Jo welcomes the brilliant Beth Collier to the Good Girls Eat Dinner podcast. 

Beth Collier is passionate about helping people improve their communication, creativity, and leadership skills. She began her career in film and television production in Los Angeles, and has held diverse communication and leadership roles on three continents, including a decade in financial services in London. Beth now runs a communication and leadership consultancy and helps people become more capable and confident speakers and writers, and more creative thinkers and leaders. Beth is originally from the US, and has lived abroad for 19 years. She is relentlessly curious and shares stories about business and pop culture in her weekly newsletter, Curious Minds.

Topics covered:

- Giving an actor a life-changing tour of your school
- Making a dream come true for 32 cents.
- School mottos and why the message matters.
- How winning ‘story of the week’ cemented a passion for writing.
- The power of a thank you letter.
- Working in the TV/film industry in LA.
- Seeing people with power – and noticing how they use it.
- Firing people over email. The recent phenomenon that is not ok.
- Why showing people respect and care is so important.
- Delivering a talk in a way that engages people.
- The effort (practice) it takes to look effortless.
- Running a consultancy and the many hats required.
- ‘I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.’
- How I met Beth when she came with the facts.
-That Daily Mail article and how I sued them and won.
- Why factual journalism is so important to society.
- Having a consistent writing practice.
- Why reading is vital for writing.
- Wanting to hear more from more women on LinkedIn.
- Dealing with trolls.
- Beth’s Doggy Bag of Advice.

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Jo welcomes the incredible Natalie Graeme to the Good Girls Eat Dinner podcast. 

Natalie is a founder of Uncommon Creative Studio, alongside Nils Leonard &, Lucy Jameson.  A creative studio building brands that people in the real world actually wish existed; either by working with clients or by creating brands themselves. Natalie has 20+ years experience working at the most successful and creative agencies on the planet.  Between London & Amsterdam she has run business defining relationships & strategies for global and local brands including, Sony, BBC, Coca-Cola, Vodafone, The Times and many more.

Topics covered:

- A fishy first job, literally on a fish counter
- Being encouraged and supported as a child to ‘try anything’
- Wanting, for a while, to be a TV presenter
- Not quite reaching the ‘triple threat’ status
- The life lesson of recognizing what you’re good at and what you’re not
- Ambition and what drives it
- How being over-looked can fuel the fire of ambition
- Arriving to work experience on a speedboat! 
- Falling in and out of love with the ad industry
- Striking out and setting up Uncommon
- Being in a professional ‘throuple’ with Nils and Lucy
- The strengths of difference  
- The deal between Uncommon, Havas & Vivendi
- The secret to such incredible success
- Writing the ‘uncontract’ - a promise not to be dickheads
- Being in the business of creativity not status reports etc
- AI: Talent & creativity as the competitive advantage
- Why so much advertising is so s&!t 
- Standing for something and the world-changing power of creativity
- The on-going, baffling, diversity issue in the industry
- Natalie’s Doggy Bag of advice

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Jo welcomes the fantastic Jessica Tamsedge to the Good Girls Eat Dinner podcast.

Jessica swiftly rose through the ranks of the advertising industry. She has established herself as a leader who genuinely cares about championing her team and taking everyone on the journey to success. Having worked at various advertising agencies, including Grey and McCann, Jessica is currently the UK CEO for Dentsu Creative.

Topics covered:

- How stumbling as a concert pianist was a valuable life lesson

- Living between Hong Kong and London

- ‘What is this scorcery?’ - a fortuitous discovery of the ad industry

- Applying to grad schemes, being turned down and persisting 

- The unexpected path to being a CEO

- Identifying the type of leadership a creative organization needs

- The benefit of a flexible leadership style

- Is it really okay to fail?

- Modern creativity; why the ‘how’ matters as much as the ‘what’

- The battle to convince audiences to spend time with a brand  

- Career moments that left a bad taste and the lessons learnt

- AI - the bias, vs the incredible potential

- Why is most advertising so rubbish?

- Jessica’s Doggy Bag of advice

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Jo welcomes the brilliant Deborah B Williams to the Good Girls Eat Dinner podcast.

