FSC fangirls: You’re invited to join our private group chat (free) → https://forms.gle/zVr3Dt9CKGPVg55r7 Today’s episode is a little different! I'm actively looking for FSC fangirls (aka you). The women who've been listening for years, who've slipped into my DMs, left reviews, told a friend about an episode that sparked something... Our hype girls. Because we're launching something new, FSC 2.0, and I want you to be part of it :) Here's what I’m sharing with you: Why FSC started as a way to figure out what I wanted to do with my life (and how that's evolving now) The moment I realized I'd outgrown the "startup" label (but didn't need to burn the whole thing down) What FSC 2.0 actually is: the go-to show for modern women building a life that’s super rich in health, wealth & collected wisdom Why I'm launching a private group chat and IRL events (and how you can be part of it) 💁‍♀️ SPONSORS → Omnisend is your email-SMS-automation partner that costs 35% less than the big names and returns $79 for every dollar spent → Use code FSC for 30% off your first 3 months at omnisend.com/fsc 📱 Join our universe: → Female Startup Club's Instagram: www.instagram.com/femalestartupclub → Doone Roisin's Instagram: www.instagram.com/dooneroisin → Get opportunities delivered to your inbox 3x weekly here: https://female-startup-club.beehiiv.com/

What if the brain fog, the mood swings, and the exhaustion you're dismissing as "just stress" is actually perimenopause... and you're only 37? This is a conversation from our full length episode with Dr. Amandeep Hansra on Female Startup Club, where she's getting brutally honest about the thing most doctors still won't tell you: perimenopause can start in your 30s. And the tests we're using to diagnose it? They're basically useless. In this conversation, Dr. Amandeep opens up about why a single blood test won't tell you if you're perimenopausal (your hormones fluctuate minute to minute), why she had to see three doctors before getting HRT prescribed (as a doctor herself), and the 2000s study that created a generation of women too scared to take hormones that could actually help them live longer. I wanted to know: Why we can't diagnose perimenopause with a blood test (and what we actually need) What the HRT scare of the early 2000s got wrong and why doctors are still scared to prescribe it How to find a doctor who won't dismiss your symptoms as anxiety This one is for the woman who's been told "it's just stress" or "maybe it's anxiety" when she knows something deeper is going on in her body. Let us know what you think of this episode by leaving a review or commenting on our video wherever you’re tuning in from (we reply!) :) 💁‍♀️ SPONSORS → For ecomm founders: Omnisend is your email-SMS-automation partner that costs 60% less than the big names and returns $79 for every dollar spent → Use code FSC for 30% off your first 3 months at omnisend.com/fsc 🔗 LINKS → Dr. Amandeep Hansra Instagram: www.instagram.com/dochansra 📱 Join 160K smart chicks in the Female Startup Club universe: → Use code 'FSC' for 30% off your first 3 months at omnisend.com/fsc → Female Startup Club's Instagram: www.instagram.com/femalestartupclub → Doone Roisin's Instagram: www.instagram.com/dooneroisin → Get opportunities delivered to your inbox 3x weekly here: https://female-startup-club.beehiiv.com/

What does an NFL sports agent have in common with a Taylor Swift fitness community? Alexy Posner has spent 10 years building the personal brands of top NFL players. She's also the founder of Swiftie Liftie Club, a Taylor Swift-themed fitness community that now draws 400+ people per event. And the thing she wants every founder to know? Saying no is where the leverage actually lives... In this episode: Why your follower count matters less than your audience clarity when pitching brand deals How to use the "so what" question to cut through trend-chasing and build a community brands actually want What the Caitlin Clark effect has actually done to money flowing into women's sport 💁‍♀️ SPONSORS → For ecomm founders: Omnisend is your email-SMS-automation partner that costs 60% less than the big names and returns $79 for every dollar spent → Use code FSC for 30% off your first 3 months at omnisend.com/fsc 🔗 LINKS → Alexy Posner Instagram: www.instagram.com/alexyposner/?hl=en → Swiftie Liftie Club Instagram: www.instagram.com/swiftieliftieclub/?hl=en 📱 Join 160K smart chicks in the Female Startup Club universe: → Use code 'FSC' for 30% off your first 3 months at omnisend.com/fsc → Female Startup Club's Instagram: www.instagram.com/femalestartupclub → Doone Roisin's Instagram: www.instagram.com/dooneroisin → Get opportunities delivered to your inbox 3x weekly here: https://female-startup-club.beehiiv.