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Coming up today on Mini Scroll, Australian Book Festival drama, Bailey Taylor versus Dave Portnoy, and recapping the Oliver Mills controversy.

Hi, everyone. Welcome to Mini Scroll. The daily Internet culture podcast, bringing you the biggest stories from social media, the creator economy, and the digital space every Monday through Thursday, and sometimes Fridays. I'm your host, Lauren Meisner, the founder of the Australian youth digital media brand, Centennial World. Welcome back to Mini Scroll, everyone, and thank you so much to today's sponsor, The Commons, Australia's premium co-working space. The Commons is truly a main character in Centennial World Cinematic Universe, as the Chippendale location in Sydney has been our home for over five years, and it's where we record this podcast every single day. Whether you're a creative escaping the home office, or a business owner looking to scale, The Commons offers beautifully designed spaces and a genuine sense of community across Sydney and Melbourne. While the spaces are stunning, it's the team that really makes a difference. Their support for growing businesses has enabled Centennial World success and sometimes survival over the years. If you're looking for a co-working space that feels considered, is community led and actually backs the people working there, head to thecommons.com.au. All right, welcome back to Mini Scroll, everyone. Before I get into it, I have something exciting to share. I have been announced as an ambassador for F5 Collective's The Women's Economy Survey. So F5 Collective, they are an Australian based female led investment and advocacy firm. They're founded in 2022 and their whole initiative and their whole aim is to close the funding gap for women owned and women led businesses. So now they've released this survey which they're hoping to get as many women, especially in Australia but around the world, who run businesses, who work in businesses that are female led, who are doing content creation. Anyone who touches that realm at all who is a woman, getting them to fill out this survey so that they can start building the data that proves that women are building huge companies with essentially no funding.

The capital is just not there for us. We get so little funding despite so many of us building these companies that have huge communities, huge audiences, amazing IP. It's not just that, but of course, that's a huge part of what women are usually building is like community-based businesses. And there's been no primary data like this that's been collected for women in business in Australia before. So I'm so excited that they asked me to be an ambassador. I'm in some like content videos for them, and I will put a link to the survey down below so you guys can fill it out if you qualify. You know, if you are a woman in business, if you're building something, if you're a female content creator, influencer, your voice matters there. And anyone who enters, there's optional questions at the end of the survey. The survey is really quick. It's like three minutes long, and there's optional questions at the end that if you fill out, you can go into eligibility for a $5,000 grant. All right, in the next piece of housekeeping for you guys, I'm sorry, I know I keep asking you to like do things. I'm like, follow High Stakes on YouTube, fill out this survey.

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