Celebrating Women In Business

[JCBrown]

March is Women's History Month, so we're going to be focusing on celebrating women in business and have some great interviews lined up with some women in different sectors of business.

Keep an eye out on the UKBF social feed here to see when they're published!

I'd like to know which women in business inspire you or make you step back and think "wow"?

 

[apricot]

Oh, how nice!
A great reason to get fizzy and cheer to myself!

 

[Ozzy]

Oh, how nice!
A great reason to get fizzy and cheer to myself!

Absolutely! I assume my invitation is in the post for fizzy sampling?

Apart from yourself, because it is important to appreciate and celebrate ones own achievements, who else do you feel deserves recognition for their achievements or inspiring of others?

 

[apricot]

Absolutely! I assume my invitation is in the post for fizzy sampling?

Apart from yourself, because it is important to appreciate and celebrate ones own achievements, who else do you feel deserves recognition for their achievements or inspiring of others?

I noticed pretty much all the women I admire already received some sort of recognition in their field. I follow Maria Ressa super fearless, anti-fake news journalist. I love AOC but again, she's already super top! Greta Thunberg is another one I follow but she's under kids group I guess
I've just remembered Francesca Brown, she's been getting quite a few awards recently.

I've just noticed I should do networking and meet real achievers in real life, all the ones I admire are behind the screen!

 

[Bob Morgan]

'Gina' does a wonderful job of my Ironing!

 

[JCBrown]

'Gina' does a wonderful job of my Ironing!

We all find inspiration in different things and I'm sure Gina appreciates your admiration ????

 

[fisicx]

'Gina' does a wonderful job of my Ironing!

Sharon does mine. And Anita does the cleaning. Both running their own business. They haven't been interviewed so feel quite left out.

 

[JCBrown]

Sharon does mine. And Anita does the cleaning. Both running their own business. They haven't been interviewed so feel quite left out.

Haha you're not being left out Sir! What sort of businesses are they running?

 

[fisicx]

Haha you're not being left out Sir! What sort of businesses are they running?

One does ironing and the other is a cleaner. Both earning a bit of cash to pay the bills.

Whilst I agree there are some high profile women, most working women just get on with their job. Nobody celebrates all the care workers, admin staff, cleaners, cooks, shop workers and so on.

Have you interviewed the women who work for Ozzy? Are you celebrating their contribution to the business?

 

[Ozzy]

Have you interviewed the women who work for Ozzy?

I've tried, they politely declined. Maybe one of them may read this and change her mind

Whilst I agree there are some high profile women, most working women just get on with their job. Nobody celebrates all the care workers, admin staff, cleaners, cooks, shop workers and so on.

You may have missed the point a little. A search for books by inspirational business leaders returns 378m results for males and 169m for female, a crude straw poll granted. There are fewer women to choose from in that arena, so with that mind who are the ones who do catch the limelight.
Not taking anything away from the real world stories, those are what #UKBFStories is all about and the UKBF member in focus.

 

[fisicx]

You may have missed the point a little. A search for books by inspirational business leaders returns 378m results for males and 169m for female, a crude straw poll granted.

Maybe that's because women don't need their ego's stroked and would rather get on with running a business than writing books (or getting books written about them).

 

[japancool]

I love women. Some of my friends are women.

 

[Ozzy]

Maybe that's because women don't need their ego's stroked and would rather get on with running a business than writing books (or getting books written about them).

Possibly true but also according to our Google Audiences data 64% of people who access UKBF are women searching for business advice, and according to Companies House data as reported on Enterprise Nation here there are now more women starting in business than men.

So we have stats like that, I then also consider an interview with a business woman I did on Monday (being released next week) where her business mentor was a man (a great man) and her inspiration was her father (also a great man), so we ask this question above about inspirational business women (in the traditional profile sense).

 

[JCBrown]

One does ironing and the other is a cleaner. Both earning a bit of cash to pay the bills.

Whilst I agree there are some high profile women, most working women just get on with their job. Nobody celebrates all the care workers, admin staff, cleaners, cooks, shop workers and so on.

Have you interviewed the women who work for Ozzy? Are you celebrating their contribution to the business?

As @Ozzy said we're working on it!

Shalom Lloyd, who is one of the latest people we just interviewed (very successful in business) also echoed that "it's the everyday women and the everyday champions" that inspire her

 

[apricot]

'Gina' does a wonderful job of my Ironing!

Who's Gina?
Ignore me! I've just noticed, I've been foreign!

 

[apricot]

I love women. Some of my friends are women.

You sound like you are surprised!