ShowUp Like Her Podcast: Episode 2

Title: Navigating Mother-Daughter Relationship

As women the relationship we have with our mother’s is perhaps the most important relationship yet sometimes it is also the most complicated. As we grow older and become mothers ourselves, we learn and unlearn many things that help us navigate this important relationship.

In this episode, Zannat shares about her journey of living in different cities around the world, growing in her professional and personal life and how life’s learnings have helped her evolve as a Bangladeshi woman. Being a mother herself, Zannat shares her relationship with her mother and how it helps her in her own journey as a mother.

About the Guest: Zannatul Ferdous has over 12 years of experience in supporting businesses and

governments in emerging markets with growth strategies and innovative solutions that improve economic return and deliver social impact using a systems approach. She has been at the forefront of market systems development and has a rare range of implementation experience across many of the world’s leading MSD programmes including the ground-breaking first phase of the Katalyst programme in Bangladesh, MDF in Timor-Leste, and Propcom Mai-Karfi in Nigeria. More recently she has also brought these skills to the world of impact investing where she has sought to engage

more directly in the nexus between economic and social return from an investment perspective. She has been involved in impact investing in different capacities, from running the impact management team for an impact-focused asset manager to advising investors on unpacking specific high-impact sectors to providing hands-on support to investees on behalf of fund managers to supporting the design of new innovative finance initiatives. She is keen to utilize her practical experience in emerging markets to push the limits of sustainable finance and maximize the likelihood and scale of impact.

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