The business and professional woman I most admire are all the women who are role models to the next generation.
To juggle my work and life balance I ask my children if they feel loved and happy.
My biggest career break was failing to pursue my law career as it awoke my entrepreneurial spirit.
The biggest influence on my career was the drive to provide for my disabled daughter, which meant that failure was not an option. I simply had to pick myself up and try again.
One thing that makes me mad in business today is that women still have to keep proving themselves – at every level.
Boardroom quotas are necessary or nuts? Nuts
My one tip on negotiating a pay rise is ask for more than you first think of. Women have a natural tendency to underestimate their worth.
In five years I see myself having cracked encouraging more women to be investors and looking after their financial health.
My number one piece of advice to young women starting their careers is don’t be lazy. You need to know more, read more, be more confident. From day one stand tall and I mean physically as well as psychologically.
My favourite wind down activity is a glass of fizz as I chat with my kids about their day.
The last book I read was 1421. I think everyone should read it. It’s about Chinese ships reaching America 70 years before Columbus and circumnavigating the globe a century before Magellan. How they colonised America before the Europeans, transplanting the principal economic crops that have since fed and clothed the world.
The one thing I can’t live without cuddles from my children.
Gina Miller co-founded SCM Private in 2009 as a challenger brand offering modern investment management underpinned by ethics and 100 per cent transparency. In September 2014 Gina launched SCMDirect.com, and MoneyShe.com which uses technology as an enabler to offer low cost, high quality investments to smaller clients.
Gina is also a passionate philanthropist and conscious capitalist which infuses everything she does. She lectures and funds projects on financial equality, domestic violence, disability, special needs education and employability, and second chances for ex-gang and prison offenders. Gina also funded and co-authored reports on modern day slavery and social justice for the Centre for Social Justice. Through her foundation, True and Fair, she supports small dynamic charities making huge impacts.
