Episode 102

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14th Dec 2023

Ep. 102 Crafting Career Growth & Successful Exits with Caroline Young, CEO & Founder of Craftsbury Consulting

On this episode of Investors & Operators, Jordan sits down with Caroline Young, CEO & Founder of Craftsbury Consulting.

With 20+ years of private equity experience, Caroline has been a driving force in hundreds of successful exits. In this podcast, she walks us through her extensive career in private equity and shares how she transitioned that experience to found Craftsbury Consulting. Together, they discuss:

Career Development Advice to Women in Finance
Management Presentation Coaching
Strategic Approaches to Exit Planning

...and so much more.

Top Takeaways

Defining success at different life stages. Whether it's excelling in a career, finding work-life balance, or maintaining meaningful connections, Caroline emphasizes the importance of redefining success based on your current life stage. Success isn't a one-size-fits-all achievement but requires continuous reflection and transformation.
Treat challenges as opportunities. Caroline emphasizes a positive mindset towards challenges, viewing them as opportunities for growth and learning. By reframing difficulties as chances to overcome obstacles, she highlights the transformative power of embracing adversity especially in the entrepreneurial journey.

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Investors & Operators

A Podcast by 51 Labs

The M&A market can be boring, but everyone has a story. The Investors & Operators podcast is about discovering the stories people were holding back, didn’t know how to tell, or forgot about. The goal is simple: fresh, authentic storytelling to bring people together in the M&A community.

With over 1M organic views and counting on LinkedIn, 51 Labs is disrupting the M&A market through the use of videography and content creation. In a market that longs for authenticity, 51 Labs helps strengthen your brand and tell your story. From concept to distribution, we strategize and produce thoughtful content to be used across a multitude of channels, to help you stand out in an otherwise traditionally boring market.

New episodes every other Thursday at 6:00am Eastern.

About your host

Jordan Selleck

Founder. Recovering Investment Banker. 3x Entrepreneur. Philz Coffee Enthusiast.

Jordan Selleck is a recovering investment banker turned 3x entrepreneur. While teaching English in China, Jordan met an investment banker in a bar and before he knew it he’d spent six years in cross-border investment banking advising global corporates and private equity firms on M&A deals up to $250 million.

As much as Jordan loved investment banking, he always knew he was meant to do something more. In 2016, Jordan founded Debtmaven, a deal management platform for debt financing in the lower middle market. It was while he was marketing Debtmaven on LinkedIn that Jordan found his true passion: building meaningful relationships in the lower middle market.

Seeing over 50% of Debtmaven’s $450million+ in deals come from LinkedIn, he realized he’d found an untapped market and began his journey with LinkedIn consulting. Dozens of clients and a handful of extraordinarily talented employees later, 51 Labs is a thriving marketing agency for the lower middle market that produces captivating content and generates organic traffic across LinkedIn.

Jordan was born in San Diego, grew up in North Carolina and attended UNC-Chapel Hill. He has traveled to 32 countries, lived in China for 18 months, trains Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, is a fourth-generation private pilot, SCUBA dives, speaks Mandarin Chinese, and is a husband and father of 2.