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Leah Solivan, Founder of TaskRabbit: "I would look at everything in my life and question, like, "Is there a solution here?"
Leah Busque Solivan is an engineer and entrepreneur. In 2008, she became a rising star of the gig economy when she quit her job at IBM to fo...
Phoebe Gates on Proving Herself Beyond Her Family Name
When Phoebe Gates started her company, Phia, her parents – yes, those Mr. and Mrs. Gates – wished her good luck and didn’t invest a penny. A...
Leah Garcia on Connecting the Gaps on Your Resumé
Leah Garcia’s career path has never been a straight line. It’s ben more like a rodeo loop. She grew up as the daughter of ranchers, went to...
Trinny Woodall on the Financial Reality of Being Self-Employed
Trinny Woodall went from recovering from addiction in her mid-20s to becoming one of the most beloved authorities in style and fashion. She...
Norma Kamali on What Happens When You Ask For Help
Norma Kamali started her career when women were expected to type memos in Mad Men-esque offices, not build their own empires. She came of ag...
Re-broadcast: Joanna Gaines on Learning to Let Go of Guilt and Anxiety
Author, businesswoman, designer, and chef Joanna Gaines used to let guilt and anxiety consume her. As a mom of five children, and as one hal...
Nili Lotan on Giving Herself Permission to be a Working Mom
Nili Lotan’s career didn’t begin on the runway. It started in corporate fashion, where she spent over two decades working at major brands li...
Rebroadcast: Thasunda Brown Duckett on Living Your Life Like a Diversified Portfolio
Thasunda Brown Duckett, the President and CEO of TIAA, had a “meteoric rise” in the world of finance. As the former head of Chase Consumer B...
Argent Founder Sali Christeson on Reimagining the 9 to 5 Uniform
Sali Christeson actively suppressed her idea for Argent for years. She was killing it at her job at Cisco – she didn’t have time to start he...
CNN’s Abby Phillip on Breaking Through Burnout
After every election she’s covered, Abby Phillip has the same thought: I can’t do this anymore. It’s her mind waving a red flag – and a sign...
Cathy Engelbert on Asking for (and Getting) What You Want at Work
When Cathy Engelbert found out she was pregnant, she resigned from a decades-long climb to becoming a partner at Deloitte. In her mind, bein...
Dawn Staley on Why the Journey Matters More than the Win
Dawn Staley helped Team USA’s women’s basketball team win gold at the ‘96 Olympics. It was the highlight of her career. Yet she fell into a...
Ghia Founder Melanie Masarin on Pitching the Risky Move
Melanie Masarin once pitched Glossier’s founder to do a pop-up at a former fried chicken shop. Her response? “I don’t get it, but I trust yo...
Alice Waters on Why Profit Was Never the Point
Alice Waters never cared about making money. After more than 50 years in business, she still doesn’t. She opened her restaurant, Chez Paniss...
Thrive Causemetics Founder Karissa Bodnar on Why You Need Real Friends as a Leader
Karissa Bodnar once got advice from a peer – she needed real friends, not just “deal” friends. It wasn’t a dig. Entrepreneurship is lonely....
Top Chef Host Kristen Kish on the Recipe for a Great Mentor
Kristen Kish didn’t grow up dreaming of becoming the first woman of color to win Top Chef—or of one day hosting the show. She grew up in the...
Geri Halliwell-Horner on the Legacy of (Spice) Girl Power
Geri Halliwell-Horner, aka Ginger Spice, practically invented girl power and forever holds a special place in our millennial hearts. In her...
Tinx on Returning to Her IRL Self, Christina
Tinx never set out to be known as “TikTok’s older sister.” But five years of real talk on taboo topics – dating in your 30s, botox, and havi...
Frank & Eileen Founder Audrey McLoghlin on Fostering Resilience in Your Career
Audrey McLoghlin’s peer once compared her to a cockroach that could withstand nuclear warfare. Weird compliment? Maybe. But Audrey says she...