The Purse Podcast

Eva is a digital leader who has pioneered the Internet, e-payments, e-commerce fashion solutions and e-CRM. Eva co-founded the world's first Internet cafe in 1994.  And she developed fashion web shops for (including) Topshop, Topman, Dorothy Perkins, Racing Green and Burton. After a successful Crowdcube fundraising campaign in January 2017, Eva joined Bluebella as a non-executive director, ov...

Tina Weeks is the founder of Serenity Financial Planning, a unique financial planning company that aims to deliver Financial Life Planning to as many people as possible in the UK. Tina has been a financial adviser since 1996 and specialises in Financial Life Planning. This is a new technique that encourages and inspires clients to identify what is most important to them and what they really want t...

Matthew Stafford has worked with startups since 2010 and is the co-founder of 9others, a global entrepreneurs network, and Dot Matrix Group, an angel investment syndicate. 9others was established in 2011 and is now a global network of 4,000+ entrepreneurs in 45+ cities who meet over dinner to help each other solve the challenges of business and life. Established in 2016 Dot Matrix Group is an ange...

Katie Donovan is one of the leading pay-equity experts and advocates in the US.  She innovated and authored the widely praised and quickly adopted restrictions on the common question of salary history in hiring and compensation decisions. In doing so, she proved the processes are biased. Katie's innovation has led to 34 laws and executive orders within four years to be passed on the state and...

Vicki Saunders is an entrepreneur, award-winning mentor, advisor to the next generation of change makers and leading advocate for entrepreneurship as a way of creating positive transformation in the world.  Vicki is Founder of #radical generosity and SheEO, a global community of radically generous women supporting women-led Ventures working on the World’s To Do List. Vicki has co-founded and...

Shelley Kuipers is building the world she wants to live in. As an activist in business, entrepreneurship and investment, she is hell bent on defeating the status quo one project at a time, and replacing it with options that are more equitable, feminist and ecologically sustainable; revolutionary options that drive greater value for both business and consumer. Shelley is a co-founder of IOVIA and A...

Julia Elliott Brown, CEO and Founder of Enter The Arena , is the UK's leading fundraising and growth advisor working exclusively with women entrepreneurs. With 20+ years commercial experience developing, building and funding high-growth start-ups, including the award-winning online shoe design brand Upper Street, and internet pioneer UpMyStreet.com, Julia's mission and passion is to bring her weal...

Lauren Winfield is the founder and CEO of Signum City, a mobile app that illuminates the power of money through gamifying the stock market.  She aims to democratise investing and financial literacy, especially for Gen Z. After watching herself and her peers struggle to find their footing financially, she knows firsthand the perils and power of money. She graduated from Belmont University with...

Gail Wong is the General Partner for Her Capital: a venture capital fund with a laser focus on female founders. They believe in the strength, drive and potential of female entrepreneurs across Southeast Asia, the world’s largest emerging market. Gail is also a certified coach enabling abundance for women; a SheEO activator and gender-lens investor. She describes herself as a whole-braine...

Veronica Mihai Das is one the of founding partners at Bloomwater Capital, a hedge fund based in the British Virgin Islands that employs quantitative algorithmic trading strategies for traditional cryptocurrency markets. With over 15 years experience in management consulting for enterprise programmes in non-for-profit organisations, private corporations and the public sector in the UK and Europe, V...

Anna Sofat is the founder of Addidi, a financial services boutique for women.  Anna sold the business to the Progeny Group who are spearheading a move to bring all your wealth, tax and legal advisers into one room. Prior to founding Addidi, Anna was the managing director at Fiona Price & Partners, the first business set up specifically to provide financial advice for women by women. She g...

Sarah is a technologist, entrepreneur and angel investor. In 2014 she co-founded the fast-growing and award-winning angel network, Angel Academe. Their mission is to introduce more women to angel investing and to invest in women founded and co-founded technology startups with high growth potential. Investments include: Provenance, which uses the blockchain to provide supply chain transparency...

Barbara Stewart is a Chartered Financial Analyst with 28 years in the investment management industry, five years as a foreign currency trader and then two decades as a portfolio manager investing on behalf of high net worth entrepreneurs.  Ten years ago Barbara saw a need to challenge outdated financial industry stereotypes and share positive messages about women and money.  To...