Brave New Girls - Well Beings, Well Planet

Send a text My guest this week is Dee Gibson, a London based, residential interior designer with nearly 20 years of experience working with private, residential clients and focusing on whole house refurbishments and extensions. In 2018, Dee opened Kalukanda House, a boutique hotel in Sri Lanka which she designed and built. But life wasn’t always how she designed it to be. Dee started out doing eng...

Send a text This week’s guest is Liz Trubridge, producer of Downton Abbey, the most successful British Drama export of all time & Winner of a Primetime Emmy, a Bafta, a Golden Globe & the Producers Guild of America Award. Downton Abbey the movie hit the No 1 spot in both UK & US on it’s opening weekend; more recently followed by the movie release of 'Downtown Abbey: A New Era&apos...

Send a text This week’s guest is Jessica Huie MBE, author of bestseller, Purpose, one of the top ten business books according to The Independent. From single mum to jet-setting journalist & publicist to the stars to labelled one of Britain’s Most Inspiring Entrepreneurs by the Evening Standard, she found her purpose, helping others to find theirs by stripping back to meet themselves.  The pand...

Send a text This week’s guest is Lucy McCarraher, co-founder of the Hybrid publishing house Rethink Press & author of 12 books including A Book of One’s Own – a manifesto for women to share their expertise and make a difference. She helps you write & publish a book that will transform your business whilst creating a realisable work/life integration.  Book publishing has done well during th...

Send a text Aysha Scott is the founder & CEO of A Scott Productions. She embarked on her journey into filmmaking after discovering a gap in the market for black female characters during her career as an actress. During a difficult time in her life, when she was left to raise her 10 week old son alone, she took the plunge to become an independent filmmaker.  Pandemic has been a big reset for he...

Send a text My guest this week is Lucy Griffiths, a force of nature who rose to the top in the cut-throat world of video journalism, reporting in war zones& even ending up in jail for reporting in Myanmar. But after childbirth she developed severe incontinence & had to rethink her career, becoming an entrepreneur, online course officianado & author of Money While You Sleep. Lucy taught...

Send a text This week’s guest is Stephanie Taylor, voted Inspirational Person of the Year 2021 & featured on the BBC, Entrepreneur , Business Insider and The Telegraph . Author of the no 1 best-selling book Rent 2 Rent Success, Host of The top 1.5% global podcast Rent 2 Rent Success she’s passionately advocates that ethical property investment, and indeed business success, is open to all. Afte...

Send a text This week’s guest is Alena Kuznetsova, one of Ukraine’s leading contemporary artists, who had to flee Kyiv when Russia invaded her country, leaving behind all her paintings and sculptures. We spoke when she managed to get to Lviv, where she was able to stay with a friend to regroup and decided what she was going to do next. We spoke via her phone.  Having escaped to Lviv, Alena was abl...

Send a text This week’s guest is Bunmi Akintonwa, Producer, Writer, Exec Producer and CEO of the little black book co (lbbc) a UK production and distribution company backed by Impact X Studios, a fund created by a group of inspirational black investors to support underrepresented entrepreneurs with potential to make a significant difference. The last couple of years has meant certain projects went...

Send a text My guest this week is Zara Glew, Managing Director at Environmental Energies. Based in the UK  the company provides people with renewable energy solutions including solar panels and electric vehicle power stations, to reduce energy costs, cut their carbon footprint and taxes and conform to government legislations, while generating a return on their green energy investment. Zara's...

Send a text This week’s guest is Angelica Black, singer-songwriter & co-founder of the band STRABE who signed with the record label PIAS in 2021. They had moved to London in Lockdown 2020 & unable to start gigging, Angelica took an inward journey to explore their sexuality & gender, knowing they were gay but also then understanding that they identified as non-binary. In 2017 Angie&apos...

Send a text This week’s guest is Rachel Mason, founder of Our Remedy- an award-winning CBD oil brand with a focus on sustainability and natural self-care, established after finding out she’d never conceive naturally due to cancer cells on her ovaries. Struggling to find a CBD oil targeted specifically at female health issues she decided to create one herself.  Having gone from a Vaping brand with...

