The Enoughness with Melanie Rickey

What does it take to lead luxury fashion for two decades—then make an unexpected pivot? My guest this week, celebrated fashion designer Clare Waight Keller, knows first hand. After shaping the vision at Chloé and Givenchy—where she famously created the Duchess of Sussex’s wedding dress—Clare stepped away from the Paris catwalk to become Uniqlo’s Global Creative Director. In this episode, Clare rev...

Have you ever wanted to throw your whole life up in the air—just to see where it lands? Journalist and author of In Pursuit of Happiness Stacey Duguid did exactly that four years ago, and if her life since then was a Netflix series, you’d binge it in one sitting—hiding behind your hands one minute and cheering her on the next. In this episode, she joins me to unpack it all: love, divorce, reinvent...

What does career success mean to you? Not the glossy, societal version—but one that lights up your zone of genius and provides the income you need to thrive. With 85,000 hours of your life spent at work, how do you make them really count? Erica Sosna, career coach and founder of The Career Equation, has the answers. In this episode, Erica shares the four key questions that unlock a career equation...

Living with ADHD—or loving someone who does—can feel like riding a pendulum that swings endlessly between “not enough” and “too much.” But what if you could step off and find the sweet spot in the middle? Enter Kate Moryoussef, host of the award-winning ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Podcast, who has not only pretty-much mastered living her “Just Right” life but has also inspired countless others—inc...

Did you know it takes just 66 days to break a bad habit? Or that the relentless “I’m not good enough” voice in your head can be silenced for good? Catherine Gray—one of my personal heroes—has made it her life’s work to unravel these challenges and share the solutions. As the bestselling author of Versions of a Girl and the Unexpected Joy of series, Catherine brings a witty, no-judgment approach to...

How do you call in courage in the face of paralysing fear? For Rosh Mahtani, the answer lies in Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy , the centuries-old poem that fuels her cult jewellery brand, Alighieri, and recently earned her an OBE. In this conversation, Rosh explains how the timeless (and sometimes cheeky) lessons hidden in the text inspired her to rip up the rule book and transform career co...

Mink lined yachts! Designer handbags! Spa holidays in the Maldives! Fashion editor-in-chief Tiffanie Darke covered - and sometimes lived - a billionaire lifestyle for 18 years, until, one day, none of it made sense any more.  In this episode Tiffanie tells Melanie how a surreal moment involving Louis Vuitton bags and yachts - in Harrods of all places! -changed everything. And why by swapping...

How did Josh Connolly flip his script from addiction to sobriety, football violence to self-expression, and low self-worth to helping other men find emotional resilience?   In this conversation, Josh shares the impact of having an alcoholic father, and why he wrote his taboo-busting book It’s Them, Not You about managing difficult family relationships by prioritizing yourself. We explore how...

Most of us don’t talk about debt, we live in FOFO – Fear of Finding Out; something Clare Seal did until, £27k in debt, she turned financial rock bottom into rocket fuel for change, not just for herself but tens of thousands of others. In this episode, Clare opens up to Melanie about how her desire to fit in led to mounting debt and how reflecting on the impact of ADHD helped her redefine her relat...

First, pinch me time — because we’ve got the REAL-LIFE LEGEND that is Yotam Ottolenghi on the show! If anyone has ever wondered what the celebrated chef, writer, restaurateur, and veggie rehabilitator Yotam Ottolenghi is truly like, this episode is the perfect introduction. You’ll meet a clever, driven, and utterly charming person whose life mission is to make people happy through food. We dive in...

This episode is a masterclass on how to rebuild when a dream career ends, and how to start again and do it better. Henry Holland is a fashion designer turned ceramicist renowned for his quintessentially British style, but beneath his playful image lies a belief system and mindset that’s taken him from a chip shop in Ramsbottom to the catwalks of London, and beyond.   In this episode Mela...

How does feeling not good enough as a kid impact us when we’re older? What can we do to wise up to a culture that sells us crappy stuff to make us feel better? Does finding the sweet spot of enoughness help? Enter Aja Barber, a writer with 237,000 Instagram followers, a critically acclaimed book, Consumed, and a fearless attitude when it comes to telling the unvarnished truth about how fast fashio...

Are we doing enough to change the way we shop for clothes? Is the sustainable fashion movement making any progress? Find out the reality in this episode of The Enoughness.  Melanie talks to Rachel Arthur, one of the most influential women in fashion you may never have heard of. Why? Rachel created the United Nations Sustainable Fashion Playbook, a guide for influencers and fashion communicato...

Giselle La Pompe-Moore is an inspirational author who writes about how to live a successful, hustle-free life, often with a side order of brilliantly blunt social media commentary. For this conversation Gigi tells Melanie how she achieved her dream career only to find it wasn’t what she wanted. Then shares how that realisation informed her excellent book, Take It In, a handbook for finding everyda...

How did Savile Row entrepreneur Patrick Grant become Britain’s best-known advocate against crappy plastic clothes and the owner of an affordable clothing factory in Blackburn? And why did an exploding oven tray and dodgy plug socket result in Less , his 2024 bestselling book about how we can all live happier lives with less but better stuff?  In this conversation, Melanie and Patrick lea...

Getting to the essence of what we need to thrive in life is trial and error for some, and an uphill struggle for others. Something successful author and beauty editor Sali Hughes knows only too well because she’s lived on both sides of the poverty divide.  In this conversation Melanie and Sali talk about the craziness of skincare misinformation - salmon sperm, anyone? - the joy of Chanel, why...

After achieving his PHD in Public Health Dr Brett Staniland did something crazy, he shifted his career to fashion, bringing his academic love of a fancy fact with him. Today, the 30-year-old model, activist and identical twin is on a mission to inspire the Love Island generation to make positive change - and, so far, he’s nailing it.  Thanks to Brett’s subtle activism while appearing on the s...

How do we find our good enough? Psychotherapist Jodie Cariss is co-founder of  the world’s first on-demand mental health service, The Self Space , and understands this subject so well she has the tattoo to prove it.   In this conversation Melanie and Jodie discuss where feelings of not good enough come from – hello core beliefs! - and go there with their own too.  They also talk abo...

The Enoughness with Melanie Rickey is a brand new podcast about finding our just right in life. Inspired by the story of Goldilocks and the three bears, in each episode our inspiring guests from the world’s of style, wellbeing, entrepreneurship and many more reveal how they navigate their too much and not enough to land in their just right. Our first full episode is up on Monday 17th June 2024.&nb...