Nancy Brinker, founder of the Susan G Komen Foundation: “Start with the end in mind.”

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theSkimm

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Nancy Brinker started the Susan G Komen Foundation in 1982 after her sister was diagnosed with breast cancer. Back then, she had just $200 and a list of potential donors. Now, it’s one of the largest cancer charities in the world. In the 40 years since the organization got started, Nancy and the foundation have raised $3 billion to help fund cancer research. On the couch, she talks to us about starting the Susan G Komen Foundation, motivating a team, and taking breast cancer from a taboo subject… to a national cause.

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0:00.0	We made people think we were very big and had a lot of money.
0:03.7	I want to pause there.
0:05.2	How do you do that?
0:07.2	Well, we just said it.
0:09.0	I mean, we publicized.
0:12.0	Welcome to startup life, just phones going off.
0:14.0	It's funny.
0:15.0	I'm Danielle Weisberg.
0:17.0	And I'm Curly Zaykin, and we are the co-founder of the Skim.
0:20.0	And you are listening to our podcast, Skimmed from the couch, where we talk to other female
0:24.8	entrepreneurs about what it takes to get to the top and what it's actually like along the way.
0:30.1	We're talking bad advice, the really bad days, management mistakes, the real stuff.
0:36.3	No BS.
0:37.3	We started the skim from a couch, so what better place to talk it out than where it all began,
0:41.9	which is a couch.
0:47.0	Join us in welcoming Nancy Brinker to the couch.
0:50.0	She's been a lot of things in her life from a radio talk show host to the U.S. Ambassador to Hungary.
0:56.0	But you probably know Nancy Best as the founder of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.
1:02.3	It's now one of the largest cancer charities in the world. But back in
1:06.4	1982, the organization was a promise that Nancy made to her sister, Susan, who passed away
1:12.4	from breast cancer. Nancy promised her sister Susan, who passed away from breast cancer.
1:13.5	Nancy promised her sister that she would do everything she could to stop other women from meeting
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