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Elisa Camahort Page (she/her) is a fractional executive and strategic consultant who launches and scales businesses, products, and authentic user communities. Elisa was co-founder and COO of BlogHer, Inc. In that role, Elisa had oversight of the practices, policies, and procedures that modeled how organizations can build community, grow a business, and support inclusion in words and action.

Since leaving the company that acquired BlogHer, Elisa has consulted with organizations to define and deliver on content, product, community, and communications strategies and resource plans that are in alignment with their brand values. A frequent public speaker, LinkedIn Learning course instructor, and freelance writer, Elisa is also the host of The Op-Ed Page podcast and the This Week-ish and Optionality newsletters on Substack, as well as the co-author of “Road Map for Revolutionaries: Resistance, Activism, and Advocacy for All.”

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Discussed in this episode:

• Elisa’s relationship with feminism and how it evolved to be more intersectional
• How BlogHer was created to address the early days of blogging
• How values were more than something “laminated on the wall”
• Bootstrapping the rollout, and the growth pains of adding payroll
• Pursuing Series A funding, and who shouldn’t go for VC funding
• Challenges for women pursuing VC funding
• Why Elisa will not go for VC funding again (despite a decent first experience)
• How public and private funding negatively impacts decision making
• Choosing to sell vs. securing another round of funding for growth
• Managing the transition period of a buyout
• Navigating personal values while running a company that has grown beyond you
• The benefit of having an odd number of owners
• Male-dominated leadership of women-dominated products
• Why Elisa’s book wasn’t the one she originally thought she’d write
• The 20 years that destroyed worker trust, and how the pandemic shifted things
• Rethinking employee mentorship models
• New models for making money as content creators (ie, Substack)

Resources mentioned:

• “Roadmap for Revolutionaries: Resistance, Activism and Advocacy for All,” by Elisa Camahort Page, Carolyn Gerin, and Jamia Wilson
• “The Man Who Broke Capitalism” by David Gelles
• Center for Reproductive Rights
• National Network of Abortion Funds
• Our Hen House

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