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10/02/2026

Your path makes sense looking back.

In this episode of Built For This: Stories of Maverick Podcast, host Jenna Bayuk sits down with Olivia Liao Founder and Managing Partner at Epsilon Ventures to explore career pivots, venture investing, leadership, AI, emerging technology, and what it takes to build conviction when the path forward isn’t obvious.

Nobody starts out perfectly designed for where they eventually land.

You make choices. You take chances. You make the right mistakes.

And you stay with the work long enough for seemingly unrelated experiences to start connecting.

A statistics PhD, large-scale AI engineering, startup building, and venture investing might look like a carefully designed career in hindsight.

Living through it feels completely different.

It feels like decisions, pivots, experiments, and a few accidents along the way.

Being “built for this” isn’t always something you know at the beginning.

Sometimes you earn that definition through the work.

🎧 Listen to the full episode here: https://youtu.be/Bbgfh1jU6IU

10/01/2026

Technical superiority means nothing without adoption.

In this episode of Built For This: Stories of Maverick Podcast, host Jenna Bayuk sits down with Olivia Liao Founder and Managing Partner at Epsilon Ventures, to explore deep-tech investing, decision-making, AI, leadership, and what separates promising technology from a business customers will actually adopt.

A technically superior product can still lose if customers have no compelling reason to change.

That’s the gap deep-tech founders can’t afford to ignore.

Your customer isn’t buying technical sophistication.

They’re buying a better business outcome.

In robotics, the conversation isn’t just about manipulation or dexterity.

It’s about warehouse throughput per shift.

The strongest founders understand the technology deeply, but they can also step inside the customer’s decision-making context.

Because when the conversation gets difficult, retreating to technical features won’t answer the question that matters most:

Why should the customer change what they’re doing today?

🎧 Listen to the full episode here: https://youtu.be/Bbgfh1jU6IU

09/30/2026

Should AI make childhood this easy?

In this episode of Built For This: Stories of Maverick Podcast, host Jenna Bayuk sits down with Olivia Liao Founder and Managing Partner at Epsilon Ventures, to explore career pivots, venture investing, leadership, emerging technology, AI, and how to build conviction when the outcome is anything but guaranteed.

AI can give us answers almost instantly.

But what happens when kids grow up expecting everything instantly?

Less waiting. Less wrestling with a difficult problem.

Maybe even less time to sit around, get bored, and let their imagination wander.

That convenience creates a much bigger question for parents and educators.

Should kids struggle with the math problem before AI solves it?

Should they have space to daydream before technology creates the picture for them?

AI will change how children learn, but we still have to decide which parts of learning are worth protecting.

Because sometimes the struggle is where the thinking actually happens.

🎧 Listen to the full episode here: https://youtu.be/Bbgfh1jU6IU

09/18/2026

You discover yourself through the losses.

In this episode of Built For This: Stories of Maverick Podcast, host Jenna Bayuk sits down with William Allen, Founder and General Partner of SubRosa Ventures, to explore venture capital, risk, resilience, lived experience, leadership, and why the hardest chapters often teach us the most about who we are.

You don’t discover your path by following someone else’s checklist.

You discover it by living. By taking risks that don’t always work.

By absorbing losses and learning how you respond when things get difficult.

Because resilience is hard to measure when nothing has tested it.

Your ability to recover, stay on mission, and keep moving forward only becomes clear through experience.

The career you imagined at 20 might look completely different once life gives you more information.

That isn’t failure. That’s perspective.

Sometimes you have to go through trial and fire before you understand where your strengths actually belong.

You don’t start out knowing what you’re built for. You earn that understanding.

🎧 Listen to the full episode here: https://youtu.be/NOTkJRSIS3g

09/17/2026

Stop chasing every great opportunity.

In this episode of Built For This: Stories of Maverick Podcast, host Jenna Bayuk sits down with William Allen, Founder and General Partner of SubRosa Ventures, to explore venture capital, founder resilience, investment discipline, failure, asymmetric information, and the lessons that only come from lived experience.

Everyone loves talking about the deals they got right.

The misses rarely make the highlight reel.

But experience teaches you that a great opportunity isn’t automatically your opportunity.

Early on, it’s tempting to chase the top deal because the name, access, and optics look good.

That can quickly turn into investing for validation instead of conviction.

You don’t need to chase every deal that passes your desk.

Sometimes the disciplined move is taking the pitch and letting it go.

There will be another opportunity.

