Braving Innovation Nada Ahmed

In this episode, I reflect on the launch of my book Determined to Lead: The Disruptive Woman's Guide to Stop Playing Small and Transform your Career through Agile Leadership. In particular, I ask if you are playing too safe in life and what you can do to start showing up with more courage.

Tech entrepreneur and author Kurt Davis shares his lessons from his entrepreneurial journey, in particular how to win multi million dollar global deals as a startup.
 
In his newest book, Navigate to the Lighthouse: A Silicon Valley Guide to Executing Global Deals, Kurt returns to his startup roots.  Navigate to the Lighthouse guides leaders toward educating their first “lighthouse” deal, that big deal that catapults their startup over new adopters and into the land of opportunity.  Navigate to the Lighthouse is for any entrepreneur who has ever felt stuck, frustrated, or lost at sea. 
 
Kurt shares a wealth of knowledge, ideas, and personal experience in this podcast
 

Escape the bell curve: how to set your startup on an exponential growth trajectory. 


One deal a year: how to identify, cultivate, and close that one deal that will make your startup explode. 


Invest in the uncertain: finding the confidence to successfully position your company as a market leader. 


Team sales: how to engage the entire team to work on deals.


Grow quickly internationally: navigating the challenges of  building and growing global teams.


Getting the gorilla to dance: the strategic words and actions that get a sluggish deal moving in the right direction.

Solo Episode recorded in November 2022 on my thoughts on my upcoming book Determined to Lead: The Disruptive Woman's Guide to Stop Playing Small and Transform your Career through Agile Leadership.

Dr Mara Harvey is an Economist by background, a senior leader in Finance, trained at Harvard and IMD. She has over 21 years of experience in wealth management, working with billionaire families across Europe, and driving social & digital innovation across the financial industry on a global scale.
We talk about financial literacy, why it is so important yet so lacking amongst women and children. What do we need to know and what should we be teaching our kids? How can we re-write the rules? What are the dynamics of women´s wealth creation and why are women often caught in a safety trap? How can we empower women financially?

Andreas Munk Holm and David Cruz e Silva are founders of The European VC. They are on a mission to democratize VC by opening up access to the hottest European VC funds at a radically lower ticket.
We dive into:
-Syndicates: what is it and how are they syndicating differently for VC funds
-The latest in VC in Europe, how VC in Europe is different from VC in the US
-Why is it important to have VC as part of your investment portfolio.

My thoughts on the current market, the looming recession, what it means for us as investors in the stock market and as venture capital investors.
I also share some reflections on my entrepreneurial journey and my plans ahead. 
Recorded 30th of June