Why We Need More Women Owned Businesses, with Katie Cope

Show Up and Be Heard

Season 2, Episode 16: Show Up and Be Heard

Today’s episode of the podcast is an interview with the fabulous Katie Cope, and we are talking all about why the world needs more women owned businesses.

Katie shares with us some fascinating facts about female founders, highlighting the positive contributions they make to both society and the world and giving us all a well needed reminder of just what a rockstar we are, for running a business!

We also chat about our views on the way that women are represented by the media and how we are trying to raise our children to create a more equal future.

BOSS THINGS YOU'LL LEARN IF YOU TUNE IN:

1. Last year, just under 164,000 women started a business in the UK
2. 63% of female founders perform better for venture capitalistic investment than our male counterparts
3. If women were given equal opportunities, we could add £250 billion to the UK economy alone

In 2019 at 7 months pregnant Katie was made redundant from her full-time employment.

At that moment she had three options:

1) Crawl into bed, pull the covers over her head and wait for everything to "blow over".

2) Get another job (which, at the time, she was working in the events industry and felt that no one would hire someone who hadn't seen her feet for the last 3 months!)

3) Her wild card option: start a business.

Five years later Katie is the founder of Keppel Leopard Creative - a branding agency located in greater Manchester working exclusively with female founders.

She loves helping her clients take the millions of ideas they have for their business, and help them create a focused and engaging brand that increases their income and visibility.

She is parent level 2, pet owner 1.5 and recently diagnosed with ADHD.

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LINKS YOU DEFINITELY WANT TO CHECK OUT:

Follow Katie on Instagram

Check out the Keppel Leopard Creative website

Download the FREE Female Founders Guide to Branding

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