Poet and educator Peju Abuchi joins me to explore how creativity can disrupt corporate culture for the better. From performance poetry to boardroom conversations, Peju reveals why real leadership starts with humanity, reflection, and giving people permission to show up as their full selves. Featuring a powerful live reading of “We Are Not a Colour”, Peju sparks the questions, ‘Do we really need to speak to the global majority about pain and trauma all the time?' and 'What if we also spoke to our lineage, brilliance, and royalty, our ability to rise, lead, and claim our crowns as Kings and Queens, powerful by birthright, not narrative?' This episode will leave you thinking differently about identity, belonging, and what modern leadership really needs.

In this episode I welcome Charlie Kram to the podcast! Charlie helps professional women step into their full potential and own it—authentically and in harmony with every part of themselves through virtual coaching.

She’s especially passionate about supporting working mums and mums-to-be, guiding them to create their best lives with the balance and wholeness they truly deserve.

As Charlie puts it: “To find and keep our balance, we need to get clear on what that really means for us and then take the actions that allow us to become the best version of ourselves.”

In this episode, Charlie and I explore the power of Frequency Imprinting, a unique coaching approach that unlocks deeper access to the subconscious mind. She also shares how she uses the practice of quantum leaping to help women create lives beyond anything they thought possible.

To learn more about Charlie’s work, visit her coaching website: Life Coaching | Into Your Element

What if beauty isn’t about self-expression, but about power? In this episode, I revisit Naomi Wolf’s groundbreaking 1990 book The Beauty Myth and explore its relevance today.

I share my own conflicted response to the book, unpack Wolf’s argument that the real issue is a lack of choice, and connect it to Pamela Anderson’s recent makeup-free appearances. What does it mean when a 56-year-old woman is called “brave” for showing her natural face? And why do wrinkles still provoke trolling in a culture that claims to celebrate “authenticity”?

In this episode:

• The core argument of The Beauty Myth and its lasting impact
• My personal reflections on choice, adornment, and self-esteem
• Pamela Anderson as a modern case study in beauty politics
• Why the act of going makeup-free is still perceived as courageous

Tune in to explore beauty, power, ageing, and the ongoing struggle for women’s freedom.

This episode’s guest is someone who’s been shaping the leadership landscape for over two decades. Katy Mason is a pioneering leadership coach who’s been on the frontlines of coaching since the early 2000s—well before it became a mainstream leadership tool. She helped create one of the UK's first corporate coaching cultures at O2, where she built a 54-strong coaching team and later transformed how leadership development was delivered across the business.

Katy is the founder of Another Way, her own coaching consultancy, and she also works with the CVP Group as a skills coach—training leaders to become qualified coaches themselves.

A passionate advocate of the "challenging coaching" methodology by Ian Day and Dr. John Blakey, Katy believes in striking a powerful balance between empathy and accountability—what she calls the yin and yang of leadership. Her mission is to normalize coaching as a superpower for high performers and to create more inclusive, self-aware leadership cultures across industries.

Get ready for a conversation packed with insight, honesty, and practical tools you can use right away.

You can reach out to Katy via her website here.

In this episode I speak with Jo Howard, Primary Teacher & Leader turned Certified Coach, Therapist & Business Strategist.

Jo gets it! She understands the toll of burn out because she’s been there. When she looks back on her teaching career she can see how there were very few weeks (even days) where she wasn't suffering with incredibly high levels of stress and like many normalised this way of living - the reactiveness, the dis-regulation, the lack of time to recover before starting again.

Jo talks about how she turned pain into power by setting up her business Adventures After Teaching, helping 100s of teachers to understand how to use their transferable skills and walk away from the classroom - without the guilt!

This episode is not just for burnt out teachers. It’s for anyone who is in a career that is causing burn out, maybe you think this is your lot? But it’s not. Jo shows us how any career change at any time of life is possible.

To find out more about Jo's work visit her website here.

What if taking a breath was the most radical thing you could do? Chandrika’s story— from state-school kid in Preston to advising the likes of Chanel, Soho House and Sony—shows that calm confidence can be a quiet act of defiance against the odds.

A first-generation graduate who speaks three languages, Chandrika sits in the rare 5 percent who rise from her starting point to earn a degree. Yet her greatest insurgency isn’t the résumé; it’s choosing to move through elite rooms relaxed, refusing to shrink or tense up for anyone. In this episode, she explores how “relaxed” becomes a form of rebellion—especially for women expected to hustle, apologise, or over-prove.

We dive into:

• The Relaxed Woman mindset – why ease, presence and boundaries are power tools for people from under-represented backgrounds.
• Social mobility in action – leading Teach First’s Socio-Economic Affinity Group and coaching creative-industry giants through the Creative Mentor Network to build equitable policies and mentoring systems.
• Psychotherapy meets boardroom – how Chandrika’s clinical training helps brands foster inclusive environments where everyone can exhale.
• Mindsets that let you keep the shoulders down while smashing glass ceilings—and how that very poise invites others in.

Listen for a fresh take on resilience: not white-knuckling your way forward, but claiming the radical right to relax, succeed and pull more chairs up to the table.

Chandrika’s Recommended Reads on social mobility:

1. Inheritocracy: It's Time to Talk About the Bank of Mum and Dad by Eliza Filby
2. Natives by Akala
3. People Like Us by Hasi Mohamed

Yamina Bibi is the author of ‘The Little Guide for Teachers: Thriving in Your First Years of Teaching’, Project Specialist for the Chartered College of Teaching and Chiltern Learning Trust, a former Deputy Headteacher, English teacher, Coach and Consultant in East London.

Yamina has vast experience within education.

She is a Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching, a Diverse Educators’ Associate as well as a network leader for WomenEd.

In this powerful episode Yamina explores how, as a hijabi South Asian woman, she is on a mission to empower women from the global majority to lead boldly and unapologetically.

We dive into race, intersectionality, and how the language we use can shape — or shift — our path toward social equity.

Follow Yamina on X: @msybibi

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Connect with her on LinkedIn here.

Money isn’t just about numbers—it’s about mindset. And for many business owners, deeply ingrained beliefs about wealth and worth can hold them back from true financial freedom.

In this episode, we’re joined by Debbie, a Chartered Management Accountant and Certified Financial Coach with over 16 years in the finance world. After spending 11 years thriving in corporate finance, she realized her true passion wasn’t just in the numbers—it was in helping business owners overcome the mental and emotional barriers keeping them from financial success.

It was a money mindset shift that finally allowed her to break free from her own limiting beliefs. Debbie supports clients whose fear and self-doubt are holding them back from charging what they are truly worth. Now, as a Certified Money Mindset Coach, she helps business owners:

✅ Reframe the money stories that are holding them back

✅ Unlock their full earning potential to create a life they love

✅ Combine financial strategy with mindset work for lasting change

In this conversation, we dive into why so many women feel uncomfortable talking about money, how societal conditioning influences our financial beliefs, and what steps you can take to shift your money mindset today.

🎧 Ready to break free from limiting beliefs and step into financial confidence? Hit play now!

Connect with Debbie on LinkedIn here.

Visit her website here.