Angella Goran – Going for the World Record Woman's Tax Infographic

ANGELLA GORAN Goes for the World Record!

There’s nothing like an early morning where you slip out of bed to feel the cold floor emit a piercing shiver through your body but you push yourself to get up and slip on your cycling bibs, sports bra, favorite jersey and at last a pair of sleek bike socks to take away the floors rude awakening. 20 minutes later you find yourself in blissful solitude, as the only sounds are your bike's chain that creates a melody with every pedal stroke, your heart beat to every breath you take and the morning birds that are singing their first song of the day. Ahead the day starts to unfold and the to do list gets ingrained in ones mind of what priorities need to be executed first thing, but not until the ride is over.

Now enters the sound of the first HORN – the day has begun.

At 42 years of age, Angella Goran the Female Founder of a newly launched Neobank TAPanGO Technologies Inc. never thought that at the same time as launching an innovative Fintech / InsureTech company she’d also be competing as a World Class Athlete in the sport of cycling. When 36 years old this budding tech entrepreneur took her background as a competitive Rower, Triathlete and Cyclist to heart and wanted to break barriers for elevating more girls and women in sport and thought there’d be no better way to spread this message then the same life cycle an Olympian has; 4 years, to train to challenge what in the sport of cycling is known as

the toughest event, The UCI 1 Hour Elite Women’s Indoor Cycling World Record. As a woman who’s been involved in sport since she was a little girl she has a story like so many women do of having to overcome barriers to entry, funding, support and more. It’s no wonder if your wanting to reach Angella the best way to do so is to ask her to go for a ride, although she does admit she dedicates more hours to her tech company than being on the bike, that is cause after her piercing workouts she’s quite happy to recover her legs!

One of the things we’ve learned is that she’s driven by purpose and geared (no pun intended) towards making a lasting impact no matter whether it is in business and/or in sport. It goes to show why TAPanGO’s first flagship vertical bank program is ATHLETICA Rewards ™ / ATHLETICA Protect™. If we were to take you back to 2000-2004 when she was training at the National level to represent Canada as a hopeful 2004 Olympian there were days where her roommates and her would pool their funding to be able to afford the bulk size peanut butter barrels and large loafs of bread as sport funding never came in on time and being carded really didn’t give much to cover rent let alone quality nutrition to be an amateur athlete. This one example is just that, one of many she and thousands of others in amateur sport have gone through. As years passed by what Angella started to recognize was that there needed to be some sort of platform that enabled a better sense of community, connecting those that look up to our athletes and those that live and lead an active lifestyle. If funding was hard to get to an athlete on time why not create a means to be able to make this type of transaction more accessible, affordable and transparent for athletes, government bodies, brands and the Sports Associations AND make the same available to a cliental that lives an athletic lifestyle.

Lights, camera, action – hold up, Hollywood is now involved?! Well not quite, but networks such as Amazon Prime have guaranteed an independent Docudrama Series with Award Winning Producer, Steve Haining the Founder of CreateOF. The proposal for the Series falls nothing short of shooting for the stars with its title being “Perfect or Podium, Breaking Records and Barriers for Girls and Women in Sport”. The breath taking synopsis takes a reader to imagine the Series that will be made of real life stories from some of the worlds most celebrate Athletes, Coaches, Sport Organization Leaders and Governing Bodies. The one secret we can leak is the start of the Series shows a young girl about to embark on her first journey in sport and the last is that of a woman about to step foot on the worlds fastest indoor cycling track about to set a World Record. The goal of this independent film once fully funded will be to allocate a set percentage of the viewer revenues granted by the network

to create the first of it’s kind, international girls and women sports bursary to elevate more girls to their podium.

What a ride 2020 and 2021 has been. The pandemic has put forth many challenges for those in business and in professional sports. Some of the challenges have lead to greatness and for the first time in history we’ve not only seen conversations around equal pay for Professional Female Athletes but dispersing and implementation. Additionally there’s been more live sports media coverage for Women’s Sports than ever before. In fact the 2021 UCI Cycling Season that’s currently underway will be the first season ever to broadcast both the Men’s and Women’s Events. So when asked if the World Record [WR] event will take place or if age matters when taking on the UCI 1 Hour Women’s Elite Indoor Cycling World Record the only answer we’ve been granted is “Another 1.5 years might have been added but thank heavens stretching has never felt better in my entire life and the investment in a good RMT [Registered Massage Therapist]. This opportunity is in site and I will not give up on it as those involved have not given up on me”.

“Another 1.5 years might have been added but thank heavens stretching has never felt better in my entire life and the investment in a good RMT [Registered Massage Therapist]. This opportunity is in site and I will not give up on it as those involved have not given up on me”.

Where many challenges have been presented during COVID-19 Angella admits that her natural means to cope is to find the best in every situation and with being granted more time it’s allowed her and her team to get everything more dialed in to truly go after the World Record [WR] including making a Docudrama Series to create more content to raise awareness for the purpose driving her, supporting others particularly girls and women. Teamwork she highlights is critical even with the event being solo, like being a founder no successful company grows without others that also believe.

Keep your eyes open for this young woman, as her eyes are not only set on being a World Record Holder but also one of only a handful of Female Founders in the global Neobank space. She has let us know candidly that her next vertical bank program after ATHLETICA Rewards™ is of course focused on Women in Business | Female Founders & Start ups which is already in beta.

[Sound of Angella’s Voice Mail]: If you’re receiving this message I am either on my bike, hitting the gym, or conquering another great biz meeting. Sorry to have missed your call please send me a text message or better yet follow me on social and let’s get outdoors and ride.

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