Owning a home or investment property can sometimes feel more like a pipe dream than an attainable goal. Stacks and the City founder Ashley Copeland is here to flip that script. Ashley, a first-generation wealth builder, bought two properties before the age of 30 and believes real estate is an important part of any wealth building strategies. In this episode, we learn more about Ashley’s journey and hear her pro tips for evaluating and executing real estate investments. 

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Speak Bio: Ashley Copeland is host of Stacks and the City, the podcast dedicated to showing women how to build wealth and increase their net worth with downloads over $30,000.  Raised by a single mother in rural North Carolina, Ashley learned early about how money can affect your way of life.  Ashley avidly read about personal finance and homeownership throughout her teens and twenties.  As a result, Ashley used $10,000 saved from hours of serving tables and college refunds checks to open her first investment account at 21.  Ashley then purchased her first investment home at 24 and her second the following year with money steadfastly saved from working two jobs. As a result of her work, Ashley amassed a six-figure net worth without ever earning a six-figure salary.  Ashley uses her knowledge of personal finance to teach others how to understand and build their net worth to achieve financial independence.  In her spare time, Ashley enjoys reading, hiking, and traveling, having visited over 30 countries. Ashley is a proud graduate of Duke University and KIPP ENC Schools.

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Financial security is hard to come by in the creative industries and making money is tough. For those who do not benefit from family safety nets, pursuing a creative career can feel all the more scary and unrealistic. How does one successfully navigate this reality? In this episode, journalist, writer and Full Frontal with Samantha Bee producer Naureen Khan gets candid about her decision to enter journalism at the height of The Great Recession and talks us through her approach to money and finances across her career in media & entertainment. 

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Speaker Bio:
Naureen Khan is a writer and journalist, and a producer at Full Frontal with Samantha Bee. She hails from Plano, Texas and graduated from Duke in 2010. You can read her pop culture musings at naureen.substack.com.

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In this episode, we chat with Beautycon CEO, entrepreneur, and investor Moj Mahdara about her relationship with money & wealth and her speech that inspired the name of our podcast.

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Speaker Bio:
Moj Mahdara is a digital entertainment and branding entrepreneur and a Persian-American LGBT advocate. She's the CEO of Beautycon, a key connector in the makeup world, operating a growing number of namesake beauty-blogger festivals—in L.A., New York, London, Dallas, and Dubai—that attract as many as 12,000 attendees. Her empowerment-focused gatherings feature panel discussions and networking events. The company also launched a Birchbox-like subscription service in 2015, and it generates additional income by linking online beauty-advice stars with advertisers for marketing campaigns. A graduate of the University of California, Irvine, Mahdara previously served as CEO of Exopolis, a digital advertising studio, where she grew the client list to include brands such as Microsoft and Apple. Mahdara then formed the agency Made With Elastic, where she executed digital campaigns for Levi’s, Lacoste, and BMW. She became CEO of Beautycon in 2013, helping the company attract investors such as Hearst, Bethany Mota, BBG Ventures, and Troy Carter, and leading Beautycon to new levels with an expected revenue of $10 million in 2016.

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In our last episode of 2020, co-hosts Sophie Holm and Nicole Kyle reflect on how #IAlso has changed their relationship with money and reveal the money wins & losses that have made 2020 a rollercoaster year for financial wellness. Cheers to making it through!

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Find out why it is now more important than ever to forge your own path and find your passion in order to launch a highly successful business in today’s radically changing environment. Fellow rule breaker and serial entrepreneur Jackie Fast will discuss some key themes in her new book Rule Breaker: Rebellious Leadership for the Future of Work, specifically how technology has revolutionized what we need to know now, and more importantly what we need to ignore.

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Speaker Bio:
Jackie Fast is an award-winning entrepreneur and business leader. As the founder and former Managing Director of Slingshot, one of the most successful global sponsorship companies, she has worked with some of the world's biggest brands that include the Rolling Stones, Formula1, Virgin, Allianz and Shell. She is an in-demand business and entrepreneurship public speaker, and has been featured in Forbes, Metro, Business Leader Magazine, Money Observer, Sky News and the Telegraph.

Follow Jackie Fast’s life and work on Instagram @jackiefast and Twitter @jackiefast or say hello at https://jackiefast.com. 

Gold is one of the oldest financial instruments. Why is it still relevant to investment portfolios today, and why should we invest in it? In this episode, investment strategist and macroeconomic analyst Lyn Alden shares:

⚡️basics of the gold market

⚡️why to invest in gold

⚡️whether Bitcoin could be the new gold standard?

⚡️how a passion for markets & investing and an engineer education made Lyn a leading expert in macro investment strategy ✊

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Speaker Bio:
Lyn Alden, the founder of Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, provides investment research for retail and institutional investors. With a background that blends engineering and finance, her process involves fundamental investing with a global macro overlay, with expertise in equities and alternative asset classes. 

