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We are Vermeer Partners, and we’ve created this series to shed light on some of the topics running hot in the investment community today. With insights from industry experts in their own Golden Eras, we reveal some of the issues investors face in today’s often complex, investment world. Whether you are a seasoned industry professional or an enthusiast beginning your investment journey, we hope you gain some valuable insights and enjoy the series along the way. And if you want to find out mor ...
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A fan podcast celebrating all things Penelope and Colin from the Netflix show Bridgerton and Julia Quinn book series, complete with episode deep dives, theories and speculation, and plenty of spiralling from a group of friends anxiously awaiting Season 3.
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Inspirational interviews with female founders sharing their honest stories on raising investment – the highs, the lows, the challenges… and top tips for how to be successful. Fundraising Stories is hosted by Julia Elliott Brown, CEO and Founder of Enter The Arena, serial entrepreneur and equity fundraising expert. Enter The Arena is the organisation for female founders, providing investment expertise and business coaching. Enter The Arena empowers female founders to fly through pre-raise and ...
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It's the final crumbdown. As we prepare to hang up our archaeology tools for the last time, we take one more walk down crumbs memory lane during the fabled, long-awaited, highly-unanticipated Block 4 Part 2. Yes, the Prodigal Block has returned at last as we sweep up the few remaining crumbs from Season 3 filming and lock in our final predictions f…
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Out, damned inkspot! out, we say! Fluff up those pillows and get comfy on the sofa. The Part 2 trailer has arrived and it looks like we're in for a rough night. But there's no time to dwell. With all eyes on the upcoming blurry nuptials, we're busy confessing our love in churches, hiding our secrets in drawing rooms and taking a late night carriage…
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Tick tock on the clock, but the bounty don't stop, no... As our carriage pulls up outside Bridgerton House, it's time to carefully adjust our dresses and head inside to face the music (3/4 is far sweeter) as we react to the Season 3 Part 2 teaser trailer. While we wait for Pen to hurry up and tell Colin a tiny piece of information, we decide to kil…
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We have not been able to sleep. Not been able to eat. We can barely speak these days. Our entire thoughts consumed by Polin. Okay, so that speaking bit is a lie. Because, old friends (and very good acquaintances), it’s time to leave the drawing-room window, clear our bottle-weary heads and battle it out over Season 3 Part 1. We’ll be slipping into …
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Looks like we made it, dear listeners. As Season 3 Eve falls upon us like a tiny redhead tumbling from the skies, we head back into the circus tent to partake in a little last minute Part 1 clowning. As we discuss oblivious double handholds and suspicious swoons, we tip our bonnets to all the weeks that never came in honour of the one that finally …
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‘Twas the night before Polin Week, when all through the ton The clowns were up spiralling over moon balls and Frohn In this special bonus episode brought to you from the cutting room floor, we dust off our evidence boards and attempt to piece together Season 3 Part 1 using only a folder of stills, a handful of crumbs and the ramblings of some very …
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The embargo has lifted. The promo floodgates have opened. Let's just say we've been awaiting this particular visit for a very long time. During our crumbs-about-crumbs, we'll be greeting Pen in the Bridgerton entrance hall, celebrating a cheese-loving brother-in-law and gulping down Colin's emotional support beverage. Thirsty times indeed. And thou…
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"Sweet May hath come to love us, Pen, Colin, their carriage don; And through Netflix heavens above us, The very clowns clown on.” Welcome to May. Welcome to chaos. We'd tell you to get in the circus tent but this one's already occupied by Pen's finger lickin' good crumb and the final shred of Colin's sanity. In this emergency Weekly Crumb, we'll be…
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Pritt Sticks at the ready, dear listeners. It's the morning after the night before and we've got a lot on our breakfast plates. In the last of our book reread episodes, we'll be sneaking an extremely dishevelled Penelope back to Mayfair, hastily moving up the dates of a small but magical wedding and taking a quick trip to some oddly brown Highlands…
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Get up, dear listeners. We're taking you to church. In our third reread episode, we'll be chasing hired hacks down Fleet Street, contemplating the logistics of carriage-based activities and indelicately faceplanting onto the streets of Mayfair. We'll also be turning up bright and early to the Tuesday Featherington family meeting, fetching watercolo…
