Hi, I'm Carly Zagan.

And I'm Danielle Weisberg, and we're the co-founders of The Skim.

Welcome to our podcast, Skimmed From the Couch.

On every episode we invite smart, inspiring successful women to chat candidly about what it takes to get to the top and then what it's like when you actually get there.

So this is a podcast about the real stuff, the crappy days, the bad advice, the first big career win, and the people

who are there for the highest of highs and the lowest of lows.

We started the skim from a couch, and we have only one rule on this one, no BS.

So please join us in welcoming Hope Dates to the Couch.

Hope spent more than three decades working in an investment banking in an industry dominated by men.

She has made her own mark.

She started her own money management company,

Catilist Partners.

These days Hope is the CEO and managing partner of Ely Capital, where she focuses on investing

in consumer and tech companies.

We are also very proud to say she's one of the skims newest investors which is very exciting. Hope, welcome to the

couch. Thank you for having me. A bit embarrassing to hear such nice things say about me.

We get it out first.

Well done.

So the whole point of this is to talk to people who have already

had success in their career and talk about like the bad stuff that happens

along the way and how you navigate it and like actually like the real shit that

people don't really talk about. So I want to first jump in to what I think one of the things I noticed first about you

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