“I can’t think of anything more terrifying than knowing what I’ll be doing in ten years’ time.”

In this episode, Clare Salmon, a career senior leader, takes Drew Tweedy and COMPOSURE co-author Lee Epting down a path through her life, exploring how her tolerance for risk has created extraordinary opportunity.

But even amidst her success, Clare tells a familiar story: A brilliant businesswoman, often the smartest person in the room, yet always feeling like a fraud. Like many of us, our early childhood experiences shape our future experiences, and Clare tells us how her early childhood experiences led her to take risks because she truly believes she had nothing to lose.

Join us for this entertaining, inspiring, and surprising conversation, where Clare teaches us the value of risk tolerance, mixed with incredible diligence, some helpful allies, and lots and lots of animals by her side (trust us, you’ll want to stick around for that last part!).

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"We need to communicate the magnitude of the issue to communicate the magnitude of what we need to do."

In this episode, Kate Brodock, General Partner of W Fund and CEO of Switch, is blunt when she tells us what she really thinks: We have a problem.

VC funding for women-led teams is going down — not up. In this moment, with so much energy around DEI and bringing more representation to the workplace, how is this possible?

In this illuminating conversation, Kate Brodock and Kate Purmal get down to business, exploring the root of our capital allocation problem, and, more importantly, what women can do about it:

The quality and caliber of women and underrepresented founders - the pipeline - is not the issue.  The issue is systemic, and it’s the VC system itself that needs to change to solve the problem.

This is precisely what Kate is doing - and she implores other women to become investors to make funding for this underutilized founder talent pool a reality. 

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In this episode, Gretchen Yanover, Cellist/Composer, dives into her creative process, explaining how she uses personal boundaries and dedicated focus to enable flow. She provides guidance for creators of all kinds, from artists to businesspeople, including:

• The importance of making space for improvisation, connecting with yourself, and making life more fun. 
• The magic of experimentation and finding success by trying new things, learning, and adapting as you go. 
• The necessity of preparation, practice, and process when doing your work. 

Listen to this special conversation, as Gretchen, Kate, and Drew discuss music, motivation, and making meaningful change. 

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