In just five years, Davina Tomlinson has gone from MBA graduate to award winning founder of financial platform, rainchq - designed to support women take control of their financial futures. However, her journey into entrepreneurship was motivated by much more than personal ambition. Here she shares how personal loss encouraged her to a promise never to hide behind her fears, and how this pledge, combined with lessons from her matriarchal Caribbean upbringing, encouraged her to step away from the City and forge her own path helping women manage their finances. Davina also shares her mission to combat gender pay and investing gaps, and tells us about how supreme wilfulness, childhood clumsiness and striving for authenticity have helped her to build resilience, and galvanised her professional journey.

"You have agency in your own life. You don’t have to outsource this to other people. You don’t have to look over here and wait for the validation of somebody else."