Venture:F Podcast
Venture:F where the future is female.
Join host Laura Nix Gerson as she delves into conversations with financial experts, female founders, and funders discovering solutions for creating greater opportunity, gender equity, and wealth for women.
Learn more about each episode and expert below.
EP 09: FEARLESS FINANCES WITH CASSANDRA CUMMINGS
Cassandra Cummings is the author of Fearless Finances: A Timeless Guide to Building Wealth, and founder of The Stocks & Stilettos Society, an online community of more than 100,000 women investors. She is a Registered Investment Advisor, a Real Estate and Angel Investor and has provided investment, retirement and wealth-building strategies to women across the country for more than 20 years.
EP 08: INVESTING IN THE NEXT CPG OR RETAIL UNICORN WITH TARYN JONES LAEBEN
Taryn Jones Laeben is the President and Founder of IRL Ventures. You may know of her from her previous role as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of SoulCycle, the revolutionary indoor cycling brand, founded in New York City in 2006. Before her time at SoulCycle, Taryn was the Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) at Casper, the fast-growing sleep company, where she led rapid expansion across retail, wholesale, partnerships, customer experience, and strategy at large.
EP 07: INVESTING IN A VENTURE FUND WITH EMMELINE VENTURES
Emmeline Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital fund based in Los Angeles investing across women’s health, financial services, and sustainability with a focus on tech & innovation that is helping women live & thrive. The portfolio has 23 companies in its portfolio including Alloy, LunaJoy, WealthMore, and The Beans.
EP 06: FINANCIAL WELLNESS WITH BOBBI REBELL
In this episode we talk about financial wellness with Bobbi Rebell, Founder & CEO of Financial Wellness Strategies and author of Launching Financial Grownups and How to be a Financial Grownup. Bobbi was previously a global business news anchor and personal finance columnist at Thomson Reuters and held various journalist positions at top news outlets including CNBC, CNN and PBS.
EP 05: INVESTING AS A COLLECTIVE OF WOMEN WITH MINA BLACK
After an almost two-decade career as an award-winning Financial Advisor at Merrrill Lynch, Mina Black founded The RainMakers Collective, a private investment and peer membership organization for women. In this episode we discuss why joining an investing community is helpful when learning to invest.
EP 04: WHY DIVERSITY & INCLUSION IN FINANCE MATTERS WITH MONALISA RAASS COMO
In this episode MonaLisa Raass Como, President of The IDAC Foundation and the CEO of IDAC, Inc., and I discuss why diversity & inclusion ins finaince matters and what her organization is doing to further this mission.
EP 03: HOW & WHY OF WORKING WITH A FINANCIAL ADVISOR WITH PAM KRUEGER
Pam Krueger is the Founder & CEO of Wealthramp an advisor matching platform that connects consumers with rigorously vetted and qualified fee-only financial advisors. It is the only advisor referral service that gives people full control over when and how they talk to their referred advisors.
EP 02: INVESTING IN WOMEN WITH KATE NEVIN
Kate Nevin, is the President of TSWII Capital Advisors, an alternative investment advisor. She is the Portfolio Manager for both TSWII and TSWS focused on investments in hedge funds, venture capital and other alternative strategies.
EP 01: HOW WOMEN LEAD WITH JULIE CASTRO ABRAMS
Julie Castro Abrams is the Founder & CEO of How Women Lead. She is a leader in the country's movement to build and fund start-ups. As the General Partner for two venture funds focused exclusively on funding women she is working to change the fact that women receive less than 2% of venture funding.
