11 episodes

Are you thinking about starting a business and don't know where to begin?
We're Sarah (founder of HostelPass) and Alex (founder of Freedom Underwear) and this podcast breaks down all of the key elements of getting started so you can feel less lost and more focused. We've chatted to other founders, investors, lawyers, accountants, and business coaches to create the ultimate 10-week startup guide. Basically, everyone you wish you could speak to when you're starting a business. 
Right now, female-founded businesses get just over 1% of VC funding. So we've chosen to amplify women's voices and stories, giving you everything from legal knowledge to how to effectively sell. Starting a business can definitely feel like stumbling around in the dark. So we're here to turn the lights on.
Do your business a favour and tune in once a week, so you can get back to focusing on the important stuff. 
New episodes every Wednesday.

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Female Founders Weekly Alexandra Pluthero & Sarah Weingust

    • Business
    • 5.0 • 17 Ratings

Are you thinking about starting a business and don't know where to begin?
We're Sarah (founder of HostelPass) and Alex (founder of Freedom Underwear) and this podcast breaks down all of the key elements of getting started so you can feel less lost and more focused. We've chatted to other founders, investors, lawyers, accountants, and business coaches to create the ultimate 10-week startup guide. Basically, everyone you wish you could speak to when you're starting a business. 
Right now, female-founded businesses get just over 1% of VC funding. So we've chosen to amplify women's voices and stories, giving you everything from legal knowledge to how to effectively sell. Starting a business can definitely feel like stumbling around in the dark. So we're here to turn the lights on.
Do your business a favour and tune in once a week, so you can get back to focusing on the important stuff. 
New episodes every Wednesday.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Shark Tank Success with Kaitlin Mogentale of Pulp Pantry

    Shark Tank Success with Kaitlin Mogentale of Pulp Pantry

    It's our final episode of Season One, and to celebrate we've got a brilliant guest. Her name is Kaitlin Mogentale, and she's the founder and CEO of Pulp Pantry. Pulp Pantry works with large juicers to turn organic vegetable scraps into delicious convenient snacks through their pulp chips. She has been a trailblazer for sustainability and has been hugely successful. Kaitlin was recently on Shark Tank, and that's what we got to discuss in this episode. Kaitlin shares her juicy secrets about the show and whether she took the money or not, plus tips for fundraising and accelerator programs for you all. You will find pulp products in a number of stores all across the US, and we can tell you from firsthand experience that they're delicious. So whenever you see pop chips in your local store, definitely grab them!
    About Female Founders Weekly:
    Welcome to the show that celebrates and supports women entrepreneurs and leaders in business. Join us as we dive into the world of startups, fundraising, and venture capital, and hear from successful female founders about their journeys to success. Each episode, we'll explore strategies for scaling your business, building a strong brand, and navigating the challenges of entrepreneurship. From marketing and sales to work-life balance and mentorship, we'll cover it all, with a focus on diversity and inclusion and empowering women to achieve their full potential. Tune in for inspiring stories, expert advice, and actionable insights that will help you take your business to the next level.

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    • 33 min
    Getting your first 100 sales with Lucy Woolfenden

    Getting your first 100 sales with Lucy Woolfenden

    On this episode, we get an amazing masterclass from Lucy Woolfenden on how to get your first 100 sales. Lucy has spent 20 years' launching brands, growing their audiences and making them profitable, with her portfolio including tech start-ups such as Skype for Mobile, Starling Bank, and Yolt. Today, she talks to us about those really early stages of your business, and shares invaluable tips and tricks to getting your first 100 sales, and keeping those customers.

    About Female Founders Weekly:
    Welcome to the show that celebrates and supports women entrepreneurs and leaders in business. Join us as we dive into the world of startups, fundraising, and venture capital, and hear from successful female founders about their journeys to success. Each episode, we'll explore strategies for scaling your business, building a strong brand, and navigating the challenges of entrepreneurship. From marketing and sales to work-life balance and mentorship, we'll cover it all, with a focus on diversity and inclusion and empowering women to achieve their full potential. Tune in for inspiring stories, expert advice, and actionable insights that will help you take your business to the next level.

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    • 44 min
    Caroline Boardman and Joanna Newell explain accounting

    Caroline Boardman and Joanna Newell explain accounting

    On this episode, we speak to Caroline Boardman and Joanna Newell. Both Caroline and Joanna have been chartered accountants for more than a decade and have experienced working with larger companies before setting up their own accountancy businesses themselves. They now both work with a huge range of business sizes, but we're speaking to them today because they have expertise in that beginning stage of starting your company. 
    Learn everything from how to get yourself incorporated to getting yourself going with accounting. Both Caroline and Joanna are personally passionate about making the accounting side of your business super easy to understand and accessible for all, so that we can all get back to focusing on what we do best, which is running the rest of our business. 
    It's really easy to get lost in the amount of information that's out there and we think this episode is really important to listen to. There'll be some myth-busting, and how-tos along the way, and generally everything you need to get started. We hope you enjoy it!
    About Female Founders Weekly:
    Welcome to the show that celebrates and supports women entrepreneurs and leaders in business. Join us as we dive into the world of startups, fundraising, and venture capital, and hear from successful female founders about their journeys to success. Each episode, we'll explore strategies for scaling your business, building a strong brand, and navigating the challenges of entrepreneurship. From marketing and sales to work-life balance and mentorship, we'll cover it all, with a focus on diversity and inclusion and empowering women to achieve their full potential. Tune in for inspiring stories, expert advice, and actionable insights that will help you take your business to the next level.

