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Investing Right To Protect Your Venture From Dilution with Kasandra White

Investing can be a risky project, and not every business is a venture for you. To get it right, you need to follow the right criteria and have a plan in place. Having the right plan can be one of the most rewarding experiences. It can help you build your wealth on solid ground. Building your investments without a strong plan in place risk dilute your control, and you can find yourself not having much ownership of the company you created. What youve been able to create is so valuable and investing right is the first step to winning the game.

Join the conversation with Kasandra White as she shares her career and investment journey. Kasandra is an obstetrician-gynecologist, a licensed surgeon, and an Angel investor. She focuses on womens health, and she works with different organizations where they focus on challenging the health facilities that exist. Kasandra is passionate about what she does, and she always goes beyond clinical medicine to community advocacy.

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During this episode, you will learn about;

[03:09] Kasandra background information

[03:35] Kasandras money know-how childhood experiences

[07:11] What inspired Kasandra into her career in womens health

[09:30] Kasandra journey and how she got into Angel investing

[10:46] How to spot a good company using the three Is (intent, inclusivity, and impact)

[11:57] Kasandra investments

[13:27] Knowing and understanding the work ethics

[15:52] Dilution and what it means in the investing space

[19:32] Hustle mode and how to be strategic to create

[22:59] Tackling the major problem that Health care has failed black women

[26:52] Listening and advocating for others through networking

[29:16] Take away from the guest

[31:22] How Kasandra resets and stays grounded in her space

[33:16] Ending the show

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People of color, especially women, are often seen as high risk. They are high risk because society does not support them, but the only way to change this perception is to start having successful black and brown women in the space. This can be achieved is by providing financial support, investing in people and in their ideas.  All of us have the opportunity to change more than our own lives, we have an opportunity to change our community life, and in order to do that, we need to sit on a solid foundation.

Join the conversation with Vanessa Pegueros as she shares her career and investment journey to provide you with tools to help you grow your wealth, and achieve financial freedom while making the society a better place. Vanessa is a Chief information security officer, tech specialist, boards manager, an independent investor, and an Angel investor. She has been in tech industry for her entire career but for the last 19 years, she has been focusing on cyber security and networking in e-commerce and banking.

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During this episode, you will learn about;

[01:01] Introduction to the show

[04:30] Vanessa journey and career backstory

[06:22] Minority engineering program and how Vanessa benefited from it

[08:26] Vanessa pivotal time in Barclays program after getting a D in her tests

[11:51] Vanessas first job and how she got sponsored for her MBA at Stanford university

[13:42] How Vanessa got into wireless network and security space

[17:01] Investing in IPO start-ups and how it changed Vanessa financial trajectory outcome

[23:10] Investing in high-risk credit investments as a way of giving back

[25:41] The importance of investing and supporting black and brown women

[27:39] General and venture partner and what they mean in the investment space

[30:09] Understanding capitalism, especially in private equity (PE) and human value

[33:19] Final take aways from the guest

[33:51] Ending the show and call into action

Website: https://vpegueros.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanessa-pegueros-nacd-dc-11296/

Website: https://www.lishabell.com/

Angel Syndicate Website: www.blxvc.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lisha.bell

Twitter: https://twitter.com/belllism

Investing Right To Protect Your Venture From Dilution with Kasandra White

Investing can be a risky project, and not every business is a venture for you. To get it right, you need to follow the right criteria and have a plan in place. Having the right plan can be one of the most rewarding experiences. It can help you build your wealth on solid ground. Building your investments without a strong plan in place risk dilute your control, and you can find yourself not having much ownership of the company you created. What youve been able to create is so valuable and investing right is the first step to winning the game.

Join the conversation with Kasandra White as she shares her career and investment journey. Kasandra is an obstetrician-gynecologist, a licensed surgeon, and an Angel investor. She focuses on womens health, and she works with different organizations where they focus on challenging the health facilities that exist. Kasandra is passionate about what she does, and she always goes beyond clinical medicine to community advocacy.

Tune in!

