Latest Black women in business Podcast Episodes
Season 4 Trailer
Grit & Growth - April 16, 2024 08:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratingsWelcome back to Grit & Growth from Stanford Graduate School of Business. In Season 4, you’ll hear tales of entrepreneurial trials and triumphs, obstacles and opportunities, and, of course, plenty of grit and growth. Plus, we share insights from Stanford faculty and global experts on how...
Short Takes: Trailblazing the Internet of Things in Bangladesh
Grit & Growth - April 02, 2024 07:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratingsMeet Mir Shahrukh Islam, cofounder and CEO of Bondstein Technologies Ltd. in Bangladesh. He created his IoT, or internet of things, company at a time when very few in Bangladesh even knew the term. Today, that future-focused, risk-taking spirit still defines and inspires his entrepreneu...
Short Takes: Where Science Meets Culture
Grit & Growth - March 12, 2024 07:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratingsMeet Raj Prakash, cofounder of Zifo, a science informatics company in India. While growing revenues is on almost every entrepreneur’s mind, Prakash believes building a thriving culture should be too. Hear how creating a great place to work is helping his company achieve great results. ...
Short Takes: Pioneering a Holistic Approach to Speech Therapy in Kenya
Grit & Growth - February 20, 2024 09:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratingsMeet Grace Macharia, a speech and language therapist and founder of SLT Support in Nairobi, Kenya. She created a social enterprise with a mission to support not only her patients, but also the profession of speech therapy in Kenya as a whole. “In 2011 there were about five speech ther...
Introducing the If/Then podcast from Stanford GSB
Grit & Growth - January 30, 2024 08:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratingsIf/Then is a new podcast from the Stanford Graduate School of Business that we think will be of great interest to Grit & Growth listeners. This episode features Stanford GSB Professor Jonathan Levav analyzing the premise, “If we want to generate better ideas, then we need to get people ...
Short Takes: Growing a Family and a Business
Grit & Growth - January 09, 2024 13:40 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratingsMeet Sakshi Kapahi, head of Omam Consultants, an HR consultancy in India, and a mother on a mission to balance home and work life for herself and her employees. Hear about Kapahi’s journey — the hurdles and highlights — as she grew both her family and the business her father started ove...
Workplace Friction: How to Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder
Grit & Growth - December 12, 2023 14:24 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratingsWelcome to Grit & Growth’s masterclass on friction — the good, the bad, and the ugly. Robert Sutton, Stanford professor in the School of Engineering and best-selling author, has stories and strategies to help you identify the causes of friction, eliminate it, and even learn how to use f...
Fail It 'til You Nail It: Masterclass on Embracing the Upside of Down
Grit & Growth - November 21, 2023 14:35 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratingsWelcome to Grit & Growth’s masterclass on growth mindset and psychological safety and how they can empower employees to speak up, fail fast, and fail smart — with accountability but not retribution. Sarah Soule, Stanford Graduate School of Business professor in organizational behavior, ...
Creating a Culture of Healthy Debate
Grit & Growth - October 31, 2023 14:10 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratingsDoes your company have a culture where people are truly free to speak their minds … without fear of retribution? At the start of the pandemic, Elikem Tamaklo, managing director for Nyaho Healthcare in Ghana, realized that the answer was no. Hear how he changed his company’s culture and ...
FLASHBACK | Raising Capital in Africa: It’s Not Just About the Money
Grit & Growth - October 10, 2023 09:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratingsWe're excited to announce that Stanford Seed has a new advisory board member: Andreata Muforo. We are thrilled to have Andreata on our team! To celebrate, we're bringing back one of our favorite episodes from Season 1, "Raising Capital in Africa: It's Not Just About the Money", which fe...
How to "Think Faster and Talk Smarter": a Masterclass with Matt Abrahams
Grit & Growth - September 19, 2023 08:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratingsWelcome to Grit & Growth’s masterclass on spontaneous communication — those unplanned moments when you’re called on in a meeting, asked to give feedback, or introduced to a potential investor. Matt Abrahams, Stanford Graduate School of Business lecturer in strategic communications, has ...
The Business of Ending Generational Poverty in India: Haqdarshak!
Grit & Growth - August 29, 2023 08:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratingsCreating a compelling strategy is step number one for every business. But almost no one gets it right on the first try. Aniket Doegar and “Guns” Ganapathy, co-founders of the Indian social enterprise Haqdarshak, pivoted multiple times while remaining focused on financial sustainability ...
Making Great Strategy: A Masterclass with Jesper Sørensen
Grit & Growth - August 08, 2023 02:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratingsWelcome to Grit & Growth’s masterclass on strategy, featuring Jesper Sørensen’s insights on how to build a strategy for success and accept the inherent uncertainty of it all. This Stanford Graduate School of Business professor tells you what you need to know: from defining what a strate...
Unleashing the Power of Market Creation
Grit & Growth - July 18, 2023 08:30 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratingsAlmost every entrepreneur dreams of becoming a market leader. But a business's greatest potential for success happens with market creation. Andela, led by co-founder and CEO Jeremy Johnson, did just that by unlocking access to a global labor market — for both job seekers and companies i...
Executive Coaching: Why Entrepreneurs Shouldn’t Go It Alone
Grit & Growth - June 27, 2023 12:32 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratingsWelcome to Grit & Growth’s masterclass on coaching, featuring Laurie Fuller, a certified executive coach, who believes entrepreneurs can benefit from having a collaborator, connector, and cheerleader by their side. Fuller provides practical tips on what to look for in a coach plus tried...
