184: How Real Housewives of Atlanta Star Tanya Sam Pivoted from Nursing to Tech Investor
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Nicaila Matthews Okome | Side Hustle Pro Media
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🗓️ 22 January 2020
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Today in the Side Hustle Pro guest chair we have Tanya Sam. Tanya is a tech-savvy investor who has made it her mission to empower the next generation of minority entrepreneurs. You also know her from TV. She appears on one of my favorite guilty-pleasure shows, The Real Housewives of Atlanta!
She is currently Director of Partnerships at TechSquare Labs, Co-leads the Ascend 2020 Atlanta program that supports minority and female founders, and Co-founded BuiltxWomen, a business accelerator for female entrepreneurs.
It may come as a surprise that Tanya didn’t always have the desire to pursue entrepreneurship in technology. She actually studied to be a nurse and had a 10-year career in the industry.
She started helping her fiancé with his business on her days off and eventually decided to start her own business. With her background as a side hustler and as an entrepreneur, she has mentored over 60 companies with women and minority founders and helped invest in over 50 companies that have generated a total of over $100 million in revenue.
Making the shift from healthcare to tech wasn’t easy. In this episode, Tanya dives deep into how she conquered imposter syndrome during this huge pivot in her career.
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| 0:00.0 | I'd be at big conferences talking about anti-fraud technology and different algorithms that |
| 0:08.3 | contribute to the success of the product and I just kept waiting for people to be like |
| 0:12.0 | well where's your PhD? |
| 0:13.0 | Sometimes I have to picture it as that little like voice on your shoulder that's trying to be like, |
| 0:18.0 | you can't do this and like flick them off and be like, well, I'm doing it. |
| 0:21.0 | So what are you going to do about it? |
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| 0:32.5 | And I'm your host, Nakela Matthew Zocome. |
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| 1:08.8 | Hey guys welcome welcome back to the show today in the guest chair we have Tanya Sam. Tanya is a tech savvy |
| 1:15.0 | investor that has made it her mission to empower the next generation of minority entrepreneurs. |
| 1:21.1 | As the Director of Partnerships at Tech Square Labs, Tanya has mentored over 60 companies with women and minority founders and helped invest in over 50 companies that have generated a total of over $100 million in revenue. She also co-leads the Ascent 2020 |
| 1:36.6 | Atlanta program that supports minority and female founders and co-founded Bill Tex women, |
| 1:41.8 | a business accelerator for female entrepreneurs. |
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