Female Startup Club

Dr. Amandeep Hansra is a practicing GP, co-founder of Medical Angels (34 investments and counting), and one of Australia's most vocal advocates for closing the gender gap in medicine and health investment. But what she really wants you to know about women's health surprised me.. because the biggest breakthroughs aren't coming from billion-dollar labs. They're coming from women who got fed up and built something.

In this chat with Female Startup Club, Dr. Amandeep gets refreshingly honest about why medicine still gets women wrong, what the HRT scare of the early 2000s actually showed us, and how she ended up with insulin resistance despite doing "all the right things."

I wanted to know:

Why she had to see three doctors before getting HRT prescribed (as a doctor herself)
What GLP-1s like Ozempic actually do to muscle and bone in women
The free tool she recommends for researching your own health (not ChatGPT!)

This one is for the woman who's ever left a doctor's appointment feeling dismissed, and is ready to advocate harder for herself.

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🔗 LINKS
→ Dr. Amandeep Instagram: [@dochansra ]

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This is an interview originally published on the Unstoppable Podcast by Jess Williamson.

I'm chatting with her about how you can build real influence and a network that opens doors to bigger opportunities, partnerships and income. And how I did it with Female Startup Club, one of the world’s leading female founder podcasts and communities. "Doone has interviewed hundreds of founders, built a global network, landed major opportunities through relationships and turned conversations into real influence, access, and income."

Every topic we yap about in this conversation:

Here's the list reframed so every bullet answers "what do I get from this?":

Why most big opportunities come from who you know (and how to become that person)
How to show up unapologetically (and why it attracts the right people)
How to know when it's time to pivot your business
How to do the thing you're terrified of — even when you feel allergic to it
How to land sponsors and paid deals with a tiny audience (the exact pitch strategy behind a $25K deal at 2,000 downloads)
The "minimum audience size" myths to ignore before you monetize
How to turn conversations into a business model
How to reverse-engineer any opportunity — Forbes lists, TED talks, grants, speaking gigs
Why you should pitch the person, not the company (and how to find their KPIs)
The exact question to ask when you don't know what value you can offer
How to pitch without desperate energy — the seagull & the chip mindset shift
What founders with $650M and $1.2B exits have in common
The mindset pattern that separates women who make it from women who stay stuck
How rooms like Davos actually work — and how to get into rooms like them
The #1 strategy for building a powerful network when you don't know anyone
Why partnering with brands at your level beats chasing the big ones
How to build influence and authority without a huge following
Where to find other women operating at your level

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Rose Donald just broke the Guinness World Record as the youngest female pilot to fly solo around Australia. She started the trip at 17, turned 18 mid-route, and raised over $82,000 for Little Wings, a children's charity that flies seriously ill kids from rural Australia to specialist hospitals in the cities.

But the part she really opened up about, what it actually cost her to get there, is the message she most wants other young women to hear.
In this conversation with Female Startup Club, Rose gets refreshingly honest about chasing big goals at a young age. We get into how she planned a year-long solo flight around Australia from her bedroom in Melbourne, the patchwork of sponsorship and charity money that made a $40k+ flight possible at 17, and the anxiety and self-sacrifice that nobody saw behind the headlines. Her message at the end of this one (about why she doesn't want young women comparing themselves to her) genuinely stopped me in my tracks.

I wanted to know:

how she funded a $40k+ solo flight around Australia at 17
what's actually going through your head 8 hours alone in a cockpit
why she doesn't want young women comparing themselves to her

⏱ CHAPTERS
00:00 - Introduction
01:35 - Why she flew solo around Australia at 17
02:45 - The 17 year old boy who sparked the idea at 14
03:30 - Finding Little Wings and raising $80,000+
05:07 - Funding a $40k flight at 17
06:26 - Three months without sleep planning the trip
07:44 - Tapping the Australian Women's Pilots Association
09:49 - Five Melbourne charity rejections before Little Wings
13:20 - How the Guinness World Record application works
15:24 - What you actually think about up in the clouds
18:36 - Calling dad as a last resort during scary moments
19:24 - Horn Island and the two hour weather window
22:48 - Perspective from above on school stress
25:10 - The aviation community she didn't know she needed
27:43 - Anxiety, fear of failure and a permanently injured knee
30:48 - Please don't compare yourself to me
32:28 - The $100k donation goal for Little Wings

🔗 LINKS
→ Rose Donald on Instagram: www.instagram.com/pilotrose.au
→ Donate to Pilot Rose x Little Wings campaign: https://www.givenow.com.au/girls-can-fly

#FemaleStartupClub #WomenInAviation #GuinnessWorldRecord #LittleWings #RoseDonald

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Lauren Meisner built Centennial World, a Gen-Z media business covering internet culture, from just $5,000. It launched in 2019 as a beauty publication and today it's an independent podcast network running a daily show plus weekly deep dives, with most of its audience on YouTube. She's also just launched Spon Studio, a marketplace built to connect independent podcasters with brands.

