Piloting your Life

Terri talks to Ben Costantini about how Startup Sesame events are designed to help founders identify the best events to build their businesses and ultimately strengthen the European startup/investing ecosystem through community, knowledge sharing and connections.   

Who is Ben Costantini?

Ben Costantini runs Startup Sesame, the largest alliance of Tech events in Europe and Connectors, an innovation studio specialized in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Ben is also the curator of Symposium Stockholm, the festival of ideas founded by Daniel Ek and Ash Pournouri. Ben has more than ten years of experience in conference organization, and has one of the most extensive and trusted networks of event founders in the world. He is an expert in the creative industries and advises entrepreneurs and investors in early and growth stages.  He was a Global Entertainment and Music Business instructor at the Valencia Campus of Berklee College of Music and the co-founder of the school’s student-run label, Disrupción Records.

Show Highlights

• Ben talks about Startup Sesame; there are 30 partner events and right now they are accepting applications for the 2018 cohort of startups with applications due by 3/1 to participate in the one-year program.

• Startup Sesame curate events to help startup founders identify the best events to attend to help build their businesses and to strengthen the European startup/investing ecosystem.
• Terri’s favorite startup event is Slush in Helsinki because of the content and the events that encourage connecting.
• What is Startup Sesame’s criteria for adding new event partners?   

• Is it a startup event?  
• Does it provide a strong startup offering?  

• Is it happening at the same time as an existing partner event?
• Is it happening in the same city where there is an existing partner event?  

• Ben sees positive activity in startups, investing, and regulations in Europe to make innovation easier. There are now entrepreneurial and technical classes in school for kids.   Innovation doesn’t only happen in Silicon Valley.
• One of the challenges in Europe is around funding.  There’s early stage money and later stage money but there’s a gap in the middle.   
• Another challenge is around regulation and politics.  The European startup cities are competing rather than focusing on a pan-European market or a digital single market.   

• Terri asked about whether GDPR is going to be helpful for European startups or a barrier to entry.  Per Ben, bigger companies are going to have an advantage because they can hire more people to comply with GDPR.  This will be harder for smaller companies and will have a negative impact on innovation.  This will provide opportunities for innovation in helping companies comply with GDPR.  There’s a great opportunity in copywriting in Europe for innovation.   
• Terri talks about hoping to see a right-sizing of the need to meet the GDPR regulations.  
• Anyone who wants to meet up with Startup Sesame or Ben at 4YFN in Barcelona, they will be there Feb 26th through March 1st 2018.   
• Startup Sesame will be reviewing applications and narrowing down to 30 candidates to identify the final startups for the 2018 program. The winners will be attending a retreat in Valencia, Spain at the end of March to meet each other and the Startup Sesame community.   
• Valencia, Spain has a robust startup scene with over 100 startups, there are 30 investment funds and 40 co-working spaces.   

• If Ben could wave a magic wand, he would make information and knowledge available to everyone, everywhere because a lot of struggles and wars occur because information is not readily available.   

Terri’s Key Takeaway

Innovation happens at the fringe; not at the center

References in the Podcast

• Startup Sesame: https://www.startupsesame.com/
• GDPR:  https://www.eugdpr.org/
• 4YFN: https://www.4yfn.com/
• Slush: http://www.slush.org/

• Mobile World Congress: https://www.mobileworldcongress.com/
• Station F: https://stationf.co/
• theCamp:  https://thecamp.fr/

Contact

Ben can be reached at ben@startupsesame.com.

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com or on Medium:  https://medium.com/@terrihansonmead. 

Feel free to email Terri at PilotingYourLife@gmail.com.

To continue the conversation, go to Twitter at @PilotingLife and use hashtag #PilotingYourLife.

Terri talks about how she forgot to press Record for the interview of Ben Costantini of Startup Sesame but wanted to share the info about the new Startup Sesame cohort with applications due on March 1 for startups wishing to apply for the Startup Sesame 2018 program. www.startupsesame.com.

Who is Jillian Manus?

Jillian Manus is an experienced banking and media executive, a technology investor and entrepreneur.  She is the Managing Partner of Structure Capital.  In her role with Structure Capital, Jillian provides strategic support to founding teams.  Prior to Structure Capital, Jillian was founder of Broad Strategy, Manus Media and Global Goal Sports Management.  Jillian is a co-host on the podcast The Pitch, which has been called a ‘better, more realistic version of Shark Tank.’