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Why should cryptocurrency be part of your investment strategy? Cryptocurrency is less scary than it sounds and, while volatile, has outpaced the stock market in returns in 2020. In this episode, we chat with Anam Lakhani and Eve Halimi - to talk about the fundamentals of crypto investing. 

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Speaker Bio:
Eve Halimi is originally from Paris but has grown up living in London, Tel Aviv and now New York. Eve founded her first community based application at the age of 15 and after interning in Finance on both the buy and sell side, she became extremely frustrated by the fact that none of her girlfriends were investing or talking about it. After graduating with an Economics BA from Barnard, Columbia University and joining a high growth stage startup as an associate, she now feels more than ready to build the first community based investing app to bring more younger women to the investing world by making the journey fun, interactive and relatable.

Anam Lakhani, following her investment banking internship, she quickly grasped how heavily male-dominated the financial sector is and returned to campus to build a community around financial empowerment for women. Her own experiences coupled with those of her friends and classmates made her aware of the huge confidence barrier young women struggle with when starting their investing journey. After graduating with a BA in Economics from Columbia University and working in investment banking at Citigroup, Anam is ready to level the playing field and bring investing to a demographic, often overlooked and excluded by the financial industry.

How does self-funding a business accelerate personal wealth goals in ways that venture capital, angel, or ECF investment cannot? In this final episode surrounding venture capital, Khaleelah Jones - founder and CEO of Dime Digital + Careful Feet Digital and finalist for this year’s NatWest Everywoman Awards -- discusses the power in self-funding. Khaleelah shares her experiences exploring venture capital raises as a founder and woman of color and the work that the industry has left to do to become more inclusive.

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Speaker Bio:
Khaleelah founded and scaled Careful Feet Digital, a London-based digital marketing agency, after working in the digital marketing space for a decade. She worked her way from being an associate at Living Social to head of marketing at WellTok, Inc., where she was part of a team that doubled the user base in just six months and raised $18m in Series B funding. 

Using their deep marketing knowledge derived from managing clients of all sizes around the world at Careful Feet Digital, Khaleelah and the Dime team have built a product that uses cutting-edge AI technology to create branding and social media assets. More importantly, though, Khaleelah has built a team that supports the technology, and therefore our clients, with our combined decades of experience in marketing, branding and technology.

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How does being an entrepreneur make you a better investor? In this episode, Hambro Perks principal and founder of media startup CompassNewsUK, Matilde Giglio, details what it’s like to go from seeking funding to being the one awarding funding. We discuss learning hard lessons as a founder, transitioning into venture capital, and even Matilde’s own angel investing strategies.

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Speaker Bio:
Matilde is a Principal at Hambro Perks, where she invests in Seed and Series A technology companies. Prior to joining Hambro Perks, Matilde co-founded Compass News, a machine learning journalism start-up with offices in London and New York and over 100,000 monthly active users that was backed by Hambro Perks, Bloomberg Beta and others. Before that, Matilde worked at Fox and Paramount leading their marketing campaigns in Europe. At the start of 2019, she moved to India to run digital strategy for the Congress Party in the 2019 Indian general elections.

Matilde holds a master’s degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science and is an advisor at Techstars and Startupbootcamp where she advises early-stage technology companies on growth, product development and operations. 

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A career in venture capital can feel elusive, intimidating, and even impossible for some of us without a banking, investment, or technology background. Our conversation with Hadyah Fathalla proves otherwise: a cybersecurity and antiterrorism expert, Hadyah joined C5 Capital to transform their accelerator program. In this episode, Hadyah emphasizes the role of mentorship in this pivot, shares her strategies for building a mentor-mentee relationship, and discusses the changes afoot in the MENA venture capital landscape. 

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Speaker Bio:
Hadyah Fathalla is a strategy and security specialist with 20 years of experience in a range of fields including: national and global security, policymaking, entrepreneurship, innovation and digital transformation. Prior to establishing Hatter Consultants, she served as Chief Operating Officer for C5 Accelerate, a global technology investment firm, in addition to having established and managed the company’s MENA business.  During her time with C5 Accelerate, she built Bahrain’s first technology accelerator in 2016 and established a number of initiatives to contribute to the government’s entrepreneurship and digital transformation efforts. She is a regular contributor to cybersecurity, innovation, and technology conferences and to mentoring aspiring entrepreneurs and startups.

In addition to her experience in the fields of entrepreneurship and digital transformation, she is also a national security and cybersecurity specialist. For over ten years, she has played an advisory role to a number of government agencies and senior government officials on topics including strategy, counterterrorism, armed groups, security policy, cybersecurity, and other national security threats and challenges. 

Hadyah is an Independent Director for The Benefit Company (Bahrain) as well as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bahrain Youth Hostel Society. Additionally, she is a member of the Harvard W3D: Women in Defense, Diplomacy, and Development and a founding Board Member of the Women in Fintech Committee in Bahrain.

She holds an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School, concentrating on International Global Affairs and an MA in War Studies from King’s College in London.