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Lenie Maré and Ninna Andersson are the co-founders of Bloom LGBTQ+, a community-first Android app for LGBTQ+ adults who are looking for genuine friendship and chosen family. Lenie is based in South Africa and Ninna in Sweden, and the two met on TikTok in December 2025, nearly 10,
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Persia Samandi is the founder of Sohsh, an iPhone content creation business that produces fast, social-ready content for business shoots, events and weddings across Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire, Greater London and beyond. After spending her 20s running social media for a prestigious hospitality ranking list, she left the corporate grind
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Shannon Pratten is the founder of Milk Drunk Club, a maternal health and lactation company, and the creator of MilkHaven, a reusable silicone breast milk storage system that launched in September 2026. A NICU nurse for more than 20 years and a lactation consultant for 14, she is also a
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Sara Ellis is the founder of Stone & Sky Self-Mapping and creator of the Human Translation Method. Drawing on lived experience as a late-diagnosed neurodivergent woman and years spent translating complicated information in healthcare, she built an approach that brings reflective questioning, pattern recognition and birth-chart symbolism
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Becca Bolton is the founder and creative director of Considered by Design, a Sydney-based creative studio that uses design as a tool for positive change. After more than a decade in the creative industry, she stepped away from the traditional agency model to build a studio that works with
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Rachel Stone is the founder of Rachel Stone Coaching, a business and leadership coaching company she launched in 2012 after management and teaching roles in manufacturing, retail and education. She is also the author of a business book and the creator of an online leadership course, and she helps leaders
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Carol Richards is the founder of RAI By Design, which helps start-ups, small businesses and investors build, fund and adopt AI responsibly through training, coaching and advisory work. After a career in software companies, including time at Microsoft, she saw first-hand what good Responsible AI looks like inside
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ZenBusiness is an AI platform that helps entrepreneurs plan, start, and grow a successful business, offering LLC and corporation formation, registered agent service, compliance, and tax and bookkeeping support. Founded in 2015 and based in Austin, Texas, ZenBusiness has helped launch more than 950,000 businesses and, as a Public
After more than 30 years in HR, including at board level, Denise knows how much organisations depend on their people. When she experienced menopause herself in a senior role, she found little understanding or support in the workplace, and decided to do something about it. That experience became Talking 12,
Lisa Morris had wanted to own a gift shop for around six years. After moving to Wales in November 2025, having previously worked as a school cleaner, she opened Wye Knot on the High Street in Builth Wells on 29 June 2026. The shop is built around gifts and cards
Heather Adelman is a partner at Adelman Law, a firm providing strategic business and employment counsel. With more than 30 years of experience in employment law, she advises both employers and employees through some of the most consequential moments in the workplace. In this Q&A, Heather shares what
Estella Benz is the founder of Inference Beauty, a cross-brand AI personalization engine for beauty retail covering skin, hair, foundation shades, fragrances and ingredient intelligence. What began as Skin Match Technology is now integrated with retailers and brands across the EU, US, Australia and the UAE. In this Q&
After a decade in finance and a CFO title to show for it, Ruchi Pinniger felt that something essential was missing. She traded the corner office for a purpose-driven path and founded Watch Her Prosper®, a financial mentorship firm that helps women business owners understand the beliefs and behaviors
Most women leave a networking event with a stack of business cards and little else. Alexis Ferguson founded Bosses In Heels to change that, building a business growth platform for women who want strategy, support, and real execution behind their ideas. That approach was on full display on October 2,
We are proud to announce the Q3 2026 FBW Quarterly Awards winners and honorees. This quarter's cohort spans cross-border payments, battery technology, labor and employment law, marketing and communications, sustainability consulting, and independent publishing, brought together by founders and leaders who built their work around trust, access,
Adhira Tippur grew up in the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas, where her mom runs four dental practices, and spent much of her childhood after school answering phones and checking patients in at the front desk. She noticed that the team was always busy, yet follow-up calls to
Do Mai Anh went to study in Singapore from Vietnam and found herself in the middle of a real culture shock, with a completely different way of learning, constant deadlines and a language gap with her lecturers. She realised that many Vietnamese students abroad struggle not because they lack ability,
Helen Si and Vanessa Gao are the co-founders of Tripals, a travel platform helping people plan less and travel better. The idea came from their own trips, both just the two of them and with friends. Planning meant juggling fragmented tools, group chats, spreadsheets, saved posts and booking confirmations,
Christine Jones founded Sirenxyz after years as Global Executive Creative Director at Ridley Scott Creative Group, where she led the creative division. Brands such as Avon were asking for more honest storytelling aimed at women, and the women on her creative team wanted to get to the heart of those