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Podcast: 10forty
Episode: Ep 41 - From Fine Arts to Angel Investor: Mary McKenna MBE Path to Impact
Description: In this episode of the 10Forty Podcast, we sit down with Mary McKenna MBE, a renowned entrepreneur and angel investor dedicated to helping more women launch successful businesses. Mary shares her inspiring journey, from studying fine arts at university, to temping in London, working at an oil company’s customer service desk, and eventually co-founding Learning Pool, a hugely successful bootstrapped business.
Mary opens up about the challenges she faced early on, including using her home as collateral to fund Learning Pool and navigating the process of selling the business to her co-founder. We ex...