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Amandeep Hansra is a practicing GP, co-founder of Medical Angels (34 investments and counting), and one of Australia's most vocal advocates for closing the gender gap in medicine and health investment. But what she really wants you to know about women's health surprised me.. because the biggest breakthroughs aren't coming from billion-dollar labs. They're coming from women who got fed up and built something. In this chat with Female Startup Club, Dr. Amandeep gets refreshingly honest about why medicine still gets women wrong, what the HRT scare of the early 2000s actually showed us, and how she ended up with insulin resistance despite doing "all the right things." I wanted to know: Why she had to see three doctors before getting HRT prescribed (as a doctor herself) What GLP-1s like Ozempic actually do to muscle and bone in women The free tool she recommends for researching your own health (not ChatGPT!) This one is for the woman who's ever left a doctor's appointment feeling dismissed, and is ready to advocate harder for herself. 💁‍♀️ SPONSORS → For ecomm founders: Omnisend is your email-SMS-automation partner that costs 60% less than the big names and returns $79 for every dollar spent → Use code FSC for 30% off your first 3 months at omnisend.com/fsc 🔗 LINKS → Dr. Amandeep Instagram: [@dochansra ] 📱 Join 160K smart chicks in the Female Startup Club universe: → Use code 'FSC' for 30% off your first 3 months at omnisend.com/fsc → Female Startup Club's Instagram: www.instagram.com/femalestartupclub → Doone Roisin's Instagram: www.instagram.com/dooneroisin → Get opportunities delivered to your inbox 3x weekly here: https://female-startup-club.beehiiv.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is an interview originally published on the Unstoppable Podcast by Jess Williamson. I'm chatting with her about how you can build real influence and a network that opens doors to bigger opportunities, partnerships and income. And how I did it with Female Startup Club, one of the world’s leading female founder podcasts and communities. "Doone has interviewed hundreds of founders, built a global network, landed major opportunities through relationships and turned conversations into real influence, access, and income." Every topic we yap about in this conversation: Here's the list reframed so every bullet answers "what do I get from this?": Why most big opportunities come from who you know (and how to become that person) How to show up unapologetically (and why it attracts the right people) How to know when it's time to pivot your business How to do the thing you're terrified of — even when you feel allergic to it How to land sponsors and paid deals with a tiny audience (the exact pitch strategy behind a $25K deal at 2,000 downloads) The "minimum audience size" myths to ignore before you monetize How to turn conversations into a business model How to reverse-engineer any opportunity — Forbes lists, TED talks, grants, speaking gigs Why you should pitch the person, not the company (and how to find their KPIs) The exact question to ask when you don't know what value you can offer How to pitch without desperate energy — the seagull & the chip mindset shift What founders with $650M and $1.2B exits have in common The mindset pattern that separates women who make it from women who stay stuck How rooms like Davos actually work — and how to get into rooms like them The #1 strategy for building a powerful network when you don't know anyone Why partnering with brands at your level beats chasing the big ones How to build influence and authority without a huge following Where to find other women operating at your level 📱 Join 160K smart chicks in the Female Startup Club universe: → Use code 'FSC' for 30% off your first 3 months at omnisend.com/fsc → Female Startup Club's Instagram: www.instagram.com/femalestartupclub → Doone Roisin's Instagram: www.instagram.com/dooneroisin → Get opportunities delivered to your inbox 3x weekly here: https://female-startup-club.beehiiv.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rose Donald just broke the Guinness World Record as the youngest female pilot to fly solo around Australia. She started the trip at 17, turned 18 mid-route, and raised over $82,000 for Little Wings, a children's charity that flies seriously ill kids from rural Australia to specialist hospitals in the cities. But the part she really opened up about, what it actually cost her to get there, is the message she most wants other young women to hear. In this conversation with Female Startup Club, Rose gets refreshingly honest about chasing big goals at a young age. We get into how she planned a year-long solo flight around Australia from her bedroom in Melbourne, the patchwork of sponsorship and charity money that made a $40k+ flight possible at 17, and the anxiety and self-sacrifice that nobody saw behind the headlines. Her message at the end of this one (about why she doesn't want young women comparing themselves to her) genuinely stopped me in my tracks. I wanted to know: how she funded a $40k+ solo flight around Australia at 17 what's actually going through