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Forget About Fitting In

Recalling her college days, entrepreneur Catherine Berman describes how each one of us knows what it feels like to not fit in. During her freshman year, she discovered that friends she thought had perfect lives because of family wealth and good looks were actually quite unhappy on the inside. Berman, now co-founder and CEO of CNote, says people have a choice to either hide or embrace what makes them different.
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Weathering the Storms

Catherine Berman, co-founder of fintech startup CNote, explains how extreme volatility as an AmeriCorps volunteer helped her develop the resilience that she relies on today as a business leader. Drawn to social causes at an early age, Berman says the year she spent in Puerto Rico taught her about overcoming challenges and resolving personal conflicts with compassion.
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Confronting Sexism

Fintech entrepreneur Catherine Berman recounts an experience earlier in her career when businessmen at a meeting assumed she was there to serve them coffee. Instead of becoming offended or flustered, Berman says she stayed focused on her desired-outcome for the meeting and diffused the awkwardness by bluntly correcting the men and swiftly moving on to the matter at hand.
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Pitch to Their Pain Points

CNote Co-Founder Catherine Berman discusses how listening carefully and understanding the needs of customers helped her redefine a service they didn't want into a one they desperately needed. While working to get homeless people jobs at large companies earlier in her career, Berman found greater success by telling employers she could help address their diversity issues.
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Putting Passive Savings to Use

Fintech entrepreneur Catherine Berman describes how she began to see money as a proxy for energy and power to affect change while working as a venture capitalist. Watching the VC community amass capital to shape the future through startup investing, Berman says that gave her the idea to design financial-investment products that could turn money passively sitting in people’s bank accounts into a force for social impact.
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Catherine Berman, CNote

Embrace Your Otherness

Industry disruptors, it stands to reason, tend to be outsiders. But how comfortable are you not being an outlier? Serial entrepreneur Catherine Berman shares her story of coming to terms with the traits and experiences that set her apart from friends and colleagues throughout adolescence and early in her career. Embracing her uniqueness emboldened Berman to launch several social ventures, the latest being a social-impact startup in fintech called CNote.
Podcast 56 minutes
Catherine Berman, CNote

Embrace Your Otherness [Entire Talk]

Industry disruptors, it stands to reason, tend to be outsiders. But how comfortable are you not being an outlier? Serial entrepreneur Catherine Berman shares her story of coming to terms with the traits and experiences that set her apart from friends and colleagues throughout adolescence and early in her career. Embracing her uniqueness emboldened Berman to launch several social ventures, the latest being a social-impact startup in fintech called CNote.
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Catherine Berman, CNote
Embrace Your Otherness [Entire Talk]
Industry disruptors, it stands to reason, tend to be outsiders. But how comfortable are you not being an outlier? Serial entrepreneur Catherine Berman shares her story of coming to terms with the traits and experiences that set her apart from friends and colleagues throughout adolescence and early in her career. Embracing her uniqueness emboldened Berman to launch several social ventures, the latest being a social-impact startup in fintech called CNote.

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