I left a company where I was the female founder in tech, which is hard to do. I felt like I was letting down every woman in tech while I wrote this, you know, this like resignation. Hey, everyone, you're listening to Superwomen. Today's guest is the incredible ARA Katz. She is the co-founder of seed, the most amazing probiotic, symbiotic, prebiotic, everything, everything you need to feel good, really heal your gut.

This life inside me wasn't viable, but the life I was living was not viable.

They slapped that label on everything. A probiotic gummy, a probiotic mint. There's no way. It's like when they say a potato is gluten-free, you're like, duh. We talk a lot in this episode about changes in career, what led to seed, what also led to changes in her role

day to day, and how to manage people. So take a listen. What are you looking for? Are you

looking for validation or do you want to make great work? I think a generation that's been raised

in bubble wrap that can't take any bad feedback. Absolutely. Getting a little wiser and having some scuff marks,

you end things that aren't right earlier. I'm Rebecca Minkoff and this is Superwomen.

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Ara, welcome to the podcast.

I'm so excited to have you here today.

I'm a super fan.

I'm a super consumer.

I'd say half the supplements I take are seed.

Thank you.

I'm especially excited because I've known you through many seasons of both our lives. That's right. Since like we were kind of babies starting. Summit series, right? Summit series. Yes, that's right. That's wild. So fun fact, at that summit series, the cruise one. Yeah. I was five months pregnant. It was obvious. And there was a gentleman in line as we were checking in. And he was nice making conversation. I was like, whatever. And then cut to that night, the band was performing and we're on the dance floor. And he comes up to me. And he like, propositions me. I'm like, I looked at him. I was like, I'm pregnant. And he was like, you know. My experience of Summit series tells me very similar to like a burning man that he probably

wanted you more because you were pregnant. I was so like confused. He finally opened to all

spectrum of experience. That's amazing. That's a good story. It was a really funny story. But I met

my doula on that trip too, Latham. Oh yes, of course. Yeah, she helped birth three babies of mine. So that was a really

special experience. I met some of the most meaningful people in my life through Summit series.

Didn't birth my babies, but they did birth ideas with me and certainly like many beautiful

experiences that kind of came from that. Yeah. I remember when you guys first gathered on stage, it felt like summer camp,

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