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Speaker 10: Now Starting, carried out by aj Bell and twenty twenty

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Speaker 10: good morning to you. What is the background to the

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Speaker 3: master's degree in physics from Imperial, I worked at Morgan

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Speaker 3: Stanley Goldman Sachs. I've got an MBA from London Business School.

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Speaker 3: Surely those things count for something. But it was still

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Speaker 3: But I also think it's just inherent biases as well.

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Speaker 3: But the way that I got around it is, you know,

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Speaker 3: just naturally understood what we were doing and were also

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Speaker 11: Okay, how is propelled doing as a plan? I you know,

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Speaker 11: I'm very interested in this subject because on the one hand,

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Speaker 11: sort of personally the invest In Women's Task Force focus

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Speaker 11: on women. Okay, invest in in female led businesses is

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Speaker 11: going down, but nonetheless they're you know, they're they're making

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Speaker 11: to build networking bridges. Those have shut down recently. So

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Speaker 11: it's it's really a very difficult space. How are you

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Speaker 3: So I think a lot of resilience, I say, is

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Speaker 3: the first thing. But when you speak to women, what

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Speaker 3: women are amassing wealth and accelerating rate. I think it's

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Speaker 3: So women are getting more and more wealth and when

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Speaker 3: you do actually speak to them, they want to invest.

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Speaker 3: So for me, it's more about finding them. How do

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Speaker 3: we reach them, And we do that, as I said,

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Speaker 3: through companies, through organizations, but actually we've grown massively just

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Speaker 10: Are you worried though, with as you described it, how

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Speaker 10: companies are reorientating their approach to efforts like this, that

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Speaker 10: that funnel for you gets cut off.

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Speaker 3: I think in a sense of potentially companies paying for

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Speaker 3: some of the services we provide. Yes, but we can

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Speaker 3: still go into these companies and engage with their women's

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Speaker 10: So, as I said, some more informal connections necessarily then

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Speaker 10: perhaps the former ones funneled through

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Speaker 3: Companies exactly exactly, So maybe the company can't formally engage

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Speaker 3: in the same way anymore, but the individuals in these

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Speaker 3: companies absolutely do, so those doors are still open.