Carly Long is a Web3 recruiter, obsessed with connecting brilliant people with fascinating Web3 roles. Having made her way up through PR, she made the sideways leap into hiring, before falling further and further down the Web3 rabbit hole. Carly has made a name for herself through her thoughtfully curated weekly newsletter Women in Web3; she also has a podcast of the same name, and she’s a contributing writer for BFF. We talk about hiring trends in Web 3.0, what skills you need to get ahead, dem...
Sep 15, 2022•23 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Influencer, community builder and all round internet queen Heather Parady started a podcast with a friend in 2021 to introduce newbies to NFTs and Web3, and within 8 months they had hit 1 million downloads. Heather has a background in photography and psychology, and comes at the Web3 space with a thoughtful approach - she wants to get rid of unnecessary jargon and make Web3 more human. We talk about artists making money in Web3 thanks to the creator economy, which platforms will win out in futur...
Sep 08, 2022•25 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Rakhee Shah is a PR aficionado by day, Web3 cofounder by night, having started Gold Bangle Club in 2022 to bring more South Asian women into the Web3 space. Rakhee has a background in leading campaigns in social purpose and behavioural change such as cancer awareness and the rights of women in the workplace during maternity leave and post-baby. She has worked at various PR agencies ranging from Freuds to specialist agencies looking to reach ethnically diverse audiences, and while on maternity le...
Sep 01, 2022•27 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Caitlin Lacey recently became Senior Director of Product Marketing for Niantic’s AR Developer Platform, if Niantic sounds familiar it’s because they’re the creators of Pokemon GO. Niantic was previously a startup within Google before being spun out as very much its own company, and they are leaders in the augmented reality field. Caitlin spent years at Facebook, now Meta, later leading their AR/VR marketing, and in this episode we talk about her work on Lightship, Niantic's AR developer platform...
Aug 25, 2022•23 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Nicola Mendelsohn CBE is one of the best known women in tech globally, reporting directly to Sheryl Sandberg at Meta (previously known as Facebook). She was born in Manchester in the UK and first made a name for herself leading advertising agencies including Karmarama, being President of the IPA (Institute of Practitioners in Advertising), and later she was given a CBE in 2015 for Services to the Creative Industries. Nicola has spent nearly a decade at Meta, with the majority of that time spent ...
Aug 18, 2022•25 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Today we have a special episode: an AMA (Ask Me Anything!) with Women of Web3 founder Lauren Ingram. Covering the most commonly asked questions from the Women of Web3 community, Lauren talks about: Why she started Women of Web3 How to get a job in a Web3 startup And where to start your learning journey - especially if you’ve got the overwhelm Lauren started her career in advertising agencies, working her way up to Head of Marketing before being approached by Meta (aka Facebook) to run their Inte...
Aug 11, 2022•22 min•Season 1Ep. 19
We have two incredible guests this week: Molly Dickson from Computer Cowgirls, and Alexis Miller from Endaoment and we’re talking about using art and Web3 to raise money for abortion access! Molly Dickson is a fashion photographer and collage motion artist and self-confessed “accidental” NFT artist. Her genesis collection Computer Cowgirls sold out, and she’s since created the “F*ck You” collection of 10,000 NFTs to send funds to a vetted set of non-profit organizations, as well as creating Cowg...
Aug 04, 2022•29 min•Season 1Ep. 15
We have another *very* special guest this week, it’s none other than Cathy Hackl, the godmother of the metaverse! Cathy’s company was recently acquired just 10 months after being founded, and she is now on the founding team of Journey and is their Chief Metaverse Officer. She’s previously worked at Magic Leap, HTC and Amazon Web Services, and has a huge amount of experience in VR. Cathy is a tech futurist and renowned metaverse expert, she recently published her book Navigating the Metaverse and...
Jul 28, 2022•29 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Lavinia Osbourne is a leader in the blockchain space thanks to her diversity and inclusion focused business Women in Blockchain Talks. Having worked in finance, Lavinia pivoted her career after the 2008 financial crisis and started her own financial wellbeing consultancy and has since gone onto explore blockchain and its fascinating applications. Lavinia has some amazing and progressive ideas for creating inclusion in the world of Web3, and always has a mix of genders represented on stage and in...
Jul 21, 2022•31 min•Season 1Ep. 13
We have a *very* special guest today, Randi Zuckerberg, queen of the metaverse and the "Original Mother Hugger", joins Lauren to talk about creating the friendliest place in all of Web3. Randi spent her early career at Meta back when it was Facebook, where she created Facebook Live. She then spent time in the arts including producing theatre, singing on Broadway and even winning an Emmy award. Feeling that she had a split identity as both techie and artist, Randi was excited to find the world of...
Jul 14, 2022•26 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Paff Evara (they/them) is the cofounder of Take Up Space, a social impact startup helping skill up the next generation of diverse leaders using the power of Web3. They have had an incredible career so far across social media and digital marketing, most recently leading a digital agency in Edinburgh - this was as a result of moving all the way from Australia to be with the love of their life, who they met on TikTok of all places! Paff is an incredible changemaker in the world of Web3, with a huge...
