Ipshita Kumar is the VP of Brand Innovation of Hype Partners, a well-known Web3 marketing agency working with some of the biggest brands in Web3 like Ledger, Polygon, and Chiliz. Ipshita made her way up via marketing and later cofounding her own business Lemonade, which began as an in-person events company and is now an NFT ticketing platform. Ipshita talks to Lauren about reverse engineering other brands’ Web3 strategies, developer relations in Web3, and how to futureproof your business in a ti...
Aug 24, 2023•31 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Cortnie Abercrombie is an AI expert and was Chief Data Officer for IBM, before going on to start her own non-profit, AI Truth - where she is on a mission to establish ethical AI culture. She is also the author of ‘What You Don't Know: Al's Unseen Influence on Your Life and How to Take Back Control’. In a special episode focused on demystifying AI, we talk about how AI can prevent you getting a job, and whether Web2 companies are listening to our devices. LINKS: Grab your free Web3 cheat sheet fr...
Aug 17, 2023•38 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Lydia Pang has been creative director at Nike and Refinery29, and now lives in a forest in Wales where she runs her creative agency MØRNING, and her Web3 and climate project she cofounded called Steward. Join us as we talk about creating a value system that's unshakeable, running a successful agency, and the tension between climate and Web3. LINKS: Grab your free Web3 cheat sheet from MDRx: https://mdrx.tech/resources/web3-cheat-sheet/ Lydia Pang on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lydia_pan...
Aug 10, 2023•32 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Avery Akkineni is one of the best known women in the Web3 space, she’s the President of Vayner3, Gary Vaynerchuk’s Web3 consultancy, and knows how to make an outsize impact. In this episode we talk about Avery’s trajectory spanning 5 years at VaynerX including launching the business across Asia, and prior to that a long career in wider digital marketing. We dive into where Web3 is at today, behind the scenes of VeeCon, and how nobody is born good at prompt engineering. LINKS: Grab your free Web3...
Aug 03, 2023•25 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Amanda Slavin is a serial entrepreneur, educator, and bestselling author of The Seventh Level about her framework the seven levels of engagement, and she’s now the founder of a stealth education startup in Web3. NOTE: We didn’t know how to describe this episode because Amanda is like a wizard from another realm and can’t be neatly encapsulated - but we know you’ll enjoy going down the rabbit hole, and that you’ll learn something new today. LINKS: Grab your free Web3 cheat sheet from MDRx: https:...
Jul 27, 2023•34 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Oana Ruxandra is the Chief Digital Officer at Warner Music Group, which includes leading their Web3 arm and making strategic investments. She oversees WMG’s global digital strategy, which also covers creating additional revenue opportunities and forging new partnerships, so Web3 is a natural next step. We look at the implications of generative AI for music, and the need to keep childhood creativity alive into adulthood. LINKS: Grab your free Web3 cheat sheet from MDRx: https://mdrx.tech/resource...
Jul 20, 2023•37 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Betty is the legendary cofounder of Deadfellaz, the NFT project turned international brand which she founded with her husband who goes by his pseudonym Psych. With a penchant for counterculture, zombies and equality, Betty talks about the whirlwind of working in Web3. Off the back of the success of the project, such as getting signed by United Talent and a major partnership with Wrangler jeans, Betty moved her family from Australia to LA - we discuss the benefits of moving to be nearer your coll...
Jul 13, 2023•32 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Sian Rodway is the Chief Operating Officer at tech consultancy MDRx where she has spent the last couple of years leading on building out their Web3 offering. Lauren talks to Sian where they strip back the hype and have an honest conversation about what Web3 can do today, asking whether a business really needs to be on the blockchain, and about avoiding ‘tech for tech’s sake’. They also dive into what kind of jobs and skills are in demand in the Web3 space, and reminisce about the olden days of t...
Jul 06, 2023•33 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Tameka Bazile is a Web3 leader at TIME Magazine, a legacy brand which has made over $10 million in profit on its NFT collections. Tameka is the voice and brains behind TIMEpieces, and oversees relationships with over 165 artists. She talks about how she helped build TIME’s social media presence, especially on Twitter. She also sheds light on her current responsibilities, including providing artists with comprehensive support through financial wellness sessions and personal brand growth. Tameka w...
Jun 29, 2023•37 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Kathleen Osgood has been in the crypto space since 2016 when she started her own learning directory called Calling Crypto, and since then she has been a leader in her field, now leading business development at Sky Mavis, the company behind the incredibly popular NFT-based game Axie Infinity. Kathleen even started her own blockchain focused coworking space in 2018 in Chicago, before having to shutter the business during the pandemic, and later working at Jump Capital. We cover everything from pla...
