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Crypto is volatile, risky, and not as regulated as traditional markets. So how should individuals and institutions think about the micro and macro risks when it comes to investing in crypto? In this episode, U.S. and UK qualified lawyer Paige Berges, who specialises in anti-money laundering, sanctions and anti-bribery and corruption compliance, shares her outlook on risks in cryptocurrency, the extent to which it is regulated, and answers timely questions around crypto's role in the Ukraine-Russia war. Follow us on Instagram: @ialsopodcast & Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker Bio: Paige Berges is a U.S. and UK qualified lawyer with broad cross-border experience conducting internal investigations, enforcement and defence working. She focuses in particular on all aspects of anti-money laundering, sanctions and anti-bribery and corruption compliance, from programme building and monitoring, to issues management. Paige also has a strong background in public international law and regularly advises on human rights, humanitarian law and the intersection between financial crime, ESG, and financial inclusion.Follow Paige Berges on LinkedIn

Sport is arguably the biggest arena in the fight for equal pay: in a milestone victory last week and after a six-year legal battle, the US Women's National Soccer Team reached an agreement with USSF to equalise compensation, bonuses, and work conditions between the women's and men's national teams through 2028. But in the history of gender-based pay discrimination, the tennis court pre-dates the soccer field. In this special episode, we flashback to Summer 2021 and the unique opportunity to cover The Original 9's story as told during their induction into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.  In 1970, nine female professional tennis players rebelled against the United States Lawn Tennis Association due to the wide inequality in prize money paid to male vs. female tennis players. Their strike led to the creation of the WTA and laid the groundwork for other female athletes. Today, tennis has the smallest gender pay gap in sport.Please note the source material for this episode was recorded June 2021.About The Original 9:Nearly 51 years ago, nine brave women banded together to take a first-of-its kind stand against a growing disparity in prize money and playing opportunities for women in professional tennis. As a result of their courage, women's professional tennis was launched on September 23, 1970 when the Original 9 stood with promoter Gladys Heldman in Houston and held aloft symbolic dollar bills notes.The nine women were Americans Peaches Bartkowicz, Rosie Casals, Julie Heldman, Billie Jean King, Kristy Pigeon, Nancy Richey, Valerie Ziegenfuss, and Australians Judy Tegart Dalton and Kerry Melville Reid, and together with Heldman they were committed to creating a better future for female athletes.Faced with the threat of expulsion by the sport's traditional governing bodies – which meant being stripped of their rankings and eligibility to compete at the Slams or on national teams – the Original 9 held their nerve, signing $1 contracts to play in Heldman's alternative, non-sanctioned Virginia Slims Invitational. The Original 9 and their colleagues working tirelessly to cultivate relationships with promoters and sponsors and market their league to the media and the public. As the threatened penalties were shown to be ill-judged, the Original 9 recruited more players to the cause, building a momentum that would eventually lead to the formation of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) in 1973 and inspire the fight for equal prize money for decades to come.Today, women's tennis thrives through as the world's leading global sport for women. This success is built on the Original 9's enduring vision that girls and women around the world deserve equality of opportunity, in tennis and in all walks of life. Source: International Tennis Hall of Fame. Audio and images courtesy of International Tennis Hall of FameFollow the International Tennis Hall of Fame on Instagram and Twitter

Careers in tech can be a means of security, wealth, professional development, opportunity, and more. But women in tech have a unique experience. What is it like leading (and thriving) at a high-growth tech startup? Roshni Sondhi, VP of Customer Experience at Grafana Labs, shares how working at a high-growth tech startup does not require deprioritizing other aspects of life. We discuss ruthless prioritising, setting boundaries at work, negotiations, and explore the question: is being called ‘ambitious' a good thing? Follow us on Instagram: @ialsopodcast & Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker Bio: Roshni Sondhi leads the Customer Experience organization at Grafana Labs, which includes professional services, customer success, technical Support and customer education. Her team is responsible for ensuring customers have a great experience from implementation through many years of renewals. Roshni has spent the last 15 years at technology companies, including joining Zendesk pre-IPO, and has focused on the post-sales experience. She enjoys cooking, travelling, and spending time with her family.Grafana Labs is a is a multi-platform open source analytics and interactive visualisation web application that provides charts, graphs, and alerts for the web when connected to supported data sources. The startup closed a $240M Series D round in April with GIC, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund as the lead investor. Other investors include J.P. Morgan, Sequoia Capital, Coatue, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Lead Edge Capital.Follow Roshni on LinkedInFollow Grafana on LinkedIn and Twitter

Crypto could exponentially increase nonprofits' fundraising capacity and accelerate the speed with which nonprofits are able to deliver support. Maggie Burke is head of strategic partnerships and Web3 projects at New Story, a nonprofit to end global homelessness. In this episode, Maggie talks writing a crypto policy for New Story's donor, fundraising, and family-support strategy and her observations around crypto & Web3's success in generating new funding for social good.Follow us on Instagram: @ialsopodcast & Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker Bio: Maggie Burke is on the strategic partnerships team at New Story, focusing entirely on Web3 opportunities for her organization. Maggie is inspired by leveraging technology as a tool to reduce inequality and democratize resources, which has led her to the most innovative companies in the world: Microsoft, Facebook, and now New Story. From Web2 to Web3, Maggie thrives in navigating the ambiguity of emerging technologies and always views these tools through the lens of, "how can I use this to make our world better?".New Story is a non-profit organization that seeks to build a world without homelessness. Their mission is to ensure everyone has a safe place to call home.Follow Maggie Burke on TwitterFollow NewStory on Twitter & Instagram

Could blockchain and the decentralized web mean the end of surveillance capitalism? Maybe! In this episode, Perkins Coie partner Charlyn Ho defines digital identity, explains how blockchain empowers users to take control of their data, and shares how Web3 could dismantle Big Tech's monopoly on Big Data - if it's built the right way. Follow us on Instagram: @ialsopodcast & Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker Bio: Perkins Coie Technology Transactions and Privacy Partner, Charlyn Ho counsels clients on legal issues related to technology and privacy, including those affecting artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML), blockchain and digital identity, e-commerce sites, mobile devices and applications, virtual reality (VR), mixed reality (MR) and augmented reality (AR) platforms, cloud services, enterprise software, cryptocurrency platforms and Internet of Things devices. Charlyn serves as the co-lead of the firm's Immersive Technology vertical. She provides strategic advice and counselling to all types of technology companies throughout their lifecycle, from startup to established enterprises. Charlyn has been advising digital identity clients since 2016 and co-authored two white papers: Self-Sovereign Identity and Distributed Ledger Technology: Framing the Legal Issues in 2017, and more recently, COVID-19 as a Catalyst for Advancement of Digital Identity in late 2021. Charlyn presents regularly on this and other topics related to her practice including teaching courses to in-house counsel and non-lawyers on negotiating technology agreements and transactions. Prior to becoming an attorney, Charlyn served as an active duty supply corps officer in the U.S. Navy, where she gained firsthand experience negotiating with some of the world's largest defense contractors and extensive project management skills. Charlyn was a lead business manager for shipbuilding contracts in the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program. In her role, she was responsible for developing, negotiating and implementing budgets and contracts to refuel nuclear powered aircraft carriers and submarines, which required collaboration with senior level policymakers and technical experts.Follow Charlyn on LinkedInSubscribe to Perkins Coie's Virtual Currency Report