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Pack your bandages and earplugs – curtain’s up on the most melodious event of the season. Mozart, stand down. Lou Bega’s got this one under control. In the second of our read-along episodes, we’ll be making puddles with Colin, taking First Aid lessons from Penelope and dipping our thermometers in half-hour old bath water. Ahead of the weekend, we’l…
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Up, up, up and away, dearest listeners! It’s time to soar into the S3 trailer heavens at long last. As our ship docks back in London, we’re trading sea for air as we float above Mayfair alongside an extraordinary balloon, a winged god and a sleepy-but-sturdy Bridgerton. We’ll be enjoying splendid weather with Lord Wilding, laughing in the library w…
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Hold onto your hats, dance cards and wallflowers, dearest listeners. It's time to discuss the Season 3 promo that has wrought such chaos into our lives that even Book Colin would blush. We'll be taking a trip to Hyde Park for a startling encounter on a blanket, having our dance cards filled by a hands-on Vegetarian and swooning over the long-awaite…
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She fell in love first. He fell into a mud puddle harder. Join us for the first of our read-along episodes as we celebrate the 200th anniversary of Book Polin’s love story! We’ll be taking a fatefully muddy ride through Hyde Park, uniting in the glee of matchmaking mamas everywhere and putting up the wet floor signs to mop up a rather concerning bl…
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Just put your hand on the glass, dear listeners. It’s time to reflect on the latest Polin mirror-cle. We’re starting with the gentleman in the mirror as he finally gets around to crossing off his two-hundred-year-old to-do list, before catching up with his good friend Pen and a most hardworking pair of fingerless gloves. Meanwhile, Necklace Truther…
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Pop the kettle on, the Brits are coming round for a cuppa. We’ll be nibbling on a plate of Season 3 crumbs, including the current whereabouts of Colin’s emotional support curl, Penelope’s secret garden and the passing of some very special torches. We’ll also be swinging by the drawing rooms of Grosvenor Square to squint at more blurry leaks and bre…
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Honk, honk. It’s clown time! But this time, let’s make it seasonal. Join us as we live react to Next on Netflix’s trailer-that-wasn’t and head to the Danbury Ball for a sneak peek of Season 3. We’ll be clinging to the corners of the ballroom with a very sad wallflower, throwing back cocktails with the Lord Squad and twirling around the dance floor …
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Pasta lovers, pack your bags. We're off to Milan. But forget the Duomo and gelato, we're here to visit the Number 1 tourist attraction: Loved Up Polin in an Italian department store. As the Necklace Truthers hold an emergency meeting over the joining of two very special hands, the rest of us attempt to become experts in graphology to decipher the m…
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Splish splash, it’s time to take a Bath! Lather up the bars of soap and pack your excavation trowels because we’re travelling back to January and February 2023 for our penultimate Season 3 crumbs expedition. We’ll be throwing a welcome home party for a (temporarily) triumphant wallflower, chasing a hackney carriage through the frosty streets of May…
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Still upset over how El took that Whistledown news, Pen? Well, fear not. The worst is yet to come. As a state of crisis befalls the fandom, we're joined by Byron, a former lovesick puppy and a particularly sensitive pirate as we hold an emergency council over the latest ever-so-slightly ominous Season 3 crumbs. We'll be offering unsolicited love ad…
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Crumbs, glorious crumbs! This week, the clowns are dining on a feast of promo morsels, munching on the latest interviews and chewing over our ever-spiralling Season 3 theories. We’ll be visiting Stowell House to check in on Chignon Pen and her herbivore suitor*, examining the panelled walls of the Bridgerton games room and dreaming up a Polin dance…
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Beloved Polinators, shall we compare thee to a promo day? Thou art more clowning and more chaotic. We'll scream until the Coming Weeks of May. Okay. Shakespeare, we are not. But delighted, we most certainly are. Join our still-fluttering Polin hearts as we share our first reactions to the Season 3 love stream and the sweet treats gifted to us by th…
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Stop the press! We have a new Pen sighting on our hands. Well, on our t-shirts at least. In these special late night crumbs, we'll be reporting to you live from Mayfair Fashion Week 1815 where one former wallflower is making blurs on runways and ring-spun cotton fibres alike. Our Fashion Correspondents will also be on standby to catch up with the t…
