A Beginners Guide To Being A Grown Up

Women Are Good Business is the podcast making the economic case for female entrepreneurship in the UK.The argument is clear: female-led businesses deliver stronger returns, are less likely to go bankrupt, and outperform their male-founded equivalents across virtually every financial measure. This channel exists to change that — one conversation at a time. Each episode brings together the founders,...

Sam Cooper-Gray is a strategist, storyteller, podcasters and fierce advocate for female-led business. As founder of The Wisdom Studio, she helps purpose-driven SMEs grow with clarity, impact, and intention—drawing on 25+ years in global finance, including her role as HSBC’s Global Head of SME Strategy. She is the creator and driving force behind Women Are Good Business, a national campaign that hi...

This week, we’re joined by Roisin McKeon-Carter, an accomplished healthcare leader whose 40‑year career across the NHS spans clinical practice, strategic transformation, and executive‑level leadership. Her work has shaped patient safety, workforce development, and the evolution of advanced practice roles across the UK.Roisin currently serves as Consultant Practice Development Lead in a major terti...

Sarah Bennett-Nash  walked away from Wall Street to empower women to build not just wealth, but lives they love. For 20 years, from the trading floors of New York and London, she saw the inner workings of global finance, but also what was missing- joy, purpose, humanity. Now, Sarah is on a mission to teach ten million people how to create lasting wealth by doing work that matters, where success is...

Christine Brown-Quinn, The Female Capitalist®, is a Career Strategist, Best-Selling Author, a former Managing Director in International Finance & an avid cyclist.  With a trailblazing journey spanning decades in International Business, Christine transitioned into a transformative role in 2010, embarking on a mission to dispel the notion that a thriving career must clash with a gratifying perso...

Emma Warren is a seasoned entrepreneur and intuitive leader whose 40‑year career has been defined not by hustle culture, but by purpose, curiosity, and a steadfast belief that work and life are meant to inform one another—not compete. Stepping into the world of work at 18, Emma built a career she loves while remaining deeply present in her family life, proving that you can have it all, just not al...

Emma is one of the UK's leading entrepreneurs'. She made her name launching the global female empowerment brand Killing Kittens in 2005, now incorporated into the KK Group with over 200,000 members having launched events across the US, Australia and Europe and has grown online into an online community network with sexual empowerment at its core. April 2023 saw the group launch the world&#3...

Vivienne is a Business Exit Advisor and founder of Wellspring, an exit planning advisory practice helping business owners who feel trapped or burnt out prepare for sale before crisis forces their hand. After starting a multi-site dental practice with her sister, Vivienne experienced firsthand what happens when burnout drives business decisions. When her sister passed away after experiencing burnou...

Founder, Girls in Charge Initiative & Gamechangers InitiativeMaggie Chen is an impact entrepreneur, non-executive board member, and doctoral researcher passionate about creating positive change through creativity and play. She founded the Girls in Charge Initiative, an international non-profit empowering women through gamified learning to build confidence and entrepreneurial skills. What began...

Sahar Hashemi, a former lawyer, founded Coffee Republic, the UK’s first US style coffee bar chain with her brother and built it into one of the UK’s most recognised high street brands with a turnover of £30m. She made Coffee Republic one of the first players in the ‘coffee revolution’ that transformed the UK high street. Sahar is an internationally recognized speaker, whose captivating and uplifti...

Tina Dean, 98. Tina started her first business in the 1950s starting and growing a arts and crafts shop in Bristol market for many decades. She has been an active people’s rights activist  and became the leader of the South Gloucestershire older people’s forum in her 60s and led it for over 13 years, helping the voices of older people be heard across the county. Listen to find out how Tina has fou...

Pregnant, sixteen and homeless, Claire Parkinson became a UK Prison Governor by 30. She went on to join the world’s largest mining company in Australia as a vice president, before stepping away to write her memoir,  SHiTTY GRiT, which became a bestseller in three countries. Born in Britain and now based in Australia, she has led high-stakes change from maximum security prisons to multibillion-doll...

Helen is an award-winning Global Entrepreneur, international business expert, Non-Executive Director, TEDx speaker, coach and author. Trusted by both UK and foreign governments to tackle some of the most complex issues in the world’s trouble spots, Helen was awarded an MBE by the King for services to international trade in 2022. Helen led the scaling and internationalising of her company from humb...

