How To Raise Capital When ALL The Odds Are Against You – With Tech Startup CEO Lindsay Padilla

Hello Seven Podcast

Rachel Rodgers

Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business, Education

4.8 • 601 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Got a business idea, but don’t know how to raise the funds? Listen up. 🔥 Join our next Money Making challenge: https://makemoneymoves.co/ Only 3% of venture capital goes to women—Lindsay Padilla got funded anyway. In this episode, Rachel Rodgers sits down with Lindsay Padilla, CEO of Hello Audio, to break down how she built a tech startup from scratch and raised capital in an industry that rarely bets on women – let alone women of colour. Lindsay shares the unfiltered truth about navigat...

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0:00.0	One of the first conversations we ever had was you asking me for money.
0:03.5	And I know so many people need to ask somebody for money and they're afraid to do it.
0:07.6	They don't have the courage to do it.
0:08.8	I am the CEO of Hello Audio, which is a private podcast hosting platform.
0:13.2	We had raised from our community about 100K to build our prototype and to get our first
0:19.4	subscribers and all the things, we needed to figure
0:22.0	out where the rest of the money is from.
0:23.9	I knew right away, I was like, I want women, I want women of color, like I want people
0:28.0	in this space.
0:29.0	I grew up in a home where money was very like up and down.
0:32.8	Money trauma lives with like my relationship from my, or my mom's relationship with my
0:36.9	grandfather.
0:40.3	So this was a conversation many times if I need money.
0:41.1	That's a lot.
0:41.4	Yes. And like so watching that and seeing the like emotional ramifications of that, the asking for money thing was not a thing that like I wanted to recreate because he was also really not nice about it.
0:54.0	That would make asking people for money very difficult.
0:57.4	Very difficult.
0:58.5	Three percent of busy backup here are women.
1:01.2	Hundreds of billions of dollars that's being invested in the technology that is going to inform and influence our lives.
1:07.6	And three percent of it is going to all women of any background. It's the first
1:12.0	time I've actually talked about this. Welcome to the Hello Seven podcast. That's seven as in
1:18.6	seven figures. I'm your host, Lindsay, I'm so excited to finally have you on the podcast. I know.
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