The status quo of investment in Black founders needs to change: BrainTrust and BrainTrust Founders Studio CEO & founder Kendra Bracken-Ferguson is building the catalyst. Kendra talks about her journey from corporate intrapreneur to an entrepreneur, shares lessons from a career that spans public relations, brand strategy, beauty, wellness, and entrepreneurship, and why she loves leading ad supporting founders through the challenging path of entrepreneurship. Instagram: @ialsopodcast Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker Bio: Kendra Bracken-Ferguson is a transformative brand builder, connector and launcher. With a career that spans brand development, strategic planning, operations, investing, board membership and C-suite leadership, she has helped create, build and monetize over 200 influencer-driven brands that have generated more than $100 million in revenue.Kendra has made it a business practice to build data-first businesses around niche influencers and talent primarily focused on lifestyle, beauty, and wellness. Before starting her journey as an Entrepreneur, Kendra helped create the social media footprint for fashion behemoth, Ralph Lauren, where she was the company's first Director of Digital Media. Kendra's work during and since her time at Ralph Lauren was informed by her years as Vice President of Digital at Fleishman-Hillard, New York, where she led the digital consumer team in developing social media strategies for clients including AT&T, DKNY, and P&G.  Allowing her mantra, “Carpe Diem” to guide her, in 2010 Kendra took a leap of faith and along with Karen Robinovitz created Digital Brand Architects (DBA), the first blogger management agency evolving into a global company that upon exit to UTA in 2019, had a collective reach of 200 million. Post DBA, Kendra founded BrainTrust, a social media, and brand development agency that drives the digital brand strategy and online media presence for talent and global brands such as Halle Berry, Kelly Ripa Home, Dear Drew by Drew Barrymore, Revelations Entertainment by Morgan Freeman, Sally Beauty, Under Armour and many more. After a long-standing relationship as Halle Berry's Business Partner, the two launched rē•spin in 2020 to democratize the health and wellness industry. Kendra is the co-founder of BeautyUnited, a nonprofit focused on diversifying the beauty and wellness industry and is the host of Business of the Beat, a beauty and wellness podcast available on Apple, Stitcher, Spotify. Her latest endeavour, the BrainTrust Founders Studio focuses on increasing inclusive economic opportunities for Black beauty and wellness founders connecting them with resources, capital and strategic guidance to help them accelerate their businesses and build sustainable growth.   She resides in LA with her Husband, Daughter, English Bulldog & Turtle.Partner with BrainTrustApply to BrainTrust Founders StudioFollow Kendra & BrainTrust Founders Studio Subscribe to Kendra's podcast

Art NFTs are disrupting the art market as we have known it, says Playform CEO Jennifer Chang in our first episode of 2022. In this episode, we explore how NFTs could solve the traditional art industry's homogeneity and gatekeeper problem. We also unpack how blockchain and AI technology are bridging the gap between artist and supporter like never before, with the potential for economic upside. Follow us on Instagram: @ialsopodcast & Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker Bio: Jennifer Chang is the CEO of Playform, a no-code generative AI art platform for creating and selling NFTs. Playform was founded by Dr. Ahmed Elgammal, the founder of the AI and Art Laboratory at Rutgers University, with investment from Khosla Ventures. Prior to Playform, Jennifer started two successful companies in the creator/influencer industry and held roles at Apple, Disney and KPMG. In between startup ventures, she travels as a digital nomad and has worked with startups in South Korea, Singapore and India. Jennifer received an MBA from USC, an MA in Cultural and Creative Industries from King's College London, and a BS in Business Administration at UC Berkeley.Follow Jennifer on Twitter Follow Playform on Twitter

Actor, producer, and activist Alysia Reiner joins us to revisit her film Equity, discuss the stories that surround women & money and get candid about her relationship to wealth. We learn more about Alysia's outlook on investing in ideas and people that drive social and environmental change, and explore why making art and making money are often at ideological odds. Follow us on Instagram: @ialsopodcast, Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker Bio: Alysia Reiner is best known as "FIG" on all 7 seasons of Orange Is the New Black, for which she won a SAG AWARD. You can also catch her as Sunny on all 4 seasons of  Peabody Award-winning Better Things on F/X x HULU (she just wrapped season 5), and Kiki Rains on HBO's The Deuce. Most recently, she wrapped filming opposite Courteney Cox and Greg Kinnear in an upcoming horror comedy series, Shining Vale, for STARZ, premiering March 6th 2022, and starring in Stampede Ventures' feature film, Going Places. She both starred in and produced the Sundance Film Festival feature film hit, Equity, and Tribeca Film Festival favorite, Egg, which is 100% fresh on ROTTEN TOMATOES. A few other filmed adventures include getting naked in an Emmy Award winning episode of  Broad City, going head to head against Annalise on How To Get Away with Murder, and an upcoming secret project in the Marvel Universe…She loves working as a change maker for women and is an advocate for women's rights and climate change initiatives. She is on the board and an ambassador for Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, and started the eco-fashion initiative, Livari. As a champion of all things eco-friendly, she and her husband used their home as a way to share information about building green. Their brownstone eco-renovation in Harlem was featured on television's "World's Greenest Homes" and "Renovation Nation," and in various magazines like Dwell, Gotham, Origin and The Nest; and they allowed the environmentally friendly construction process to be chronicled on websites such as Dwell.com and Kohler.com.  Alysia has been invited to speak and keynote at The White House, The United Nations, Google, Cannes Lion, Women's Media Summit, Collision, and countless film festivals and events about breaking barriers for women in all fields, specifically the entertainment industry. @alysiareiner on instagram & twitterwww.alysiareiner.com

Attention: American listeners!Did you know Health Savings Accounts are investment accounts? These often-underutilized financial tools offer the opportunity to passively grow your wealth, even if allocated to health expenses until the age of 65. Diana Health Chief of Staff Karen Doster joins to share an HSA 101. Whether you're coming up on open enrollment or just finished, this mini-episode is a quick but important listen! Follow us on Instagram: @ialsopodcast & Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker Bio: Karen Doster is Diana Health's Chief of Staff and leads a range of strategic and operational priorities, having spent the majority of her career in the healthcare industry. Diana Health is a network of modern women's health practices working in partnership with hospitals to reimagine the way maternity and women's healthcare is delivered. Learn more. Prior to joining Diana, she held marketing and general management roles at Groups: Recover Together and Cove, a network of co-working spaces. She has a BA from Dartmouth College and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management.