Liz Bradford has over 20 years of diverse leadership experience, having worked across three continents and at firms spanning HSBC, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and SWIFT. She studied Information Communication Technologies and technological revolution before being a geek was sexy or cool. She is the founder of Transform Perform, a platform delivering employee development, engagement and wellbeing...

Emmie Faust is an exited founder, investor, and passionate advocate for women-led startups in the UK. She is the creator of Female Founders Rise, a thriving community of over 8,000 female entrepreneurs dedicated to closing the funding gap and amplifying women’s visibility in the startup ecosystem. Through this platform, Emmie provides access to resources, investor networks, and peer support, while...

Leigh Smyth is the Founder of Impact Match and she is an award-winning pioneer in inclusive and impact-led talent search, digital skills and social impact strategy. Leigh was the first leader to introduce young peoples access to Technology via retail to the UK and then went onto to work for UK Government to design access to Technology for Low Income families. As the UK’s first-ever Responsible Tra...

Lisa Conway-Hughes is a Chartered Financial Adviser and a Fellow of The Personal Finance Society. Lisa joined the financial industry nearly 20 years ago and has previously been voted Financial Adviser of the Year – London by Professional Adviser Magazine – WIFA. In April 2024 Lisa became directly authorised with the FCA and set up LCH Wealth Ltd.  More than 95% of Lisa’s existing clients moved wit...

 Lee Chambers is the Founder and CEO of Male Allies UK. After a diverse career, from corporate finance to building and exiting a tech company, he is now focused on supporting organisations to engage men in inclusion and promote effective allyship. He has been featured on the Startups 100 Index, has received a Great British Entrepreneur Award, and sits on the board of CMI Women, Regenerage UK and t...

Pip Stocks – Founder, Brand Strategist & Champion for Change Pip Stocks is a powerhouse business builder, brand strategist, and unapologetic question-asker who thrives on growth—both personal and professional. With a double major in Marketing and Psychology from Monash University, Pip launched her career in London, sharpening her customer insight and marketing skills at Grey Advertising and Vi...

Sarah Pittendrigh is a true example of a serial entrepreneur that has experienced the full cycle. Losing it all in 2008, to rebuilding again from the dust as a single mum to become a multi award winning entrepreneur, author, keynote speaker and investor. At 53 she is embarking on her 4th start up creating a beautiful range of knitwear, designed by her, manufactured from British Wool, here in the U...

Beverley Brown is a senior leader, entrepreneur, and investor with a track record of building ventures that blend financial innovation, gender equality, and social purpose. She co-founded and scaled Nicoll Curtin to 90+ staff across three continents, and now leads purpose-driven businesses including Sherloc, a fintech platform for SMEs, and Kenbury Associates, a strategic consultancy for C-suite t...

Jacqueline has over 30 years of investment banking and entrepreneurial experience. During her career in banking, she led the Derivative Sales group and served on the Executive Committee. In 2009, drawing on her experience in demanding, high-pressure roles, she began coaching and mentoring senior leaders, sharing practical strategies for success. She soon recognised that if these skills and insight...

Kerrin Marcon is the CEO and Founder of KaiZhan Ltd, the sports technology company behind VIA Academy—a revolutionary platform bringing elite sports coaching, community, and retail to athletes worldwide through a mobile-first experience. With over two decades of experience across sport, business, and social impact, Kerrin blends global insight with deep purpose. Her inspiration for VIA Academy cam...

Meggie Palmer is a confidence creator and globally renowned speaker, facilitator, and Executive Coach. Her work’s been recognized by Vogue Magazine, Forbes, and on NBC. She works with Fortune 100 companies supporting the diversification of their leadership talent pipeline and retention of high-potential staff. Her clients include Microsoft, DocuSign, and JP Morgan. She built the PepTalkHer App wit...

Michelle Pughe-Parry de Klerk is the founder of The Women’s Chapter®, an impact-led community supporting the economic and personal growth of women in business. At its heart is a belief in the exponential power of women as economic drivers and forces for social and environmental change. Since 2014, The Women’s Chapter has reached more than 30,000 women through curated events, thought leadership and...