Women Tech Charge: Second episode of the Evening Standard's new podcast with Rikke Rosenlund from BorrowMyDoggy

Check out episodes from The Evening Standard's new podcast, Women Tech Charge, available to download now
11 March 2019

The second episode of The Evening Standard's brand new podcast, Women Tech Charge, is available to download today.

Hosted by Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon, the CEO of stemettes.org, Women Tech Charge is a series of candid, inspiring and often funny conversations with inventors and entrepreneurs, created to shine a light on the incredible women revolutionising our lives through technology.

After a fascinating discussion last week with ‘Beth’, a senior leader at GCHQ, the next person in the podcast chair is Rikke Rosenlund, founder and CEO of BorrowMyDoggy.

Rosenlund’s mission is to connect dog owners with people who are looking to borrow a dog for a day, or maybe a weekend.

After borrowing a “friend of friend’s”, very cute, brown Labrador one weekend, it got Rosenlund thinking about how much money dog owners spend on dog walkers or kennels.

“I thought, it would make me so happy to take care of a dog. It would help local dog owners and the big winners would really be the dogs who would get more love and attention,” Rosenlund tells Imafidon.

Funnily enough, Rosenlund has never actually owned a dog. She wanted one when she was a child, but her mother was allergic, and it didn’t fit in with her work so it never happened.

“It’s not necessarily what you want, it’s also giving a dog a good home,” she says. “I haven’t had a lifestyle where I have had enough time at home or I don’t have a garden. And given that there’s all these dogs out there that I can help love? Then why not take care of other people’s.”

Over the next 12 weeks, inspiring women will be sitting in the podcast chair to discuss their experiences of working in tech. Guests include Michelle Kennedy of Peanut, the social network for mothers, Louise-Broni Mensah of Shoobs, the ticketing website, as well as Savannah de Savary of prop-tech start-up Built ID.

Tune in every week as the women discuss their highs and lows in the industry, from getting their idea off the ground, to raising funding, and dealing with being a minority in a workforce dominated by men.

Imafidon hopes the podcast will inspire its listeners. “It’s easy for you to dip into the podcast and glean a broad appreciation of these women in the industry. It’s a call to take charge, a call to action,” she tells the Standard.

Women Tech Charge's first season will run for 12 weeks. You can listen and subscribe to it right now through your Apple Podcasts or Spotify apps.

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