My guest today is Heather Endresen, the owner of Viso Business Capital, a lending advisory firm assisting acquisition entrepreneurs with their debt capital needs. Heather has spent her entire career in retail banking, beginning right after high school. She's lived the ups and downs of the industry and continually managed to succeed and develop deep relationships and specialized offerings in a normally commoditized market. In this episode, Heather and I discuss her early independence, how she learned to take risks and pursue the things that mattered to her, what adversity and a strong support system taught her about resilience, and her recent jump into starting her own business.

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Topics:

(00:00:00) - Intro

(00:02:14) - Heather’s upbringing

(00:04:46) - Building quick connections

(00:07:30) - Chasing being uncomfortable

(00:12:28) - Heather’s early career and meteoric rise

(00:19:44) - Navigating the Banking industry as a woman in the 90’s

(00:21:59) - Mentors

(00:24:28) - The challenges of parenthood

(00:38:00) - Breaking the box of commodities in banking

(00:42:40) - Making the jump to become a founder

(00:47:53) - What aspect of your life has been most surprising?

The content of this podcast does not constitute investment advice, an offer to provide investment advisory services, or an offer to sell or solicitation of an offer to buy an interest in any investment fund.

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