DeW Dish - Carolyn Brown, DDS, MEd

Carolyn Brown, DDS, MEd
Company Builder
LinkedIn.com/in/carolyn-brown-dds

What is the best part of your job?

Freedom and Experience to be effective in building companies and supercharging innovation… be it as an investor, an advisor, a founder, or a consultant. I literally follow my nose and my gut. Why is this the best? I get to work with a broad range of great people, doing hard things at speed, and while incredibly risky, it is SO REWARDING!

Who has been the most influential woman in your life?

Easy, my mother. She is an entrepreneur and intrepreneur, risk-taker, and did it all very humbly. And she took care of a village of people in doing so… The Living with Abundance mindset is the most important thing she taught me… and do the right thing, all the time.

How do you measure your success?

Impact, speed, personal growth, strengthening of my moat, and most recently, having fun while doing all of the above.

What obstacles have you overcome in your career?

Being pigeon-holed – first as a clinician, then as a woman/ mom, then as an investor. I have a vast and robust set of interests and business experiences to draw from, plus acumen in data and business strategy… it is constantly an obstacle.

What do you do to turn around a bad day?

Call, text or WhatsApp one of my DeW friends, women in dentistry and in the investing world… I can always count on dishing and getting irreverent laughter and The Truth… Look at the articles of inspiration in my office, and lastly, walk outside in Mother Nature with my dogs, Peaches and Ginger.

What is your guilty pleasure?

Whats-Apping my favorite people around the world – we lift each other and share in deeply impactful ways.

What does balance look like?

Finding time to run at the start, having more time to work less on Zoom, WhatsApp’ing my favorite people, and playing Uno with my kids.

What “DeW” leaders do?

Find ways to both give to others and humbly fill your own buckets, risk take and bridge build.

What is your favorite indoor/outdoor activity?

Aside from hanging with people (especially my children), running and anything on the beach!

What famous person living or dead would you like to have lunch with and what would you ask them?

Easy, Nikki Haley. What she has learned so far, in her own elected positions, in running for office, and from the UN days… I am fascinated how she has managed that UN post, for that President, at the time in history. I think there would be a lot of parallels for me, entrepreneuring/ intrepreneuring. I like foils.

They are playing your theme song as you walk on stage. Name that tune!

The Business by Tiesto