Show Highlights

• Terri asked Jillian about how she transitioned from starting her businesses to investing in startups

• Jillian talks about how she used the Ginsu knife method to slice and dice to optimize and amplify the message for her clients
• When she heard people wanted to venture into other areas, she would coach them through the path and use her vast network to bring the best people in
• Jillian attributes her vast network to the fact that she talks to everyone she meets regardless of where she is and who they are
• Jillian’s’ first question to people is ‘what can I do for you?’ which helps to build the relationship and build trust which makes it easier to ask for something later.   
• Jillian focuses on one thing because it makes everything behind it easier and helps to set boundaries for her time.   

• Terri asked Jillian about whether Jillian is bad at receiving and she responded with a story about Southern women who taught her the importance of graciously receiving a compliment with ‘thank you for being so kind.’
• Jillian doesn’t see herself as successful yet and that she is not yet the best person she can be.  This fuels her and motivates her. She is fearless and gets out of her own way.   
• Jillian and Terri talk about women can be very mean to themselves and need to speak to themselves like they would to their friends and their seven year-old selves.
• Jillian is the eternal optimist.  Jillian strong believes that you cannot waste time on worrying and other people’s bad behavior.   
• To Jillian, 50 is fabulous.  You know your voice, you know who you are, you know what you don’t want.   

• Terri talks about how she was demoralized for about 24-48 hours after reading Ellen Pau’s book Reset and the lack for accountability for the VCs because of the amount of money they have had and the resulting power associated with it.   
• Terri asked Jillian about whether we can shift the existing VCs or do we create a separate funding ecosystem.  Jillian thinks the answer is a hybrid.  The existing investors are getting educated.   
• Jillian says the problem is that men invest in people who look like them.  They can connect to the founder and their philosophies and character traits.  It’s a place of comfort to invest in other men.  Once they shift, there is a better outcome.  We aren’t going to be able to change all of them to step outside of their comfort zone.   
• Jillian said that we need to create more onramps for other investors and provide women with the ability to invest in small amounts into the Seed round.  Before doing this, develop the top 10 questions to ask an entrepreneur and get educated on how to run a business.  This will give the comfort to be able to put money into startups.  
• Jillian talks about the importance of being a life-long learner.   

• Jillian never invests in a woman because she is a woman, but she does give women more opportunity to pitch to her.  Once there, they need to prove themselves at the same level.   
• Women have an insight into men that men don’t have, having raised children.  Women are more easily able to see a person’s strengths and weaknesses.
• Jillian is living the life she wants to live more than she has at any time in her life.  
• If Jillian could wave a magic wand, she would make sure that every single person in this world had a job that they were proud of. The path to self-sufficiency paves the path to happiness and peace.  
• Jillian did not become a VC to make money, her mission is to create jobs for people and invest in founders for that reason.  She gives away 90% of income every year.   

• She is passionate about supporting veterans and has invested in a startup (The Shift) to help veterans translate their military skills into the private sector.   
• Jillian wants to leave the world a better place and she is doing it through creating jobs.   

Terri’s Key Takeaway

You cannot waste time on worrying and other people’s bad behavior.

References in the Podcast

• The Pitch Episode #17:  Jillian’s backstory:  https://www.gimletmedia.com/the-pitch/17-investor-spotlight-jillian-manus
• Structure Capital: http://structure.vc/
• The One Thing:  The Surprisingly Simple Thing Behind Extraordinary Results: http://bit.ly/BookTheOneThing

• Reset by Ellen Pau:  http://bit.ly/BookReset
• The Shift: https://www.shift.org/
• The Pitch:  The Shift:  https://www.gimletmedia.com/the-pitch/15-shift
• Skillmil: https://www.skillmil.com/

Contact

Listen to Jillian on The Pitch: https://www.gimletmedia.com/the-pitch.   

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com or on Medium:  https://medium.com/@terrihansonmead. 

Feel free to email Terri at PilotingYourLife@gmail.com.

To continue the conversation, go to Twitter at @PilotingLife and use hashtag #PilotingYourLife.

Terri talks to Micah Brown about his early days growing up in South London, becoming Mr. Banker Man while working at Barclay’s starting at age 16, and how learned to hack the processes that screened out people like him. This is the first of a two-part interview where he gives us the background that eventually led to starting Film Fundr and Centiment.io.

