Rachel Morrissey
tells stories
I love stories. I love audio storytelling.
Video is wonderful for an interview. In fact, sometimes it is better.
But, if you are taking someone on a journey, the ability of audio to include the listener as a partner in building out the world is comparable to a novel or a movie. The right words can build worlds inside the mind.
So far, most of my work has been within a particular industry, but there is nothing so powerful as a good story. And I would relish the chance to tell good stories about this entire world.
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In 2024, I received “Inspiring Fintech Female” from NYC Women in Fintech.
In 2018, I was named “Ascential Star” for the launch and success of The MoneyPot
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It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.
Breaking Banks- narrative
When I co-created Breaking Banks in 2013, it was the the first global fintech podcast, focused on the various stories from around the world about how digitization was changing the way money could move. This episode “Cashless Africa” was about the Mastercard Innovation Center created in Nairobi, Kenya in partnership with Google and the Kenyan Government. The story focuses on how they built a new set of products to operate on top of MPesa that could help micro-businesses gain a credit history, opening them up to growth.
Breaking Banks- interview
At its core, Breaking Banks was an interview show, and we were always searching for people who were unique, inspiring, and solving very real- very non-silicon valley problems.
In this episode, we interviewed Victor D Lombard- aka Divine- who was a formerly incarcerated man trying to create financial opportunity for communities like where he grew up. He is also a rapper, and connected with Ben Horowitz on twitter, which led to his fintech obsession. His story was everything we hoped to shine a light on when we began the show.
Provoke: Serial Intrapreneur
Serial Intrapreneur was a mini-series I produced for JP Nicols around his signature idea of figuring out how to make big changes within big institutions to lengthen their reach. This episode with entrepreneur, writer, and intrepid intrapreneur, Duena Blomstrom was one of our favorites.
The MoneyPot- Interview
I launched The MoneyPot from Money20/20 in August 2019. Little did we know that the world was about to experience a profound change that would affect every day life around the globe in many ways. Covid acted as an adoption accelerant for contactless payments as quarantines were in effect, and people were looking to limit contagion. This episode was out March 2020.
The MoneyPot - narrative
We wanted to really explain the nature of NFT’s as a created asset. We decided to do that, we would make an episode that is an NFT about making an NFT. It’s a little play that takes you inside what it means for an artist as well as any other digital asset.
Stronghold : A Different Way to View Crypto
This series of episodes, “Stronghold: A different way to view Crypto” was the story of a small power plant named Stronghold that utilized crypto to keep the mission of sustaining a power plant that was revitalizing the ground by fueling with coal waste.
This has everything- laughter, tears, a lot of ingenuity, and all the characters you could hope for!
Artificially Intelligent with Sam Maule and Maia Bittner
Sometimes, you just gotta question what’s real. In this series , Sam Maule and Maia Bittner, two experts in banking, payments, and the ideas of fintech, look at the issues facing the industry, and question what is actually intelligent, and what might be a bit of hype.
