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Real Talks. Key insights. Entrepreneurial mindset.
FemGems shares first-hand stories of inspiring female startup founders to empower YOU to turn your passion into your own business!
FemGems shares first-hand stories of inspiring female startup founders to empower YOU to turn your passion into your own business!
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A real talk on women's health, mindset and business with the co-founders of Circles, a company developing natural solutions that help get rid of PMS, period pain & hormonal acne! They've just launched their pre-sale on Startnext, so check out their awesome products & mission: https://www.startnext.com/we-are-circles?utm_source=startnext&utm_medium=shorturl&utm_campaign=FM3
On this episode, we talk about:
- why women's health has been understudied and neglected for many years and what the consequences are;
- how to practice real self-care and take charge of your well-being and fulfillment;
- what makes a great co-founder and how to assess potential ones;
- what bootstrapping looks like and why you would go for it;
- strategies to manage your time and priorities in a sustainable way and much more!
If you're an early stage female founder and want to get mentored by inspiring entrepreneurs like Sis & Margaux, apply to join the FemGems Club at: https://www.femgems.club/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=FG45
Founder of FemGems, Dora Petrova, sits down with Anna Harbaum, Managing Director of the Berlin-based blockchain company, Interchain. In this episode, Anna provides a great example of the importance of lifelong learning. Join us as she delves into her colorful past from her formative years as a chef and restaurateur, to entering the world of blockchain while calmly navigating motherhood.
Follow FemGems on Instagram and LinkedIn for more inspiration and opportunities: https://www.instagram.com/femgemsclub/
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This episode of FemGems Podcast was recorded live at Factory Berlin in January 2020 and sheds a bright light on the reality of being an impact-driven social entrepreneur. Our FemGem 43 is an extremely inspiring founder that has been awarded multiple times for her incredible work, e.g. by Edition F as one of "25 Women" revolutionising the German industry, by Handelsblatt as "Mutmacher of the Year"(2018), and asBest Female Social Entrepreneur of the year in Germany 2020.
From 2006-2009, she worked as a corporate social responsibility consultant. In that capacity, she developed and implemented Samsung Electronics’ award-winning corporate social responsibility strategy for Scandinavia. In July 2010, Anne moved to Japan, where she spent 2 years researching open social innovation and received the prestigious Rotary Peace Fellowship. In 2012, she moved to Berlin to set up the Berlin Peace Innovation Lab, which is associated with Stanford University. The lab focuses on how technology is facilitating emerging and measurable social change toward global peace. In 2015, she co-founded her own social enterprise –
ReDI School of Digital Integration – that she's sharing all about on this episode!
In this episode, Dora is joined by Jessica Holzbach and Fabiola Hochkirchen, discussing entrepreneurship and fundraising from both sides of the table – founders' and investors'.
Jessica has co-founded Penta, a fast-growing fintech startup from Berlin offering digital business banking for startups and SMEs; and got awarded as Founder of the Year 2021 by the German Startups Association shortly after stepping down as a co-founder of Penta in pursuit of a new challenge.
Fabiola is an investor and a business angel. After working at a mid-cap private equity fund for 12 years, she co-founded Auxxo, the first all-female VC in Berlin.
After the exciting launch of the www.FemGems.Club, the FemGems Podcast warmly welcomes you back for Season 4. In this first episode, Dora is joined by Dr. Melanie Rieback, CEO and co-founder of Radically Open Security, a not-for-profit computer security company. We dive into her own personal journey; from the ethics of cybersecurity companies, soul searching pilgrimages across Spain, to understanding the relevance and urgency of post-growth entrepreneurship.
