155- Strengthen Your Mindset & Confidence To Turn Being Underestimated Into Your Greatest Advantage with Arlan Hamilton
Journey To Launch
Jamila Souffrant
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Arlan Hamilton was homeless when she launched a venture capital fund dedicated to minimizing funding disparities in tech. In 2015, she created Backstage Capital, a venture capital fund that invests in high potential founders who are people of color, women, and/or members of the LGBT community. Today, Backstage Capital has raised more than $7 million and invested in more than 130 startups companies led by underestimated founders.
In this episode of the Journey to Launch podcast, Arlan and I are talking about the mindset, confidence, and self-care that led to Arlan's ultimate success. We also discuss Arlan's new book, It's About Damn Time: How to Turn Being Underestimated Into Your Greatest Advantage. Arlan's story is inspiring and this is an episode you don't want to miss.
In this episode you'll learn:
- How to use confidence to fuel your success
- What it means to invest in yourself
- The importance of self-care and how to set boundaries
- How to write a successful, tailored pitch
- What really matters in life, and more
You can watch this interview with Arlan Hamilton on youtube by going to https://youtu.be/BrnGOdqAShc
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Journey to Launch Podcast, how to turn being underestimated into |
| 0:06.1 | your greatest advantage with Arlen Hamilton. |
| 0:09.6 | T-minus 10 seconds. |
| 0:12.1 | Welcome to the Journey to Launch Podcast with your host |
| 0:15.0 | Jamila Sufrant as a money expert who walks her talk. |
| 0:19.0 | She helps brave journeyers like you, get out of debt, save, invest, and build real wealth. |
| 0:26.0 | Join her on the journey to launch to financial freedom in... |
| 0:30.0 | Five, four, three, two, one. |
| 0:39.1 | Hey, hey, journeyers. |
| 0:40.7 | Welcome to the Journey to Launch Podcast. |
| 0:43.0 | And if you are completely new, you might be like, wait, who's a journeyer? |
| 0:46.0 | You, you listening, you're a journeyer. |
| 0:48.0 | That means you're on the journey with me to financial freedom and independence. |
| 0:52.0 | So thank you if you're just listening to this for the first time. |
| 0:54.8 | And if you're a returning journeyer, you know what's up. |
| 0:58.1 | So I'm really excited to speak to today's guest, Arlen Hamilton. |
| 1:03.0 | Now, you may not know who she is, maybe you do. |
| 1:05.1 | I'm gonna just share her bio in a quick second, |
| 1:07.3 | but I actually met Arlen in person. |
| 1:09.7 | I was on her podcast, Your First Million, |
| 1:12.1 | and I wanna share the background to that meeting and |
| 1:14.9 | how that all came about I'm going to do that at the end of the episode so stay tuned for |
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