From Your Seat to the Board

In this heartfelt conversation, Bryony sits down with Charlotte Clark - founder of the Happy Human Project - to explore what happens when a career starts not from a five-year plan, but from healing your own inner child. Charlotte has spent nearly a decade teaching children emotional wellbeing and nervous system regulation in schools, holiday camps, and after-school clubs. She's just graduated with...

🎙️ EPISODE OVERVIEW In this episode, Bryony sits down with Sophia Hermens - employment lawyer turned fundraiser turned psychotherapist-in-training, and founder of Rising Sons UK - to talk about what happens when you stop climbing the ladder and start following your fizz instead. Sophia's career reads like a landscape, not a ladder: law, charity fundraising with Jamie Oliver's Fifteen Foundation, i...

🎙️ EPISODE OVERVIEW In this warm and energising conversation, Bryony sits down with Abbey Booth - personal stylist and author of Don't Save It For Best - to explore something most career conversations completely overlook: what you wear and how it shapes the way you show up. Abbey's journey is anything but linear. From receptionist to advertising sales at the Mirror Group's Racing Post, from window...

🎙️ EPISODE OVERVIEW In this episode, Bryony sits down with Claire Shaw - vocal and communication coach, former opera singer, and the woman helping professional women reconnect with the voice that's already theirs. With more than 20 years behind her and a background that spans Wigmore Hall, The Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Claire now works wit...

🎙️ EPISODE OVERVIEW In this inspiring conversation, Bryony sits down with Angie Vaux - British entrepreneur, executive coach, angel investor and founder of Women in Tech Forum and Women Leaders Forum - to explore what it really takes to build a career, a community and a movement in one of the most male-dominated industries in the world. With over 25 years in senior leadership at global tech compan...

🎙️ EPISODE OVERVIEW In this energising conversation, Bryony sits down with Pieta McCrum - Founder of Body by Pieta, former MTV Senior Director, and women's wellness evangelist, to explore one of the most overlooked pillars of career success: your physical foundation. Pieta's journey is anything but linear. From New Zealand's first reality TV show, Treasure Island, to a decade at MTV Viacom, to bui...

🎙️ EPISODE OVERVIEW In this powerful conversation, Bryony sits down with Katherine Wintsch - bestselling author of Slay Like a Mother and founder of The Mom Complex - to explore what happens when high-achieving women finally stop hiding. Katherine has spent her career consulting for Fortune 500 companies, helping them build better products for mothers but her most transformative work has been in t...

What happens when the traditional HR playbook stops working - and a new generation decides to build something better? Luke O'Mahoney, Founder of Sapien X, joins the show to explore why so many founders, leaders, and solopreneurs are walking away from conventional people practices and writing their own rules. From the very different realities of corporate HR versus startup life, to using technology...

What if the secret to becoming a better leader, colleague, or co-founder had nothing to do with strategy and everything to do with how you show up in relationships? In this episode of Joyful Ambition, Bry sits down with Andrea Balboni, relationship and intimacy coach, to explore the profound connection between our personal and professional lives. Andrea unpacks why the same skills that deepen inti...

Kayleigh Graham built a career that turned heads - promotions, influence, the kind of trajectory people notice. She also faced the question every ambitious woman dreads: "Did you sleep your way here?" In this conversation, Kayleigh doesn't shy away from the reality of climbing in spaces that weren't built for you. She shares the strategies that accelerated her rise - relentless curiosity, asking t...

Petra Gatto knows what it's like to start over. After years as an entrepreneur, she rebuilt her career around personal brand mentorship and in doing so, discovered that the most powerful networking tool isn't LinkedIn. It's confidence. In this conversation, Petra shares how she moved from rebuild to rebrand, and why personal branding isn't about curating a perfect online presence - it's about doin...