Melinda started her career as an award-winning documentary filmmaker with a passion for social change. She is now channeling her passion into solving the diversity issue in tech (and tech-adjacent fields) through her work as a strategic advisor to tech companies and startups, venture capital firms, innovation hubs, and governments around the world.

In this episode, you’ll hear about how Melinda left filmmaking for tech, how the tech industry came to be this way, and how we can change it. She explains the challenges and biases embedded within the venture capital model and how underrepresented identities are still being held to much higher standards.

Veneé McGee, a "Spiritual activator” and founder of Ebb & Flow Collective, openly shares about how the past can be used to build up instead of break down your future, how "The Secret" and the "Law of Attraction" turned her life around, and how her healing and spiritual journey paved the way to Ebb and Flow Collective.