Deborah is someone who creates awareness around the big problems we face in society. But she doesn’t just talk about them, she doesn’t even just create awareness around them; she creates ACTION. Action which took her on a journey to become the founder and CEO of The Women’s Association.

Topics covered:

- Growing up in a bubble of happiness that partially helped deflect racism

- The importance of someone helping you picture your dreams

- Being able to fail and not live in that failure

- Founding The Women’s Association - helping remove the barriers to women’s dreams

- How society needs to play a role in closing the aspiration gap for girls

- The Executive Challenge: Giving teenage girls access to the workplace

- The Cannes Challenge - back by popular demand - for 18-30yr old women

- 56 Black Men - being part of a project to challenge racist stereotypes

- Choosing to drive change rather than just exist in a biased system

- Social media: the no. 1 thing young girls site as impacting their confidence

- Being intentional and consistent - and human - when it comes to DE&I

- Deborah’s Doggy Bag of advice

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Jo welcomes the fantastic, Laurel Stark Akman, to the Good Girls Eat Dinner podcast.

By her own admission, Laurel's career only really took off when she lived her values loudly in the form of some incredible passion projects. For example, she is an original member of the ‘3% Movement’ team – (an initiative with a mission to increase the number of female creative directors in marketing because, staggeringly, they only represented 3 percent at the time.) Having showcased what she was capable of with various creative side endeavours, she began landing roles which welcomed her voice, her values and ideas. 

Topics covered:

- Growing up as computers started to become a thing  

- Getting to know your inner child

- Growing up in a loving, adopted family and how it shapes you

- Navigating a society that doesn’t always value creativity  

- Leaning into your own authenticity as a creative person  

- Holding onto your naive creative optimism, or your ‘de-lu-lu’ 

- The link between trauma in childhood and competitive pursuits 

- Experiencing sexual harassment & bullying - and finding strength

- Finding your voice and becoming a part of the solution for others

- Being part of building an industry you want to be a part of

- Why it’s important to be visible 

- Attracting the right opportunities to make the biggest impact

- How to scare away the people who aren’t meant for you, and call on the ones who are

- Gen Z: the first generation where gaming has superseded sport 

- Laurel’s Doggy Bag of advice

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Jo welcomes the brilliant, Nishma Patel Robb, to the Good Girls Eat Dinner podcast.

Nishma Patel Robb is proof that you can stay relevant and successfully surf the wave of change. Her career has evolved in-step with the digital evolution: from Teletext; the advent of digital interaction - to Google. She’s a passionate and tireless activist for equality. So much so that she was recently passed the baton to become the current President of WACL - for its 100th year.

Nishma is now also pursuing her love for music as a DJ.

Topics covered:

- Growing up with racism

- Finding an escape in storytelling and dreaming

- Pursuing old loves and new skills as a DJ

- Finding a creative career regardless of missing out on art school

- A love for humanity and our ability to shape the world

- A career spanning the birth of the digital age

- Why it’s normal to be afraid of AI

- The art of constant learning

- Why human connection is vital in business

- The continued need for unique creativity

- Supporting Marcus Rashford’s campaign with the power of Google

- Things that have left a bad taste

- Finding spaces where you can be comfortable to be yourself

- The biggest threat to businesses right now

- Nishma’s Doggy Bag of advice

Connect with Nishma here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nishmapatelrobb

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Jo welcomes the Queen of Copy, Vikki Ross, to the Good Girls Eat Dinner podcast.

Vikki Ross is a Brand, TOV and Copy Consultant and has been writing copy for major global brands for 26 years. She specialises in branding and tone of voice, and travels the world telling businesses how to talk. Recent clients include IMAX, ITV, Comcast, Twitter, Sony Music and Spotify.

She is a D&AD Masterclass Trainer, judges at international industry award competitions, and mentors young creatives. 

In 2017, Campaign and Creative Equals named her one of the Top 30 Female Creative Leaders. In 2019, Women in Marketing gave her a Special Award for Outstanding Contribution to Marketing, and in 2020, The Dots named her one of their Top 100 Trailblazers redefining the creative industry. 

