The Female Economy

Artificial intelligence is transforming the workforce, but the people most likely to feel the impact aren't who most headlines are talking about. Women make up less than half of the workforce, yet they hold 83% of the jobs researchers consider most vulnerable to AI disruption. The question isn't whether AI is changing work. The question is who gets hit first. In this episode, Ashley expl...

For decades, some of the most important conversations about money, business, and power happened in rooms where women simply weren't invited. From the boardrooms of Fortune 500 companies to the fairways of Augusta National Golf Club, access to information, relationships, and opportunities often came down to who was allowed in the room. In this episode, Ashley explores the hidden cost of exclus...

It is 1988, and you're walking into the bank again. You have the business plan. You have the numbers. You have the experience. But you still can't get a business loan without a man's signature. In this episode, Ashley explores one of the most overlooked moments in women's economic history and how access to capital continues to shape who gets to build, scale, and succeed. From t...

Nearly 90% of women-owned businesses generate less than $100,000 per year. The easy explanation is that women face more barriers to growth. And while those barriers are very real, this episode asks a more challenging question: how much of staying small is a genuine choice, and how much is the result of a system that never expected women to build empires in the first place? Ashley examines the data...

In 1974, a woman could have a job, a salary, and a perfect payment history and still be denied a credit card in her own name. That's not ancient history. That's within the lifetime of millions of women living today.  In this debut episode of The Female Economy, host Ashley Braswell (founder of LUMI and After Organic) explores the financial history most of us were never taught and why und...