Second Curvers

I welcomed Emma Slade, who after studies in Fine Art went into banking, becoming a successful financial analyst. Some years ago, she was in Jakarta on a business trip when she was held at gunpoint. After this profound trauma, she went on a journey which led her to make some fundamental changes in her life. Emma shared the story of how the moment of intense fear made her aware that she wanted to do...

Jill Sherer Murray is an author, award-winning journalist, life coach and founder of "Let go for it" a lifestyle brand that enables people to enhance their lives by learning how to let go of what is holding them back.   Jill is the author of "Big Wild Love: the unstoppable power of letting go," published in 2020. Her TEDx talk about letting go now has over 3 million views.   Today we talk about ho...

The story of how extreme health issues led to a life-changing epiphany Today I am happy to welcome Christine Handy , mother, model, humanitarian, cancer survivor, and author of "Walk with me," a novel based on her experiences of dealing with multiple cancers and soon to be made into a film. Today she devotes her life and energy to supporting, helping and motivating others.   Christine told us the...

I am happy to welcome Zainab Alema, known as Zee or The Bulldozer. In 2020, she was named the Sunday Times Grassroots Sportswoman of the Year. The year before, she set up Studs in the Mud, a charity providing equipment and funding to help and encourage women to play rugby.    Zee is a British-born Ghanaian, a wife, and a mother of three very young children. After her career playing rugby and worki...

'm delighted to introduce you to season 3 of the show - Change Sessions. In this season I will talk to incredible people who've experienced huge pivotal moments of real change, by choice or by circumstance. From stories of reinvention and inspiring career pivots to the dramatic shifts that happen in moments of crisis. These sessions on change will explore how we feel at that crucial point of creat...

Today I am excited to welcome a scientist and marine conservation spe cialist Dr Tessa Hempson. She is an ecologist, a coral reefs specialist, and a writer. She studied botany and zoology, conservation biology, and worked extensively across Africa. Today she is the Principal Scientist and Program Manager of Oceans Without Borders and at the same time an Adjunct Researcher at the ARC Centre of Exce...

I am delighted to have Tom Mustill as my guest today. He is an environmental director, producer, writer, the founder of Gripping Films. He creates stories, connects people with the world and some of the burning issues around climate. He made films for BBC, Channel 4, Channel 5, National Geographic, won many awards and worked with many pioneering environmentalists and scientists of our days and som...

Today it is my great pleasure to introduce Bianca Rangecroft, the founder and CEO of Whering, the fashion tech app that allows you to digitise your wardrobe and see and style what you own.   Bianca spent the first 4.5 years of her career in Banking at Barclays and Goldman Sachs in London. She worked on two big fashion IPOs, which is how she got a feel for this industry and began exploring demograp...

In this week's episode, I had the pleasure to talk with Robert (Bob) Blake. He is a tribal citizen of the Red Lake Nation of Ojibwe Indians and the founder and CEO of Solar Bear , a solar installation company based in the US, in Minnesota . Bob shared with us how he got inspired to start the company after a personal family tragedy that profoundly changed his life. Like every great entrepreneur, he...

Meet Entrepreneur   Hi everyone, we have already reached the end of season one. I hope you've enjoyed hearing about the incredible journeys and stories of my guests, entrepreneurs of all ages and stages. They shared great insights on how to be a better leader, a more efficient manager, a more determined businessman, and how to create meaningful products and businesses. They also examined how busin...

I am excited to welcome my fabulous guest, Alice Ko, a businesswoman, an entrepreneur, and Strengths for Teams coach. She founded a remote digital marketing agency, Pivot six, and for the last 15 years, she was building businesses and working with teams around the globe.   To start, Alice shared with us her daily routines and healthy habits, as well as the story of her early life as a child of Chi...

I am excited to welcome my friend Renna Brown-Taher, founder and creative director of Renna Jewels. She is a master of arts and gemologist based in NYC who decided to take an entrepreneurial leap and start her own business. Now she is taking over the world with her jewellery, featuring pages of many popular fashion magazines.   She took us back to when she was nine and when the Renna Jewels collec...

On the show today, we have spectacular Dr. David Jack, one of the new-generation medical doctors who have become pioneering health and wellness entrepreneurs. He pursued a clinical career in plastic surgery and aesthetic medicine worldwide before landing in London, where he runs his own clinic. In 2018, he launched Dr. David Skin Care based on the demand of clients. Along the way, he launched a nu...

I am beyond excited to welcome Sahar Hashemi, my first entrepreneur guest who successfully built a coffee company. She started as a lawyer, but soon she and her brother founded the Coffee Republic, the first UK chain of coffee bars. After scaling and successfully selling it some years ago, she identified the new market segment - sugar-free sweets and founded Skinny Candy.    She is a claimed autho...

I am very happy to introduce you to my guest today. It is spectacular Tamara Gillan. She is a serial entrepreneur, a warrior for female empowerment and equality, founder of two award-winning agencies (including Cherry London), and founder of The WealthiHer platform. She is also a major change agent, award winner, a speaker - I would say an action girl.  Tamara shared with us the genesis of The Wea...

I am delighted to welcome amazing Mike Bandar, a serial entrepreneur, a founding partner of Turn Partners, the start-up studio focused on the acquisition, turnaround, or creation of digital businesses.   Mike is telling a story of his entrepreneurial journey, how he started from a young age(13) and developed and scaled multiple businesses. He is sharing what he learned during the way and how it he...

I am so beyond happy to welcome the legend - Sian Sutherland, a serial entrepreneur across many disciplines and sectors from advertising to Michelin-star restaurant, film production, and skincare startup. On top of all, her attention is now focused on the titanic problem of plastic. So she and her incredible co-founder launched the Plastic Planet.   Sian shared with us the raw story of her beginni...

My guest is another incredible entrepreneur and my dear friend, Jackie Cuyvers. She is a tech entrepreneur and social intelligence expert. Jackie is also Co-Founder and CEO of leading tech company Convosphere, a social intelligence agency working with clients across a range of different industries.  I have to add that she is also a mother of three. She is doing the MSc at Oxford University in the...

I'm excited to welcome Kike Oniwinde, founder and CEO of BYP network and the winner of many awards. You can find her on all lists that matter, such as Forbes 30 Under 30, 25 Leading Black British Business People To Follow, Computer Weekly's Most Influential Women in UK Tech, and 100 Bame leaders influencing the tech sector. Also, she is a former professional athlete.   We talk about the year 2020...