From GB Athlete to Multimillion Pound Founder. Now She's Helping Parents Raise Exceptional Kids

In this episode of Femme and Fortune, I sit down with Kike Agoro, former Team GB athlete turned founder of BYP Network, the platform connecting Black professionals with career opportunities and building community across the UK.Kike takes us right back to the beginning. Growing up in Hackney and Dagenham, she represented Great Britain in javelin, interned at banks like Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs, and then walked away from it all to build BYP Network from her bedroom at 24, without ever putting a penny of her own money in.We talk about the cold emails that landed her a fully funded 100k scholarship to the University of Florida, the week she won £40,000 that gave her the confidence to quit her job for good, and buying her first house at 26 entirely off her own back.Kike also opens up about her newest venture, Raising Greats, an intentional parenting community helping parents raise the next generation of leaders, and why she believes building your child's future takes the same intention as building a business.Chapters00:00 Introduction3:24 Discovering a talent for javelin12:41 Building a network from nothing16:17 Calling out fake networking21:53 Why banking wasn't for her28:24 The cold email that landed a 100k scholarship34:26 Starting BYP Network48:26 The £40,000 week that changed everything52:45 Buying a house at 2654:07 Launching Raising Greats1:01:06 Would she do it all again?Newsletter: https://ayeshaofori.com/newsletter/