Nicole is the founder of Rosie Blooms - a flower business with a difference. She sends gorgeous bouquets using quality flowers with thoughtfully designed message postcards. They help send messages of Love, Hope, Strength, Kindness and Courage from your heart to theirs. 

Nicole was a mental health nurse for over 20 years so truly understands the variety of emotions people experience and how others can offer support and show up when someone really needs it. 

She also has a love and passion for flowers and wanted to bring theses 2 skills together, so created Rosie Blooms. A flower business with a difference, where yes, beautiful bouquets are created but the message behind why you are sending the flowers is put right at the centre. She has designed message postcards that accompany every bouquet to help you send the message you actually want to say. 

Nicole named Rosie Blooms after her Mum, Rose. She wanted to affectionately reference her Mum with an uplifting tone and be clear that this a brand built of Hope, Strength and Courage - whilst is maybe have been born from grief, Rosie Blooms’ story is one that demonstrates good things can come grief, if you let them……

To find out more about Nicole and Rosie Blooms head HERE.

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Claire Bartlett is the business strategist leading the Anti-Hustle Revolution. After achieving the "dream" of 6-figure success, she found herself working 60-hour weeks, missing her daughter's childhood, and trapped in a business that consumed rather than enhanced her life. The wake-up call came at burnout: she'd built a gilded cage.

In just six months, Claire systematically rebuilt her business using what would become her signature R.E.S.E.T. Framework™ - reclaiming 40 hours per week while maintaining 6-figure revenue. 

Today, through The Simplified CEO Podcast, 121 Coaching, & Speaking, Claire helps ambitious women escape the hustle trap she barely survived. She's the living proof that intentional integration beats work-life balance, that 20-hour work weeks can generate 6-figure income, and that success should enhance your life - not sacrifice it.

Claire challenges everything the business world tells entrepreneurs about what it takes to succeed. She's not teaching theory; she's teaching the exact methodology she used to transform from exhausted to empowered - from barely surviving her success to designing a life she actually wants to live.

You have been listening to The Sisterhood....In Session Podcast - thank you so much for joining us!

The Sisterhood Networking Group is an award winning franchise with branches in many locations across the UK.

We are passionate about changing the face of in person networking, our goal being to make it as accessible and affordable for as many as possible.

Nothing local for you to attend? Why not consider becoming a franchisee and host your own groups?! Just like our meetings, the opportunity is affordable and no experience is necessary. Plus you get to promote the day job at the same time. What’s not to love?!! 

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Becky Loto, is an International Speaker, Certified Business Strategist, Mentor, and entrepreneur with 30+ years of international business experience. She has founded five businesses across Mexico and the UK, in varied sectors including property, hospitality and tourism. 

With her tough love, practical strategies, and high-energy and fun approach, Becky supports ambitious women, entrepreneurs and senior executives, to be boldly brilliant, losing the self-doubt so the results are less stress, more money, more impact and a life they love. Becky loves connecting with interesting people, having adventures, is a property investor, a lover of surfing, being at the beach and all things Latino.

When she was 21, Rebecca Loto left the UK for what should have been six months to learn French. That six months became 21 years and she returned to the UK with an Argentinian husband and a Mexican daughter. 

After a year in France, working as an au pair and a waitress she learnt French. This enabled her to work as a travel rep and spent three winters in French ski resorts and two summers in
Spain, before being sent to the Dominican Republic, where she met her now husband whilst having a waterski lesson. 

Becky and her husband worked in Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, Grand Cayman and Mexico, France and Italy. Becky worked in the tourism, property and legal industries before becoming a dive instructor and later set up an underwater videography and photography business in Mexico, which grew to have a team of 10 women. She worked from motorhome as an office, running solely off solar power. The success of that business enabled them to buy a plot of land and built a home but in 2007, when category five Hurricane Dean hit the town, it sadly flattened almost everything in its path. Whilst their home was one of the few still left standing, their livelihoods disappeared overnight.

Becky  started managing beach houses, which were second homes for foreigners and Mexicans. This grew to include holiday home rentals and Becky opened a launderette and ended up selling homes and properties, worth hundreds of thousands of US dollars.

