FemGems Podcast

Alexandra Vlachopoulou-Horn is the musician, foodie, and entrepreneur behind two Berlin-based enterprises, the A.HORN café-restaurant in Kreuzberg and the recently opened B.HORN Foodbar in Neukölln. The hospitality of her homeland, Greece, inspired her to begin a career in gastronomy. Ten years later, Alexandra does consultation work for non-profits, studies user experience design, and mentors at the Metro Startup accelerator. Alexandra shares tons of actionable advice about running with your ideas, forgetting about perfection, and learning as you go!

Friederike Ernst has a bachelors in biology, computation and neuroscience, and PhD in physics. She completed a Postdoc at Columbia University and another at Stanford. After a visiting professorship at Hamburg University she realized that she was no longer pursuing her own interests due to the expectations of her environment. The reasons behind her love of academia, discovering new ideas and being creative, were also important aspects of being the founder of a tech startup. Tune in to hear more about what inspired Friederike to change career paths and what entrepreneurship taught her about the power of self-awareness.

Barbara Zeiss founded Emerald Berlin after she witnessed the power of fashion in politics. Her company blends sustainability with activism and brings support to NGO's from all over the world. Barbara goes in depth about how she built confidence, what she learned from other people, and the final push that started her entrepreneurial journey.

Linda Vermaat lives, breathes, and moderates impact. Her entrepreneurial journey began in vegetarian activism and led to the creation of the Slow Food Youth Network, Professional Rebel, and TwentieFour. Today she lives in Amsterdam with her husband Erik and daughter Isa. In this episode she discusses the power of enthusiasm and how she manages to balance motherhood and entrepreneurship. Linda continues to do work as a speaker, moderator, documentary filmmaker, and much more!

Hannah Kromminga is the founder of Silfir, the Soft Workwear Uniform! They designed a new garment that’s simple, chic and sustainable and it’s the statement outfit for those who are ready for a new forward-thinking zero waste lifestyle. In this episode, Hannah shares all about her journey of founding Silfir and the things she's learned along the way! IMPORTANT: Hannah is currently running a Kickstarter to finance the first production run and orders close 2nd of July 2019, 11am CET, so GO SUPPORT HER NOW: http://kck.st/30Xkbn4

Danielle D’Agostaro is Managing Partner and COO of one of the most well-known startup accelerators, Alchemist, based in California. Our FemGem20 shares a lot of worthy wisdom from her experiences and observations of working with hundreds of startups. In this episode, Danielle shares her story of getting into the startup business, plenty of tips from what she has seen work and not work for startups, and how to stay motivated.

Born to two doctors in Sarajevo, in what soon became a war-torn country, she grew up in the Czech Republic and has always been enthusiastic about helping others. After her graduation from London School of Economics and Political Science in 2014, she’s worked for the European Commission in Health Determinants Unit of DG Santé. Today, she's combining what she considers most important: health and education. With her NGO sifty.eu Nina and her team break down the most complicated health issues to inform and educate the general public in a simple and reliable way. In this episode, you will learn how you can start building something so unique while also starting a family and finding a way to balance these two most important things in your life.

Chanyu Xu is a serial entrepreneur who started her first company 10 years ago, at the age of 22. She's focused on the food tech industry and her current venture is called her1. They're offering natural nutrition for women and we're in love with their philosophy and the values they are building their brand upon. In this episode, we talked a lot about transparency and awareness, as well as self-consciousness, reflection, being open and showing vulnerability.

Alice Zagury works tirelessly to make changes to a landscape ruled by elitism, where neither youth nor diversity are welcome. She's driven by a strong belief in the ability of local talent to build international champions. Alice is the CEO and co-founder of The Family https://www.thefamily.co/ and she's disrupting the European startup ecosystem in the most empowering, innovative and impressive way! The Family is a strategic and long-term associate in over 200 startups in Europe. Based in Paris, London and Berlin, they provide education, tools, and access to capital to ambitious founders. In this episode, we talk a lot about ambition, becoming an entrepreneur and Alice shares priceless advice for founders! // SUPPORT US https://www.patreon.com/FemGems // APPLY to Goldup and get 20% from FemGems podcast: https://www.goldup.co/

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