Why leadership means you don’t have the answers

By Julie Trell

What does good leadership look like when you stop pretending anyone has it all figured out?

What does good leadership look like when you stop pretending anyone has it all figured out?

imon and Julie sit down with entrepreneur, storyteller and Mentor Walks cofounder Bobbi Mahlab for episode 79 of Startup 360, talking about careers, community, judgement and the value of being a little messy.

Bobbi shares how a chance mentoring walk in Shanghai became a global movement that has connected 18,000 women across 19 cities, and why careers are better understood as lattices than ladders.

She also gets candid about founder mistakes: diversifying too early, compromising on the wrong hire and learning that sometimes the most important part of a difficult decision is not what you do, but how you do it.

From embracing AI without surrendering judgement to building sustainable social-impact organisations, Bobbi’s philosophy - and her philanthropy - is grounded in curiosity, contribution and human connection.

And perhaps the biggest lesson? Stop measuring your life against someone else’s scoreboard. Define success for yourself, and help others along the way.

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