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The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disproportionate effect on women and triggered the “she-cession.” In the US alone, women lost 5 million jobs, with 80% of jobs lost in government, retail, education & health services, and leisure & hospitality. Where will women in the workforce and the fight to close the gender wealth gap go from here? In this episode, LinkedIn Editor at Large Caroline Fairchild, who covers the future of work and diversity in the workplace, joins us to share insights from the last year, including the outlook for women’s economic recovery. Follow us on Instagram: @ialsopodcast, Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastBio: Caroline Fairchild is an award-winning journalist and now Editor at Large at LinkedIn News. She reports on the prominent voices, trends and issues facing the future of work and diversity in the workplace. She is the host of LinkedIn News Live, the first daily live show on the state of business she developed for the LinkedIn News team. She is also the writer of Working Together, one of the ten most popular newsletters on LinkedIn on how the workplace is changing in a digital and diverse age. A member of the board of visitors for Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, she is a sought-after workplace and diversity expert in media such at CBS This Morning, CNBC, CNN and Yahoo! Finance. She also frequently presents on building equitable workplaces to teams within Fortune 500 companies. Learn more at carolinefairchild.com or by following her on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Have you ever thought about being a digital nomad? The last year has accelerated the normalization of remote and hybrid working for many job roles. Combined with a yearning for travel’s resumption, more people are considering a digital nomad lifestyle. In this episode, long-time digital nomad and founder/CEO of Nomad Tax, Krystal Pino, shares how to plan and manage finances as a digital nomad, travel and integrate authentically, and build the business case with your employer for this new working model.Follow us, Instagram: @ialsopodcast, Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker Bio: Krystal, or Pino as most of her travel companions know her, is the mastermind behind Nomad Tax. Pino is a CPA (Certified Public Accountant), and PFS (Personal Financial Specialist) with a BA in Accounting and an MBA in Finance from UAB in Birmingham, AL. She's been at the tax game for over a decade now, working on both the corporate and public sides of accounting. Pino has been a digital nomad for nearly 4 years now, visiting nearly 40 countries.  She's currently waiting out the pandemic in Mexico, but is looking forward to vegan street food in Cape Town, lake houses in Macedonia, and beaches in Nicaragua when it's safe to travel again.

What percentage of one’s wealth should be in cryptocurrency? What financial products exist in the crypto space to accrue passive income? What does decentralized finance actually mean? Crypto experts Sophie Holm and Harrison Comfort return in the second part of this interview with crypto convert Nicole Kyle and talk about a new venture to disrupt the crypto asset management space. Follow us on Instagram: @ialsopodcast, Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker bio:Sophie Holm:Is a crypto investor, currently working with Harrison to launch DAM, a decentralised asset management project, giving investors exposure to a curated index of high value crypto assets. She is also the co-creator of I Also Want Money Podcast with Nicole Kyle. Follow Sophie at @sophieWholm. Harrison Comfort: With a background in private equity Harrison has worked in the blockchain space since 2015. More recently working on a project DAM - a decentralised Asset Management project.Follow DAM on Twitter at @DamFinance

Talk of cryptocurrency has gone mainstream - but how to take action with crypto largely remains a mystery. In this unique series, our co-hosts flip the script: crypto-convert Nicole Kyle asks the questions and crypto-expert Sophie Holm has the answers. Sophie is joined by I Also podcast producer and fellow cryptocurrency expert Harrison Comfort as they reveal the fundamentals of cryptocurrency, blockchain, and NFTs. This is not to be missed!Follow us on Instagram: @ialsopodcast, Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker bio: Sophie Holm: Sophie is a crypto investor, currently working with Harrison to launch DAM, a decentralised asset management project, giving investors exposure to a curated index of high value crypto assets. She is also the co-creator of I Also Want Money Podcast with Nicole Kyle. Follow Sophie at @SophieWHolm. Harrison Comfort: With a background in private equity Harrison has worked in the blockchain space since 2015. More recently working on a project DAM - a decentralised Asset Management project. Follow Harrison at @hcomfortglobalFollow DAM on Twitter at @DamFinance 

Short. Call. Put. Long. What do these things have in common? Options trading is a key factor in meme stock trading and enabled the $GME run. In this episode, we continue with meme stock experts and Salience Capital co-founders Lily Francus and Monica Turrey. Lily and Monica teach us how options work and how they may make you money.Follow us on Instagram: @ialsopodcast, Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker Bio:Lily Francus is an independent quantitative researcher and head of Salience Capital, a quantitative research firm focused on derivative-based short term options strategies. She has a background in computer science and business and was previously a software engineer at Linkedin and Stripe. Follow Lily on Twitter @nope_its_lily Monica Turrey is a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon’s Innovation Institute and strategist at Salience Capital. She has a background in product strategy and performance advertising in the technology sector. Follow Monica on Twitter @MonicaTurrey Visit Salience at saliencecapital.com and explore the NOPE model at http://nopechart.com 