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    • 32 min
    Melissa Kwan of eWebinar

    Melissa Kwan of eWebinar

    On this week's episode of female founders weekly, we interview Melissa Kwan of Ewebinar. Melissa is super impressive. She's a three-time bootstrapped founder and her previous company was acquired in 2019. While starting her previous companies, Ewebinar was the product she'd always dreamed about because she was drowning in customer webinars every day for five years. 
    Now she's on a mission to give people their time back so that they can do something much more fun, because that's what life's really about. Ewebinar automates the webinar process by taking a video and delivering it like a webinar, meaning that you can do hundreds of the same webinars without ever needing to be in front of the camera. 
    We talked to Melissa about her journey from starting previous companies to where she's at today. From getting her first 100 sales to how she manages her work-life balance. Melissa is super interesting, she has a refreshing take on starting a business and we absolutely loved this conversation. We hope you do too.  
    About Female Founders Weekly:
    Welcome to the show that celebrates and supports women entrepreneurs and leaders in business. Join us as we dive into the world of startups, fundraising, and venture capital, and hear from successful female founders about their journeys to success. Each episode, we'll explore strategies for scaling your business, building a strong brand, and navigating the challenges of entrepreneurship. From marketing and sales to work-life balance and mentorship, we'll cover it all, with a focus on diversity and inclusion and empowering women to achieve their full potential. Tune in for inspiring stories, expert advice, and actionable insights that will help you take your business to the next level.

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    • 47 min
    How To Take Action with Sarah Arnold Hall

    How To Take Action with Sarah Arnold Hall

    Sarah Arnold Hall is a high-performance coach, who has helped thousands of people get what they want to get done. Anyone can have a business idea, but to run your own business really comes down to execution. Sarah talks through her approach to taking action and provides some brilliant insight along the way that will help you actually start your business. Whilst we may all think we know what needs to be done, Sarah's episode will leave you feeling inspired to start your to-do list!

    About Female Founders Weekly:
    Welcome to the show that celebrates and supports women entrepreneurs and leaders in business. Join us as we dive into the world of startups, fundraising, and venture capital, and hear from successful female founders about their journeys to success. Each episode, we'll explore strategies for scaling your business, building a strong brand, and navigating the challenges of entrepreneurship. From marketing and sales to work-life balance and mentorship, we'll cover it all, with a focus on diversity and inclusion and empowering women to achieve their full potential. Tune in for inspiring stories, expert advice, and actionable insights that will help you take your business to the next level.

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    • 22 min
    Siddhi Mittal of yhangry

    Siddhi Mittal of yhangry

    This week we interview the awesome Siddhi Mittal of yhangry. yhangry is a platform where you can book a private chef for anything from a dinner party, hen do, holiday home, meal prep or more across the UK! Siddhi and her co-founder, Heinin, won investment on Dragon’s Den, were a part of the world's most prestigious accelerator, YCombinator, in 2022 and have raised $3m so far.
    Siddhi is an inspiring entrepreneur who opens up about the challenges she faced while building and scaling her business, including finding the right team members and expanding their services to meet the needs of their customers. We hear from Siddhi on everything from what inspired her to start yhangry through to how they have pivoted and are using their funding for growth today. This is a must-listen!
    About Female Founders Weekly:
    Welcome to the show that celebrates and supports women entrepreneurs and leaders in business. Join us as we dive into the world of startups, fundraising, and venture capital, and hear from successful female founders about their journeys to success. Each episode, we'll explore strategies for scaling your business, building a strong brand, and navigating the challenges of entrepreneurship. From marketing and sales to work-life balance and mentorship, we'll cover it all, with a focus on diversity and inclusion and empowering women to achieve their full potential. Tune in for inspiring stories, expert advice, and actionable insights that will help you take your business to the next level.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    • 1 hr 2 min

Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5
17 Ratings

17 Ratings

esmesd ,

New favourite podcast!!!

This is so inspiring, helpful and incredible. Such amazing woman! Thank you!!!

Zilesnick ,

Love!!!

I wish something like this existed when I started my first business! Keep it up ✨❤️

stuartpalmer ,

Informative and accessible

Really enjoyable listen with lots of good advice

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