Ideas, Investors, and Elevating Women of All Colors: Nathalie Molina Niño

My guest today is the epitome of a culture changer, Nathalie Molina Niño. She is an investor, serial tech entrepreneur, founder of Brava Investments, daughter of immigrants, author of the book LeapFrog, and a fierce advocate for building businesses that benefit women - particularly women of color. When we met, she was down to earth, has a ton of moxie, and is so rich with life-changing perspectives, tactics, and as she likes to call them, short cuts! If you are a person who is thinking about how to make your own impact, THIS is the episode you will want to hang on every word and share with your crew. Please enjoy (Transcript below).

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Nathalie Molina Niño Interview Transcript:

Allison Hare: 00:05 Hey, I'm Allison Hare and welcome to Little Left of Center, the podcast that interviews culture change or is that are reshaping our world and breaking new ground. My guest today is the epitome of a culture changer. Nathalie Molina Niño, she is an investor, a serial tech entrepreneur, founder of Brava investments, daughter of immigrants, author of the book leapfrog, and a fierce advocate for building businesses that benefit women and particularly women of color. And we met, she was down to Earth, has so much moxie and is so rich with life changing perspectives, tactics, and as she likes to call them shortcuts. So if you're a person who is thinking about how to make your own impact, this is the episode you'll want to hang on every word and share with your crew. Please enjoy. I am so excited. I'm going to hit like fan girl out on you for a second.

Allison Hare: 01:02 But I'm here with, with Nathalie Molina, Niño, am I, am I pronouncing that right better than most. Better than 99% of most my gift. It's mine. One of my gifts is that it's the Jersey thing. Yes, yes, for sure. And so Nathalie is a fact, the founder and CEO of Brava investments. She is a serial entrepreneur and author of leap frog, which is such an amazing book. I'm a fierce advocate of women into theater and arts, like known as the story teller. I mean just the widest myriad a multi-passionate ,I mean you're just, you're just fierce. And this is a little bit of a full circle moment for me because a year ago I had I had an idea and I had an idea for an app. So it was like a crowdsourced app for for women going through up from maternal health.

Allison Hare: 02:03 So women that were interested in fertility or pregnancy or postpartum, and it was a crowd source app where people can review and find reviews on their ob Gyn as it relates to birth and like c-section rates and all of this. So I was speaking to somebody that I think you might know and her name is Jen maser. Yeah. and she, she mentioned you and she mentioned brava investments. And I'm like, what? So Brava investments is this VC or this venture capital firm that invest primarily or invest in women and invest in I'm probably screwing this. I'm just gonna interview myself while you're here. You just relax and make sure I'm not screwing anything up. So Brava investments, invest in companies that benefit women and.

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