What happened with GameStop can be attributed to meme theory - the same theory that explains viral sensations and fake news. How does it work? Meme theory experts Lily Francus and Monica Turrey turned to day-trading to pay for grad school and now have a rapidly growing following, studying how meme theory impacts the markets. In the first of this two part series, the Salience Capital co-founders teach us the logic behind trading these “meme stocks” and caution us on how to play the game. Follow us on Instagram: @ialsopodcast, Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker Bio:Lily Francus is an independent quantitative researcher and head of Salience Capital, a quantitative research firm focused on derivative-based short term options strategies. She has a background in computer science and business and was previously a software engineer at Linkedin and Stripe. Follow Lily on Twitter @nope_its_lily Monica Turrey is a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon’s Innovation Institute and strategist at Salience Capital. She has a background in product strategy and performance advertising in the technology sector. Follow Monica on Twitter @MonicaTurrey Visit Salience at saliencecapital.com and explore the NOPE model at http://nopechart.com 

Description: Owning a home or investment property can sometimes feel more like a pipe dream than an attainable goal. Stacks and the City founder Ashley Copeland is here to flip that script. Ashley, a first-generation wealth builder, bought two properties before the age of 30 and believes real estate is an important part of any wealth building strategies. In this episode, we learn more about Ashley’s journey and hear her pro tips for evaluating and executing real estate investments. Follow us on Instagram: @ialsopodcast, Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeak Bio: Ashley Copeland is host of Stacks and the City, the podcast dedicated to showing women how to build wealth and increase their net worth with downloads over $30,000.  Raised by a single mother in rural North Carolina, Ashley learned early about how money can affect your way of life.  Ashley avidly read about personal finance and homeownership throughout her teens and twenties.  As a result, Ashley used $10,000 saved from hours of serving tables and college refunds checks to open her first investment account at 21.  Ashley then purchased her first investment home at 24 and her second the following year with money steadfastly saved from working two jobs. As a result of her work, Ashley amassed a six-figure net worth without ever earning a six-figure salary.  Ashley uses her knowledge of personal finance to teach others how to understand and build their net worth to achieve financial independence.  In her spare time, Ashley enjoys reading, hiking, and traveling, having visited over 30 countries. Ashley is a proud graduate of Duke University and KIPP ENC Schools.Follow Ashley on Instagram: @stacksnthecity & subscribe to her newsletter and join her webinars here. Subscribe to Stacks and the City podcast.

Financial security is hard to come by in the creative industries and making money is tough. For those who do not benefit from family safety nets, pursuing a creative career can feel all the more scary and unrealistic. How does one successfully navigate this reality? In this episode, journalist, writer and Full Frontal with Samantha Bee producer Naureen Khan gets candid about her decision to enter journalism at the height of The Great Recession and talks us through her approach to money and finances across her career in media & entertainment. Follow us on Instagram: @ialsopodcast, Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker Bio: Naureen Khan is a writer and journalist, and a producer at Full Frontal with Samantha Bee. She hails from Plano, Texas and graduated from Duke in 2010. You can read her pop culture musings at naureen.substack.com. Follow Naureen on Twitter: @naureeninnyc and subscribe to her newsletter “Bad Taste” at naureen.substack.com

We chat with Beautycon CEO, entrepreneur, and investor Moj Mahdara about her relationship with money & wealth and her speech that inspired the name of our podcast.In this episode, we chat with Beautycon CEO, entrepreneur, and investor Moj Mahdara about her relationship with money & wealth and her speech that inspired the name of our podcast.Follow us, Instagram: @ialsopodcast, Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker Bio: Moj Mahdara is a digital entertainment and branding entrepreneur and a Persian-American LGBT advocate. She's the CEO of Beautycon, a key connector in the makeup world, operating a growing number of namesake beauty-blogger festivals—in L.A., New York, London, Dallas, and Dubai—that attract as many as 12,000 attendees. Her empowerment-focused gatherings feature panel discussions and networking events. The company also launched a Birchbox-like subscription service in 2015, and it generates additional income by linking online beauty-advice stars with advertisers for marketing campaigns. A graduate of the University of California, Irvine, Mahdara previously served as CEO of Exopolis, a digital advertising studio, where she grew the client list to include brands such as Microsoft and Apple. Mahdara then formed the agency Made With Elastic, where she executed digital campaigns for Levi’s, Lacoste, and BMW. She became CEO of Beautycon in 2013, helping the company attract investors such as Hearst, Bethany Mota, BBG Ventures, and Troy Carter, and leading Beautycon to new levels with an expected revenue of $10 million in 2016.Follow Moj on Instagram: @moj Twitter: @mojism and Clubhouse: @moj

