Remix: Investor Nathalie Molina Niño Boldly Speaks Truth to Powerful Men

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4.8 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

She launched her first startup at 20, and made lots of mistakes. Today, she runs Brava Investments, which only funds companies that have the potential to put money in the pockets of millions of women. Raised by an immigrant family with deep entrepreneurial roots, where money was always dinner conversation, Nathalie satisfied her “need for freedom” by launching companies that took on the abysmal state of venture capital investments in women of color, whom she calls “the single most entrepreneurial community in this country.” Oh, and she wrote a book about all of it: Leapfrog: The New Revolution for Women Entrepreneurs. Her motto: “We cannot wait for people to give us what we’re entitled to. We have to build it ourselves.” Follow Nathalia on Twitter @NathalieMolina and IG @nathaliemolinanino. And buy her book, Leapfrog: The New Revolution for Entrepreneurs. If you loved this episode, listen to Nina Vaca, Elle Huerta, and Katia Beauchamp for more on entrepreneurship and funding your business. Show your love and become a Latina to Latina Patreon supporter!

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0:00.0	so happy to share another specially curated batch of episodes featuring some of the inspiring
0:05.2	women we've had on the show.
0:11.0	Hello there, welcome back to Latina to Latina.
0:15.4	On this podcast, I talk to Latinas about their success, their struggles, and what it takes to be truly great.
0:23.6	Natalie Molina Niño launched her first startup when she was just 20 years old.
0:29.1	And since then, she's continued to find new ways to build businesses that benefit women.
0:34.6	She's the CEO of Brava Investments, and she has a new book out. It's called Leapfrog,
0:39.3	The New Revolution for Women Entrepreneurs. Natalie, I'm so glad to finally meet you. I am so glad to
0:47.1	meet you. Did you grow up knowing about money? Oh, gosh. It's funny because when you put it that way, yeah, I suppose so, but not the way
0:57.9	that you might think, right? I think that there are people who grow up knowing about money in terms of
1:03.7	how to use it, save it, you know, all these good positive things. I, coming from immigrant parents
1:10.2	who are always struggling, who were entrepreneurial,
1:14.0	and a whole family that had intermingled businesses, I was very aware of money, but I was aware of
1:20.3	the lack of it. I was aware of the hustle of how we were going to pay this and barter for that,
1:25.5	and are we going to be able to pay the bills this month?
1:28.1	Do we need to think about alternatives?
1:30.6	So I was very aware of money.
1:32.8	So then how did you actually learn about money, earning it, investing it, spending it?
1:39.3	Trial and error.
1:40.9	I have to say a story that I sometimes tell about people thinking that my first startup at
1:48.1	20, you know, being somewhat of an amazing thing for a 20-year-old to do up, although I think a lot of
1:53.2	20-year-olds can and should do it, is that the first big check that my partners and I got,
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