Workplace Revolution with Amy Nelson
The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show
Chase Jarvis
4.8 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2020
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Amy Nelson is the founder and CEO of The Riveter. If you’re not familiar with The Riveter, it’s a modern day union of women and their allies. It’s a community, a workspace and resource that supports women in building business and careers. The Riveter has locations all throughout the US and is growing rapidly.
I cannot wait for you to hear this story. Amy Nelson practiced corporate litigation for over a decade in New York City and Seattle and worked in politics under several presidents. But it wasn’t until she was a mother that she started noticing something. Conversations no longer were about her career, but how motherhood would impact her career. Why was it not possible to “have it all”: be the best lawyer, the best wife, and mother? Looking for inspiration, she discovered a telling statistic: 43% of highly trained professional women “off-ramp” after having kids. It was then an idea started to form.
In this episode we explore:
- How a bold concept can go from idea to reality.
- How Amy raised money and grew a national company in 2.5 years
- Being a vulnerable leader + the emotional journey of exploring and building something new
- How can we all help continue to break down barriers & our unconscious biases.
- and so much more
Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Let's see if this resonates. |
| 0:07.0 | You've got a job and you like this job. |
| 0:09.0 | You worked really hard to get this job. |
| 0:11.0 | In fact, you went to school for a really long time. |
| 0:13.0 | The job pays you really well. |
| 0:15.0 | It's respected, highly respected in culture, and it supports your family, |
| 0:19.0 | your family of maybe one kid or in the story I'm |
| 0:22.1 | going to share with you today. How about four kids? The story is of Amy Nelson and Amy is the |
| 0:28.5 | founder of The Riveter. If you don't know what the Riveter is, the Riveter is, it's a community |
| 0:34.9 | of like-minded women and their allies. It's a community of like-minded women and their allies. |
| 0:38.6 | It's a community workspace, and it has shops in various cities around the country. |
| 0:46.0 | And in this episode, we hear from Amy in an incredible detail. |
| 0:50.5 | She's an amazing storyteller. |
| 0:52.0 | We hear in great detail the transition from a once very stable, respectable job that wasn't actually fulfilling her as soon as she tapped into what she knew she needed to be doing. A couple other things about Amy. She's a graduate of NYU. As I mentioned, she worked in politics under several presidents and founded the Riveter |
| 1:14.3 | while pregnant with her third daughter and a couple years later had her fourth. |
| 1:18.1 | This is true. |
| 1:19.9 | And in, boy, I think they just raised their series A. |
| 1:24.6 | WeWork has had some of his challenges recently, but the growth of the riveter even outpaces |
| 1:29.2 | WeWork's early growth. |
| 1:31.1 | And this is in a sustainable way around community and content and benefits for the members across the country. |
| 1:39.0 | So this is a story of, it's a real life story. |
| 1:43.5 | And I know you're going to connect with Amy. |
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