#76 Why Women of Colour don’t Get VC Money and What to Do Instead with Shireen Jaffer

In today’s episode of Meaningful Work, Meaningful Life podcast, I am in conversation with Shireen Jaffa, CEO and founder of EDVO, a venture-backed education technology company to help people think better and learn better.

They have raised 2.9 million and helped over 50,000 people navigate their careers and find meaningful work and have been recognized in Business Insider, Forbes, Fast Company, etc.

She has started her first company, Skillify at 19, and bootstrapped it as a solo woman founder to profitability and implemented it within 220+ high schools and colleges.

Shireen believes that it is important to empower people to think for themselves. In this powerful conversation, she shares her success as well as her tribulations in raising money as a woman of colour. More importantly, she reveals the mindset shift she had to make about money to succeed and why she became an investor herself.

The show notes of the episode are available at  www.francinebeleyi.com/podcast

 

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