Podcast · Episode 54 ·February 6, 2024 · 41:12

Leading with Love: Anne Duffy's Journey of Empowering Women in Dentistry

Anne Duffy on building a publication and an awards program from a mailing list, why recognition is infrastructure rather than decoration, and what a community owes the people who show up for it early.

Guests:Anne Duffy

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Key takeaways

Recognition is distribution — it moves careers, not just moods.
A community with no editorial standard becomes a directory nobody reads.
The first hundred members decide what the next thousand think it is.

Transcript

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[00:00] Cold open

Shawn: You started something that did not exist and then it had a name before you did.

[05:20] From a mailing list to a publication

Guest: It began as a list of people I did not want to lose track of. The publication came later, and only because the list kept asking each other questions I could not answer alone.

[18:45] Why recognition is infrastructure

Guest: An award is not a compliment. It is a piece of distribution. It puts a name in front of people who were never going to find it on their own.

[33:10] Closing

Guest: Show up for the people who showed up early. Everything else follows from that.

Topics: women in dentistry · community · recognition