00:21:04 Mathieu Guerville: Cindy might find this interesting: https://twitter.com/IoanaStefan_PhD/status/1250088538504396806 00:21:16 Cyndy Porter: thank you 00:23:56 Alison Cardy: "I'd try on outfit after outfit and leave pretty discouraged." 00:24:21 Alison Cardy: It was just an accident. 00:24:39 Alison Cardy: Everything I knew about branding and art could be applied to us. 00:25:35 Alison Cardy: It does seem to continually evolve. 00:25:46 Yolande: “Use basic principles to look and feel good about ourselves. … Making sure who we are on the inside is reflected on the outside.” ~ Cyndy 00:25:54 Alison Cardy: What I loved most was helping women feel beautiful. 00:26:43 Alison Cardy: My true passion lies in helping women to feel great about myself. 00:27:08 Alison Cardy: How we feel about ourselves leads to how we set boundaries. 00:28:03 Alison Cardy: How to not just look the part, but be the part. 00:28:44 Yolande: “I have this ability to let women see themselves on paper and feel good about themselves” “combining style and photography” “my true passion lies in helping women feel great about themselves” “helps us to place boundaries… ask for a raise… we can look good and feel good… but if inside we don’t feel whole and we’re not showing up in ways … I was programs where I go deeper with women…help women understand who they are – how to “be” the part not just look the part”… “nothing more empowering for a woman than to have her ownbusiness.” “create your own money and your own style” ~ Cyndy 00:29:30 Alison Cardy: Most people would be surprised it's not who you think it is. 00:30:28 Alison Cardy: When we show up with confidence, the world reacts to us in a different way. 00:30:39 Yolande: “very successful women carry this with them.” “women who are already successful executives and wrote their own books – or realized that their marriage wasn’t serving them…” “Also women who transformed their marriages and brought romance back into it” “ when we show up with confidence, the world reacts to us in a different way.” ~Cyndy 00:31:32 Yolande: Great Testimonial choice Alison! 00:32:03 Cyndy Porter: Thank you great prompts Alison 00:32:57 Cyndy Porter: Wow Mathieu how impressive 00:33:32 Alison Cardy: I was wired to look at those type of things. 00:35:20 Yolande: “growing up in France there was a TV Show. Capital. 12..15 year old kid… wired to look and was reading business books. Moved to the US… known as the business guy… Enron, inter office manilla envelope… similar memorabilia… historical… scour ebay… 350 unique pieces…” ~Mathieu 00:36:05 Cyndy Porter: scowered eBay and still love to to that - Mathieu 00:36:05 Alison Cardy: We were one of the first furniture websites. 00:36:30 Alison Cardy: Is there a way to do this that is more modern, cooler, more fun to build? 00:36:31 Cyndy Porter: Is there a way to do it thats better, cooler… 00:36:49 Cyndy Porter: find ways to empower others 00:37:30 Cyndy Porter: empower, sales team, marketing team to do more and better - made that part of my personal brand 00:37:46 Cyndy Porter: Most innovative companies are not for sale but might accept VC 00:37:56 Yolande: “I was always wired towards innovation… in the background always there… teaching myself how to code in Basic – when we built out business in France – we had a website – ’99 people were not ready – but that’s how I’ve always been… find ways to automate things… find ways to empower other people… really building my personal brand… worked in corporate strategy… building a new business unit… innovation – finding companies to acquire… the most innovative companies are not for sale and I became a VC.” ~Mathieu 00:38:24 Cyndy Porter: Love teaching - how can make others more innovative 00:39:27 Cyndy Porter: cognitive biasis - why not to do things - people put mental barriers. helping people see things a different way 00:39:54 Yolande: “What blinds people…” ~Alison “there’s a lot… there are things like thinking about the technology how it works today… may be today but think if it could be done in a way that makes sense. People putting mental barriers to allow themselves… thinking about a solution that is not obvious one… make 2-3 assumptions that they are not comfortable with.” ~Mathieu 00:40:18 Yolande: “innovation is not something you want in accounting!” ~Mathieu 00:41:05 Yolande: “cynicism helps me not be too naïve about innovation (overenthusiastic)” ~Mathieu 00:42:10 Alison Cardy: Innovation is actually a soft skill. 00:42:13 Cyndy Porter: “innovation is a soft skill” 00:43:39 Yolande: Great testimonials 00:45:47 Cyndy Porter: So cool people ride horses on the street 00:46:22 Cyndy Porter: Total ecosystem I totally respect - no chemicals in my house or outside 00:49:12 Alison Cardy: I started studying it. 00:49:27 Alison Cardy: The symptoms disappeared. 00:49:38 Cyndy Porter: I discovered homeopathy which I thought was total quackery 00:50:14 Alison Cardy: When I walked back to IT, I didn't like what I saw as far as the organization. 00:50:14 Cyndy Porter: I spent 10 years to study homeopathy but had to go back to IT 00:50:48 Cyndy Porter: A book by Parker Palmer An Undivided Life 00:51:06 Cyndy Porter: I worked on culture change 00:51:22 Alison Cardy: I cannot separate my soul from my role? What would a homeopath in corporate America look like? 00:51:52 Cyndy Porter: We don’t have a heirarchy 00:51:53 Alison Cardy: Decisions are no longer made top down. 00:52:29 Alison Cardy: Can we live this? 00:52:55 Alison Cardy: It is better to be kind than to be right. 00:53:01 Cyndy Porter: It’s better to be kind than be right 00:53:32 Cyndy Porter: aspire to the list of who we are - we make mistakes and we are allowed to fail 00:53:56 Cyndy Porter: Is it transformation, is is inspirational, is it sustainable? 00:55:02 Alison Cardy: I'm informed by world peace. Everything I do, that's my why. 00:55:07 Cyndy Porter: People let because they thought the process is too slow, not profit oriented enough, too woo woo 00:55:31 Alison Cardy: People are making decisions so far removed from the organism.