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We're excited to announce the second episode release of our new podcast, Beyond Two Percent!

Beyond Two Percent analyzes the critical questions, issues, and dynamics that affect people differently by gender - and the intersection of those dynamics with finance. This week's roundtable focuses on investing, and we're lucky to be joined by Katie Perry, General Manager at Public, and Margot de Broglie, Co-Founder of Your Juno

As always, our guests join our two fabulous hosts, Julie VerHage-Greenberg and Helen Femi Williams. We'll publish Beyond Two Percent monthly - if you'd be interested in joining an upcoming episode, let us know! Reach out to sponsor@thisweekinfintech.com.

SPEAKERS

* Margot de Broglie, Co-Founder of Your Juno

* Katie Perry, General Manager at Public

* Julie VerHage-Greenberg, Head of Content and Community at Orum

* Helen Femi Williams, Fintech Journalist

Helen  00:14

This is the Beyond Two Percent podcast and I'm your host Helen Femi Williams.

Julie  00:18

And I'm your second host, Julie VerHage-Greenberg, this podcast is brought to you by this week in FinTech, which is the front page of global FinTech news, fostering the largest FinTech community through newsletters, thought leadership and events, and

Helen  00:31

of course, podcasting. And you might have listened to our other podcast. Hey, Fin tech friends. Well, this podcast series is all about women exploring everything from investing to motherhood, to intersectionality, and so much more.

Julie  00:45

And we encourage you to give us feedback on the topics you think we should be discussing and asking and future panels.

Helen  00:51

I think Julie and I and the way that this week in FinTech team recognized that ensuring women are well represented in any industry is always going to be beneficial. Gender Diversity has shown to spot better problem-solving, superior performance, innovation, so much more I could go on.

Julie  01:06

You're right, Helen. And if we were specifically talking about FinTech, the industry could benefit for more women at any level because women in general, have not typically been in the spotlight as a target audience for financial products and services. They're an underserved customer segment with a massive unmet need.

Helen  01:24

And beyond that female founders and executives have personal experience understanding how to generate an ally new ideas and solutions in this field.

Julie  01:32

And that's why this podcast is called Beyond 2%.

Helen  01:35

There is a world of tech-driven financial products and services that is yet to be discovered because of the lack of women leaders in this space

Julie  01:42

and through group discussions with leaders in these spaces. This is what we want to explore

Helen  01:47

this week. It's all about investing.

Julie  01:53

And thank you to our sponsors in New York City FinTech women, FinTech women's mission is to connect, promot