In America, it is easier to lose money to banks, credit cards, and lenders than it is to earn and grow it. In this episode, author and financial sector reform activist Elena Botella explains exactly why that is and exposes the American financial system for its exploitative structures. With years of experience in the credit card industry, Elena shares her expertise in America's unique and dangerous way of using the financial sector to transfer money from those with less to those with more. Follow us on Instagram: @ialsopodcast & Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker Bio: Elena Botella is the author of Delinquent: Inside America's Debt Machine, forthcoming from UC Press in Fall 2022. She worked as a senior manager at Capital One, before becoming an advocate for financial sector reform. Elena has been featured in Netflix's Money, Explained, HillTV, and The Majority Report. Her writing has appeared in Slate, Vice, The New Republic, and elsewhere.Learn more about Elena's work and follow her on Twitter. Guest Host Bio: Mia Brabham is a writer, digital personality, speaker, and content creator based in Washington DC who just published her debut book, Note to Self. In addition to her role as staff writer at Shondaland, Mia's writing has been published in the Huffington Post, The Financial Diet, Thought Catalog, Gardy Loo Literature & Arts Magazine, and Harness Magazine. Mia has over 18,000 followers and two million video views on her YouTube channel YOURS TRULY, MIA — the home to her recent web series, Hot Mess Confessions — with a successful blog by the same name. She is also the creator of A YEAR OF LESSONS, a 365-day-blog project in which she wrote and accepted lessons every day for a year. Mia has hosted and delivered speeches in front of an assortment of crowds, from university commencements and NBA arenas filled with 20,000 sports fans to intimate TEDx events. Before embarking on her current journey as a freelance writer, designer, and entertainment host, she held positions at NBCUniversal, E! News, Monumental Sports & Entertainment, 60 Second Docs, and Smithsonian. She is a graduate of James Madison University. You can follow Mia's life and work on Instagram (@yourstrulymia) and Twitter (@hotmessmia), or say hello at bymiabrabham.com. Subscribe and listen to Mia's podcast Two in the Morning.Listen to Mia's interview with I Also Want Money podcast from 2020.

A money story is your history and relationship with money and wealth. Did you grow up with enough of it? Are you still insecure about it? Are you afraid to make more of it? Everyone has a money story but not everyone shares them. Author Jennifer Risher is breaking this cycle with her recent book, ‘'We Need to Talk: A Memoir About Wealth.” In this episode, we talk to Jennifer about her experience getting wealthy during the dot-com boom and what she's learned through documenting how money affects her family, friendships, and life in her memoir. Follow us on Instagram: @ialsopodcast & Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker Bio: Jennifer Risher is on a mission to move money out of the taboo category and help us have much-needed conversations about the emotional side of wealth. She is the author of “We Need to Talk: A Memoir About Wealth” which tells her story and explores the impact of wealth on identity, relationships, and sense of place in the world. She was born in Seattle, Washington, grew up in Oregon, and graduated from Connecticut College. In 1992, she joined Microsoft where she worked as a recruiter and then as a product manager. She and her husband, David, have two daughters and live in San Francisco, where David is CEO of Worldreader, a nonprofit he cofounded with a mission to create a world where everyone is a reader. In response to COVID, Jennifer and David launched the #HalfMyDAF challenge, which inspired over $8.6 million in charitable giving. In 2021, #HalfMyDAF is continuing to inspire more giving from DAFs to nonprofits. Follow Jennifer on Twitter @JenRisher 

The definition of breadwinner is wider than what society leads us to believe. In this episode, Bethanie Baynes, the Breadwinning Women's community founder at Google, shares how she helps those who identify as breadwinners manage relationship dynamics, tough conversations, forward financial planning, self-confidence and more. Follow us on Instagram: @ialsopodcast & Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker Bio: Bethanie began her career in the photo industry before joining Google in 2004. Throughout her 17 year career at Google she has spent 12 hour days reviewing ads, sold the first campaigns on YouTube, created, launched and (sometimes) sunsetted products, negotiated billions of dollars in first-of-their-kind deals and now oversees New Business Development, Revenue Management and Analytical Insights. Bethanie is a tireless women's advocate and recognized leader on the topic of breadwinning women. She founded the Breadwinning Women's community at Google which has grown to 3000 globally in two years. Bethanie is the host of the podcast, Working Wife, Happy Life! launched in early 2020. She has been featured on CNBC, Refinery 29, Medium, Know Your Value “Women in the News”, Said Business School at Oxford University, Chief Mom Officer, and on podcasts such as So Money with Farnoosh Torabi, Listen Money Matters and the Ellevate Network. She has contributed to multiple panels including for communities such as HeyMama, Mindr Global and The WIE Suite and the parents network at NASA. She was an official speaker at the Women's March NYC 2020. Bethanie lives with her family in Brooklyn, NY. Instagram: @bethaniebaynesTwitter: @bethaniebaynesBethanie's Podcast: @workingwifehappylife 

Activism is among society's most important work. So why is it almost always unpaid? And if traditional capitalism has gotten us here, could the token economy change this pattern? In this episode with Women of SexTech president and sex worker rights and labor rights activist, SX Noir, we scratch the surface on a critical hypothesis: crypto-enabled metaverses could solve the problem of unpaid activism.Follow us on Instagram: @ialsopodcast and Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker Bio: SX Noir is the Thot Leader of SexTech. Leading the conversation on the intersection of Sex work and SexTech. SX Noir is the President of the Women of SexTech and hosts the podcast “Thot Leader Pod” in an attempt to hack the conversation on sex, love, dating and tech. SX Noir believes empathy in digital space is the key to intimacy and aims to de-stigmatize the conversation regarding sex in digital space. She is an activist for sex worker rights and labor rights in digital spaces. SX Noir believes all American citizens have a right to the pursuit of happiness through social, emotional and financial upward mobility.Learn more about SX Noir's work and activism. Follow SX Noir on Instagram @sxnoir and @thewomenofsextech and on Twitter @sxnoir

In this episode, we chat with The Justice Dept. founder and CEO Jennifer Justice about her career's evolution and how her experiences in law and music - two particularly male-dominated sectors - have shaped her company's mission to make women money and further women-owned businesses. Follow us, Instagram: @ialsopodcast, Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker Bio: Jennifer Justice is an entertainment and live-experience executive known for her expertise in building artists' careers and business portfolios by marrying art with  commerce. From the beginning of her career, JJ as she is known, has championed gender equality & diversity in the workplace. As general counsel and EVP at Roc Nation, she helped structure the vision and growth of Roc Nation. She served as Jay-Z's personal entertainment attorney for a total of 17 years as well as  Beyonce's personal attorney for one year while at Roc Nation. In 2019, JJ founded The Justice Dept. – a management, strategy and legal firm that works with female (and woke male) entrepreneurs, executives, talent, brands and creatives to build and maximize their value focusing in the areas of tech, consumer product,  finance, media, entertainment and fashion. JJ has been named a “Game Changer” by Goop, by InStyle as one of  the 50 Badass Women Changing the World in 2020, and on Billboard's Women in Power list three times. She has been featured on the TODAY Show and is a regular contributor on NBC News.Learn more about The Justice Dept. and follow on IG @thejustice.dept

