Podcast appearances and mentions of sharon kan

Sharon Kan is the CEO & Co-Founder at Pepperlane, a start-up that helped mothers transform their ideas, skills, and passions into businesses that fit into their busy lives. They raised millions with her brilliant concept. Alas, like so many others, COVID had a massive negative impact on her business, and she had to make the difficult decision to shut it down earlier this year. In my conversations, I'm keenly aware of survivorship bias—that only talking to people who've won the lottery can give us a false impression about what it's like to play the lottery. Or as Mitch Hedberg said: “You know when you see an advertisement for a casino, and they have a picture of a guy winning money? That's false advertising, because that happens the least. That's like if you're advertising a hamburger, they could show a guy choking. “This is what happened once.”” Today we talk about life after a start-up, and how this unpleasant aspect of the journey led to Sharon finding a new voice and a new passion. Now she's mentored hundreds of women CEOs and business owners, and she's building a new life behind the scenes. If you've ever tried to build something ambitious, this episode is for you. ➡️ https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharon2016/ ➡️ Highlights: https://rosspalmer.com/sharon-kan ➡️ Follow me on Instagram: @therosspalmer ➡️ Subscribe on YouTube: @therosspalmer

Sharon Kan built and successfully exited four startups, acquired by names such as Microsoft, Barnes & Noble, and Oracle. Listen to her pragmatic approach to business and learn what she believes is the one quality all entrepreneurs should embrace. Raised in war-torn Israel, Kan reminisces: “You lived today because you weren't sure what might happen tomorrow.” Nonetheless, Kan started her first business at 14, selling homemade cakes to local shops, served her mandatory two years in the Israeli military (air force), and embarked on  a multi-decade career in marketing, business, and product development. But her corporate career path was sidelined by motherhood. How did she react? Kan chose to focus on “feminine power” and boost the mom-economy by co-founding Pepper Lane, a platform designed to provide a community of women to co-mentor and inspire one another — complete with workshops, mentorship, and the myriad of services one needs when starting a business. It's time we stop apologizing and embrace our feminine power in the workplace whether we're moms or not, says Kan.  Listen as Kan dishes real talk on how to bring your authentic self to the workplace on this episode, the season three finale, of SheVentures.

Sharon Kan is the co-founder and CEO of Pepperlane, the organization helping mothers turn their skills and ideas into businesses that fit into their lives. She's also a serial entrepreneur whose startups have been acquired by Oracle, Microsoft, and Barnes and Noble. In this episode MBO Partners speaks with Sharon about how she is shaking up the patriarchal system of work and supporting a 20-million strong market of talented moms that has the power to reshape the small business economy.Sharon talks about how denying our full identities at work—leaving the motherhood label at the door—adversely affected economic output even before the “She-cession” brought about by COVID-19 put many women out of work. She notes, however, how the current situation has also sparked great creativity among entrepreneurial mothers. She discusses how most professional gender gaps are motherhood gaps and the role that independent work plays in closing them. She also talks about the ways that organizations looking to educate and support new sectors of talent can work together to close entrepreneurial knowledge gaps and how a few pointed policies could aid working mothers and society as a whole.About This Episode's GuestSharon Kan is co-founder and CEO of Pepperlane, the organization helping mothers turn their skills and ideas into businesses that fit into their lives. She's also a serial entrepreneur whose startups have been acquired by Oracle, Microsoft, Infor and Barnes and Noble. Additionally, she co-founded WIN, the Women Innovating Now Lab at Babson College to help female entrepreneurs start their businesses. About MBO Partners®MBO Partners is a deep jobs platform that connects and enables independent professionals and microbusiness owners to do business safely and effectively with enterprise organizations. Its unmatched experience and industry leadership enable it to operate on the forefront of the independent economy and consistently advance the next way of working. For more information, visit​ mbopartners.com. Episode hosted by Aassia Haq; produced, edited, and engineered by Leslie Jennings Rowley. With music by Brian Burrows. For more episodes, visit mbopartners.com/state-of-independence/podcast/. MBO Partners © 2021

In Episode 3: Part 2 of Step Out Of Line! Sharon Kan continues her conversation with Nataly Kogan, Founder of the Happier method. Nataly gives a glimpse into the start of her public speaking career, the role of art in the creative process, and a sneak peak into a theme of her next book.

Sharon Kan, CEO of Pepperlane and the host of the Step Out Of Line podcast will discuss the power of dreams and possibilities, and how stepping out of line shaped who she is today. Sharon’s daughter Leia interviews her mother in a fascinating conversion, unfolding the story of her mom Sharon Kan by asking the intimate questions that she has never answered before.

Sharon Kan, founder of Pepper Lane. has mentored over 150 female CEOs and business owners. One of them is Becky Best, owner of Declutterista and host of her own podcast.

The Declutterista shares life snippets, decluttering tips, and interviews co-founder and CEO of Pepperlane, Sharon Kan.

