Decision-Making with Head and Heart — Bonnie Foley-Wong of Pique Ventures

#024 — Decision-Making with Head and Heart with Bonnie Foley-Wong of Pique Ventures

Life rarely goes according to plan. 

In 2011, Bonnie Foley-Wong had just moved to Vancouver to pursue her dream job. She and her husband had plans to start a family the following year. But eight months in, Bonnie walked away from the great job with great benefits to start Pique Ventures—and getting pregnant was put on hold. 

Eventually, Bonnie felt good enough about her business to start a family, and in March of 2014 at the age of 40, she was pregnant with her daughter. At the very same time, she was starting an accelerator, securing investors for Pique Fund, and writing a book, Integrated Investing. By sheer force of will, Bonnie did her first close of fund in October, had her baby in November, and led Pique’s first investment in December. A fertile year, to say the least. 

Every step of the way, Bonnie made decisions based on head and heart, doing research when she could, but taking leaps of faith into uncertain territory. Today Bonnie shares the details of her path to entrepreneurship, exploring how pregnancy informed and impacted that journey—and vice versa. She explains the difference between Pique Venture and Pique Fund, discussing how both analysis and emotion inform her decision-making. I ask her about tapping into intuition in the workplace and how she overcame the idea that entrepreneurship was something ‘other people did.’ Listen in to learn how Bonnie created a meaningful livelihood, living by the mantra that ‘routine makes space for spontaneity.’ 

 

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LEARN MORE ABOUT BONNIE FOLEY-WONG:  

Bonnie Foley-Wong is the founder of Pique Ventures, an impact investment and management company focused on women-led tech ventures. She is also the founding investor in Pique Fund and the author of Integrated Investing. An accomplished financier and investor, Bonnie has 20 years of experience mobilizing $1B in capital for entrepreneurs in Europe and North America. Bonnie is a CPA, CA, and CFA charterholder, and she has been published in Time, Forbes, Huffington Post and Apple News. 

Pique Ventures 

Bonnie on Twitter 

Bonnie on Quora 

Integrated Investing: Impact Investing with Head, Heart, Body and Soul by Bonnie Foley-Wong 

 

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: 

Antonio Damasio on Big Think 

Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth by Margaret Atwood 

The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success by William N. Thorndike 

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … And Others Don’t by Jim Collins 

Textio 

Follow Kieran Snyder on Medium 

 

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