Identity, Advocacy, and the Art of Repair

Come and listen to our Host, Candace Gish, as she chats with today's guest, Candace Klein, for our “Unapologetically Unique” Podcast Series.This mini-series serves to distill success into its truest form—standing firmly in your own identity. We are moving beyond the comparison game to help you lead with unapologetic confidence. By anchoring your habits in self-belief rather than outside expectations, you’ll shift from chasing temporary inspiration to becoming a changemaker with lasting, year-long momentum.Candace Klein is a lawyer, entrepreneur, and transformational leader whose work spans finance, technology, and human development. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, she graduated from the Salmon P. Chase College of Law and practiced law before founding and leading multiple mission-driven companies. She served as CEO of Bad Girl Ventures, a microfinance firm investing in female founders, and later founded Somolend, one of the first nationally available crowdfunding platforms. Through this work, Candace played a key role in shaping the JOBS Act, the legislation that made securities-based crowdfunding legal in the United States.Over the past fifteen years, Candace has served in senior executive and C-suite roles across venture-backed startups and global payments companies, including Chief Commercial Officer of Lynx, a healthcare payments company, and Senior Vice President of Embedded Finance at FIS, a global payments firm with more than 66,000 employees. She is also the former co-author of Typhoon Honey: The Only Way Out Is Through, a book on emotional intelligence and transformational growth. Today, Candace leads The Liberation Company, where she facilitates emotional intelligence, somatic healing, and identity-based workshops designed to support deep personal and collective transformation. She lives on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, with her husband Andrew, their son Ivar, and their two dogs, Pan and Cinder.Social Links:Website:  https://www.polyagony.com Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/candace.klein/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/insidethemindofcandaceklein/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/candacesjogren/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@candacesjogren7056 We sit down with Candace Klein, an attorney, entrepreneur, and author who lives openly as a bisexual, polyamorous, queer woman and refuses to shrink for anyone’s comfort. We talk about how her family lost a custody fight because they are polyamorous, and why she’s turning that pain into a mission to normalize non-traditional families and teach practical relationship repair.• owning identity without playing the comparison game• building companies, writing crowdfunding legislation, and learning from failure• a custody loss that exposes bias against polyamorous families• why Klein believes love is abundant even when time is not• Polyagony trilogy overview: The Foundation, The Expansion, The Reckoning• communication tools drawn from 100 family interviews plus nonviolent communication and conscious uncoupling• focusing on your family first before expanding into new relationshipsmake sure that you check out this podcast, send it to your friends and family. make sure that you like, share, and comment on that.For more Divas That Care Network Episodes visit www.divasthatcare.com