63. Answer Your Ancestral Calling with Chandra Roxanne, Former Managing Director of the Astia Edge Fund

How can you answer your ancestral calling and apply that to business?

For this Women of Color Rise episode, Analiza talks with Chandra Roxanne, Former Managing Director of the Astia Edge Fund, a $20M fund which invests in Black and Latina women. Chandra made a pivot into venture capital after participating in Linda Lautenberg and Judy Schoenberg’s EvolveMe program and realizing her ancestral calling. Chandra believes in the transformative power of venture capital when used consciously and empowers Black and Latina women by investing in their ideas. Chandra is a graduate of the London School of Economics.

Chandra shares how to answer our ancestral calling:

• Know your unique positionality. Know that your perspective, experience, and ancestry matter. Similar to a color in a rainbow, we each have a unique background that is important to the entire rainbow. Without it, the rainbow would not be the same. 

• Learn and find pride in your ancestors. As part of emotional reparations work for people of color, it’s about restoration of culture. When your people are forced to give up language and culture, you may think that America is the start and finish of your history. But it is not. We need to reach back and understand who we and our people were before.

• Connect your people’s history and legacy to your higher purpose. When you look back and connect to your culture, find that part of your story that is your people’s legacy. This is also where you can find your ancestral calling and higher purpose. This higher purpose can be applied to businesses, where we can serve something bigger, not just for financial gain.

Are you or do you know of any Black and Latina women entrepreneurs at the seed stage? Please send them to Astia to get support. 

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