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Darryl Grant

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Having a supportive community full of inspirational people surrounding you can be the difference between success and failure. You can find your community online, through social networks, but it’s even better to find a group local to you to get that inspiration face-to-face. Today’s guests, SC Moatti, Darryl Grant, Anne Devereux-Mills, are all founding members of women’s communities who find great comfort and support within their groups. SC Moatti is a technology visionary, entrepreneur, and investor. She founded Mighty Capital, a tech company based in Silicon Valley, and Products That Count, one of the largest networks for product makers in the world. Her companies focus on creating products that people love. Darryl Grant was born and raised in Harlem, NYC, and has 20 siblings! Through his involvement in the Merrill Corporation, he founded Inspiring Connectivity, a community of C-level executive women based in San Francisco. Darryl takes his inspiration from his mother, Eloise Grant, who raised hundreds of children and mentored dozens of women, sometimes in the middle of the night. Anne Devereux-Mills is a driving force behind making change possible and showing women where to start. She’s the founder of Parlay House, a national affiliation of thousands of diverse and inspirational women. Anne praises collaboration over competition and believes that women are oftentimes guilty of rejecting other women. In this episode, we’re talking about the power of social communities, how these leaders have built their groups, what value they have, and how other members have received support from within. You can absolutely bring a group together and embrace the resulting empowerment, and each leader explains how they’ve cultivated that for themselves. We discuss what it’s like to nurture and advise young women, and transferring these skills to working with business executives across a diverse range of industries. Establishing relationships among your community is vital to creating a harmonious environment that promotes support and inclusivity, as well. Community relies on strong leadership and consistency in order to grow and develop trust. Everyone wants more community, the key is finding people that actually inspire you. Do you have a community of powerful women who support you? How have you embraced all the ups and downs that life has given you? When is the last time you met up with a local person who inspires you? In This Episode:  How to reframe what’s important in your life after everything changes How you can bring a group of diverse women together to embrace empowerment What it’s like being an advisor to young women Why you need to build and nurture relationships across the board How you can build a network full of support and trust Why you need to run events on a consistent schedule in order to build community Why you need to embrace both the highs and lows that come on your journeys Why it’s more important to meet the people that inspire you, rather than the people who just bolster your numbers    Quotes: “There’s so much judgment in this world. So many times that women reject other women, either because they’re competitive with them or they don’t feel they’re right for a job, that I didn’t want to cultivate a place of rejection or encourage a choice to be included.” (8:24) “I think so many of us that are successful want to present ourselves as perfect, whether it’s on social media, or in our work lives, or to our families and not wanting to show that there are struggles. And the fact that we can create these environments where people who you might view as role models are saying ‘here’s what was really going on behind the scenes’... it makes everyone not feel alone when they have their own struggles.” (11:53) “Find your tribe, surround yourself with great people, focus on one thing that matters, and find others that want to be part that with you.” (35:55) “Sometimes trying and failing is more insightful than trying and succeeding.” (42:23) “Continue to be ambitious in your dreams and reshape that image in the mirror. Always evolve. Anchor yourself in what you want to be and continue to reach for that. No matter what the people around you say.” (55:24)   Links Find Anne Devereaux-Mills on  |  Find Parlay House  |  |  |    Find SC Moatti on  |  |  Find Mighty Captial  |  |  |  Find Products That Count  |  |  |    Find Darryl Grant on  Find Toppan Merrill  |      Follow Monica on  |  |  |

How To Build Communities That Matter w/ SC Moatti, Darryl Grant & Anne Devereux-Mills

What did due diligence in M&amp;A deals look like before virtual data rooms? Teams of lawyers and other experts combing through paper files stacked floor to ceiling in a conference room.With the virtual data room, explains Darryl Grant of Toppan Merrill, those days are long gone.Today, sharing a company’s financials, contracts, and other pertinent information with potential buyers is a simple matter of uploading some documents and sending an email.We talk about how this speeds up the process and ensures transactions move more quickly through the marketplace, as well as… The remote document kill-switch A positive by-product of the Enron scandal Using data rooms to get “actionable intelligence” on prospective buyers Where IPOs are trending in 2019 And more