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Well, Polinators. Seeing as though THAT little warm up game is out the way, it’s time to take our front row seats for the real Superbowl: the Season 3 virtual event. In this special Q&A episode, we’ll be stretching on the training grounds of Mayfair, fumbling around such important topics as waving executioners, epilogue births and blood libations t…
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Dearest listeners, grab your tickets and front row seats for our encore performance of ‘Four Clowns Lose Their Minds Over 32 Seconds of Footage.’ In this special bonus episode, we can’t see the forest for the trees, but we’ll be placing our newest theories under the spotlight as we tackle the ever-growing mystery of the Season 3 timeline. We’ll be …
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Oh my, dear Polin fans. Let’s down our glasses of lemonade in celebration of a most remarkable day. Join us for a fever dream of an episode as we finally make it to the long awaited Polin utopia: the first clips of Season 3. Pen and Colin actually moving and speaking? Together?! Astonishing. We’ll be gulping with Colin in the Bridgerton drawing roo…
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Raise a prawn cocktail to the happy couple, it’s time for the wedding of the season! Uh, well…one of them. This week, we’re pitching up our excavation tent at the mystical sites & sights of November and December 2022 where we’ll be sipping tea with Fran at the market, preparing the pyre for a witch trial and handing out mysterious leaflets with the…
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Extra, extra! Read all about it! Join Obvs and Beans for the first ever issue of The Weekly Crumb, where we speculate and spiral over the breaking crumbs of the week. In the newsroom this week, we’ll be discussing a trailer door, a surprising plate of cupcakes and some very intriguing golden-yellow furnishings. We’ll also be pondering whether a cas…
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Join Julia Elliott Brown, Founder & CEO of Enter the Arena as she sits down with Nicola Piercy, the Founder of Stripe and Stare, the world's most comfortable knickers sustainably sourced from trees. Nicola shares her life as a serial entrepreneur, from founding Stripe and Stare with co-founder Katie Lopes to getting £3.6million in investment. Whils…
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Pop the champagne and grab the streamers, dearest listeners. It is finally the Year of Polin! In our slightly belated festive episode (you can thank the Christmas Day shenanigans for that), we share our thoughts on recent Season 3 news including the mid-season split, the updated plot synopsis and Colin’s bravado. We’ll be fawning over Colin and his…
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Deck the halls with boughs of Polin! What a very merry Christmas it’s turned out to be. In our latest emergency episode, we’ll be unwrapping the splendid pile of gifts left for us under the Season 3 tree by the Bridgerton elves themselves. We'll be munching our way through leftover turkey sandwiches, brooding with Unicolin in the Bridgerton drawing…
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Put down the tinsel and mistletoe, Polin fans. We have urgent crumbs to attend to. Join us as we spiral over the latest Season 3 news including THAT Peneloise reunion, Colin and Penelope’s power and a promised upheaval for the Featheringtons. We’ll also be curling up by the cosy friends-to-lovers fire as we catch up with old, dear acquaintances suc…
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Clown noses and trowels at the ready, Polin excavators! This week, we’re visiting the ancient sites of filming leaks past to try and uncover sacred crumbs for episodes 3 and 4 of Season 3. We’ll be venturing into the dusty tombs of September and October 2022, encountering such mysterious monuments as giant waterfowl, tiny carriages, and the most re…
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Gather round, dear clowns. This is not a drill. Join us for an emergency episode as we live react to the most coveted and mystical breaking crumb of all: the Season 3 release date. Or, should we say release dates. *Internal screaming* We'll be sharing our initial thoughts and general bewilderment as we desperately try to get our heads around anothe…
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Our dear Polin Archaeologists, it’s time to retrieve your excavation tools from storage because we’re heading off on another crumbs expedition. Join us as we revisit the ancient wonders of July and August 2022, breaking open the Season 3 filming tombs and peering inside to see what Polin treasures we can find. We’ll be unearthing relics from an int…
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*Cue fireworks and sobbing at the window* Miracle of miracles, we have at long last reached the end of our Polin rewatch of S2E8, The Viscount Who Loved Me. Third time’s a charm, right? In the afterglow of Kanthony’s happily ever after, we head back to Mayfair to say our goodbyes to a heartbroken Pen, a heartbroken Eloise, a heartbroken Benedict an…
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*deep, deep sighs* Notebooks at the ready, Polin fans, because Professor Colin Bridgerton is about to give us quite the educational experience during Part 2 of our Polin rewatch of S2E8, The Viscount Who Loved Me. We’ll be joining Pen as she is enlightened by an array of important lessons, including the geography and topography of American states, …