your head 8 hours alone in a cockpit why she doesn't want young women comparing themselves to her ⏱ CHAPTERS 00:00 - Introduction 01:35 - Why she flew solo around Australia at 17 02:45 - The 17 year old boy who sparked the idea at 14 03:30 - Finding Little Wings and raising $80,000+ 05:07 - Funding a $40k flight at 17 06:26 - Three months without sleep planning the trip 07:44 - Tapping the Australian Women's Pilots Association 09:49 - Five Melbourne charity rejections before Little Wings 13:20 - How the Guinness World Record application works 15:24 - What you actually think about up in the clouds 18:36 - Calling dad as a last resort during scary moments 19:24 - Horn Island and the two hour weather window 22:48 - Perspective from above on school stress 25:10 - The aviation community she didn't know she needed 27:43 - Anxiety, fear of failure and a permanently injured knee 30:48 - Please don't compare yourself to me 32:28 - The $100k donation goal for Little Wings 🔗 LINKS → Rose Donald on Instagram: www.instagram.com/pilotrose.au → Donate to Pilot Rose x Little Wings campaign: https://www.givenow.com.au/girls-can-fly #FemaleStartupClub #WomenInAviation #GuinnessWorldRecord #LittleWings #RoseDonald 📱 Join 160K smart chicks in the Female Startup Club universe: → Use code 'FSC' for 30% off your first 3 months at omnisend.com/fsc → Female Startup Club's Instagram: www.instagram.com/femalestartupclub → Doone Roisin's Instagram: www.instagram.com/dooneroisin → Get opportunities delivered to your inbox 3x weekly here: https://female-startup-club.beehiiv.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lauren Meisner built Centennial World, a Gen-Z media business covering internet culture, from just $5,000. It launched in 2019 as a beauty publication and today it's an independent podcast network running a daily show plus weekly deep dives, with most of its audience on YouTube. She's also just launched Spon Studio, a marketplace built to connect independent podcasters with brands. But the part she really opened up about... the actual numbers behind creator brand deals and how to monetise in the creator economy for 2026. In this juicy episode Lauren gets properly honest about the money side of the creator economy. We get into what brands are actually paying right now, the mini series she sold for $20k before finding out it was worth five times that (ouch), payment terms that somehow stretch to nine months, and how on earth you price yourself when the whole industry still feels like the Wild West. If you've ever stared at a brand's email with no clue what number to send back, this one is for you. I wanted to know: what brands are actually paying podcasters and creators in 2026 how she went from a $9k first deal to multi six-figure partnerships how to set your payment terms and stop chasing late invoices This one is for the woman who is building something in the creator economy (or wants to) and is done leaving money on the table. ⏱ CHAPTERS 00:00 - Introduction 01:30 - The creator economy is still the Wild West 04:00 - Building Centennial World from $5,000 07:30 - From beauty publisher to internet culture 11:00 - Why they killed the website and went all in on podcasting 15:00 - Going solo after her co-founder exited 19:00 - Scaling too fast and burning out 24:00 - Building shows that don't rely on her face 28:00 - The first brand deal: $9,000 from MAC 33:00 - The mini series she undercharged by 5x 38:00 - Building a real sales process and cold outreach 44:00 - The 2026 wildcard opportunity for creators 49:00 - What brands actually want now 54:00 - The dark side of being chronically online 58:00 - Term sheet red flags and saying no to free work 01:03:00 - Payment terms and getting paid up front 01:08:00 - Why she built Spon Studio 01:14:00 - Advice for starting a podcast in 2026 🔗 LINKS → Lauren Meisner on Instagram: @laurenmeisner_ → Centennial World on TikTok: @centennialworld → Spon Studio: www.sponstudio.com #FemaleStartupClub #CreatorEconomy #Podcasting #BrandDeals #CentennialWorld 📱 Join 160K smart chicks in the Female Startup Club universe → Female Startup Club's Instagram: www.instagram.com/femalestartupclub → Doone Roisin's Instagram: www.instagram.com/dooneroisin 📱 Join 160K smart chicks in the Female Startup Club universe: → Use code 'FSC' for 30% off your first 3 months at omnisend.com/fsc → Female Startup Club's Instagram: www.instagram.com/femalestartupclub → Doone Roisin's Instagram: www.instagram.com/dooneroisin → Get opportunities delivered to your inbox 3x weekly here: https://female-startup-club.beehiiv.