Working For Progress

In this episode, Dani speaks with Dane Van Zyl, co-founder and CEO of Uku Inbound, a HubSpot marketing agency with teams in Cape Town and Edinburgh, and one of Tribe Porty's most inspiring members. The origin story is not what you'd expect. It starts with his mother, his twin brother, and selling blinds. And somehow leads to running an international marketing agency working with business...

In this episode, Dani speaks with Rachel Mays. Freelance consultant, former Wieden and Kennedy creative agency veteran, and someone who has built a working life across Portland, Amsterdam, and now Edinburgh. Rachel's career has taken her from one of the world's most celebrated creative agencies to running her own consultancy, working with agencies and brand marketers across the UK, Europ...

In this episode, Dani speaks with Joanna Craven. Game designer, maths tutor, massage therapist, hops farmer, massage therapist, and one of those rare people who approaches everything she does with equal curiosity and competence. At the heart of Jo's work is a love of problem solving and a belief that games are one of the best tools we have for helping other people do it too. She designs educa...

In this episode, Dani speaks with Adam McGibbon. Environmental campaigner, strategist, and one of the most effective political operators you've probably never heard of. Adam's track record is remarkable. He helped shift billions away from fossil fuel financing, secured pledges from 39 governments to end public money flowing to fossil fuel projects, and as a student activist in Belfast, h...

In this episode, Dani speaks with Kaigan Carrie. Criminologist, co-founder of Rise of Happiness, and host of the Evolving Prisons podcast. Kaigan's perspective on happiness is a broader one than most. With a Masters in Criminology and a deep passion for prison reform, she sees personal wellbeing and collective justice as part of the same conversation. As the partner of former police officer R...

In this episode, Dani speaks with Rob Hosking, former frontline police officer, mental health advocate, and co-founder of Rise of Happiness. Rob's story begins with one of the hardest shifts imaginable: witnessing a suicide and losing a colleague on the same day. What followed was a reckoning — with his own mental health, his own happiness, and what he actually wanted his life to look like. O...

Dani Trudeau and Alice Hudson introduce themselves and the reason why they started Working For Progress.  Alice interviews Dani about why she set up Tribe Porty, a community coworking space in Edinburgh and how that led to the launch of Keystone, a community for women looking to reimagine their working life.  There is much love for both communities and also around how we are all working for progre...

In this episode, Dani speaks with Nasim Forootan. Culture and Learning Holder at Dark Matter Labs, member of the Soul.com cooperative, and someone who has been thinking about fairness and knowledge her whole life. Growing up in Ecuador, Nasim learned early, from her fathe, that coherence and trust are the foundations of how we relate to each other and build things together. Those values now sit at...

In this very first episode of Working for Progress, Dani speaks with Bob Cummins. Founder of Sodak, behavioural science practitioner, and, as it happens, Dani's husband. Sodak helps organisations become safer, happier and less wasteful workplaces by applying the latest thinking in behavioural science to the way people work together. Bob is passionate about this work — and clear-eyed about who...

In this episode, Dani speaks with Osbert Lancaster, co-founder and director of Realise Earth, an organisation that helps managers and directors lead meaningful sustainability initiatives and reconnect people to the natural world. Osbert's work is rooted in a simple but powerful distinction: the difference between asking "why should we do sustainability?" and "how can we do sust...

In this episode, Dani speaks with Lorna Lythgoe. Coach, positive psychologist, pluralistic counsellor, and founder of The Good Life School. Lorna draws on an unusually wide range of thinking. From neuroscience to existentialism, mindfulness to embodied practice, to help people find their way through the big questions of life, work, relationships, and entrepreneurship. This conversation reflects th...