One Million Euro Stories

In this episode Iris Mettendaf talks to Raisa Ghazi about a Women’s Leadership Strategy. Raisa talks about the importance of negotiation. Raisa: “Negotiation is a mindset. In the beginning it was really hard for me as well, but when I started using particular tricks and tools to negotiate more effectively, I became better. Negotiation is an important skill to empower for women. You need to develop...

In this ‘food for thought’ episode Iris Mettendaf talks to Raisa Ghazi of women leadership’s program about self-promotion. Self-promotion is to present what you have achieved to others. Raisa shares why she finds self promotion so important for your career or business and which difficulties women face with self-promotion. Raisa is a big advocate for self-promotion.

Iris Mettendaf talks in this episode about the Psychology of Winning and the conditions for succes. Iris will talk about mindset, confidence and self efficacy. Self efficacy is the belief in one’s capability to succeed in a particular situation. Self efficacy is more than belief and has different components which one is observational learning. Iris will talk about self efficacy, training with runn...

Sandra van Beest is the founder of Social Handshake and talks about raising her first million euro capital as a solo founder. Sandra: “why don’t we make it a whole lot easier for a lot of people to contribute to a better world. That’s why I founded the Social Handshake.” I realized really soon that this is fin tech and I needed funding to build the platform. So I started out a journey to raise my...

In this part 2 episode Iris Mettendaf talks to Arosha Brouwer of Quan about well-being and raising capital. Arosha talks about the importance of a strategy and having a plan. Arosha shares her experience with the accelerator program y combinator: “so many amazing founders who build successful businesses. They share the lessons from pre product market fit. They share the lessons from when I was in...

In this ‘food for thought’ episode Iris Mettendaf talks with Arosha Brouwer of Quan about how to handle rejections when you are raising capital for your business.

In this ‘food for thought’ episode Iris Mettendaf talks to Wendy Broersen about the book: Ready for female leadership. “Women are stil overly mentored and under sponsored” - Wendy Broersen She talks about the importance of men in your life. What do you think about this topic? Listen to this episode and let me know on social media.

In this episode Iris Mettendaf talks to Arosha Brouwer of Quan about the importance of well-being. Arosha says: “The softness of well-being dare I say yoga, meditation and mindfulness is replaced with actual data. Team: this could be our achilles’ heel.” Arosha Brouwer shares her journey of raising capital for Quan and the importance of corporate financial goals with well-being.

In this 'food for thought' episode Founder Geta talks about her baby carrier that saves babies lives with electronic devices. She shares the clinical study that she has done and the impact that she makes in babies lives.  

In this episode Iris Mettendaf talks to Shima Zeroual about sales. Shima says: "we are all selling all the time". In this episode we talk about sales, negotiation and communicating the price of your product or service. “When you name your price for your product or service, you get so nervous and you continue talking “ Shima says ‘This says it all’. Let’s talk about sales!

In this episode Iris Mettendaf talks to Shokoofeh Ketabchi about when you have big dreams and things happen that are not in your control. The dream Shokoofeh had went ‘on hold’. In that moment everything went silent. She needs to find a new way. Listen to her story.

Welcome to One million euro stories. Iris Mettendaf interviews female founders who raise €500.000 and more. She talks to different guests and experts about venture capital, tech ecosystem, marketing, sales, psychological concepts, failure and succes.