‘Thinking Bigger’ author Sarah Dusek talks about her mission to help women secure capital to create large-scale businesses that make a difference. And: Tim Duggan discusses his new book, ‘Work Backwards’, a powerful guide for reimagining the life-work balance. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Hello and welcome to the Entrepreneurs on Monocle Radio.
The show all about inspiring people, innovative companies and fresh ideas in global business.
Today's program is a book special.
First we'll meet a serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist who who wants to help women unlock capital and scale their businesses.
Building a big business is not about what you can handle, what you can do, it's about the big ideas that you can have and bringing people together to pull them off.
And later we'll hear from an entrepreneur who wrote the book literally on mastering that all important work life balance.
A very simple framework that I use for this is called you need a map to know where to go.
And a map stands for the three things that you need in order to figure this out, which is meaning anchors and priorities.
This is the Entrepreneurs with me, Tom Edwards.
You're listening to the Entrepreneurs now.
Our first guest wears many hats.
Sarah Dusek is an entrepreneur, an investor, an activist, a mother.
With several successful businesses under her belt, Sarah is dedicated to helping women tackle disparities head on and secure the funding needed to create impactful large scale ventures that make a real difference.
Her new book, Thinking Bigger, aims to help women do just that by giving them insights into unlocking capital.
And it's a newly minted number one bestseller on Amazon.
Sarah stopped by Midori House to talk about the book and she began by telling me what prompted her to start writing.
When I was building my first big business that I managed to sell for a lot of zeros in 2018, I had enormous trouble trying to raise capital.
And so the challenge as a female entrepreneur, not just to grow and build a big business, to put the capital in to fuel the growth of a big business was really hard.
And I found the venture capital industry quite offensive, to be honest.
And the struggle to find like minded people who wanted me to win and who wanted them to win was tough.