FemGems Club is a subscription-based support system for early-stage female founders. Apply to join anytime at www.femgems.club
Learn more about post-growth entrepreneurship here: https://www.postgrowthentrepreneurship.com
Resources mentioned on this episode:
Melanie Rieback's TED Talk on post-growth entrepreneurship: https://www.ted.com/talks/melanie_rieback_post_growth_entrepreneurship
Kate Raworth's TED Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/kate_raworth_a_healthy_economy_should_be_designed_to_thrive_not_grow/transcript?language=en
Prosperity without Growth: https://timjackson.org.uk/ecological-economics/pwg/
Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: https://rushkoff.com/books/throwing-rocks-at-the-google-bus/
Photo credit: Sebastiaan ter Burg
Dora Petrova is the founder of FemGems and the host of this podcast. Except for this episode where she's the guest on it. On this special 40th episode, Carmen interviews Dora about the launch of FemGems Club, a goal-driven support system for female founders. Dora shares her journey as a founder, what led her to creating this platform, and what FemGems looks like as a company. Tune in to learn about FemGems' values, how we select members for FemGems Club, what you get there and why you should become one! Learn more and apply here: https://www.femgems.club/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=show-notes&utm_campaign=ep40
This is the second part of episode 38 featuring the co-founders of Equalista, the world's first learning app helping users understand and act on gender equality. It consists of the questions asked by our audience at the live podcast recording.
Check out Equalista's crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/equalista/equalista-because-equality-doesnt-just-happen-by-magic and support their important mission!
This is the first episode of Season 3 featuring the sisters co-founders of Equalista, the world's first learning app helping users understand and act on gender equality.
If you want to learn more about going bootstrapping and get first-hand advice on public funding, you need to tune in. Theo and Louisa are sharing all about how they did that . We also talk about the most disruptive force in business right now and how we can use technology to achieve gender equality faster.
Check out Equalista's crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/equalista/equalista-because-equality-doesnt-just-happen-by-magic and support their important mission!
Two-time founder, Katy Campbell is currently working with Porsche Digital to develop new startups across various ecosystems. Katy is also running 'formation', a startup school for founders who identify as womxn, or as part of a minority group. She was also leading the brand and communication team at APX, the early-stage VC from Axel Springer and Porsche. Driven by her passion for mental wellbeing and diversity, Katy is working closely with boards globally to make sure both these topics are at the forefront of discussions. Katy is a Zalando and Rocket Internet alumna and she’s here to give you probably the most open, vulnerable and powerful real talk on FemGems podcast so far!
Apply for the 2020 cohort of formation until the 5th of December 2019: http://www.formationfounders.com
Find Katy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BeyofBiz
Hester Hilbrecht is the founder & CEO of Mermaid UX Design Studios in Berlin, where she manages co-innovation projects for digital products. Hester is also a speaker at different conferences such as TEDx and loves to share insights on Design Thinking and User Experience. On this episode, she will walk us through the steps she took to get where she is now, like working in a big corporate, spending some time in Silicon Valley and finally coming back to her hometown Berlin to join the startup world. Hester shares amazing strategies and learnings from her founder's journey so far, and will surely empower you with her insights!
Aina Abiodun is fierce. Aligning purpose, product and people is her superpower. She is driven to create value in the world through businesses that positively impact human lives. Most recently, she was the CEO of the global health and fitness app 8fit. Previously, she was the co-founder of StoryCode, an open-source platform for immersive media and also of Murmur, a New York ad agency. Over the course of a decade, she has won multiple awards for her strategic brand work and has also led diverse projects for clients including Facebook, Logitech, Obama Foundation. In this episode, she walks us through her exciting journey spanning from film directing to tech entrepreneurship and shares amazing insights and strategies from her experience of starting up and staying up!
This episode is really dear to our hearts, as our guest here is one of the very first supporters of FemGems! She is the CEO & co-founder of the first European coworking space – betahaus. Madeleine co-founded the company and build it into one of the most significant co-working brands in Europe with locations in Berlin, Hamburg, Sofia and Barcelona. Since 2008 betahaus has been enabling people from many different walks of life to come together through co-working.
Madeleine is also responsible for establishing "betapitch" in 2009, which has grown into a global network of competitions that shine a spotlight on startup talent from around the world, and has mentored hundreds of entrepreneurs along the way.
An entrepreneur and innovator at heart, she worked throughout her university studies at the Politikfabrik, a student-run communications agency, best known for Germany's Wahl-O-Mat, a digital tool that helps gauge respondents' political affiliation. She also worked in the office of former Vice-President of the German Federal parliament (Bundestag), Gerda Hasselfeldt.
