Oct 7, 2026 · 37 min · 10 segments
Selling a business may look like a financial transaction, but for the person who built it, letting go can feel deeply personal. In this episode of *Life Chapters, Money Choices*, Kim Potgieter and…
Michael AveryHostJudy SunaskyGuest
Kim PotgieterHost
Often when I chat to female entrepreneurs, female executives, and there's still something of a glass ceiling, sadly, in South Africa.
Whenever, you know, Women's Month comes around and you look at the surveys, and we've made good progress, but there's still so much more that we need to do, uh, the same gripe tends to surface.
Uh, and, and that is often women in, very often in corporate, don't tend to support each other.
Uh, and so it's so interesting that the WPO was formed around really solving for this, Judy.
Um, but just tell me a little bit more about your involvement with the WPO and the work that still needs to be done to support especially female founders and entrepreneurs, because as we know, entrepreneurship is a lonely journey at the best of times.
It really is, and that's the wo- word that comes out most frequently is, is loneliness.
If you look at it, there are 2% of women who actually reach the level where they can come into an organization like WPO.
It's really a bit of a needle in a haystack, and then how do you find s- people who can support you at that level, who understand that, as women, we're not only leading in our businesses, we're leading our families, we're leading our children, um, and, and we have so much more and offer so much more support to our communities as well.
So finding a space of like-minded me- uh, people is a really, really, really powerful space to be in.
The other thing about female founders and entrepreneurs, and all of the development and impact studies tend to point to the same thing, is that they're much more likely to support the community and also to pay it forward as entrepreneurs to members of their community.
There was a large cohort study done by the World Bank on Indian entrepreneurs, and the impact that female founders far outstripped the impact of male founders.
So as a country, there is real need to support, uh, female entrepreneurs and founders.
When you first met Kim, how would you have described yourself then? Did you introduce yourself as, "Hi, I own Blendwell Chemicals"? Was that your identity at the time?
Often when I chat to female entrepreneurs, female executives, and there's still something of a glass ceiling, sadly, in South Africa.
Whenever, you know, Women's Month comes around and you look at the surveys, and we've made good progress, but there's still so much more that we need to do, uh, the same gripe tends to surface.
Uh, and, and that is often women in, very often in corporate, don't tend to support each other.
Uh, and so it's so interesting that the WPO was formed around really solving for this, Judy.
Um, but just tell me a little bit more about your involvement with the WPO and the work that still needs to be done to support especially female founders and entrepreneurs, because as we know, entrepreneurship is a lonely journey at the best of times.
It really is, and that's the wo- word that comes out most frequently is, is loneliness.
If you look at it, there are 2% of women who actually reach the level where they can come into an organization like WPO.
It's really a bit of a needle in a haystack, and then how do you find s- people who can support you at that level, who understand that, as women, we're not only leading in our businesses, we're leading our families, we're leading our children, um, and, and we have so much more and offer so much more support to our communities as well.
So finding a space of like-minded me- uh, people is a really, really, really powerful space to be in.
The other thing about female founders and entrepreneurs, and all of the development and impact studies tend to point to the same thing, is that they're much more likely to support the community and also to pay it forward as entrepreneurs to members of their community.
There was a large cohort study done by the World Bank on Indian entrepreneurs, and the impact that female founders far outstripped the impact of male founders.
So as a country, there is real need to support, uh, female entrepreneurs and founders.
When you first met Kim, how would you have described yourself then? Did you introduce yourself as, "Hi, I own Blendwell Chemicals"? Was that your identity at the time?
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