• Micah talks about growing up in South London in a very Christian, strict and sheltered household with his dad who was a pharmacy technician and his mom who was a hairdresser
• Micah’s dad was a trained pharmacist in Jamaica and had his own pharmacy when he met Micah’s mom and proposed when they first met. Eventually she said yes and because his mom had dual citizenship, after they married, they moved to the UK.
• Terri tells the story of her dating and dumping her husband three times starting in 8^th grade and how they eventually got married when they were 26 and are still married 21 years later. They met when they were 10 in the 5^th grade (or so her husband remembers as he met both Terri and her identical twin sister Sherry on the same day).
• Micah talks about his early work days and earning money to learn how to code that eventually led to working at Barclay’s Bank as a cashier at 16, being called Mr. Banker Man and how he ended up in credit risk at 17.
• He kept getting turned down for a Barclay’s job because he didn’t have a degree and found a different way to be seen as a person, and not just a number, to get the credit risk job.
• Micah talks about how the tech incumbents create mental moats around fairly simple things seem impossible for women and people of color. There is mythology around these things that makes these people think that it’s too hard and impossible, and not for them and this needs to stop.
• Terri talks about how the check-the-box criteria perpetuates the problem associated with screening out a diverse candidate set because the checkboxes tend to only allow in one set of candidates that all fit the same mold. It’s not about lowering the standards; it’s about changing the requirements to introduce a new and more powerful dynamic.
• Micah talks about the cognitive dissonance associated with how the hierarchical society is supposed to work versus how it actually works here in the US.
• We end abruptly with Micah talking about how he counters some of this with raw intellect and data which he explains in detail in the second part of the interview.

• Centiment: https://centiment.io/beta/
• Film Fundr: https://filmfundr.com/
• Piloting Your Life episode 26 with Chris Brown: http://www.terrihansonmead.com/podcast/pyl026

• Portfolia: http://www.portfolia.co/

• Terri makes the intro as to the topic and why this week she is talking about her angel investments
• Terri is going to be on a medtech angels panel at RESI in San Francisco this week and will be focused on her investment interest area of digital health while the other panelists will most likely be focused on
• Terri talks about the need to leverage data and technology to flip healthcare on its head and put information in the hands of patients
• Terri talks about how optimistic she is about Apple’s approach to changing healthcare versus how disappointed she is with Google and Verily and her experience with Project Baseline
• Terri’s first angel investment was in: MyHealthTeams: social networks for millions of people living with chronic illnesses. They currently have 28 conditions including MS, Lupus, HIV, diabetes, Parkinsons. Female co-founder based in San Francisco. Terri has doubled down on this company in their Series B and Series C raises.
• Jacqueline asked what an investment thesis is and Terri responded that she sees it as the criteria under which she chooses in her investments. Her investment thesis is to invest in companies that have products or services that improve people’s lives.
• Terri talks about not actively looking for diverse founding teams but gravitating towards
• Sandstone Diagnostics: home sperm count device and kit with an application for men to monitor their sperm count from home with guidance for improving the count from the application. The product is Trak and is FDA cleared. Founder was male but they brought in a new CEO, Karen Drexler shortly after Terri’s first investment (she’s tripled down on this one). They are based Livermore, CA.
• Zum: on demand and scheduled rides and care for kids ages 5 and up. Terri has tripled down on her investment with them. Female CEO and co-founder. If this had existed when her kids were little, her husband could have continued to work. Sequoia led a $5M Series A in early 2017 which is a good signal.
• Jacqueline asks Terri how she decides to invest in a company. Her response:
• • She listens to her gut
  • It has to be something that the world needs
  • She has to believe the management team is going to take the company far
  • There has to be a big enough market opportunity
  • The company needs to have a big enough opportunity that a VC will invest to help the startup grow
  • It has to make sense and be reasonable and rational
  • She looks for revenue opportunities and the possibility of getting profitable
• Terri is an EIR (advisor) with Tech Futures Group and sees a lot of people looking for angel investors to invest in their research projects. This doesn’t resonate well with Terri; she needs to be able to see a path to revenue.
• TomboyX: underwear, swimwear, socks and hats designed for people regardless of where they fit into the size or gender spectrum. Terri knows many women who have been buying men’s underwear that doesn’t quite fit them. The female co-founders saw this as an opportunity and have created a fabulous brand and product. Terri’s daughter and one of Jacqueline’s daughters loves their underwear. Terri has tripled down on this one. They are based in Seattle, WA. Terri loves the brand play and sees them as an early exit to a company like Calvin Klein, Nordstrom, Fruit of the Loom, or Hanes.
• Terri talks about the shift in demographics and how women would much rather buy, and pay a premium, for products made for them.
• Jacqueline asked why Terri invested in TomboyX again. Terri continued to believe in what they were doing, was impressed with their growth, and she wanted to continue to support them as they encountered cash crunches due to their growth. Terri is frustrated by the lack of funding opportunities for some of these companies.
• Terri was asked to contribute an essay for a book that Jenn LeBlanc is writing about supporting female founders. Terri is determined to work with other like-minded women looking to invest in some of the overlooked opportunities by creating a mesh network of investors across the country and around the world.
• Tactical Haptics: tactical feedback controller, initially for VR. Long term, medical training. All male team based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
• Terri believes that women need to take bigger financial risks to achieve the rewards that men are able to achieve.
• Terri was looking at between 250-500 deals a month between January and August 2017 and didn’t feel the need to invest in any of them.
• Tueo Health: digital health solution to improve the monitoring and management of children’s’ asthma. Female CEO/Co-Founder: Bronwyn Harris…she is totally kick ass. They are based in San Francisco.
• Terri talked about the importance of having healthcare solutions for kids that make the lives of parents better as most of the impact is on the mom. It’s also important to get ahead of the diseases because they turn into more significant issues when the kids become adults.
• Magnetic Insight: they are bringing clinical imaging into the 21^st century. They do magnetic particle imagining which is a new ultrasensitive high resolution molecular imaging approach that detects nanoparticles in the body over a great length of time. Female CEO and Co-Founder; based in Alameda, CA.