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All hail the mighty Biscuit Cushion – we have joyously arrived at Part 1 of our final-but-not-quite-final Polin rewatch of S2E8, The Viscount Who Loved Me. Yep, you heard us. We’re breaking our rewatch in half just like Colin will be breaking Pen’s heart at the Featherington Ball. As the 1814 social season draws to a close, we begin our farewell to…
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Being new to the world of investment, Lisa mapped out local experts in the North East of England that could fill certain knowledge gaps. It was after discovering who could add value to the business that she “accidentally” found her Angel investors and went on to successfully close her round with £225K of funding. Listen to Lisa’s investment journey…
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Hold onto your bannisters and toss your broken quills into the flames because it’s time for our (penultimate!) Polin rewatch of S2E7 Harmony. We'll be trailing behind the scandal-hit Bridgertons during the Promenade of Shame, making midnight dashes to the Modiste’s and fighting our way through the crowds at the ever-popular Harmony Ball. Elsewhere,…
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Pour yourself a celebratory drink and nab a piece of cake – we’re heading to the wedding of the season during our Polin rewatch of S2E6 The Choice. As a hungover Colin ponders the plight of mankind, we join a bejewelled Penelope as she’s faced with a cockblocking Eloise and a most pleasing, stimulating, thrilling kind of torment. Meanwhile, we’ll b…
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Dearest Listeners, it's finally time to put all those crumbs to good use as we head to the lake to feed the ducks (and other assorted waterfowl) during our Polin rewatch of S2E5 An Unthinkable Fate. As Colin frets over which cake to eat next from his plate of snacks, Pen frets over the state of her business and family affairs. We also join our belo…
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Every Polin fan knows that unanswered questions make for the most pleasing, stimulating and thrilling kind of torment. But what better way to while away the Coming Weeks than by spiralling over those questions ourselves? In this special Q&A episode, we'll be tackling Polin topics big and small, as we also contemplate our own fandom lives. When will…
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Like many women starting businesses, the motivation for Rebekah Brown’s entrepreneurship, MPowder, was in response to her own experiences and spotting a gap in the market. She was struggling with a multitude of symptoms during perimenopause and felt there was barely any information on how to deal with it. Since then, Rebekah has listened to the sto…
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Dearest listeners, pack your copy of Flora Graeca and hop in the carriage to Kent because we're oiling our way right in to our Polin rewatch of S2E4 Victory. As Pen sips on lemonade and tea at the Aubrey Hall garden party, we reluctantly accompany Colin for a trip down memory lane and a meeting of minds with everyone's favourite botanist. Elsewhere…
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Worldly travellers, if it’s a clear Polin mind you seek then let us offer you quite the elixir during our rewatch of S2E3 A Bee in Your Bonnet. As the Bridgertons fight it out over a rousing game of Pall Mall, we’ll be joining Colin for a very special tea party where we contemplate just how difficult life can be for single blades of grass. Back in …
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Polin fans are united in their glee—Colin Bridgerton has returned from Greece! Join us as we head off to the races to celebrate the homecoming of our favourite thirdborn Bridgerton during our Polin rewatch of S2E2. We'll be sighing over the Heart Eyes scene, admiring Colin's fencing skills and joining Pen for bridesmaid duties during the joyful uni…
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Dearest Listeners, dust off those giant white feathers and get ready to party like it's 1814 as we welcome in a brand-new social season during our Polin rewatch of S2E1, Capital R-Rake. We'll be sneaking around London with our favourite Irish maid, trailing through daffodils with BFFs-'til-episode-8 Peneloise and musing on just how lovely Penelope …
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Being an entrepreneur is an incredibly turbulent journey. Polly McMaster is the founder of modern luxury workwear brand, The Fold, and she’s been experiencing the highs and lows since 2011. As Polly says in this episode, “that's something you have to have your eyes wide open to, when you go into it”. So how did Polly approach her fundraising strate…
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With true love matches, scandalous balls, dramatic confrontations and even a Polin dance or two, both seasons of Bridgerton pull at our heartstrings. But do you know which violin strings they pull at too? In this special episode, we'll be taking a deep dive into the magical world of Bridgerton's music, all in the name of hunting down any Season 3 c…
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