Show Me The Way

Leaf Arbuthnot, journalist and author of Looking for Eliza Leaf Arbuthnot is a journalist, editor and author based in south London. She has written primarily for the Sunday Times for the past 5 years and  has interviewed the likes of Prince Charles, Jilly Cooper and Hilary Mantel. Her work spans everything from divorce parties to wild swimming and her first novel Looking for Eliza came out in May...

Kat Mason is the Wine Communications Manager for Cloudy Bay - probably the best job title ever. She promises it's not all glamorous but when she describes sipping something chilled and sparkling whilst in helicopter passing over glaciers you can't help but feel she might be lying a bit. She's an old friend of mine from university and her passion for grapes was borne there when she saw an opportuni...

Jessica Chivers is a psychologist, author and CEO of The Talent Keeper Specialists which supports employees and employers alike to get the most out of people returning to work after a break. Jesssica talks from personal experience about having a child with special educational needs and explains that by having a trusting boss who enables flexibility you can to continue to work and achieve great thi...

We all want the best for our children and we all want to protect them from the worst but we could all be inadvertently handing them a bomb when we share too much, or anything, about them online. This is the message of the anthropologist Dr Veronica Barassi who spoke to me for Show Me The Way. She explains that the "more data we are producing about children, the more that we are creating them as da...

Michelle Kennedy is the CEO and Co-Founder of Peanut - an app to help mothers connect. She is also a finalist for a Veuve Clicquot Bold Future Award 2020 .  The idea For Peanut was born when Michelle struggled to meet like-minded women when she had her first baby. This episode was recorded mid-March 2020 just before the UK (after much of the rest of the world) went into lockdown to help slow the s...

TV money expert Gemma Godfrey shares her tips on how to afford the life you want. Gemma has extensive experience managing funds for some of the world's biggest companies, and has a deep understanding of the way money works. She has been named one of the most Powerful Women in London by City AM and one of the world's top 100 women striving to make the world a better place by the BBC. In this episod...

In honour of International Women's Day, creative network The Dots has launched its annual creative trailblazers list , shining a light on 100 women and non-binary people redefining the creative landscape. To mark the day and the list Show Me The Way speaks to founder and CEO of The Dots Pip Jamieson about who she thinks are those to watch in 2020.  Pip founded The Dots in 2010. It's an online netw...

Lucy Kerbel is the founder and director of Tonic , an organisation that works across theatre, dance and opera and the broader creative industries with a focus on equality, diversity and inclusion. She's written two books relating to her particular specialism of gender equality. In this episode we talk about: - how an incident in the playground incited her activism - the arts world post #metoo - id...

Hattie Morahan is one of Britain's greatest actors. She left Cambridge with a degree in English and won a part in the RSC company. She has gone on to win the best actress gong at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards for her portrayal of Nora in Ibsen's A Doll's House and has starred alongside Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig in Golden Compass, Emma Watson in Beauty and the Beast and Keira Knightley a...

Very shortly after the birth of her son, Kathryn Grant suffered a rare but serious condition called Postpartum Psychosis. She and her son were hospitalised at a psychiatric Mother and Baby Unit, where she was also diagnosed with bipolar disorder.   Kathryn had suffered from periods of depression throughout her twenties, whilst working in the City. Now it all made sense: and as she recovered from t...

Lucy Werner is the founder of The Wern, a communications consultancy for startups, entrepreneurs and independents. She runs the company with her partner Hadrien. Lucy writes brilliant posts on her blog which are packed with great tips on how to write a business biography, how to get self-promote (without wanting to shove your fist in your mouth with the embarrassment at the un-Britishness of it al...

Mandu Reid is the leader of the Women's Equality Party . The first woman of colour to lead a political party in Britain.  She believes that equality for women isn't just a women's issue.  She says that when women fulfil their potential, everyone benefits.  Mandu's first experience of injustice was racial injustice. She grew up in the shadow of apartheid   South Africa - her mother is black, her fa...