What did due diligence in M&amp;A deals look like before virtual data rooms? Teams of lawyers and other experts combing through paper files stacked floor to ceiling in a conference room.With the virtual data room, explains Darryl Grant of Toppan Merrill, those days are long gone.Today, sharing a company’s financials, contracts, and other pertinent information with potential buyers is a simple matter of uploading some documents and sending an email.We talk about how this speeds up the process and ensures transactions move more quickly through the marketplace, as well as…<ul> <li>The remote document kill-switch</li> <li>A positive by-product of the Enron scandal</li> <li>Using data rooms to get “actionable intelligence” on prospective buyers</li> <li>Where IPOs are trending in 2019</li> <li>And more</li></ul>

Darryl Grant | The M&A Data Vault

 Who is Darryl Grant?    Darryl Grant is a New York native, born in Harlem. He has 20 siblings and is uncle to over 50 nieces and nephews. He has been a Bay Area resident for the last 4.5 years and enjoys family time with his wife and 2.5 year old son, supporting his clients’ needs, sports (former Div-I Greco-Roman wrestler), reading, traveling, cooking, and supporting diversity and inclusion.   Darryl is Managing Director of Merrill Corporation and Founder of Inspiring Connectivity.  He  has over 19 years of financial communication experience with the top three financial printers. Darryl began as a Customer Service Project Coordinator in Manhattan and later assumed various managerial roles and engineered XBRL operations for two Manhattan offices. Before assuming his role as Managing Director of Sales where he co-leads Merrill’s Bay Area Capital Markets team, Darryl spent 6 years as a Capital Markets Account Manager leading teams and working directly with C-level execs, law firms, corporate finance and legal departments to manage IPOs, mergers, spin-offs along with all routine SEC filing requirements. He has also managed three of the largest mergers in stock market history and over 20 prominent IPO’s in industries ranging from Tech, e-commerce, transportation, motion pictures, Biotech, retail and broker exchange services.     Show Highlights   Darryl starts off by talking about the event he puts on with his team called Inspiring Connectivity and why he, as a man, is putting on an event for women.  Darryl talks about growing up in New York and about his mom who noticed a trend where children were being left behind.  This led her to adopting 18 children and raising a total of 21 of which Darryl was one of those adopted by her.      Darryl shares how he worked with a coach who taught him that because he was having trouble with who he was, he was having trouble coming across authentically.   Darryl was inspired to create an event for women because of the 2016 elections, the issues women were facing that were coming to light, and a conversation with a friend who fully supported him creating the event.  He was inspired by what his mother created around community.    Terri comments on how important it is for Darryl to set the example for other men to create these kinds of events to support the change for women in society.  This is a human issue; not a women’s issue.   Darryl observes that solving problems begins with community.    Terri talks about her experience at Inspired Connectivity with Barbara Tien and how Barbara introduced her to the other women at the event.  This made Terri realize that she is having an impact even though she doesn’t always see it.      Terri commented that a lot of founders don’t take the time to get to know her and how important it is to be seen as a person and not just as a checkbook.   Terri asked Darryl about tribalism in a global community and he responds with the importance of connecting and community.    Darryl talks about the importance of getting out of your own head when designing an event and thinking about what the guests are going to want.   Terri asks Darryl if people give him a hard time for not focusing on women of color or people of color and he says that for the most part, no.   Darryl talks about breaking down the platform, the panel, the awards and focus on the people at events.      If Darryl could wave a magic wand, he would use it to genuinely connect people without bias.       Terri’s Key Takeaway  Creating and building connections and community will be the key to solving our societal issues.     References in the Podcast    Inspiring Connectivity:  https://inspiringconnectivity.splashthat.com/   Merrill Corporation:  https://www.merrillcorp.com/en/   Barbara Tien (Ponga): https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbaratien/     Vanessa Grant: Instagram:  @beautysecretary      Contact  Darryl can be reached through LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/darryl-grant/.   You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at www.terrihansonmead.com or on Medium:  https://medium.com/@terrihansonmead.   Feel free to email Terri at PilotingYourLife@gmail.com.  To continue the conversation, go to Twitter at @PilotingLife and use hashtag #PilotingYourLife. 

