HER ambition

Welcome to our Student Mini-Series! Where each week we’ll be talking with an influential student about her experience at university, her mistakes and successes, and her advice on we can make this year at uni the best it can be.

Joana Baptista is a multi-award winning social entrepreneur, public speaker and activist AND Economics & Management student at the University of Oxford.

Her social enterprise She., works to reverse taught prejudice by taking classic fairytales and rewriting them with a modern twist, and has reached over 15 countries and received endorsements from the likes of Peter Tatchell and Miriam Margolyes OBE.

Joana is also the co-founder of UniPear, an initiative to help minority and disadvantaged school students receive offers to Oxford University. Joana is also a 2 time TEDx speaker, with other notable talks including speaking for Facebook’s International Women’s Day, and to HRH Princess Anne.

Joana is the winner of several awards including the WeAreTheCity Rising Stars Entrepreneur and Startups Award, InspiringJuniors 2018, Women in Tech Most Promising Junior 2018, and the youngest ever recipient of the Women of the Future Young Star Award

In this episode, Joana and Josie discuss the habits that got Joana through her first year at Oxford and how to get out of your comfort zone in freshers week (even when you are insanely nervous!).

Connect with Joana:

Instagram: @jozeeebo

Twitter: @joanadbaptista 

Her Businesses:

@shedotmovement and @hellounipear

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LinkedIn: Josie Sequeira-Shuker

Instagram: josiesequeirashuker

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My guest today is someone who knows what it really takes to launch a business. And in fact, has spent the last three years committed to debunking the #GirlBoss myth and providing honest realities of what really goes on behind the scenes as a female founder.

@FionaGrayson is the Founder of @meetCandid - the UK's first Benefits Programme for all female business owners in the UK.

Fiona discusses her mentality around success, why we need to separate success from our Instagram following and her alternative vision of the #GirlBoss Movement.

Find out more about Can.Did [formerly She Can. She Did]:

Instagram @metcandid

https://meetcandid.com/

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Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE is a prodigy in every sense of the word. Aged 11, she was the youngest girl ever to pass A-level computing and was just 20 years old when she received her Master’s Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Oxford.

So as I’m sure you can tell, she’s potentially the most intimidating guest we’ve ever had on.

But thankfully, for me (and the rest of young women), Dr Anne-Marie has channelled her wealth of experience and pioneering spirit into co-founding Stemettes, an award-winning social initiative dedicated to inspiring the next generation of young women in STEM. Stemettes has exposed almost 50,000 young people across Europe to Anne-Marie’s vision for a more diverse science and tech community. Anne-Marie was awarded an MBE in 2017 for services to young women in STEM and in 2020 was voted the most influential woman in tech in the UK by Computer Weekly.

Dr Anne-Marie discusses how the world will change when there are 50:50 of men and women in tech, why she started Stemettes and the most important thing you can do to start a successful career.

Connect with Anne-Marie on Instagram: notyouraverageami

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My guest today is Theodora Bakare, the co-founder of thinkHER ambition. ThinkHER Ambition is a social enterprise on a mission to upskill the next generation of female leaders and the powerhouse behind this podcast. Theodora is passionate about breaking down barriers that young women face and wants to provide us with the tools and knowledge to turn our dreams into a reality. Theodora is recognised by Powerful Media as a Future Leader, with experience in both business analysis and project management. She currently works for a global bank working on large transformation projects.

Listen as Theodora discusses the importance of perseverance and tenacity, the skills of a business analyst and a beginners guide to email etiquette.

Theodora’s Linkedin: Theodora Bakare

Theodora’s Instagram: Theobass_

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Dr Radhika Thakrar is a Youtuber, Instagrammer, and doctor committed to showing what life as a doctor is REALLY like. So much so that throughout lockdown, she has been blessing over 14000 of us on Instagram and YouTube with her brilliant unpolished feed of life working in paediatrics. Whether it’s sharing her tips to keeping house plants alive or her shifts at the hospital, Radhika is authentic, open, and uplifting and shares her experience as life as a doctor and everything in between.

