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Beth Gunter joins Cynthia Kirkpatrick on the She Lift Project Podcast to share her journey from building a network from scratch to becoming Chief Revenue Officer and partner at Spry Digital. She is a sales leader, community builder, and founder of the One Degree of Separation networking event, known for helping professionals form real relationships that move their careers forward. In this episode, she talks about the power of authentic networking, women supporting women, and how the right connections can shape both your career and your life.
This episode is for women who want stronger professional relationships, more confidence in networking, or a clearer path toward leadership. Listeners will learn how to build meaningful connections, follow up with purpose, and intentionally surround themselves with people who help them grow. After listening, they will feel more equipped to find their people, strengthen their network, and take concrete steps toward the career and life they want.
Chapters
00:00 Welcome to the She Lift Project Podcast
00:25 Meet Beth Gunter: CRO, Founder, Mom of Four
01:30 Why her career path was never a straight line
02:08 How One Degree of Separation networking began
04:31 What makes her networking events different
06:15 What real networking actually looks like
08:11 Networking success stories and follow-up strategy
11:18 Joining Spry Digital and why culture matters most
14:07 Running a multimillion business at age 21
19:15 What a Chief Revenue Officer really does
21:29 Why your website experience can make or break growth
26:24 A real UX success story from a university client
31:12 Why company culture determines long-term success
33:25 The small details that matter for women clients
36:48 Balancing executive leadership and motherhood
39:58 Finding your female tribe and cutting out negativity
42:51 Mentoring women and helping them land dream jobs
44:37 Choosing the right “board of directors” in your life
49:15 Philanthropy, Children’s Hospital, and perspective
57:17 How Beth refills her energy and avoids burnout
01:01:43 Are women getting better at supporting women?
01:10:41 Emotional intelligence vs technical skill
01:12:42 The pressure women face in work and life
01:16:03 Parenting, mental health, and raising confident kids
01:21:14 Teaching kids to take risks and try anyway
01:23:48 Where to connect with Beth
01:25:09 Final advice: Do something every day that scares you
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“You just have to do it, come back and face what is new and different and learn and grow. You can’t stop thinking. You have to keep thinking, how can I go forward with this. Nothing has to be the way it is. It isn’t going to be a straight line, it’s going to take its own path, and you have to be ready to follow that path and move forward.”
“Everybody has a light inside of them, and you have a choice. You can either use lighter fluid or an extinguisher. Same thing goes with everything. Same with people’s talents. You can either light it up or you can extinguish it.”
“If you follow this methodology, if you follow the pattern, the outcome is inevitable. You cannot mess it up because it’s just calculated moves that are in writing.”
One of the things I love to do if the opportunity presents itself as coach people, because I feel like that is the most, wow, fun, enriching thing that you can do for people. Because what happens is I believe that people behave for reasons, and you got to figure out what’s the root cause. So if someone reacts in a certain way, whether it’s anger, emotion, or whatever, there’s a reason why they’re reacting that way. And so I don’t think that people really want to react that way. They want to be their best self.
“I didn’t go into business from a business school background, and so I discounted a lot of my intuition and what I thought was right and what I should be doing and took other people’s advice sort of over my own thinking and eventually I always would wind up back to sort of what felt right to me was very different from the advice that I had been given in the business community.”
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