In our last episode of 2020, co-hosts Sophie Holm and Nicole Kyle reflect on how #IAlso has changed their relationship with money and reveal the money wins & losses that have made 2020 a rollercoaster year for financial wellness. Cheers to making it through!Follow us, Instagram: @ialsopodcast, Twitter: @IAlsoPodcast

Find out why it is now more important than ever to forge your own path and find your passion in order to launch a highly successful business in today’s radically changing environment. Fellow rule breaker and serial entrepreneur Jackie Fast will discuss some key themes in her new book Rule Breaker: Rebellious Leadership for the Future of Work, specifically how technology has revolutionized what we need to know now, and more importantly what we need to ignore.Pre-order Jackie’s book Rule Breaker: https://www.koganpage.com/product/rule-breaker-9781789667677 Promo code: KOGANPAGE20For participation in competition, send receipt of purchase to nicolekyle111@gmail.com  by  January 1st 2021.Follow us, Instagram: @ialsopodcast, Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker Bio: Jackie Fast is an award-winning entrepreneur and business leader. As the founder and former Managing Director of Slingshot, one of the most successful global sponsorship companies, she has worked with some of the world's biggest brands that include the Rolling Stones, Formula1, Virgin, Allianz and Shell. She is an in-demand business and entrepreneurship public speaker, and has been featured in Forbes, Metro, Business Leader Magazine, Money Observer, Sky News and the Telegraph.Follow Jackie Fast’s life and work on Instagram @jackiefast and Twitter @jackiefast or say hello at https://jackiefast.com. 

Gold is one of the oldest financial instruments. Why is it still relevant to investment portfolios today, and why should we invest in it? In this episode, investment strategist and macroeconomic analyst Lyn Alden shares:⚡️basics of the gold market⚡️why to invest in gold⚡️whether Bitcoin could be the new gold standard?⚡️how a passion for markets & investing and an engineer education made Lyn a leading expert in macro investment strategy ✊Follow us, Instagram: @ialsopodcast, Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker Bio:Lyn Alden, the founder of Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, provides investment research for retail and institutional investors. With a background that blends engineering and finance, her process involves fundamental investing with a global macro overlay, with expertise in equities and alternative asset classes.  Follow Lyn on Twitter: @lynaldencontact

Why should cryptocurrency be part of your investment strategy? Cryptocurrency is less scary than it sounds and, while volatile, has outpaced the stock market in returns in 2020. In this episode, we chat with Anam Lakhani and Eve Halimi - co-founders of Alinea Invest, an investing app focused on women, community, & responsible investing that is one of only players to integrate crypto investments with traditional investments into a single, user-friendly platform about why and how to invest in crypto. Follow us, Instagram: @ialsopodcast, Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker Bio: Eve Halimi is the  co-founder and co-CEO of Alinea Invest. She is originally from Paris but has grown up living in London, Tel Aviv and now New York. Eve founded her first community based application at the age of 15 and after interning in Finance on both the buy and sell side, she became extremely frustrated by the fact that none of her girlfriends were investing or talking about it. After graduating with an Economics BA from Barnard, Columbia University and joining a high growth stage startup as an associate, she now feels more than ready to build the first community based investing app to bring more younger women to the investing world by making the journey fun, interactive and relatable.Anam Lakhani is the co-founder and CEO of Alinea Invest. Following her investment banking internship, she quickly grasped how heavily male-dominated the financial sector is and returned to campus to build a community around financial empowerment for women. Her own experiences coupled with those of her friends and classmates made her aware of the huge confidence barrier young women struggle with when starting their investing journey. After graduating with a BA in Economics from Columbia University and working in investment banking at Citigroup, Anam is ready to level the playing field and bring investing to a demographic, often overlooked and excluded by the financial industry. Follow Alinea on twitter;@alineainvest_ and instagram; @alineainvestWebsite: https://alinea-invest.com 

