From Educator to CEO: How Ashley Williams Built Clymb We Built This Life

Episode 31 of the We Built This Life podcast with Ashley Williams from Clymb (@clymb_up) is about persistence and mindfulness and how these two skills were assets as Ashley built her own company.
In 2018, Ashley Williams, a former educator and school leader in Baltimore City, founded Clymb (then known as Infinite Focus Schools), her company that produces emotional health software for school-aged children.
In this episode, Ashley talks about:
·      The steps she took and resources she used to build Clymb from an idea to a thriving small business;
·      The benefits of learning emotional regulation and coping skills in childhood—and how these skills carry into adulthood;
·      How Clymb works to help children build these emotional health skills;
·      How Ashley has used these skills herself to respond to challenging feelings that came in her early days of entrepreneurship;
·      her take on an underrated skill in business—and in life, and more.
 
Mentioned in this Episode:
·      Clymb, Ashley’s company that produces emotional health software for children
·      The Johns Hopkins Social Innovation Lab
·      Innovation Works at the Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship at Santa Clara University
 
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