Jul 07, 2022•29 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Maliha Abidi is a Pakistani-American artist and social activist who has been painting and campaigning for the last 10 years, having published two books ‘Pakistan For Women’ and ‘Rise: Extraordinary Women of Colour who Changed the World’. She has now taken her talents and applied them in Web3 to create a collection of 10,000 women on the blockchain in the form of NFTs - whether as female coders, scuba divers, artists, photographers and more! We talk about social justice, art for food, building an...
Jun 30, 2022•22 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Chrissy Hill has been a lawyer, an investment banker, a COO of an institute and now has turned her attention to the blockchain. Chrissy sits on the C-suite of Parity Technologies, which builds blockchain infrastructure for other companies and where she is General Counsel. Chrissy is four months into her Web3 career, having made a major pivot from being COO at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, and like many of us she looks to metaphors and analogies to make sense of this new set of tech...
Jun 23, 2022•32 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Debbie Wosskow OBE’s mission in life is all about economic empowerment of women. She's now leading the charge with helping women use Web3 to deliver on this mission. Debbie is a British entrepreneur who has scaled and sold several businesses, including selling Love Home Swap for $53 million in 2017. She is the cofounder and chair of AllBright, which is a global community for women comprising Members’ Clubs, a digital Academy for women to skill up, and a live events programme. Debbie was awarded ...
Jun 16, 2022•22 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Maghan McDowell is Senior Innovation Editor at Vogue Business, where she has carved out a name for the title as being the number one place to read about metaverse fashion. She was previously at WWD, Business of Fashion, and she was style reporter at the San Francisco Chronicle. Maghan has also been a lecturer in magazine management and fashion journalism for the University of Florida and the Academy of Art University respectively. In this episode we talk about Metaverse Fashion Week, examples of...
Jun 09, 2022•24 min•Season 1Ep. 7
This week Maddy Bergen, founder of Angel Alliance and serial entrepreneur, joins us to talk about how we can fund female entrepreneurs. Angel Alliance is an NFT project and a DAO that invests in female entrepreneurs providing them with skills and funding to grow their businesses, and since recording, Maddy has expanded the business offering to include analyst training. Maddy is an incredible woman in the Web3 space, who at the age of 20 and partway through an engineering degree is already a seri...
Jun 02, 2022•29 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Lindsey McInerney is a self-confessed internet nerd, who went from leading Tech & Innovation for a global drinks company to running a blockchain entertainment company with Hollywood actor Mila Kunis. Lindsey made a name for herself by leading Stella Artois’ major partnership with digital horse-racing platform ZED RUN on a set of branded NFTs, and as a result she was named on The 30 Most Influential People in the Metaverse. She is now CEO of The Sixth Wall which she cofounded with Mila Kunis,...
May 26, 2022•30 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Lily Wu is a serial entrepreneur based in Singapore and the cofounder of WOW Pixies, which is an NFT collection and a DAO that invests in women-led projects. WOW Pixies is well known in the NFT space and sold out within 3 days of launch. Before breaking into Web 3.0, Lily already had 2 seven-figure businesses under her belt by the age of 25, having started her first business at age 16 with just $100, and she currently leads startup partnerships at Stripe. In this episode Lily breaks down exactly...
May 19, 2022•38 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Becks Perfect is a broadcaster who has pivoted to all things NFTs, and she has made a new career out of breaking down complex jargon as an NFT consultant and educator under the name Nifty World. Becks made a name for herself presenting for TV channels such as the BBC, Sky, and ITV and is a regular tech pundit alongside her newfound work in Web3. In today’s episode, host Lauren Ingram (founder of Women of Web3) interviews Becks to find out what NFTs are, why she pivoted in a pandemic, tales of hi...
May 12, 2022•25 min•Season 1Ep. 3
G.D Anderson is on a mission to use NFTs for good - she is in the business of 'decentralised philanthropy', being the CEO of a charity by day (The Cova Project) and Founder of Honey Badges NFT by night. Honey Badges are 10,100 unique NFTs that give access to a community of change-makers, who just like the viral video of the honey badger they "don’t give a shit" about anything except making the world a better place. The incredible G.D Anderson talks us through her story of pivoting her charity to...
May 05, 2022•33 min•Season 1Ep. 2
In our first ever episode we speak to Allyson Downey, celebrated entrepreneur and cofounder of the popular NFT project Meta Angels , an NFT that lives on the blockchain and gives access to a membership network with real life opportunities. Allyson breaks down what role an NFT can play in our lives, and talks about what first sparked her curiosity for all things Web 3.0. Allyson is a serial entrepreneur with an impressive history, with her first startup WeeSpring going through the prestigious Tec...
Apr 28, 2022•27 min•Season 1Ep. 1
The beginner’s guide to the metaverse, with Lauren Ingram, founder of Women of Web3. Whether you’re already trading NFTs, crypto and joining a DAO, or you’ve not yet dipped your toes in the web3 waters, give the Women of Web3 Podcast a listen to join our learning journey. In each episode Lauren interviews an incredible woman making moves in the Web 3.0 space, starting off by breaking down the jargon and then heading further down the rabbithole! Women of Web3 is a community that’s connecting wome...
Mar 12, 2022•2 min
