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In Episode 3 of 50 Chairs, Gary Hensley sits down with Lisa Sutton Gunderson to unpack a career defined by ambition, discipline, and reinvention—from law and business bankruptcy to building and exiting a successful bakery brand, competing in pageantry with a high-performance strategy, and ultimately joining The Veteran Fund as a GP through relentless conviction and values alignment. Lisa shares how high standards shaped her confidence, why studying failure patterns is a shortcut to smarter entrepreneurship, and how partnering with strong operators has enabled her to scale across industries while staying grounded in purpose.

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