Rising Tide

Kathryn O'Day: Scaling a Career in Startups

Episode Summary

Have you ever met a superhuman? You know that person who seems to have more hours in their day than everyone else? It's easy to look at them and think "I could never do that". Well that changes with this episode. Meet Kathryn O'Day. Kathryn appears superhuman and on this episode she share habits that have fueled consistent, repeatable success. Habits that you can develop too. Kathryn O'Day is a Partner at Atlanta Ventures where she works with entrepreneurs and startups to unlock their potential and help them bring their vision to life.

Episode Notes

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Key Moments:

• 5:12 - 4X Winner of Best Bench Support Award - Why this meant so much
• 9:02 - Value of consistency vs. Heroic Efforts in sustaining high performance
• 12:08 - Filtering inputs - When to listen vs. when to tune the world out
• 23:55 - Discovering an interest in customer success management
• 26:12 - Approaching Networking
• 33:02 - Keeping things in perspective using facts
• 38:32 - Walking the line between being grateful and toxic positivity
• 46:02 - Creating healthy boundaries in a demanding space
• 56:47 - Where Kathryn goes to learn
• 59:00 - Being new at something again
• 1:02:46- Advice you want to make sure everyone will takeaway