Funding IN STILETTOS: Female Founders Roundtable With Kirin Kalia — BILLION DOLLAR ROLODEX Episode 43 with Ungenita Prevost

Billion Dollar Rolodex hosted by Ungenita Prevost is the podcast that brings you education, entertainment and fierceness in equal measure! This is a show designed to help women build social capital, fill their network gap and monetize effectively. The wealth of leadership lessons will enable a deeper level of mastery around the subject of networking, social capital, highlighting how to connect and collaborate strategically and effectively, making listeners realign focus from “Ms. Popular To Ms. Profitable”! 

This week on the show Ungenita discusses Funding in Stilettos: Female Founders Roundtable with Kirin Kalia. Kirin is the founder and CEO of Grow Through Story, and Ungenita’s wealth-building bestie. They met in a mastermind where they immediately connected. In this episode, you will hear about investments, revenue, and partnerships. Kirin talks about her experiences and stories, and connections in Silicon Valley. Kirin shares tips about how to pitch effectively. Kirin helped a lot of women entrepreneurs pitch their ideas and in this episode, you will learn straight from Kirin how to start to shift from one idea to the other to pitch successfully. Kirin pointed out that it is vital to know who you are talking to when pitching. You will hear that the lack of confidence usually results in an unsuccessful pitch, and how to boost your confidence and pitch effectively.

In this episode you will learn: 

How Ungenita trains women to do a million-dollar introduction so they know what to say when they have an idea to pitch. The gender investment gap between men and women, and the reason for the title, Funding in Stilettos. Ungenita and Kirin talk about why they believe part of the reason women aren’t getting as much funding is that many women don’t have enough confidence in their pitches. Kirin touches on what her company does for startup founders and the different services they offer. She talks about how they help them pitch for growth resources including investment, revenue and partnerships. The importance of confidence in pitching your projects and ideas. They talk about how it helps and how you can boost your confidence.

 This intelligent, provocative, sassy, sophisticated and eccentric podcast is on a mission to help 10 Million Women build social capital and monetize their networks. This is the show for those looking to break 6 figures but have Million Dollar + Billion Dollar Dreams; think of this as the Louboutin of Women’s Network podcasts. 

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Key Takeaways:

Having confidence can make or break a deal when it comes to pitching your ideas. Partially due to a lack of confidence, women get less funding for their projects.

Resources

Kirin Kalia LinkedIn | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook

Ungenita Prevost LinkedIn | Instagram |  Twitter

 

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