• RESI: http://www.resiconference.com/medtech-angels/
• Wings: http://medtechwings.com/
• Patricia Beckmann: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patricia-beckmann-phd-3b28256/
• Project Baseline: https://www.projectbaseline.com/
• Bella Beat: https://www.bellabeat.com/home
• MyHealthTeams: https://www.myhealthteams.com/
• Maryanne Morrow: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maryannemorrowsurgexlr/
• Shauntel Poulson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shauntelpoulson/
• Reach Capital: http://reachcap.com/
• Sandstone Diagnostics: http://sandstonediagnostics.com/
• Karen Drexler: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karendrexler/
• Frog: https://www.frogdesign.com/
• Kate McAndrew: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kateprestonmcandrew/
• Sarah McDevitt: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahmcdevitt/
• CoreWellness: https://www.corewellness.io/
• Zum: https://ridezum.com/
• Sequoia Capital: https://www.sequoiacap.com/
• Tech Futures Group: http://www.techfuturesgroup.org/
• SBIR: https://www.sbir.gov/about
• TomboyX: https://tomboyx.com/
• TomboyX Rain Dove commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKnbum7v1aw
• Tactical Haptics: http://tacticalhaptics.com/
• Gretta: kim@gretta.com
• CubbySpaces: https://www.cubbyspaces.com/
• Wealthfront: https://www.wealthfront.com/
• Ellevest: https://www.ellevest.com/
• Accredited investor: a person or entity that can deal with securities not registered with financial authorities by satisfying one of the requirements regarding income, net worth, asset size, governance status or professional experience.
• Tueo Health: http://www.tueohealth.com/
• Bronwyn Harris: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bronwyn-harris-0a6ba4a2/
• Stanford Biodesign: http://biodesign.stanford.edu/
• Children’s Health Moonshots: Transforming the Way We Care for Children https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS99wSHMXGc
• Magnetic Insight: https://www.magneticinsight.com/

• Terri talks about starting new behaviors or habits on any day of the year and not setting New Year’s resolutions
• Terri and Jacqueline talk about calendars, planners, and their love of paper planners throughout the podcast
• Terri’s core values are freedom, belonging and self-respect and the importance of making decisions in alignment with her core values
• Jacqueline’s life purpose/noble goal is posted at her desk to remind daily and is to help herself and others find the self-compassion and self-respect so that they have the courage to be their best selves in the world and make the biggest difference in the world
• Arian Simon recommends looking for fulfillment instead of balance which Terri is adopting for 2018
• Terri and Jacqueline talk about being the pilots in your own lives by
• • Living authentically without apology
  • Having courage instead of being fearless
  • Asking for what you want
  • Saying yes or saying no to support your own goals, objectives and sanity
  • Being defiant: standing up for your own truth
  • Giving yourself permission to change your mind
  • Taking the steps and trust that the path will present itself
  • Lean into the discomfort
  • Having patience
• Terri writes down the following reminders every day as intentions every day
• • Set boundaries
  • Stop avoiding (or take action)
• Jacqueline tells the story of the starfish on the beach and the woman who is throwing the starfish back into the ocean one at a time, making a difference for each of the starfish that she throws back into the ocean
• Letting go of what no longer serves you: expectations, resentment, people, behaviors, thoughts
• Living in integrity means that there is no friction and its effortless. The definition of integrity is when your words and actions match, and are in alignment with your commitments, values, beliefs and life vision.
• Terri talks about how she has been changing over the last few years and how other people in her life have not reacted well to the changes
• Jaqueline talks about the importance of reflecting on the year and how the holidays can be the perfect time to do this
• A ship in harbor is safe but that’s not what ships are built for.
• Happy New Year!

