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When we look around, we can often feel like everyone is ahead of us. Be it that colleague that just got a promotion we’ve wanted for years, that friend that is killing it in her business, or that younger sibling that is getting married first. But as serial entrepreneur Anne Cocquyt says, comparison is the best recipe for unhappiness. Our failures can look like success to someone else and vice versa. So the key is defining for yourself what success looks like to YOU.

Tune in to this episode to hear from Anne about:



How to use “you can’t” as a motivator

Travel as the perfect way to learn how to lean in

How to hone in and follow your inner compass

What entrepreneurial failure taught her about being humble

How getting married two months after meeting her husband taught her how to trust her instincts

The importance of female networks

Why thinking about the worst outcome actually gives you courage

The importance of fighting for your values



Anne’s recommended resources:



* Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman

* Piloting Your Life with Terri Hanson Mead

* Advice to my younger me with Sara Holtz



About Anne CocquytAnne Cocquyt is a serial entrepreneur, corporate and non-profit leader with a passion for innovation and execution across a broad range of projects, products and technologies. She leads startups, communities and a non-profit organization focused on closing the gender gap for female entrepreneurs and women in leadership roles in technology. She pioneered the first startup challenge in the healthtech space and recently launched the first advocacy study for women in product to discuss solutions to close the gender gap in entrepreneurship and corporations at the World Economic Forum. She is the founder of the GUILD, an AI-powered networking platform providing women with actionable networking connections. Anne mentors and advises startups in digital health, advises UNBOXD, a STEM publication, invests in social impact startups and speaks at industry events and conferences.

Learn more about Anne: Website | GUILD | LinkedIn | Twitter

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