I Ran Away at 21 to Build a Global Business Empire: Kaanti Suresh
Kaanti Suresh Shetty, President and CEO of Indus Synergy Partners, shares how she left home at 21 with a single suitcase and built a career bridging business between India and the United States. Kaanti talks about being born a girl in a town that asked "what will she achieve?", losing her father at…
Why Doing Good Is Good for Business: LaDondra Wilson on Social Impact
LaDondra Wilson, Vice President of Social Responsibility for the Dallas Wings, shares her path from South Oak Cliff to a WNBA front office. LaDondra reframes the "male-dominated industry" narrative as overrated, and explains what social responsibility actually looks like inside a pro sports franchi…
Stop Layering Makeup: Chithra Kannan's Data-Driven Glow Guide
Chithra Kannan, founder and CEO of SkinCentrick, shares how she built a clean beauty brand — alongside four learning academies and a construction business, and a team of more than 500 — across industries she entered with no prior background and no outside funding. With a background in analytics, Ch…
Stop Using Your Own Money: Keisha Allen on Money & Mindset
Keisha Allen, Financial Inclusion Leader at Truist Bank with 25 years in banking, breaks down money as a mindset. Keisha opens up about pushing through a childhood speech impediment, and about being told she was "too much" — and why that same energy is exactly what opens doors. She gets practical a…
The Dream That Built a 100% Woman-Owned Trucking School: Kenya Mobley
Kenya Mobley shares how a dream of trucks, books, and a classroom led her to open On Track Truck Driving School in Arlington, Texas, as a 100% woman-owned business in a male-dominated industry. She talks candidly about funding the school by reinvesting from her former childcare center and borrowing…
I Sued the U.S. Government for $1B: Dr. Colleen J. Payne
Risha Grant sits down with her longtime mentor and friend, Dr. Colleen J. Payne, founder and owner of MCI Diagnostic Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Colleen started in 1998 with a single mobile unit — a company she launched as "Mobile Cardiac Imaging" while her son was six months old — and grew it into …
Stop Pushing Through Pain: Shayna Hammond, Host of The Grounded CEO
Shayna Hammond, founder of Lead for Liberation and Indigo Unbound, talks about moving through fear, reinvention, and the discipline of rest. From gymnastics in Lansing to becoming a school principal at 25 to launching a national coaching movement, Shayna shares the lessons that carried from sport i…
I Can't Believe It's Over
What do you do when the thing you built starts falling apart? Not the idea. The actual thing — the clients, the contracts, the calendar that used to be full, the revenue you could count on, and the identity you built around being able to make it work.Risha Grant spent 27 years building a multi-mill…
Be Better Than Your BS - Risha Grant
Bestselling author and culture strategist Risha Grant joins Trailblazing Talks for a candid conversation about bias, belonging, Radical Acceptance, and becoming who you really are.
Risha opens up about the years she spent editing herself to fit other people’s expectations, the dramatic changes that…
Ep 170 - HOW TO BE BETTER THAN YOUR B.S. (w/ Risha Grant)
Our guest this week to share 3 thoughts on this topic is Risha Grant, who is a keynote speaker, author, CEO and one of the most effective diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) experts in the US. Risha has made a career of leading her audiences to Radical Acceptance.
TOPIC: How to Be Better Than …
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