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JAYSON WALLER UNLEASHED

#72: Diversity in Business with Cheryl Contee

JAYSON WALLER UNLEASHED

Jayson Waller

Business, Entrepreneurship, Society & Culture

4.4649 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Today on the show Jayson is talking with Cheryl Contee, CIO of The Impact Seat, Chair / Founder of Do Big Things, and the Author of Mechanical Bull. Cheryl talks about how devastating it can be to be judged by your appearance in a professional, venture investment setting, how she has dealt with rejection because she’s a minority and what we can do to solve that problem going forward.

There’s a big problem today with minorities not getting the same opportunities as everyone else, and we all need to work together to help move past the situation.

 

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Mentioned in the Episode:

 

Website: https://dobigthings.today
Medium Blog: https://cherylcontee.medium.com/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cherylcontee/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cherylcontee/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ch3ryl

Book: https://www.amazon.com/Mechanical-Bull-Achieve-Startup-Success-ebook/dp/B07RKY759R

 

Timestamps:

 

2:03 - Creating a Better, More Professional Space For Women

3:33 - First Black Female Founder to be Acquired by NASDAQ

5:33 - Dealing with Rejection

9:32 - Being Judged by Your Appearance

12:18 - Being a Woman, and Being the Breadwinner

14:38 - Women vs Men For Job Prospects

17:42 - Take the Moment You’re Given No Matter Who You Are

18:40 - Cheryl’s Book, “Mechanical Bull”

22:50 - Giving Back to People Who Were Like You

24:12 - Why Should We Embrace Failure?

25:42 - Practice Your Pitch on Clubhouse

27:27 - Where to Find Cheryl Online

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Jason Waller here, True Underdog podcast and YouTube channel.

0:03.8

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You can go to our YouTube channel, True Underdog, or you can visit trueunderdog.com and subscribe to all of it.

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0:18.2

Bam, bam, bleach the power with him. Bam, bam, damn. Build it to give you, baby. Damn. Unleash the power with him.

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Damn.

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Damn.

0:22.6

Jason Waller here, true underdog podcast.

0:29.6

America's top entrepreneur podcast out there.

0:32.7

And I've got a special guest for you.

0:34.7

She's a blogger.

0:35.8

She's a writer.

0:36.6

She's an entrepreneur. She's the CIO of Impact Seat. She's a blogger. She's a writer. She's an entrepreneur. She's the

0:38.6

CEO of Impact Seat. She's a chair and founder of Do Big Things, an author of a top-selling

0:44.1

book called Mechanical Bull. She is, listen, she's driving diversity in business right now. Let's give it up

0:49.9

for Cheryl Conti. How are you doing, Cheryl?

0:52.3

Yay. I'm so happy to be here with you, Jason.

0:54.7

Oh, I've got a crowd. Ready? Ready? Watch this. Yeah.

0:58.2

There it is. There it is. Yeah, I had to hit the button. So how are you doing? I'm good. I'm really happy to be here with you. I'm a big fan, as you know. and, you know, diverse, this is a really great time to talk about diversity in business because it's the future of our economy. You know, look, if you want ROI, you want DEI. End of story. All of the studies consistently show that diverse firms instead of monoculture firms are more innovative, they are more productive,

1:28.9

they are more profitable.

1:30.3

So if all you care about is making all the money, then you want to make sure you have,

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