A podcast for entrepreneurial women: founders, builders, changemakers shaping the world we live in.
Female founders, investors and startup ecosystem enablers share their stories, knowledge, fears and failures, moments of growth and pieces of advice.
With these conversations, we want to inspire more women to build their own businesses.
#16: Profit vs Mission: Can you truly pursue both? - Adriana Luna-Diaz
‘I am on a mission to make organic food mainstream, accessible to everyone regardless of their income level.’* While doing so, Adriana Luna-Diaz is building a profitable bootstrapped business based on the principles of holacracy (decentralised management model).
Adriana is co-founder and director of Tierre de Monte, a Mexico-based AgriTech company. Forbes Magazine named Adriana among the 100 most powerful women in Mexico in 2021.
Tierre de Monte creates products that improve soil fertility, protect crops and foster biodiversity. With a team of 9 and a large network of partners, the company has been operating in Mexico, Guatemala, Peru and Ecuador since 2015.
#15: The music industry, selling the company to SoundCloud, and the unflashy side of the CEO role - Hazel Savage
The way we listen to and create music has been undergoing massive change with the rise of technology. To discuss this change and what it feels like to build and sell a business, we invited Hazel Savage. A music industry veteran, she co-founded Musiio, a music technology company, in 2018. In spring 2022, after receiving many offers, Hazel and her co-founder Aron Pettersson sold Musiio to SoundCloud. Prior to that, Hazel was an early Shazam employee and worked at major music companies like Pandora and HMV (British music retailer). With 15 years experience in the music industry, Hazel is a true music-tech lifer.
#9: Fighting misinformation and quitting jobs in the pandemic to build a company - Jenny Romano
Jenny Romano, co-founder and CEO of The Newsroom, elaborates how artificial intelligence can help to fight misinformation, promote plurality and bring people with polar views to a common ground.
#8: Steaks derived from wood, competition with the petrochemical industry, CEO turned CTO - Florence Gschwend
Together with Florence Gschwend, co-founder and CTO of Lixea, we look at how biochemistry may help solve problems of food scarcity or accelerate transition of our civilisation to zero waste.
#5: Social entrepreneurship, self-discovery, and measuring impact – Alexandra Pastollnigg
The story of Alexandra Pastollnigg sounds like a movie plot. An established banking and wealth management professional, she went on holiday to Africa to climb Mount Kilimanjaro and write a book. This trip marked the beginning of her journey to social entrepreneurship.