Fail Every Day: Encore with Daniella Pierson of The Newsette

Superwomen with Rebecca Minkoff

Rebecca Minkoff

Society & Culture

4.8 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Daniella Pierson is an inspiration, but the 25-year-old founder and CEO of one of the fastest growing media platforms did not always feel like the confident boss she is today. Possibly the next (better) Zuckerberg, Daniella founded ⁠The Newsette⁠ while still in college at Boston University. She’ll be the first to tell you that she didn’t necessarily love academics, and also that it took time and effort to cultivate the self-assuredness she radiates today. At BU, Daniella started listening to entrepreneurial podcasts like Superwomen (!) in order to create a daily email newsletter that recaps topics relevant to female professionals. She strives to make every edition a treat, with the purpose of “making women feel like they can kick ass every single day.” 7x-ing their revenue during Covid, Daniella is fast on track for her goal to build the world’s biggest female empowerment company. With the courage to fail a little bit every single day, she is learning from past mistakes and building confidence as a rare gem of a female founder in the male-dominated world of media. Thanks for listening! Don't forget to order Rebecca's new book, ⁠Fearless: The New Rules for Unlocking Creativity, Courage, and Success⁠. Follow Superwomen on ⁠Instagram⁠. Social Media ⁠@the_newsette⁠ Big Ideas The value in a “lean, mean team.” Using podcasts as a tool for learning new skill sets. Check out the Why Are We Shouting? Podcast here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome to Superwoman.
0:05.8	Today's guest is Danielle Pearson, the founder of New Zette.
0:10.3	The New Zette was born and built in between her classes at school and now exists as a
0:15.1	multi-million dollar company website and newsletter.
0:18.7	I am so excited to dig into this with you and hear your story.
0:22.2	Danielle, welcome to the podcast. Hi, Rebecca. Thank you so much. I'm such a big fan of this
0:27.6	podcast. I think I told you before I've listened to every single episode. So it's an honor.
0:33.0	Oh, yay. Well, that's good. I was, I felt so nervous when I reached out to you. I was like,
0:37.3	I hope she'll reply and see my my request of her. So I'm glad this worked out.
0:42.8	No, I literally have listened since you started. So congratulations on all of your success, too.
0:48.4	Oh, thank you. I'm beyond impressed with what you've built. And I'd love to start at what gave you the idea,
0:55.6	first and foremost, to start the news at and maybe describe what it is for people that are not
1:00.2	familiar.
1:01.1	Absolutely.
1:02.3	So I started the news at.
1:04.1	I'm 25 now.
1:05.5	I was 19 as a sophomore at Boston University, and I really had no idea what I wanted to do. I wasn't the best
1:14.4	student. I can be a good student if I really put my mind to it, but I was always that kind of student
1:19.7	that was like, you know, what's the point of learning science? You know, again, when I know I don't want
1:24.6	to be a scientist. And that's kind of where I was sophomore
1:28.0	year of college, still relearning those, you know, core categories that I knew I didn't want
1:33.2	anything to do with. And so I knew that I wanted to be in the magazine industry. That industry
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