Hot Girl Finance

Hot Girl Finance with Poppy Jamie and Aave
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Finance, but hot. Founders, CEOs and experts on money, business, power and culture. Interviews, business decodes and the Spend or Save round. Hosted by Poppy Jamie. Weekly. Powered by Aave App. aave.com/app Follow @hgf on Instagram

  1. 3d ago

    Inside the Business of Documentaries, With an Oscar Winner w/ Odessa Rae

    How do you pay for an Oscar-winning documentary on your own credit card? Why does the person carrying the legal and financial risk of a film get the least credit for it? And why does a $6 million film need an $18 million campaign to win Best Picture? Odessa Rae is the Oscar-winning producer of Navalny, and she funded the first four months of it on her own credit card. She walks Poppy through how the money works, from who funds a film to who owns it at the end, and what winning an Oscar actually costs. In this episode: ◼️ The $90,000 of credit card debt that funded the first four months of Navalny ◼️ How film financing actually works, from the investor's premium to the points on the back end ◼️ Why the IP of a film sits in its own company, and why an investor never owns a piece of it ◼️ Three days of Navalny's last interview sit in a vault, and the filmmakers have no right to them ◼️ Why the Best Picture Oscar goes to the producer, and why the industry still treats producers as staff ◼️ What an Oscar campaign really is, and why you fly to a city to screen for two voters ◼️ Why the money for an Oscar campaign has to be raised as donation rather than investment ◼️ What a film costs to make now, and why AI is pulling that number down every year ◼️ Why she was followed for six months after Navalny died ◼️ How she actually finds investors, and why she keeps the ones she likes 💜 Stream on Spotify: https://tr.ee/hgfspotify 💜 Stream on Apple Podcasts: https://tr.ee/hgfapple 💜 Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hgf/ 💸 Powered by Aave App. Start saving smarter: https://aave.com/app

    Inside the Business of Documentaries, With an Oscar Winner w/ Odessa Rae

  2. Sep 16

    Everything It Takes to Build a Profitable Swimwear Brand w/ Alexandra Miro

    How does a swimsuit get from a drawing to a shop floor? Why did she have to pay for her own stock before Selfridges would sell it? And why did the brand only start making money once she took production in house? Alexandra Miro started her swimwear label with five swimsuits and her own money, and now sells it around the world with a team of five. She tells Poppy how the money really works in fashion, from the factories in Portugal to the payment terms and the cost of a photo shoot. It is her first ever podcast, and it is for anyone building a product business who wants to know where the money goes before they spend it. In this episode: ◼️ Start with five products, not fifty, and why a big launch collection works against you ◼️ Stocking a department store means funding the stock yourself, and taking it back if it does not sell ◼️ A consignment order can mean eight months from starting production to any payment ◼️ The business turned profitable when she stopped outsourcing production ◼️ Four years running everything alone, customer service, logistics, social and design ◼️ Nobody gets discovered at a trade show anymore, and what replaced it ◼️ A collection shot on an iPhone in 24 hours that no buyer questioned ◼️ One local model instead of a flown-in one, and 20 grand saved on a single shoot ◼️ 100 pieces of a print, never repeated, and what that does to demand Subscribe to @hgfpod⁩ for new episodes every week. 💜 Stream on Spotify: https://tr.ee/hgfspotify 💜 Stream on Apple Podcasts: https://tr.ee/hgfapple 💜 Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hgf/ 💸 Powered by Aave App. Start saving smarter: https://aave.com/app

    Everything It Takes to Build a Profitable Swimwear Brand w/ Alexandra Miro

  3. Sep 9 ·  Bonus

    How To Read A Stock (Investing For Beginners)

    In this Hot Girl Finance breakdown, we go through every number you see when you look up a stock, what each one is telling you, and which ones actually change whether it is worth buying. In this episode: ◼️ Market cap measures the size of a company, and people read it as a price signal, which is how they end up overpaying. ◼️ The PE ratio is a promise about future growth, and the higher it climbs the less room the company has to be wrong. ◼️ A low PE is rarely a bargain, because the market is usually pricing in a doubt you have not spotted yet. ◼️ A small dividend can be a good sign, once you know what the company is doing with the money instead. ◼️ The 52 week range tells you whether you are buying near the top, which is the check most people skip. No prior finance knowledge needed. By the end you can open any investing app and know exactly what you are looking at. Subscribe to @hgfpod⁩ for new episodes every week. 💜 Stream on Spotify: https://tr.ee/hgfspotify 💜 Stream on Apple Podcasts: https://tr.ee/hgfapple 💜 Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hgf/ 💸 Powered by Aave App. Start saving smarter: https://aave.com/app