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disproportionate effect on women and triggered the “she-cession.” In the US alone, women lost 5 million jobs, with 80% of jobs lost in government, retail, education & health services, and leisure & hospitality. Where will women in the workforce and the fight to close the gender wealth gap go from here? In this episode, LinkedIn Editor at Large Caroline Fairchild, who covers the future of work and diversity in the workplace, joins us to share insights from the last year, including the outlook for women's economic recovery. Follow us on Instagram: @ialsopodcast, Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastBio: Caroline Fairchild is an award-winning journalist and now Editor at Large at LinkedIn News. She reports on the prominent voices, trends and issues facing the future of work and diversity in the workplace. She is the host of LinkedIn News Live, the first daily live show on the state of business she developed for the LinkedIn News team. She is also the writer of Working Together, one of the ten most popular newsletters on LinkedIn on how the workplace is changing in a digital and diverse age. A member of the board of visitors for Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, she is a sought-after workplace and diversity expert in media such at CBS This Morning, CNBC, CNN and Yahoo! Finance. She also frequently presents on building equitable workplaces to teams within Fortune 500 companies. Learn more at carolinefairchild.com or by following her on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Have you ever thought about being a digital nomad? The last year has accelerated the normalization of remote and hybrid working for many job roles. Combined with a yearning for travel’s resumption, more people are considering a digital nomad lifestyle. In this episode, long-time digital nomad and founder/CEO of Nomad Tax, Krystal Pino, shares how to plan and manage finances as a digital nomad, travel and integrate authentically, and build the business case with your employer for this new working model.Follow us, Instagram: @ialsopodcast, Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker Bio: Krystal, or Pino as most of her travel companions know her, is the mastermind behind Nomad Tax. Pino is a CPA (Certified Public Accountant), and PFS (Personal Financial Specialist) with a BA in Accounting and an MBA in Finance from UAB in Birmingham, AL. She's been at the tax game for over a decade now, working on both the corporate and public sides of accounting. Pino has been a digital nomad for nearly 4 years now, visiting nearly 40 countries.  She's currently waiting out the pandemic in Mexico, but is looking forward to vegan street food in Cape Town, lake houses in Macedonia, and beaches in Nicaragua when it's safe to travel again.

What percentage of one’s wealth should be in cryptocurrency? What financial products exist in the crypto space to accrue passive income? What does decentralized finance actually mean? Crypto experts Sophie Holm and Harrison Comfort return in the second part of this interview with crypto convert Nicole Kyle and talk about a new venture to disrupt the crypto asset management space. Follow us on Instagram: @ialsopodcast, Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker bio:Sophie Holm:Is a crypto investor, currently working with Harrison to launch DAM, a decentralised asset management project, giving investors exposure to a curated index of high value crypto assets. She is also the co-creator of I Also Want Money Podcast with Nicole Kyle. Follow Sophie at @sophieWholm. Harrison Comfort: With a background in private equity Harrison has worked in the blockchain space since 2015. More recently working on a project DAM - a decentralised Asset Management project.Follow DAM on Twitter at @DamFinance

Talk of cryptocurrency has gone mainstream - but how to take action with crypto largely remains a mystery. In this unique series, our co-hosts flip the script: crypto-convert Nicole Kyle asks the questions and crypto-expert Sophie Holm has the answers. Sophie is joined by I Also podcast producer and fellow cryptocurrency expert Harrison Comfort as they reveal the fundamentals of cryptocurrency, blockchain, and NFTs. This is not to be missed!Follow us on Instagram: @ialsopodcast, Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker bio: Sophie Holm: Sophie is a crypto investor, currently working with Harrison to launch DAM, a decentralised asset management project, giving investors exposure to a curated index of high value crypto assets. She is also the co-creator of I Also Want Money Podcast with Nicole Kyle. Follow Sophie at @SophieWHolm. Harrison Comfort: With a background in private equity Harrison has worked in the blockchain space since 2015. More recently working on a project DAM - a decentralised Asset Management project. Follow Harrison at @hcomfortglobalFollow DAM on Twitter at @DamFinance 

Short. Call. Put. Long. What do these things have in common? Options trading is a key factor in meme stock trading and enabled the $GME run. In this episode, we continue with meme stock experts and Salience Capital co-founders Lily Francus and Monica Turrey. Lily and Monica teach us how options work and how they may make you money.Follow us on Instagram: @ialsopodcast, Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker Bio:Lily Francus is an independent quantitative researcher and head of Salience Capital, a quantitative research firm focused on derivative-based short term options strategies. She has a background in computer science and business and was previously a software engineer at Linkedin and Stripe. Follow Lily on Twitter @nope_its_lily Monica Turrey is a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon’s Innovation Institute and strategist at Salience Capital. She has a background in product strategy and performance advertising in the technology sector. Follow Monica on Twitter @MonicaTurrey Visit Salience at saliencecapital.com and explore the NOPE model at http://nopechart.com 

What happened with GameStop can be attributed to meme theory - the same theory that explains viral sensations and fake news. How does it work? Meme theory experts Lily Francus and Monica Turrey turned to day-trading to pay for grad school and now have a rapidly growing following, studying how meme theory impacts the markets. In the first of this two part series, the Salience Capital co-founders teach us the logic behind trading these “meme stocks” and caution us on how to play the game. Follow us on Instagram: @ialsopodcast, Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker Bio:Lily Francus is an independent quantitative researcher and head of Salience Capital, a quantitative research firm focused on derivative-based short term options strategies. She has a background in computer science and business and was previously a software engineer at Linkedin and Stripe. Follow Lily on Twitter @nope_its_lily Monica Turrey is a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon’s Innovation Institute and strategist at Salience Capital. She has a background in product strategy and performance advertising in the technology sector. Follow Monica on Twitter @MonicaTurrey Visit Salience at saliencecapital.com and explore the NOPE model at http://nopechart.com 

Description: Owning a home or investment property can sometimes feel more like a pipe dream than an attainable goal. Stacks and the City founder Ashley Copeland is here to flip that script. Ashley, a first-generation wealth builder, bought two properties before the age of 30 and believes real estate is an important part of any wealth building strategies. In this episode, we learn more about Ashley’s journey and hear her pro tips for evaluating and executing real estate investments. Follow us on Instagram: @ialsopodcast, Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeak Bio: Ashley Copeland is host of Stacks and the City, the podcast dedicated to showing women how to build wealth and increase their net worth with downloads over $30,000. Raised by a single mother in rural North Carolina, Ashley learned early about how money can affect your way of life. Ashley avidly read about personal finance and homeownership throughout her teens and twenties. As a result, Ashley used $10,000 saved from hours of serving tables and college refunds checks to open her first investment account at 21. Ashley then purchased her first investment home at 24 and her second the following year with money steadfastly saved from working two jobs. As a result of her work, Ashley amassed a six-figure net worth without ever earning a six-figure salary. Ashley uses her knowledge of personal finance to teach others how to understand and build their net worth to achieve financial independence. In her spare time, Ashley enjoys reading, hiking, and traveling, having visited over 30 countries. Ashley is a proud graduate of Duke University and KIPP ENC Schools.Follow Ashley on Instagram: @stacksnthecity & subscribe to her newsletter and join her webinars here. Subscribe to Stacks and the City podcast.