Taking a Stand with Your Brand: Genderless Fashion in Africa
Grit & Growth - June 06, 2023 09:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratingsIn Africa, as in the rest of the world, gay rights is a deeply divisive issue and queer people often face discrimination and violence. Wandia Gichuru, CEO of Vivo Fashion Group, and Chris Makena Muriithi, CEO of BOLD Network Africa, decided they wanted to do something about it using the...
Strategy: It’s the Big Bets that Matter
Grit & Growth - May 16, 2023 14:01 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratingsDo you have a strategy? Or do you just have a plan? Understanding the difference and how to define and execute on both is essential to transforming your business. Abhishek Rungta, founder and CEO of INT, realized he had been running his business without a strategy for far too long. Hear...
Executive Coaching: From Self-Doubt to Self-Awareness
Grit & Growth - April 25, 2023 09:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratingsEntrepreneurs aren’t meant to solve all their business problems alone, but all too often they try. Kunaal Rach, CEO of Healthy U, was no exception … until he met Laurie Fuller, a certified business coach, who transformed his leadership—and his business. Hear from both coach and coachee ...
Pivot, Adapt, Grow: Building a Fashion Brand in Kenya
Grit & Growth - April 04, 2023 09:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratingsStarting a business is hard enough. But growing it can be exponentially harder — especially when crossing borders and continents and in a business as fickle as fashion. Wandia Gichuru is experiencing it all as founder and CEO of Vivo Fashion Group, based in Nairobi, Kenya. Gichuru think...
Short Takes: Sweet Success – Can you build an ice cream unicorn in India?
Grit & Growth - March 14, 2023 08:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratingsMeet Gaurav Khemani, CEO of Prestige Ice Creams based in Kolkata. Faced with COVID-19 shutdowns, a cyclone, supply chain pains, and more, Khemani believes personal and professional discipline will help make his entrepreneurial dreams come true. Hear about his journey from a career at b...
Short Takes: From Farms to Forks
Grit & Growth - February 21, 2023 10:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratingsMeet Delia Stirling, commercial director of Brown’s Food Co. in Nairobi. She and her team are on a mission to spark consumer demand for foods made from indigenous Kenyan crops. Hear how their efforts are also helping small family farms and educating consumers about the environmental, ec...
Short Takes: Bringing Affordable Medical Imaging to Botswana
Grit & Growth - January 31, 2023 10:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratingsMeet Nita Bhagat, a hotelier turned owner of Village Imaging, a radiology practice in Botswana. Hear how her father’s struggle with cancer led her business in yet another new direction, one that now helps everyone in her country to get better, closer, faster health care. Nita Bhagat an...
Short Takes: Bringing Safe Water to Rural India
Grit & Growth - January 10, 2023 10:30 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratingsMeet Divya Yachamaneni, CEO of Naandi Community Water Services, a for-profit social enterprise bringing safe drinking water to rural communities across India. Hear how this mission-led company made a strategic pivot to get the “urban rich” to help subsidize and ultimately scale its impa...
Customer Psychology: Why Don't People Buy Your Stuff?
Grit & Growth - December 20, 2022 10:30 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratingsWelcome to Grit & Growth’s masterclass on marketing, featuring Jonathan Levav, Stanford Graduate School of Business professor of, you guessed it, marketing. Levav provides insights and advice on the psychology of customer marketing so you can learn how to get into the heads and hearts o...
Marketing: Who are Your ACTUAL customers?
Grit & Growth - December 06, 2022 14:15 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratingsHow do you market your product? And who are you marketing to? Those two questions go hand in hand as Nick Musyoka of Sonar Imaging Center learned. Hear how he targeted his marketing messages and increased revenues by 500% in just six years. And, gain insights from Jonathan Levav, profes...
Navigating Corruption: A Case Study from India
Grit & Growth - November 22, 2022 11:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratingsIs it possible to be virtuous in a sea of corruption? Indian entrepreneur Rajah Koppala of Avis Vascular Centers is trying to do just that. Hear how he and his team are strategically and realistically fighting against the tide of corruption. And, gain insights from Saumitra Jha, an asso...
Bribes, Kickbacks, “Commissions”—Oh My! Dealing with Corruption at Your Business
Grit & Growth - November 08, 2022 10:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratingsCorruption is an unfortunate fact of business life. How can you remain ethical and still survive when it seems that everyone else is playing the game? Soji Apampa is one entrepreneur who believes there are ways to strategically navigate a corrupt system. Hear how his NGO in Nigeria is h...
Survival and Growth: Franchising in Africa
Grit & Growth - October 25, 2022 09:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratingsWhat are the obstacles and opportunities of franchising in Africa? While this business model is still in its infancy there, entrepreneurs like Grace Munyirwa of Vine Pharmaceuticals in Uganda are embracing it to grow and scale, while experiencing significant challenges along the way. He...
Latest Insights on Driving Business Growth
Grit & Growth - October 11, 2022 15:24 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratingsWelcome to Grit & Growth’s masterclass on the effectiveness of small business interventions in emerging markets — with hard data to back it up. Thanks to researcher Stephen J. Anderson’s studies with African entrepreneurs, you’ll hear why having a coach, getting classroom training, and ...
It Starts With You: Evolving Your Leadership as Your Company Grows
Grit & Growth - September 27, 2022 11:57 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 43 ratingsWhat kind of people and culture do you want in your company? How will you engage with employees and lead effectively? And how do you figure all that out while growing revenues? Human resources are rarely the first priority of leaders, but they should be. Just ask Sachin Dhanani, co-foun...
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