This is the profile of Jessa Jones, the owner of iPad ReHab. Jessa's story is one of my favorites - she has a PhD in molecular genetics from The Johns Hopkins University and today is a masterful Microsolderer. This episode highlights her journey from slicing up fruitfly eyeballs to fixing logic boards of phones and laptops. We discuss how that transition happened when she smashed open a toilet... I loved hearing about the emotional connection she has in device recoveries and we talk about everyt...
Oct 12, 2020•55 min•Ep. 22
This is the story of Martha Tolles, the best selling author widely known for her Katie and Darci series that have sold over 2 million copies around the world. In this episode, Martha discusses her popular Katie and Darci series which is about a little girl, inspired by her daughter Cindy. From the 70s to the late 90s, Martha's books were some of the most popular in the Scholastic book offerings selling millions of copies around the world. More recently, she has expanded her writing to adult nove...
Sep 15, 2020•43 min•Ep. 20
Kayla is a professional magician and ultimate storyteller. She is part scientist, part comedian, part bartender and part entrepreneur. In this episode, you'll hear about Kayla's evolution as a magician. We start at the age of 7 when she first discovered a fascination for magic and then spent decades practicing, failing, refining and ultimately dazzling. She has performed on Penn & Teller's Fool Us with Teller falling in love with and went on to win David Copperfield's “Search for the Next Gr...
Aug 13, 2020•48 min•Ep. 19
This is the story of Tracy Holland, Entrepreneur extraordinaire. Tracy is the co-founder and CEO of HATCHBEAUTY - an incubator for beauty and wellness products. She has won numerous entrepreneur of the year awards all while balancing being a mother of three. On this episode, you'll hear Tracy's journey, the things she learned when she was sent to reform school when she was 15, how she was fired as a waitress only to be promoted to GM of the same restaurant. It was at this restaurant that her lif...
Aug 04, 2020•50 min•Ep. 18
In this episode, you'll hear Amber Freed's incredible story. She grew up in poverty and was able to escape a very challenging environment. When she was a teenager, she adopted her younger sisters when they were emancipated from their parents. Amber received numerous awards and scholarships to get her college education paid for but still worked three jobs in college to support her sisters. Her story crossed my desk because of her son, Maxwell. While Amber was soaring in her career as an equity re...
Jul 08, 2020•45 min•Ep. 17
This is the story of Holly Mandel. In this episode, Holly and I discuss how improv changed her life. Her journey took her from St. Louis, Missouri to Los Angeles. After graduating from UCLA, she worked at Walt Disney Studios and eventually became a Groundlings member. After six wonderful years with The Groundlings as a main company member, she moved to New York and opened up her own improv school called Improvolution. On the back of that success, she also founded iMergence which is a training pr...
Jun 17, 2020•47 min•Ep. 16
This is the story of Rana Abdelhamid, a human rights organizer, entrepreneur, martial artist, and the ultimate community builder. In this episode, you'll hear about her fascinating story. She was a victim of a hate crime. At the young age of 16, Rana had the vision to create a movement supporting women’s empowerment through self-defense, entrepreneurship and organizing training. Since then, her non-profit called Melikah has trained over 20,000 women and girls in 20 cities across the globe with f...
May 01, 2020•44 min•Ep. 15
This is the story of Keren Eldad, an extraordinary speaker, author and coach. On this episode, we discuss Keren's childhood of traveling the world as the daughter of a diplomat. She grew up living in over a dozen countries and speaks multiple languages. She served in the Israeli Army and got her master's degree from the London School of Economics and also attended Columbia Business School. We talk about her marriage, her divorce and her breakthroughs. It was from this journey that she discovered...
Dec 05, 2019•46 min•Ep. 14
Amanda Rice - Three time cancer survivor and hedge fund marketer extraordinaire. Yinh and Amanda talk about Amanda's journey into finance and then the non-profit world as she founded Chick Mission, an organization that helps women with cancer finance and understand fertility preservation after her own insurance claims were denied. When she isn't working on Chick Mission, Amanda is the Director of Investor Relations and Business Development at Maltese Capital Management.
Nov 19, 2019•57 min•Ep. 13
This is the story of Rose Shoen. Founder and Head Coach for the Azteca Football Club. On this episode, we discuss her journey from starting her own football club, being head coach and how she teaches her players to be a great soccer player on and off the field.
