Episode 18 with Susan McPherson
How to Build Meaningful Relationships in Business to Become a Successful Entrepreneur.
Susan McPherson is the founder and CEO of McPherson Strategies; a communications consultancy focused on the intersection of brands and social impact.
Susan has 25+ years of experience in marketing, public relations, and sustainability communications, speaking regularly at industry conferences and contributing to the Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Forbes. She has appeared on NPR, CNN, USA Today, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, and the Los Angeles Times.
Susan is an angel investor and a Vital Voices global corporate ambassador and has received numerous accolades for her voice on social media platforms from Fortune Magazine, Fast Company, and Elle Magazine. She’s known to be a serial connector and is the author of The Lost Art of Connecting: The Gather, Ask, Do Method for Building Meaningful Relationships.
In this episode, you will learn:
- Lessons from Susan’s journey as an angel investor of 18 women-led startups
- How to become an accredited investor
- How to find and approach potential investors for your business
- The best advice Susan received her first year as an entrepreneur that has helped her build a multi-million dollar business
- How tragedy prepared Susan to take risks and carry her mother’s legacy
- The 3-step method Susan has used over the years to build meaningful relationships and become known as a serial connector
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Dream of Legacy Book by Anne-Lyse Wealth
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