{"id":4518,"date":"2025-06-05T16:51:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T11:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.globalimebank.com\/blog\/?p=4518"},"modified":"2025-08-12T12:40:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T06:55:14","slug":"global-ime-podcast-ep-24-with-abhilasha-poudel-executive-director-of-fwean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalimebank.com\/blog\/global-ime-podcast-ep-24-with-abhilasha-poudel-executive-director-of-fwean\/","title":{"rendered":"Global IME Podcast Ep -24 | With Abhilasha Poudel, Executive Director of FWEAN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this episode of the Global IME Bank Podcast, we sit down with Abhilasha Poudel, Executive Director of FWEAN (Federation of Woman Entrepreneurs&#8217; Associations of Nepal), to explore women empowerment through enterprise. From navigating financial barriers and policy gaps, to building businesses out of traditional skills like tailoring, cooking, and handicrafts \u2014 women across Nepal are transforming local economies, one step at a time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\ud83d\udd0d What you\u2019ll learn:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The rise of women-led enterprises in just one year <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Why access to finance is still a major challenge<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The untapped power of digital literacy &amp; e-commerce <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Work-life balance myths &amp; realities for women entrepreneurs <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What policies are helping \u2014 and what\u2019s still missing Inspirational stories from rural Nepal to international exports<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalimebank.com\/blog\/free-business-registration-for-women-in-nepal-a-catalyst-for-economic-empowerment\/\">Women enterprises <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Global IME Podcast Ep -24 | Exclusive Podcast with Abhilasha Poudel, Executive Director of FWEAN\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C-CAVXeq6gA?start=433&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode of the Global IME Bank Podcast, we sit down with Abhilasha Poudel, Executive Director of FWEAN (Federation of Woman Entrepreneurs&#8217; Associations of Nepal), to explore women empowerment through enterprise. From navigating financial barriers and policy gaps, to building businesses out of traditional skills like tailoring, cooking, and handicrafts \u2014 women across Nepal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-ime-podcast"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalimebank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalimebank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalimebank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalimebank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalimebank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4518"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalimebank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5060,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalimebank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4518\/revisions\/5060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalimebank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalimebank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalimebank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalimebank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}