Girls In Property

Shaz Ahmed is a mortgage broker and expert in how to grow property investors' portfolios with creative lending. He originally started out working with a high street bank in lending and after being 'let go' found himself self-employed with no network, clients or brand. He started networking which was an unfamiliar world to him, built his 'Where's Shaz' brand and now is...

Its been nine days since our first ever Girls in Property Retreat and we are STILL buzzing! With a day packed with amazing speakers, activities and networking, we topped it off (before cocktails on the lawn!) with a special live podcast! Our three guest speakers for the day Lexie Carducci, Lia Loewenthal and Charlotte Edwards all sat on the pod panel where they shared their wins, answered question...

Rosalia Lazzara-Tilley  is a social media manager, personal brand strategist & content marketing creator. Her life was all in order with a high-flying banking job until she was made redundant during the pandemic but ever the fighter she doubled down, worked to her strengths and realised she didn't need the company car, phone & laptop to make her good at what she does! Rosalia now help...

In his capacity as a small business advisor David Taylor knows what a business in the UK needs to survive and thrive. Most importantly he goes a step further to include the business owner as part of a holistic approach where the good of entrepreneur is put first and understanding that their business will grow as a result of proper planning, education and strategy. With an eye on the property world...

The only thing that ensures every deal works & every refurb makes sense in the long run is FINANCE! There is nothing EASIER to get your head around that ensures your dream business doesn't end up an un-planned an unprofitable mess. Listen in as Sophie, Athena & Simon share their tips and set out the basics of business finance! How to Get Involved With The Girls in Property   👇  👩 Jo...

Apart from running an amazing property business Athena is also a marketing whizz! Today she shares a mini-masterclass in marketing & branding with the girls focussing on new property businesses.  Have you ever wondered: What the difference is between marketing and branding and which to do first? How to build trust & credibility through marketing? Whether business branding should be separat...

When Tej Talks graduated and wasn't satisfied with working for other people he began his own recruitment business. The model was scalable but still tied him to hours-related work which left him with less time the more it earned. Research led him to the world of property where he now has a portfolio that pays him to work when he wants - all thanks to learning from mistakes and becoming investi...

This week the girls (and Simon) chat about the stages of setting up a business with an eye on how to detect and overcome OVERWHELM in all its guises! How to Get Involved With The Girls in Property   👇  👩 Join our GIP Community 🎟️  Be the First To Hear About Upcoming Events  🖥️ Want to Learn How to Raise Private Finance? Start with this Video  🧠 Take Our 3 Min Quiz to Find Your First/Next Step i...

Milly Bellotti has previously managed social media for some huge brands and even launched cruise ships (online)! In 2019 she and her late partner took the plunge into property in the north east of England. After finding her new profession a lonely place Milly leaned into her strengths with social media and built her network but noticed how much she could help other property entrepreneurs be more e...

Laura-Jane Hand specialises in helping unhappy women with business and relationship coaching to huge effect. She has been in property for fifteen years beginning with buy to lets, working through flips and conversions eventually branching out into matching developers with the perfect investors for projects and being less hands-on. Feeling the calling to be a coach when she kept coming across other...

Charlie Tarr has been investing in property for 15 years having started out teaming up with the boss of a gambling business to put the profits to work in property with carte blanche. He worked to his strengths, pursued what piqued his interest. After building a sizeable HMO portfolio and realising what EVERYONE needs is a capable property development platform he launched Stacked in 2021. There are...

It's time for some knowledge bombs! Sophie & Simon go through all basic property strategies covering definitions of: Buy to lets Rent to rent Property flips Joint ventures Types on investment ....whilst being brutally honest about the realities of each strategy. Is a rent to rent HMO passive income? Is a flip just sloshing paint onto a tired pile? How do you even find finance when you&apo...

Helen Turner was with COHO on day one with zero paying clients and in a short time realised how the tech start-up was solving so many pain-points for tenants and HMO operators with their platform. Today COHO is looking to double it's 7,000 managed tenancies across the UK by listening  to it's cliets from both sides, add more features and life & time-saving processes to become THE pla...

Proving that in every challenge there is opportunity - Lisa was an emergency department nurse practitioner who was getting into property when a chance encounter connected her with a supported living provider. The resulting chemistry of a love for both property and providing those most in need of suitable accommodation has led her to build the supported living academy  alongside her own portfolio a...

Sue Sims has 30 years of experience in property - buying her first buy to let at 21 years old. Over the years she's built up her own portfolio as well as starting Genie Homes which manages lets and HMOs and will hit 1,00- tenancies during 2023 after only five years trading! Separately Sue is one of the co-founders of the network community Partners in Property which operates in Birmingham, Lon...

With all three Girls each coming to business at different times and different angles what are the different ways they have experienced and dealt with mindset challenges? Realising there is so much to cover with mindset and how pivotal it has been on keeping one-woman enterprises on track we decided a miniseries is what we need!  This episode is all about the feelings and attitudes around taking th...

After years in property the Girls regularly get asked all about their deals - from sourcing the property, doing the market research to ensure success through to putting together and negotiating a deal that everyone loves and then onto the real work - tenanting and running their properties!  This week Julia asks all these questions and the girls reveal every bit of their first Rent to Rent HMO deal...

Polly Ogden Duffy   has worked her way up from suddenly managing a single estate agent office after the departure of another manager - she learned on the fly, worked extremely hard and is now the MD of John D Wood & Co. . She sits down with Sophie & Athena to describe how building culture, binning the nonsense of hustle culture & giving everyone what they need to excel in your business...

Athena & Sophie find out from Steph how she started a business in her 40's with her sister Nicky , who on the surface is a polar opposite without having any meltdowns! Being details vs. big picture are skills each person has and together that can make a winning combination, where Nicky finds the details that make a deal come together as expected and Stephanie has helped build a brand that...

There are few people who can honestly say they have changed the world - and Bonnie Fatio has been doing it for decades! After travelling the world as part of a micro credit fund she realised that it was the women in all communites that she came across who were both doing all the moving of societies and having the hardest time in terms of equality and quality of life. She saw a need to unite and in...

Not talking about money helps to preserve the gender pay gap and stops us from understanding the reasons why it exists and how to close it. Sarah is the person who opens up the wealth growth conversation, un-weirds money and helps us all understand it better through her property training company Cogito Wealth which helps established entrepreneurs and new starters in property to think differently a...

With such a great response from all our listeners about our Rent to Rent episode Sophie & Simon delve into the GiP mailbag and answer all of your questions (with a little help from our friend Henri Ghijben from last week's pod ). 1) Market research:  How do I know if a property is in a 'good' location?  Researching  your target tenant & what they are looking for How do I kno...

This week we are joined by Henri Ghijben who has experienced every entrepreneur's worst nightmare - a business failing. We hear the lowest point of Henri's experience and then the incredible story of how he came back with resilience and new knowledge to become a highly successful mentor in the property and tree surgery industries with multiple businesses and eventually his own podcast Fa...

It's all got too much - the Girls let loose their all-time property horror stories and latest issues! Business is never plain-sailing so this week we are sharing our pains and - most importantly - what we learned and how they will never happen again. Mushroom farming, secret electrical cupboards and being strong-armed into paying for drainage issues on a property they don't own yet PLUS...

From taking the plunge and buying her first flip property at auction after doing all the free education she could absorb, Ruth Hunter now runs Veredus Property investment. It hasn't been a smooth path though - through having to refund all her wedding events at the dawn of the Covid pandemic and then selling the family home to move back to rented accommodation to free up the cash to start agai...