Mary Ann O'Connell
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1,572 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2010
last heard Oct 2014
Mary Ann O'Connell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It was very hard for them to buy real estate.
It was very hard for them to open businesses.
So if you look that like from the 60s until today, that's not a long time to have gone from, wow, I can have my own credit card to I can run a Fortune 500 company.
That's pretty rapid growth.
And if you're in your late 20s and early 30s and you're just coming into the business, my cautionary tale is understand the history that got you there.
Understand that the fact that you have an option to have a kid and have maternity leave and then come back in and pick up your career, whoa, that happened a blink ago.
And don't let the gains slide and don't think it's somebody else's job to make those paths for you.
Until there is absolute parity, we've all got to keep working together on that.
been trying to get Brian Schnell to join for years.
You know, we have our award that's given every year.
is the Crystal Compass Award, and Brian has won that.
I mean, yes, it's mostly women who have won it, but we do reach out, so reach back.
Well, and I did say that, and I touched on it briefly just before.
I've seen often that there are great brands who had women founders.
And as the company grows and that founder grows,
steps out and they need someone to step into the CEO role or the COO role, I'm finding, I look and see more often than not, it's a man that is brought in.
Now, I'm not privy to the screening process that they went through, but I see that a lot.
And I think you also know that I work with Susan Black-Beth on Franchise Capital Exchange, where
helping to match
private equity partners with franchisors and first of all I don't see women coming in on the money side and I hear the talk afterwards about how they can help those emerging brands set up their board of advisors and their executive team and the discussion is always to the men that they know well
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