Jun 22, 2023•37 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Esther O’Callaghan OBE is an entrepreneur with a philanthropic edge. She was awarded an OBE in 2007 for services to the voluntary sector, and now is the founder of Hundo, a Web3 platform on a mission to end youth unemployment. Hundo’s plan is to give one billion learners worldwide access to the one billion tech roles needed globally by 2030, through upskilling and access to rapid agile learning. In this episode we talk about Esther’s story from her early days owning a record store through to cof...
Jun 15, 2023•33 min•Season 2Ep. 2
We are back for Season 2 with the best and brightest women across Web3! Today’s episode is with none other than Alice Delahunt, the former Chief Digital Officer and Chief Content Officer at Ralph Lauren turned CEO of digital fashion platform SYKY. Alice has an incredible pedigree in the fashion industry, making a name for herself as a pioneer of social media while at Burberry and gaining a position on the Ralph Lauren C-suite at the age of just 30. Now with a recent $10 million funding round und...
Jun 08, 2023•34 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Sheila Lirio Marcelo sold her previous tech business for a cool $500 million in 2020, and has now embarked on a Web3 adventure as cofounder and CEO of learn and earn Web3 platform Proof of Learn. Sheila has had an incredible career so far, founding Care.com in 2006, starting as an online marketplace for childcare before offering senior care, pet care, housekeeping and more. Before starting Care.com she was VP of Product Management and Marketing at Upromise, a service that helped families save fo...
Jan 26, 2023•24 min•Season 1Ep. 39
Shari Glazer is a serial philanthropist who cofounded the Shari & Edward Glazer Charitable Trust, and she’s the general partner of the US Digital Trust. Her husband’s family the Glazers also own Manchester United football club in the UK and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Shari began working on web3 strategy in 2020, advising sports teams and leagues on their NFT and blockchain strategies, then launched Kalos Labs in 2022 to provide strategy, execution and tech help to brands entering Web3, where ...
Jan 19, 2023•21 min•Season 1Ep. 38
Shiti Rastogi Manghani is the Chief Operating Officer at Find Satoshi Labs, best known for its hugely successful move-to-earn product STEPN which rewards users for movement. She’s originally an electronics engineer, she’s worked at PepsiCo, she also has an MBA in marketing and she’s run her own business - becoming a finalist for Entrepreneur of the Year in Microsoft’s Diversity in Tech awards in 2021. Shiti is passionate about Web3 and its applications, but she is realistic about what needs to c...
Jan 12, 2023•25 min•Season 1Ep. 37
Elise Swopes is a New York based digital artist who has been making a name for herself online since being one of the original influencers on Instagram for nearly a decade - and garnering over 270k followers in the process! Elise has now turned her attention to Web3, where she has created Sunrise Art Club, a creative impact agency helping brands and individuals feel involved in Web3. It’s a project that began as a series of 365 photography NFTs, one sunrise up for auction every day in 2022. We co...
Jan 05, 2023•35 min•Season 1Ep. 36
Zoe Scaman is the founder of a strategy studio called Bodacious where she’s been working at the intersection of entertainment and fandom. Rather than being squarely in Web3 or the advertising industry, Zoe sits across several industries, pulling in insights from everywhere. She worked her way up through advertising for the last 20 years, and has recently worked with big brands like Nike and Netflix, and personalities such as Mark Cuban. You might know Zoe from her Twitter and LinkedIn posts whic...
Dec 22, 2022•32 min•Season 1Ep. 35
Susie Batt is the Crypto Ecosystem Lead for Opera, the internet browser that’s been around for 25 years and is now getting known again for one of its newer products, a Web3-native browser. Susie first got hooked on blockchain when she learned about how it could cut out bureaucratic processes and get rid of fraud, first joining blockchain software company Consensys, and later joining Opera in 2020 to lead community building in crypto and wider Web3. Susie talks about her career journey, and we co...
Dec 15, 2022•28 min•Season 1Ep. 34
Jenny From The Blockchain is the co-host of the hugely popular podcast NFT Catcher. She’s been a content creator in NFTs since their early days, being one of the first couple of thousand people to buy an NBA Top Shot and sharing her learnings on YouTube. She’s also the Head of Marketing for an NFT trading platform called Evaluate.xyz, and prior to falling down the Web3 rabbithole she was a beauty TikToker where she has over 700,000 followers. Jenny and her twin Steph Sutto are both well known in...
Dec 08, 2022•29 min•Season 1Ep. 33
Marieke Flament is the CEO of NEAR Foundation, which launched NEAR protocol, a well known blockchain development platform. Marieke is French born, and after completing her degree in computer science she started her career in Shanghai in China at the luxury business LVMH, which owns Louis Vuitton and other brands. She’s spent the last 16 years working across tech and crypto, including at Expedia’s business Hotels.com, and more recently as CEO of Circle, the fintech company that founded USDC, the ...
