Female Startup Club

Doone Roisin has built Female Startup Club into a massive library of founder stories, with over 728 episodes and a 4.9-star rating from 151 reviews on Apple Podcasts. The show focuses on women building businesses doing seven, eight, and nine figures in revenue, and the interviews consistently pull out specific, usable advice rather than vague inspiration. The format mixes full-length founder interviews with shorter segments called GEMS, where Doone curates highlights and lessons from previous conversations. Full episodes typically run 30 to 50 minutes, while GEMS segments clock in at just a few minutes, making the show flexible depending on how much time you have. Recent guests include Jo Malone and Ali Clarke of Bondi Blades, who bootstrapped her company from $50 to $1 million. Doone has a warm, direct interviewing style that gets founders to open up about the hard parts: running out of cash, dealing with copycats, figuring out manufacturing, and learning to say no. The show covers DTC brands, service businesses, tech startups, and everything in between. There is a strong emphasis on bootstrapping, scrappy marketing tactics, and building a brand on social media without a massive budget. While the show centers women founders, the business lessons are universal. Anyone starting a company will find practical value in hearing how these founders solved real problems with limited resources.