Female Startup Club

You might have come across this brand in one of your Instagram trawl sessions. It’s pink, it’s sequins, it’s sparkly and, I liken it to what happens inside my brain most days. I’m talking about the cult favourite brand called Dyspnea founded by two cute women, Jameen and Rachel. We get real talking about the good moments and when things can be quite low, what happens when someone hacks your Instagram, how expensive fashion week really is to participate in and how sometimes it’s about going with the flow, starting small and scaling really slow instead of really fast.LINKS WE MENTION:Dyspnea's websiteDyspnea's InstagramJameen's Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In today's episode I'm joined by Helen Reavey. Helen’s a woman that knows a thing or two about hair, and something we often don't think about - our scalp. After spending her career working on fashion week's around the world and editorial shoots with mega brands like Fendi, she started to see the negative effects of heat and products on our head, and set out to create a modern hair care business designed to keep your scalp and hair healthy.We’re chatting about her journey and how she’s gone about creating a product that didn't exist in the market, the power of a striking brand, what challenges come along with committing to a 100% sustainable brand and the argument for Amazon vs Netaporter.LINKS WE MENTION:Act+Acre's websiteAct+Acre's Instagram  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On today’s show I’m joined by Alyssa Atkins, the founder of a fertility startup called Lilia. Lilia is your egg fertility concierge; a company that helps women to understand their options when it comes to children and fertility by helping you create a personal fertility profile, matching you up to the right doctor and doing all the research for you when it comes to egg freezing and insurance. We’re chatting about personal experiences that shape the way you move forward in the world, and what it was like to successfully go through the Y Combinator program - the world’s most sought after accelerator, how to lean into our energy cycles and the most important piece of advice she lives by: "spend money on what will grow the business, and nothing on the things that won't." LINKS WE MENTION:Lilia's websiteAlyssa's InstagramAlyssa's Twitter Book: Ray Dalio, Principles Book: David Goggins, Can't Hurt Me Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining me today on Female Startup Club is Trinity Mouzon Wofford, the founder of superfood wellness company, Golde. They produce approachable, effective wellness essentials for inner and outer radiance that are powered by single origin turmeric. Trinity’s a young powerhouse with a great story to share, she was the youngest black founder to have a brand stocked in Sephora at just 23 years old, and was named Forbes 30 under 30 this year. We speak a lot about her journey in building this brand as a black woman, why the Black Lives Matter movement has x10 her business, her learnings from along the way and some great insights into the world of wholesale.LINKS WE MENTION:Golde's Website: https://golde.co/Golde's InstagramTrinity's Instagram  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Did you know that female-founded companies make up 6.8% of funded startups and receive less than 3% of global venture capital funding?? Let that sink in for a second. Joining me today on the show is Tanya Rolfe and Gail Wong from Her Capital. A venture capital firm for women. Her Capital focuses on the strength, drive and potential of female entrepreneurs across Southeast Asia and invests from pre seed stage through to series B. Both women have a track record of building incredible startups and have worked with hundreds of visionary female-led businesses. Listen to this episode if you want to learn about the world of VC, what place women have in it and what needs to change. LINKS WE MENTION:Her Capital website Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lauren Armes is an entrepreneur, speaker and the UK’s leading business coach for entrepreneurs and experts in the wellness industry. She founded Well To Do Global in 2014 as a personal project and had no clue she would grow it exponentially into a globally recognised - and profitable - platform. We’re digging into how she built the business through multiple revenue streams and how she cuts through in a saturated market.Stay tuned into the end of the episode for Lauren’s 6 quick questions!LINKS WE MENTION:Well To Global's websiteLauren's Instagram  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lauren (Silvers) Warwick and Lisa Maree are the founders behind the on-demand beauty startup, Glamazon, that launched from Lauren’s bedroom floor more than 7 years ago. Together they built Australia’s first and leading tech platform that provides real-time bookings for freelance hair and makeup artists, and connects them to clients through an app. From a merger in 2016 to raising capital, a successful appearance on Shark Tank, plenty of ups and downs, and their recent exit in January - this is the story of what a startup is really like. And remember to keep listening to the 6 quick questions at the very end where Lauren shares how she wins the day and where she hangs out to get smarter.LINKS WE MENTION:Lauren's InstagramUrban Company's website: https://www.urbancompany.com/sydneyUrban Company's Beauty InstagramUrban Company's Instagram Blinkest App  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today I’m joined by Keira Rumble, founder and CEO of Krumbled Foods - the home of Beauty Bites, Australia’s first and only collagen bars. They’re tiny sweet treats that are packed with goodness to illuminate your skin, help with anti ageing and make you glow from the inside out. During our talk, Keira shares her experiences in building a brand of this size and what went wrong when she first started out, how she launched nationwide in Australia into Priceline and Coles, what it's like to trademark a brand, getting into Sephora’s accelerator program and her advice to women who are just starting out. LINKS WE MENTION:Krumbled Foods website: https://krumbledfoods.com/Krumbled Foods InstagramKeira's InstagramSephora's Seed Accelerator Program  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Imagine having an idea so big that it changes the way we live and betters the world… Meet Blueland, a company that’s disrupting what’s under your kitchen sink and the way you clean your house. Sarah Paiji Yoo went from Harvard Business School to investment banking, launching multiple startups to Blueland. A purpose driven company that’s reimagining cleaning products and the way we consume plastic. Sarah’s mission is to eliminate single use plastic and become a company that lives in every household. We talk about her journey and how this idea came about (spoiler alert: there were multiple ideas before this one), the process of bringing something into the world that literally didn’t exist and the moment that Kim Kardashian tweeted about the company 3(!) times after seeing it on Sharktank.LINKS WE MENTION:Blueland's websiteBlueland's InstagramSarah's Instagram  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Running a business can be really isolating, and when Sapphire Bates when through that sense of loneliness herself while running her first business she decided to do something about it and start The Coven. It’s an online community for female founders and freelancers, where you subscribe to a monthly plan that suits your budget and gets you access to workshops, events, online resources and a highly engaged support network so you don’t have to do it alone. Right now she has around 1000 paying members and another 2500 on a waiting list to join. She’s also just launched an amazing course on how to start and grow a membership driven platform and it’s full of the good stuff. We chat about what it’s been like to build her business from the ground up and the importance of community, taking learnings from her previous business to create her membership based venture and the ins and outs of running a successful platform.LINKS WE MENTION:The Coven's website: https://thecovengirlgang.com/The Coven's InstagramSapphire Bates Instagram Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.