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We Are Mimosa with Denyse Whillier

Strategic support reimagined for female founders in a world where women in business and leadership are routinely underestimated and overlooked.

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What a Strategy for Female Entrepreneurship in the UK Would Actually Look Like

The UK has no strategy for female entrepreneurship. Drawing on the best evidence and international practice, here's an outline for one.

What Happens When a Country Actually Invests in Female Entrepreneurship? Ask Canada.

Canada hasbuilt a $7 billion strategy for female entrepreneurship, national childcare infrastructure, and treats gender equality as an economic imperative. The UK was asked to do the same and said no.

How Eshita Kabra-Davies Built By Rotation

A solo female tech founder, a woman of colour, and an immigrant, Eshita Kabra-Davies told the United Nations that women don’t need mentorship - they need money. Then she told Parliament.

Why Has So Little Changed When We’ve Known What Female Founders Need for Seven Years?

From the AlisonRose Review to the Female Founders Rise Report - what governments promised female entrepreneurs, what the Women & Equalities Committee recommended, and what actually happened.

The Rise Report: How 2,225 Women-Led Businesses Define Success

The largest grassroots study of UK female entrepreneurship reveals the Four Ss of Success - and challenges the assumption that women build lifestyle businesses.

What Women Build

A founder who started again at 63, a report that listened to 2,225 women, and a conversation about what it means to come home to yourself.

Does Keir Starmer Have a Misogyny Problem?

His government has appointed, elevated and funded three men with histories connected to mistreatment of women - each time because they were useful. The pattern tells us something the Prime Minister.

Bobbi Brown’s Second Act: What Happens When a Woman Builds on Her Own Terms

She built a billion-dollar brand, lost it to men in suits who didn’t listen, and came back with something better. Here’s what she’d tell you.

When Words and Actions Collide

Reflecting on a week where purpose met reality, the glass cliff claimed another woman, and a permaculturist reminded me why hope matters.

The Glass Cliff Prime Minister: Does Starmer Have a Woman Problem? It’s Worse Than That

Women are being appointed at the moment of maximum crisis, without proper process, to clean up the mess men created. The research has a name for this.