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#91 Michelle Kennedy: On Friendship & Motherhood

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emma gannon

Authors, Wellbeing, Arts, Books, Social Media, Creativity

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2017

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Michelle Kennedy is the CEO and co-founder of Peanut, an app for Mums who want to make new friends. She started Peanut after struggling to meet other mums she could relate to while also working. After finding herself trawling blogs for baby advice at 2am while her friends were still hanging out in clubs, she decided to create a product to make being a mum a little less lonely. Michelle started her career as a lawyer at leading international law firm, she later joined dating app, Badoo, where she transformed the internal legal offering within Badoo, and eventually rose to the role of Deputy CEO. During her tenure at Badoo, Michelle was integral to the the launch of Bumble.                     We talk about friendship, motherhood, competitiveness and being kinder to ourselves.

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This episode of Control-Or Delete is sponsored by King Fisher, the company behind

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recognizable home improvement brands such as B&Q and Screw Fix, who help make better homes

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accessible for everyone. And who, by the way, doesn't love a pop down to be in queue? I definitely do.

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Kingfisher have recently partnered with Google Cloud, a collaboration that together will support and prepare for retail's next digital age.

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From infrastructure to data analytics, they are looking for the right people to help them succeed,

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and that could be you.

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They're looking for tech professionals interested in software engineering, data

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analytics, data science, e-commerce and much more. They also have a range of brilliant benefits,

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competitive salaries, private health care for the family, and an outstanding pension scheme.

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So if you're interested, go to careers. Kingfisher.com today to find out more about their tech and digital roles. Thank you so much to King Fisher

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for sponsoring this podcast.

0:56.7

Hello and welcome back to another episode of Control-Alt Delete. I can't believe how many I've done now.

1:01.9

I just think I'm never going to run out of people to interview. I just find too many

1:05.4

people fascinating and I have too many questions to ask. So thanks for listening. Also,

1:10.9

just to warn you on this episode. I think I hope you agree that the beauty of this

1:15.5

podcast is that I take my microphone to many many different places and I record in

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quite random locations. So today's episode was recorded in a little office

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space in Hackney, but unfortunately some building work was going on. So there is some

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slight drilling going on during the middle, but it's not too bad I promise. So today's

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guest is Michelle Kennedy she's the CEO and founder of Peanuts which is a

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tender-style dating app for Mums. She's had amazing press from The Independent to the

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New York Times to Tech Crunch. It's all out there. She started Peanut after

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