Financial security is hard to come by in the creative industries and making money is tough. For those who do not benefit from family safety nets, pursuing a creative career can feel all the more scary and unrealistic. How does one successfully navigate this reality? In this episode, journalist, writer and Full Frontal with Samantha Bee producer Naureen Khan gets candid about her decision to enter journalism at the height of The Great Recession and talks us through her approach to money and finances across her career in media & entertainment. Follow us on Instagram: @ialsopodcast, Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker Bio: Naureen Khan is a writer and journalist, and a producer at Full Frontal with Samantha Bee. She hails from Plano, Texas and graduated from Duke in 2010. You can read her pop culture musings at naureen.substack.com. Follow Naureen on Twitter: @naureeninnyc and subscribe to her newsletter “Bad Taste” at naureen.substack.com

We chat with Beautycon CEO, entrepreneur, and investor Moj Mahdara about her relationship with money & wealth and her speech that inspired the name of our podcast.In this episode, we chat with Beautycon CEO, entrepreneur, and investor Moj Mahdara about her relationship with money & wealth and her speech that inspired the name of our podcast.Follow us, Instagram: @ialsopodcast, Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker Bio: Moj Mahdara is a digital entertainment and branding entrepreneur and a Persian-American LGBT advocate. She's the CEO of Beautycon, a key connector in the makeup world, operating a growing number of namesake beauty-blogger festivals—in L.A., New York, London, Dallas, and Dubai—that attract as many as 12,000 attendees. Her empowerment-focused gatherings feature panel discussions and networking events. The company also launched a Birchbox-like subscription service in 2015, and it generates additional income by linking online beauty-advice stars with advertisers for marketing campaigns. A graduate of the University of California, Irvine, Mahdara previously served as CEO of Exopolis, a digital advertising studio, where she grew the client list to include brands such as Microsoft and Apple. Mahdara then formed the agency Made With Elastic, where she executed digital campaigns for Levi’s, Lacoste, and BMW. She became CEO of Beautycon in 2013, helping the company attract investors such as Hearst, Bethany Mota, BBG Ventures, and Troy Carter, and leading Beautycon to new levels with an expected revenue of $10 million in 2016.Follow Moj on Instagram: @moj Twitter: @mojism and Clubhouse: @moj

In our last episode of 2020, co-hosts Sophie Holm and Nicole Kyle reflect on how #IAlso has changed their relationship with money and reveal the money wins & losses that have made 2020 a rollercoaster year for financial wellness. Cheers to making it through!Follow us, Instagram: @ialsopodcast, Twitter: @IAlsoPodcast

Find out why it is now more important than ever to forge your own path and find your passion in order to launch a highly successful business in today’s radically changing environment. Fellow rule breaker and serial entrepreneur Jackie Fast will discuss some key themes in her new book Rule Breaker: Rebellious Leadership for the Future of Work, specifically how technology has revolutionized what we need to know now, and more importantly what we need to ignore.Pre-order Jackie’s book Rule Breaker: https://www.koganpage.com/product/rule-breaker-9781789667677 Promo code: KOGANPAGE20For participation in competition, send receipt of purchase to nicolekyle111@gmail.com by January 1st 2021.Follow us, Instagram: @ialsopodcast, Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker Bio: Jackie Fast is an award-winning entrepreneur and business leader. As the founder and former Managing Director of Slingshot, one of the most successful global sponsorship companies, she has worked with some of the world's biggest brands that include the Rolling Stones, Formula1, Virgin, Allianz and Shell. She is an in-demand business and entrepreneurship public speaker, and has been featured in Forbes, Metro, Business Leader Magazine, Money Observer, Sky News and the Telegraph.Follow Jackie Fast’s life and work on Instagram @jackiefast and Twitter @jackiefast or say hello at https://jackiefast.com.

Gold is one of the oldest financial instruments. Why is it still relevant to investment portfolios today, and why should we invest in it? In this episode, investment strategist and macroeconomic analyst Lyn Alden shares:⚡️basics of the gold market⚡️why to invest in gold⚡️whether Bitcoin could be the new gold standard?⚡️how a passion for markets & investing and an engineer education made Lyn a leading expert in macro investment strategy ✊Follow us, Instagram: @ialsopodcast, Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker Bio:Lyn Alden, the founder of Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, provides investment research for retail and institutional investors. With a background that blends engineering and finance, her process involves fundamental investing with a global macro overlay, with expertise in equities and alternative asset classes. Follow Lyn on Twitter: @lynaldencontact

Why should cryptocurrency be part of your investment strategy? Cryptocurrency is less scary than it sounds and, while volatile, has outpaced the stock market in returns in 2020. In this episode, we chat with Anam Lakhani and Eve Halimi - co-founders of Alinea Invest, an investing app focused on women, community, & responsible investing that is one of only players to integrate crypto investments with traditional investments into a single, user-friendly platform about why and how to invest in crypto. Follow us, Instagram: @ialsopodcast, Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker Bio: Eve Halimi is the co-founder and co-CEO of Alinea Invest. She is originally from Paris but has grown up living in London, Tel Aviv and now New York. Eve founded her first community based application at the age of 15 and after interning in Finance on both the buy and sell side, she became extremely frustrated by the fact that none of her girlfriends were investing or talking about it. After graduating with an Economics BA from Barnard, Columbia University and joining a high growth stage startup as an associate, she now feels more than ready to build the first community based investing app to bring more younger women to the investing world by making the journey fun, interactive and relatable.Anam Lakhani is the co-founder and CEO of Alinea Invest. Following her investment banking internship, she quickly grasped how heavily male-dominated the financial sector is and returned to campus to build a community around financial empowerment for women. Her own experiences coupled with those of her friends and classmates made her aware of the huge confidence barrier young women struggle with when starting their investing journey. After graduating with a BA in Economics from Columbia University and working in investment banking at Citigroup, Anam is ready to level the playing field and bring investing to a demographic, often overlooked and excluded by the financial industry. Follow Alinea on twitter;@alineainvest_ and instagram; @alineainvestWebsite: https://alinea-invest.com

How does self-funding a business accelerate personal wealth goals in ways that venture capital, angel, or ECF investment cannot? In this final episode surrounding venture capital, Khaleelah Jones - founder and CEO of Dime Digital + Careful Feet Digital and finalist for this year’s NatWest Everywoman Awards -- discusses the power in self-funding. Khaleelah shares her experiences exploring venture capital raises as a founder and woman of color and the work that the industry has left to do to become more inclusive. Follow us, Instagram: @ialsopodcast, Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker Bio:Khaleelah founded and scaled Careful Feet Digital, a London-based digital marketing agency, after working in the digital marketing space for a decade. She worked her way from being an associate at Living Social to head of marketing at WellTok, Inc., where she was part of a team that doubled the user base in just six months and raised $18m in Series B funding. Using their deep marketing knowledge derived from managing clients of all sizes around the world at Careful Feet Digital, Khaleelah and the Dime team have built a product that uses cutting-edge AI technology to create branding and social media assets. More importantly, though, Khaleelah has built a team that supports the technology, and therefore our clients, with our combined decades of experience in marketing, branding and technology.Follow Khaleelah on Twitter: @CarefulFeet and Instagram: @khaleelahejones

How does being an entrepreneur make you a better investor? In this episode, Hambro Perks principal and founder of media startup CompassNewsUK, Matilde Giglio, details what it’s like to go from seeking funding to being the one awarding funding. We discuss learning hard lessons as a founder, transitioning into venture capital, and even Matilde’s own angel investing strategies. Follow us, Instagram: @ialsopodcast, Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker Bio: Matilde is a Principal at Hambro Perks, where she invests in Seed and Series A technology companies. Prior to joining Hambro Perks, Matilde co-founded Compass News, a machine learning journalism start-up with offices in London and New York and over 100,000 monthly active users that was backed by Hambro Perks, Bloomberg Beta and others. Before that, Matilde worked at Fox and Paramount leading their marketing campaigns in Europe. At the start of 2019, she moved to India to run digital strategy for the Congress Party in the 2019 Indian general elections.Matilde holds a master’s degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science and is an advisor at Techstars and Startupbootcamp where she advises early-stage technology companies on growth, product development and operations. Follow Matilde on Twitter @MatildeGiglio

