{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Real Business Conversations with Kinore","title":"Closing the Gender Ambition Gap","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2837,"description":"Real Business Conversations is a monthly podcast from Kinore, hosted by CEO and founder Larissa Feeney. Each episode is an honest, unscripted conversation with a business owner or expert about the real story behind building and growing a business in Ireland.\nFor decades, ambition itself has not been evenly distributed. Women were once nine times less likely than men to say they wanted to grow a business beyond themselves, and there was little support built to change that.\nThis conversation traces how one piece of research turned into a nationwide movement: the peer-to-peer roundtable model behind Going for Growth, its rural counterpart ACORNS, and Back for Business for returning emigrants, along with what today's data says about ambition, role models and scaling a business.\nJoining Larissa is Paula Fitzsimons, founder of Fitzsimons Consulting. Paula was Ireland's national coordinator for the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor for twenty years and has designed and led some of the country's best-known peer support initiatives for entrepreneurs, including Going for Growth, ACORNS and Back for Business.\nTHINGS WE SPOKE ABOUT\nThe gender gap in start-up rates and growth ambition\nHow one GEM statistic sparked Going for Growth\nWhy peer-to-peer roundtables break psychological isolation\nBringing the model to rural Ireland through ACORNS\nSupporting returning emigrants through Back for Business\nGUEST DETAILS\nPaula Fitzsimons is the founder of Fitzsimons Consulting, specialising in entrepreneurship and growth. She was the national coordinator for the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) research project in Ireland for twenty years and served on the global board as President of the national teams for several years.\nPaula has designed and implemented tailored peer support programmes for entrepreneurs, including Going for Growth, now in its 18th cycle with more than 1,100 ambitious female entrepreneurs having taken part, supported by Enterprise Ireland and KPMG. She also designed...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/TlgeaVA0Jvq7DleNNeuvKF92r_l83E33H_PIQJ_fP1k/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wN2Yw/MTM5ZDI5NDBkNzJj/NWQ2NmFhNzUyMWI0/YmYyNi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}