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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

Moment 152: The Top 4 Most Successful Stories From Women in Business!

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.613.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

This moment is a compilation of some of the most successful women to ever appear on The Diary Of A CEO, discussing the biggest hurdles that women have to overcome on the road to success. Karen Brady CBE, former managing director of Birmingham City F.C tells how on her first away game, it wasn’t believed that she could have a place in the boardroom and was mistaken for a player's wife or partner. Ever since, she has been driven to show the importance of true equality of treatment for people. Whitney Wolfe Herd, the founder of Bumble, says that one of the key reasons for Bumble’s success in a crowded dating app market was that it aimed at women and what they wanted, compared to all the other apps which ignored women to focus on male customers. Trinny Woodall, CEO of Trinny London, says that by starting a successful business in mid life, it proves that age is just a number and that energy alongside trusting yourself and your ideas is everything. Finally, Reshma Saujani, CEO of Girls Who Code, believes women have been sold the propaganda that they aren’t good or smart enough, and are left doubting their own abilities. Instead, she says that women have to say no and believe that they are deserving of success now. Listen to the full episodes here- Karen- https://g2ul0.app.link/qtWXktE5LHb Whitney- https://g2ul0.app.link/r3nkxZv5LHb Trinny- https://g2ul0.app.link/irHxG1y5LHb Reshma- https://g2ul0.app.link/8EC3scH5LHb Watch the Episodes On Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/c/%20TheDiaryOfACEO/videos Karen- https://www.instagram.com/karren_brady_official/ Whitney- https://www.instagram.com/whitney/ Trinny- https://www.instagram.com/trinnywoodall/ Reshma- https://www.instagram.com/reshmasaujani/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:19.7

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0:44.7

The next kind of brings me into a wider point about, and as you say the reason why you're in Saudi is this battle that I know you've had through your career with men kind of

0:56.2

of underestimating your sexism which I guess started when you first got the job at Birmingham.

1:01.5

Yeah I mean I remember my first away game, I think it was Watford, and I turned up and I said,

1:09.4

hi, could you tell me where the boardroom is?

1:11.5

And this little old boy, a little steward on the desk, he went, oh,

1:13.8

director's wives over there, and I saw it's interesting, but where is the boardroom? And he said,

1:18.8

dear, you don't understand. The director's wives go in the ladies room. And I said I said no I don't think it's you

1:23.7

understands I am the managing director so I wouldn't know where the boardroom is and this

1:27.4

little boy put his little glasses on he went oh yes he said yes you're

1:30.9

that woman stay here and I'll find out what to do with you because there were no other women in football.

1:38.0

So there was never a woman in the boardroom and women weren't, you know, weren't welcome in in boardrooms because it was meant to be the place where their directors or met and of course they were all men.

1:47.0

And I remember thinking that it was the very first door I'd kicked down and I was determined that I would keep that door

1:56.1

open as wide and as long as possible to get as many other women through as possible and

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