So Money episode 519, Cindy Whitehead, CEO of the Pink Ceiling.

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It is January 9th, 2017, and we are very close to inauguration day and after the election I made a vow to continue

to promote successful women on this show and today is not going to be any different.

Cindy Whitehead is here, she's a trailblazer for future female business owners.

She actually went on to invent the very first FDA approved quote-unquote female Viagra called Adi. And after getting that

approval, Cindy sold the company, sold the brand for $1 billion. And from there she's launched an initiative called the

Pink Ceiling. It's a strategy and investment firm that she launched last year

dedicated to finding and funding innovations for women and she's calling last year

dedicated to finding and funding innovations for women.

And she's calling 2017 the year of the pinkubator

dedicating her all to promoting female startups,

especially in the male dominant STEM fields, which is science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

We talk about what it takes to raise money as a female founder, especially when presenting in front of a roomful of men, as Cindy has done many times.

She describes why it's important that female entrepreneurs get less cheerleading and more

stray talk.

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