During this episode, you will learn about;

[03:09] Kasandra background information

[03:35] Kasandras money know-how childhood experiences

[07:11] What inspired Kasandra into her career in womens health

[09:30] Kasandra journey and how she got into Angel investing

[10:46] How to spot a good company using the three Is (intent, inclusivity, and impact)

[11:57] Kasandra investments

[13:27] Knowing and understanding the work ethics

[15:52] Dilution and what it means in the investing space

[19:32] Hustle mode and how to be strategic to create

[22:59] Tackling the major problem that Health care has failed black women

[26:52] Listening and advocating for others through networking

[29:16] Take away from the guest

[31:22] How Kasandra resets and stays grounded in her space

[33:16] Ending the show

Website: https://health.usnews.com/doctors/kasandra-white-766124

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kasandra-white-md-22a27a89/

Website: https://www.lishabell.com/

Angel Syndicate Website: www.blxvc.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rootedcali/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/belllism

How To Secure Your Financial Future through Investments with Constance Slider Pierre

When combined with sound financial management, investing can be a powerful tool for achieving your dreams. Investing is not only key to building long-term wealth but also a tool to allow women to truly step and tap into their power. As women, to live the life of our dreams, we need to take active responsibility for our financial wellness and be smart about how we invest. Money has power, and you can leverage it to create and expand your wealth, but it can also be destructive. All of us have the power to choose how we use money, and with that choice comes tremendous responsibility.

Join the conversation with Constance Slider Pierre as she shares her story, experiences, and investment journey. Constance is an angel investor, advocate, community leader, and woman who walks in her truth. She is also a passionate and amazingly driven organizer and a woman who believes in wealth creation and in the power of changing places that she inhabits.

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During this episode, you will learn about;

[00:50] Whats in for you in todays episode

[02:32] Constances background information

[04:34] Why Constance refers to herself as Good Trouble.

[05:36] Constance upbringing and how its shaped her mindset around money

[07:15] Constances dad career and how contributed to who she is today

[10:02] Constances career shifts and how she found her passion

[13:06] How to embrace your money habits and cultivate a wealth mindset

[14:54] Constance investment journey and how she started her pipeline Angle investment

[16:25] The investments that Constance has created

[22:26] The wealthy power in the work that Constance does in the business space

[23:24] Takeaways from the guest on how to build your wealth journey

[24:45] Ending the show

Website: https://pipelineangels.com/slider-pierre-constance-angelinvestor

https://www.turn.org/tag/constance-slider-pierre/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/constance-slider-pierre

Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/ensolidarity

Website: https://www.lishabell.com/

Angel Syndicate Website: www.blxvc.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rootedcali/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/belllism

In this episode, Lisha introduces us to Cassandra Cummings, founder of the Stocks and Stillettos Society and registered financial advisor. Cassandra shares how she has created a community of over 100.000 black women by inspiring them to start on their own wealth walk.

While working as a financial advisor, Cassandra quickly became an expert in investing, finance, and money-growth strategies. However, she soon learned that her passion was to share this knowledge with like-minded women who she wanted to help achieve their own financial goals.

She created the Stocks & Stillettos Society Facebook group to create a sisterhood of African-American women who teach other about venture capital, angel investing, and more. In this collaborative space for women of color, Cassandra and her members share information, strategies, and insights to help each other thrive.

Through investment education and financial literacy, Cassandra not only promotes diversity in this white male-dominated space but is also investing in our future. She has recently created another group within the Stocks & Stilettos Society, the Queens of Capital. With a holistic approach, she helps them elevate their overall net worth by sharing insights into angel investing and other opportunities traditionally reserved for white men.

Cassandras final takeaway: Stay true to yourself on your wealth walk!

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Facebook: The Stocks & Stilettos Society

Instagram: @stocksandstilettos

Our Offline-Event in Las Vegas: The 4th Annual Stock Sistar Summit 

Website: https://stocksandstilettos.co/

CONNECT WITH LISHA:

Website: www.blxvc.com

In this episode, Lisha introduces us to Shamieka Preston, business initiatives consultant at Wells Fargo, member at Pipeline Angels, and loving mom, sister, and wife. At Wells Fargo, Shamieka develops and manages change, adoption and communications plans for employees. However, theres more to Shamieka than meets the eye!

Shamieka began investing in her early twenties and has now managed to accumulate her wealth over time by, in simplified terms, being cheap, not stupid. Not only did her frugal money mindset get her there, but one of her most successful strategies was to diversify her portfolio; this meant investing in stocks and properties, short-selling, and longer-term through angel investing and equity financing.

However, Shamieka is also invested in closing the ever-present gender gap in venture capital. Historically, black women, non-binary femmes, and people of color have received the least amount of support and funding; Shamieka and her husband are fighting to change this. By funding and creating this space for women and people of color, they encourage diversity in this white male-dominated space.

Shamieka is also a member of Pipeline Angels, where trans women, cis women, nonbinary, two-spirit, agender, and gender-nonconforming founders are supported and funded; they aim to create capital for these start-ups and businesses to close the gender gap in angel investing.

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