• Julie Ashby: http://www.julieashby.com/
• Girl Boss Radio interview with Arian Simone: https://www.girlboss.com/girlboss/2017/12/21/arian-simone-girlboss-radio
• Arian Simone: http://ariansimone.com/
• Julie Gordon White: http://www.growatthewell.com/
• The Little Paris Bookshop: https://www.amazon.com/Little-Paris-Bookshop-Novel/dp/1594139652
• The Storied Life of AJ Fikry: https://www.amazon.com/Storied-Life-J-Fikry-Novel/dp/1616204516/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1514844703&sr=1-1&keywords=the+storied+life+of+a.j.+fikry+by+gabrielle+zevin
• Best Self Planner: https://bestself.co/
• Panda Planner: https://pandaplanner.com/
• Passion Planner: http://www.passionplanner.com/
• Bullet Journal: http://bulletjournal.com/
• Highrise CRM: https://highrisehq.com/
• Trello: https://trello.com/
• Rocket Book: https://getrocketbook.com/
• Evernote: https://evernote.com/
• Slice Planner: http://sliceplanner.com/
• Brazen Global: https://brazenglobal.com/
• Simply Vital: https://www.simplyvitalhealth.com/
• Momentum Planner: http://www.productiveflourishing.com/free-planners/

• Theresa talks about her experience in the US Army and her deployment in Iraq
• She expands on why military veterans would make good founders and employees in the civilian world and the difficulties in getting jobs after being in the military
• Theresa talked about leveraging LinkedIn when she came back from Iraq to get her job on Wall Street and how she leveraged the veterans network
• Terri asks Theresa if her time playing competitive soccer helped her achieve her professional and entrepreneurial goals
• Terri talks about one of her favorite soccer tournaments in Petaluma over Halloween when she was a kid
• Terri asks Theresa about whether she’s had trouble being taken seriously because she is beautiful or if this has helped her
• Theresa talks about how she had two choices in the type of woman she was going to be in the military and suffered retaliation as a result of her choice to not date men in the military
• Theresa came from a military family and chose to go into the military after she graduated from Wellesley College after participating in the ROTC program at MIT
• Theresa is very proud to have been in the military and to have served her country, but she didn’t sign up for the extreme sexual harassment she experienced while in the military

• Puppy Mama: https://www.puppymama.com/
• Skillmill: https://www.skillmil.com/
• Shift: https://www.shift.org/
• Jillian Manus of Structure VC: http://structure.vc/
• Serena Williams Gatorade commercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JvRVILczps

1. Setting the stage for the panel discussion with Monique Woodard of 500 Startups and Albert Wenger of Union Square Ventures (USV): this is not a diversity panel; it is a panel on investing
2. Why don’t we see more venture capital going to startups focused on building and providing products and services for these underserved markets?
3. What is the market shift that you see so clearly and how can VCs capitalize on the opportunities for significant and real returns?
4. Should we see the recent IPO of Stitch Fix as something that will ignite the interest of investors in startups targeting the female consumer?
5. Should we see the shift of digital health, specifically in FemTech, from B2C to B2B as being potentially more attractive to the primarily male VCs or will the startups still be overlooked due to lack relatability or the ‘Ick’ factor so commonly associated with female-focused companies?
6. Where are you seeing progress in getting more money into the hands of the startups focused on the black and LatinX markets? Or are you?
7. Do you think we are going to be able to get VCs to shift along with the demographics and demand or do you think we are better off creating new investors to focus on investing in startups that more closely align with their values?
8. Do you think that the political climate in the US will have any impact on startups targeting these under-represented markets?
9. How do we convince our primarily male, white VCs that if they don’t shift their investing lens and strategies that they will be missing out on huge opportunities?

