Founderās Voyage is a podcast for the ones building in the dark, the ones failing forward, and the ones figuring it out as they go.
We bring you unfiltered conversations with founders whoāve faced the highs, and the lows. Just real lessons from the people in the arena.
Whether you're scaling a startup or sketching your first idea on a napkin, these are the stories that remind you you're not aloneāand the insights that help you move forward.
We are an entrepreneurial community united by a shared mission of shared learning and supporting each other.
Founderās Voyage is a podcast for the ones building in the dark, the ones failing forward, and the ones figuring it out as they go.
We bring you unfiltered conversations with founders whoāve faced the highs, and the lows. Just real lessons from the people in the arena.
Whether you're scaling a startup or sketching your first idea on a napkin, these are the stories that remind you you're not aloneāand the insights that help you move forward.
We are an entrepreneurial community united by a shared mission of shared learning and supporting each other.
Liz is a seasoned entrepreneur, educator, and advocate for sustainability with a track record spanning high-tech, consumer electronics, strategic planning, and environmental activism. Her diverse journey includes founding a surf shop that championed eco-friendly practices, working in corporate finance, and later pivoting into user research and product management at Google. Liz has also been a dedicated mentor and facilitator in the MIT venture leadership bootcamps, where she empowers others to find product-market fit and master design thinking. Her experience bridges the corporate and nonprofit worlds, and she is passionate about catalyzing circular economies, environmental responsibility, and community-driven change.
š” What Youāll Learn from Liz's Journey:
šø Embrace Failure as Fuel: Liz highlights the importance of learning from and even celebrating failures, using them as stepping stones toward innovation and personal growth.
šø Leverage Transferable Skills: Her ability to pivot across industries, from accounting to user research to product management, demonstrates the power of building and applying a broad skill set in new contexts.
šø Drive Change Locally and Globally: Liz shows that meaningful impact starts at the community level, but can scale through collaboration, partnerships, and persistent advocacy, even when federal or global legislation lags behind.
šø Build with the Customer in Mind: Methodologies like customer journey mapping, disciplined entrepreneurship, and catalytic questioning are central to Lizās toolkit for designing products and services that genuinely solve customer problems.
You can connect with Liz on ā LinkedInā to follow her journey.
š„ Big thanks to VidOps for supporting Founders Voyage. Use code voyage at ā vidops.ioā for 10% off expert audio, video, animation, and photography services.
š Props to the stellar crew: Nancy Nash, Daniel M. Melo, Carlos Javier ChacĆ³n SĆ”nchez, Matthew Ray, and host Spencer Walker-Fooks. You bring this show to life.
š„ Want to support the journey? Join us on ā Patreonā and help amplify more voices like Liz.
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