Hot Girl Finance
Hot Girl Finance is a podcast that helps women understand money, build wealth, and take control of their finances. Hosted by Poppy Jamie, a serial entrepreneur, the show features conversations with successful founders and entrepreneurs. It is brought to you by Aave and aims to provide financial education in an engaging way.
Episodes
I Ran Steven Bartlett's Socials. Here's Why Your Content Flops w/ Holly Hayes
Everyone thinks Steven Bartlett's personal brand was built on talent. It was built on 200 posts a month.Most people post once a week, check the likes after half an hour and delete anything that flops. Behind The Diary of a CEO, every decision started with one question: "what's the data?" Every guest got an essay's worth of research, the awkward silences were left in, and cont
Mined Diamonds Lose 40%: Why Lab-Grown Is Worth It! w/ Jessica Warch
The diamond industry told us diamonds are rare. They're not, and the moment you buy one it can lose 40% of its value.A mined diamond and a lab-grown one are chemically identical. A certified gemologist cannot tell them apart without a machine, and the machine still gets it wrong. One of them costs three to four times more, and loses around 40% of its value the moment you buy it.Jessica Warch g
Inside the Business of Documentaries, With an Oscar Winner w/ Odessa Rae
How do you pay for an Oscar-winning documentary on your own credit card? Why does the person carrying the legal and financial risk of a film get the least credit for it? And why does a $6 million film need an $18 million campaign to win Best Picture? Odessa Rae is the Oscar-winning producer of Navalny, and she funded the first four months of it on her own credit card. She walks Poppy through how t
Everything It Takes to Build a Profitable Swimwear Brand w/ Alexandra Miro
How does a swimsuit get from a drawing to a shop floor? Why did she have to pay for her own stock before Selfridges would sell it? And why did the brand only start making money once she took production in house?Alexandra Miro started her swimwear label with five swimsuits and her own money, and now sells it around the world with a team of five.She tells Poppy how the money really works in fashion,
How To Read A Stock (Investing For Beginners)
In this Hot Girl Finance breakdown, we go through every number you see when you look up a stock, what each one is telling you, and which ones actually change whether it is worth buying.In this episode:◼️ Market cap measures the size of a company, and people read it as a price signal, which is how they end up overpaying.◼️ The PE ratio is a promise about future growth, and the higher it climbs the
How Creators Took Over Hollywood and the Talent Agency Business w/ Darnell Strom
What does a talent agent actually do for their 10%? Why are creators and brands now sitting in the top ten earners at one of the biggest agencies in the world, next to the actors and the athletes? And why does the man who runs UTA in Europe tell his clients that a brand coming to them directly is a brand planning to undercut them?Darnell Strom is Head of UTA Europe, the agent behind Malala Yousafz
Why Your Pension Depends on Other People's Children w/ Paul Morland
What happens to your pension when there is barely one worker left per retiree? Why does a demographer say the best money decision you can make in your thirties is having a child? And why does he think the next great crisis will be a bond crisis?Paul Morland is the demographer behind No One Left. His next book, Bust: The Economics of Population Decline, is out in November.He walks Poppy through the
How to Run a Profitable Cult Fashion Brand w/ Jana Sascha, De La Vali
Jana Sascha started De La Vali selling dresses from the back of a car in Ibiza, to anyone who would buy them. Nearly ten years later the brand is stocked by its dream retailers, worn by Kate Moss, and online sales are up 300% in a year. So how do you actually make a fashion brand profitable?This week Poppy sits down with Jana Sascha, founder and creative director of De La Vali. Jana breaks down th
How to Become a Screenwriter (Without Moving to LA) with Franklin Leonard
What do you actually get paid to write a Hollywood film? Can someone steal your script if you put it online? And why does the man who worked for Leonardo DiCaprio's production company say talent alone won't get you hired?Franklin Leonard is the creator of The Black List, the platform where any writer in the world can upload their script and get it in front of Hollywood.We walk through the
How Writers Are Making $1 Million on Substack with Farrah Storr
The publishing industry pays writers last and cuts them first. Substack pays 50 of its creators over $1 million a year. One woman edited Women's Health, Cosmopolitan and Elle, saw where it was all going, and left to build the other side. In this episode of Hot Girl Finance, Farrah Storr, Head of Substack International, breaks down exactly how the platform pays, who's getting rich, and why
Klarna Uncoded: What's Really Behind the Pink Button
Should you be using Klarna, or is Buy Now, Pay Later just expensive debt dressed up in millennial pink? We decode Klarna's origin story, who actually pays for "interest-free," the five ways Klarna makes money (late fees included), the psychology trick behind the pink button, and how to play it smart if you use BNPL anyway.In this episode:◼️Where Klarna came from, a Burger King friend
The Business of the Beauty Economy With Venetia Archer
