepreneurs Share Their Success Stories
Episode Summary:
This episode is for entrepreneurs and any leader who wants to learn to think big! President & Co-Founder of Take The Lead Gloria Feldt is joined by serial entrepreneur, investor and tech globalization veteran, Nathalie Molina Niño, as well as Nina Vaca, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Pinnacle Group. They take you on a deep dive into what steps you can take to be successful while doing what you love.
The included interview first aired live on YouTube during Take The Lead’s Virtual Happy Hour in August 2018. Watch the video here.
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Resources
- The Movement Blog Article: Are You Really an Entrepreneur?
- Video: Nina Vaca’s speech on Courageous Conversations at the Aspen Institute Latinos & Society
- Forbes article on Nathalie Molina Nino: Nathalie Molina Niño Forges A New Future For Women Entrepreneurs
- Sign up for Take The Lead This Week Newsletter
- Learn more about Take The Lead’s Leadership Tools
- App: Acorn
- Nathalie’s Book: Leapfrog: The New Revolution for Women Entrepreneurs
Take The Lead’s Website
INTENTIONING
Sex, Power, Pandemics, and How Women
Will Take The Lead for (Everyone’s) Good
The new book from Gloria Feldt about the future, taking the leadership lessons learned from this disruption and creating a better world for all through the power of intention.
https://www.taketheleadwomen.com
Nathalie Molina Niño’s Website
Nina Vaca’s Website
Quotes/Tweetables
“It’s taken us twenty-two years to become an overnight sensation.”
—Nina Vaca
“A lot of the time people wanna know what the secret is to this success or that success. And, it’s like, there’s no secret. I’m working when you’re sleeping.”
—Nathalie Molina Niño
“I’m looking at businesses that can prove to me that they are creating economic prosperity, not just for a hundred women or even a thousand women, but hundreds of thousands, millions, and, if possible, billions of women.”
— Nathalie Molina Niño
“When you are trying to start a company you have to paint a vision that is much larger than yourself.”
— Nina Vaca
“I think one of the most amazing ways to develop your leadership is by joining ecosystems of women that you want to be like and that inspire you. The right women are very apt to share their stories, share their leadership.”
— Nina Vaca“As an investor, what I’m looking for is an extraordinary team that can answer the question of why are you the most suited, most appropriate person to take this particular business into the market.”
— Nathalie Molina Niño
GLORIA FELDT is the New York Times bestselling author of several books including No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power, a sought-after speaker and frequent contributor to major news outlets, and the Co-Founder and President of Take The Lead. People has called her “the voice of experience,” and among the many honors she has been given, Vanity Fair called her one of America’s “Top 200 Women Legends, Leaders, and Trailblazers,” and Glamour chose her as a “Woman of the Year.”
As co-founder and president of Take The Lead, a leading women’s leadership nonprofit, her mission is to achieve gender parity by 2025 through innovative training programs, workshops, a groundbreaking 50 Women Can Change The World immersive, online courses, a free weekly newsletter, and events including a monthly Virtual Happy Hour program and a Take The Lead Day symposium that reached over 400,000 women globally in 2017.