Sep 24, 2019•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 11
This is the story of Tahira Rehmatullah. Fortune Magazine listed her as one of the Top 5 Most Powerful Women in Weed. On this episode, we discuss her journey from homecoming queen at Ohio State, her work in subprime mortgages, getting her MBA from Yale and ultimately getting into the world of cannabis.
Sep 18, 2019•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 10
This is the story of Julie Nguyen, founder and CEO of Methodology - a meal prep service has been on a mission to end autoimmune disease using food as medicine. On this episode, we discuss her journey of dropping out of law school before heading into finance then to Silicon Valley to finally becoming an entrepreneur.
Sep 11, 2019•37 min•Ep. 9
This is the story of Tina Lindstrom, a Partner at First NY where she manages an oil volatility portfolio. On this episode, you'll hear a remarkable story of a fighter - literally. Tina talks about fighting in a boxing charity tournament and falling in love with martial arts on the side while balancing a demanding derivatives trading career for the last 20 years. We discuss how she first heard about trading at a career fair in college, why she loved Susquehanna to start her career in trading and ...
Aug 08, 2019•32 min•Ep. 8
This is the story of Kelly Brennan, Head of ETF at Citadel Securities where she is responsible for the firm's ETF trading business globally. Before that she was head of Goldman Sachs' ETF trading and before that was at Susquehanna International Group. A fun fact about Kelly - while at Susquehanna, she become the only female specialist at SIG on the NYSE. On this episode, you'll hear a story about an exceptional woman who is clearly a very driven and focused person that constantly strives to get ...
Aug 07, 2019•45 min•Ep. 7
This is the story of Sarah Piampiano – a professional triathlete and Ironman champion. On this episode, you'll hear about Sarah's journey from investment banking to being a professional triathlete and the mental strength she built along the way. Like what you hear? Be sure to subscribe to the podcast and leave a review! Thanks for listening - Yinh
Apr 01, 2019•45 min•Ep. 6
This is the story of Grace Reyes. She is the President of the Association of Asian American Investment Managers (AAAIM). In this episode, you'll hear about Grace's journey. She immigrated from the Philippines and grew up in California's Central Valley, raised in Stockton by a single mother with her two younger siblings. She got a degree in Economics from UCLA and went on to get her MBA from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. Over the last two years, Grace has done such a wonderful job of mar...
Mar 02, 2019•27 min•Ep. 5
This is the story of Lu Zhang, an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and avid learner. On this episode, you'll hear about Lu's journey from Inner Mongolia to Stanford University where she created a medical device for early-stage diagnosis in Type II Diabetes to becoming a venture capitalist and launching her own venture capital firm, Fusion Fund. Like what you hear? Be sure to subscribe to the podcast and leave a review! Thanks for listening - Yinh
Feb 01, 2019•41 min•Ep. 4
In this episode - you'll hear from Shabnam Koirala-Azad, the first female Dean for the School of Education at the University of San Francisco. Another fun fact about Shabnam - she is the FIRST person from Nepal (male or female) to be Dean at ANY university in the United States! We discuss her unique upbringing in Kathmandu - being raised by a Nepalese father and an Iranian mother and how her parents' focus on helping others stayed with her. We discuss some hardships she faced early on including ...
Jan 01, 2019•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 3
In this episode - you'll hear from Elizabeth Shaughnessy - Founder of the Berkeley Chess School. Elizabeth is 81 years YOUNG and has no plans on dying... Elizabeth was Women's Chess Champion in Ireland. She has played in seven international chess Olympiads and is active in chess tournaments around the world. She served as President of CalChess and is on the US Chess Executive Board. She cites two main failures in her life relating to playing piano (but not at the level of Beethoven or Mozart) an...
Dec 01, 2018•54 min•Ep. 2
In this episode - you'll hear from Ellen Chen - co-founder of Mendocino Farms Restaurant, the incredibly popular neighborhood sandwich restaurant and how it all started. It is clear that Ellen and her team want to make a difference in their journey to "Selling Happy" - a difference for Mendocino Farms employees, for the farms and farmers that they partnered up with and for each neighborhood they open a location in. And their guests are eating it up... Mendocino Farms really does sell happy.... b...
Nov 01, 2018•41 min•Ep. 1
In this episode, you'll hear how Yinh came up with idea for the podcast. And what her goal for the show is... Like what you hear? Be sure to subscribe to the podcast and leave a review! Thanks for listening - Yinh You can connect with Yinh and subscribe to the show at GrowthandFailure.com or email yinh@growthandfailure.com
Oct 01, 2018•4 min
