She Leads with Carly

After being a nurse practitioner for 28 years, Angie and her husband Dan decided to start popping popcorn at local spots around the community --- Angie’s BoomChickaPop began as a local hit, and soon became a national sensation. Angie shares her experiences as an entrepreneur, and offers valuable insight on the importance of teamwork and grit when starting your own successful business. She also provides some tangible advice and common traps for new entrepreneurs to avoid. Enjoy!

Before becoming the Senior VP of Engineering at Under Armour, Ann Funai shares her passion for being “glue that brought things together,” at IBM, People Admin and now Under Armour. Ann provides insightful tips on taking risks, and shares the difficult transition she made leaving IBM after 20+ years, but concludes: “It’s the best thing I could have done for myself.” From being a female in the technological workforce, to being yourself and overcoming self doubt, Ann shares so many lessons for everyone. 

As an early Silicon Valley pioneer founding and leading her own software company, Heidi Roizen shares insight to the importance of building a great team and forming honest relationships amongst peers. From the lessons she learned entering the job market with only an undergraduate degree, to the founding story of T/Maker, to entering (and dominating) the world of venture capital, it is clear that Heidi epitomizes what it means to be a #SheLeader!

She also shares the well-known 20-40-60 rule and how to approach mistakes: “Learn from the mistake and then learn to put it away. The more you can train your brain to do that, the better off you’ll be” 

This - and so much more - from Heidi! Enjoy, share, and subscribe!

For 20+ years, she continues to help businesses develop visual strategies and plans for the future through ArloSoul Visualize Innovation. From lessons she’s learned while finding her path, to challenges faced working with different customers, to writing her very own book, Chris shares so many lessons for everyone. For the unprecedented times, Chris shares how “If you can visualize yourself living into that future, it becomes much easier to say no to some things and yes to other things that help you move into that future.” -- Chris calls this the “Future Pull,” and shares many helpful pointers for our journeys to the future! Enjoy this new episode! 

For 30+ years, Shonda utilizes her passion for agriculture and finance to help create more investments in the agricultural community. Shonda hopes to inspire the younger generation to choose something that fascinates them; she encourages young people to dig into agriculture, because the importance of food will never dissipate. She discusses the impact that COVID-19 has had on agriculture and food sourcing -- “We need to have good strong localized systems, regional systems … really encourage people to be founders, to start businesses that might be perhaps considered slightly old fashioned, but are not old fashioned.”

As the founder and CEO of Van Robotics, Laura is aiming to explore the potential of robots to improve the lives of individuals with learning, social and communicative challenges. Similarly to many #SheLeaders, Laura had no idea she would be an entrepreneur. After discovering her new passion for education and technology, she never turned back, even though people told her she’s crazy. 

From starting Van Robotics to the challenges of receiving funding - we go through Laura’s journey and discuss the key traits in every leader. Laura gives advice for all female founders - always stay true to yourself, be transparent with your team, and know that an investor can’t define your success or failures!

For 20+ years, Shuly continues to bridge the gap between the Israeli and US business market by helping young entrepreneurs break into the US market. From the lessons she learned serving in the Israeli Defense Force to the founding story of UpWest, Shuly shares so many lessons for everyone -- New grads: treat your 20s as a “Decade of Discovery” - spend that time to find your passions and  curiosities - it’s worth it down the road.  Women: Shuly says “the tendency to doubt ourselves as women needs to just go away.” Everyone: Shuly reflects on the early stages of her career during the financial crisis to know that “we come out stronger from times like this.” 

In this #SheLeads, Monica Arés discusses how she went from an actuary to becoming a teacher. Her passion for #education continued to soar. Combining her “yes and..” mentality and her natural curiosity, she began to see the incredible amounts of innovation that are needed in the education sector. Now, as the Head of Innovative Technologies for Education at Facebook,  Monica focuses on using #VR/#AR technology to transform education. She also gives incredible advice about dealing with failure, or “happy accidents”, and the importance of recognizing that we are all a “work in progress” - we’re constantly evolving, growing and learning new things. So many takeaways that everyone can apply in their lives! Enjoy!

As the founder of PopSugar, Lisa Sugar reflects on her early career in advertising that eventually led her to reassess her future. POPSUGAR then became a side project that found her writing content at every moment she could: before work, lunch breaks, after work and more.

Beyond the insane growth (and some challenges) of the POPSUGAR journey, Lisa shares more about her book, "Power Your Happy" and gives incredible advice about work-life-blend, reaching out to people, and finding the right team - oftentimes, with people who are smarter than you! So many incredible lessons in this latest #SheLeads!

Lisa mentions: “I had been working really hard at great jobs that I didn’t love for a long enough time to be able to say ‘it’s time for a change.’”

#SheLeads in #Cybersecurity! As the founder and Chief Product Officer of Odo Security, Noa Shafir reflects on the fears she had starting her own company, the challenges that come with leading a team in Israel and the U.S, and how she took on the CPO role at Odo! We also chat about what it’s like to be a top leader in cybersecurity, a space that is often male-dominated regardless of the country.  

Noa mentions: “My biggest struggle is to be seen as an entrepreneur (who is also female) and not a female entrepreneur..”