138: Successful Entrepreneurs Who Were Inspired By Their Fathers

06/13/23 • 14 min

We may be tempted to give credit and accolades to successful entrepreneurs like Richard Branson or Anne Wojcicki, co-founder and CEO of 23andMe, for their drive, innovation, and remarkable success. However, the credit would be misdirected, at least partially. In fact, some of today's most successful businesspeople were influenced by their business-owning parents.

How does our upbringing influence our entrepreneurial spirit? In this special Father's Day episode, co-hosts Nola Boea and Lori Vajda discuss the role fatherhood plays in the lives of entrepreneurs. Whether you’re a business owning parent or an aspiring entrepreneur, hear from successful CEOs and founders as they share the parental role models who inspired them.

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In This Episode You’ll Learn

Nature and nurture both play a role in developing future entrepreneurs
How CEO fathers of daughters are leading women's advancements in both the corporate and entrepreneurial worlds
The influence parents have on children’s business interests
Simple ideas parents can use to mentor and help steer their children down a path to business ownership

Key points Lori and Nola are sharing in this episode:

(01:40:23) According to a study, male judges who were the fathers of daughters were 16% more likely to decide in favor of women's rights.

(03:41:71) The ways in which fathers influence their daughters, and how having a daughter influences fathers to be better leaders

(04:09:81) Journalist, entrepreneur, and founder of the5starz company, Noa Gadot, shares what she learned from interviews with successful entrepreneurs

(05:27:37) When we asked guest Carly Reiley, founder of Overpriced JPEGs, about her parents' influence, she had this to say about her father.

(07:42:50) Natalie Nixon, author of the Creativity Leap and Founder of Figure Eight Thinking, shared the best career advice she received

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Podcast Transcript

06/13/23 • 14 min

Sticky Brand Lab Podcast - 138: Successful Entrepreneurs Who Were Inspired By Their Fathers

Transcript

[00:00:00] Noa Gadot: What I've seen is that most of the women that I interview, their parents, mostly daddy, and they always tell them, you can be anything you want. They raise them that way.

[00:00:11] Lori: In a Fast Company article on the topic of closing the gender wage gap, management psychologist Gail Golden said, "it's not just abstract statistics about salaries of women versus men. It's about his daughter not being paid fairly for the work she'

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