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Jun 2021
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Be Unapologetically You with Sarah Porte...

Lauren Paton
About this episode

This week my guest is Sarah Porter, founder of AI community Inspired Minds and one of the most influential people in tech. We're talking about the challenges of getting funding (and respect) from a male-dominated tech industry, how she stays laser focused on her goals, and her advice for us all to be more unapologetically ourselves.

Books we spoke about:
Programmed Inequality by Mar Hicks
Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes by Elizabeth Lesser
Women & Power by Mary Beard
Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals by Saul Alinsky


About Sarah:
Sarah is an award-winning entrepreneur, having launched 21 b2b and b2c technology products in 11 countries since 1996 and a multi million pound company via self funding.

She is focused on democratising emerging technology and using platforms to empower individuals and organisations no matter their background, status or gender.

Sarah is an active campaigner for women’s rights globally and keynotes at international events on gender equality, emerging tech

She is also Founder and investor in World Summit AI, the largest worldwide AI tech summit series and Founder of IntelligentHealth a global series of summits on AI in medicine.

Sarah is a regular keynote speaker on start ups, business and women / equality related issues and is an ambassador for the Royal Marsden where she champions the use of AI tech in oncology advances. She is also a fully qualified trauma first responder in medical and humanitarian front line emergency response and volunteers worldwide.
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About me:
I'm the founder of Unleashed Coaching + Reprogramming where I helps female leaders in male-dominated environments liberate themselves from limitations, rewrite their subconscious programming and tap into their potential. I spent my previous career working in high-level strategic roles, at small but impactful tech startups through to global corporations like Amazon and Disney. Now I use my transformative blend of strategy and spirituality delivered through 1:1 or group clarity coaching, energy psychology, emotional healing and NLP, to help female leaders access the intricate layers of the subconscious mind so that they find the power to not only reach their goals, but surpass them.
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I’m a speaker, strategy expert, coach, trainer, podcast host, a top 10 voice for gender equity, and a feminist outlaw. I founded Scout + Circle to get more women taking up more space in rooms where decisions are made.

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