<p>Five years ago, Melissa Gilbo was one of the first guests on Transcend with M. She came back for Season 3 a completely different woman. And so did I.<br /></p><p>Melissa is the Founder and CEO of Women’s Business League, a national platform for women in business now in its 8th year. She built it from zero. No playbook. No roadmap. <br /><br />Just one honest conversation with a stranger at a local pizza restaurant and the belief that women deserved a community built on real relationships, not transactions.<br /></p><p>In this episode we talk about what it really means to build something that lasts. Why the women who succeed aren’t the ones who network harder, they’re the ones who stopped performing and started connecting. What new insurance producers are still not being taught. And why community isn’t a nice-to-have. It’s the infrastructure.<br /></p><p>I also share something personal in this episode that I’ve never talked about publicly before.<br /></p><p>This one is for every woman who has ever been the only one in the room and wondered if she belonged there.</p>