A career in venture capital can feel elusive, intimidating, and even impossible for some of us without a banking, investment, or technology background. Our conversation with Hadyah Fathalla proves otherwise: a cybersecurity and antiterrorism expert, Hadyah joined C5 Capital to transform their accelerator program. In this episode, Hadyah emphasizes the role of mentorship in this pivot, shares her strategies for building a mentor-mentee relationship, and discusses the changes afoot in the MENA venture capital landscape. Follow us, Instagram: @ialsopodcast, Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker Bio: Hadyah Fathalla is a strategy and security specialist with 20 years of experience in a range of fields including: national and global security, policymaking, entrepreneurship, innovation and digital transformation. Prior to establishing Hatter Consultants, she served as Chief Operating Officer for C5 Accelerate, a global technology investment firm, in addition to having established and managed the company’s MENA business. During her time with C5 Accelerate, she built Bahrain’s first technology accelerator in 2016 and established a number of initiatives to contribute to the government’s entrepreneurship and digital transformation efforts. She is a regular contributor to cybersecurity, innovation, and technology conferences and to mentoring aspiring entrepreneurs and startups.In addition to her experience in the fields of entrepreneurship and digital transformation, she is also a national security and cybersecurity specialist. For over ten years, she has played an advisory role to a number of government agencies and senior government officials on topics including strategy, counterterrorism, armed groups, security policy, cybersecurity, and other national security threats and challenges. Hadyah is an Independent Director for The Benefit Company (Bahrain) as well as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bahrain Youth Hostel Society. Additionally, she is a member of the Harvard W3D: Women in Defense, Diplomacy, and Development and a founding Board Member of the Women in Fintech Committee in Bahrain.She holds an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School, concentrating on International Global Affairs and an MA in War Studies from King’s College in London.

Equity crowdfunding and platforms like Seedrs, Crowdcube, and AngelList were created to increase accessibility of investing and fundraising. The principle is: anyone can be an investor. But what’s the reality? In this episode with Seedrs Co-Founder and Executive Chairman Jeff Lynn, we reflect on the ethos of crowdfunding and Seedrs' need to increase diversity in both its deal pipeline and investor base. An honest and open exchange of ideas, this interview is a must-listen.Follow us, Instagram: @ialsopodcast, Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker Bio: Jeff co-founded Seedrs in 2009, led the business until he hired what he calls a 'proper' CEO in 2017 and has served as Executive Chairman since then. He also serves as a Chairman of The Coalition for a Digital Economy (Coadec), a non-profit advocacy group for startups and scaleups which he co-founded in 2010. To his surprise as much as anyone's, Business Insider has named him one of the 10 coolest people in UK tech. Jeff began his career as a corporate lawyer with Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York and London.Follow Jeff Lynn on Twitter @JeffSeedrsFollow Seedrs on Twitter @Seedrs and Instagram @seedrs

In this episode we are joined by Yvonne Bajela, Founding Member and Principal at Impact X Capital, to talk us through the basics of venture capital and the incredibly important mission of Impact X in funding diverse founders. Funding diversity has proven to have exceptional returns, and it's a fiduciary duty as a fund to be more active in tapping into communities of talented entrepreneurs with underrepresented backgrounds.Follow us, Instagram: @ialsopodcast, Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker Bio:Recognised by Forbes 30 Under 30 as a key influencer of global money flows in 2020, Yvonne is the Founding Member and Principal at Impact X Capital, a UK based venture capital fund founded to support underrepresented entrepreneurs. Over the last five years, Yvonne has invested over £200 million in various startups across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. A board member and passionate leader, Yvonne is a champion for female entrepreneurship.Follow Yvonne Bajela on Instagram @yvonnebajela and Twitter @yvonnebajela

Selling -- or exiting -- your business is THE dream for many entrepreneurs, but it’s not an easy nor a common path. In this episode, we talk to entrepreneur, investor, and author Jackie Fast about stamina, sponsorship, and why working on what you're passionate about is key to success. Jackie, a trailblazer in sponsorship and former contestant on The Apprentice, also discusses her latest entrepreneurial venture: RebelPi ice wine. Follow us, Instagram: @ialsopodcast, Twitter: @IAlsoPodcast Buy Jackie’s book PinPoint: https://jackiefast.com Speaker Bio: Jackie Fast is recognised as a trailblazer within the sponsorship and known as a well established entrepreneur in the wider business community. Having sold her first business Slingshot Sponsorship in 2016 for millions less than 6 years after bootstrapping it in her bedroom with only a laptop to her name. Recognising that the shift in marketing and impact of the recession has created an opportunity for brands and rights holders to capitalise, Jackie went against convention and developed a bespoke commercialisation framework for the sponsorship industry that supported how to successfully deliver results in today’s changing landscape. Following the sale of Slingshot, she took a year off to publish a book on effective strategies in raising significant funding titled 'Pinpoint' which quickly became an Amazon bestseller. She now speaks and writes regularly on entrepreneurship, sponsorship, technology, and scaling high growth businesses. She has been featured in Forbes Magazine and currently act as Non-Executive Board Director of fintech disruptor The Money Platform and remains Chairman of the European Sponsorship Association Awards. In 2018 she also participated on the BBC UK Apprentice, series 13.She is currently writing her second book Rule Breaker: Rebellious Leadership for the Future of Work which outlines the shifting business landscape driven by technological innovation and the importance for future leaders to execute differently. The book is due out on 3 March 2021 in the UK and 28 March 2021 in the US.Follow Jackie Fast’s life and work on Instagram @jackiefast and Twitter @jackiefast or say hello at https://jackiefast.com.

The road to reaching your money goals can be tough and moments -- even stretches -- of doubt will occur. How to find that motivation to keep pushing? In this episode, we discuss writer Mia Brabham’s debut book Note to Self, a collection of motivational maxims around self-worth, self-belief, and more. A digital personality, speaker, and content creator, Mia walks us through her self-publishing journey and her financial wellness awakening as a creative. Follow us, Instagram: @ialsopodcast, Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker Bio: Mia Brabham is a writer, digital personality, speaker, and content creator based in Washington DC who just published her debut book, Note to Self. Her writing has been published in the Huffington Post, The Financial Diet, Thought Catalog, Gardy Loo Literature & Arts Magazine, and Harness Magazine. Mia has over 18,000 followers and two million video views on her YouTube channel YOURS TRULY, MIA — the home to her recent web series, Hot Mess Confessions — with a successful blog by the same name. She is also the creator of A YEAR OF LESSONS, a 365-day-blog project in which she wrote and accepted lessons every day for a year. Mia has hosted and delivered speeches in front of an assortment of crowds, from university commencements and NBA arenas filled with 20,000 sports fans to intimate TEDx events. Before embarking on her current journey as a freelance writer, designer, and entertainment host, she held positions at NBCUniversal, E! News, Monumental Sports & Entertainment, 60 Second Docs, and Smithsonian. She is a graduate of James Madison University. You can follow Mia’s life and work on Instagram; @yourstrulymia and Twitter; @hotmessmia, or say hello at bymiabrabham.com.Buy Mia’s book Note to Self: https://www.bymiabrabham.com/note-to-selfAnd sign up for her newsletter here: https://bit.ly/notetoselfnewsletter

