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Dr. Romie Mushtaq shares her insights and expertise, debunking the common misconceptions about public speaking and providing a behind-the-scenes look at the business of keynote speaking.

You will learn about the importance of owning your thought leadership, developing a clear and compelling message, and building a professional speaking business. Dr. Romie also talks about the significance of image, professionalism, and strategic planning in the keynote speaking industry.

Whether you're an aspiring keynote speaker or simply curious about the world of public speaking, this episode is packed with valuable insights and practical advice from an industry expert.

Episode Highlights:

• Being a professional keynote speaker is a business that requires significant time, effort, and investment.
• Owning your thought leadership and having a clear, specific message are crucial for success.
• Developing a professional image, including hair, makeup, and clothing, is essential.
• Building a team and leveraging professional training and coaching can enhance your speaking skills.
• Focusing on a specific area of expertise and continuously improving your content are key to standing out.
• Evaluating the ROI (Return on Investment) and strategic planning are vital for managing a speaking business.
• The speaking industry is highly competitive, and it takes time and dedication to become a sought-after keynote speaker.
• Fluff and generic topics won't get you hired; you need to offer value and expertise to your target audience.

About This Week's Guest

With nearly 20 years of authority in neurology, integrative medicine, and mindfulness, Dr. Romie is a leading physician on a mission to transform the brain health of companies, leaders, and organisations.

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Starting a new business comes with a whirlwind of decisions and logistics to navigate. But getting your tax and legal foundations right from the start is crucial to set your company up for long-term success and avoid costly mistakes down the line.

In this episode, Jen sits down with Adela Cebotari, a seasoned tax advisor and entrepreneur who shares her firsthand experience transitioning from the corporate world to launching her own thriving practice. Adela pulls back the curtain on the unexpected challenges she faced, the pivotal mindset shifts required, and the essential tax and legal steps every new business owner must take.

Whether you're just starting to explore entrepreneurship or already have a young business, this conversation is packed with practical, actionable insights you won't want to miss.

Episode Highlights:

- Adela's journey from corporate tax advisor to successful business owner - the pivotal moment that inspired her to take the leap

- The surprising number of hats Adela had to wear when starting her own practice, and her top tips for managing it all

- How Adela's focus on giving back through her charity work in Moldova is making a tangible difference

- The accounting software Adela swears by to keep her finances organised and compliant

- Adela's insights on the critical importance of getting your business structure and tax planning right from day one

About Adela Cebotari

Adela Cebotari, is the Founder of TARI CTA, a London base tax consultancy practice. She has almost 20 years’ experience in the Personal Tax industry. She is a Fellow of the Association of Tax Technicians and is also certified by the UK’s highest tax institution, the Chartered Institute of Taxation. In 2023 she also joined the STEP community of tax and legal advisors, by completing the Advanced Certificate in UK tax for International Clients. To date, she has provided tax compliance and tax advisory services to over 2,000 clients from the entrepreneurs at the beginning of their journey to ultra wealthy, internationally acclaimed A listers. She enjoys working with clients from a variety of industries and world location, however her speciality is working with clients in the entertainment industry and those needing support relating to the UK Residence and Domicile and deciphering the impact on their worldwide tax affairs.

Adela is also a passionate philanthropist. She is in process of becoming a trustee of the MAD-AID charity. Also, she is working on a tax knowledge sharing project that will offer workshops to schools, helping young people understand the tax conundrums so that they are better prepared for their journey into the world of financial dilemmas

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Jen interviews entrepreneur Janine Sudbury about her journey building multiple successful businesses in New Zealand over 25 years. Janine shares how she overcame self-doubt to pursue opportunities, and discusses her unique leadership program that uses horses to teach communication and relationship-building skills.

