Sophie Hallwright
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16,852 appearances
55 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 2d ago
Sophie Hallwright’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I would never I would never have honestly ever thought about or let myself daydream about an idea or um a product to build or anything because it felt so out of reach and for so long business has been a r a really a space for men.
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You look at the amount of women in the
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There's I think there's like more men still called Mark or Peter en listed companies than there are women.
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You know, it's crazy the difference in men versus women as as founders and CEOs.
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I think this shift is
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is a really brilliant way to change people's mindset towards, oh, I could start a business.
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And while there is something problematic about the idea that people see founders in this glamorous light because all they're seeing is snippets online about like, I'm a founder, I've got a private jet.
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Like that's not the reality of starting a business.
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No.
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But I kind of also am I I think naivety's amazing when it comes to getting to business.
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Essential.
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So with that in mind, do I think it's a bad thing that people are seeing this life and aspiring to that?
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I mean, there's there is a twenty twenty six Oxford study that surveyed six hundred and seventy two secondary school students who aged sixteen to nineteen from schools and colleges all over the UK and Wales about the careers that they were wanting to pursue and where they wanted to go with work.
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And entrepreneurship has emerged as the most popular career.
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Oh wow.
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Students who placed greater importance on earning and having a good salary were m more likely to aspire to start a business than those who didn't care about it.
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But in terms of like A-level results data, it's showing that in the UK there's a 5.5% rise in in kids taking A-level economics.
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Like business studies now is more popular than history.
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And I feel like this overarching shift towards
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people wanting to start businesses is probably largely true with what they see online and this sort of like glamorization of the founder.
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