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Payal Kadakia, Co-founder and CEO ClassPass

Girlboss Radio

Girlboss Radio

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2016

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Payal Kadakia is an artist in the C-suite and on the dance floor. As the Co-Founder and CEO of ClassPass, the membership program for fitness classes across gyms and studios, Payal has raised $84 million in venture capital and expanded the app services to 34 cities in four countries. She's also a professional dancer and the founder of the classical Indian and folk dance group, Sa, which has performed in such renowned spaces as Lincoln Center, Alvin Ailey, and more. On this week's episode Sophia and Payal discuss how creativity and business and inform one another, how to fail fast, and getting stuck in the 'I love my work' game.

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0:00.0

Hey guys and welcome to another episode of Girl Boss Radio from Panapley.

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I am Sophia Ammar Russo, your host, the founder of NastyGall.com, the author of the New York Times

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best-selling book Girl-Boss, and the author of Nasty G Times best-selling book Girl Boss and the author of

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Nasty Galaxy a beautiful fully illustrated and linen bound book with everything

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from how-to to a trip inside my house and my closet to Q&As with

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different girl bosses who inspire me. Also a story about the time I put my

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pants. You can reserve your signed copy today on nastygal.com slash book.

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On this podcast I interview a different woman who's carved at a path for herself.

0:51.2

We trace her from her first job to how she got to where she is today to

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extract solid advice for our listeners who are doing the same with their lives.

0:59.3

To stay in touch with all things Girl Boss, please follow us on Instagram Facebook and Twitter at

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girl boss you can also sign up for our newsletter girl boss diary by going to girl

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boss dot com and you can follow me at Sophia Amaruzo at Sophia with a pH Am Russo a M-O-R-U-S-O-S-O on Twitter and

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Instagram and Snapchat. You guys I hope Girl Boss Radio helps you to achieve your goals or at the very least provides some amount

1:24.6

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subscribe, leave a rating and review and tell your friends.

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Today's guest is Class Pass, co-founder, and CEO Pial Kadakya.

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