Episode Highlights:

• How Janine built a career in radio within a year of moving to NZ from opportunities not available in the UK
• Janine's horse whispering leadership program that teaches balance of warmth and strength through equine exercises
• Stories of women transforming careers by losing fear and niceness through Janine's program
• Business lessons like following the money and importance of deadlines
• Janine's experience overcoming a tutor's doubt to pursue a dream opportunity in Washington DC

About Janine Sudbury

Janine Sudbury is a former BBC and National Radio broadcast journalist and presenter who has created one of the most unique leadership training centres in the country. She has a BA in Philosophy and Politics, has worked in Congress in Washington DC and has used these experiences to develop Impact Leadership. Her journalistic career has helped her develop an astuteness in reading people and situations which allow her to swiftly pinpoint how best to motivate and inspire. Janine is also a superb communicator and listener who is empathetic and capable of giving honest, passionate feedback.

• Find out more about Janine at www.impactlead.co.nz
• Connect with Janine on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/janine-sudbury-1173622
• Connect with Janine on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/sudburynz/ and https://www.instagram.com/impactleadershipnz/
• Connect with Janine on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/sudburynz and https://www.facebook.com/impactleadershipnz

Episode Links

• Connect with Janine on LinkedIn
• Impact Leadership | Experiential Leadership Programmes

When this week's guest, a hospitality consultant and vintage aficionado, found her entrepreneurial dreams are in jeopardy due to the pandemic, she pivoted to a bold bartering strategy to keep her secondhand store afloat. Jelena Dancetovic is the GM and part owner of Retold, a secondhand clothing store in Dubai. She has 15 years of experience in hospitality and has been passionate about secondhand clothes since she was a child. When she moved to Dubai 15 years ago, Jelena quickly found that it was too expensive to buy new clothes. She combined her hospitality background with her passion for vintage, and in 2012 started her own online vintage shop. When the pandemic hit, Jelena was faced with bankruptcy, but she quickly adapted her business model and started buying second-hand clothes from those leaving the country. By using her contacts in hospitality, she was able to organize events and used influencers to spread the word. Now, her business is thriving, and she is helping entrepreneurs through her shop, providing a space for them to sell their products and offering barter deals.

In this episode, you will learn the following:

• How did a lack of access to affordable clothing inspire Jelena Dancetovic to start her own business?
• How did Jelena Dancetovic use her experience in both hospitality and second hand clothing to create a successful business model?
• What strategies did Jelena Dancetovic use to collaborate with influencers and small businesses to maximize her success?

In a society where women receive less than 2% of capital investments, this week's podcast guest is on a mission to challenge the status quo and use gender as a lens to empower female founders. Heather Henyon is the founder of Mindshift Capital, a gender lens VC fund. She has been investing in women for over a decade and has experience in building seven figure businesses around the world. In this episode, Heather shares how the relationship between investors and entrepreneurs is like a marriage, and the importance of finding the right people, doing due diligence, and building organic relationships.

In this episode, Heather and Jen discuss:

• How to use gender as a screen for venture capital investments
• What male and female investors can learn from each other
• The importance of building relationships and performing due diligence when investing.

Resources:

• Download the Female Fusion SME Dashboard at femalefusionnetwork.com/sme-dashboard
• Connect with Heather at https://www.mindshiftcapital.com/ 

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Today's guest, Maxine Cunningham created Pick My Brain to unlock a global marketplace of conversations, services, and expertise to help you dream out loud and manifest your vision. "Conversations have changed my life so many times in so many significant ways. And conversations have given me energy and perspective and ideas and relationships and new paths faster than any other type of medium." -Maxine Cunningham Maxine is the CEO and founder of Pick My Brain, a global knowledge sharing marketplace. She is an economist passionate about helping people package and price their knowledge to create new revenue streams. In this episode, Maxine shares how she was inspired to create Pick My Brain after asking herself what value conversations held and how they could be traded. Since it's conception 4 years go, she has conducted over a thousand Pick My Brain calls with people from 196 countries, covering every industry, culture, and background.  

