Elisa Camahort Page

Activist, Business adviser, Business leader, Business mentor, Change Agent, Concerned citizen, Connector, Consultant, Entrepreneur, Marketer, Startup, Writer/Editor

Known as the co-founder and COO of scrappy start-up-turned-pioneering-global-women’s-media-company BlogHer, Inc., Elisa is now focused on writing, speaking, and consulting with entrepreneurs, thought leaders, and organizations at the inflection points when they are contemplating pivots, diversifying and scaling their revenue streams, and looking for better ways to get their narrative out into the world. Her debut book, Road Map for Revolutionaries: Resistance, Activism, and Advocacy for All was published by Ten Speed Press on September 18 and was an Amazon #1 New Release. A hands-on resource guide to activating around the causes you care most about, #RoadMap4Revs features contributions and/or endorsements from such diverse activists and advocates as Gloria Steinem, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Patrisse Cullors, Soledad O'Brien, Ricki Lake, Guy Kawasaki, Bobby Jones, and Carla Hall. Elisa's mission is to help make visions reality. Her mantra is that Innovation+Empathy>Innovation+Efficiency.

Helping everyone create a sustainable work-life-activism balance, so we stay engaged and fired up, without burning out.

In order to build work-life-activism balance, TRIAGE your passions, RESPECT your own skill-sets, LEARN the best skills for the job, JOIN together with others doing the work, and TRACK your contribution.

Activism, Community Building, Entrepreneurism, Marketing, Media Training, Public Speaking, Social Media

I am giving TED Women another chance after being pretty put off by being stuck, unexpectedly, in the room listening to a rapist and his victim intellectualize and capitalize on their experience. It's not a pretty TED story, but it's the truth. My nicer TED story is that I spoke at a TEDx in L.A. several years ago. While I was disobeying the advice to not look at my device I saw that Nelson Mandela had died. I was able to let the organizers know, so that we could all take a moment in silence to reflect on his life and his work and honor his contribution. That was a powerful moment and a reminder that sometimes we can and should go off plan and recognize where we are and what's happening around us.

I sing.