But the part she really opened up about... the actual numbers behind creator brand deals and how to monetise in the creator economy for 2026.

In this juicy episode Lauren gets properly honest about the money side of the creator economy. We get into what brands are actually paying right now, the mini series she sold for $20k before finding out it was worth five times that (ouch), payment terms that somehow stretch to nine months, and how on earth you price yourself when the whole industry still feels like the Wild West. If you've ever stared at a brand's email with no clue what number to send back, this one is for you.

I wanted to know:

what brands are actually paying podcasters and creators in 2026
how she went from a $9k first deal to multi six-figure partnerships
how to set your payment terms and stop chasing late invoices

This one is for the woman who is building something in the creator economy (or wants to) and is done leaving money on the table.

⏱ CHAPTERS
00:00 - Introduction
01:30 - The creator economy is still the Wild West
04:00 - Building Centennial World from $5,000
07:30 - From beauty publisher to internet culture
11:00 - Why they killed the website and went all in on podcasting
15:00 - Going solo after her co-founder exited
19:00 - Scaling too fast and burning out
24:00 - Building shows that don't rely on her face
28:00 - The first brand deal: $9,000 from MAC
33:00 - The mini series she undercharged by 5x
38:00 - Building a real sales process and cold outreach
44:00 - The 2026 wildcard opportunity for creators
49:00 - What brands actually want now
54:00 - The dark side of being chronically online
58:00 - Term sheet red flags and saying no to free work
01:03:00 - Payment terms and getting paid up front
01:08:00 - Why she built Spon Studio
01:14:00 - Advice for starting a podcast in 2026

🔗 LINKS
→ Lauren Meisner on Instagram: @laurenmeisner_
→ Centennial World on TikTok: @centennialworld
→ Spon Studio: www.sponstudio.com
#FemaleStartupClub #CreatorEconomy #Podcasting #BrandDeals #CentennialWorld

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This episode is for women who have a busy brain, feel misunderstood, or want to understand themselves better!

I've invited my husband, P-A, back on the show (you heard from him a few episodes ago!) to walk through something I sent him recently that genuinely felt like a breakthrough. I called it 'My Brain Operating Manual'.

Quick context.. I've been on this big journey of understanding my ADHD. Why some things feel impossibly hard for me and others come so easily, and what is actually happening inside my brain when I spiral (which is daily, lol). So I sat in the bath one night, went down a massive rabbit hole, and put together a document explaining exactly how my brain works, so PA could finally understand me properly.

This episode is the two of us going through it together. No structure, no script, just talking it out:

→ why an ADHD brain never has a true "off" mode
→ why I'm completely depleted by the end of every week (and why it's not normal tiredness)
→ the masking thing that nobody else can see
→ why a tiny "can you pass me a pen" interruption is genuinely painful
→ why empty, unscheduled days are a neurological requirement, not a luxury
→ why new ideas land as extra weight instead of swaps
→ the book that completely changed how we communicate (The Course of Love by Alain de Botton, read it!)

It's a conversation about understanding yourself, being a good partner to someone whose brain works differently, and why depth beats width every single time.

If you've got a busy brain, whether you have ADHD or you're just burnt out and stretched and running on empty, this one is for you.

We're also kicking off a listener series on busy brains, so if you want to email in your questions, all the details are below.

⏱ CHAPTERS
00:00 – Introduction
02:00 – Why I made a Brain Operating Manual for my husband
06:30 – The daily spiral (and why it gets worse by Friday)
12:00 – The book that changed how we communicate
17:30 – Bucket 1: an ADHD brain is always running
24:00 – Masking, and why it's invisible exhaustion
30:00 – Why high inbound volume drains the tank
36:00 – Scheduled plans cost energy before they happen
42:00 – Unscheduled time is a neurological requirement
48:30 – Too many roles fragment focus and output
55:00 – Why new suggestions land as additions, not swaps
1:02:00 – The practical fixes that actually changed our lives
1:08:30 – Advice for partners of neurodivergent people
1:13:00 – Depth over width, and our new listener series

🔗 LINKS
#FemaleStartupClub #ADHD #Neurodivergent #ADHDinWomen #BurnoutRecovery

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→ Use code 'FSC' for 30% off your first 3 months at omnisend.com/fsc
→ Female Startup Club's Instagram: www.instagram.com/femalestartupclub
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→ Get opportunities delivered to your inbox 3x weekly here: https://female-startup-club.beehiiv.com/
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