Wellness is the practice of adopting healthy habits for better physical and mental health. To a founder, this can be anything from meditating and exercise to delegating and setting boundaries. SaLisa Berrien - Founder of COI Energy, a digital energy management platform to help eliminate waste, and Georgene Huang - Founder of Fairygodboss, the largest online career community for women, come together to share what wellbeing means to them as startup founders. They share advice, their experience throughout their journey with work-life balance, and how they seek support and comfort. Learn how they are setting themselves up for success by staying resilient, transparent, and realistic about what truly matters, mental health.
Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction
4:43 - Advice for founders looking for balance
6:09 - Wellbeing throughout the years of being a founder
8:35 - Avoiding burnout
11:15 - Delegation
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About the Founders:
SaLisa L. Berrien - Founder and CEO of COI Energy,
aLisa L. Berrien, Founder and CEO of COI Energy, has over twenty-five years of experience in the electric power and smart grid space. From working at electric utilities to smart grid, cleantech, and big data analytics companies, SaLisa has had a diverse career in energy. Since 1996, SaLisa has provided over 50 scholarships to high school and college students. In 2004, she established the Karl H. Lewis Engineering Impact Alumni Endowment at the University of Pittsburgh for minority students enrolled in Engineering. SaLisa holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh and an Executive MBA from Saint Joseph’s University. She’s been a guest speaker at various conferences and events including SXSW, Florida’s Women in Energy Leadership Forum, American Society for Engineering Education, and Morgan Stanley’s Sustainable Futures Summit to name a few. In 2019, she was appointed to the Board of Trustees at the University of Pittsburgh. One of SaLisa's core values is philanthropy. Her mission in life is to positively impact the space she occupies by leaving it better than she found it.
Georgene Huang - CEO and Co-founder, Fairygodboss
Georgene Huang is obsessed with helping women achieve their career goals. She’s the CEO and Co-founder of Fairygodboss, the largest career community for women. Fairygodboss provides millions of women with community advice, connections, jobs, events and exclusive company intel from other women. Previously she ran the enterprise business at Dow Jones and was a Managing Director at Bloomberg Ventures. She is a graduate of Cornell and Stanford Universities.
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