The goal isn’t to prove you can swing at everything. It’s knowing which pitches are actually yours to hit.

🎧 Listen to the full episode here: https://youtu.be/NOTkJRSIS3g

09/16/2026

Your unique experience creates your edge.

In this episode of Built For This: Stories of Maverick Podcast, host Jenna Bayuk sits down with William Allen, Founder and General Partner of SubRosa Ventures, to explore venture capital, differentiated investing, defence technology, asymmetric insight, and how lived experience can become a competitive advantage.

Breaking into a venture isn’t just about having capital.

You need a reason founders should take your money.

A reason LPs should invest in you.

A reason other GPs should want you at the table.

That reason rarely comes from looking exactly like everyone else in the room.

It comes from knowing something they don’t.

Experience in the military created an insight into defence technology that wasn’t common in Silicon Valley at the time.

Then the market caught up.

That’s the opportunity: bring what you uniquely know into a space where that knowledge is still scarce.

🎧 Listen to the full episode here: https://youtu.be/NOTkJRSIS3g

09/04/2026

Everything you've lived prepared you for this.

In this episode of Built For This: Stories of Maverick Podcast, host Jenna Bayuk sits down with Ashley Lynn Priore, Founder, President & CEO at Queens Gambit and Founder & CEO at Queenside Ventures, to explore what it truly means to trust your journey, embrace every life experience, and build success on your own terms.

Too many people believe they need one more qualification before they begin.

Your experiences have been preparing you all along.

Every win. Every setback. Every lesson you never expected to learn.

They've shaped your perspective in a way no degree or title ever could.

Stop waiting for permission to step into your next chapter.

You already have everything you need to move forward with confidence.

🎧 Listen to the full episode here: https://youtu.be/ekH92rDTGog

09/03/2026

Never underestimate a determined woman.

In this episode of Built For This: Stories of Maverick Podcast, host Jenna Bayuk sits down with Ashley Lynn Priore, Founder, President & CEO at Queens Gambit and Founder & CEO at Queenside Ventures, to unpack what it was like growing up as one of the few girls in competitive chess and how those experiences shaped her mission to redefine leadership, confidence, and opportunity for women.

Walking into the room was only the first challenge.

Being taken seriously was the second.

Winning wasn't enough. She still had to prove she belonged.

Too many talented women don't quit because they lack ability.

They leave because they're exhausted from constantly being underestimated.

Confidence doesn't come from everyone believing in you.

It comes from choosing to stay in the game anyway.

Every barrier becomes fuel when you refuse to let someone else define your potential.

🎧 Listen to the full episode here: https://youtu.be/ekH92rDTGog

09/02/2026

Your next move shapes your future.

In this episode of Built For This: Stories of Maverick Podcast, host Jenna Bayuk sits down with Ashley Lynn Priore, Founder, President & CEO at Queens Gambit and Founder & CEO at Queenside Ventures, to explore how chess becomes a framework for leadership, entrepreneurship, decision-making, and building confidence through strategic thinking.

Success isn't built on always making the perfect move.

It's built on learning how to think before you move.

The strongest leaders aren't the ones with all the answers.

They're the ones who stay curious under pressure.

Every difficult decision becomes easier when you stop reacting and start thinking strategically.

Chess isn't teaching people to win a game.

It's teaching them how to lead through uncertainty.

The goal isn't perfection. It's building the confidence to make the next move with intention.

The best strategy you'll ever develop is learning how to think differently.

🎧 Listen to the full episode here: https://youtu.be/ekH92rDTGog

08/21/2026

Leadership still lacks women's voices.

In this episode of Built For This: Stories of Maverick Podcast, host Jenna Bayuk sits down with Michelle Connell, CFA Owner/President at Portia Capital Management, LLC and Adjunct Professor for Naveen Jindal School of Management at The University of Texas at Dallas, to explore the realities of building a career in finance, breaking through institutional barriers, leading with resilience, and what it truly takes for women to reach the highest levels of investment management.

Talent has never been the problem.

Opportunity still is. Women enter finance with ambition.

Too many leave before reaching the decision-making table.

Not because they lack capability.

Because the cost of staying is often far greater than anyone admits.

Real progress starts when industries stop asking women to adapt to broken systems and start changing the systems themselves.

The best leaders don't just open doors.

They make sure others don't have to fight as hard to walk through them.

🎧 Listen to the full episode here: https://youtu.be/v44i8tbe-1M

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