• Entrepreneurial programming with founder Radivision, Mona DeFrawi, Host Catherine Gray Ep. 415
    2024/11/06

    Catherine Gray, the host of Invest In Her, interviews Mona DeFrawi. She has been a member of 12 startup teams over 3 decades, managing IPOs for the first 4 and serving as Founder & CEO of the last 4. She pioneered the first Private Market platform for institutional investors to restore venture liquidity and IPOs, and initiated the unicorn investing trend. That startup was acquired twice, then spun out as the standalone Nasdaq Private Market I 2021 with Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanly, Citi, and other leading financial institutions all investing. Radivision® is the new streaming and community platform for the startup world that helps everyone understand, participate in, and prosper with private market and IPO investing. Mona has been recognized as one of Forbes’ “Most Powerful Women in Technology,” and one of the “Top 100 Women in Fintech."

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  • Angel investing with Laurie Cecone and host Catherine Gray Ep. 414
    2024/10/30

    Catherine Gray, the host of Invest In Her, interviews Laurie Cercone, an angel investor with Central Texas Angel Network (CTAN), one of the largest and most active angel groups in the country where she served as former Board President and spent four years on the board. Laurie currently serves on the Investment Committee, Ecosystem Committee, and leads the Women in Angel Investing Committee. She participates in CTAN’s side car fund, and other funds within and outside of Texas. Laurie has a passion for the start-up ecosystem. She is a mentor at SKU’s CPG accelerator and served as Managing Director at a start-up accelerator and investment fund.

    Having a background in food brands, Laurie has held leadership positions at multi-sized companies in the CPG and food industry. She helped scale sales and distribution at a former company leading its acquisition by a fortune 50 company, and currently leads the retail, foodservice and B2B sales division for food manufacturing company based in Houston.

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  • Leadership for Entrepreneurs with IFEL CEO Jill Johnson and host Catherine Gray Ep. 413
    2024/10/23

    Catherine Gray, the host of Invest In Her, interviews Jill Johnson, the co-founder and CEO of the Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership (IFEL), based in Newark, NJ. Founded in 2002, IFEL is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with a mission to eradicate the systemic barriers that prevent people from historically excluded populations from having access to the knowledge, networks, and capital required for entrepreneurial success and wealth creation. With over 30 years of experience as a business strategist, Jill is a pioneering voice for inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystems and is especially focused on creating a new paradigm for the access to capital conversation. Most recently, Jill led the acquisition of Pipeline Angels, an angel investing network focused on increasing investor diversity and funding for women. The acquisition unites two trailblazing organizations committed to increasing capital access to foster a more inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem.

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    29 分
  • Accelerators-Breakthrough Labs Founder Dr Kristen Weatherby - host Catherine Gray Ep. 412
    2024/10/16

    Catherine Gray, the host of Invest In Her, interviews Dr Kristen Weatherby, the founder of Breakthrough Labs, an accelerator and community supporting female tech founders seeking early-stage funding. Breakthrough Labs addresses the unique challenges that women encounter on their entrepreneurship journeys and offers research-backed support to ensure that more female-founded start-ups thrive. The new Breakthrough Labs online community supports women entrepreneurs globally by providing them access to the learning, connections, and resources they need to help their businesses thrive. Dr Weatherby is also a Scout for Ada Ventures, an impact-driven VC committed to funding diverse founders in the UK. She has a PhD in education technology from the UCL Institute of Education, and a Masters in Education from the University of Michigan.

    Her 25-year career has included leadership roles in some of the largest global public and private sector players in education, technology, policy, and research, including Microsoft, the OECD, and University College London.

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    22 分
  • Maximize Your Profits-Invest in Your People- Sherry Deutschmann, Host Catherine Gray Ep. 411
    2024/10/09

    Catherine Gray, the host of Invest In Her, interviews Sherry Deutschmann, a serial entrepreneur, author, and passionate advocate for entrepreneurship. In 2019, Sherry founded BrainTrust, a company dedicated to helping women entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses. Prior to founding BrainTrust, Sherry was also the founder and CEO of LetterLogic, Inc., a company she grew to $40 million and sold in 2016. LetterLogic was named an INC 5000 company (the fastest-growing privately held businesses in the US) for ten consecutive years.

    Sherry attributes the success of LetterLogic to its unique culture in which the needs of the employees came before those of the customer or shareholder. That culture led Sherry to be recognized by EY as one of their 2009 Entrepreneurial Winning Women and LetterLogic was featured in the New York Times, Forbes Magazine, Business Leaders, INC, and Fast Company. Sherry was honored by President Barack Obama as a White House Champion of Change in 2016.

