How I Taught Millions Of Women The Most Important Skill: Girls Who Code Founder: Reshma Saujani

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Released

June 6, 2022

Duration

1h 19m

Channel

The Diary of a CEO

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

This episode is part of our USA series, over the coming weeks you will get to see some incredible conversations with guests the likes of which we’ve never seen before. Bringing more value, more incredible stories, and more world-beating expertise. Reshma is the founder of Girls Who Code, one of the most influential non-profits in the world which has introduced millions of women to coding and the tech industry. She is also the author of Pay Up, a book about how to get women further in the workplace. Topics 0:00 Intro 01:38 Growing up as an immigrant 13:10 University dept 18:23 Running for congress 27:54 Starting Girls Who Code 36:20 The difficult parts of building girls who code 41:38 What would you have done differently? 48:18 Fixing the system not the women 56:21 How is your mental health? 01:00:46 How do you decide what to say yes or no to? 01:03:30 Empowering women in a practical way 01:09:01 What does success look like in your future? 01:13:45 The last guests question Reshma: https://www.instagram.com/reshmasaujani/ https://twitter.com/reshmasaujani Reshma’s book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pay-Up-Future-Women-Different/dp/1982191570 Girls Who Code: https://girlswhocode.com/ Listen on: Apple podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast... Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7iQXmUT... FOLLOW ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steven/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/SteveBartlettSC Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-ba... Sponsors: Huel - https://my.huel.com/Steven Myenergi - https://bit.ly/3oeWGnl Vodafone Business - https://bit.ly/3NIM35n https://bit.ly/3AuPKsA Location courtesy of The Nightfall Group: www.nightfallgroup.com

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• Reshma Saujani

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• Steven Bartlett

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🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of The Diary of a CEO, featuring Reshma Saujani and Steven Bartlett, How I Taught Millions Of Women The Most Important Skill: Girls Who Code Founder: Reshma Saujani explores from Bullying To Billion-Scale Impact: Reshma Saujani Rewrites Power Reshma Saujani, founder of Girls Who Code and author of *Pay Up*, traces her journey from a bullied immigrant kid in the American Midwest to a movement-builder who has taught nearly half a million girls to code. She explains how childhood racism, crushing student debt, and two failed political campaigns forged her grit and sharpened her sense of purpose. Reshma details the rise of Girls Who Code, including its cultural strategy to make coding aspirational for diverse girls worldwide, and candidly shares the personal costs—repeated miscarriages, burnout, and perfectionism—of building a global social enterprise. She then pivots to her new mission: moving from “fixing women” to fixing systems, arguing for childcare, paid leave, cultural change around motherhood, and a redefinition of leadership and risk.

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