Topics covered:

- Skipping university and taking a different path  

- From North London to broader horizons 

- A car crash that triggered travelling the world

- Writing to the editor of Vogue to ask for a job

- When the work goes live and it still feels exciting

- Respecting the audience and helping young creatives get ahead

- Behaviours that have left a bad taste and speaking up

- #copywritersunite: from a hashtag to a global community

- Meeting Harry & Meghan at Kensington Palace

- Who Vikki Ross would choose to have dinner with 

- AI: are we being irresponsible?

- Vikki Ross’ doggy bag of advice  

Follow Vikki here: https://twitter.com/vikkirosswrites

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Jo welcomes the incredible artist, Sara Pope, to the Good Girls Eat Dinner podcast.

Contemporary artist Sara Pope is best known for her bold, seductive paintings of voluptuous lips. Taking inspiration from a successful career in the fashion industry as a shoe designer for brands such as Paul Smith, and also her work in magazines as a designer and art director, Sara aims to capture the sensuality and seductive power conveyed by the lips and mouth. Interested in questions of beauty, communication, and the notion of perfection, Sara uses the perspective of her commercial experience to explore these themes.

Sara is the first British female artist in over 70 years to have a piece of work accepted into the Vatican collection.

Topics covered:

- Creativity and its impact on anxiety and isolation.

- Art and connection.

- Why lips?

- Having a portrait of the Pope hanging in the Vatican collection.

- Being a self-taught, successful artist. Yes self-taught!

- From studying math, to shoe design, to now.

- Inspiration and naming pieces of art.

- Being commissioned by the English National Opera.

- Will lips ever go out of fashion?

- Icons, Marylin Monroe, that dress, and Kim Kardashian.

- The 3 people Sara would choose to have dinner with.

- Sara’s Doggy Bag of Advice, including.

 Sara’s website: https://sarapopeart.com/

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Jo welcomes the brilliant journalist and author, Jessica Pan, to the Good Girls Eat Dinner podcast. 

Jessica Pan is a freelance journalist who lives in London. After graduating from Brown University, she lived and worked in Beijing for 2.5 years as an editor of an English expat magazine. She then completed her Master’s degree in journalism at RMIT in Melbourne, before spending a year as a TV reporter in Beijing. A self-confessed introvert, Jessica’s second book Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want To Come chronicles her year of 'living dangerously’ -  as an extrovert, with hilarious results. It has sold over 100,000 copies.

 Topics covered:

- Growing up in ‘small town’ Texas

- Experiencing a very homogenous, Christian, conservative ‘world’

- Having a Chinese father and a Jewish mother 

- Always feeling different and the benefits that can bring

- Feeling destined to leave home and explore the world 

- How Sweet Valley high MIGHT have influenced career choices

- Why the best journalists aren’t afraid to be vulnerable

- The importance of original ideas

- Living out an introvert’s ‘nightmares’ for a year

- Jessica’s book: Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want To Come

- Realising that people are often kinder than imagined

- ‘Nobody waves but everybody waves back.’ Breaking the ice

- Networking events and finding the right one

- Why you should practice doing things you’re afraid of

- The true introvert test. It involves Glastonbury

- Trying improv in front of strangers

- Jessica’s Doggy Bag of Advice

Jessica’s website: https://jesspan.com/

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Jo welcomes award-winning director and screenwriter, Meena Ayittey, to the Good Girls Eat Dinner podcast. 

Meena graduated with a fine art degree from Central Saint Martins and has been working in the film, television and advertising industries ever since. 

Having worked her way up from a runner she established herself as a 3D VFX artist and Motion Graphic Designer, working for some of the best agencies; including Grey London, Droga5, Saatchi & Saatchi, Adam & Eve DDB, and R/GA. 

Meena then moved into film directing, and has written and directed films and documentaries that have been screened throughout the UK, USA and Europe.

Topics covered:

- Stepping outside your comfort zone

- Loving extremes

- How childhood imagination creates storytelling skills

- St Martins; a whole new world

- Being drawn to telling stories to help make the invisible, visible

- Learnings taken from advertising into film-making

- ‘Black Creative: Race & The Advertising Industry’: a documentary with a message

- ‘All The Little Things’ a film about micro aggressions 

- Why the current project is the one to be most proud of

- Motherhood

- Surrealist art

- The fear of ‘stale’

- Taking risks

- Not settling for less

- Meena’s Doggy Bag of Advice

Meena Ayittey's website: https://www.meenamachina.com

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