Impact Doesn't Need to Mean Thousands of People

Kind of a Big Deal · Sep 24, 2026 · 1h · transcript

What does it look like to spend 15 years changing systems from the inside — and then realize the work you're most built for happens one person at a time?

Talia grew up watching her parents navigate the world as immigrants, which gave her an early and visceral understanding of what it means to need someone in your corner. That thread ran through everything: a congressional campaign, a decade-plus at City Hall working on youth programs and civic engagement, and eventually a realization that the scale she'd been chasing wasn't the only measure of impact that mattered. Now she's an executive and…