Mom, I Got This‪!‬ Stanford Womxn in Design

This is not the story of someone who was mystically born to be a successful founder. Julia Hartz, CEO and Co-Founder of Eventbrite, has never been a work-backwards kind of woman. We discuss how she has taken life head-on from her early days as a competitive dancer all the way through her current position as the CEO of Eventbrite, one of the world’s largest event platforms with 230 million total tickets in 2020. Julia’s journey truly embodies the “Mom, I Got This!” ethos as she takes successiv...

Roz Cyrus is a renaissance woman. She is a writer, a computer science lecturer at Stanford, and a designer. From starting a job at the same time she started her masters degree to having a one-year-old baby a couple months before beginning her 2nd quarter teaching at Stanford, she has a talent for flirting with failure and coming out on top. Tune in to discover what it means to take smart risks to push back against the standard and find out what might happen to your dating life when you do.

Procedures. Rules. Systems. Nariman Gathers walks us through what it was like to be a budding systems designer as a neuro-atypical person. They delve into stories from collecting post-it-notes and gel pens for crafting as a kid to feeling crushed by the weight of expected-perfection in the post-college years. Now a lecturer at Stanford’s d.school (Stanford’s design institute) and design program manager at Plaid, Nari's reflection is full of laughs and fond realizations of how they designed th...

Two-time CEO and founder, Julia Haber was, in her own words, “very much a sassy little kid”. Em and Iz dive into Julia’s impressive career (that’s still only on its opening pages) and uncover how a creative leader comes to be, from the colors of her childhood bedroom walls to her alternative high school experience. Hearing the story of how she started and grew her first business in her freshman year of college and her current company Home From College, it’s clear that Julia is an unstoppable ...

Em and Iz talk to Kayla Clarot, the Concept Design Leader at Specialized. Specialized designs bikes for all sorts of terrain, but with every new design, they tell a story. Kayla’s episode is full of passion and energy for her job and the stories she tells. She takes us along her journey from being a little girl sending it off jumps on her snowboard or wakeboard to her as a young adult ‘sending it’ by making tough decisions that may, or may not, pay off. This episode is full of heart and is a ...

It’s a home run with Jensen Neff and Ellie Chen in our Season 1 finale episode! A few months out of Stanford University's Product Design bachelor's program, these ladies are off to LA with their hearts on their sleeves and their hands on their sewing machines to pursue their passions of sustainability and textiles by starting a patchwork fashion company, Oddli, formerly known as &Papaya. You might know them from their 2 million-views on Tik Tok! Jens and Ellie really are the approachable ...