E82 BWB: Khayla McCoy, Founder, Ed. Opal + Strategy & People Analytics @ Google

Hi friends,

Welcome to another edition of Addition! I am your host, Addy Snowden, Quantum Life Coach, helping you get HAPPIER, HEALTHIER and WEALTHIER by jumping into the reality of your dreams!

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Episode 82 continues Additions Black Woman BOSS series, where I interview Black women bosses with inspiring success stories! Today, I interviewed Khayla McCoy, Founder of Ed. Opal + Strategy & Analytics leader at Google. Khayla shares how she went from small-town Tennessee to an career in Analytics at Fortune 500 companies like Estée Lauder, BlackRock and Google - in ADDITION to founding her startup, Ed. Opal. Khayla and I have frank conversations on money, mentorship, and being a Black woman at the workplace.

Show notes & timestamps:

00:00 Intro and welcome

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00:28 Introducing Khayla McCoy

• Khayla’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/khaylamccoy/

• Ed. Opal’s website: https://edopal.com/

01:44 Khayla’s career journey

06:08 Khayla’s entrepreneurship journey

09:00 Khayla talks about her financial education company, Ed. Opal

12:02 Black women’s challenges with the personal finance industry

16:15 Khayla’s definition of success

18:20 Overcoming doubts, challenges, and obstacles

20:25 Tweetable moment!

26:00 Khayla’s pivotal BlackRock experience

30:58 Khayla’s biggest career lesson: Community

36:35 Is mentorship dead?

40:00 Khayla’s thoughts on sponsorship

41:51 Khayla’s goals for the future

44:22 Data analytics career Q&A

• General Assembly: https://generalassemb.ly/

48:55 What Khayla is geeked out about this week

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Cheers,

Addy