Built On Purpose

Kat Taylor, Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Beneficial State Bank

This podcast interview is with Kat Taylor, the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Beneficial State Bank.

Kat is really smart. Harvard grad. JD & MBA from Stanford. Sits on Harvard’s Board of Overseers. The list goes on.

But beyond her impressive accolades, Kat’s purpose in work is restoring social justice and environmental well being. And what’s fascinating is that Kat is working to restore that social justice and environmental well being in banking - an industry she describes as “just above oil, gas and government in popularity.”

We’ll get to more of that in a minute in our show.

In this interview we’ll dive deep into why Kat is motivated to keep the affection in business for good, the business model behind Beneficial State Bank, and of course, Kat’s tattoos.

Without further ado, please enjoy this interview with Kat Taylor.

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Barry Schwartz, Author of Why We Work

Barry Schwartz gave one of the most viewed TED Talks of all time called the Paradox Of Choice. It’s been viewed more than 8 million times.

More recently, Barry has been focused on talking about why work is broken. He literally wrote the book on purpose in work with his book, “Why We Work.”

And why do we work? Do you ever think about that question? Barry does. A lot. And that’s why in this interview, I’m going to ask Barry to take us on a tour of the purpose of work in our lives, and what you can do to help yourself, and your employees, work with purpose.

Here’s the interview with Barry.

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Clayton Christopher, CAVU Venture Partners

Clayton Christopher is an entrepreneur who has founded or has co-founded food and beverage brands like Sweet Leaf Tea, Deep Eddy Vodka and Rhythm Super Foods to name a few. Clayton is one of 3 principals of CAVU, a venture fund that invests in consumer products. The fund has raised $156 million for it's debut.

Clayton has a classic entrepreneurship story, and we’ll dive into a few of those stories in this episode, but the big one that stands out to me is that Clayton started Sweet Leaf Tea on $12,000 and his grandmother’s recipe before selling the company to Nestle 13 years later for $183M. We’ll talk about that story in this interview. We'll also talk about Deep Eddy Vodka and his sale of the brand to a Kentucky distiller for nearly $400M.

Clayton is passionate about entrepreneurship, he loves helping small food and beverage companies scale, and he’s out in Austin, Texas - the epicenter of consumer innovation - let’s just dive right into it. 

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