Dec 01, 2022•30 min•Season 1Ep. 32
Chana Kanzen has a long history in tech and education and wears many hats. She is an advisor to TinyTap, the education startup recently acquired by Animoca Brands for $39 million, which recently sold out its first NFTs for over 138 ETH, and she's the founder of professional networking group London Women Leading Web3 (LWLW3). Chana is a partner at Digital Wealth Fund, and alongside her many roles, she is also the cohost of the OriGensXYZ show on Rug Radio. Before entering Web3, she successfully s...
Nov 24, 2022•37 min•Season 1Ep. 31
Adriana Hoppenbrouwer-Pereira is the cofounder of digital-only fashion house The Fabricant. Originally from Brazil, now based in Amsterdam, Adriana has over 20 years of experience across huge brands like Nike, HEMA and Coca-Cola, before she decided to embrace digital-only fashion. The Fabricant raised $14 million in funding earlier in 2022, and they have some great names amongst their advisors like the CEO of Dapper Labs, and The Sandbox’s COO Sebastien Borget, who is also one of their angel inv...
Nov 17, 2022•29 min•Season 1Ep. 30
Emily Rose Dallara is a marketing consultant and Fractional CMO (something we cover during the episode), she’s originally from England, spent 8 years living in Vietnam and now lives in France. She has been a crypto marketer since 2017 and is also retraining as a coach. Emily recently started a podcast Web 3 And Thrive to help women survive and thrive when working in Web3, and she was also selected as a Top 100 'Women of The Future' in 2022. We talk about the realities of working in Web3, gettin...
Nov 10, 2022•28 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Oyin Adebayo is on a mission to economically empower Black women. She is the Founder and CEO of Niyo Group, with a set of bootcamps, a hair & beauty offering, and now a Web3 offering with Niyo Dapp rewarding creators and users in crypto for creating content. She has advised charities, policymakers, worked on youth engagement and has now turned her attentions to helping Black women succeed in the next iteration of the internet and helping creators. We talk about her early mornings (Oyin wakes...
Nov 03, 2022•25 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Sandy Carter is something of a celebrity in Web3, as Senior Vice President at Unstoppable Domains and the creator of Unstoppable Women of Web3. Sandy has over 20 years of experience in innovation in-house for example as the General Manager for Ecosystems and Startups at IBM, and VP of Strategic Partnerships at Amazon Web Services, alongside experience running her own business Silicon-Blitz. We cover how to get more women into Web3, and thinking about intersectionality to bring in more women of c...
Oct 27, 2022•26 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Ashumi Sanghvi is the Founder of creative production agency MAD Global based in London, where clients include names like Tory Burch, Cartier, Net A Porter, Vice Media, and premium NFT platform Exclusible. The agency started out offering print, social media and films before adding XR (AR and VR) content, digitally immersive experiences and NFT projects. She is also a mentor on the recently announced FARFETCH Web3 Accelerator Dream Assembly with Outlier Ventures, and was named on Brytehall’s Bryte...
Oct 20, 2022•23 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Marianne Le Coyte Grinney is a family and systemic psychotherapist who believes that 'the person is never the problem' and that people are best understood within systems, for example their family, work and social life. So she has a unique take on the world of Web3 and NFTs, including the impacts on mental health. Alongside her multiple dayjobs in healthcare in the UK, Marianne is also the cofounder of Web3 project Held Mind (formerly Misfit Robots). We talk about how she fell into Web3, the need...
Oct 13, 2022•23 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Erika Wykes-Sneyd was already Web2 royalty before she made waves in Web3 leading the /// Studio at adidas. She began her career at a motorcycle brand before working at tech giants like Google, Uber, and latterly she was Global Head of Brand Innovation and Experience at PayPal where she helped integrate cryptocurrency within the PayPal app. Erika became CMO for adidas originals, collaborations and basketball in early 2021, and soon after she founded and scaled /// Studio, an internal startup to d...
Oct 06, 2022•28 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Aahliyah Amerat is a serial entrepreneur who’s made her way up starting with door-to-door sales as a teenager in London, later building up two beauty salons and a training academy where she taught specialised beauty treatments and entrepreneurship for disadvantaged communities. She’s now marrying up training for creatives with Web3 technologies and has started Creataland, a learn-to-earn game for creatives to learn life and business skills. She also hosts her own podcast called The Promisingpren...
Sep 29, 2022•40 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Shira Lazar is an Emmy Award winning host, she’s a Canadian TV personality, entrepreneur, and now NFT royalty. She made a name for herself presenting shows before later creating her own through her business What’s Trending. She has amassed a following of over 500k people on her personal channels, and over 1 million on What’s Trending thanks to cutting edge content and her witty, personable takes on digital culture. While in quarantine in April 2020, Shira launched PeaceInside.Live, a platform wi...
Sep 22, 2022•30 min•Season 1Ep. 22
