This is not the story of someone who was mystically born to be a successful founder. Julia Hartz, CEO and Co-Founder of Eventbrite, has never been a work-backwards kind of woman. We discuss how she has taken life head-on from her early days as a competitive dancer all the way through her current position as the CEO of Eventbrite, one of the world’s largest event platforms with 230 million total tickets in 2020. Julia’s journey truly embodies the “Mom, I Got This!” ethos as she takes successively larger and more jaw-drawing risks and pursues a constant curiosity throughout her career. Despite being the CEO of a multi-billion dollar Silicon Valley company, every anecdote and piece of wisdom that Julia shares feels relatable and attainable… especially when she talks about her childhood Barbies. This is a season finale for a reason, and you don’t want to miss it!

Roz Cyrus is a renaissance woman. She is a writer, a computer science lecturer at Stanford, and a designer. From starting a job at the same time she started her masters degree to having a one-year-old baby a couple months before beginning her 2nd quarter teaching at Stanford, she has a talent for flirting with failure and coming out on top. Tune in to discover what it means to take smart risks to push back against the standard and find out what might happen to your dating life when you do.

Procedures. Rules. Systems. Nariman Gathers walks us through what it was like to be a budding systems designer as a neuro-atypical person. They delve into stories from collecting post-it-notes and gel pens for crafting as a kid to feeling crushed by the weight of expected-perfection in the post-college years. Now a lecturer at Stanford’s d.school (Stanford’s design institute) and design program manager at Plaid, Nari's reflection is full of laughs and fond realizations of how they designed their twisty path to happiness. In this episode, we talk about the ‘making’ moments, ‘breaking’ moments, and everything in between.