“I am aware this was a huge win for us in many ways…I think we knew that this win…was going to be bigger than soccer” US Women’s National Team co-captain Megan Rapinoe (CNN)

Hello!

I hope you’re having a good week 🌞! On my part, I was in Paris at The Family (if you’re an entrepreneur you should definitely watch their videos and attend their talks) on Monday to speak at a conference about “Financial empowerment: How women can be a driving force for future generations”, it’s my favourite topic and one I wrote about in my FT column a few months ago. This was a ”public affairs” event with Oriel Petry, UK Diplomat, Deputy Trade Commissioner for Europe so we tried to look at private and public ways of solving issues.

🌟 In this week’s newsletter, we’ll look at the main money news of the week (the rise of online shopping, ESG investing, changing financial needs across generations); we are interviewing Florence Swift about what her experiences running a blog and how she manages money, followed by our anonymous money story, book reviews and events. 

📅 Summer Event: 85 tickets are already gone and I am getting excited! We are hosting this special Vestpod summer event on Wednesday, July 17th at Huckletree in Shoreditch, with 3 amazing guests: Bola Sol (personal finance guru and founder of Refined Currency), Carmel Dickinson (Head of events at Boring Money) and Lauren Armes (coach and CEO and founder of Welltodo) and we will talk about “Know your worth: getting paid and negotiating”, followed by a Q&A and then drinks. Get your ticket and join us because this is our last event before the summer holidays!

What does financial independence mean to you? "Having my own money and being able to live the life I live currently without relying financially on anyone else."

You may already know Refinery29’s Money Diaries… this is our own version of it! We’ve put together a few questions to understand what women are doing with their money. Let’s break the taboo and talk more about finances!
It’s short, snappy, fun and anonymous.