You are listening to the 10 minute entrepreneur podcast with host Sean Castrina.

I'm excited about today's podcast I'm excited about today's podcast I Bridget Smith with me today. She was a

former talk show host, senior executive at Google Venture Capitalist the founder of

Pitch Week which is for diverse female founders pairing them with investors.

Bridget, it's great to have you on the podcast.

Thanks for having me.

So how do you get into this entrepreneurial space when you're, you know, a talk show host working for Google?

Like when does it hit you that, all right, I want something different?

You never stop dreaming and you also dream bigger than what you can even imagine.

Like all of the unknowns, it's okay to say yes to those things as long as it's in alignment

with what you're good at. And I happen to be good

at a lot of things. I like somebody who's as cocky as I am. I feel the same way. I tell

my friends the same thing. I listen I, listen to me, when the good Lord gave out gifts, he just threw me a plethora of them.

Now, where I'm weak, I'm horribly weak.

And it's okay, even if you're not strong in an area, figure it out.

Get better at it.

Learn.

Just don't do it in public.

Exactly.

I mean, I have a few things that I feel like I do okay and do really well and stuff I don't do well. I thankfully hire other people to do those.

All right, you're a talk show where you're working for Google.

What hits you to, you know, start this, you know, pitch week?

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