Ep 35: Trust Your Process: Finding Meaning in Curiosity

Takin’ Care of Lady Business with Jennifer Justice Episode 035: Raise That Money: Trust Your Process Anjali Kumar is an international best-selling author, attorney, and startup advisor to companies with a social conscience. Her first book, Stalking God: My Unorthodox Search For Something To Believe In, was the basis of the viral 2017 TED talk with over five million views, My failed mission to find God – and what I found instead. Anjali is multi-passionate and has made a career out of being curious, connecting her to diverse places and people over the years. While at Google as Senior Counsel, Anjali also hosted the Speaker Series on the NYC campus, bringing together prominent and innovative thought leaders, including Anthony Bourdain, Questlove, and Jacques Pépin. Since then, she has held founding positions at Warby Parker and Cheddar and advised world leaders such as Malala Yousafzai and Megan Smith (CTO of the United States under President Obama) through her company Slightly Reserved, a home for all of Anjali's entrepreneurial and creative ventures, including an advisory firm providing legal counsel and business strategy for entrepreneurs, executives, talent, and brands. Listen to this Takin’ Care of Lady Business episode where Anjali takes us through her career, and dispenses valuable tips about starting your own company or project, and raising money.   Here is what to expect on this week’s show: How Slightly Reserved helps female-founded business with advisory services from their earliest stages How you may be doing your professional ambitions a disservice by visualizing your career as a single, linear path Working with the passion and purpose that will allow you to thrive in your career Training yourself to resist the gendered social pressure to be totally perfect at all times Ways that female-founded businesses are succeeding in the angel investing space Defining useful terms like “special purpose vehicle” Companies that Anjali thinks are investment worthy now   Connect with Anjali: WEBSITE: https://www.anjalikumar.com/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/anjalikumar/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/anjalikumar FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/anjalikumarstalkinggod/ LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anjali-kumar-781b2b24/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices