That Time I Ruled Marched Madness and Started Women's Hoops Magazine!
Karen Hunter Is Awesome!
Women's Empowerment Network
5.0 • 687 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Karen Hunter is awesome. I am Karen Hunter. And as I've been saying in this space, |
| 0:14.7 | I'm getting a little bit more intimate into my life, my past, the things that I've done, |
| 0:20.1 | the people that I've known and impacted. I did a |
| 0:23.5 | podcast recently with Stephen A. Smith and you got to learn that I started my career as a sports |
| 0:29.0 | writer at first the Star Ledger and then the New York Daily News, which is where Stephen A. |
| 0:34.5 | met me. What I didn't talk about was while I was there, |
| 0:38.1 | I started several businesses. |
| 0:39.6 | One of them was going to be a version of the WMBA. |
| 0:45.3 | I actually met with the folk at the NBA. |
| 0:47.7 | This is way before there was even a thought, |
| 0:49.9 | well, at least I didn't think they were thinking about it |
| 0:51.8 | because they hadn't done anything. |
| 0:53.1 | It was before the ABL even came out. And when I got shot down for that, I came up with an idea to have a |
| 0:59.9 | magazine featuring these women, giving them something to aspire to. And I got reconnected with a young |
| 1:07.2 | lady that I went to high school with. and she was in the venture capital market and she |
| 1:12.1 | came aboard my team. So when I got the million dollars from Bear Stearn, she was part of that team. |
| 1:16.9 | And I've recently reconnected with her to talk about a lot of things. I had her on again. And we talked |
| 1:23.0 | about in this season of March Madness, I cannot wait to watch the women this weekend. |
| 1:28.7 | I said to Melissa, let's talk about it. |
| 1:31.5 | Let's talk about the founding of women next is what it was called. |
| 1:35.2 | So up next is a discussion that I had with Melissa L. Bradley. |
| 1:39.0 | She's the founder right now and managing partner of 1863 Ventures. |
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