In this chat, Radhika discusses the complexities and challenges of being a woman in medicine, as well as sharing her brave mental health journey from university to becoming a doctor.

Radhika’s Instagram: DoctorRadhika

Where you can find support:

Anxiety UK - www.anxietyuk.org.uk

Mind - www.mind.org.uk

Samaritans - www.samaritans.org.uk or phone 116 123 (free 24-hour helpline)

Young Minds - www.youngminds.org.uk

B-Eat for Eating Disorders - www.b-eat.co.uk

Specifically for doctors and medical students:

Frontline-19 - https://www.frontline19.com

You Okay Doc? - https://youokaydoc.org.uk

Duty to Care - https://www.dutytocare.info

London Nightline - https://nightline.org.uk

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WELCOME TO SEASON TWO!!

What would the world look like in a matriarchy?

What is the umbrella theory?

How can we find our Confident Core?

Our INCREDIBLE guest this week is someone who has been described as "the driving force in the fight against gender discrimination" and is responsible for me filling up an entire notes page on my phone just of quotes from her amazing book. ;)

Today I am joined by Gill Whitty-Collins, Author of Why Men Win at Work and ex-Senior Vice President of Proctor and Gamble.

Learn how to (expertly) deal with getting talked over in meetings, how to find your confident core and how to have a successful conversation about gender equality.

Connect with Gill:

Website: https://gillwhittycollins.com

LinkedIn: @ Gill Whitty-Collins

Instagram @gillwhittycollins

Twitter @gwhittycollins

Buy Gill’s wonderful book at https://www.booksetc.co.uk/books/view/-9781913025625

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The LAST episode of season 1 is here!

My guest today is a woman who opens doors for more women.

Sharon Hegarty is the Mobile Marketing Director of Samsung. Sharon has an amazing career working for Virgin Media, Sky, TalkTalk, 3 UK and Vodafone.

Hear Sharon’s tips on how to get a mentor, the types of people she thinks the marketing industry needs and why she’d call her autobiography “Thanks Mum.”

Read Samsung's research on gender equality here: https://news.samsung.com/uk/new-research-by-samsung-reveals-gender-equality-is-a-reality-for-less-than-one-in-five-uk-workers

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Have you heard of a pain-relieving tampon?

Today’s special guest is someone whose story is one of ABSOLUTE innovation and inspiration.

At the age of 26, Valentina Milanova is the CEO and Founder of Daye, the female health research company best known for its incredible pain-relieving, CBD-infused tampons. Daye’s tampons have featured in the FT, Forbes, the BBC and The Guardian and represent a real step forward in improving women’s health across the world.

In this fabulous episode, we discuss how Valentina pitches her tampons to a room thats 90% male investors, the (hilarious) questions some of them have asked and her personal story that inspired her to start Daye.

Find out more about Daye here: https://yourdaye.com/

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This episode is for those of us who (STILL) can’t decide what career we want!

Our guest today is Funmi Williams! A communications specialist at HSBC. Funmi is proof that your career path does not have to be linear. In this episode, we are learning how she transitioned from law to marketing to communications.

Listen to Funmi’s advice (and expertise!) on how to battle through the uncertainty, doubt and external pressures of choosing a career, and more importantly, how to choose a career that you love.

Connect with Funmi on LinkedIn: Funmi Williams

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My guest today is Dr Helen Pankhurst CBE!

Helen Pankhurst is a women’s right activist and author of Deeds Not Words, the Story of Women’s Rights, Then and Now. As you may have guessed by her surname, Helen is the great-granddaughter of Emmeline Pankhurst and the granddaughter of Sylvia Pankhurst; the leaders of the British Suffragette Movement.

Helen is the senior advisor to CARE International and in 2019 was appointed a CBE for her services to Gender equality. And every year she leads the International Women’s Day March in London!

In this incredible episode, we discuss why it’s so important that we call ourselves feminists, the changes we need in society to reach gender equality, and passing on the baton to our generation!

#stillmarching

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