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

- Hitting rock bottom and then choosing to live intentionally, with purpose

- Being told you can’t

- Then creating an organization to help stop other women be told they can’t

- 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

- Knowing there’s a long way to go but finding fuel in real women’s stories

- 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

- Project Phoenix - tackling the confidence barrier by allowing self-discovery

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

- Taking pride in helping others

- 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:

- Being a podcast Guinea Pig ;-)

- Skipping university and taking a different path  

- Quick fire: a new item on the menu for season 2

- Using a calculator in a more creative way

- From North London to broader horizons 

- A car crash that triggered travelling the world

- Finding out Bangkok is not a paradise island in Thailand

- 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

- Creating events to champion copywriting on the side

- #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’ incredible 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/

Follow Jessica @JessicaLPan

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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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Jo welcomes the accidental but highly effective activist, Jamie Klingler, to the Good Girls Eat Dinner podcast. 

Jamie Klingler is a leading speaker, writer (Vogue, Grazia, The Guardian etc) & consultant who helps organisations find their purpose. 

Jamie combines her experience of becoming an accidental activist with her twenty years’ experience working with the world’s leading brands. 

Named the 9th Top Communicator in the UK 2021 in PR Week, she’s known for her punchy and direct style. 

Topics covered:

- Profound personal change: giving up booze and finding purpose

- From working at Shortlist, to creating national events, to calling for police reform 

- Why National Burger Day coincides with Jamie’s birthday

- The story of ‘Reclaim These Streets’ 

- The impact of Scotland Yard saying no to a peaceful vigil for Sara Everard

- The threat of legal action from the police

- Raising £37,000 in just minutes to take the police to court

- Living in an episode of ‘In The Thick Of It’?

- Cancelling the vigil; seeing scenes of police kneeling on innocent women 

- The watershed moment... and the continued wait for genuine change

- Why the conversation about violence against women has to involve men

- Achieving a human rights victory against the police in court

- The shocking backlash for daring to ask for an end to violence against women 

- Getting out of your own way

- Finding hope amid an epidemic of violence against women

- How purpose is so necessary and yet so woefully underpaid 

- Why small nuggets of kindness can mean the world

- Jamie’s Doggy Bag of advice

You can find out more about Jamie’s incredible work, plus book her as a speaker or consultant here: https://www.jamieklingler.com/

Watch Jamie’s TED Talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtycbSeGp2I&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jamieklingler.com%2F&source_ve_path=OTY3MTQ&feature=emb_imp_woyt

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Jo welcomes the brilliant wordsmith, Jaspreet Kaur, to the Good Girls Eat Dinner podcast. 

Known also by her online handle 'Behind the Netra', Jaspreet is an award-winning spoken word artist, educator and author from London. Her book, Brown Girl Like Me, is an inspiring memoir and empowering manifesto that equips women with the confidence and tools they need to navigate the difficulties that come with an intersectional identity.

Jaspreet is passionate about gender issues, taboo subjects and encouraging positive social change in both the Asian community and wider society. Her work tackles issues related to gender discrimination, mental health stigma, the postcolonial immigrant experience, and more. A regular on the BBC and Sunday Morning Live, Jaspreet is currently a Research Fellow at Birkbeck University's Centre for British Political Life. She has also worked with the UN on the HeforShe campaign.

**BONUS** Jaspreet shares some of her incredible poetry during the podcast.

 Topics covered:

- How it felt growing up in a Punjabi family in the UK

- Teaching history, sociology and politics with relevance

- The mission to educate beyond the classroom

- How creative expression is so vital for mental health

- Overcoming terror to perform poetry live at an open mic night

- Being brown, female, opinionated…and invisible

- Writing the book you wish you’d had as a teenager

- Real South Asian women vs outdated stereotypes

- Pitching and publishing a book

- Being told ‘The brown community doesn’t read’

- Beauty ideals and body image – feeling othered

- Allyship to coalition

- Cultural appropriation

- Jaspreet’s Doggy Bag of advice

 More information on Japreet's work and the courses she has available here: https://www.behindthenetra.com/

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Jo welcomes the change-maker, Rania Robinson, to the Good Girls Eat Dinner podcast.
 
Rania Robinson is CEO & Partner at Quiet Storm, Director at Create Not Hate, and President of WACL.
 
Arriving in the UK from Egypt at the age of three and starting school not speaking a word of English, Rania's early experiences sparked a life-long passion for forming connections and meaningful communication. Having spent most of her career in non-traditional agencies in both account leadership and strategic roles, she has worked with some of the world's best-known brands, including: Haribo, Mercedes, Virgin, Google and Coca Cola.

A passionate exponent of empowering women in the workplace, she is President of WACL (an organisation whose purpose is to accelerate gender equality in the advertising and communication industry). Rania is also an active diversity champion and in 2020 relaunched Create Not Hate, Quiet Storm's initiative to get under-represented young people into the creative industries by unlocking their creative potential to tackle social issues that they live with every day. 

Wrap your ears around a smorgasbord of topics: 
-       Why it’s important to enjoy the journey between the milestones

-       Loving home-cooked food not loving cooking 

-       The symbiotic relationship between commercial work and purposeful work  

-       Running a business – and a life – with husband Trevor Robinson

-       How learning to switch off is actually far more productive

-       Steering a business through challenging economic times

-       Giving yourself room to make strong decisions

-       ‘Create Not Hate’ was ahead of its time when it first launched in 2008 

-       The extra work required to effect change  

-       Allyship and the difference between lip service and impact

-       Why being risk averse in an economic downturn is the wrong approach 

-       Why creativity delivers higher commercial impact 

-       Why you should ask for help 

-       Why it’s vital to figure out what’s important to you

-       Rania’s Doggy Bag of advice

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