Hi everybody I'm Diane Brady. I'm here with Liz Elting entrepreneur, philanthropist, now author,

Liz, good to see you. Dream big and Win. Tell me about the genesis of this. What made you decide to write a book?

Hi Diane, so great to be here with you. So I decided to write this book, Dream Big and Win, because when I was in my

20s, when I started my career and started my company, I wished I had found a book like this. I did read every business book I could get my hands on

but a lot of them were very much how to do this and then do that and then do this and do that and then do that and do that and a little dry and you know didn't they

didn't talk about the mistakes that were made along the way and what not to do and

I wanted something where I understood the business person or the

entrepreneur better because I love biographies I learned so much from biographies and

so I wanted some of that so So as a result, I wrote this where, you know, I could basically talk about everything I learned along the way.

And I made many, many mistakes, did some things right and did some things wrong, and did some things wrong.

I wanted to share all of it and talk about what to do

to be successful in business.

And one last thing, I tried to make it very entertaining. I was vulnerable, I was authentic, I really

opened up because those are the kind of books. And so it's kind of like a fast-paced beach read business read or business read be

treat and that's what I love the beech read part that we have to get to the

beech tree but I should remind people that one of the reasons that got you here was you were the

co-founder of Trans Perfect. Talk a little bit about those early days in terms of

you know what you saw in the marketplace the need and how you did build it because to your

point there have been a lot of barriers you know for women and entrepreneurs writ large

but that's a big reason why people are very interested in your life story.

Yes, absolutely. So what happened was in a nutshell I studied four languages growing up. I had the opportunity to live in five countries

and I determined by the end of high school that I loved languages and I ended up

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