The Bootstrappers' Breakfasts™
A national breakfast series and weekly podcast for female founders building their first £1M — in front of women who bootstrapped to £20M+.
Two percent of UK venture capital goes to all-female founding teams. The rest of us build differently.
The Bootstrappers' Breakfasts™ is the room where female founders building their first £1M sit in front of women who bootstrapped past £20M — to name the trade they have been making, audit what they have been paying and earning, and map their next move.
Founder rooms for the bootstrapped 98%.
Five UK cities. Each one a Breakfast. Application opens by city.
London is live now. Cambridge, Birmingham, Edinburgh, and Belfast open the waitlist for priority application access. Sixty applied-for places per city.
A single stage woman. A fireside interview. The Bargain named for the first time.
The London Breakfast opens the series with a single front-of-room founder in conversation with Geeta. The woman on stage has bootstrapped through every cycle this room has ahead of it. She names what she paid. She names what she earned.
London headline founder to be announced May 2026. The four anchored examples from our proof bank (Mia, Sam, Kate, Ellen) appear across the series.
Four more cities, four more rooms. Join the waitlist for priority application access.
Each city follows the same arc — name, see, map — and tests a different stage format. Waitlist members receive their city application 14 days before public open.
Cambridge
Two-woman panel. One bootstrapped to ÂŁ5M, one to ÂŁ20M+. More discursive than London.
Join the waitlistBirmingham
Single stage woman at ÂŁ5M. Longer-form 45-minute interview. Story-led.
Join the waitlistEdinburgh
Three stage women across ÂŁ1M, ÂŁ5M, ÂŁ20M+. Roundtable hosting format.
Join the waitlistBelfast
Closing city. Format designed from the lessons of the four before it.
Join the waitlistThe Bootstrappers' Breakfasts™ Podcast
The series, in your ears every week. Forty-eight episodes a year, two interleaved tracks. Launches 9 June 2026 — four weeks ahead of London.
Building Now
Female founders currently building, up to ÂŁ1M. The Bargain in present tense.
Past the First Million
Female founders who bootstrapped to ÂŁ1M, ÂŁ5M, ÂŁ20M+. The Bargain audited.
Launches 9 June 2026.
Four named, consented examples. The stage spectrum.
Women who bootstrapped to £1M, £5M, and £20M+ — anchoring the brand's proof bank across the series and the podcast.
Third-largest female founder exit globally. Built from ÂŁ6,000 starting capital.
Seven-year build through every market cycle, including the most difficult ones.
Strategic capital allocation. Category-defining product positioning.
Effective hourly rate in the global top bracket. Self-respect as the foundation.
Want to keep building between Breakfasts?
Most women find the Breakfast names something they cannot un-name. The Seven Rungs to One Million™ programme is what you do next — a structured growth path from £0 to £1M+, built around the same Bootstrap Architecture™ as the live room.
The starting point is the Invisible Portfolio™ — a free seven-minute diagnostic that maps your archetype, your current rung, and the dimension you are undercollecting on.
