The Purse Podcast

Vicky Pryce is Chief Economic Adviser and a board member at the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR). She was previously Senior Managing Director at FTI Consulting, Director General for Economics at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and Joint Head of the UK Government Economic Service. 

Before that she was Partner at the accounting and consulting firm KPMG after senior economic positions in banking and the oil sector. She has held a number of academic posts and is a Fellow and Council member of the UK Academy of Social Sciences, a Fellow of the Society of Professional Economists and a Companion of the British Academy of Management. 

Her latest book, “Women vs Capitalism”, was published by Hurst in November 2019. She is a frequent contributor to media broadcasts and debates on the economy and on the economic rationale for gender equality.

She is co-founder of GoodCorporation, a company set up to advise on corporate social responsibility, is a Freeman and Liveryman of the City of London, was the first female Master of the Worshipful Company of Management Consultants and has been sitting on the City’s Members Diversity Working Party.

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Paulina Tenner is an entrepreneur, an angel investor, an author, a TEDx speaker and a founder of GrantTree, which started with a purpose to help tech startups navigate the complex world of government funding. Since 2010 the team grew organically from 2 to 50 and raised over £200M for more than 600 technology startups and scaleups using solely government funding schemes such as R&D tax credits  and Innovate UK grants. 

GrantTree is also an open culture company which pioneered a self set salary scheme, and an empowering culture governed by holacracy.

Paulina is also a seed investor, a startup mentor and an author of 'Laid Bare: what the business leader learnt from the stripper' describing leadership lessons she learnt as a burlesque dancer.

Pre-order: http://www.paulinatenner.com/book

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Mary Waring is the founder of Wealth for Women Ltd, an award winning financial advisory firm, working with midlife women to help them leap into the next stage of their life: whether that be moving on from divorce, reducing working hours to enjoy more free time, or starting a new business.

She uses her coaching skills to help clients determine what they want the next stage of their life to look like and her financial planning skills to determine whether they have sufficient assets to fund the desired lifestyle.

Her aim is to help you find true abundance, which is so much more than just money! As Coco Chanel said: “There are people who have money, and people who are rich”

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Gloria Feldt is an acclaimed expert on women, power, and leadership with frontline leadership  experience, a bestselling author, and in-demand keynote speaker. She is co-founder and President of Take The Lead, whose mission reflects her life’s passion: to prepare, develop, inspire, and propel  women to take their fair and equal share of leadership positions across all sectors by 2025 by  providing breakthrough training, mentoring and coaching role modeling, and thought leadership. 

She  is the bestselling author of four books; No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power, plus her own real world experience, forms the core of Take The Lead’s programs. 

Gloria's forthcoming book Intentioning: Sex, Power, Pandemics and How Women Will Take The Lead is available by September 28, 2021.

She is formerly president and CEO of the world’s largest reproductive health and advocacy  organization, Planned Parenthood Federation of America. She was named by Vanity Fair one of  “America’s Top 200 Women Leaders, Legends, and Trailblazers,” Glamour’s “Woman of the  Year,” She Knows Media Inspiring Woman, Women’s eNews 21 Leaders for the 21st Century,  Women Economic Forum Circle of Light award, Texas Monthly’s Texas 20, Martin Luther King  Living the Dream Award, and Forbes 40 Over 40.

She teaches “Women, Power, and Leadership” at Arizona State University. Feldt has been  widely quoted and published, including by the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today,  The Daily Beast, Forbes, Fast Company, Time, Huffington Post, Glamour, Elle and Ms. She has  appeared on CNN, MSNBC, the Today Show, Good Morning America and The Daily Show, and  an infinite number of podcasts. Her own podcast is “Power TO You.”

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Judy Piatkus is an entrepreneur, publisher and business coach specialising in conscious leadership. She founded Piatkus when she was in her 20s and grew the company to become an international brand, before selling it in 2007, just before the global financial crash that she had shrewdly foreseen. She is now a keynote speaker, an angel investor, and a coach and mentor to start-ups. 

In 2011 she founded Conscious Café, a network that brings people together for connection and discussion. Find out more at: judypiatkus.com

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Barbara Stewart is a Chartered Financial Analyst with 28 years of investment industry experience; five years as a foreign currency trader and then more than two decades as a portfolio manager investing on behalf of high net worth entrepreneurs. For the past five years she has been on the Advisory Board of Kensington Capital Partners.

12 years ago Barbara saw a need to challenge outdated financial industry stereotypes and share positive messages about women and money. Today, Barbara is recognised worldwide as one of the leading researchers in women and finance. Her Rich Thinking® global research papers quote smart women from all ages, professions and countries and are released annually on International Women’s Day, March 8. Barbara is a columnist for CFA Institute, Canadian Money Saver, and Golden Girl Finance.

Barbara is a keynote speaker for CFA Societies, banks and stock exchanges around the world, and conducts interview driven research for financial institutions in Canada and globally.

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Sergey Young is a longevity investor and visionary with a mission to extend healthy lifespans of one billion people. To do that, Sergey founded the Longevity Vision Fund to accelerate life extension technological breakthroughs and to make longevity affordable and accessible to all.

Sergey is on the Board of Directors of the American Federation of Aging Research (AFAR) and the Development Sponsor of AGE REVERSAL XPRIZE global competition designed to cure  aging. Sergey is also a Top-100 Longevity Leader, who is transforming the world, one  workplace at a time, with Longevity@Work – the first non-profit corporate longevity program of  its kind.

Sergey Young has been featured as a top longevity expert and contributor on CNN, Fox News,  and Forbes. As the author of books such as ‘The Science and Technology of Growing Young’ and  the mastermind behind the online life extension platform SergeyYoung.com, Sergey is  passionate about sharing news from the exciting world of longevity.

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Heather Jackson is a serial entrepreneur with a passion for social movement and extensive experience in the field of diversity and talent management. 

The former CEO and founder of An Inspirational Journey, Heather has supported more than 150 organisations, with over 15,000 women influenced by her programmes and initiatives. An active media advocate, Heather is a regular keynote speaker and contributor to regional and national media. 

She is also Chair of The Hundred’s Northern Superchargers.

Heather is perimenopausal as diagnosed by her co-founder and good friend Sam Simister.

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Bridget Greenwood is the founder of The Bigger Pie, an organisation focused on supporting women in blockchain and emerging tech. 

As women represent less than 10% of those involved in this sector, The Bigger Pie focus their efforts on supporting the incredibly talented and pioneering #womeninblockchain.

Bridget is a firm believer in having more women involved with the design, development and deployment and decommissioning of tech solutions.

Bridget has worked with different actors in the blockchain economy since 2017, both retail facing and servicing institutional clients, gaining an insight into the market place, challenges, pitfalls, regulation and breadth of projects and businesses in this rapidly evolving space.

She is also co-founder with Dr Amber Ghaddar at The 200bn Club, an accelerator programme to help female led start ups match successfully with investors.

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Connect with Bridget here:

[email protected]

www.thebiggerpie.io

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bridgetgreenwood/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Bridget_TBP

Angelo Robles is the Founder and CEO of the Family Office Association (US/global).

He helps the world’s most successful families create modern, multi-generationally dynamic, international family offices, that are digitally savvy, identify exponential opportunities and hazards in becoming truly anti-fragile.

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