Who is Darryl Grant?   Darryl Grant is a New York native, born in Harlem. He has 20 siblings and is uncle to over 50 nieces and nephews. He has been a Bay Area resident for the last 4.5 years and enjoys family time with his wife and 2.5 year old son, supporting his clients’ needs, sports (former Div-I Greco-Roman wrestler), reading, traveling, cooking, and supporting diversity and inclusion.  Darryl is Managing Director of Merrill Corporation and Founder of Inspiring Connectivity.  He  has over 19 years of financial communication experience with the top three financial printers. Darryl began as a Customer Service Project Coordinator in Manhattan and later assumed various managerial roles and engineered XBRL operations for two Manhattan offices. Before assuming his role as Managing Director of Sales where he co-leads Merrill’s Bay Area Capital Markets team, Darryl spent 6 years as a Capital Markets Account Manager leading teams and working directly with C-level execs, law firms, corporate finance and legal departments to manage IPOs, mergers, spin-offs along with all routine SEC filing requirements. He has also managed three of the largest mergers in stock market history and over 20 prominent IPO’s in industries ranging from Tech, e-commerce, transportation, motion pictures, Biotech, retail and broker exchange services.   Show Highlights  <ul> <li>Darryl starts off by talking about the event he puts on with his team called Inspiring Connectivity and why he, as a man, is putting on an event for women. </li> <li>Darryl talks about growing up in New York and about his mom who noticed a trend where children were being left behind.  This led her to adopting 18 children and raising a total of 21 of which Darryl was one of those adopted by her.   </li> </ul> <ul> <li>Darryl shares how he worked with a coach who taught him that because he was having trouble with who he was, he was having trouble coming across authentically.  </li> <li>Darryl was inspired to create an event for women because of the 2016 elections, the issues women were facing that were coming to light, and a conversation with a friend who fully supported him creating the event.  He was inspired by what his mother created around community.   </li> <li>Terri comments on how important it is for Darryl to set the example for other men to create these kinds of events to support the change for women in society.  This is a human issue; not a women’s issue.  </li> <li>Darryl observes that solving problems begins with community.   </li> <li>Terri talks about her experience at Inspired Connectivity with Barbara Tien and how Barbara introduced her to the other women at the event.  This made Terri realize that she is having an impact even though she doesn’t always see it.   </li> </ul> <ul> <li>Terri commented that a lot of founders don’t take the time to get to know her and how important it is to be seen as a person and not just as a checkbook.  </li> <li>Terri asked Darryl about tribalism in a global community and he responds with the importance of connecting and community.   </li> <li>Darryl talks about the importance of getting out of your own head when designing an event and thinking about what the guests are going to want.  </li> <li>Terri asks Darryl if people give him a hard time for not focusing on women of color or people of color and he says that for the most part, no.  </li> <li>Darryl talks about breaking down the platform, the panel, the awards and focus on the people at events.   </li> </ul> <ul> <li>If Darryl could wave a magic wand, he would use it to genuinely connect people without bias.   </li> </ul> Terri’s Key Takeaway  Creating and building connections and community will be the key to solving our societal issues.    References in the Podcast  <ul> <li> Inspiring Connectivity:  <a href="https://inspiringconnectivity.splashthat.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">https://inspiringconnectivity.splashthat.com/</a> </li> <li> Merrill Corporation:  <a href="https://www.merrillcorp.com/en/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.merrillcorp.com/en/</a> </li> <li> Barbara Tien (Ponga): <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbaratien/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbaratien/</a> </li> </ul> <ul> <li> Vanessa Grant: Instagram:  @beautysecretary </li> </ul>  Contact  Darryl can be reached through LinkedIn at <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/darryl-grant/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/darryl-grant/</a>.   You can follow Terri on Twitter at @terrihansonmead or go to her website at <a href="http://www.terrihansonmead.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.terrihansonmead.com</a> or on Medium:  <a href="https://medium.com/@terrihansonmead" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://medium.com/@terrihansonmead</a>.   Feel free to email Terri at PilotingYourLife@gmail.com.  To continue the conversation, go to Twitter at @PilotingLife and use hashtag #PilotingYourLife.

Why Darryl Grant started Inspiring Connectivity to bring women together.