WoVen: Women Who Venture
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WoVen: Women Who Venture
WoVen celebrates remarkable women working in science, technology and business. Each episode explores specific inflection points in a guests professional lives -- those make or break moments that shaped who they are and where they are today -- and their sources of drive and inspiration.
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Passion Meeting Purpose: With Sue Siegel
On this episode of WoVen, Nina Kjellson from Canaan talks to Sue Siegel, who, over 30+ years, has worked as an operator, leading innovator, VC investo...
Closing the Gap to Access: With Headspace’s Dr. Megan Jones Bell
On this episode of WoVen, Canaan’s Nina Kjellson speaks with Chief Strategy & Scientific Officer at Headspace, Dr. Megan Jones Bell. Megan oversees me...
The Best of WoVen: Stepping Into The Unknown
Unknowns: To truly set ourselves apart we need to have faith in our own abilities and take the plunge. From lightbulb moments, to dodging educational...
The Best of WoVen: Importance of Community
Community: Often we think about success as being a personal achievement, but these guests demonstrate the power of being an active part of a community...
The Best of WoVen: Balancing Work and Family
Balance: Domestic responsibilities have always fallen more heavily on women than on men, and that remains true even when both partners work outside th...
The Best of WoVen: Combatting Prejudice and Inspiring Change
Prejudice: Last time we explored the power of self-care. This episode, we’ll dig into prejudice, a draining reality that most women, and especially wo...
The Best of WoVen: Self-Care and How to Look After Body and Mind
Self-care: Last time we explored the power of resilience. This episode, we’ll dig into self-care, the yin to resilience’s yang. At a certain point, ph...
The Best of WoVen: Resilience and How To Bounce Back Stronger
Resilience: This is a challenging time for everyone, and in this first episode we explore how to cope during hard times and bounce back from them. Our...
The Woman Who Gets Inside the Heads of Execs at Facebook, Google and More
Gloria Harris - a.k.a. Glo - is an executive and leadership coach who has worked with many Fortune 100 companies, and in her work, she trades in conce...
Three Industry Leaders on Championing Women (and Girls) in Business
In this special episode, three trailblazers take the stage at the annual WoVen gathering during the J.P.Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco:...
Minting a Thriving Global Marketplace of Artists from a Niche Stationary Brand
Mariam Naficy is the founder and CEO of Minted, an online design marketplace that produces stationery, paper goods, home decor products, and really, a...
Democratizing Healthcare with Activist Roots: A Conversation with Amy DuRoss
Amy DuRoss was born and raised in the Washington, D.C. area and politically engaged at a very early age by lawyer-activist parents, as well as her Qua...
Beauty, Burnout, and Bitcoin with the Original Influencer, Michelle Phan
Michelle Phan was a creator and influencer far before those were even a thing. In 2007, while working as a waitress and struggling to make ends meet t...
Keeping It Real in Business and Fashion
Julie Wainwright is a true Silicon Valley veteran. She has been the CEO of multiple tech companies, including two public companies, and is currently C...
Coming soon... WoVen Season 2!
Stayed tuned for the second season of WoVen, with even more stories of inspiring women in science, technology, and venture capital.
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Working with Grit (and a Patient's Perspective) in Women’s Health
Gail Maderis is president and CEO of Antiva, a biotech company that's developing novel, topical therapeutics for the treatment of diseases caused by h...
Building a Brand (and Dream) with Fewer Better Things
Karla Gallardo is the co-founder and CEO of Cuyana, a San Francisco-based women's clothing and lifestyle brand. She and her co-founder Shilpa Shah fou...
Blazing a Trail (and Building a Family) as a Pioneering VC
Ginger More was a true pioneer in the male-dominated venture capital world of the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s, and she is who the next gen want to grow up to...
Feeding the World (and Saving the Planet) - A Conversation with Julia Collins
Julia Collins has dedicated her career to tackling some of the most difficult problems that our world faces: food insecurity, agricultural damage, eco...
Crafting Success (and Balance) in Venture
Wende Hutton has been a venture capitalist for more than 25 years. A remarkable feat because, even today, the stats show venture is still very much a...
Whipping up Magic: From Cupcake Mogul to Serial Entrepreneur
Our guest for this episode is Candace Nelson, who skyrocketed to culinary fame after she and her husband Charles launched Sprinkles Cupcakes in Beverl...
Breaking Ground (and Battling Bias) in Brain Surgery
Our guest for this episode is Dr. Odette Harris. She made history last year when Stanford’s department of neurosurgery announced she would become prof...