How does self-funding a business accelerate personal wealth goals in ways that venture capital, angel, or ECF investment cannot? In this final episode surrounding venture capital, Khaleelah Jones - founder and CEO of Dime Digital + Careful Feet Digital and finalist for this year’s NatWest Everywoman Awards -- discusses the power in self-funding. Khaleelah shares her experiences exploring venture capital raises as a founder and woman of color and the work that the industry has left to do to become more inclusive. Follow us, Instagram: @ialsopodcast, Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker Bio:Khaleelah founded and scaled Careful Feet Digital, a London-based digital marketing agency, after working in the digital marketing space for a decade. She worked her way from being an associate at Living Social to head of marketing at WellTok, Inc., where she was part of a team that doubled the user base in just six months and raised $18m in Series B funding. Using their deep marketing knowledge derived from managing clients of all sizes around the world at Careful Feet Digital, Khaleelah and the Dime team have built a product that uses cutting-edge AI technology to create branding and social media assets. More importantly, though, Khaleelah has built a team that supports the technology, and therefore our clients, with our combined decades of experience in marketing, branding and technology.Follow Khaleelah on Twitter: @CarefulFeet and Instagram: @khaleelahejones

How does being an entrepreneur make you a better investor? In this episode, Hambro Perks principal and founder of media startup CompassNewsUK, Matilde Giglio, details what it’s like to go from seeking funding to being the one awarding funding. We discuss learning hard lessons as a founder, transitioning into venture capital, and even Matilde’s own angel investing strategies. Follow us, Instagram: @ialsopodcast, Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker Bio: Matilde is a Principal at Hambro Perks, where she invests in Seed and Series A technology companies. Prior to joining Hambro Perks, Matilde co-founded Compass News, a machine learning journalism start-up with offices in London and New York and over 100,000 monthly active users that was backed by Hambro Perks, Bloomberg Beta and others. Before that, Matilde worked at Fox and Paramount leading their marketing campaigns in Europe. At the start of 2019, she moved to India to run digital strategy for the Congress Party in the 2019 Indian general elections.Matilde holds a master’s degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science and is an advisor at Techstars and Startupbootcamp where she advises early-stage technology companies on growth, product development and operations. Follow Matilde on Twitter @MatildeGiglio

A career in venture capital can feel elusive, intimidating, and even impossible for some of us without a banking, investment, or technology background. Our conversation with Hadyah Fathalla proves otherwise: a cybersecurity and antiterrorism expert, Hadyah joined C5 Capital to transform their accelerator program. In this episode, Hadyah emphasizes the role of mentorship in this pivot, shares her strategies for building a mentor-mentee relationship, and discusses the changes afoot in the MENA venture capital landscape. Follow us, Instagram: @ialsopodcast, Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker Bio: Hadyah Fathalla is a strategy and security specialist with 20 years of experience in a range of fields including: national and global security, policymaking, entrepreneurship, innovation and digital transformation. Prior to establishing Hatter Consultants, she served as Chief Operating Officer for C5 Accelerate, a global technology investment firm, in addition to having established and managed the company’s MENA business.  During her time with C5 Accelerate, she built Bahrain’s first technology accelerator in 2016 and established a number of initiatives to contribute to the government’s entrepreneurship and digital transformation efforts. She is a regular contributor to cybersecurity, innovation, and technology conferences and to mentoring aspiring entrepreneurs and startups.In addition to her experience in the fields of entrepreneurship and digital transformation, she is also a national security and cybersecurity specialist. For over ten years, she has played an advisory role to a number of government agencies and senior government officials on topics including strategy, counterterrorism, armed groups, security policy, cybersecurity, and other national security threats and challenges. Hadyah is an Independent Director for The Benefit Company (Bahrain) as well as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bahrain Youth Hostel Society. Additionally, she is a member of the Harvard W3D: Women in Defense, Diplomacy, and Development and a founding Board Member of the Women in Fintech Committee in Bahrain.She holds an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School, concentrating on International Global Affairs and an MA in War Studies from King’s College in London.

Equity crowdfunding and platforms like Seedrs, Crowdcube, and AngelList were created to increase accessibility of investing and fundraising. The principle is: anyone can be an investor. But what’s the reality? In this episode with Seedrs Co-Founder and Executive Chairman Jeff Lynn, we reflect on the ethos of crowdfunding and Seedrs' need to increase diversity in both its deal pipeline and investor base. An honest and open exchange of ideas, this interview is a must-listen.Follow us, Instagram: @ialsopodcast, Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker Bio: Jeff co-founded Seedrs in 2009, led the business until he hired what he calls a 'proper' CEO in 2017 and has served as Executive Chairman since then. He also serves as a Chairman of The Coalition for a Digital Economy (Coadec), a non-profit advocacy group for startups and scaleups which he co-founded in 2010. To his surprise as much as anyone's, Business Insider has named him one of the 10 coolest people in UK tech. Jeff began his career as a corporate lawyer with Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York and London.Follow Jeff Lynn on Twitter @JeffSeedrsFollow Seedrs on Twitter @Seedrs and Instagram @seedrs

