The room for women building their first £1M — without the cheque.™
A national breakfast series and a weekly podcast for female founders building their first £1M — in front of women who bootstrapped to £200M+.
Cambridge is ON for September 14th First city on the tour — places are limited.
Register for Cambridge →One point three percent of UK venture capital goes to all-female founding teams. The rest of us build differently — and this is the room for it. The tour is rolling out across ten cities in the UK and Ireland, with a Europe tour to follow.
Take a seat in the room, or take the mic.
The Breakfasts happen live, in cities, by waitlist. The podcast carries the same conversation to the women who can't be in the room — and it's looking for the founders worth recording.
The breakfast tour
Ten cities across the UK and Ireland, with more being added. Sixty places per room. Each Breakfast puts you in front of women who bootstrapped past £1M — sometimes past £200M — talking about what they did to get there. Cambridge is now registering. Join the waitlist for first access to every other city.
The Bootstrappers' Breakfasts™ podcast
The same room, in your ears. Two tracks: Building Now, founders mid-build to their first £1M; and Past the First Million, women auditing the Bargain in retrospect. Know a founder who should be on it? Or building something worth recording yourself?
Two hours. Sixty women. No fluff.
Each Breakfast is built around one question: what did it actually take? The format is designed so you leave with something useful.
You arrive to a room that gets it
Sixty women building their first £1M, at roughly the same stage, with the same constraints. No VC. No outside capital. Just founders doing it differently.
Women who've done it name what they did
A panel of founders who bootstrapped past £1M — some past £200M — talk through the decisions, the trade-offs, and what they'd tell themselves earlier. Specifics, not platitudes.
You take the conversation with you
Each session is recorded for the podcast. The Breakfast ends; the conversation doesn't. The waitlist is how you get first access when your city is announced.
Ten cities. One waitlist.
Cambridge is ON now for September 14th. Every other city is on waitlist — one sign-up gets you first access as rooms open across the UK and Ireland.
Inside the room
Breakfast, 8.30–10.30am. A panel of women who have bootstrapped past £1M — some past £200M — through every cycle this room has ahead of it. They name what they did, and they name how they did it.
The same room, in your ears.
Two tracks. One conversation. The Bootstrappers' Breakfasts™ podcast is built for the founder who can't always be in the room — and for the ones who were.
Building Now
Founders mid-build to their first £1M. The decisions they're making right now, the constraints they're working inside, and what they'd tell another founder at the same stage. No retrospective gloss — just the real-time version.
Past the First Million
Women who bootstrapped past £1M looking back at the Bargain they made. What they traded, what they kept, what they'd do differently — and what they're glad they didn't know at the time.
A Europe tour is being built.
We're scoping European cities now. Nothing is set yet — so the waitlist is the way in. Join it and you'll get first word the moment rooms are confirmed, and you can tell us which city you'd travel to.
Cities to be confirmed. Dates to follow. If there's a European city where you'd fill a room, the Europe waitlist is where to say so.
Want to bring a Breakfast to your city or community? Hosts and partners shape where the series goes next.
Tell us where →Join the UK/Ireland waitlist
Please fill out this form to be placed on the waitlist and get all of the details for the city you are interested in
Join the European Tour Waitlist
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