Women On The Rise with Jen Blandos

When this week's guest, a hospitality consultant and vintage aficionado, found her entrepreneurial dreams are in jeopardy due to the pandemic, she pivoted to a bold bartering strategy to keep her secondhand store afloat. Jelena Dancetovic is the GM and part owner of Retold, a secondhand clothing store in Dubai. She has 15 years of experience in hospitality and has been passionate about secondhand...

In a society where women receive less than 2% of capital investments, this week's podcast guest is on a mission to challenge the status quo and use gender as a lens to empower female founders. Heather Henyon is the founder of Mindshift Capital, a gender lens VC fund. She has been investing in women for over a decade and has experience in building seven figure businesses around the world. In this e...

Today's guest, Maxine Cunningham created Pick My Brain to unlock a global marketplace of conversations, services, and expertise to help you dream out loud and manifest your vision. "Conversations have changed my life so many times in so many significant ways. And conversations have given me energy and perspective and ideas and relationships and new paths faster than any other type of medium." -Max...

This week's guest on the Women on the Rise Podcast is Olga Fleming - an angel investor specializing in tech-related investments such as Fintech, PropTech, Aviation Tech, and Travel Tech. She is a lawyer with a background in compliance, and she is passionate about helping startups to succeed. Olga is an angel investor who focuses on investing in early-stage startups, providing them with both financ...

In this episode of the Women on the Rise podcast, Jen's 14-year old daughter Eva shares her experience of growing up with a mother who is an entrepreneur. Eva discusses how she felt when her mother couldn't make it to all of her school events and provides words of wisdom for all working mothers, emphasising the importance of taking time for oneself and communicating with your children. Eva's...

After years of struggling to set boundaries and prioritize her own health and well-being, Jen (a self-confessed people pleaser) shares her empowering journey to establish healthy limits while making her business dreams a reality. In this episode, Jen opens up about how by finally prioritizing and setting clear boundaries she was able to focus on growing Female Fusion while also making time for her...

Female Fusion CEO, Jen Blandos, shares what it means to her to achieve her goal of helping other women build their businesses by offering an unorthodox pricing strategy that simultaneously challenges the status quo and tests the limits of her customers' willingness to pay. Jen shares several pricing strategies such as cost-based pricing, value-based pricing, pricing according to competitors, penet...

Discover how one entrepreneur grew her business by 5x in just one year - and how you can too! Jen Blandos, the founder of Female Fusion Network, shares her insights and expertise as a global entrepreneur, and how she created the right environment for Female Fusion Network to 5x its revenue in 2022. "On the first of January 2022, Female Fusion Network had 168 paying members. At the end of 2022, we...

Jen Blandos knows better than most how important it is to take care of oneself to ensure that the business succeeds, and in this episode, you will learn about Jen's reflections on the past 12 months of business, and the unprecedented challenges and opportunities faced by business owners in 2023. Jen learned about the importance of taking time to assess financials, time spent, and how to maximize h...

After being told 'no' her entire life, Jen Blandos defies expectations by facing a global recession, starting a business, moving to a new country, and overcoming a cancer diagnosis - all in pursuit of her entrepreneurial dream. In this podcast premiere, your host Jen Blandos shares her experiences in overcoming challenges as an entrepreneur, and how she learned to think big, take risks, and p...