Behind Her Screen

Check out Payal’s interview with Business Insider on how she found success, what her struggles were at the beginning, and why she decided to step down as CEO. Link here: http://www.businessinsider.com/classpass-founder-payal-kadakia-fitness-startup-podcast-interview-2017-6

If you’re stressing about starting out watch this interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylQHtJzfzh8

Sometimes it pays off to put yourself out there and take a risk that could change your life. Earlier this year I was struggling with lots of stress and pressure that come with graduating college and finding a ~real job~. As a way to find some sort of motivation, I attended LA’s The Female Entrepreneur panel at NeueHouse. 

I have never felt more motivated and inspired as I did while sitting front row listening to Sophia Amoruso speak at the panel. Learning about how Girlboss is redefining women’s portrayal in media and disrupting the way our society consumes online content was extremely empowering. I had to take a picture -and naturally posted it on my instagram story. Just when I thought my night couldn’t get any better, Sophia replied to my story and after a little back and forth I ended up asking for some career advice really not expecting her to respond (I thought, “she must be so busy and probably gets 100 DMs but why not ask anyway”)

Well, she responded and I was getting career advice directly from the ultimate GIRLBOSS. She said “just go for it, what do you have to lose”, and I don’t think I’ve ever felt more confident and ready to actually go for it. Her voice really resonated with me because it sounded authentic and raw. No bs. She isn’t trying to sell a motivational pitch to people, she’s just being real. This is what I think we should be doing!! Let’s be real, let’s be open and talk about everything that we’re feeling because if we don’t, nothing is going to change. Let’s get the conversation started. 

Check out one of our favorite magazines, Bossladies 

A little bit about them: 

Business is simply that, business. 

We asked Leigh Ware, Marketing Director at Quilt, to share with us a little bit of what her experience was like when starting off her career.

Emily Weiss, Founder & CEO of Glossier -- 

She didn’t have, as she says, “some huge technological advancement or patent that differentiates my beauty product from another person’s beauty product.” She didn’t even have a product, really. She had a mentality.

Welcome!

We’re about to graduate and needed advice -career advice, “how-to-be-successful” advice, overall just life advice! Thought we’d share what other badass women have to say. It helped us and it might help you too.