Send a text This week’s guest is Louise Long a qualified as a Personal Trainer, who had a difficult relationship with food, until she had her 3 children, shifted her perspective, & began a more health-full approach to life; helping others to do so too. Last year she was blind-sided when her young son Dylan died & now she’s raising awareness for brain tumour research This interview was so p...

Send a text This week’s guest is Louise Long a qualified as a Personal Trainer, who had a difficult relationship with food, until she had her 3 children, shifted her perspective, & began a more health-full approach to life; helping others to do so too. Last year she was blind-sided when her young son Dylan died & now she’s raising awareness for brain tumour research This interview was so p...

Send a text This week is our 100th episode and to celebrate, my guest is Babita Sharma. Babita is a Broadcaster, Journalist & author of the award-winning book The Corner Shop - a Radio Four Book of the Week. She has spent 10 years presenting across BBC News & making documentaries including the landmark BBC Two series Dangerous Borders: The Story of India & Pakistan . She was awarded th...

Send a text This week's guest is Anna Murphy, a sustainability consultant specialising in the Future-Fit Business Benchmark. This is a framework that guides the pursuit of a truly sustainable society. She is currently studying an MPA in Public Policy, Public Value and Innovation at UCL. Always passionate about righting the wrongs of the world she travelled to areas where she could help. But r...

Send a text My guest this week is Vivien Morgan whose documentary work for Channel 4 included Dispatches & award-winning films for ITV. A TV Video-journalist pioneer, she went undercover, reporting on human rights abuse and the regimes of the closed Communist countries. She is the author of Cross-dressed to Kill about women who went to war disguised as men. Vivien's book is about fearless...

Send a text The first in our International Women's Impact Project series- exploring how women are positively impacting the world and the courage it takes to do so. Be inspired to appreciate the impact you are making in your own way. This week’s guest is Lori Mihalich-Levin, healthcare lawyer & CEO of Mindful Return, which focuses on transition back to work after parental leave, work-life...

Send a text This week’s guest is Jenny Ward, a Career & Transition Coach, specializing in professional storytelling, career planning, and network building for women who are ready to finally live a life by design instead of default. Having experienced home-working, people's ideas have changed around careers, working for others, or even leaving corporate to start their own businesses.  This...

Send a text This week’s guest is Nancy Zeffman, co-founder of Cucumber Clothing, a 100% British made luxury clothing brand for women; using a revolutionary intelligent fabric that’s cooling, anti-crush, & long-lasting, to create soft, stylish, sustainable sleepwear and loungewear. With the first lockdown, being featured on Dragon's Den and everyone taking to their screens for business, Cu...

Send a text This week’s guest is Bettina Hein, a serial tech entrepreneur and founder of SVOX a text-to-speech software, which she created right out of graduate school and sold for $125 million. Now she’s founded ‘ Juli ’ – an AI powered health app/ tech startup that helps people with chronic health conditions. Access to doctors has been more limited during Covid and so people were more inclined t...

Send a text This week's guest is Dr. Rani Banik, America's Integrative Eye Doctor. She is a board-certified ophthalmologist and fellowship-trained neuro-ophthalmologist with additional training in Functional Medicine. Dr. Rani focuses on the root cause of eye diseases and uses integrative strategies for conditions of the visual system, to treat & manage them naturally.  During the Pa...

Send a text This week’s guest is Lora Cheadle, a former attorney turned burlesque dancer, who uses the concepts in burlesque to help women untangle the pain of the past and slip into a more comfortable and courageous way of being; powerfully embracing their sexuality, and creating a life they love on their terms. Lora's biggest passion growing up was dance, and in particular ballet. Instead s...

Send a text This week’s guest is Dr Rachel Morris, a GP turned Executive Coach and Specialist in Resilience at Work, helping those in stressful jobs take back control to beat burnout, survive and thrive. She is also the host of You are not A Frog podcast, which shares life hacks for busy professionals so they can beat burnout and work happier.   Always a stress-filled job being in the medical prof...

Send a text Emma Livingstone is one of around 130,000 adults living with Cerebral Palsy in this country, making it one of the largest disability groups in the UK. A trained Speech Therapist and married with three children, Emma realised through her own experience that those suffering with CP are abandoned by the authorities once they turn 18. Frustrated for herself and for the others in her commun...