Kathryn Sargent is a tailor, a quite unusual sight in the male-dominated world of Savile Row. She set up Kathryn Sargent Bespoke Tailoring in 2012 having worked her way from apprentice at No. 1 Savile Row at Gieves and Hawkes, to cutter, to tailor, to having her own atelier. In this interview she explains how it wasn't just about being talented but being steely and determined and showing dedicatio...

Maeve Haran is a best-selling author. She wrote her first book in 1991 and it scandalised the feminati. "Having It All" told the story of a top TV exec with a glittering career, a successful marriage and a happy family. But soon the big job becomes her worst nightmare as she struggles to balance it all. When she confesses to her friends she is going to quit, they are scandalized – Liz is their rol...

When mothers give up work they don't just lose their current salary, but their future earnings growth and the benefits they would've accrued over their career. Kathryn Sollmann is a US-based career coach and author of Ambition Redefined,  Why the Corner Office Doesn't Work for Every Woman & What to Do Instead.  She advocates for staying in work once you've had children even if you think childcare...

Clare Chambers is the founder of Miss Dress, an online styling community and personal styling service. She has been a stylist for 15 years and helped over 1000 women reinvent their wardrobes. She has a very different approach to helping people get dressed. She helps them redesign their personal style and use it as a TOOL to take life, business and relationships to the next level of success. Her mi...

Stephanie Alys is the founder and Chief Pleasure Officer of Mystery Vibe. A company she founded which designs and creates innovative luxury smart vibrators for all. This is sex tech at the cutting edge.  Stephanie won the Veuve Clicquot New Generation Award which  unearths and identifies new female talent in the UK. Her  mission is to close the pleasure gap by bringing equality to sex.  She has so...

Hi - welcome to my newly rebranded podcast Show Me The Way - new look, new name, same content - great women telling their stories.  In the first episode of the new series I speak to Annie Ridout, the editor-in-chief of the digital lifestyle and parenting magazine The Early Hour. She has recently published her first non-fiction book "The Freelance Mum - a flexible career guide for better work life...

In this episode of Show Me The Way I sit down with IVF specialist and founder of CREATE fertility, Professor Geeta Nargund. If you want to have a baby, have considered egg freezing, are in your early 30's and don't have a partner or do have a partner but don't want to have a baby yet but think you might in the future, if you're a mother, father, grandmother, friend...Basically if you're anyone who...

In the fourth episode of the podcast I sit down with Leanne Cope, royal ballet dancer, actress and Tony-nominee. Leanne was handpicked to play the leading role of Lise in "An American in Paris" which took Broadway and the West End by storm.  She talks about working her way up through the Royal Ballet, her audition for the West End, the toll ballet takes on your body, equal pay in the Arts and what...

Welcome to the third episode of the podcast.  This episode Naomi speaks to Bianca Miller-Cole who was a finalist on the hit TV show The Apprentice.  Before become a reality TV star Bianca ran a successful personal branding business and on the show introduced to the world her concept for nude tights to suit all skin types which is now available in Topshop, Elys of Wimbledon, Morleys of Brixton, QVC...

Welcome to the second episode of Show Me The Way. This episode Naomi speaks to Sam Smith who is the chief executive of FinnCap - a City broker that she founded in 2007.   She was running a team at a larger broker and saw potential to create her own thing so with her staff they raised £1m to buy out the division and set up afresh. Just as she did it Northern Rock collapsed and the financial crisis...

Welcome to Show Me The Way! I'm Naomi and I'll be talking to women I really admire from a variety of different fields about how they got to where they are, the highs, the lows, the sacrifices and the triumphs.  Subscribe! Tweet me! Instagram me! Tell me what you think and who you want to hear from. 

Welcome to Show Me The Way. You're going to hear a series of conversations with amazing women about their remarkable journeys.  First up Naomi speaks to Olympian Elinor Barker about how she got to the top of cycling, the reality of her super intense training regime and what it really takes to get GOLD!