This episode is introducing you to a practical next step you can take if you have a startup idea, the ambition to take on an entrepreneurial path or if you are passionate about fostering female entrepreneurship! Susanne Scheerer and Leonie Moos are building the Grace Digital Founders Campus – a learning app for female entrepreneurs. It gives founders access to all the necessary skills and knowledge to start a company, and it’s exactly what you need if you have an idea or a passion, and don’t know where and how to start. The Digital Founders Campus will guide you through your founder's journey and provide content tackling specific topics women encounter before or while they're building their business. SUPPORT THE CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN FOR THE DIGITAL FOUNDERS CAMPUS NOW: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/grace-digitalcampus/grace-digital-founders-campus
Cynthia Barcomi is going to blow you away. She is a baking queen, a dancer, an author, a gastronome, an entrepreneur and a mother of four. Cynthia has been running her own business for 25 years now and her episode is jam-packed with priceless words of wisdom and actionable advice on how to make decisions; how to steer your thoughts and take control of your self-talk; how to confront things head-on; how to get back into the ring after a setback; and how to stay true to yourself throughout your journey!⠀⠀
This special episode contains a guided meditation and a hands-on practice that can help you find the answer to a question you're dealing with in your life right now! Onimar Ame (Marion Bott) works internationally as an actress, a screen/playwright, and a dream-practitioner. Coming from the artistic field, she’s driven to turn dreams into artworks, and bridge spirituality and matter. In 2017, she founded the international all-women performance company Blauhauch, where dreams become alive on stage. Alongside the creative dream path, Onimar Ame also gives individual and group-guided lucid dream sessions that enable dreamers to solve current challenges on a subconscious level. Onimar also recently started her pregnancy dreamwork path in Berlin and is now expanding internationally.
Are motherhood & entrepreneurship mutually exclusive? They shouldn't be, right? But how are society and stakeholders responding to motherhood in entrepreneurship? How do mothers founders actually combine these responsibilities? We've found some insanely inspiring mothers+entrepreneurs and we brought them to stage to talk openly about how they do it and share tangible and actionable advice on time management, distribution of responsibilities, and building a business while raising a family! Madeleine Gummer von Mohl is co-founder of betahaus, the first co-working space in Europe and mother of two, Luisa Hoffmann is solo-founder of Le Box co-working space with private childcare and mother of three; and Kristine Zeller is co-founder of ooshi, the first period underwear in Germany and mother of two.
Dr. Jutta Merschen is the 1st prize winner of Grace Accelerator's pitch competition! After 12 years at McKinsey, she decided to build something of her own. Her startup FamilyPunk aims to bridge the gap between parents and parenting professionals, combining e-learning tutorials with personal coaching in an easy to use app. In this episode, you'll learn how she transformed her challenges as a mother into an innovative company, what mindset and skills you need to start your business, and what crucial role a family setup plays in all that!
FemGems joins the demand for climate justice by releasing an episode with a startup committed to empower and educate consumers to make more sustainable purchases! Our power duo guests, animal rights activist Yasemin Ege Tulay and product manager Jana Schellong share how they designed their sustainability-oriented market place, YAJA, during Grace's Summer Camp 2019.
This is also a story on how teamwork drives ideas forward and makes them real, and a great reminder for the Global Climate Strike coming ahead this week: The time to act is now!
In the second installment of our Grace series, we met with Carina Hader. Carina is an aerospace engineer whose startup, NAYCA, won the second place price at Grace's Demo Day. NAYCA is a discrete hot water bottle to-go that aims to relieve period pain for 400 million people. Carina shares the heartening story behind NAYCA, how she knew her co-founder was right for her, and the reason you should always share your ideas!
In August, FemGems attended the Grace Accelerator Demo Day and heard from some of the amazing founders whose participation in the Grace Summer Camp marked the start of their entrepreneurial journey.
Our first founder is Catriona E. McLaughlin, creative strategist, founder, author and thinker on our future with technology. She is a global citizen with Scottish roots, who has worked and lived in New York, San Francisco, London, Hamburg and Zürich, and is now based in Berlin.
In this episode we discuss her company, Plan T, as well as the impact of women investors, the power of plants, and the reason we don't need any more unicorns.
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