"Adversity Prompts a Pivot" with Fourth Effect Founders Kat De Haen & Breen Sullivan

I Feel You, A Fortify Wellness Production

In this Episode of "I Feel You", Bettina Mahoney & Fortify Wellness Licensed Therapist Erica Hornthal chat with The Fourth Effect Co-Founders Breen Sullivan and Kat De Haen. We discuss pivoting through adversity, stepping into the arena, and overcoming imposter syndrome as women executives, investors , and potential board members.
More about the Co-Founders of The Fourth Effect:
Kat de Haën is a co-founder of The Fourth Effect, a board marketplace dedicated to closing the gender power, wealth and funding gap. She is passionate about women’s initiatives and evolving new opportunities to support other change-makers, leaders, and founders. She delights in bringing together people who can help each other in business, career, and life. Kat first started her entrepreneurial journey as an inventor of a popular consumer beauty product which she brought to market internationally. She then went on to launch an upscale silk fashion line. She started her career in sales and product development in the fashion and beauty industry working with major retailers. Born in Zurich, Switzerland and raised in Seattle. She currently lives in New York City with her husband, Jon Colman and their daughter Sophie who has gone on to build her own art business while going to university.
Breen Sullivan is a General Counsel for high growth tech companies turned founder of The Fourth Effect, the only board and board-adjacent marketplace where women have the power to make the first move. The Fourth Effect matches early and growth-stage companies to board-ready women in a trusted, efficient and cost-effective way to disrupt the traditional board search process and overcome systemic barriers that have kept women out of the board candidate pipeline.
The Fourth Effect is a Market Network on a mission to close the gender power, wealth, and funding gap by diversifying boardrooms and cap tables. The Fourth Floor matches up startups and companies to board-ready women in a trusted, efficient and cost effective way to disrupt the traditional board search process and overcome systematic barriers that have kept women out of board candidate pipelines.
To Join the Fourth Effect:
https://thefourtheffect.com/unstoppable-campaign/
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To Join the Board Boot Camp:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/board-boot-camp-tickets-725653147097?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl
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