The Purse Podcast

Paulina Tenner is an entrepreneur, an angel investor, an author, a TEDx speaker and a founder of GrantTree , which started with a purpose to help tech startups navigate the complex world of government funding. Since 2010 the team grew organically from 2 to 50 and raised over £200M for more than 600 technology startups and scaleups using solely government funding schemes such as R&D tax credits...

Mary Waring is the founder of Wealth for Women Ltd, an award winning financial advisory firm, working with midlife women to help them leap into the next stage of their life: whether that be moving on from divorce, reducing working hours to enjoy more free time, or starting a new business. She uses her coaching skills to help clients determine what they want the next stage of their life to look lik...

Gloria Feldt is an acclaimed expert on women, power, and leadership with frontline leadership  experience, a bestselling author, and in-demand keynote speaker. She is co-founder and President of Take The Lead, whose mission reflects her life’s passion: to prepare, develop, inspire, and propel  women to take their fair and equal share of leadership positions across all sectors by 2025 by...

Judy Piatkus is an entrepreneur, publisher and business coach specialising in conscious leadership. She founded Piatkus when she was in her 20s and grew the company to become an international brand, before selling it in 2007, just before the global financial crash that she had shrewdly foreseen. She is now a keynote speaker, an angel investor, and a coach and mentor to start-ups.  In 2011 she...

Barbara Stewart is a Chartered Financial Analyst with 28 years of investment industry experience; five years as a foreign currency trader and then more than two decades as a portfolio manager investing on behalf of high net worth entrepreneurs. For the past five years she has been on the Advisory Board of Kensington Capital Partners. 12 years ago Barbara saw a need to challenge outdated financial...

Sergey Young is a longevity investor and visionary with a mission to extend healthy lifespans of one billion people. To do that, Sergey founded the Longevity Vision Fund to accelerate life extension technological breakthroughs and to make longevity affordable and accessible to all. Sergey is on the Board of Directors of the American Federation of Aging Research ( AFAR ) and the Development Sponsor...

Heather Jackson is a serial entrepreneur with a passion for social movement and extensive experience in the field of diversity and talent management.  The former CEO and founder of An Inspirational Journey, Heather has supported more than 150 organisations, with over 15,000 women influenced by her programmes and initiatives. An active media advocate, Heather is a regular keynote speaker and c...

Bridget Greenwood is the founder of The Bigger Pie, an organisation focused on supporting women in blockchain and emerging tech.  As women represent less than 10% of those involved in this sector, The Bigger Pie focus their efforts on supporting the incredibly talented and pioneering #womeninblockchain. Bridget is a firm believer in having more women involved with the design, development and...

Angelo Robles is the Founder and CEO of the Family Office Association (US/global). He helps the world’s most successful families create modern, multi-generationally dynamic, international family offices, that are digitally savvy, identify exponential opportunities and hazards in becoming truly anti-fragile. We cover the following in our conversation: What is a single family office? The definition...

Shaun Richards is an independent economist who specialises in inflation measurement and monetary economics. This follows a career in the City of London where he specialised in derivatives (mainly options) on interest-rates and bonds. He has also worked in Tokyo. He is a Bank of England (BoE) watcher which covers the issues of monetary policy and quantitative easing (QE).  Shaun has also trade...

Victoria Pynchon is the co-founder of She Negotiates, a consulting firm and training workshop for women that nests today’s most effective negotiation strategies in the gender culture in which women do business. Although Victoria's focus is now on closing the wage and income gap for women, she has been training lawyers and business people of both genders in mutual benefit negotiation stra...

Marina Spindler is a Business Strategy and Communications Consultant. She worked at the oldest American think tank founded by Andrew Carnegie, and reported directly to the editor of the award-winning Foreign Policy Magazine. Her role was business development, not writing. But she received her Masters in Public Policy from NYU when she was 40 and all these experiences taught her to ask deeper...

Donna Griffit is a corporate storyteller. She has worked globally for over 16 years with Fortune 500 companies, startups and investors in a wide variety of industries. She has consulted and trained clients in over 30 countries, helping them create, edit and deliver verbal and written presentations, pitches and messages.  Donna has the ability to magically spin raw data into compelling stories...

