Rosa Navejar — founder and president of Fort Worth utility-engineering firm The Rios Group and the first woman to lead a chamber of commerce in Fort Worth — on being the only woman in the room, taking risks late in your career, and why you don't wait for a seat at the table when you can build your own.

Told in high school that "girls like her" were meant to get married and have babies, Rosa turned that into fuel: 25 years in banking, 11 years transforming the Fort Worth Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (from 250 to nearly 1,400 members), and — at 56, in a church pew, deciding she didn't want to be 70 thinking what if — the leap that grew The Rios Group from $5.3M to over $12M.

In this episode:

• Why she tells women to "make your own table" instead of waiting to be invited
• "Do your h ...