Telling her story on the Podcast today is one of McGuireWoods' Women in Private Equity to Know, Meahgan O'Grady Martin. Meahgan is the Director of Business Development for Palladium Equity Partners and a chairwoman at the Association for Corporate Growth Women in Leadership committee. During our discussion, we unpack the process of enduring challenges to earn confidence, the power of building a network, and the perils of having a mindset of victimhood. Drawing on her own experience, Meaghan shares some powerful advice with listeners on how to grow from everything you experience and leverage your relationships to find success. 

Key Points From This Episode:

• Meahgan's unique path to private equity and the unique skill set that helped her succeed.
• The learned and innate skill sets behind Meahgan's success.
• Distinguishing between confidence and arrogance.
• Meahgan's thoughts on victimhood and understanding that you have to work for confidence.
• Combatting victimhood with resilience and grit.
• Why self-pity is a waste of time and what you should do instead.
• Her belief in the power of looking fear in the face.
• Thinking of your career as a marathon to avoid analysis paralysis.
• Why there is always a way forward.
• The value of a network and where to find time to prioritize it.
• Why it is important to see your network as more than transactional.
• How even though she doesn't always have the answers, Meahgan knows she can figure them out.
• The reality that sometimes an opportunity is just more work in disguise.
• Leveraging the power of your network to solve problems.
• How time and maturity develop your perspective.

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