Brave New Girls - Well Beings, Well Planet

Send a text This week’s guest is Fiona Jeffery, who founded Just a Drop in 1998 after learning that a child died every 17 seconds because of dirty water & that just £1 could provide a child with clean water for 10 years. She sits on the UN World Committee for Tourism Ethics & in 2012 was awarded an OBE for her services to the travel & tourism industry. Just a Drop provides communities...

Send a text My guest this week is Bianca Tavella the founder and CEO of Fair Shot, a registered charity & unique social enterprise cafe which is her response to the unbearably high unemployment rate amongst adults with learning disabilities - at a staggering 95%.  Via a year-long training programme & follow on employment programme young adults with learning disabilities have a secure pathw...

Send a text Esha Chhabra is a journalist who covers sustainability, development, women's issues & mission-driven brands, writing for The Guardian , The New York Times , Economist, Wired, Fast Company & Forbes & awarded 4 grants from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.   Esha is also the author of Working to Restore, harnessing the power of ‘feel good, do good’ enterprises &am...

Send a text This week's guest is Maria Abdel Karim who is part of Recycler, The Environmental Army, a team of passionate youth working together and creating new sustainable approaches to the waste problem in Lebanon, including recycling waste, doing clean-ups, raising awareness, & using technology & AI for the good of the environment. Recycler is specialized in solid waste management,...

Send a text Marisa Heath is the CEO of Plant Based Alliance UK, founded by Oatly, Alpro, The Vegan Society, Upfield and ProVeg UK, as a coalition of civil society groups & businesses with a collective aim of making the UK a global leader in plant-based food & drink. All these businesses and increasingly more as others join them, have decided to resist the stigma of being different, and sta...

Send a text This week’s guest is Amel Derragui, a marketing consultant who helps change-makers sell their vision, their ideas and their skills in order to make the visible impact they want to see in the world. Many entrepreneurs are intimidated by marketing but she helps demystifiy what it is really about so you can learn how to do it authentically.  If you want to be a thought leader in your indu...

Send a text My guest this week is Katie Lopes, Founder, Creative & Sustainability Director of Stripe and Stare, a B-corp certified brand making super cool and comfy knickers.  Made sustainably in Austria from Beechwood Trees by a company called Lenzing, the Stripe & Stare fabric TENCEL is scientifically proven to be 3 times softer than cotton, wears better & is as breathable as fresh a...

Send a text My guest this week is Jeanne Masel Founder & CEO of Art for Change developed to offer fine art to socially conscious art collectors. Each carefully selected artist and artwork are paired with a relevant non-profit initiative & this has generated over $250K for non-profits & enabled the planting of over 3,000 trees to support Global Reforestation efforts to combat climate ch...

Send a text My guest this week is Emilia Leese, author of Think like a Vegan & founder of the Birchfield Project dedicated to rewilding 100 acres in the Highlands of Scotland, near Loch Ness, in which they aim to restore the native forest, peat bog, funga, reintroduce locally extinct species & inspire people to connect with the environment. Emilia is  the owner, along with her husband, of...

Send a text My guest this week is Zuzanna Zielinska founder of Harvest Care which leverages regenerative agriculture to provide food-as-medicine to European society. In the process, they play a role in the integration of the healthcare system and the food system. By working in partnership with farmers they are enlarging the market for regenerative produce whilst raising consciousness about nutrien...

Send a text My guest this week is May Al-Karooni, the founder of Globechain an ESG, Environmental, Social, and Governance Reuse Marketplace connecting corporates with charities, small businesses and individuals. They enable companies to reuse materials and assets to help them reduce their waste, carbon and improve their ESG data evidence of sustainability.    After seeing the Bank she was working...

Send a text My guest this week is Cat Jones founder of B corp certified business Byway, who are on a mission to make slow travel mainstream. They offer 100% flight free holidays by train, boat and bus - and the journey is the holiday just as much as the destination. Their holidays are multi stop, often multi modal, often including sleeper trains (or boats!) and are journeys optimised for enjoyment...

