Revolutionizing Business with Elisa Camahort Page

Get "Liberate Your Business" by Becky Mollenkamp at https://liberateyourbusiness.com/NOTE: Feminist Founders is a listener-funded podcast. Your contributions enable me to continue bringing you these important conversations. To support the mission, sign up for a paid Substack subscription at https://feministfounders.substack.com/ ----- Elisa Camahort Page (she/her) is a fractional executive and strategic consultant who launches and scales businesses, products, and authentic user communities. Elisa was co-founder and COO of BlogHer, Inc. In that role, Elisa had oversight of the practices, policies, and procedures that modeled how organizations can build community, grow a business, and support inclusion in words and action. Since leaving the company that acquired BlogHer, Elisa has consulted with organizations to define and deliver on content, product, community, and communications strategies and resource plans that are in alignment with their brand values. A frequent public speaker, LinkedIn Learning course instructor, and freelance writer, Elisa is also the host of The Op-Ed Page podcast and the This Week-ish and Optionality newsletters on Substack, as well as the co-author of “Road Map for Revolutionaries: Resistance, Activism, and Advocacy for All.”Website | LinkedIn | Instagram | Threads | TikTok | FacebookDiscussed in this episode:Elisa’s relationship with feminism and how it evolved to be more intersectionalHow BlogHer was created to address the early days of bloggingHow values were more than something “laminated on the wall”Bootstrapping the rollout, and the growth pains of adding payrollPursuing Series A funding, and who shouldn’t go for VC fundingChallenges for women pursuing VC fundingWhy Elisa will not go for VC funding again (despite a decent first experience)How public and private funding negatively impacts decision makingChoosing to sell vs. securing another round of funding for growthManaging the transition period of a buyoutNavigating personal values while running a company that has grown beyond youThe benefit of having an odd number of ownersMale-dominated leadership of women-dominated productsWhy Elisa’s book wasn’t the one she originally thought she’d writeThe 20 years that destroyed worker trust, and how the pandemic shifted thingsRethinking employee mentorship modelsNew models for making money as content creators (ie, Substack)Resources mentioned:“Roadmap for Revolutionaries: Resistance, Activism and Advocacy for All,” by Elisa Camahort Page, Carolyn Gerin, and Jamia Wilson“The Man Who Broke Capitalism” by David GellesCenter for Reproductive RightsNational Network of Abortion FundsOur Hen HouseLearn more about accountability coaching with host Becky Mollenkamp at https://beckymollenkamp.com