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'I've started a business in my fifties to fight dementia'
Meet the female entrepreneurs aged over 50 who have started businesses in lockdown.
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'I've started a business in my fifties to fight dementia'
Meet the female entrepreneurs aged over 50 who have started businesses in lockdown.
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Meet the graduates who have started businesses in lockdown.
The woman who wants everyone to get a pension
Romi Savova is the founder and chief executive of pension firm PensionBee.
The woman who quit smoking and built a global hypnotherapy firm
Grace Smith used hypnosis to give up smoking, and it inspired her to take up the profession.
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'I've started a business in my fifties to fight dementia'
Meet the female entrepreneurs aged over 50 who have started businesses in lockdown.
The uni friends making money from snacking
Meet the graduates who have started businesses in lockdown.
The woman who wants everyone to get a pension
Romi Savova is the founder and chief executive of pension firm PensionBee.
The woman who quit smoking and built a global hypnotherapy firm
Grace Smith used hypnosis to give up smoking, and it inspired her to take up the profession.
The black-owned coffee firm that became a bestseller
US firm Blk & Bold has seen sales surge this year on the back of the Black Lives Matter movement.
How her own illness led one woman to set up a global firm
Jules Miller set up dietary supplements firm The Nue Co after suffering irritable bowel syndrome.
'Don't put me in a box - this fuels me'
Black Lives Matter has shone a spotlight on policing, but also on other areas, like the tech industry.
The uni friends making money from snacking
Meet the graduates who have started businesses in lockdown.
The woman who wants everyone to get a pension
Romi Savova is the founder and chief executive of pension firm PensionBee.
The woman who quit smoking and built a global hypnotherapy firm
Grace Smith used hypnosis to give up smoking, and it inspired her to take up the profession.
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