Having arrived in Britain as a five-year-old refugee fleeing the Nazis on the Kindertransport, Dame Stephanie Shirley went on to build one of Britain's most successful software companies. She built a business valued at $3 billion and has dedicated the last three decades of her life to philanthropy, giving away most of her personal wealth. Here are Dame Stephanie’s three crisis comforts.

Full episode

https://www.crisiswhatcrisis.com/podcasts/dame-stephanie-shirley-on-91-years-of-resilience-and-brilliance/

Links

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/damestephanie_/?hl=en

Website: https://www.steveshirley.com/

Book

Let It Go (2019): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Let-Go-Extraordinary-Entrepreneur-Philanthropist/dp/0241395496

Charities

Autistica: https://www.autistica.org.uk/

Autism at Kingwood: https://www.kingwood.org.uk/

Prior’s Court: https://www.priorscourt.org.uk/

The Oxford Internet Institute: https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/

The Worshipful Company of Information Technologists: https://wcit.org.uk/

Stream/buy ‘Allies’ by Some Velvet Morning: https://ampl.ink/qp6bm

Some Velvet Morning Website: www.somevelvetmorning.co.uk

Your Daily Practice: Sleep by Myndstream: https://open.spotify.com/track/5OX9XgJufFz9g63o2Dv2i5?si=b2f9397c92084682

This podcast is brought to you by Crisis What Crisis? Productions and Coulson Partners

Host – Andy Coulson

CWC team: Jane Sankey, Louise Difford, Mabel Pickering

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