Straighten Your Crown

Ready to meet another badass female founder? Sanchali Pal, Founder and CEO of Joro, is breaking barriers, scaling her company, and saving the planet, literally.

While all of us are sitting over here emitting a full shipping container of carbon everyday, Sanchali is building Joro, an app which makes it easy for regular Janes like us to do something about our emissions. Sanchali removes your cognitive load so that you can take your individual action and turn it into aggregate demand.

Sanchali shares her advice on how she closed an oversubscribed $2.5M seed round led by Sequoia, how she broke into Silicon Valley as an outsider, and how a shift in her thinking led to an increase in success. Sanchali is full of deep wisdom on moving through the challenges of starting a company (and a movement!) and she drops some great fundraising advice. We love Sunchali's grit and focus on her customers and her mission, not just investors.

It's Season 2 and we are bringing you interviews with incredible female founders who have broken barriers and are changing the world!

You want inspiring stories? You want know how? You got it!

Our first interview is going to blow your mind. Meet Jane Mosbacher Morris, Founder & CEO of TO THE MARKET. Jane is a visionary entrepreneur who was named one of the World's 25 Greatest Leaders because of her response to COVID-19 by Fortune Magazine.

Jane shares her illuminating journey from the beginning of her career at the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Counterterrorism, to raising her last round of capital. You'll hear her wise lessons in dealing with rejection, filling your fundraising round with the right investors (including strategic investors), and key business insights for how to leverage market forces and tap into bigger market sizes. Basically, she's Jack Bauer turned Richard Branson.

Her company, TO THE MARKET, allows consumers and businesses like Bloomingdales and Target to source ethically products from around the world. Jane shows us how we can stop human trafficking and empower women with financial freedom on a global scale.

This holiday season, you'll want to check out her book, Buy the Change You Want to See: Use Your Purchasing Power to Make the World a Better Place. Jane shows us how to shop our values, and you'll never underestimate your power as a consumer ever again!

Jane's served as the Director of Humanitarian Action for the McCain Institute for International Leadership, and currently serves on the Institute's Human Trafficking Advisory Council. We can't wait for you to meet her!

www.tothemarket.com

https://www.amazon.com/Buy-Change-You-Want-See/dp/0143133217

We are back with Season 2! And ready to help you dominate!

We'll vulnerably share why we took a break, how we navigated the last 6 months, and how you can give yourself this radical act of empowerment. Now we want to help you Focus, Execute, and Gain Speed! The end of this year is yours. And so is 2021.

Grab a scone and latte, and take down our four step process so that you 1) Get clear on your priorities 2) Strategize like a boss 3) Ruthlessly prioritize and 4) Execute even on the things you hate. You'll get our transformational tips for: thinking like a Billion Dollar CEO, single-metric strategizing, and motivation.

To cap it all off, we'll show you how to turn your experience this year into a compelling, bad ass fundraising narrative. Take stock: you're closer to product market fit than ever before, and stronger for weathering this storm. Britney would be proud, and so should you. 2020 has given you hard proof of your resilience, formidableness, and ability to execute, and we give you the reframe to help you tell that story to investors.

Even though the lights are down on Broadway, the show must go on. Ordinary life as we knew it is over. We now live in a world where smiling with your eyes is a real thing (you called it, Tyra! SMIZING!), the words "Tiger King" actually make sense, anxiety, grief and loss are commonplace, virtual dating is the only way to meet a partner, WFH and homeschooling is the norm, telehealth and virtual collaboration companies are exploding, and baking has become the national pastime. What else is new? What will be born out of this period? What new habits, services, products, or expectations will we see? What cultural shifts will take place? When it comes to startup land, the new normal includes looking at ways people will be born, grow up, buy stuff, stay safe, get exercise, date, marry, pay taxes and die. Come hang out as Andrea and Amy reimagine the impact of COVID-19 on our ordinary, daily lives.

First puzzles sell out, now bikes and kites! Staying home has changed our spending habits, which means new tech, new products and services, and new companies. What business opportunities are in growth and decline? What are you buying? Have you fled city life? How will cities and their surrounding rental markets change as a result? Will the city office go the way of the dinosaurs? How will this pandemic affect the way we care for family members?

As for work, as we sit more, will we work more? How do we reclaim headspace? Is there momentum for a 4 day work week? And what trends are we seeing in hiring, layoffs, the passion economy, and the success of women leaders in their handling of this virus in their countries?

Links from our episode:

What Do Countries With The Best Coronavirus Responses Have In Common? Women Leaders

Nearly Half of Men Say They Do Most of the Home Schooling. 3 Percent of Women Agree.

The Richest Neighborhoods Emptied Out Most as Coronavirus Hit New York City

Where New Yorkers Moved to Escape Coronavirus

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Shocker alert: shared dips will die, full stop! Could this virus mean the end of a world where guac for the table is no longer an option? What about restaurants? Will we bid goodbye to the sharing economy? What about movie theaters, hot desking and founder friendly term sheets? Prediction by prediction, we flip through the rolodex of what may no longer exist in a post-COVID19 world. Come get your creative juices flowing so that you can plot your next move as a founder. Don't just live through this, capitalize!

Newton's Third Law states: for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Ok, so, with all that is not happening, what is going gangbusters? Find yourself wondering what will thrive post-Covid? And what industries or companies will explode? We are. And we think it matters big time for you and your business.

Come take a peek inside our crystal ball. Join us as we share our most exacting (and sometimes nutty) predictions for fastest growing companies in the near future. We hope you'll find an insight for your business or investment.

Found yourself asking what the F is going on? Isn't the "new normal" an oxymoron? If you're anything like us, you just ordered new sweatpants and want to build an instagram filter so you don't have to see another #QuarantinePillowChallenge. Come take a breather and have a laugh with us. After all, there is only so much Xanax in the world, and laughter is the next best medicine. Together we can weather this pandemic with grace and compassion, and return to what truly matters for you and your business.

Straighten Your Crown

If you're fundraising during the COVID-19 pandemic, LISTEN TO THIS NOW. Andrea and Amy interview well respected VCs, angel investors, lawyers, and finance experts and summarize their advice for you. Are investors still writing checks? How do current events influence their decision making? We show you how to: take control of your own destiny, adapt your story even if your revenue has dropped, tap your network, strategize, find opportunities, and pitch remotely. Head to our website for more resources.

Have you wondered about how female energy plays a role in entrepreneurship and fundraising? Can your female prowess be an asset instead of a liability? Sexuality is never going away, so let's navigate it and behave in a way that benefits us and our businesses. How can founders identify their prowess and wield it effectively? Get tips for how to amp up your situational awareness, set boundaries, make asks and more. And, we recommend obligations that investors can adopt today. Tips: https://bit.ly/2xn9MXh