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode is for women who have a busy brain, feel misunderstood, or want to understand themselves better! I've invited my husband, P-A, back on the show (you heard from him a few episodes ago!) to walk through something I sent him recently that genuinely felt like a breakthrough. I called it 'My Brain Operating Manual'. Quick context.. I've been on this big journey of understanding my ADHD. Why some things feel impossibly hard for me and others come so easily, and what is actually happening inside my brain when I spiral (which is daily, lol). So I sat in the bath one night, went down a massive rabbit hole, and put together a document explaining exactly how my brain works, so PA could finally understand me properly. This episode is the two of us going through it together. No structure, no script, just talking it out: → why an ADHD brain never has a true "off" mode → why I'm completely depleted by the end of every week (and why it's not normal tiredness) → the masking thing that nobody else can see → why a tiny "can you pass me a pen" interruption is genuinely painful → why empty, unscheduled days are a neurological requirement, not a luxury → why new ideas land as extra weight instead of swaps → the book that completely changed how we communicate (The Course of Love by Alain de Botton, read it!) It's a conversation about understanding yourself, being a good partner to someone whose brain works differently, and why depth beats width every single time. If you've got a busy brain, whether you have ADHD or you're just burnt out and stretched and running on empty, this one is for you. We're also kicking off a listener series on busy brains, so if you want to email in your questions, all the details are below. ⏱ CHAPTERS 00:00 – Introduction 02:00 – Why I made a Brain Operating Manual for my husband 06:30 – The daily spiral (and why it gets worse by Friday) 12:00 – The book that changed how we communicate 17:30 – Bucket 1: an ADHD brain is always running 24:00 – Masking, and why it's invisible exhaustion 30:00 – Why high inbound volume drains the tank 36:00 – Scheduled plans cost energy before they happen 42:00 – Unscheduled time is a neurological requirement 48:30 – Too many roles fragment focus and output 55:00 – Why new suggestions land as additions, not swaps 1:02:00 – The practical fixes that actually changed our lives 1:08:30 – Advice for partners of neurodivergent people 1:13:00 – Depth over width, and our new listener series 🔗 LINKS #FemaleStartupClub #ADHD #Neurodivergent #ADHDinWomen #BurnoutRecovery 📱 Join 160K smart chicks in the Female Startup Club universe → Female Startup Club's Instagram: www.instagram.com/femalestartupclub → Doone Roisin's Instagram: www.instagram.com/dooneroisin 📱 Join 160K smart chicks in the Female Startup Club universe: → Use code 'FSC' for 30% off your first 3 months at omnisend.com/fsc → Female Startup Club's Instagram: www.instagram.com/femalestartupclub → Doone Roisin's Instagram: www.instagram.com/dooneroisin → Get opportunities delivered to your inbox 3x weekly here: https://female-startup-club.beehiiv.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Queenie Tan went from working at McDonald's at 14, to earning $400 a week renting a share house at 19, to buying her first home at 23, to a $1 million net worth before 30. She's now one of Australia's most followed personal finance creators, the founder of a budgeting app with a 50% conversion rate, and the author of The Fun Finance Formula. But what she really wants you to know about how she actually got here might surprise you... In this conversation with Female Startup Club, Queenie gets refreshingly honest about why her parents divorced over money, the embarrassing teenage near-death moment that completely flipped her relationship with cash, and the exact framework she used to go from $0 to $100,000 (which took her 40 months) and then from $900,000 to $1 million (which took just 3 months). We dig into investing, pre-nups, divorce, property... There's a lot packed in here! I wanted to know: * Is buying your first home at 23 still possible in 2026? * The exact percentage of every paycheck Queenie automates into investments * And what she did when her budgeting app made just $50 in its first month of revenue This one is for the woman who is tired of feeling stressed about money and ready to actually do something about it. ⏱ CHAPTERS 00:00 – Introduction 01:30 – The teenage near-death moment that changed everything 05:45 – Why her parents divorced over money (and what it taught her) 11:20 – Working at McDonald's at 14 & finally understanding her dad 16:40 – Moving out at 19 on $400 a week & dropping out of law school 22:15 – The $100,000 milestone framework: 40 months vs 3 months 28:30 – Is buying a house at 23 still possible in 2026? 