In this episode we are joined by Yvonne Bajela, Founding Member and Principal at Impact X Capital, to talk us through the basics of venture capital and the incredibly important mission of Impact X in funding diverse founders. Funding diversity has proven to have exceptional returns, and it's a fiduciary duty as a fund to be more active in tapping into communities of talented entrepreneurs with underrepresented backgrounds.Follow us, Instagram: @ialsopodcast, Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker Bio:Recognised by Forbes 30 Under 30 as a key influencer of global money flows in 2020, Yvonne is the Founding Member and Principal at Impact X Capital, a UK based venture capital fund founded to support underrepresented entrepreneurs. Over the last five years, Yvonne has invested over £200 million in various startups across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. A board member and passionate leader, Yvonne is a champion for female entrepreneurship.Follow Yvonne Bajela on Instagram @yvonnebajela and Twitter @yvonnebajela

Selling -- or exiting -- your business is THE dream for many entrepreneurs, but it’s not an easy nor a common path. In this episode, we talk to entrepreneur, investor, and author Jackie Fast about stamina, sponsorship, and why working on what you're passionate about is key to success. Jackie, a trailblazer in sponsorship and former contestant on The Apprentice, also discusses her latest entrepreneurial venture: RebelPi ice wine. Follow us, Instagram: @ialsopodcast, Twitter: @IAlsoPodcast Buy Jackie’s book PinPoint: https://jackiefast.com Speaker Bio: Jackie Fast is recognised as a trailblazer within the sponsorship and known as a well established entrepreneur in the wider business community. Having sold her first business Slingshot Sponsorship in 2016 for millions less than 6 years after bootstrapping it in her bedroom with only a laptop to her name. Recognising that the shift in marketing and impact of the recession has created an opportunity for brands and rights holders to capitalise, Jackie went against convention and developed a bespoke commercialisation framework for the sponsorship industry that supported how to successfully deliver results in today’s changing landscape. Following the sale of Slingshot, she took a year off to publish a book on effective strategies in raising significant funding titled 'Pinpoint' which quickly became an Amazon bestseller. She now speaks and writes regularly on entrepreneurship, sponsorship, technology, and scaling high growth businesses. She has been featured in Forbes Magazine and currently act as Non-Executive Board Director of fintech disruptor The Money Platform and remains Chairman of the European Sponsorship Association Awards. In 2018 she also participated on the BBC UK Apprentice, series 13.She is currently writing her second book Rule Breaker: Rebellious Leadership for the Future of Work which outlines the shifting business landscape driven by technological innovation and the importance for future leaders to execute differently. The book is due out on 3 March 2021 in the UK and 28 March 2021 in the US.Follow Jackie Fast’s life and work on Instagram @jackiefast and Twitter @jackiefast or say hello at https://jackiefast.com. 

The road to reaching your money goals can be tough and moments -- even stretches -- of doubt will occur. How to find that motivation to keep pushing? In this episode, we discuss writer Mia Brabham’s debut book Note to Self, a collection of motivational maxims around self-worth, self-belief, and more. A digital personality, speaker, and content creator, Mia walks us through her self-publishing journey and her financial wellness awakening as a creative.  Follow us, Instagram: @ialsopodcast, Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker Bio: Mia Brabham is a writer, digital personality, speaker, and content creator based in Washington DC who just published her debut book, Note to Self. Her writing has been published in the Huffington Post, The Financial Diet, Thought Catalog, Gardy Loo Literature & Arts Magazine, and Harness Magazine. Mia has over 18,000 followers and two million video views on her YouTube channel YOURS TRULY, MIA — the home to her recent web series, Hot Mess Confessions — with a successful blog by the same name. She is also the creator of A YEAR OF LESSONS, a 365-day-blog project in which she wrote and accepted lessons every day for a year. Mia has hosted and delivered speeches in front of an assortment of crowds, from university commencements and NBA arenas filled with 20,000 sports fans to intimate TEDx events. Before embarking on her current journey as a freelance writer, designer, and entertainment host, she held positions at NBCUniversal, E! News, Monumental Sports & Entertainment, 60 Second Docs, and Smithsonian. She is a graduate of James Madison University. You can follow Mia’s life and work on Instagram; @yourstrulymia and Twitter; @hotmessmia, or say hello at bymiabrabham.com.Buy Mia’s book Note to Self: https://www.bymiabrabham.com/note-to-selfAnd sign up for her newsletter here: https://bit.ly/notetoselfnewsletter