🎙️Launch of Season Three Episode 1 (AKA Episode 21) for The D.A.R.E. Podcast

Full podcast episode with Baroness Martha Lane Fox CBE of Soho talking to The D.A.R.E. Podcast Host and Founder/President of TMBDLF.com Prof Miranda Brawn, recorded in September 2025.

Join us for a very special and exclusive deep dive into the successful mindset of Martha Lane Fox.

In this candid conversation, we explore Martha's unique insights, experiences, and her vision for the future within business, technology, venture capital funding, the boardroom and much more.

Whether you're a student, a professional, board member or just curious about what drives a successful mindset to outstanding success, this interview is a must-watch and/or must-listen.

In this episode, you will learn more about:

1. Advice to entrepreneurs including finding the right co-founder
2. How to get into the boardroom and her own journey to joining high profile boards like Twitter/X, Chanel, British Airways etc including her thoughts on working with the world's richest man Elon Musk!
3. How to launch a 10 figure business like Lastminute.com in her 20s and then sold it in her early 30s for $1 billion
4. Her thoughts on the world of Venture Capital (VC) and raising funds for your business
5. How a life changing holiday and near fatal car accident in Morocco during the same year she made 8 figures from selling Lastminute.com (exact amount is confirmed within this episode) has left her permanently disabled including living with disabilities and exercising resilience
6. How to make things including your dreams happen including her luxury of flexibility
7. Is there such thing as a work/life balance?
8. Venture Capital funding tips for your new business and the UK Technology sector including her top 3 tips to promote diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I)
9. Where is AI going to be in 5 to 10 years?
10. The Brawn Review on boardroom sustainability, inclusion and governance where Martha provides her recommendations
11. Women's health and dealing with menopause at work
12. Quick Q&A

Guest Biography:

Martha Lane Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho is a prominent British businesswoman, entrepreneur, philanthropist, digital/diversity activist, and public servant. She co-founded Lastminute.com during the dotcom boom of the early 2000s which was sold for $1 billion and co-founded Lucky Voices. She has subsequently served on public service digital projects and various boards including Twitter, Chanel, Marks and Spencer, British Airways to name but a few. At the time of filming, she was also Chancellor of the Open University and President of the British Chambers of Commerce. Also, the youngest female cross bench peer when she entered more than ten years ago in the House of Lords and helped create the GOV.UK.

Full Biography below:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Lane_Fox

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