An Interview with Maria Sipka
Connecting the Dots of Creativity and Conciousness
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Episode Description
Maria Sipka was amongst the first to pioneer influencer marketing in early 2000 and the co-founder at Linqia - a leading enterprise technology company headquartered in San Francisco. At the age of 19, she founded her first company - a content marketing agency that grew to be one of Australia's most respected consultancies, and from there she was part of the founding team at XING - today a $1.4B publicly-traded company. Additionally, Maria has been recognized as one of the leading women in technology by Forbes and is a contributor to the Forbes Agency Council. Maria is passionate about Social Impact Storytelling based on the belief that all ideas start with two things, emotional connection, and inspired action.
CONNECT WITH MARIA AND STACEY
Connect with Maria at https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariasipka/ and get to know Linqia.
Connect with Stacey at https://www.linkedin.com/in/stacey-lawson-204a3/
MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE
Book: The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World - John Elkington, Pamela Hartigan
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It - Paul Collier
Video: Dove Real Beauty Sketches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=litXW91UauE
Tool: Insight Timer - teacher Sarah Blondin.
TIME FRAME
[0:41] About Maria
[2:10] Childhood influence
[7:33] First entrepreneurial endeavor as a teenager
[15:19] The big leap of moving to Europe
[18:56] How to make a big decision
[27:53] The origin of Linqia
[32:22] Biggest hardships as a founder
[35:28] Relationship between fear and failure
[37:52] Setting your mindset as a founder
[40:40] Speeding round
MUSIC
Quietly Confident Outlook - Stevens Grenga
Efficiency - Manuel Ochoa
Enjoy the Ride - Simon Pettersson
