🌟 Welcome to Bold Conscious Connections 🌟
Bold Conscious Connections is a podcast dedicated to helping you transition from corporate leadership to conscious entrepreneurship. Hosted by Raju Panjwani, this series brings you thought-provoking conversations with bold, conscious leaders who have transformed their careers and lives.
🎙 **What You’ll Learn:**
- Insightful stories of leadership, growth, and bold decisions.
- Strategies to align your work with your purpose.
- Practical steps for navigating the transition to entrepreneurship.
🌐 Explore more at: [https://rajupanjwani.com/raju-panjwani-podcast](https://rajupanjwani.com/raju-panjwani-podcast)
Debbie Garcia lost her job — and the commission she'd already earned — in the middle of the pandemic. On paper, what she did next made no sense: she bought a website builder she'd never used before and started a company in an industry that had just shut down completely.
Five years later, VersaTours is bootstrapped, has never taken outside investment, and is going up against event-tech companies worth billions. Debbie is a Titan 100 CEO, a Smart Women in Meetings Hall of Fame inductee, and Meeting Planner of the Year — but this conversation isn't about the awards. It's about what it actually took to learn her way into an industry from scratch, in her late 40s, with two kids at home and no safety net.
Raju and Debbie talk about the fear of AI and irrelevance, why "too old to learn something new" is a myth, the first stranger who ever paid her, the worst business decision she ever made, and the one compliment that landed deeper than any award on her wall.
Tags: Debbie Garcia, VersaTours, Titan 100 CEO, event tech, bootstrapped startup, career reinvention, midlife career change, Bold Conscious Leadership, learning and adaptability, women entrepreneurs
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💡 Let’s connect:
- Website: https://rajupanjwani.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajupanjwani/
- Podcast: https://boldconsciousconnections.captivate.fm/listen
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