Speaking and podcasts
For a long time, I believed I had to be somebody before I had a story worth telling. But I've learned you don't have to arrive to have something worth saying. The stories that help people most are the true ones, told while they're still unfolding. That's the story I bring to every conversation, told candidly and in full.
Formats: podcast interviews, panel conversations, and keynotes.
amykayross.com
Bio for hosts
Amy Ross is the founder of Wayfindher, the operating system for women building businesses. Her career took the scenic route through product leadership at AT&T, Electronic Arts, and ActiveVideo. She reached the top of everything she was supposed to want, then walked away so she could stop choosing between ambition and purpose. Now she builds in public, writes poetry on the side, and talks candidly about what it takes to build something of your own without losing yourself.
Conversations I love to have
- Owning a career that doesn't go in a straight line. How a winding path, and a multifaceted background, becomes the advantage.
- How certainty shows up before you're ready, and why waiting gets expensive. Recognizing when you already know the answer, and what it costs to keep waiting.
- Leaving a career and a life that looked like success. What it takes to walk away from the top, and what comes after.
- How to never waste a good crisis. How the hardest moments become turning points, if you let them.
- The work underneath the work. Building a system that supports you when no one else does, so you can build something of your own without losing yourself.
- Building with AI as a solo founder: delegate the work, not the knowing. How to hand off the doing without handing off what it's for.
