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How Tia is Becoming Women's Healthcare Wing Woman Dec 15, 2017

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Carolyn Witte, Felicity Yost, and Jenna discuss how Tia aims to be women's translator to understand their healthcare and their latest feature The Vagina Benefits, specifically designed to decode women's unique health insurance needs and rights. Carolyn and Felicity share Tia's efforts changing the conversation around women's health and how they're finding the right voice, balancing the education of your OBGYN with the comfort and trust of chatting with your best friend. We also walk through their goal to help women shift from reactive healthcare to preventative healthcare by developing a long-term relationship with them and harnessing their data to coach and remind them to actively manage their health.

Great at Work Dec 15, 2017

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Acclaimed management thinker, Morten Hansen joins Moe Abdou to explore the modern framework for individual greatness at work.

How RXBAR Changed The Protein Bar Industry Dec 14, 2017

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Peter Rahal and Jenna discuss how the nature of RXBAR's product influences their culture — the constraints are a mindset — and why every team member makes bars. We chat about your values as your constitution and how to turn them from principles into practice. Peter walks us through the company's founding days from making bars in his parents' kitchen to running the business from his cell phone for 18 months and feeling miserably uncomfortable clawing for growth as a CPG brand. We also dive deep into EQ, including understanding your team's leadership and communication styles, what motivates them, and making gratitude a cornerstone of your internal and external culture with a "Gratitude Dashboard."

Margaux's Mission To Become Your Go-To Shoe Brand Dec 13, 2017

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Alexa Buckley, Sarah Pierson, and Jenna discuss how Margaux is creating staple shoes for every part of a woman's life. The founders share their decision to take the leap after hearing Sheryl Sandberg ask: What would you do if you weren't afraid? and the challenges of founding the company right after college, especially partnering with a manufacturer; Their best tips are not to acknowledge perceived differences, keep persisting, and have a credible advocate - whether it's an advisor, investor, or team member - to champion your mission. We chat about working in millimeters, both in designing shoes and building startups, how to respond to the investable question "What's next?" and why the work no one sees is your competitive advantage. We also cover insights from Margaux's #OnTheGaux series, including "True control comes from doing nothing," and how it helps the founders disconnect and recharge.

To Eradicate Poverty, Give Work - Here's How Dec 12, 2017

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Leila Janah and Jenna discuss the Give Work philosophy of shifting the view of people in poverty as those who need aid to equal producers and participants in the global economy. Leila shares how the future of work will require everyone to be an entrepreneur and how Samasource is training people to be competitive in the digital world. We discuss launching and building her skincare company LXMI with a Give Work mentality, incorporating as a B Corporation, the power of supply chain, and why we need to shift from the idea of shareholder capitalism to stakeholder capitalism. Leila also dives into her personal journey, including her experience with a group of Fortune 100 CEOs and Pope Francis at The Vatican, lessons like 'Embrace what is, not what you thought should be,' and seeking inspiration and solace in nature — To gain insight, feel small compared to something bigger. Most importantly, she shares a reminder that we have an obligation to make a difference for others.

How Marine Layer Became A Go-To Lifestyle Brand Dec 12, 2017

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Mike Natenshon, Adam Lynch, and Jenna discuss the evolution of Marine Layer from Mike trying to recreate the comfort of his favorite college t-shirt to the company's expansion into 33 profitable stores. Mike and Adam reflect on memories from the early days, including purchasing their 1969 VW van as their delivery truck, hand-delivering orders to Levi's, and improvising when they received an order of sweatshirts without any neck holes. We then chat about their experiential retail philosophy, Marine Layer's dual store and AirBnB locations in Chicago and New Orleans (opening in February), and the future of fashion and hospitality merging. Mike and Adam also take us behind the scenes at their team meetings to share some of Marine Layer's key values, such as questioning assumptions to achieve your best possible outcome, the importance of being empathetic when sharing feedback, and balancing optimizing for the future while focusing on the present.

Discovering Your Startup's Path To Scale Dec 11, 2017

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Kevin Thau and Jenna discuss how he tries to manufacture serendipity as a VC at Spark Capital. Kevin shares key lessons on how to explain your product with teaching moments when you're pioneering a new market, the importance and challenge of being disciplined with your product roadmap, and why "more"- money, products, or people - doesn't solve problems. We also chat about how to resist the reflex to react to a current situation like a past one, why there is no one-size-fits-all model to successfully lead a company, and Kevin's belief in organized chaos being the best way to get your team in the right place, at the right time, working on the right problem.

La Ligne Is Out to Stripe The World — Here's How Dec 07, 2017

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Valerie Macaulay, Meredith Melling, Molly Howard and Jenna discuss La Ligne's mission to empower women to look, feel, and be confident in themselves. The founders chat about building a next generation fashion brand, emphasize the importance of rooting La Ligne in community and inclusivity, and touch on their collaborations with brands like Cuyana, Rockets of Awesome, and Jennifer Fisher Jewelry. We dive into lessons learned from their interview series La Bande including, coming to work with a full heart every day, why everything (including you!) is always 99% done, and Sophia Bush's line to live by: "You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously."

The Inside Story of aden+anais' Ascent To $100M Dec 05, 2017

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Raegan Moya-Jones and Jenna discuss aden+anais' founding story and how Raegan got the business to $1 million in revenue while working full time at The Economist and building the business after putting her daughters to bed between 8:30 p.m. to 3 a.m.. We chat about the realities of launching a business, including surviving the exhaustion, how startups influence personal relationships and the way Raegan accepted and approached this. Raegan opens up about co-founder partnerships, shares an exercise to truly stress test your relationship before partnering and what to establish legally, as well as how she ran the business on her own after her co-founder departed, while also raising the funds to save the company. We walk through Raegan's journey as a self-taught CEO, how to help your team recover from mistakes quickly, and balancing being democratic and collaborative while also being decisive: "It's the people who make the organization not where they sit in the organization."

How Love Became Poshmark's Enduring Advantage Nov 14, 2017

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Manish Chandra and Jenna discuss Poshmark's newest product Poshmark Stylist Match: the first ever voice-enabled social styling engine. We chat about the journey from personally recruiting their first 800 customers to working closely with a community of 3 million seller stylists who spend an average of 25 minutes a day on Poshmark. Manish walks us through the state of social commerce and how the team views Poshmark "as a new kind of social mall that brings communities of people across the country together" and their plans "to grow together as a highly distributed but connected entity." We unpack how Poshmark's values lead with love, love is longevity, and embrace your weirdness help everyone on their team and platform turn what they are afraid of into their greatest growth opportunity, as well as why it is essential that the only way to succeed on Poshmark is to lift others up — The symbiotic cycle fuels the community. Manish also shares two moving stories about Poshmark in real life about a woman who used her earnings to transition her family from being homeless to being able to afford a home and another seller stylist who used Poshmark to help her child and her escape from an abusive relationship.

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