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.
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EP 15: MARCIA DAWOOD
Marcia Dawood is a partner at MINDSHIFT Capital, a venture fund focused on investing with a gender lens, ensuring diversity of thought while narrowing the funding gap for female-led ventures. Marcia is also an advisor to the SEC on the Small Business Capital Formation Committee; she is a member of Golden Seeds; and is Chair Emeritus of the Angel Capital Association (ACA). She is a founding member and current chair of the ACA’s Growing Women’s Capital Group, which is building syndication and collaboration among US investment groups focused on women-led companies, host of The Angel Next Door Podcast, and author of Do Good While Doing Well.
EP 14: JACLYN JOHNSON
Jaclyn Johnson is the powerhouse founder behind Create & Cultivate. A serial entrepreneur with multiple multi-million dollar exits under her belt, Johnson has dedicated her career to empowering underrepresented founders with the tools they need to build big businesses. Her latest company, Cherub, is a marketplace connecting angel investors to entrepreneurs. She is also an angel investor, best-selling author, and the host of the top-rated podcast Work Party.
EP 13: LARA O’CONNOR HODGSON
Lara O’Connor Hodgson, is the President & CEO of NOW, a fin-tech company she founded with her business partner and co-author of “Level Up" Stacey Abrams.
Prior to Now, Lara co-founded Nourish (the manufacturing company), and Insomnia, LLC, a firm specializing in investment, development, and management of complex and innovative “world-changing” projects.
EP 12: TRACY L. PRIGMORE
Tracy L. Prigmore, is the Founder of TLTsolutions, a real estate investment and development firm. Tracy recently led the acquisition of a luxury inn and winery on a 40-acre vineyard estate in California, and is currently constructing a 90 room Tru by Hilton. She created She Has a Deal, an EdTech platform, real estate investment accelerator and ecosystem that creates new pathways to commercial real estate ownership and development for women and BIPOC.
EP 11: 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 founder and president of Tara Health Foundation, co-founder and board chair of Rhia Ventures and the co-author of The XX Edge: Unlocking Higher Returns and Lower Risk
EP 10: CHERYL KELLOND
Cheryl Kellond is the Co-Founder of Play Money and a concept-to-launch product expert - turned founder - turned angel investor. As a funder, she’s a loud and proud baby-check writer who has invested in nearly 50 startups using the funds in her IRA. Now, she is bringing all of these experiences together and Taylor-Swifting the angel economy with her latest venture, Play Money.
EP 09: 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: 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: 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: BOBBI REBELL
Bobbi Rebell, CFP® is the Founder and CEO of Financial Wellness Strategies. She is the author of Launching Financial Grownups: Live Your Richest Life by Helping Your (Almost) Adult Kids Become Everyday Money Smart, as well as How to be a Financial Grownup: Proven Advice from High Achievers on How to Live Your Dreams and Have Financial Freedom. 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: MINA BLACK
Mina Black is the Founder of The RainMakers Collective, Co-Founder of Frequencyy and Mrs. New York City 2019. After an almost two-decade career as an award-winning Financial Described as one of the top personal finance people to follow on Twitter, she has been featured in numerous publications, including, The New York Times, Ebony!, CNN Money, Yahoo! Finance, InvestmentNews, Investor Business Daily, The Grio, and many more!
EP 04: MONALISA COMO
MonaLisa Como, Executive Director, Institute for Diversity & Inclusion in Finance or (IDiF). She has over two decades of financial services experience in scaling and transforming startups, large institutions, and emerging industries. She was previously the Chief Operating Officer of Invest at PayPal, President & COO at Capital One Investing, and E*TRADE as a startup to name a few.
EP 03: 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: 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: 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.