    How To Read A Stock (Investing For Beginners)

  4. Sep 2

    How Creators Took Over Hollywood and the Talent Agency Business w/ Darnell Strom

    What does a talent agent actually do for their 10%? Why are creators and brands now sitting in the top ten earners at one of the biggest agencies in the world, next to the actors and the athletes? And why does the man who runs UTA in Europe tell his clients that a brand coming to them directly is a brand planning to undercut them? Darnell Strom is Head of UTA Europe, the agent behind Malala Yousafzai, Michaela Coel, Jon Batiste and Karlie Kloss. He walks Poppy through how the money actually moves in the talent business, from the $30 million guarantees of the 90s and early 2000s to the equity deals being written for talent now, and what that teaches anyone negotiating their own worth without an agent in the room. In this episode: ◼️ Why UTA signed YouTubers 20 years ago while rival agencies laughed, and who is scrambling now ◼️ Why TV and film went from 85% of UTA's business to under half in 15 years ◼️ How the definition of talent expanded to anyone with a platform and a following ◼️ Why creators and brands now sit in the top ten earners next to the actors and the athletes ◼️ What a brand is really doing when it comes to you directly instead of your agent ◼️ Why giving up 10% beats getting paid 50% less on a deal you negotiated yourself ◼️ Why the data on your own audience is the leverage you cannot get on your own ◼️ Why a creator's recommendation converts like a friend's, and what that is worth to a brand ◼️ Whether to stay the expert in one thing or expand, and how to expand without losing the audience ◼️ The film made with AI tools for $750,000 that reached cinemas because the audience asked 💜 Stream on Spotify: https://tr.ee/hgfspotify 💜 Stream on Apple Podcasts: https://tr.ee/hgfapple 💜 Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hgf/ 💸 Powered by Aave App. Start saving smarter: https://aave.com/app

    How Creators Took Over Hollywood and the Talent Agency Business w/ Darnell Strom

  5. Aug 26

    Why Your Pension Depends on Other People's Children w/ Paul Morland

    What happens to your pension when there is barely one worker left per retiree? Why does a demographer say the best money decision you can make in your thirties is having a child? And why does he think the next great crisis will be a bond crisis? Paul Morland is the demographer behind No One Left. His next book, Bust: The Economics of Population Decline, is out in November. He walks Poppy through the economics of a shrinking population, a story usually argued as culture and never costed as money, and what it means for your tax bill and the state that promised to look after you. In this episode: ◼️ How a low birth rate turns 100 people into 40, then into 16, inside two generations ◼️ What an ageing country does to your wages, your savings and your tax bill ◼️ Japan as the preview, going from 8 or 9 workers supporting each retiree to barely one ◼️ Why Paul thinks the next crash will come from governments that cannot pay their bills ◼️ Why he calls the state a Ponzi scheme once the population pyramid inverts, and what he thinks happens when it can no longer meet its promises ◼️ Why he says not to count on a state pension, and what he tells anyone in their thirties to do instead ◼️ Why you cannot fix a worker shortage by sending half the workers home ◼️ What happens to birth rates when men pick up more of the housework ◼️ The changes employers could make tomorrow, starting with why offices have gyms and no nurseries ◼️ How the tax system could pay mothers back for the pension years they lose ◼️ Why he does not believe AI or robots will be looking after us in old age 💜 Stream on Spotify: https://tr.ee/hgfspotify 💜 Stream on Apple Podcasts: https://tr.ee/hgfapple 💜 Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hgf/ 💸 Powered by Aave App. Start saving smarter: https://aave.com/app

