Nov 20, 2023
#44 Building the Equitable Future of Work and Entrepreneurship with Susan Liao
In this episode, we're joined by Susan Liao, a product leader and champion of liberatory leadership working at the intersection of digital innovation, social entrepreneurship and non-profit impact strategy.
In this episode, we chat about:
* Her journey into tech and product
* Navigating her life through agencies and startups
* Pivoting from the corporate world to impact-driven work
* Conforming into inequitable systems and role, and shifting away to find her voice
* Why we adapt as marginalized communities and how to break away from upholding inequitable systems
* What’s in Susan’s “kitchen sink”
* The future of work, diversifying the spaces we are a part of, and creating different forms of distributing wealth
* Challenging existing systems of work, capitalism, and labor
* The concept of "Space, pace, and grace" - how are we acknowledging rest as part of our work?
* Honoring the north star of the communities around us
* Creating more intention behind our beliefs, words, and actions
* The importance of rest and filling our cup
You can find Susan at:
* LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/susanliao
* Startups for All: startupsforall.org
* Leaders Like Us: leaderslikeus.us Susan's first startup experience:
Print All Over Me with NEW INC's Year 2 cohort
About Ecocycles and strategy knotworking
Improving cross-disciplinary collaboration with strategy knotworking and ecocycle planning, by Nancy White
Emergent Strategy
https://adriennemareebrown.net/book/emergent-strategy/
Petra Vega (She/Her/Ella), Liberatory Leadership Coach, Facilitator, Radical Social Worker and Emergent Strategist
https://createmorepossibilities.com/about-me/
Ruha Benjamin
https://www.ruhabenjamin.com/
Respect The Small
https://www.instagram.com/p/Ct2gyOcP694/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
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