Hot Girl Finance

Anna Wintour ordered from her personally. Jennifer Lopez wore the first thing she ever designed. But Melissa Odabash started out selling bikinis from a bag backstage, barely making a dollar on each one. Twenty-five years and 70 countries later, she's never taken outside investment and still owns every bit of her brand. Melissa Odabash MBE is the founder and designer of her eponymous luxury swi...

Amanda Cassatt helped bring Ethereum to market as CMO of ConsenSys, then founded the web3 firm Serotonin, co-founded NFT platform Mojito, and wrote a book on web3 marketing. She makes the case that most of us are quietly losing money without realising it. Our savings sit in accounts earning next to nothing while the bank keeps the difference. In this episode: ◼️ Why she thinks the economy has beco...

Crypto talk. Most of us are quietly nodding along with no clue what any of it means. So today it's a crash course, we're going back to basics. Crypto, blockchain, bitcoin, ethereum, web3, defi and tokenization. By the end, you'll actually know what it’s all about: ◼️ Why crypto is built on cryptography, the same math that keeps your messages and bank login safe ◼️ Why "on the bloc...

Sharmadean Reid built a beauty empire from a nail salon in East London — and she's done it again from scratch. She grew up on free school meals in Wolverhampton, started working for entrepreneurs at 14, and turned a £20-a-week cash-in-hand job into a career building cultural phenomena. WAH Nails. Beautystack. And now 39 BC, a bathing brand that went from idea to nine stores across three countr...

Nick Hanauer was one of Jeff Bezos' first investors. Now he's telling other billionaires they have too much money. He grew up working in his family's pillow factory, helped start Amazon before anyone believed people would shop online, and sold a single company to Microsoft for $6 billion. By every measure, the system worked perfectly for him. That's exactly why he wants to tear it...

She started selling vintage on eBay with no business school, no business plan, and no idea what a P&L was. She built it into a $350M empire. Then it was gone. No co-founder. No safety net. Just instinct — and the brutal lessons that came when instinct wasn't enough. In this episode, Sophia Amoruso — founder of Nasty Gal, author of #Girlboss, and now investor at Trust Fund backing the next...

She built Peanut while raising her son, funding the early product with her own savings. Today it's used by 5M+ women across fertility, pregnancy, motherhood and menopause. But that's not why she's here. She's here because professional mothers are doing everything right — and still falling behind. Men are syndicating deals amongst themselves, sharing investments, making each other rich. Women aren'...

She left school at 15, sold vintage from a market stall at 14, and opened her first shop in Ibiza at 19 with €200 and zero backup plan. No investors. No loans. Just a vision and the relentless energy to build it. In this episode, Annie Doble, founder of Annie's Ibiza — the brand with fans including Kate Moss, Zendaya and Taylor Swift and stores in Ibiza, London and New York — breaks down what it a...

Maria Hatzistefanis started with £20,000 in savings, no investors, and a home office. Today she runs two global beauty brands and has written the manual on building your first million. The question isn't whether you can do it. It's whether you know the rules. In this episode of Hot Girl Finance, Maria Hatzistefanis, founder of Rodial and Nip+Fab and author of How To Make Your First Million, breaks...

If you are in a relationship and not thinking about money, you are already behind. And if that relationship ends, you could lose everything you never knew you were entitled to. In this episode of Hot Girl Finance, Maria Fiorito, high net worth divorce lawyer, breaks down the financial reality of marriage, divorce, and why the women who stay silent are the ones who lose the most. In this episode: ...

What's actually keeping you in that job, that relationship, that life? Money. And the fact that nobody ever taught you how it works. School taught you the area of a triangle. Nobody taught you how to build wealth. Poppy Jamie is a serial entrepreneur and three-time founder, and the host of Hot Girl Finance, a podcast helping women reclaim their understanding of and access to money. In the first ep...