• Slush Helsinki: http://www.slush.org/home-2/
• Clue app: https://www.helloclue.com/
• Ida Tin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Tin
• Rent the Runway: https://www.renttherunway.com
• Jennifer Hyman: @Jenn_RTR
• Stitch Fix: https://www.stitchfix.com/
• The Wing: https://www.the-wing.com/roots/

• Terri and Theresa talk about meeting at The Guild’s Serendipity event this past fall
• Theresa talks about what Puppy Mama, her dog Waffles, and how she came up with the idea for Puppy Mama
• Terri asks about the size of the market for pet care and more specifically about how big the market is for Puppy Mama with the two different focus areas for Puppy Mama
• Big businesses like Disney are recognizing the needs of their customers and have opened up their facilities to pets and pet owners in order to attract them to their businesses.
• Theresa talks about the difficulties associated with being a female founder with a startup targeting the female consumer market
• If Theresa could wave a magic wand, she would make it so that people would treat each other like dogs treat each other and create positive human interactions

• The Guild’s Serendipity un-conference: https://www.guildserendipity.com/
• Puppy Mama: https://www.puppymama.com/
• Slush: http://www.slush.org/
• YouTube video of Terri’s panel at Slush on shifting demographics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP-1LQ3838s&t=27s

Terri talks to her son Adam about how he struggled with being bullied in middle school and how this experience has shaped him.  He still suffers from anxiety and is afraid of the unknown but he is using his newly found empathy to help others who he sees struggling as well.  They talk about everything from what to expect from college, how you don’t have to have it all figured out, and that it’s ok to change your mind.     

Terri talks to Chris Brown about his time in Estonia working with startups and how VCs invest in the same things because they are afraid of being wrong.   She also talks to him about how we must fight against our human biology in the way we make decisions and actively break down the walls that keep us from connecting as humans.   

Who is Chris Brown?

Chris has worked in multiple roles around the startup scene for past several years both in Europe and in the US. He's a passionate and driven connector and advisor, and over the last several years has worked in acceleration, VC, and startup/corporate collaboration. He believes unwaveringly in the power of technology to break down ancient barriers of business, politics, and culture, while in the process bringing the world closer together.

Show Highlights

• Chris discusses how he ended up in Estonia, gives us a little history lesson on Estonia and describes how it has become a hotbed for startups and technology
• Terri and Chris talk about shifting demographics and demands and the opportunities in changing investment focus as a result
• Chris talks about how VCs invest in the same things because they are afraid of being wrong
• Terri talks about how more and more women are becoming investors and are looking at the investment opportunities through a different lens that are in alignment with their values
• Chris talks about how we need to fight against our human biology to shift our attention from outliers and waxes philosophical about how we make decisions as humans
• Chris would wave a magic wand to change our need for tribes that separate us as humans and break down the walls that keep us from connecting as humans

Terri’s Key Takeaway

While we need some of our delusions to survive, we need to challenge our beliefs to thrive. 

References in the Podcast

• Slush Helsinki: http://www.slush.org/home-2/
• Portfolia:  http://www.portfolia.co/

Contact

Chris an be reached via LinkedIn with a message about why you want to connect:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/cjbcreighton/

And on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/cjbcreighton

And on Twitter:  @cjbcreighton

You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com or on Medium:  https://medium.com/@terrihansonmead. 

Feel free to email Terri at PilotingYourLife@gmail.com.

To continue the conversation, go to Twitter at @PilotingLife and use hashtag #PilotingYourLife.

Terri and her producer Jacqueline sit down over a cup of coffee and not bubbly, to talk about the responses Terri received from the Finding Your Tribe solocast and discuss friendship, vulnerability, trust and the importance of asking for what you want or need.     

• Jacqueline comments on how important it is for us to be able to call the friend who holds that space for you without trying to fix you 
• Terri talks about being at events where everyone wants something from her and how draining that can be for her despite how much she enjoys them 
• It is important that we trust each other and not self-select out of conversations and relationships that we could benefit from and that we trust that we can handle whatever the responses will be 
• They talk about asking for something as simple as a discount or a meal customization without qualification.   
• Terri has raised her daughter Rachel to ask for help and often uses her to ask for what she wants.  
• Asking for something special is a something we all need to get more comfortable with.  
• If you get a no, it isn’t a personal rejection.