Book IWD Speaker: Emilie Bellet

Money shapes our choices, opportunities and what we can build for ourselves and our families. Yet most of us were never taught how to manage it, invest it or even talk about it.

Emilie Bellet has spent the last decade working to close that gap.

She is the founder of Vestpod, a media and education platform helping women build long-term wealth and financial confidence through investing, behavioural insight and open conversations about money. She is also the author of You’re Not Broke, You’re Pre-Rich and host of The Wallet, an award-winning personal finance podcast featuring investors, founders and financial experts.

Before founding Vestpod, Emilie worked in banking and private equity. She combines that experience with the questions and perspectives women share through her courses, workshops and community. Her work makes complex financial topics relevant, practical and actionable, particularly around investing, pensions, financial behaviour and women’s financial independence.

Her talks explore three core themes:

Financial wellbeing: feeling more confident and less stressed about money

How financial stress affects our lives and work, the beliefs and habits that shape our decisions, and practical ways to build savings, make a plan and have productive money conversations.

Investing and wealth building: making money work for your future
Why investing matters, how it differs from saving and how to approach risk, diversification and long-term planning. Emilie helps audiences understand the foundations and make informed decisions without jargon or pressure to know everything.

Closing the gender wealth gap:
How pay, career breaks, caring responsibilities and differences in investing and pension saving affect women’s wealth over a lifetime. Her talks connect individual actions with the changes needed from employers and the financial industry.

Emilie delivers keynote talks, interactive workshops and moderated conversations for corporate audiences, employee networks, conferences and communities.

She also speaks on entrepreneurship and the relationship between money, work and independence.

Her work has been featured in Forbes, the BBC, Vogue and the Financial Times. She is a board member of La French Tech London and represented France in hockey for over a decade alongside her studies and early finance career.

Available in English and French, her sessions give audiences space to ask questions, challenge assumptions and leave with a clearer understanding of their money and practical next steps.

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