Banishing the taboos surrounding womanhood, with Michelle Kennedy, founder and CEO of Peanut

Conversations of Inspiration

Holly Tucker MBE

Education, Business, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Personal Journals

5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever been in need of a safe space to share your most personal questions or concerns as a woman and just not known where to turn?

If so, it’s an experience shared by many — especially the 2.5 million people who’ve joined Peanut; the groundbreaking app set up by Michelle Kennedy to ensure that no woman ever has to navigate womanhood alone.

Whether it’s to connect, form friendships or just to have really open conversations with other women about the complicated areas of fertility, menopause and motherhood to name a few, Peanut is a platform that’s enabled positive progress for many.

Michelle talks to Holly about the ignition of her business idea following a successful career in the dating industry at Badoo and Bumble, navigating the world of tech as a female, and how she believes each of us has a responsibility to change the dialogue around the challenges that occur, for future generations.

Dubbed ‘the village for the digital age’, Peanut is a powerful force and one that is breaking down the modern taboos around womanhood, whichever stage of life we are at. Listen to find out how to join the movement, too…

If you enjoyed this episode, we think you’ll love Holly’s Conversation of Inspiration with Jacqueline Gold CBE, CEO of Ann Summers.

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0:00.0	What an utter pleasure it was to speak to Michelle Kennedy, founder and CEO of the groundbreaking
0:06.0	peanut. Michelle, my goodness, a female disruptor, and a woman who is absolutely breaking boundaries
0:15.6	has found the gap in the market. It also sounds quite masculine there, but she's building technology
0:22.1	and a social platform for us women. You know, peanut is now this sort of new wave of social media
0:29.2	networking, one that acts as a force for good in the world and promotes a space for women to talk
0:35.5	about women's issues, what's on their mind, a safe space for them to just belong. I absolutely
0:44.9	adored speaking to this woman because we shared so many experiences along growing technology businesses
0:52.7	in a male-dominated world. But what I saw was this determination and this resilience and she's
1:01.2	found her space in life. This is her legacy and it's a remarkable moment when you speak to women
1:07.6	who know that this is where they always were meant to belong. Enjoy!
1:12.4	I'm Holly Tucker and welcome to Conversations of Inspiration. Back in 2006, I founded not on the
1:29.6	high street from my kitchen table and since then I've gone on to launch Holly and Co. I'm the UK
1:35.9	ambassador of creative small businesses and I believe that having a business doing what you love
1:41.6	is the key to a happy fulfilled life. My dream is to help everybody start theirs. I'm here to offer
1:48.8	advice, inspiration, wisdom and encouragement and in my view the best way to do this is by sharing
1:56.7	stories. So I've reached out to my favourite small businesses, entrepreneurs and those who simply
2:03.2	inspire me and ask them to share theirs. Here are my Conversations of Inspiration.
2:12.6	Hi Michelle, thank you so much for joining me here on Conversations of Inspiration. Welcome.
2:19.5	Thank you so much for having me. You are the founder and CEO of Peanut listed as one of the time
2:26.3	100 most influential companies in 2022. I mean that's pretty cool. Groundbreaking social
2:34.1	networking platform that provides a safe space for women to connect and it's been described as
2:39.9	the Tinder for mums and it allows women to connect with others who are going through a similar
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