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Challenging the Status Quo with the founders of Marvelous Software
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Marvelous empowers wellness creators to build and sell online courses, memberships, communities, and coaching programs. “We are changemakers, female founders, feminists, and future thinkers focused on helping creators make more money and transform more lives through online education.” Co-founder Jeni Barcelos (she/her) is an attorney, a parent, and an artist. Prior to entrepreneurship, she graduated from UC Berkeley and Yale, worked on multiple presidential campaigns, and served as a Gates Public Service Law Scholar. Co-founder Sandy Connery (she/her) had a 20-year-career in footwear and gait analysis before selling her million-dollar brick-and-mortar retail business and clinic.
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Discussed this episode:
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The relationships Sandy and Jeni have with feminism
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What made a pedorthist and a lawyer start a tech company
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The origins of Sandy and Jeni’s partnership
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Blatant sexism and traumatic behaviors in the tech space
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Funding struggles and the audacity to say no to a half-million dollars to preserve values
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How partnership helps this pair make stronger decisions
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Dealing with explosive growth during the pandemic
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The politics of the creator economy
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Opting out of the chase for more and determining what’s enough
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Why walking feminist values around money is well worth the price
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The origins of And She Spoke podcast
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Embracing the “and” of your multidimensional personality
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Why “modern capitalism is cancer”
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Entrepreneurship as a tool for self-actualization and liberation
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