Send a text My guest this week is Helen Kirkum, multi-award winning designer & pioneer in sustainable footwear whose Studio was born on the fundamentals of rescuing old sneakers to create pieces that raise awareness of post-consumer waste. Wherever possible they incorporate recycling and up-cycling into their products, breathing new life into discarded sneakers. STUDIO  Helen Kirkum Studio Lim...

Send a text My guest this week is Jamie Hwang, city planner for Los Angeles City Council and creator of Urban Farmers’ Almanac which is a free, community-sourced digital resource guide for gardening, sustainable living, and supporting urban farms & independent makers in LA who also believe in circular, local economies, building communities, and food justice. Her passion for urban planning made...

Send a text My guest this week is Helena Hill, co-founder of TrueStart, a Multi-award-winning challenger feel-good, healthy coffee masterbrand as well as being a B-corp, Carbon Negative, ethical family business that puts people first and incorporates the importance of championing neuro-diversity. Helena talks about how TrueStart has always been about unlocking your potential by making you feel gre...

Send a text My guest this week is Kirstin Furber. As the People Director for Channel 4 (and previously CPO Kantar and BBC Worldwide) she is on a mission to make the world a better place to work. A place where we can all do our best work, be human and reach our full potential for ourselves and others, helping great leaders build cultures that drive personal growth as well as creating success for th...

Send a text My guest this week is Sashe Christopher, founder of vegan, organic childrenswear brand Pop My Way that parents can trust. Its sustainable supply chain is fully GOTS-certified, from energy and water use, to hazardous chemicals /use of non-chemical dyes, to the social responsibility and wages the factory workers get paid is monitored and audited regularly. After working in corporate fash...

Send a text My guest this week is Professor Sheila Liming, author of Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time which shows us how just getting together can be a potent act of resistance. Almost every day it seems that our world becomes more fractured, more digital, and more chaotic. But Sheila has the answer: we simply need to hang out more.  The book is called Hanging Out and in it, she expl...

Send a text My guest this week is Petra Velzeboer a renowned mental health expert, TedX speaker & CEO of mental health consultancy PVL. Born & raised in the Children of God cult, she escaped but found herself in a downward spiral until she found a way to turn her life around. Now she empowers others round the world to sustain a resilient & positive state of mental health. Breaking the...

Send a text My guest this week is Victoria Bennett, author of the intimate memoir ‘ All My Wild Mothers ’ a story of re-wilding our wastelands & the transformation that happens when we do. After losing her sister in a boating accident & later finding out her son had a lifelong medical condition, Vik turned to the rubble & weeds outside her door to create a new kind of future. Thank you...

Send a text My guest this week is Jessica Kruger, Founder of Luxtra, a conscious, cruelty free, & sustainability -focused luxury brand of plant-based leather accessories. In 2020 Luxtra certified as a B-corporation- a new type of company that balances purpose with profit, using business as a force for good.   There's no denying fashion is a super-saturated market, so competition is fierce...

Send a text My guest this week is Rebecca Cappelli is an award-winning filmmaker & public speaker. A French citizen and a mandarin speaking professional, Rebecca leads the non-profit project Let us be Heroes for the health of people, animals & the planet. She is the director of SLAY, a feature documentary about inhumane practices involving animals in the fashion industry.   Rebecca went to...

Send a text My guest this week is Sami Wunder, a leading international relationship and dating expert who specializes in working with ambitious, high-achieving women, helping them attract lasting romantic love. Her clients range from a Hollywood celebrity to UK TV stars to CEOs, bankers, lawyers, doctors, renowned authors, leading entrepreneurs, and more.  The world of love and relationships chang...

Send a text My Guest this week is Shaa Wasmund MBE. She’s just brought out the 10th anniversary edition of her #1 bestselling book Stop Talking Start Doing in which she does a deep dive teach into what holds people back, the fears, the false beliefs, the unhealthy habits, the procrastination and sabotage all that can stop budding entrepreneurs from getting started and established entrepreneurs fro...

Send a text This week's guest is Alison Bender, a football reporter and TV presenter. When she was ten years old she knew she wanted to be a presenter but her teachers told her it was a terrible idea.  Fast forward to now and she’s living her dream, travelling the world interviewing some of the greatest footballers and managers of our generation.    England Women winning the Euros has helped...