In this episode, Maxine and Jen discuss:

• The value of conversations and how they can be traded in a more leveraged way.
• The potential of creating a unique marketplace of conversations.
• Monetizing and packaging your knowledge to create a global revenue stream.

Resources:

• Join the Fusion Circle today at femalefusionnetwork.com/join 
• Find out more about Maxine and Pick My Brain at www.pickmybrain.world

This week's guest on the Women on the Rise Podcast is Olga Fleming - an angel investor specializing in tech-related investments such as Fintech, PropTech, Aviation Tech, and Travel Tech. She is a lawyer with a background in compliance, and she is passionate about helping startups to succeed. Olga is an angel investor who focuses on investing in early-stage startups, providing them with both financial and advisory support. She works with startups to help them understand the importance of having the right advisors and investors onboard, and helps them find the right investors to make their project a success. "Looking at those sparkling eyes of those startups, having those great ideas when you're already in business for many years, that makes a difference. You realize why you are there, why you are doing this, why it's worth still doing businesses."

In this episode, Olga and Jen discuss:

• The importance of personalized outreach when trying to find investors
• The benefits of having a diverse group of angel investors in a startup
• How to mitigate risk when giving away equity to investors.

In this episode of the Women on the Rise podcast, Jen's 14-year old daughter Eva shares her experience of growing up with a mother who is an entrepreneur. Eva discusses how she felt when her mother couldn't make it to all of her school events and provides words of wisdom for all working mothers, emphasising the importance of taking time for oneself and communicating with your children. Eva's story serves as a reminder that it is possible to balance running a business and having a family.

In this episode, Jen and Eva open up about:

• Balancing Life as a Working Mother: What is it like to have a mother who is an entrepreneur and works a lot?
• The Impact of Gender Inequality: How teenagers today view the gender inequality they observe in society?
• The Power of Self-Care: How women can prioritise their own mental health and wellbeing while running a business and raising a family

Resources:

• Find out more about Female Fusion at femalefusionnetwork.com
• Join the Fusion Circle Waitlist at femalefusionnetwork.com/join

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After years of struggling to set boundaries and prioritize her own health and well-being, Jen (a self-confessed people pleaser) shares her empowering journey to establish healthy limits while making her business dreams a reality. In this episode, Jen opens up about how by finally prioritizing and setting clear boundaries she was able to focus on growing Female Fusion while also making time for her family and herself. She also shares the calendar-blocking hack that allowed me to her more creative and relieved the pressure of being available all the time - and so much more! "Set yourself boundaries so you're going to be able to run a business and have a bit of a life - it is possible!"

In this week's podcast, you'll unlock:

• The systems Jen followed that have enabled her to set boundaries and have a life as an entrepreneur
• How you can prioritize personal and business goals simultaneously
• Strategies for establishing the right balance of boundaries and creative time for you

Resources:

• Find out more about Female Fusion at femalefusionnetwork.com
• Find out exactly where your business could be more profitable by taking our FREE Business Profitability Quiz at femalefusionnetwork.com/quiz
• Join the Fusion Circle Waitlist at femalefusionnetwork.com/join

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Female Fusion CEO, Jen Blandos, shares what it means to her to achieve her goal of helping other women build their businesses by offering an unorthodox pricing strategy that simultaneously challenges the status quo and tests the limits of her customers' willingness to pay. Jen shares several pricing strategies such as cost-based pricing, value-based pricing, pricing according to competitors, penetration pricing, loss leader pricing, and high initial pricing. Each of these strategies comes with its own pros and cons, and Jen's breakdown and analysis of each in this episode will make a huge difference in determining which one will work best for your business. "Pricing is such an important aspect of being an entrepreneur and it's really important that we get this right."

In this episode, you will learn the following:

• How to price your product or service as an Entrepreneur
• Strategies for setting up a business pricing model
• Investing in Loss Leader pricing to attract customers