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.
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EP 13: LEVELING UP WITH LARA O’CONNOR HODGSON
In this episode we discuss Lara O’Connor Hodgson and her business partner Stacey Abrams’ founder journey and how their fintech company NOW has solved the cash flow challenge for small business owners nationwide.
EP 12: HOW TO GET INTO HOTEL OWNERSHIP WITH TRACY L. PRIGMORE
Tracy Prigmore creates new pathways to commercial real estate ownership and development for women and BIPOC through She Has a Deal, an EdTech platform, real estate investment accelerator and ecosystem.
EP 11: WHO CONTROLS CAPITAL MATTERS WITH DR. RUTH SHABER
Dr. Ruth Shaber is a changemaker and innovator, moving from a robust career as an OBGYN and senior executive at Kaiser Permanente to empowering women across finance and healthcare. She is the co-author of The XX Edge: Unlocking Higher Returns and Lower Risk and the founder of the Diverse Investing Collective.
EP 10: ANGEL INVESTING IS FUN! WITH CHERYL KELLOND
Cheryl Kellond, Co-Founder of Play Money reminds us all that angel investing is fun! And doesn’t have to be challenging. Which is why she and her co-founder launched Play Money! She has invested in nearly 50 startups using the funds in her IRA. Now, she is bringing all of these experiences together with her latest venture, Play Money.
EP 09: FEARLESS FINANCES WITH CASSANDRA CUMMINGS
In this episode Cassandra Cummings 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 shares insight into her journey, why she launched her community, and how she is helping women build wealth.
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
Join investors Naseem Sayani, Azin Radsan van Alebeek, and La Keisha Landrum Pierre, the driving forces behind Emmeline Ventures, as we discuss their journey and their fund, securing funding, and prioritizing mental well-being.
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
In this episode we discuss why joining an investing community is helpful when learning to invest. 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.
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 in finance 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.
