Hi, I'm Carly Zakin.

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.

Join us in welcoming Lena Roberts to the couch. Lenea has worked in an investment

baking for decades, from being an auditor to becoming an advisory director at Goldman Sachs. She

retired in 2016, and we're totally putting that in air quotes because soon after she decided to start

her own venture fund called gingerbread capital there's a story there it focuses on

investing in female entrepreneurs

and helping women make their marks in the business world.

And she's one of the skim's newest investors.

Thank you for that.

Lenaya, welcome to the couch.

Thank you.

So I'm very excited to do this one because we've been fortunate to get to know you through our fundraising

process and there are certain anecdotes that I thought that is really just stuck with me and getting to know you and I want to kind of jump right into one of them which is you told us this story that you and your husband were looking to invest in something and your husband went to dinner with a bunch of male friends and I'm going to let you to finish the story and you went to dinner with a bunch of female friends and I'd love for you to tell us what happened.

Sure.

So this is actually a bit of a light bulb or aha moment, as Oprah would say,

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