Shanley Knox is a brand strategist and social entrepreneur based in New York.

In this conversation, we get into dismantling a business on the cusp on success, a dangerous bias around meaningful work, the audacious hope of building something new, and why a set of traffic lights in Downtown Manhattan changed just about everything…

Show Notes

08:00 A tipping point to dismantle a company

12:00 Returning to Africa

21:00 Recognizing real problems as a founder

28:00 The feeling of belonging and not belonging

32:00 The photographer as observer

41:00 Stakeholders that strategists don’t always notice

52:00 The audacious hope of building a thing

59:00 What happens when you freeze in the face of possibility

66:00 Cultural bias around meaningful work