More Than 85 Broads

What's Your Challenge? What's Your Destiny? What's Your Gift? What's Your Legacy? What's Your Passion? Each of these questions has been the theme of one of our 85 Broads global network events over the past five years. They are simple questions that often inspire not so simple answers. Our speakers and our members have looked inside themselves, outside and around themselves, and often ahead of themselves to search for the answers. How do you answer these questions? How do you create a vision of your own future or as we like to say in the 85 Broads network, read the ending first?

Georgia Lee

Georgia Lee is a writer/director and is passionate about making films that portray people's complex life paths and choices. Georgia's first feature film, 'Red Doors,' premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York and won the award for Best Narrative Feature. She has an undergraduate degree in Biochemistry from Harvard University and was a consultant for McKinsey after graduation. Along with two other women, Georgia has formed a production company called Blanc de Chine Entertainment.

"My Harvard-McKinsey life was so safe, so respected, and so certain, but it was not the life I dreamed of. After considering all the ways I could leap and fall, I finally just made that leap of faith, and found myself flying! [...] There's no well-lit path to become a filmmaker, and initially I didn't have the courage to leave the very bright, warm, structured, civil, highly respected world I was in. But then came the epiphany (which, to my parents, was my decline). I asked McKinsey if I could have some time off during the summer to take a film course at NYU, and they agreed. The class I took was a most amazing experience. In a matter of six weeks, you write, direct, light, shoot, edit, and produce five short films with a bunch of other students. I'd be up until 4 a.m. editing-cutting and splicing real film-and I loved every minute of it."

Christy Jones

While attending Harvard Business School, Christy launched her second company, Extend Fertility, which aligns women with breakthrough science to freeze their eggs and proactively plan for future fertility.

"Women in my generation were told we could have it all. Unfortunately, the reality is that our biological clocks, specifically, our eggs, haven't evolved with our opportunities. I decided to seek out medical options that might bridge the disconnect between 'having it all' and a biological clock that never got the memo."

Noreen Harrington

Noreen held a number of senior positions across a variety of trading and investment management businesses. In 2002, while working at Stern Asset Management in New York, Noreen identified what turned out to be illegal trading practices in the mutual fund industry, and her report to authorities led to an investigation that eventually rocked the industry.

I reported a crime that will forever give me the label, 'whistle-blower.' Fortunately, 95 million people benefited from my action and are thankful I had the courage to blow the whistle. [...] I also discovered that I had greater inner strengths than I ever thought I possessed; my core values guided me through some really rough times. I am equally convinced that there are many people with outstanding ethics who approve of what I have done, and as we rebuild trust and respect for the mutual fund industry, these are the people our entire industry should reward."

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