Business Of Being Awesome

Planning your next vacation, #bizoba ballers? If not, by the end of this episode, we think you will be. In this summer special, we talk to CEO and Founder Gillian Morris about her remarkable journey toward building Hitlist, a travel company focused on helping you turn the trip of your dreams into an affordable reality by filtering cheap flights on flexible dates to droolworthy destinations. If the saying is true, that "traveling is the only thing you spend money on that makes you richer,” Hitlist is on track to make everyone a millionaire. Tune in to hear Gillian share about the high school choir trip that sparked her wanderlust, the post-college journalism gig that led to an odyssey around East and Central Asia, and the hackathon that took her from Istanbul back to the United States and onto her biggest trip: into entrepreneurship. Riding out the turbulence of startup life and flying higher every day toward making Hitlist the next travel-tech success story, Gillian Morris is very much in the business of be

Making a podcast is far from easy and many of our friends and family have been wondering why we did it and how we did it. So today, we’re putting our brainpower toward going behind the scenes of the Business of Being Awesome while helping Erica graduate (disclaimer: this podcast about the podcast is her independent study project). In today’s episode, Erica gets a taste of her own medicine, answering the questions we tend to ask our guests and sharing more of her personal story. We hope you get a better sense of what goes on behind the scenes of #bizoba and are entertained by Erica’s reflections on her quest to make a difference in the business world, from her past in foreign languages to her future selling furniture. In other words, we hope you’ll enjoy this podcast about the podcast! #bizobabullets of wisdom from this episode (Erica’s so far. Lily’s to be added): • There’s a chance that doing what you love might mean you stop loving it--that might mean you’re not doing the thing you really love, just the t

Mother of four. MIT Professor. Groundbreaking business researcher. Zeynep Ton doesn't believe in keeping these identities separate--she embraces them all and integrates them in the full picture of who she is and what she does. In the conclusion of the second season of #bizoba, Zeynep tells her full story from growing up in Turkey, playing volleyball at Penn State, and picking up her Ph.D. at Harvard Business School. She shares the inflection points along her path that led to changing her view of success and reprioritizing her life in favor of more time with her family and more meaningful work. While most companies tend to focus just on satisfying investors or creating value for customers, in her courses at MIT and her book "Good Jobs Strategy," Zeynep's research supports that the most successful companies in the long-term are those committed to designing great jobs and investing in the training and development of great employees. In this interview, Zeynep shows just how much she, like the companies she studi

At 22, Miki Agrawal decided to stop putting her biggest dreams on hold. Within four years, she went after all three of them, playing soccer for the New York Magic, filming commercials for the likes of Justin Timberlake and Victoria’s Secret, and opening a chain of locally-sourced, organic, wholesome pizza restaurants in New York City. She didn’t stop there: soon after, she published a bestselling book and co-founded THINX, a company tackling period leaks in America while empowering women in the developing world through tech-infused underwear. In #bizoba episode 5, we talk to Miki about her incredible story and her newest ventures toward tackling the 3P’s of civilized society--poop, pee, and periods--and turning them from taboo into talked-about topics. After listening to Miki, we think you’ll agree: her most awesome work is only just beginning and nothing can stop her except her own imagination. The same goes for you, too, #bizoba ballers. #bizobabullets of wisdom from this episode: • Doing cool stuff req