Sonali has been a regular face on BBC One for fourteen years. She is in her eighth year of hosting the property show Escape to the Country and also presents from many live events, such Trooping the Colour, The Lord Mayor’s Show and The Commonwealth Service, for the channel.

Sonali joined the ITV Tonight reporting team in 2020 and has appeared regularly on BBC Radio 4's Today programme and on BBC Breakfast.

Sonali was part of the presentation teams for Beijing 2008, Delhi 2010, the Cricket World Cup 2011, London 2012, Glasgow 2014 and Wimbledon for BBC Sport.

Sonali was a long-serving presenter of Newsround and has also hosted Crimewatch and National Lottery Live for BBC One.

Sonali is an Ambassador for the British Asian Trust, The Prince’s Trust and Barnardo’s and regularly hosts live audience events.

In this episode, we talk about how she has built her career in TV & some of the A-list personalities she's interviewed. Sonali gives us insight into preparing to interview high-profile people, the 'unofficial agreement' between her and her father while pursuing a not-so-regular career. She dives into her experiences at the BBC, the skills she's needed and reflects on her attitude going into dangerous situations such as the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake and reporting from Afghanistan. To connect with Sonali online you can find her here on Twitter:  https://twitter.com/SonaliShah And Instagram here: http://instagram.com/sonalishah

Pinky is an author, motivational speaker, food expert, and women's advocate. As well as founding Spice Magic & the Spice Magic Experience, she is the founder and chair of several awards recognising influential women and leaders, including the annual Women of the Future Awards and the Asian Women of Achievement Awards.

In this episode, Pinky shares with us her journey into business and how kindness has shaped it. We talk about the skills a leader can learn from kindness and how we can connect over cooking. We go on to reflect on some of the challenges Pinky has overcome; putting emphasis on being authentic to yourself and not fearing failure. We touch on Pinky's ethos surrounding the 7 Q's to help leaders lead more effectively and she explains what we can do to improve things such as our LQ to become more 'likeable'.

 

To connect with Pinky online you can find her here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pinkylilani

And find out more about Women of the Future: https://womenofthefuture.co.uk/

Or find out more about Spice Magic here: http://www.spicemagic.com/

In this episode, I'm joined by Shivali Bhammer. A woman of many talents; she's a singer, dancer, actor, writer and public speaker. Juggling a life of creativity and high-performing corporate roles, Shivali has left her mark across 3 continents chasing her passions.

We talk about Shivali's first move to Mumbai with Sony BMG, how she mustered the courage to leave a promising career path in the heart of London to chase her dreams in India, with one of the largest record labels in the world.

Shivali gives us insight into her mindset and the way she views the world, her secrets for success and where she plans on going next.

To connect with Shivali, find her online here:

https://twitter.com/shivaliartist

https://www.facebook.com/shivaliartist/

www.shivali.co.uk