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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 - to talk about the fundamentals of crypto investing. Follow us, Instagram: @ialsopodcast, Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker Bio: Eve Halimi 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, 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.

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

As we learned in our interview with Tanisha Townsend, one shouldn’t invest in fine wine without some help from experts in the market. In our first mini-episode, we interview Alice Longhurst-Jones from wine brokerage firm Oeno. Alice details how a brokerage relationship works, the value of broker insights, and even shares the outlook on the growing market for wine crafted in the UK. Follow us, Instagram: @ialsopodcast, Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker Bio: Alice Longhurst-Jones fell for wine on a month-long trip to Argentina which turned into a three-year love affair. After studying with the Wine & Spirits Education Trust and graduating with a BA in Liberal Arts, she worked for several London wine merchants as well as wine companies in Spain and Argentina, gaining wide-ranging experience in purchasing, sales, and marketing. In 2018 she joined fine wine investment company Oeno and now works as their Head of Marketing. With offices in London, Bordeaux and Tuscany, Oeno is Europe’s fastest-growing fine wine investment company and has helped hundreds of investors all over the globe enter this fascinating and highly-lucrative sector. Oeno has been twice selected as Fine Wine Investment Firm of the Year at the The European Global Business and Finance Awards in 2019 and 2020. Follow Oeno Group, Instagram: @oeno_official, Website: https://oenogroup.comFollow Alice Longhurst-Jones, Instagram: @bottleink 

Many of us consume wine, but what about investing in it? In this episode with wine lifestyle and education agency Girl Meets Glass founder Tanisha Townsend, we learn why investing in wine is likely a ‘long-game’ for many of us and discuss industry efforts to become more accessible, transparent, and inclusive. Follow us, Instagram: @ialsopodcast, Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker Bio: Tanisha Townsend has cultivated a community of wine enthusiasts through an unyielding passion for oenology. As Chief Wine Officer of lifestyle agency Girl Meets Glass, Tanisha leads wine classes and tours in Paris (and virtually). She also hosts the podcast, Wine School Dropout. Her goal is to empower individuals with an advanced knowledge of wine & spirits in order to build confidence in their tastes and make choices as a better informed consumer.Follow Tanisha at GirlMeetsGlass.com Instagram: @girlmeetsglass, Twitter: @girlmeetsglass and Youtube: Tanisha Townsend

Photography is an alternative asset where the barriers to entry for an investor — mainly, ticket prices — are lower than other fine art investments. In this episode, Black Box Projects founders Anna Kirrage and Kathlene Fox-Davies teach us the fundamentals of the photography market and share their journey as gallery-owners, “art-wives”, and mothers.Follow us, Instagram: @ialsopodcast, Twitter: @IAlsoPodcastSpeaker Bios:Anna Kirrage:Anna began her career at The Fleming Collection before working for The London Original Print Fair. She then spent 6 years as Account Director at the arts consulting agency, Cawdell Douglas, where she managed clients including The Grosvenor House Art & Antiques Fair, the BADA Antiques & Fine Art Fair, TEFAF Maastricht, Masterpiece London, The Fine Art Society, Sims Reed, Pangolin London and Bowman Sculpture. Following this, Anna worked as a freelance consultant and was instrumental in the merger between two consultancies, Muse and Cawdell Douglas to create a new arts agency, Golden Squared Consulting, where she worked as Associate Director for two years before co-founding Black Box Projects.Kathlene Fox-Davies:Kathlene Fox-Davies is a photography expert, art-historian and curator, with over 16 years' experience in the art world both in London and New York. Kathlene began her career as a Sales Associate at Michael Hoppen Gallery before moving to Hasted Hunt in New York as Gallery Manager. On her return to London, Kathlene joined Halcyon Gallery in Mayfair as an art consultant. She later joined ATLAS Gallery as Associate Director, introducing and overseeing a programme of contemporary artists. In 2014 Kathlene established her own art consultancy - Fox-Davies Contemporary - where she worked with a select group of clients helping to build and manage their collections. In 2017 Kathlene co-founded Black Box Projects. Kathlene has special interest in community engagement through the gallery and arts programming, transparency in business, a desire to connect clients to the art, artists and art world, as well as providing a more personal collecting experience through the gallery. Kathlene is also a frequent contributor to Monocle Radio as a guest art expert, offering a commentary on the current arts headlines as well as reviews of gallery shows and art fairs.Follow BlackBoxProjects, Instagram: @blackboxprojects, Website: https://blackboxprojects.art

