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LEAVE YOUR MARK: Freshly Brewed Career Advice with Aliza Licht

How to Dream Big and Win and Create a Billion-Dollar Business with Liz Elting, One of Forbes's Richest Self-Made Women in America

LEAVE YOUR MARK: Freshly Brewed Career Advice with Aliza Licht

Aliza Licht

Business, Careers

5.0 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

You don't need to invent something new to be a wildly successful entrepreneur. According to Liz Elting, one of Forbes's "Richest Self-Made Women in America," you only need to identify something you can do differently and better. Her new book, DREAM BIG AND WIN: Translating Passion into Purpose and Creating a Billion Dollar Business, captures all her learnings.After living, studying, and working in five countries across the globe, Liz Co-founded TransPerfect out of an NYU Stern dorm room in 1992. At the time, there were already 10,000 language solutions companies in existence. In fact, she was working at the biggest one. However, Liz saw flaws in their service offerings and set out to do it better. She succeeded and built the largest language-solutions company in the world. She served as Co-CEO until 2018. Following her departure, Liz founded the Elizabeth Elting Foundation to break down systemic barriers, bridge gaps, and foster systemic change for women and other underserved communities so that people of every stripe can succeed, thrive, and reach their potential. In 2020, the Elizabeth Elting Foundation launched the Halo Fund, a comprehensive multimillion-dollar pandemic relief initiative to directly support medical needs, hunger relief, health equity, and on-the-ground efforts in underserved communities. When Liz was at NYU, she tried to find books on starting a business, but none resonated with her, and she read many. In DREAM BIG AND WIN, Liz reveals a counterintuitive approach to success and divulges practical and inspiring tips you can implement immediately. Her refreshingly frank and humorous recollections of lessons in life and entrepreneurship serve as a guide for anyone who seeks to fulfill their highest potential. DREAM BIG AND WIN is for anyone who has ever dreamed of translating their passion into purpose and creating something bigger than themselves—from one of the most successful women in America.This episode is full of tactical and sometimes surprising advice. Liz shares everything from why your goal should be to replace yourself, the shocking question she asks every candidate she interviews, why you should never be a 50/50 partner, and so much more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Alisa Likt, and this is Leave Your Mark the podcast, where I brew fresh career advice with some of my most inspiring and successful friends.

0:09.6

It's professional advice that you can action immediately, whether you're just starting out in your career or well on your way.

0:16.5

With a massive to-do list and a large cup of coffee, I promise that you can get it all done

0:21.7

and still have time to post about it.

0:26.2

I am truly honored and excited to welcome my friend Liz Elting to leave your mark.

0:32.5

Thank you so much, Elisa, for having me with you today.

0:35.9

I'm so excited to be here, and it's been so much fun,

0:39.3

spending time with you recently. Wonderful. I know. It's so great. It's so great. So for everyone

0:43.6

listening, Liz has the most incredible story. First of all, she's the founder and CEO of the

0:50.0

Elizabeth Elting Foundation. She's an entrepreneur, business leader, languophile, philanthropist,

0:56.1

feminist, and mother. And after living, studying, and working in five countries across the globe,

1:02.8

Liz founded Transperfect out of an NYU dorm in 1992 and served as CEO as co-CEO until 2018.

1:11.6

For those of you who are not familiar,

1:13.6

this is the world's largest language solutions company

1:16.6

with over $1.1 billion in revenue and offices

1:19.6

in more than 100 cities worldwide.

1:21.6

But Liz, that is like the beginning,

1:24.6

but what you have been able to do through your foundation to me

1:28.8

is even more impressive, and we're going to get into that.

1:31.8

But of course, you've been awarded incredible recognition by, of course, your alma mater,

1:37.8

NYU Stern.

1:39.2

You have done so much for the American Heart Association and you got the 2020 Health Equity Leadership

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