The We Are InsurTech Women podcast is kicking off this year with Laura Bennett.

Laura was previously Co-Founder and CEO of Embrace Pet Insurance, scaling the company for 14 years to be the leader within the pet insurance space and recently being acquired for $1billlion+ !

Tune in to hear-

- How to build a highly successful InsurTech, find your niche and gap in the market

- The importance of hiring right from the top and ensuring everyone has the same values within a start up

-At what point does it make sense for a founder to exit the company

- Laura's take on the evolution of Pet Insurance

- Insights into the 2025 landscape- we're off to a positive start

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Great to speak with Kate Lyons, Life Insurance Innovation manager from Munich Re on this week's We Are InsurTech Women podcast.  

We dive into the life insurance space, the innovation needed within it and the role Kate is playing to solve this.

Link in comments to hear Kate discuss-

-Why life insurance? Kate has worked within the space for the majority of her career so explains the need

-What is the customer problem within Life Insurance? Kate breaks it down into three key areas: awareness, consideration and conversion.

-The role of Innovation Manager means Kate is bringing in different people, companies and tech to collectively solve the problem- hear how she manages this.

-How different is working and looking for a job in your 30s compared to your 40s? Kate dives in to the different thinking around this and how to navigate.

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Excited to have welcome dour first MENA based guest to the podcast this week, Mina Sahib.

Mina is has been making huge advancements in the MENA region for Insurance, founding the Women in Insurance Network and founding a consultancy, she's very much at the forefront of innovation in MENA.

• Listen in to hear what's been happening in insurance from an innovation stand point in Dubai and the wider MENA region.
• How W.I.N MENA has scaled at an exponential rate over the last couple of years and is connecting women all over the globe The challenges and opportunities of driving digital transformation in a traditionally siloed industryThe benefits of having multiple geographies in your a career

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So great to have Hayley Budd, Innovation Class Lead at Apollo ibott 1971, join us on the We Are InsurTech Women podcast this week.

Also great to welcome back Rebekah to this episode, featuring as a host.

Tune in to hear more about Hayley's thoughts on-

- How has taking risks and chances benefited and influenced her career?

- Challenging the traditional view of who can become a Underwriter.

- The Lloyds ICX allowance- hear how it works and the huge benefit it's having

- How to manage a busy and intensive role and the benefit of having a solid network to support

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Delighted to have been joined by Olga Collins, CEO of WBN on the WAIW podcast this week. 

Olga and WBN have been making a huge impact on the Insurance space, particularly with diversity, talent and innovation. 

Tune in to hear from Olga..

What is the mission of WBN, and how are they becoming the leading, largest and most connected global network in space? 

What have WBN been doing over the past 2 years since Olga stepped into the role of CEO? 

The issue with talent, attracting, retaining and tackling the aging workforce within Insurance- how are WBN attracting and empowering people at collegiate level but also those later in their career. 

Hear Olgas thoughts on the advancement of diversity and what still needs to be done, within the Insurance space but also outside of it as well. 

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Loved having Jil Macdonald, COO of Walnut Insurance join us on this week's We Are InsurTech Women podcast to hear more about her background as well as Walnuts product and the successful year they have had. 

How are Walnut embedding insurance products and solutions with their customers? And what’s their USP? 

They’ve tackled the Canadian market already, what are the growth plans going forwards following a raise earlier this year? 

Jil's background has been an accumulation of being a Geophysicist, AI and scaling tech start-ups which has positioned her well to be Walnuts COO but how was the transition into an InsurTech for her?

How has Walnut built their solid foundation of key players in their team which has set them up for the growth they have gone through? 

Hear Jil's thoughts on joining an early stage company and how finding a product which you are passionate about and invested in can lead to best experience one can have.

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This week we were joined by Tamara, COO of dentolo.

How does living and working in multiple countries benefit building a team, hear about Tamara's diverse and exciting background, which has reflected in her team building

Considering a switch from traditional insurance into InsurTech? Hear about the frustrations but overall super positive move for Tamara 

When scaling a company, you need to think about hiring a team rather than just individuals, hear Tamara's advice on hiring and how to create a team who complement each others strengths and weaknesses

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• Hear about Carly's unique introduction to Cover Whale following a train ride and sitting next to the President of Cover Whale.  
• What are the key transferable skills moving from Investment Banking into an Insurtech scale up?
• Hear advice on transitioning from a large corporate into an 80 person Insurtech and why you should do it
• Cover Whales product- we can all see the need for it and success of it but hear what the appeal was for Carly

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One for the athletes and sports fans !

Kyle Lubrano, Chief Mission Delivery Officer from Players Health joined us on the We Are InsurTech Women podcast this week 

⚾ Hear how Kyle moved from leading USA Baseballs Athlete safety to joining Players Health as their 10th employee

⚾ How does Players Health, who have both an MGA and brokerage, understand, mitigate and protect athletes and sports organizations from risk

⚾ What does the role of Chief Mission Delivery Officer entail? 

⚾ Athlete, Coach, Accountant and being Administrator of a national governing body- the perfect combination of experience that Kyle had which led her to where she is now 

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In this episode we were joined by Maria Goy, Co-founder and CEO of Spot.

Hear how Maria went from working at the likes of Paramount, MTV, Starbucks HQ and consulting to founding an Insurtech 

What is the concept behind Spot and why was there a need for the inception of it? 

How to navigate setbacks, like SVB and Covid and come out of the other side, hear how Maria and the team managed their way through and have stayed as a solid unit

How to prepare for founding a startup? Maria talks through the importance of finding the right investors, co-founder and team 

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