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Welcome to the broad experience, the show about women, the workplace, and success. I'm Ashley Milne Tite.

This time on the show, more women than ever are starting their own businesses.

Stepping outside of your comfort zone is really, really hard. I did not want to raise venture capital at all, but I did want to have a big successful business.

And I got to the place where I realized I'm going to have to go pitch to all those guys in suits.

And how much of our success comes down to how we were raised?

One of these days, Mark Zuckerberg is going to hit me. But I 100% believe that if I grew up in a

household where I was told to do what I was good at

and go after my talents, I would have created Facebook or something even better than that.

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One of the first episodes of this show I ever did was about the hype, or what I saw as the hype, around female entrepreneurship.

Here in the US, it seemed you couldn't click on a link without finding another article about the number of women starting their own businesses.

Well, more than two years later, not much has changed.

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