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Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Decoding Disruptors: Shivani Siroya, Founder & CEO of Tala

Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais

Dr. Michael Gervais

Sport Psychology, Finding Mastery, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Business, Self Help, Michael Gervais, Health & Fitness, Mindset, Psychology, Self-improvement, Education

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Decoding Disruptors, a special edition of the Finding Mastery podcast presented without interruption by Microsoft.

Decoding Disruptors takes a deep dive into the minds of extraordinary women who have disrupted the narrative in their businesses, industries, and communities. 

Every conversation was filmed and is currently available at decodingdisruptors.com.

This conversation is with Shivani Siroya, who built a near-billion dollar business on the back of a simple belief: people are trustworthy.

After holding jobs with big investment banks and with the United Nations, Shivani recognized a global problem: almost a third of the world doesn’t have access to credit because they have no way to build a credit score.

Without credit, people can’t get home loans, small business loans, life improvement loans. It’s difficult to progress personally or professionally.

So she did something about it.

Shivani founded Tala, a smartphone lending app designed to provide access to credit to two billion people who have historically been overlooked by traditional financial institutions.

Taking advantage of increasing mobile phone use in emerging markets, the Tala app uses behavioral data on the phone – texting, merchant history, overall app usage – to build a credit profile.

Based on the aggregated information, algorithms evaluate individual risk and provide instant loans to customers. 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Decoding Disruptors. This is a special edition of the Finding Mastery podcast and it is presented

0:16.2

without interruption by Microsoft. And Microsoft has radically transformed under their CEO Satinadella with his really bright crystal clear emphasis on building a culture around mindset, inclusion and diversity, to empower every person and every organization

0:36.9

on the planet to achieve more.

0:39.8

That's their mission statement.

0:40.8

That's awesome.

0:41.8

I've been fortunate enough to have an up front view over the last

0:45.1

handful of years of Microsoft and I'm telling you this organization truly cares about people and the

0:50.4

psychological skills they need to flourish.

0:53.9

So I couldn't be more excited to partner with Microsoft

0:57.0

in bringing this series to life.

0:59.8

And Decoding Disruptors, what we're doing

1:02.0

is we're taking a deep dive into the minds of extraordinary women who have

1:06.7

disrupted the narrative in their business, their industries, their communities, and it all

1:12.2

begins with the narrative that they changed

1:14.0

around themselves, within themselves, about what is possible.

1:18.3

I had the chance to interview nine amazing women for this series, And all of the conversations were filmed

1:24.1

and they're currently available at decoding disruptors.com.

1:29.2

There's lots of other stuff around the content that's there.

1:32.1

So I really want to encourage you to go check it out.

1:34.0

Decoding disruptor.com. You can watch short form, you can watch long form, we've curated

1:41.0

all of the women's insights

1:43.1

based on mindset principles.

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