1 hr 13 min
#14 - Shanley Knox: bringing in those who don't belong, dealing with unwieldy moments, and the audacious hope of building something new Under the Current
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- Entrepreneurship
Shanley Knox is a brand strategist and social entrepreneur based in New York.
In this conversation, we get into dismantling a business on the cusp on success, a dangerous bias around meaningful work, the audacious hope of building something new, and why a set of traffic lights in Downtown Manhattan changed just about everything…
Show Notes
08:00 A tipping point to dismantle a company
12:00 Returning to Africa
21:00 Recognizing real problems as a founder
28:00 The feeling of belonging and not belonging
32:00 The photographer as observer
41:00 Stakeholders that strategists don’t always notice
52:00 The audacious hope of building a thing
59:00 What happens when you freeze in the face of possibility
66:00 Cultural bias around meaningful work
Shanley Knox is a brand strategist and social entrepreneur based in New York.
In this conversation, we get into dismantling a business on the cusp on success, a dangerous bias around meaningful work, the audacious hope of building something new, and why a set of traffic lights in Downtown Manhattan changed just about everything…
Show Notes
08:00 A tipping point to dismantle a company
12:00 Returning to Africa
21:00 Recognizing real problems as a founder
28:00 The feeling of belonging and not belonging
32:00 The photographer as observer
41:00 Stakeholders that strategists don’t always notice
52:00 The audacious hope of building a thing
59:00 What happens when you freeze in the face of possibility
66:00 Cultural bias around meaningful work
1 hr 13 min