Pivoting Your Playbook (Encore)
We’re continuing to bring you the “Best of” Access & Opportunity by revisiting my 2021 conversation with NBA champion turned investor, Andre...
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Access and Opportunity with Carla Harris
On the Access and Opportunity podcast, host Carla Harris, a Vice Chairman at Morgan Stanley, asks the question: How can we connect capital with communities that traditionally have been left...
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20 of 85 episodesBecoming Self-Made (Encore)
Today, we’re continuing to bring you the “Best of” Access & Opportunity by revisiting one of our favorite conversations, with Nely Galán. Ne...
The Snowball Effect of Student Debt (Encore)
Today, we’re revisiting our 2021 conversation with educator Betsy Mayotte to discuss how having the right information at the right time can...
Closing the Women's Sports Pay Gap (Encore)
Today, we’re revisiting Carla's 2022 conversation with Kara Nortman, a venture capitalist who started a National Women's Soccer League team,...
Reaching Back to Help the Next Generation (Encore)
On this 2021 episode, we’re talking about the importance of reaching back to help others on their business journey and how alternative sourc...
Empowering Latina Innovators in Fashion & Retail
Latino Americans’ purchasing power hit $3.4 trillion in 2021, according to a report from the Latino Donor Collaborative, and is expected to...
Broadening Access to Mental Health Care for Ethnically Diverse Students
Rates of depression, anxiety and suicidal ideation among college students are at an all-time high. And while students of all backgrounds fac...
Creating Equity in the Music Industry
With advances in technology, the music industry is changing faster than ever. Streaming services add more than 100,000 new songs every day....
Diversifying the Pilot Pipeline
A 2022 analysis issued by consulting firm Oliver Wyman found a shortfall of 8,000 pilots in North America, or 11% of the total workforce. Th...
Who Gets to Make Video Games?
On this episode, we discuss the lack of representation in the video game industry, from the stories that get told in games to the people who...
Black Women Entrepreneurs: Creating an Ecosystem
American entrepreneurship had been on a 40-year decline. But 2020 is the year that turned around; entrepreneurship is on the rise once again...
Black Women Entrepreneurs: Putting Community First
According to a 2021 report in the Harvard Business Review , 17% of Black women are in the process of starting or running new businesses, com...
Leading to Execute: Mielle Organics’ Monique Rodriguez
An extreme funding gap exists for Black female entrepreneurs who, in 2021, received merely 0.34% of the total venture capital spent in the U...
Narrowing the Disability Employment Gap
The barriers to entering and staying in the workforce are complex for disabled people, and magnified for disabled people with additional mar...
Building Credit for Immigrants
A recent survey commissioned by Nova Credit found that nearly half of immigrants said a U.S. credit card is hard to obtain. Without a credit...
Displaced Entrepreneurs: Supporting New Beginnings Away from Home
Around the world, over 80 million individuals are displaced according to the UN Refugee Agency, with many forced to flee their homes for pro...
Closing the Women’s Sports Pay Gap
In May of 2022, the U.S. Soccer Federation agreed to a landmark deal awarding equal pay for the women and men of the US National Soccer team...
Real Estate Investing for All
In America, real estate investment has been the primary way for people to build wealth that they can sustain and pass down to their children...
Empowering Tribes in the Fight Against Climate Change
Indigenous voices have been left out of the conversation around climate change, even though they are among the first to face the direct cons...
Bringing Fresh, Healthy Food to Food Deserts
Too many people in the U.S., particularly those from communities of color, live in geographic areas that have little to no access to an affo...