The Credentialed Episode 5: Fundraising While Transitioning, Part II with Allison Clift-Jennings

In this second half of the show, Allison Clift-Jennings, CEO of Filament addresses what it was like to be a CEO trying to earn funding for her company while she was smack dab in the middle of her gender transition from male to female. “Going through a gender transition during pitching to folks like this -- I knew in my head that this could go really south really fast…because we all have unconscious biases.” It turned out her decision had an unexpected -- and positive -- impact on her business.