Ruben Harris (Early Beta Episode #6)
Ruben Harris is the co-founder + CEO of Career Karma, which gives you the information, tools, and support you need to quickly get into a tech career (and is the world's largest community of career transitioners online.). They have already raised around $50m from elite investors, are continuing to catch fire and accelerate the future by democratizing education.
Ruben also hosts the Breaking Into Startups podcast, is an amazing cellist, and is a former investment banker.
This episode is all about cultivating faith/vision and purpose to turn the unseen into reality.
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Christen O'Brien (Early Beta Episode #3)
Christen is a Silicon Valley-based writer, marketing executive, and author. She has been at the forefront of promising new startups, and has worked in the earliest days with companies like LinkedIn, Box, Twilio, Jive, Atlassian, AdMob (acq. Google), Writely (now Google Docs), Slideshare (acq. LinkedIn), and more.
Christen transitioned more more heavily into writing after her essay titled What it felt like to almost die went viral, which is currently being made into a documentary and an animated short.
In this episode, we talk about acting from a position of offense instead of defense, finding meaning in work, the pattern she'd seen among the unicorn founder/CEOs she's worked with, why fear is the greatest motivator, and how her life changed after her writing career took off.
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Vance Roush (Early Beta Episode #1)
Vance is the founder + CEO of Overflow (Overflow.co), which empowers nonprofits to access a larger funding pool through stock donations. It has wildly fast-growing tech startup that I’ve been excited about for a while. They’ve received over $10m in venture capital funding from some of the best VC firms there are.
In our very first episode, we learn how Vance leveraged his skills and values to create the ultimate purpose-driven business for him, what healthy ambition looks + feels like, and how to tap into the feeling of love and connection with yourself and others.
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