Raise The Bar

My wonderful guest this week is Caroline Hughes, Founder of Lifetise and finanical feminist. In this episode Caroline tells us about starting her business Lifetise, the financial modelling platform helping us to take big life actions like buying a house and starting a family. Caroline’s approach to building her tech business with such a strong social mission is truly inspiring. We talk about the reality for female founders in the UK in terms of raising capital, seeking the right investors and...

My inspiring guest this week is Emma Sayle, CEO and Founder of Killing Kittens and serial entrepreneur. In this episode, Emma tells us how Killing Kittens came to be and it’s mission to sexually liberate women. Emma shares her experience of crowdfunding whilst she was pregnant and how her long standing results in business proved the business was investable. Emma also tells us to network, ask for help and exercise to stay sane... Enjoy!Join in the conversation online using #THEWOTPOD on Twitte...

My lovely guest this week is Sonya Barlow, TEDxSpeaker, diversity and inclusion consultant and founder of Like Minded Females. In this episode, Sonya tells us how she found her voice and began confronting difficult topics of diversity and inclusion at work. Sonya tells us her take on failure and how that can help us all to gather data that will ultimately lead us to success. Plus we explore unconscious bias and the need to create safe spaces to confront tricky topics without judgement. Enjoy!...

My brilliant guests this week are the team from This Much I Know - Founder Emily Sheffield and Head of Partnerships and Reporter, Holly Beddingfield. In this episode, Emily tells us how she started This Much I Know, a news platform that puts genuine conversation at the heart of its delivery. Emily and Holly share the ups and downs of life in a startup incubator (Founders Factory), the fact that their brains constantly hurt and how they are building a sustainable media business in the free-inf...

This week in a podcast twist, the interviewer becomes the interviewee! That’s right, I’m interviewed by guest host and best friend Jessica Wright. In this episode, I talk about my corporate career and how I started my business Let's Be Frank. We discuss the financial decisions and implications of becoming self-employed. I talk about the “taboo” of leaving a business that I loved and why that made me feel like a failure. And finally, I talk about the importance of women’s impact in business an...

My guest this week is Lucy Werner, PR expert and founder of The Wern, a specialist communications consultancy and training hub for startups, entrepreneurs and independent brands. Lucy’s first book “Hype Yourself: A no-nonsense DIY PR toolkit for small businesses” is launching on 9th January 2020.In this episode, Lucy shares how she began her PR business The Wern following a traditional agency model, but soon realised that bigger didn’t always mean better. Lucy pivoted her business model to cr...

My guest this week is the wonderful Kat Pither, Founder at Yogi Bare. In this episode, we discuss how Kat first found yoga when she was in rehab, and how that experience led her to build a warm and gracious yogi community that doesn’t require you to bend like a pretzel to join in. We talk about how Kat started Yogi Bare, how the business grew and how she learnt the hard way about building proper financial foundations. We talk about personal resilience, sustainable retail and having the courag...

My guests this week for the Women On Top Christmas Special (and final episode of 2019!) are Cali Mack and Sarah Malik, Co-Founders at design studio Malik + Mack, which has been recognised as one of the top 50 female-founded companies in London. Join us for some festive excitement (forgive us, it’s been a long year…) as we talk about the business of creativity, how to find inspiration under pressure and dealing with difficult clients. We discuss how Sarah and Cali have built a cash positive se...

My guest this week is Lucy Wright, serial entrepreneur and Co-Founder at Nice Drinks.Nice is revolutionising the way we drink wine through their canned wine for on-the-go drinking #wineforwhenever.In this episode, we talk about the lessons Lucy learnt from her first business Cuckoo Bircher Muesli, which Lucy built straight out of university with her business partner and sold in 2016. We discuss Lucy’s approach to creating Nice Drinks based on previous experience, their funding raise and what ...

My guest this week is Ailbhe Malone, Author and Senior Editor at The Strategist. Ailbhe has authored two books on the topic of self-care, 101 Tiny Changes to Brighten Your Day and 101 Tiny Changes to Brighten Your World. Ailbhe is on a mission to help people in creative roles flourish, and to always leave the door open behind her. In this episode, we talk about Ailbhe’s early days as a journalist and the future of journalism in a free-information economy. Ailbhe generously shares how sh...