BITE BIG: Boss Women Leading Big is the unapologetic podcast for women who lead with guts and grit. Hosted by Amber Bonney, founder of The Edison Agency and feminist force field of brand strategy, it dives into the minds of powerhouse women across business, academia, and culture.
In this special Spotlight episode of BITE BIG, Amber Bonney goes head-to-head with one of the most fearless, sharp-tongued and unapologetically disruptive forces in global advertising and tech. Cindy Gallop studied literature, built a powerhouse advertising agency in New York, worked on iconic brands including Ray-Ban and Coca-Cola, and then walked away from all of it to build something the industry had never seen before: MakeLoveNotPorn, a platform designed to end rape culture by role-modelling what real, consensual, communicative sex actually looks like.
Seventeen years in, Cindy is still fighting. Fighting against algorithmic suppression, investor conservatism, and a financial infrastructure that punishes "adult content" regardless of its mission. She's now also launching MakeLoveNotPorn.academy: a global aggregator for sex education content that is being blocked, censored and de-platformed everywhere else. She calls it, deliberately, the Google of sex ed.
This is not a polished corporate story. This is a woman who will tell you that women are over-mentored and underfunded, that the only way to live your life is to not give a damn, and that "the market of human happiness" is the biggest market of them all, and that investors should be funding the fuck out of it.
Cindy also gets into: how the UK campaign "Yes, Sex Please, We're British" is pioneering a national conversation about sex education; why female solidarity on social media is one of the best things to come out of the internet; and what she'd tell any woman who feels invisible at 40.
Buckle up. This one bites big.