Lisa Donovan
Work in Progress with Sophia Bush
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4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Lisa Donovan is a multi-hyphenated creator who developed The Pattern, one of the most popular apps that only continues to catch the interest of people globally. She joins Sophia on the podcast today to talk about being one of the pioneers of YouTube, what it feels like to be seen and understood, and the impact The Pattern is making on people’s lives and how they understand themselves.
Executive Producers: Sophia Bush & Rabbit Grin Productions
Associate Producers: Samantha Skelton & Mica Sangiacomo
Editor: Josh Windisch
Artwork by the Hoodzpah Sisters
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, it's Sophia and welcome back to work in progress. |
| 0:14.8 | Today's guest is basically the original influencer. Before social media |
| 0:19.3 | stardom was even really a thing. Not content to ride the gigantic wave of YouTube popularity, |
| 0:24.9 | she co-founded her own media and technology company, Maker Studios. After helping develop and |
| 0:32.8 | expand the company for six years, Disney purchased Maker Studios for about $700 million. |
| 0:41.2 | After that, our guest got back to work to start another giant project from the ground up all over |
| 0:46.2 | again. And that is Lisa Donovan in a nutshell. Lisa was only one of the pioneers of YouTube. |
| 0:51.6 | She was one of the first content creators to cross over into mainstream entertainers when she |
| 0:56.0 | joined the cast of Med TV for their 2006 season and even added model to her growing resume. |
| 1:02.3 | But at the end of the day, it was an entrepreneurial drive that motivated her to lay the groundwork |
| 1:06.2 | for the pattern. An app she developed and a company she is now CEO of. It's a self-actualization |
| 1:12.4 | platform on like anything else out there and without a single advertisement. The pattern recently |
| 1:18.0 | surpassed a staggering 15 million users. Oh, I have so many questions for Lisa about what it was |
| 1:25.3 | like to be a touchstone for YouTube as it was just becoming popular, what motivates and sustains |
| 1:30.0 | her business success, and how she developed into who she is today, and came up with this company. |
| 1:36.6 | Getting to see a more personal side of Lisa is a rare thing. So I feel honored to have her here |
| 1:41.9 | and I hope you enjoyed today's interview on work and progress. |
| 1:59.9 | I am sitting down as you know today with Lisa Donovan who is the founder of the pattern. |
| 2:06.0 | And we just went through and analyzed my pattern together and I took a copious six pages of notes. |
| 2:14.1 | You know, on the my level, a little bit of curriculum. And we're going to get into how this all works. |
| 2:20.6 | But before we jump into the present and how it is informed by your work, I actually really love to go |
| 2:28.4 | backwards first with all of my guests. I'm always so curious how fascinating person like yourself |
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