#44 - Building a 7-Figure Thought Leadership Business with Speaking, While Being in the Tech Industry w/Cherry Rose Tan

Meet our podcast guest:

With over 15 years of experience in Tech, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, futurist Cherry Rose Tan has built a reputation as the First Mover in several industries, including crypto, edtech, and mental health. A crypto Investor since 2015, Tan partnered with her brother and resulted in the creation of Paycase Financial, a Canadian blockchain pioneer that provides infrastructure and liquidity to global financial markets. Tan's latest company #REALTALK, the mental health movement for the tech industry, is known for being North America's first and largest platform on Founder Mental Health. Specializing in working with high-net worth and C-Suite clientele, Tan grew the movement to 40,000 leaders and 70 national champions in four years, with a synonymous Top 14 Business podcast on iTunes as well. Currently, Tan is the Entrepreneur in Residence at the Schulich School of Business, where she advises a global ecosystem of 200 startups and 3,000 members. As a Venture Partner for GoingVC Partners, one of the largest angel networks in San Francisco, she holds expertise in early-stage B2B SaaS, network effects, and regulated industries like crypto and cannabis. Early in her career, Tan has been an award-winning K-12 educator, teaching in Canada's most exclusive schools. With a M.A. in Education from the University of Toronto, she specialized in gamification as a teacher-researcher and holds a 25-year history as a gamer, where she ranked #17 (out of 25 million users) on Neopets, a virtual pets website that served as a precursor to the metaverse. As an Innovation Keynote Speaker, Tan is represented by the Speakers Bureau of Canada, with her first book being released in late 2022. Her companies have been featured on Forbes, Inc., The Globe and Mail, CBC, Nasdaq, Reuters, Insider, and MarketWatch for being disrupters in their respective industries.
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Links mentioned in this episode: Connect with Cherry Rose: Twitter: https://twitter.com/cherryrosetan
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cherryrosetan
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thisischerryrose
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisischerryrose
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