32: How Cherie Blair’s childhood lessons led to her championing entrepreneurship for women and impacting millions of lives
Release Date: 11/30/2023
58: How the Fires Changed Everything - and Sparked a Lesson in Money, Motherhood, and Community
Banking On Girls
On Tuesday, January 7, 2025 at 10 a.m., everything changed. In this powerful episode of Banking on Girls, we sit down with three mothers who lived through the terrifying Palisades fires in Los Angeles—watching the flames reach their homes in real time through security cameras and dash cams left behind. As smoke filled the sky and evacuation orders came fast, for some, their neighbors stepped in to protect what they could. What followed was a test of emergency planning, emotional resilience, and financial preparedness. We talk about: How it felt to watch the embers ignite their homes...
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57: How a SIFMA Foundation Survey has Revealed What Parents Really Want — and What It Means for Financial Education
Banking On Girls
Today, we're thrilled to welcome back Melanie Mortimer, President of the SIFMA Foundation — the nation’s leader in youth investor and financial education. Melanie holds a Master’s in International Management and an MBA from Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, and a BA in English from Agnes Scott College in Georgia. In this episode, we dive into the findings of a brand-new survey conducted by the SIFMA Foundation on U.S. parents' views about financial education for kids. Melanie shares eye-opening insights, including the surprising statistic that nearly three-quarters of parents would...
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56: How the World Bank's Wendy Teleki is empowering women entrepreneurs around the globe
Banking On Girls
In this episode of the Banking on Girls podcast, we are excited to feature Wendy Teleki, the Head of the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi) at the World Bank. We-Fi plays a crucial role in supporting women entrepreneurs in over 60 developing countries by enhancing their access to finance, markets, skills, and technology. Wendy has been recognized as one of Forbes’s “50 Over 50” women in finance for her outstanding leadership in advocating for women's economic empowerment and entrepreneurship. She is also the co-author of "Rebalance: How Women Lead, Parent, Partner and...
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55: How UCLA's Professor Hal Hershfield's work in connecting to your future self can change savings habits and transform lives
Banking On Girls
In this episode of Banking on Girls, we’re joined by Professor Hal Hershfield, a distinguished expert in marketing, behavioral decision-making, and psychology at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. As the author of Your Future Self: How to Make Tomorrow Better Today, Professor Hershfield explores how understanding and connecting with our future selves can transform the way we make long-term financial decisions. What You’ll Learn in This Episode: How Professor Hershfield’s research helps people visualize and emotionally connect with their future selves to improve saving...
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54: How Maura Cunningham, Founder of Rock the Street, Wall Street is changing the landscape for girls and finance
Banking On Girls
In this inspiring episode, we sit down with Maura Cunningham, founder of Rock the Street, Wall Street—a groundbreaking non-profit organization dedicated to empowering high school girls by teaching them the fundamentals of math, investing, and finance. Maura brings over 25 years of Wall Street experience in finance and wealth management, as well as insights from her journey as a mother to a successful trial lawyer. Together, we discuss Maura’s mission to shatter the math barrier for girls in the U.S. and foster financial literacy from an early age. Maura explains how Rock the Street,...
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53: What your children are learning about money on social media and how to start a conversation with them
Banking On Girls
In this episode, we discuss how parents can help their kids, especially girls, think critically about financial advice they encounter on social media. We cover essential conversations that empower children to evaluate information effectively and build a solid understanding of money management. For those interested in more on this topic, this episode references Ep 42 with Josina Kamerling from the CFA Insitute, and her paper The Finfluencer Appeal: Investing in the Age of Social Media.
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52: How Milken Institute's Cheryl Evans is helping solve America's problem with lifetime financial security
Banking On Girls
My guest today is Cheryl Evans who leads the Lifetime FInancial Security Program at the Milken Institute and recently released the paper Shifting the Retirement Paradigm: Moving Towards Financial Security. As a mom herself to a teen daughter Cheryl cautions, “No one's coming to rescue you - be your own hero!” Listen here to learn: Why you need to make saving money a priority from a young age Where you can start on your own financial knowledge journey How you can overcome biases to make conscious choices to help save for your future-self Learn more here:
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51: REWIND EPISODE How money mindset and business coach Rasa DiSalvo’s career with athletes, executives and celebrities began as a volleyball player in Lithuania
Banking On Girls
Today's epsiode is a rewind of my conversation with Rasa DiSalvo, a business and high-performance coach, transformational speaker, and athlete. Rasa has coached founders, pro-athletes, Hollywood celebrities, corporate executives, and CEOs. Rasa’s passion for human potential and high performance has been uniquely shaped by a career as an athlete, where human beings are tested to the limits of their mental, physical and technical abilities. In her coaching, she unites the concept of training our mind, body, and spirit. Prior to starting her own coaching business, Rasa spent...
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50: REWIND EPISODE How Australian diplomat Kylie Hargreaves' early life and travels formed her views on leadership and financial literacy
Banking On Girls
Today’s episode is a rewind of my converstion with Kylie Hargreaves, Chair of the Australian Alliance for Energy Productivity and Deputy Chair for Regional Development Australia. Kylie is an experienced diplomat and is passionate about water, waste and energy. She has over 25 years experience in Federal and State Governments, including as Australia's Senior Trade & Investment Commissioner in the US, UK and Spain and as former Deputy Secretary for several portfolios (including resources and energy) in the New South Wales State Government, Australia. In this episode Kylie gives us a...
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49: REWIND EPSIODE How Dr. Marlene Kanga became a global role model for women in STEM
Banking On Girls
This episode is a rewind of my conversation with Dr. Marlene Kanga. Dr. Kanga who lives in Sydney, Australia and is an outstanding leader and engineer. She was the second female President of the World Federation of Engineering Organisations (WFEO), from 2017-2019. In that capacity she represented over 30 million engineers around the world. She holds non-executive director positions on Boards in Australia including Sydney Water Corporation and Air Services Australia. Marlene is also the Co-Chair of Elevate, an Australian government program to increase the participation of women in...
info_outlineMy guest today is Lady Cherie Blair CBE KC, founder of the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, a leading international human rights lawyer, a passionate campaigner for women’s equality, and wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Cherie studied law at the London School of Economics, she’s a King’s Counsel, and a founding member of Omnia Strategy, a pioneering international law firm that provides strategic counsel to governments, corporates and private clients.
In 2008, Cherie established the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, which partners with global organizations to support women entrepreneurs in low and middle income countries, and has touched hundreds of thousands of lives around the world by aiming to close the economic gender gap through entrepreneurship.
In this episode Cherie tells us about lessons from her childhood, financial education for girls, and the importance of gender-centered programing.
We learn about the life-changing impact of teaching women entrepreneurial skills through the mentoring program at her foundation.
As a graduate mentor from the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, Mentoring Women in Business Programme myself, I highly recommend getting involved if you have the opportunity!
You can learn more about the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women here: https://cherieblairfoundation.org/