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Terri Mead explores women's angst in today's world through the lens of her lived experience.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Terri Mead makes women's paths through entrepreneurship and investing legible through candid interviews grounded in career turns, structural barriers, and practical decisions.
Terri Mead keeps returning to the routes women take into founding companies and funding them, especially the routes that do not resemble a tidy career ladder.
An angel-investing door won't open itself; Terri Mead gives you company for putting your foot in.
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A grounded founder conversation about sensors in roads, predictive maintenance, and early deployments.
Terri Mead starts with a conference update before the conversation settles into Cecile Vallette's work on AltaRoad, a company building sensors that sit inside roads to track what passes over them, forecast maintenance, and support safety and logistics.
A grounded look at focused angel investing, digital health, and women building with intent.
Terri Mead treats angel investing as work that depends on judgment, focus, and a fair amount of humility. The conversation is strongest when it lands on a simple point: angels cannot stay broad forever, and even small checks come with real hands-on work.
A practical, candid conversation about how women can find their way into angel investing.
Piloting Your Life focuses on women founders, women investors, and the people around them, opening with a clear path into how women can get started in angel investing.
A sharp case for backing female founders as a real market opportunity.
Terry Mead opens season two with Shannon Grant, a San Francisco angel investor they met at a Wharton Angels event, and the conversation keeps its focus on why backing female founders is a market opportunity, not a feel-good gesture.
NHPR's Jason Moon investigates the Bear Brook barrel murders and a New Hampshire wrongful-conviction case.
Terri Mead interviews Crystal Cannon Flores, a death doula who supports dying people and families by bridging medical care with holistic comfort.
Terri Mead opens with the energy of Serendipity, a women’s conference in San Francisco.
Terri Mead opens on a week that feels a little all over the place.
Terri Mead opens the episode by connecting women’s ambition to capital, power, and who gets to make the calls.
Terry Mead opens season two with Shannon Grant.