How to overcome founder loneliness, with Emmie Faust, founder of Female Founders Rise

About this episode

Emmie Faust discusses overcoming founder loneliness and shares insights from her RISE Report on female entrepreneurship.

In this episode I'm joined by Emmie Faust, serial entrepreneur, investor in over 30 women-founded businesses & founder of Female Founders Rise, the 11,000-strong UK community supporting female entrepreneurs. Emmie is also the author of the newly published RISE Report, the largest independent study of female entrepreneurship in the UK & this is the first time she's sharing its findings on a podcast. We talk about why she built Female Founders Rise after a post-COVID breakdown, wh...

People in this episode

Host: Juliet Fallowfield

Guest: Emmie Faust

Topics covered

• founder loneliness
• female entrepreneurship
• community support
• post-COVID challenges
• investing in women
• entrepreneurship insights

Keywords

• founder loneliness
• female entrepreneurs
• RISE Report
• community support
• post-COVID
• investing in women

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Female Founders Rise

Books & works: RISE Report

Places: UK

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