#116 Payal Kadakia: Dancing Through MIT, a $1 Billion Fitness Company, & Her New Book LifePass
The Gabby Reece Show
Dear Media
4.8 • 954 Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2022
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is entrepreneur and founder of ClassPass, Payal Kadakia. Hold on to your hat because this 4'11 powerhouse person has a lot to share with her latest book LIFEPASS: Drop Your Limits Rise to Your Potential.
Kadakia shares her complex journey to success in the business world by following her own voice. From selling her company to MindBody, not having time to date in her 20s, to graduating MIT and giving up her grownup job at Bain and Company to follow her passion. Oh, and did I mention she is the daughter of immigrants from India? We get into it all. There is a lot to learn from Payal's story and tons of inspirational reminders we can bring back into our own lives. Enjoy.
WEBSITES: www.payalkadakia.com & www.classpass.com
Instagram: @payal
Book: LIFEPASS: Drop Your Limits, Rise to Your Potential
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Gabby Reese and welcome to the show. |
| 0:05.0 | My guest today is Powerhouse Entrepreneur Pyle Cadacia. |
| 0:10.0 | She is the founder of Class Pass. |
| 0:13.2 | This is an incredible conversation because here is a woman who grew up a child of immigrants |
| 0:18.2 | in Jersey, did all the right things, kicked butt in school, went to MIT, |
| 0:21.9 | got a job at Bain and Company, but all along had other |
| 0:25.1 | passions, one of them being dance. And so she's this incredible blend of highly |
| 0:30.3 | articulate, systematic, grinding, methodical, entrepreneur, business person with someone |
| 0:36.6 | who's interested in their why and their passion and rhythm and just the beauty and sharing |
| 0:42.2 | her culture. |
| 0:43.0 | She has a new book out called Life Pass. |
| 0:47.0 | It came out February the 15th, and Life Passes drop your limits and rise to your potential. |
| 0:53.0 | And we had a really incredible conversation. |
| 0:55.0 | Not only does she give the download on how she navigated, |
| 0:57.0 | be an entrepreneur, raising capital, |
| 0:59.0 | dealing with the hard times, because we all know any project that we undertake there will be very difficult |
| 1:04.7 | times. |
| 1:05.9 | And even on the human side, all through her 20s not really dating much because she was in this intense |
| 1:10.8 | pursuit to get class past successful, which recently just sold to mind body, |
| 1:15.6 | and how there was pressure on her like, oh, I'm not dating and I'm not in a relationship, and how she even |
| 1:19.7 | navigated that. This is a woman who has found the way way even though she is doing all the right |
| 1:24.7 | things to not lose touch with her heart and who she really is and what's going to |
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