    Sherry’s book, Lunch with Lucy: Maximize Profits by Investing in your People, was released in March 2020 and has received national awards.

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    19 分
  • Equal Rights Amendment- Mission Matters with Dr. Nancy O’Reilly and host Catherine Gray Ep. 410
    2024/10/02

    Catherine Gray, the host of Invest In Her, interviews Nancy D. O'Reilly, PsyD, founder of Women Connect4Good, Inc., a 501(c)3 foundation. She founded the foundation to help support other organizations working to advance women and girls. She also serves on the boards of several social-profit groups, including the National Women’s History Museum. Dr. Nancy’s latest books, In This Together: How Successful Women Support Each Other in Work and Life (Adams Media/Simon & Schuster, January 2019), and Leading Women: 20 Influential Women Share Their Secrets to Leadership, Business, and Life, were both released as audiobooks in 2022, and she has two new titles scheduled to be released in 2024. Supporting women is Dr. Nancy’s passion and purpose. Her popular podcast “Smart, Amazing Conversations with Dr. Nancy” examines the stories of life and leadership of smart, amazing women and men whose stories connect us, and helps listeners understand that the possibilities are endless if we support each other and lift one another up.

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    23 分
  • College Women Into VC with Harvard’s Isabella Mandis and host Catherine Gray Ep. 409
    2024/09/25

    Catherine Gray, the host of Invest In Her, interviews Isabella Mandis, an undergraduate student at Harvard. She is the founder of Girls Into VC (the first organization dedicated to empowering the next generation of female venture capitalists and championing women-led startups) and Rising Stars Review (a platform to highlight young talent). She is a Kleiner Perkins Fellow and was one of the youngest people to be listed on Forbes 30 Under 30’s regional list.

    Starting at a young age, Isabella was interested in entrepreneurship and helping others. In high school, she did academic research for university professors and built her own algorithm to reduce racial and gender bias in machine learning—her research was published in an international peer-reviewed journal. Isabella also worked at several startups and is certified to teach English as a second language. Since arriving at Harvard, she has pursued her interest in venture capital, acting as a Venture Scout for Alumni Ventures under Yard Ventures & Women's Fund, and the first and sole Harvard undergraduate Campus Investment Partner for The MBA Fund Isabella recognized the grave gender disparities in venture capital and wanted to help make the field more diverse—leading her to create Girls Into VC. Rising Stars Review was founded to promote and inspire young talent.



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    21 分
  • Women and Venture Capital with Laura Nix Gerson and Host Catherine Gray Ep. 408
    2024/09/18

    Catherine Gray, the host of Invest In Her, interviews Laura Nix Gerson, the CEO & Co-founder of Nix|Gerson Media. She develops and produces content that celebrates women. She is also the co-founder of Venture:F and the producer and host of the Venture:F podcast, the destination for women investing in women.

    Laura serves as a Board Director of the Los Angeles Venture Association and as the Co-Chair for Women@LAVA.

    She is a business development expert with more than twenty years of expertise and has advised start-ups, entrepreneurs, and major corporations on growth strategy. She has led both agency and corporate environments, where her extensive background in lead generation, marketing, and communications have been the cornerstone of her expertise. Laura has a knack for seeing the opportunities in specific introductions and is known for creating strategic partnerships that garner results.

    In her previous role at Worth Media Group she reinstated the Women & Worth community, building out the business and content strategy, to include producing the Leading Voices Series and the 2023 Women & Worth Summit booking such luminaries as Stacey Abrams, Valerie Jarrett, Jenny Just, Gloria Feldt and Sallie Krawcheck.

    Prior to this Laura launched FOUNDED, a curated community focused on strategic introductions, to help founders grow and scale their businesses and was the Founder & CEO of MomAngeles Media, where she spent 10 years working with brands in the parenting and women's health & wellness space. During this time she booked 200+ top tier women speakers, all experts in their field, for events and series including: The Riveter Stories, United State of Women Summit, SoCal Wellness Annual Summit, and The MomFair. This was a formative time in her career that she credits with a deeper appreciation for the ability of women to innovate, launching businesses that solve challenges women and moms deal with every day.

    As a writer she has contributed to Worth, CBS Local Los Angeles, Babble, and Modern Mom.

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    23 分