Founders need a deep purpose – a north star – to help them navigate the murky waters of founderhood.

Our Guest, Kevin Withane, is passionate about purpose-driven startups that make the world a better place.

He’s the founder of Diversity X, a pre-seed to seed-stage venture capital fund (in the works) to support UK and European-based underestimated founders of purpose-led startups and tech startups focused on solving issues around diversity, equity, and inclusion.

While he’s building Diversity X, Kevin is a purpose-led senior lawyer and ethics and compliance executive at an FTSE 250 company.

An independent non-executive director of various private companies, Kevin also sits on the advisory board of several startups, and he hosts the Cocktail Leadership podcast.

Kevin has lived and worked in the UK, China, Hong Kong, Russia and the United States as well as traveling extensively across Europe and Asia where he has gained deep insights into the shift towards human leadership and the demand for business to align their purpose with making the world a better place – for everyone.

Tap this link to learn more about Diversity X: https://www.diversityx.vc/

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00:00 - meet Kevin Withane!
08:00 - Kevin's first entrepreneurial adventure
11:00 - why investing in diverse purpose-led startups is so important
12:40 - Conscious Capitalism: we need more human central businesses
16:30 - Kevin dives deep into ikigai - learn more about ikigai here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikigai
22:00 - what you need to know to launch a new venture capital fund
23:30 - we love Backstage Capital, Arlan Hamilton and her FAB book It's About Damn Time!
28:00 - meet Diversity X - a new fund for diverse purpose-led startups
32:00 - filling the fund with diverse investors who deeply believe in purpose-led startups
42:00 - how you can join Kevin's community and why he's focused on the UK and Europe
49:00 - The Daily Stoic - one of Kevin's favorite mindset tools for the founder journey - buy it here: https://amzn.to/3ANSJKG
51:20 - confidence ebbs and flows, so focus on your own courage - Stitch That On a Pillow!
54:40 - find out the winner of the FREE book, It's About Damn Time by Arlan Hamilton!

Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your business will do better - cheers!

Ande ♥
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