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This Week in Fintech - Flourish's Emmalyn Shaw with Homebrew's Satya Patel

Podcast host Julie Verhage Greenberg closes out Season Two of the Fintech OGs series with a conversation between Emmalyn Shaw, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Flourish Ventures, and Satya Patel, Co-Founder and Partner at Homebrew. Together, they’ve helped shape the future of financial technology, investing in companies such as Chime,...

Fintech One-On-One Podcast: Peter Renton Interviews Arjuna Costa

"It is the big challenge for fintech: making the financial lives better for the those who are underserved," said Peter Renton, founder and producer of Fintech One-on-One, the sector's oldest podcast founded in 2013. "We have come a long way in the past decade but there is still so much...

Interview: Emmalyn Shaw on Creating Healthy Founder-Investor Relationships

About the Episode In this episode of the #NAKEDpodcast, hosts Nektarios, Vladimira, and Emmalyn Shaw from Flourish Ventures explore the importance of prioritizing psychological safety in entrepreneurship and venture capital. The discussion centers around how Flourish Ventures prioritizes mental health and well-being within their organization and how they support their...

Scaling Impact Capital Podcast: Tilman Ehrbeck on What it Means to be a VC with Purpose

About the Episode A conversation with Tilman Ehrbeck, Managing Partner with Flourish. In this episode, Tilman shares his journey from journalism to venture investing with Omidyar Network and why he decided to found Flourish with a vision to back entrepreneurs working to build a fair financial system. They also discuss...

Fatin Tariq On Managing Anxiety as a Founder in an Emerging Market

About the Episode In this episode of the NAKED podcast, our hosts Nektarios, Vladimira, and our guest, Fatin, explore the anxiety Fatin faced whilst she was building her first business. The discussion centres on the experience of being a female entrepreneur in an emerging market, the journey towards self-awareness regarding...

[The Future Farm] Emma Obanye On The Ugly Reality of Exiting a Startup

About the Episode In this NAKED podcast episode, our hosts Nektarios, Vladimira, and our guest, Emma, explore the complex emotions and challenges that came up for her after exiting a startup. They discuss the importance of addressing unresolved issues from the past, understanding one’s motivations for success, and the role...

Season 2 Official Trailer

About the Episode Welcome to The Dough: where cash is queen, time is money, and everybody's just trying to not be broke. Join host X Mayo for weekly stories about our messy relationships with money. From rushing a sorority to divorcing a narcissist, we're talking about the expensive things in...

[The Future Farm] Lottie Unwin On Breaking Down and Integrating Wellbeing into The Founder Life

About the Episode In this NAKED podcast episode, our hosts Nektarios, Vladimira, and our guest, Lottie, discuss her breakdown and how it took her by surprise. They discuss learning to look out for signals, the importance of introspection and self-awareness and how to get better by integrating wellbeing into one’s...

EMERGE Everywhere: Reflecting on 20 Years of FinHealth

About the Episode It’s been two decades since the Financial Health Network and a national movement to improve financial lives were founded. As we celebrate 20 years of creating financial change, what does the future hold? Listen in as longtime finhealth champions Ellen Seidman of the Urban Institute, Arjan Schütte...

Making Founder Mental Health & Well-Being a Priority & Why It is Important

Startup founders are some of the most committed, hardworking, innovative people in the world. But even in the best of times, they exist in a pressure cooker. And the relentless stress can sometimes lead to burnout. Nevertheless, mental health has historically been a taboo topic in the venture capital...

Hard-Headed, Soft-Hearted

"How are venture capital firms redefining their role to support both business performance and founder well-being?" This pertinent question sets the stage for a captivating episode of The Conscious Entrepreneur podcast, where host Alex Raymond, following up on a discussion from the Conscious Entrepreneur Summit in 2023, sits down...

How to Share Money with Friends

About the Episode Picture the moment at the end of dinner with a friend when the bill arrives and you lock eyes with one another, silently asking…how should we split this? It’s awkward, and it’s one of many conversations about money – small and big – we have to navigate...