Are you ready for a masterclass in entrepreneurship?  Meet Sharon Kan.  She has spent the last 20 years incubating and launching successful businesses in high potential markets.  And we're not talking about the small stuff.  Sharon has nurtured and developed ideas that have been acquired by giants like Barnes & Noble, Microsoft, SSA Global, and Oracle. Born and raised in Israel, Sharon's early life experience was shaped by five wars and countless terror attacks that left her feeling constantly on edge, but always resilient and hopeful for a brighter tomorrow.  Educated in the UK and France, Sharon is also the co-founder of the WIN Lab at Babson College.  Her latest project is a unique company called Pepperlane where she serves as CEO.  The mission is to create a movement focused on 24 million stay-at-home moms in the United States alone.  Sharon wants to build a thriving "mother economy" and her philosophy about entrepreneurship might surprise you because it is not about the money, it is always about the power of ideas.  Get out your pen and paper for this episode because there is a lot of wisdom here! @bostonwomeninmediaandentertainment   #storybehindhersuccess    #16LifeLessons    #mydoveproductions

Sharon Kan has created jobs for herself throughout her career, and with her newest startup Pepperlane (a platform that helps mothers start micro-businesses) she says she is calling out the elephant in the room—motherhood—and celebrating it. Here we hear how she herself juggled motherhood and startup life, and why she thinks tapping into the talents of mothers is a genius move. 

“Culture is Curiosity” .. We could honestly just stop this intro right there and let you grow on that statement. Maybe throw in an emoji of Wonder Woman and call it a day - BUT we won’t! Sharon Kan is a must listen. Tenacity, Drive, Perseverance, Thankfulness - Ice Cream Cake Entrepreneurship, Star Wars and Style - it’s all here. To gauge quality through defining the diversity of personality, to build highly successful teams and companies (bought by the likes of Oracle, Microsoft and Barnes and Noble) AND spin up a disruptive & ultra-successful Accelerator Lab - you have to come at things with an adventurous and unconventional mindset. This is a complete and epic brain adventure into a consistently inconsistent career created by fearlessness and defined by trust, hard work and ultimately, success.. You’ll never be bored if you don’t want to be. Press play. We promise you won’t be disappointed in the progress you make with this one. The mom-economy is coming - Pepperlane is here.

Serial entrepreneur Sharon Kan is on a mission to help moms learn entrepreneurial skills and create lucrative microbusinesses with her new platform, Pepperlane. A four-time founder and three-time CEO with four exits to her name, Sharon believes moms can help other moms – high performing female founders and executives need more help, and stay at home moms who want to return to the workforce need opportunities.

Serial entrepreneur Sharon Kan is on a mission to help moms learn entrepreneurial skills and create lucrative microbusinesses with her new platform, Pepperlane. A four-time founder and three-time CEO with four exits to her name, Sharon believes moms can help other moms – high performing female founders and executives need more help, and stay at home moms who want to return to the workforce need opportunities.

Serial entrepreneur Sharon Kan is on a mission to help moms learn entrepreneurial skills and create lucrative microbusinesses with her new platform, Pepperlane. A four-time founder and three-time CEO with four exits to her name, Sharon talks about what is inspiring her, and she puts on the “Advice Wings” about how to “let go” our fears, and embrace the adventure of entrepreneurship.

Serial entrepreneur Sharon Kan is on a mission to help moms learn entrepreneurial skills and create lucrative microbusinesses with her new platform, Pepperlane. A four-time founder and three-time CEO with four exits to her name, Sharon believes moms can help other moms – high performing female founders and executives need more help, and stay at home moms who want to return to the workforce need opportunities.

Sharon Kan is the co-founder of Pepperlane, a community designed for moms to monetize their skills at any level.  Her goal is to celebrate motherhood while stimulating the economy and to encourage mothers to share their amazing skills and confidently ask to be compensated. How beautiful is that!   In this interview, Sharon shares her findings and what came up in her research while interviewing mothers. We hear the key things moms state as a challenge (hint: it’s around mindset and cultural norms). Sharon describes the main challenges she wants to address as she ignites the passion in moms with skills to monetize their gifts at any level.    Sharon states that there are 80 Million mothers in America and 60 Million work while 20 Million are either unemployed or stay-at-home moms. Pepperlane wants to tap into this 20 Million+ group of women and help them create something, even if small or intermittent, that can help their family with financial flexibility, and show their kids what moms are capable of doing. Tune in and get inspired by Sharon's vision for our future!     Links mentioned in this episode...     Pepperlane https://pepperlane.co   TikaTok - the student publishing product that Sharon created with her children and later sold to Barnes and Noble (Pearson) https://www.tikatok.com/   The Boston WIN Lab http://www.thewinlab.org/bostonwinlab/   This is what a Pepperlance.co profile business selling page looks like (its mine) pepperlane.co/stephani-roberts/   My services page on Pepperlane for Podcast Consultations https://pepperlane.co/stephani-roberts/services/podcast-consultation   Click the big “sign up” button on the top right to see how to get involved in Pepperlane https://pepperlane.co/