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Potential to Powerhouse: Success Secrets for Women Entrepreneurs


Feb 26, 2021

Sallie shares her wisdom from running large companies to handling a start-up and how women will never truly be equal until they achieve financial equality.

EPISODE SUMMARY:
2:52 - A bossy little kid
8:10 - Cheerleading, volleyball and patriarchal pressure
10:52 - What it was like being at CitiGroup
13:30 - The smartest mistake she ever made
16:12 - Handling kids and success
23:10 - What happened at Falcon
28:47 - Life after Smith-Barney 
38:10 - The shift into being an entrepreneur
43:31 - What being an entrepreneur means to Sallie now
48:04 - On her position at Elevest
49:18 - Sallie’s morning routine

QUOTABLES:
2:55 - “So that insecurity sort of runs through my life, as it does for some number of people who found success.”
27:15 - “If the choice is between money and doing the right thing - it’s doing the right thing.”
43:53 - “At the beginning, you are one or two… maybe three, but three is stretching it… mistakes away from being out of business.” 
49:47 - “I am two things at once - I am SO pissed off… and I am eternally grateful.”
51:09 - “We do recognize, money’s her number one source of stress… if we can help her with that, then we have hit in her gut.”
51:18 - “Money isn’t money - money is “Take your hand off my friggin’ leg!” Money is “I’m out of this relationship!” Money is, “I quit - stuff it up your you know what!.”
51:47 - “We got you out of a job where the lech is letting his eyes linger a little too long.”
51:55 - “Women - we will not have full equality until we have financial equality.”

CONNECTIONS:
Find more about Sallie Krawcheck on Instagram and Twitter.  You can also find Ellevest on Instagram and Twitter.

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