Who wants to be a female entrepreneur?
Woman's Hour
BBC
4.1 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Woman’s Hour is joined by BBC Radio Sheffield in Doncaster for a special live panel show to find out how to be a successful female entrepreneur.
Woman’s Hour presenter Anita Rani and BBC Sheffield presenter Paulette Edwards talk to local business women and experts about how to start and sustain a thriving business. They investigate how the stubborn barriers of funding, childcare and confidence are still holding women back and explore the interventions needed to bring about lasting change, so more women and girls can choose to turn their great ideas into successful and lasting businesses.
On the panel are: Amy Furniss, a nurse from Doncaster who turned entrepreneur with a dried flowers business; Akeela Mohammed, who sold her two nurseries in Doncaster and now wants to open a Desi café; Rachel Stockey, Head of Entrepreneurial Skills at the Entrepreneurship Institute, who empowers women to make waves by practising her Seven Skills of Entrepreneurial Mindset; Christine Hockley, Managing Director of Funds at the British Business Bank in Sheffield, who is one of a small number of the country’s female investors; and Emma Jones, who in 2005 set up Enterprise Nation, which aims to provide expert advice and support for small businesses.
Presenters: Anita Rani and Paulette Edwards Producer: Rebecca Myatt SM: Phil Booth
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| 0:45.0 | Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4. |
| 0:50.0 | Good morning and welcome to Womanomonsower live from Doncaster for a very special |
| 0:56.6 | program called Who Wants to be a female entrepreneur? Not only have we left Womonsower for Yorkshire, I am joined by Paulette Edwards from |
| 1:05.4 | BBC Radio Sheffield. |
| 1:07.4 | Yes, we're coming to a life from Cast, The Theatre in Doncaster, and this program is being broadcast on both BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio Sheffield |
| 1:17.0 | which covers South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire so that means we've got Doncaster |
| 1:20.8 | at our bosom on yes around our bosom this morning. |
| 1:24.7 | So, women's hour finishes, of course at 11 o'clock. |
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