Women Are Good Business

Sophia Jarvis’ founder journey is anything but linear. After a decade in financial services, she left her job to build a solution to a problem no one in the industry was solving — helping families invest easily in their children’s futures. The very next day she discovered she was pregnant, six weeks later she learned she was having twins, and months later she gave birth prematurely. Through all of...

The Biskery didn’t begin as a grand plan — it began as two women who refused to stay somewhere they no longer believed in. When Lisa returned from maternity leave to find her senior title stripped away, clarity hit hard: “There’s no future for me here.” That moment became the spark. She and Saskia, once colleagues in a London digital agency, started baking the flavours of home at market stalls, le...

In this episode, we sit down with Chantal Epp , the two‑time world champion cheerleader, music tech pioneer and founder of ClicknClear — a business born at the exact intersection of every skill she’s ever had. When a major record label lawsuit hit the cheerleading world, Chantal was the only person who understood both sides of the problem: a cheerleader, a music graduate, and a music licensing exp...

Female finance expert Roxanne Goodman joins us for a powerful, myth‑busting conversation about money, funding, and the realities facing women in business. Roxanne shares her unconventional journey from qualified nursery teacher to 20‑years‑deep commercial finance broker, explaining how she “ fell into finance by accident ” and later founded Female Founder Finance after noticing the “lack of women...

Laura Brunton is the business and mindset coach whose energy hits you the moment she walks into a room — and whose journey from a North East council estate to a multi–six‑figure coaching company is anything but ordinary. As she tells Sam, the turning point came when she realised, “I was literally giving this company all of my good Laura energy — and my husband and my kids were getting the dregs of...

In this episode, Gilly Ridley Whittle — founder of Peach House — shares how she stepped out of a 25‑year corporate career and into the unknown. She opens up about the fear of losing her job when Topshop went into administration and the unexpected redundancy payout that became the launchpad for her entrepreneurial leap. As she says, “I honestly had no idea how I was going to make this happen… I was...

Female experts Nonie White and Yvonne Biggins join Sam to unpack their research into the real cost of entrepreneurship for women. Their own journeys — spanning filmmaking, teaching, tech startups, coaching and positive psychology — led them to interview and survey 215 female founders , revealing a powerful truth: women are experiencing extreme stress and burnout, yet still report high levels of jo...

Grace Hardy’s story is anything but traditional. Diagnosed with dyslexia young and dismissed by an education system that didn’t know what to do with her, she found her entrepreneurial spark early — selling American sweets from her school locker at 12. By 21, she’d quit her corporate accounting job with no clients, no plan, and three months of savings, giving herself a deadline to make it work. As...

Lyndsey Simpson , Founder & CEO of  55/Redefined , joins us to unpack why age strategy is now one of the biggest growth levers in business. After rehiring  400 retirees in eight weeks , she uncovered a truth most organisations overlook: retirement is breaking people, and the over‑50 workforce is the most undervalued economic force in the UK. Her upcoming book,  The Age Rebellion , dives even d...

In the first episode of  Women Are Good Business , we dive into why the system isn’t broken — it simply wasn’t built for women. Hannah Bernard OBE , Group Director of Business Banking at Nationwide and Co‑Chair of the UK Government’s  Invest in Women Taskforce , shares insights from decades supporting over one million SMEs and leading major banking transformations. Karen Rudich , serial entreprene...

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,...