Rebecca Chesworth is an equities strategist, a thought leader and a conference speaker.  She loves to share a passion for equities investment built on extensive market and client knowledge from 30 years as a fund manager, an analyst and an investment specialist.  Rebecca is an advocate of active investment selection and integration of ESG principles utilising che...

Jessica Espinoza is Vice President at DEG, the German Development Finance Institution (KfW Group) and the Chair of the 2X Challenge, a global initiative that has mobilised over $4.5 billion of gender lens investments since its launch at the G7 Summit in 2018.  Jessica has extensive experience sourcing, structuring and executing debt, mezzanine and equity deals in emerging markets with a stron...

Foong Ng is the founder and CEO of impact startup, Matchable.  Foong was previously a Director at PwC advising on structuring M&A deals for Private Equity and Real Estate Funds.  She also founded Suit & Pie, a blog and community for and about inspiring women (and men!) inspired by the Lean In / Sheryl Sandberg movement, and the Suits & Startups community, bring...

Ulla Huotari is an Investment Manager at Finnfund, a Finnish development financier and professional impact investor. Ulla focuses on origination and execution of Financial Sector investments and projects with gender initiatives. Ulla has been one of the driving forces of Finnfund’s Gender Strategy and Finnfund has since April 2019 invested over €121 million in companies that promote women’s empowe...

Katica Roy is a gender economist and the CEO and founder of Pipeline, an award-winning SaaS company that leverages artificial intelligence to identify and drive economic gains through gender equity. Pipeline launched the first gender equity app on Salesforce's AppExchange.  The Pipeline platform was named one of TIME Magazine's Best Inventions of 2019 and Fast Company's 2020 World's Most Inno...

Barbara Huson (previously known as Barbara Stanny), is the leading authority on women, wealth and power. As a bestselling author, financial therapist, teacher & wealth coach, Barbara has helped millions take charge of their finances and their lives. Barbara's background in business, her years as a journalist, her Master's Degree in Counselling Psychology, her extensive research, and her person...

Diana Biggs is CEO of Valour, the issuer of exchange-traded products providing investors with exposure to innovations such as digital assets. Their first product, Bitcoin Zero, is listed on the Nordic Growth Market stock exchange in Sweden. In additional to her role at Valour, Diana is an Associate Fellow with Said Business School, University of Oxford and a Board Member for the World Economic For...

Julia Angeles joined Baillie Gifford in 2008 and is the Portfolio Manager of the Health Innovation Strategy.  Prior to Baillie Gifford, Julia worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Co advising firms in Denmark, Russia and Hungary. Since joining Baillie Gifford Julia has worked on a number of regional and global investment strategies. Julia has a passion for the transformation ta...

Vicky Pryce is Chief Economic Adviser and a board member at the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR). She was previously Senior Managing Director at FTI Consulting, Director General for Economics at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and Joint Head of the UK Government Economic Service. Before that she was Partner at the accounting and consulting firm KPMG after...

Cindy Gallop is the founder and CEO of MakeLoveNotPorn launched at TED 2009 – ‘Pro-sex. Pro-porn. Pro-knowing the difference’.  In 2013 she turned MakeLoveNotPorn into the world’s first user-generated, human-curated social sex video-sharing platform, socialising and normalising sex in order to make it easier to talk about, to promote consent, communication, good sexual values and good sexual...

Katrine Marçal is an award-winning author, journalist and keynote speaker. Her first book “Who Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner” has been translated into more than 20 languages and was hailed by Margaret Atwood as “a smart, funny, readable book on economics, money and women”.  It was named one of The Guardian’s Books of the Year in 2015. Katrine works for Dagens Nyheter, the largest broadsheet news...

Heather Ettinger is the CEO and Founder of Luma Wealth Advisors (US). As a champion for women and girls for over 30 years, Heather Ettinger is widely recognised for her unique experience and dedication to helping women build their financial acumen and wealth, culminating in the founding of Luma Wealth Advisors in 2017. She specialises in helping clients and their families create str...