34:00 – Why you need more than one source of income 38:45 – What's the salary you actually need to live a good life? 44:20 – Pay yourself first: the 20% rule that changed her finances 49:50 – Queenie's full breakdown: investments, Bitcoin, property, emergency fund 55:15 – Living below your means & the trap most content creators fall into 1:00:30 – The annual CFO meeting every couple should run 1:06:00 – The $40,000 takeaway bill one user discovered using her app 1:11:20 – Bootstrapping a budgeting app & making $50 in month one 1:17:45 – From 1% to 50% conversion rate: how Queenie fixed the funnel 1:23:00 – The crypto mistake she made in 2017 (& what she does now) 1:28:15 – Money lenses: which one are you? 1:34:00 – The financial red flags & green flags in a relationship 1:40:30 – Why you should consider a prenup (& what they actually cost) 1:46:00 – University, weddings, credit cards: the cons that keep us broke 1:52:15 – Investing for her daughter & the $1k-a-year compound effect 1:57:30 – The best way to become a millionaire in 2026 🔗 LINKS → Queenie Tan's Instagram: www.instagram.com/investwithqueenie → The Fun Finance Formula book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fun-Finance-Formula-Unlock-Growing/dp/1394346107 → Queenie's app: https://billroo.com/ #FemaleStartupClub #QueenieTan #PersonalFinance #MoneyMindset #FinancialFreedom 📱 Join 160K smart chicks in the Female Startup Club universe → Apply to join Doone’s inner circle: join.femalestartupclub.com/apply → Female Startup Club's Instagram: www.instagram.com/femalestartupclub → Doone Roisin's Instagram: www.instagram.com/dooneroisin 📱 Join 160K smart chicks in the Female Startup Club universe: → Use code 'FSC' for 30% off your first 3 months at omnisend.com/fsc → Female Startup Club's Instagram: www.instagram.com/femalestartupclub → Doone Roisin's Instagram: www.instagram.com/dooneroisin → Get opportunities delivered to your inbox 3x weekly here: https://female-startup-club.beehiiv.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Use code 'FSC50' to get $50 off Bronte's sportswear brand Earthletica Bronte Campbell competed at 4x Olympic Games before the age of 30, won 3x gold medals, 1x bronze, set a world record, and became world champion in both the 50m and 100m freestyle. She's now the co-founder of athletic sportswear brand Earthletica and just closed a crowdsourced raise of $1.2M. But what she really wants you to know about elite performance and what it actually takes to win surprised me... In this conversation with Female Startup Club, Bronte gets refreshingly honest about why she's "not the most talented swimmer", what it's like training every single day next to your older sister who is faster than you, and the inner dialogue she had to learn to perform when it mattered. I wanted to know: * How Olympians actually make money (and why her first sponsorship deal was $500 A YEAR!) * The 3 traits every Olympic athlete has in common * And what really happened with the brother who went into life-saving surgery during her first Olympics This one is for the woman who has ever felt like the underdog in her own life or industry and wants the real playbook for showing up anyway. ⏱ CHAPTERS 00:00 – Introduction 02:30 – Growing up barefoot in Malawi & deciding at 7 to be an Olympic swimmer 08:15 – The grade-3 weirdo who timed herself running laps around the school 13:40 – "98% luck": the coach, the pool at the end of the street, the genetic gift 19:20 – The 3 traits every Olympic athlete has (it's not what you think) 24:50 – Hip surgery, glandular fever & nearly losing it all at 14 30:15 – Competing against your own sister every single training session 36:00 – "I'm not the most talented swimmer in my squad. Not one time." 41:30 – The inner dialogue: positive self-talk, karaoke delusion & crying into goggles 47:10 – London 2012: qualifying at 17 & not knowing how to "look like an Olympian" 52:45 – The phone call about her brother during the closing ceremony 58:00 – Rio 2016: getting injured 4 months out & how she rebuilt her race 1:04:20 – Pain meditation & the 5-year-old left behind on a hike 1:11:00 – Periods, vomiting after races & the pill at 14 1:16:30 – The first ever pregnancy policy for Australian swimming 1:22:00 – How Olympians actually make money (& the $500 sponsorship deal) 1:29:15 – Signing your image rights to the IOC & the 6-week blackout 1:35:00 – The Raygun moment & what it was like in the village 1:41:30 – Retiring, building Earthletica & the $800k raise 1:48:00 – Sport vs business: which is actually harder 1:54:20 – Her husband Benfield refusing to weigh in on Paris 1:58:00 – Advice to young women who want to dream big 🔗 LINKS → Bronte Campbell's Instagram: www.instagram.com/brontecampbell → Earthletica: www.instagram.com/earthletica 📱 Join 160K smart chicks in the Female Startup Club universe → Female Startup Club's Instagram: www.instagram.com/femalestartupclub → Doone Roisin's Instagram: www.instagram.com/dooneroisin #FemaleStartupClub #BronteCampbell #Olympics #WomenInBusiness #Earthletica 📱 Join 160K smart chicks in the Female Startup Club universe: → Use code 'FSC' for 30% off your first 3 months at omnisend.com/fsc → Female Startup Club's Instagram: www.instagram.com/femalestartupclub → Doone Roisin's Instagram: www.instagram.com/dooneroisin → Get opportunities delivered to your inbox 3x weekly here: https://female-startup-club.beehiiv.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.