As we learned in our interview with Tanisha Townsend, one shouldn’t invest in fine wine without some help from experts in the market. In our first mini-episode, we interview Alice Longhurst-Jones from wine brokerage firm Oeno. Alice details how a brokerage relationship works, the value of broker insights, and even shares the outlook on the growing market for wine crafted in the UK. Follow us, Instagram: @ialsopodcast, Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker Bio: Alice Longhurst-Jones fell for wine on a month-long trip to Argentina which turned into a three-year love affair. After studying with the Wine & Spirits Education Trust and graduating with a BA in Liberal Arts, she worked for several London wine merchants as well as wine companies in Spain and Argentina, gaining wide-ranging experience in purchasing, sales, and marketing. In 2018 she joined fine wine investment company Oeno and now works as their Head of Marketing. With offices in London, Bordeaux and Tuscany, Oeno is Europe’s fastest-growing fine wine investment company and has helped hundreds of investors all over the globe enter this fascinating and highly-lucrative sector. Oeno has been twice selected as Fine Wine Investment Firm of the Year at the The European Global Business and Finance Awards in 2019 and 2020. Follow Oeno Group, Instagram: @oeno_official, Website: https://oenogroup.comFollow Alice Longhurst-Jones, Instagram: @bottleink

Many of us consume wine, but what about investing in it? In this episode with wine lifestyle and education agency Girl Meets Glass founder Tanisha Townsend, we learn why investing in wine is likely a ‘long-game’ for many of us and discuss industry efforts to become more accessible, transparent, and inclusive. Follow us, Instagram: @ialsopodcast, Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker Bio: Tanisha Townsend has cultivated a community of wine enthusiasts through an unyielding passion for oenology. As Chief Wine Officer of lifestyle agency Girl Meets Glass, Tanisha leads wine classes and tours in Paris (and virtually). She also hosts the podcast, Wine School Dropout. Her goal is to empower individuals with an advanced knowledge of wine & spirits in order to build confidence in their tastes and make choices as a better informed consumer.Follow Tanisha at GirlMeetsGlass.com Instagram: @girlmeetsglass, Twitter: @girlmeetsglass and Youtube: Tanisha Townsend

Photography is an alternative asset where the barriers to entry for an investor — mainly, ticket prices — are lower than other fine art investments. In this episode, Black Box Projects founders Anna Kirrage and Kathlene Fox-Davies teach us the fundamentals of the photography market and share their journey as gallery-owners, “art-wives”, and mothers.Follow us, Instagram: @ialsopodcast, Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker Bios:Anna Kirrage:Anna began her career at The Fleming Collection before working for The London Original Print Fair. She then spent 6 years as Account Director at the arts consulting agency, Cawdell Douglas, where she managed clients including The Grosvenor House Art & Antiques Fair, the BADA Antiques & Fine Art Fair, TEFAF Maastricht, Masterpiece London, The Fine Art Society, Sims Reed, Pangolin London and Bowman Sculpture. Following this, Anna worked as a freelance consultant and was instrumental in the merger between two consultancies, Muse and Cawdell Douglas to create a new arts agency, Golden Squared Consulting, where she worked as Associate Director for two years before co-founding Black Box Projects.Kathlene Fox-Davies:Kathlene Fox-Davies is a photography expert, art-historian and curator, with over 16 years' experience in the art world both in London and New York. Kathlene began her career as a Sales Associate at Michael Hoppen Gallery before moving to Hasted Hunt in New York as Gallery Manager. On her return to London, Kathlene joined Halcyon Gallery in Mayfair as an art consultant. She later joined ATLAS Gallery as Associate Director, introducing and overseeing a programme of contemporary artists. In 2014 Kathlene established her own art consultancy - Fox-Davies Contemporary - where she worked with a select group of clients helping to build and manage their collections. In 2017 Kathlene co-founded Black Box Projects. Kathlene has special interest in community engagement through the gallery and arts programming, transparency in business, a desire to connect clients to the art, artists and art world, as well as providing a more personal collecting experience through the gallery. Kathlene is also a frequent contributor to Monocle Radio as a guest art expert, offering a commentary on the current arts headlines as well as reviews of gallery shows and art fairs.Follow BlackBoxProjects, Instagram: @blackboxprojects, Website: https://blackboxprojects.art

Being a female founder isn’t easy, especially when you’re in the business of breaking taboos. In this episode with Emma Sayle, the founder and CEO of KK Group known for brands Killing Kittens, SafeDate, and Sistr, we explore the link between financial and sexual confidence, the highs and lows of being a ‘’sex-entrepeneur,’ feminist awakenings, and what’s next for the sex and adult industry. Follow Emma on instagram @emsayle333 and twitter @emmasayle----Bio:Emma Sayle, Founder and CEO of the Wearekk brands; Killing Kittens, Safedate, Sistr and The SisterhoodIn 2005 there was nowhere women could go to feel in control and explore their sexuality in a safe environment, so Emma created Killing Kittens. KK has grown in to a fierce army of over 160,000 sexually liberated people around the world, through events hosted from London to New York, Venice to Sydney on top of a global online community platform. Popular press regularly pronounces Emma a leader in female sexual liberation and empowerment. When Emma started Killing Kittens 15 years ago, she wanted to create a brand that stood for women and want they wanted. Greater awareness of female sexuality and sexual freedom was slowly becoming more socially and commercially acceptable, but there was still a long way to go in an industry that claimed to be for women but run almost exclusively run by men. She knew that to empower women sexually, it had to be with a business that put them first. Since setting up the first parties, Emma has fully expanded the business, which now operates both on and offline. May 2020 sees Emma launching the hotly awaited KK app (think Facebook meets Bumble) as well as virtual workshops offering sex education and advice for singles and couples. During lockdown, KK also became the world leader in virtual adult parties, creating world-wide press coverage for their virtual adult parties, held weekly across all major time zones from London to New York and Sydney. Emma understands that a successful business can’t be built without a passion and a team who believes in it just as much, and that one must have fire in the belly to take on an industry that is almost universally run by men, like the adult and ‘sex-tech’ industries. Unfortunately, there is still a huge amount of bias and misconceptions to address, but Emma has never once doubted her belief to lead the business and keep pushing the boundaries. It is true, sadly, that sexual discrimination is still alive and kicking in many sectors, across all levels, and many women struggle to be treated with the respect they deserve. She has learned that the best way to deal with the negativity is to stick to the facts, stick to the evidence; track your achievements, demonstrate your successes and let the facts and figures do the talking. In 2018, she led the business through a funding round. The first ever public crowdfund for an adult sector brand of this nature and closed the round at 118% overfunded. The second funding round closed completely funded in just four days – raising a total of £1m over the two rounds. The latest funding round has again closed overfunded after just a few days. The Wearekk portfolio of brands, including Killing Kittens, now also includes Sistr, a dedicated platform for women to connect, share and learn from one another, plus Safedate, an app for anyone wanting to stay safe whilst online dati