Being a female founder isn’t easy, especially when you’re in the business of breaking taboos. In this episode with Emma Sayle, the founder and CEO of KK Group known for brands Killing Kittens, SafeDate, and Sistr, we explore the link between financial and sexual confidence, the highs and lows of being a ‘’sex-entrepeneur,’ feminist awakenings, and what’s next for the sex and adult industry. Follow Emma on instagram @emsayle333 and twitter @emmasayle----Bio:Emma Sayle, Founder and CEO of the Wearekk brands; Killing Kittens, Safedate, Sistr and The SisterhoodIn 2005 there was nowhere women could go to feel in control and explore their sexuality in a safe environment, so Emma created Killing Kittens.  KK has grown in to a fierce army of over 160,000 sexually liberated people around the world, through events hosted from London to New York, Venice to Sydney on top of a global online community platform.  Popular press regularly pronounces Emma a leader in female sexual liberation and empowerment. When Emma started Killing Kittens 15 years ago, she wanted to create a brand that stood for women and want they wanted.   Greater awareness of female sexuality and sexual freedom was slowly becoming more socially and commercially acceptable, but there was still a long way to go in an industry that claimed to be for women but run almost exclusively run by men.  She knew that to empower women sexually, it had to be with a business that put them first.  Since setting up the first parties, Emma has fully expanded the business, which now operates both on and offline. May 2020 sees Emma launching the hotly awaited KK app (think Facebook meets Bumble) as well as virtual workshops offering sex education and advice for singles and couples. During lockdown, KK also became the world leader in virtual adult parties, creating world-wide press coverage for their virtual adult parties, held weekly across all major time zones from London to New York and Sydney. Emma understands that a successful business can’t be built without a passion and a team who believes in it just as much, and that one must have fire in the belly to take on an industry that is almost universally run by men, like the adult and ‘sex-tech’ industries.  Unfortunately, there is still a huge amount of bias and misconceptions to address, but Emma has never once doubted her belief to lead the business and keep pushing the boundaries.  It is true, sadly, that sexual discrimination is still alive and kicking in many sectors, across all levels, and many women struggle to be treated with the respect they deserve. She has learned that the best way to deal with the negativity is to stick to the facts, stick to the evidence; track your achievements, demonstrate your successes and let the facts and figures do the talking.  In 2018, she led the business through a funding round.  The first ever public crowdfund for an adult sector brand of this nature and closed the round at 118% overfunded.   The second funding round closed completely funded in just four days – raising a total of £1m over the two rounds. The latest funding round has again closed overfunded after just a few days. The Wearekk portfolio of brands, including Killing Kittens, now also includes Sistr, a dedicated platform for women to connect, share and learn from one another, plus Safedate, an app for anyone wanting to stay safe whilst online dati

Angel investing --  investing in start-ups -- is rarely talked about as a way to grow wealth for the average investor, particularly women. In this episode, our very own Sophie Holm runs through the basics of angel investing and shares her own experiences. We then welcome Harveen Gill, founder of the EVE Network, an angel investing network for women in the UK. ----Bio: Harveen Gill is founder and Joint Managing Director of HGA Group - the UK's leading international boutique recruitment and consultancy operator within fashion and retail. www.hga-group.comWith offices in London, Italy, India Turkey and South Africa, 50% of HGA Group's assignments sit in international territories.  Clients of HGA Group include mid - sized organisations and blue – chip multiples.  The unifying factor being that all are undergoing transformation or turnaround.  Harveen has ensured that her personal ethics, standards and vision underpin every touch point, as she and her team deliver top tier individuals and teams into organisations.  Longevity is vital – many of her live client relationships span over a decade.  She champions assignments within international and emerging markets whilst acting as brand ambassador for the business. Harveen is also Board Advisor to a select number of technology established start - ups, including gowherewolf.com.      Her retail career includes working for John Lewis, New Look and Topshop. Although recruitment is the staple for HGA Group, Harveen has introduced a number of other services as below:  Career Development Service to potentialise an individual’s ambition, B to B Growth service, to manage the growth planning and showcasing of an organisations product or services to targeted audiences.  In Jan 2020, Harveen co – founded EVE – a Female Angel Investor Community, to help “move the dial” in this area where females are overwhelmingly underrepresented,  EVE completed it’s first deal in April 2020.   At EVE, our mission is to create a like-minded female business community. The UK has amongst the most active Angel Investor, but women are shockingly underrepresented in the investment community.  Around 15% of all Angel Investors in the UK are female yet females own 48% of the UK’s net wealth.

Like many gender-norms, the idea that women shouldn’t be breadwinners persists, even as the proportion of women breadwinners grows.  In this episode with wealth psychologist Dr. Jamie Traeger-Muney, and another special guest, we break down the shame, hesitation, and anxiety around embracing and sustaining primary earner status in relationships.---Website: https://wealthlegacygroup.org Bio: Jamie Traeger-Muney, PhD, Founder, Wealth Legacy GroupDr. Traeger-Muney specializes in the emotional impact of money and wealth in people’s lives. She has revolutionized the conversation of worth enabling clients to be passionately engaged in the world and to lead a rich life. Jamie has been featured in WSJ, BBC, Bloomberg Business Week and Town & Country Magazine. She co-authored, Social Impact in 100-Year Family Businesses as well as part of Borrowed From Your Grandchildren

Capitalism and patriarchy are intrinsically linked. In this episode with Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African & African-American Studies Anne-Maria Makhulu, we explore the origins of wealth suppression and oppression across gender, race, and class.---Twitter: @DrMackMackWebsite: https://culturalanthropology.duke.edu/people/anne-maria-b-makhulu Bio: Anne-Maria Makhulu is an Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African & African American Studies at Duke University with additional appointments in Gender, Sexuality, & Feminist Studies and Innovation & Entrepreneurship. Makhulu has conducted research for over two decades in South Africa and is author of Making Freedom (Duke University Press 2015) about South Africa’s transition to democracy. She is also co-editor of a collection entitled Hard Work, Hard Times (University of California Press 2010), which examines African migration, the global search for livelihood, and questions of cultural resilience. A second monograph in preparation, tentatively entitled South Africa After the Rainbow and supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, looks at the rise of new social movements in South Africa—#FeesMustFall and #RhodesMustFall among them—against the backdrop of the state’s “capture.” Makhulu has published articles in Anthropological Quarterly and PMLA, served as special issue guest editor for South Atlantic Quarterly and special theme section guest editor of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. She is a self-described: cosmopolitan, world traveler, in exile. Africanist, urbanist, radical theorist. Almost newly-wed, late bloomer, dog owner, food lover, and OCD-er.