    Why Your Pension Depends on Other People's Children w/ Paul Morland

  6. Aug 12

    How to Run a Profitable Cult Fashion Brand w/ Jana Sascha, De La Vali

    Jana Sascha started De La Vali selling dresses from the back of a car in Ibiza, to anyone who would buy them. Nearly ten years later the brand is stocked by its dream retailers, worn by Kate Moss, and online sales are up 300% in a year. So how do you actually make a fashion brand profitable? This week Poppy sits down with Jana Sascha, founder and creative director of De La Vali. Jana breaks down the real numbers behind scaling an independent fashion brand, from a first collection sewn on a shoestring to a restructure and back to profit. In this episode: ◼️ How much it really costs to start a fashion brand ◼️ Why on-time delivery decides whether your stockists keep you ◼️ How shifting from wholesale to 60% direct to consumer can transform a business  ◼️ How a spare dress handed to Kate Moss at a party changed the brand's trajectory  ◼️ How to pick the most important first hire for a small brand ◼️ Why giving retailers a 2.4 to 2.8x margin can still make you money ◼️ Why Jana now keeps De La Vali privately funded and running on its own profits 💜 Stream on Spotify: https://tr.ee/hgfspotify 💜 Stream on Apple Podcasts: https://tr.ee/hgfapple 💜 Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hgf/ 💸 Powered by Aave App. Start saving smarter: https://aave.com/app

    How to Run a Profitable Cult Fashion Brand w/ Jana Sascha, De La Vali

  7. Aug 5

    How to Become a Screenwriter (Without Moving to LA) with Franklin Leonard

    What do you actually get paid to write a Hollywood film? Can someone steal your script if you put it online? And why does the man who worked for Leonardo DiCaprio's production company say talent alone won't get you hired? Franklin Leonard is the creator of The Black List, the platform where any writer in the world can upload their script and get it in front of Hollywood. We walk through the money side of an industry most people only know from the red carpet. If you work in a creative field, or want to, this one is a masterclass in protecting yourself financially when you never know where the next paycheck is coming from. In this episode: ◼️ How Franklin Leonard turned a problem at work into The Black List, the platform that changed how Hollywood finds scripts ◼️ Information is power: why knowing what things pay, what's in demand and what the other side wants puts you ahead in any negotiation ◼️ What screenwriters really get paid, and what's left after agents, managers, lawyers and tax ◼️ Why the writers went on strike, and why Franklin says writers are working class people, not red carpet celebrities ◼️ His number one rule for creatives: always be writing something you own ◼️ His Hollywood Finance 101 for creatives: save your money and stay where you are ◼️ His unfiltered take on AI in Hollywood ◼️ Why your net worth should never define your worth 💜 Stream on Spotify: https://tr.ee/hgfspotify 💜 Stream on Apple Podcasts: https://tr.ee/hgfapple 💜 Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hgf/ 💸 Powered by Aave App. Start saving smarter: https://aave.com/app

    How to Become a Screenwriter (Without Moving to LA) with Franklin Leonard

  8. Jul 29

    How Writers Are Making $1 Million on Substack with Farrah Storr

    The publishing industry pays writers last and cuts them first. Substack pays 50 of its creators over $1 million a year. One woman edited Women's Health, Cosmopolitan and Elle, saw where it was all going, and left to build the other side. In this episode of Hot Girl Finance, Farrah Storr, Head of Substack International, breaks down exactly how the platform pays, who's getting rich, and why the industry that underpaid writers for a century is being replaced. In this episode: ◼️ The Substack business model, explained in one breath, who sets the price, who takes a cut, and where the money actually goes ◼️ The answer to "but how would anyone find me?" and why you don't need to bring an audience to start earning ◼️ What Farrah makes from one piece of writing a week, and how it compares to her editor's salary at Women's Health ◼️ The story behind The Free Press: built on Substack, sold for a number that changed how writers think about the platform ◼️ Why almost everyone starts as a side hustle, and the exact signal it's time to go all in ◼️ The one way writers should never use AI, and why readers can always tell ◼️ Why she says you haven't missed the boat, Substack is only just launching in France, Italy, Brazil and Japan The boat hasn't sailed. It's waiting for you. Subscribe⁩ for new episodes every week.💜 Stream on Spotify: https://tr.ee/hgfspotify 💜 Stream on Apple Podcasts: https://tr.ee/hgfapple 💜 Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hgf/ 💸 Powered by Aave App. Start saving smarter: https://aave.com/app

    How Writers Are Making $1 Million on Substack with Farrah Storr
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Finance, but hot. Founders, CEOs and experts on money, business, power and culture. Interviews, business decodes and the Spend or Save round. Hosted by Poppy Jamie. Weekly. Powered by Aave App. aave.com/app Follow @hgf on Instagram

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    Hot Girl Finance with Poppy Jamie and Aave
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    21
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