Venetia Archer is the founder and CEO of Ruuby, the app that has delivered over a million manicures, massages and blow dries to front doors across the UK, Switzerland, France and the UAE. She can tell what treatment you'll book just by looking at you, and she built her company pitching male investors an economy they didn't know existed.In this episode:◼️ Why you should know your numbers cold and c
The Business Behind Victoria's Secret's Fastest-Selling Bikini, with Melissa Odabash
Anna Wintour ordered from her personally. Jennifer Lopez wore the first thing she ever designed. But Melissa Odabash started out selling bikinis from a bag backstage, barely making a dollar on each one. Twenty-five years and 70 countries later, she's never taken outside investment and still owns every bit of her brand.Melissa Odabash MBE is the founder and designer of her eponymous luxury swim
Blockchains, AI, and the Future of Finance, with Amanda Cassatt
Amanda Cassatt helped bring Ethereum to market as CMO of ConsenSys, then founded the web3 firm Serotonin, co-founded NFT platform Mojito, and wrote a book on web3 marketing.She makes the case that most of us are quietly losing money without realising it. Our savings sit in accounts earning next to nothing while the bank keeps the difference.In this episode:◼️ Why she thinks the economy has become
A Beginner's Guide to Crypto
Crypto talk. Most of us are quietly nodding along with no clue what any of it means. So today it's a crash course, we're going back to basics. Crypto, blockchain, bitcoin, ethereum, web3, defi and tokenization.By the end, you'll actually know what it’s all about:◼️ Why crypto is built on cryptography, the same math that keeps your messages and bank login safe◼️ Why "on the blockch
Sharmadean Reid: How to Build a World, Not Just a Brand
Sharmadean Reid built a beauty empire from a nail salon in East London — and she's done it again from scratch.She grew up on free school meals in Wolverhampton, started working for entrepreneurs at 14, and turned a £20-a-week cash-in-hand job into a career building cultural phenomena. WAH Nails. Beautystack. And now 39 BC, a bathing brand that went from idea to nine stores across three countri
Amazon’s First Investor: Nick Hanauer on How the Rich Rigged the Economy
Nick Hanauer was one of Jeff Bezos' first investors. Now he's telling other billionaires they have too much money.He grew up working in his family's pillow factory, helped start Amazon before anyone believed people would shop online, and sold a single company to Microsoft for $6 billion. By every measure, the system worked perfectly for him. That's exactly why he wants to tear it d
Sophia Amoruso: The Lesson I Paid $400 Million to Learn
She started selling vintage on eBay with no business school, no business plan, and no idea what a P&L was. She built it into a $350M empire. Then it was gone. No co-founder. No safety net. Just instinct — and the brutal lessons that came when instinct wasn't enough.In this episode, Sophia Amoruso — founder of Nasty Gal, author of #Girlboss, and now investor at Trust Fund backing the next g
Why Modern Motherhood Feels Financially Impossible with Michelle Kennedy
She built Peanut while raising her son, funding the early product with her own savings. Today it's used by 5M+ women across fertility, pregnancy, motherhood and menopause. But that's not why she's here.She's here because professional mothers are doing everything right — and still falling behind. Men are syndicating deals amongst themselves, sharing investments, making each other rich. Women aren't
How Annie's Ibiza Became Fashion's Cult Brand From €200
She left school at 15, sold vintage from a market stall at 14, and opened her first shop in Ibiza at 19 with €200 and zero backup plan. No investors. No loans. Just a vision and the relentless energy to build it.In this episode, Annie Doble, founder of Annie's Ibiza — the brand with fans including Kate Moss, Zendaya and Taylor Swift and stores in Ibiza, London and New York — breaks down what it ac
Snake Serum, Kris Jenner & Making Her First Million with Maria Hatzistefanis
Maria Hatzistefanis started with £20,000 in savings, no investors, and a home office. Today she runs two global beauty brands and has written the manual on building your first million.The question isn't whether you can do it. It's whether you know the rules.In this episode of Hot Girl Finance, Maria Hatzistefanis, founder of Rodial and Nip+Fab and author of How To Make Your First Million, breaks d
The Business of Divorce: What They Never Told You with Maria Fiorito
If you are in a relationship and not thinking about money, you are already behind. And if that relationship ends, you could lose everything you never knew you were entitled to.In this episode of Hot Girl Finance, Maria Fiorito, high net worth divorce lawyer, breaks down the financial reality of marriage, divorce, and why the women who stay silent are the ones who lose the most.In this episode: ◼️
Introducing “Hot Girl Finance with Poppy Jamie” | New Episodes Weekly
What's actually keeping you in that job, that relationship, that life? Money. And the fact that nobody ever taught you how it works. School taught you the area of a triangle. Nobody taught you how to build wealth.Poppy Jamie is a serial entrepreneur and three-time founder, and the host of Hot Girl Finance, a podcast helping women reclaim their understanding of and access to money.In the first epis