Angel investing -- investing in start-ups -- is rarely talked about as a way to grow wealth for the average investor, particularly women. In this episode, our very own Sophie Holm runs through the basics of angel investing and shares her own experiences. We then welcome Harveen Gill, founder of the EVE Network, an angel investing network for women in the UK. ----Bio: Harveen Gill is founder and Joint Managing Director of HGA Group - the UK's leading international boutique recruitment and consultancy operator within fashion and retail. www.hga-group.comWith offices in London, Italy, India Turkey and South Africa, 50% of HGA Group's assignments sit in international territories. Clients of HGA Group include mid - sized organisations and blue – chip multiples. The unifying factor being that all are undergoing transformation or turnaround. Harveen has ensured that her personal ethics, standards and vision underpin every touch point, as she and her team deliver top tier individuals and teams into organisations. Longevity is vital – many of her live client relationships span over a decade. She champions assignments within international and emerging markets whilst acting as brand ambassador for the business. Harveen is also Board Advisor to a select number of technology established start - ups, including gowherewolf.com. Her retail career includes working for John Lewis, New Look and Topshop. Although recruitment is the staple for HGA Group, Harveen has introduced a number of other services as below: Career Development Service to potentialise an individual’s ambition, B to B Growth service, to manage the growth planning and showcasing of an organisations product or services to targeted audiences. In Jan 2020, Harveen co – founded EVE – a Female Angel Investor Community, to help “move the dial” in this area where females are overwhelmingly underrepresented, EVE completed it’s first deal in April 2020. At EVE, our mission is to create a like-minded female business community. The UK has amongst the most active Angel Investor, but women are shockingly underrepresented in the investment community. Around 15% of all Angel Investors in the UK are female yet females own 48% of the UK’s net wealth.

Like many gender-norms, the idea that women shouldn’t be breadwinners persists, even as the proportion of women breadwinners grows. In this episode with wealth psychologist Dr. Jamie Traeger-Muney, and another special guest, we break down the shame, hesitation, and anxiety around embracing and sustaining primary earner status in relationships.---Website: https://wealthlegacygroup.org Bio: Jamie Traeger-Muney, PhD, Founder, Wealth Legacy GroupDr. Traeger-Muney specializes in the emotional impact of money and wealth in people’s lives. She has revolutionized the conversation of worth enabling clients to be passionately engaged in the world and to lead a rich life. Jamie has been featured in WSJ, BBC, Bloomberg Business Week and Town & Country Magazine. She co-authored, Social Impact in 100-Year Family Businesses as well as part of Borrowed From Your Grandchildren

Capitalism and patriarchy are intrinsically linked. In this episode with Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African & African-American Studies Anne-Maria Makhulu, we explore the origins of wealth suppression and oppression across gender, race, and class.---Twitter: @DrMackMackWebsite: https://culturalanthropology.duke.edu/people/anne-maria-b-makhulu Bio: Anne-Maria Makhulu is an Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African & African American Studies at Duke University with additional appointments in Gender, Sexuality, & Feminist Studies and Innovation & Entrepreneurship. Makhulu has conducted research for over two decades in South Africa and is author of Making Freedom (Duke University Press 2015) about South Africa’s transition to democracy. She is also co-editor of a collection entitled Hard Work, Hard Times (University of California Press 2010), which examines African migration, the global search for livelihood, and questions of cultural resilience. A second monograph in preparation, tentatively entitled South Africa After the Rainbow and supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, looks at the rise of new social movements in South Africa—#FeesMustFall and #RhodesMustFall among them—against the backdrop of the state’s “capture.” Makhulu has published articles in Anthropological Quarterly and PMLA, served as special issue guest editor for South Atlantic Quarterly and special theme section guest editor of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. She is a self-described: cosmopolitan, world traveler, in exile. Africanist, urbanist, radical theorist. Almost newly-wed, late bloomer, dog owner, food lover, and OCD-er.

Hollywood is a multi-billion dollar industry. That wealth, and the power that comes with it, is tied up in a largely stale, pale, and male decision-maker landscape. In this interview with actor, screenwriter, author, activist and 51Fund co-founder Naomi McDougall Jones, we discuss the relationship between off- and on-screen representation, and why now, more than ever, is the time to build a system that makes sure all stories get told -- to equal monetary benefit. ---Twitter: @NaomiMcDougallJWebsite: www.naomimcdougalljones.comBio:Naomi McDougall Jones is a storyteller and changemaker. She has written, acted in, and produced two award-winning feature films. The first, Imagine I’m Beautiful (2014), collected 12 awards on the film festival circuit before receiving a theatrical and digital distribution deal and is now available on AmazonPrime. Her second feature, Bite Me (2019), was released via a paradigm-shifting 3 month, 51 screening, 40 city Joyful Vampire Tour of America that took the country by storm, and is now available on iTunes, GooglePlay, and Amazon. She is currently at work on her third feature film, Hammond Castle, for which she received the honor of being the first artist in residence at the final home of Ernest Hemingway in Sun Valley, Idaho. Naomi is an advocate and thought leader for bringing gender parity to cinema. Her writing on this has appeared in The Atlantic, Ms. Magazine, and Salon.com and she gave a virally sensational TEDTalk, What it’s Like to Be a Woman in Hollywood, which has now been viewed over 1 million times and can be seen on TED.com. Naomi’s first book, The Wrong Kind of Women: Inside Our Revolution to Dismantle the Gods of Hollywood, published by Beacon Press, has received an electric response with Booklist and Kirkus Reviews naming it "bold," "convincing," "well-written," "urgent," and "necessary," and The Christian Science Monitor calling it, “...an outpouring of passion that will change the ways in which movies are seen.” It is now available in hardcover, e-book, and audiobook wherever books are sold.

In this episode, Pipeline Equity Founder and CEO Katica Roy helps us understand the broken system women are living in and why it’s negatively impacted our wealth. Katica’s solution challenges companies to fix inequity and quantifies the macro-economic opportunity of closing the gender wealth gap.

In this episode, Dr. Jane Cox reveals how a life trauma forced her to overcome her fears around investing and embrace financial autonomy. Jane shares how starting small is nothing to be ashamed of and explores the symbiotic relationship between confidence and investing.

In this episode, Eversend founder and Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree Emma Smith shares her experiences as an entrepreneur. We discuss how entrepreneurship has impacted her personal wealth and money goals, and what she’s observed about who controls wealth and her strategies for seeking funding in today’s global venture capital landscape.

Can you articulate your emotional response to money? Or to risk? In this episode, certified financial advisor Louise Fitzgerald clarifies the relationship between savings and investing, explains risk vs. reward, and notes that regardless of your risk profile, returns are possible.

Workplace pensions: many have them, few do enough with them. In this episode, award-winning journalist and money blogger Faith Archer emphasizes that to ever stop working, we have to reject the idea that pensions are boring. Faith ignites urgency around the workplace pension and shares how we can optimize this financial benefit to our - not our employers’ -- advantage.

HustleCrew founder and negotiations expert Abadesi Osunsade reminds us that negotiations are only over when we say they are. In this episode, we abolish limiting beliefs around negotiations and learn how and why women must negotiate differently in a patriarchal system.

Savings. An emergency fund. A rainy day fund. But have you ever considered a stability fund? In this episode, Brooklyn Plans founder and certified financial planner Kristen Euretig discusses what ‘’being good with money’’ really means and shares tricks for creating a savings plan, even when you have to make emotional trade-offs.

The stories and characters we see on screen condition our societal definition of normal -- and that includes perpetuating the idea that women aren’t the face of wealth. In this episode, screenwriter Amy Fox shares her experience as lead writer of ‘’Equity’’ -- one of the only Wall Street-genre films that puts unapologetic, complex female protagonists at the center.

Naming a [financial] trauma is key to overcoming it. In this episode, we’re leaning into vulnerability: leaving shame at the door, revealing the nature of our own -- often fraught -- relationships with money, and getting honest about our money mistakes.