When her daughter was three, they left Mexico and headed back to the UK to start again.
For six months, as her husband wasn’t able to live in the UK, he returned to work in Mexico, andRebecca was a single mum. She landed a role working for a global engineering company manufacturing a marine safety product. This role, as Business Manager for the Americas, involved travel from Canada to Argentina, where Becky used her Spanish and learned Portuguese. She liaised with the Mexican and Brazilian navies so they would incorporate their safety products and attended a lot of trade shows and consulate parties! 

With the global pandemic, Becky wasn't happy without the in person work with clients, so she took a couple of bold moves. One was to leave her well paid corporate role for a role which was a contract for 5 months with the Growth Hub. Here is where she fell in love with business mentoring, using her experience of having founded 3 businesses in Mexico. She also learned about property investing in the UK, remortgaged her home to buy an empty run down property which her husband and her converted to a 5 bed house share in Cornwall. 

Becky continued to work as a Business Mentor at Falmouth University, supporting start ups. 

Now through Tides Business, as a Business Strategist, Mentor and Inspirational Speaker, she helps women get clarity on what they want and how to make it happen so they can step into their own brilliance. She has a part time contract at Cornwall Innovation Centres helping business owners there too.

On a mission to cement change in other women’s lives and with a proven track record of successfully running two six figure businesses, Rebecca wants to show others just what is possible when you do things on your own t

You have been listening to The Sisterhood....In Session Podcast - thank you so much for joining us!

The Sisterhood Networking Group is an award winning franchise with branches in many locations across the UK.

We are passionate about changing the face of in person networking, our goal being to make it as accessible and affordable for as many as possible.

Nothing local for you to attend? Why not consider becoming a franchisee and host your own groups?! Just like our meetings, the opportunity is affordable and no experience is necessary. Plus you get to promote the day job at the same time. What’s not to love?!! 

Fancy adding some online networking into the mix?! You can join me Sarah Ridge for my FREE sessions twice a month.

For more information on everything I’ve just mentioned just head to our website HERE. 

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Katie Oman is a multi-passionate entrepreneur. Her passion is to help women to live their best lives for themselves.

She is an author of ten books to date, with her new book being published on the 1st of May. She's also a book coach, ghostwriter, women's empowerment coach, events organiser, and motivational speaker. 

Katie's journey has seen more ups and down than a rollercoaster! Having previously worked in such roles as barmaid, high school teacher, and administrator, she couldn't find true happiness and fulfilment. In 2010, a family tragedy proved to be the catalyst that cracked her open and she had a big spiritual awakening from that space. 

As well as leaning into her natural clairvoyant abilities, she also ended up leaning into one of her lifelong dreams of becoming a writer with the release of her first book in 2013. Until 2021, Katie was focused on juggling the spiritual with the creative, but the pandemic left her feeling burnt out. 

A friend of hers gave her an Akashic reading that changed her life, for it was this that led her to embrace her true passion of empowering women. Feeling more aligned than ever, Katie uses her many talents and interests to help people all over the world in whichever way she can.

Connect with Katie HERE.

You have been listening to The Sisterhood....In Session Podcast - thank you so much for joining us!

The Sisterhood Networking Group is an award winning franchise with branches in many locations across the UK.

We are passionate about changing the face of in person networking, our goal being to make it as accessible and affordable for as many as possible.

Nothing local for you to attend? Why not consider becoming a franchisee and host your own groups?! Just like our meetings, the opportunity is affordable and no experience is necessary. Plus you get to promote the day job at the same time. What’s not to love?!! 

Fancy adding some online networking into the mix?! You can join me Sarah Ridge for my FREE sessions twice a month.

For more information on everything I’ve just mentioned just head to our website HERE. 

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Lylie Frost is a Cognitive Hypnotherapist who works with people who look “fine” on the outside but feel stuck, lost, or misunderstood underneath. 

She helps clients understand and change the unconscious patterns running their behaviour so they can stop repeating the same cycles and start taking real ownership of their lives. Her work focuses on identity-level change, so life doesn’t just look good on paper, it actually feels right on the inside.

Lylie always felt "different" to everyone around her. As a child she was a tomboy. She played football, wore boys clothes, had short hair and got constant messages of who she was "not being ok". She became very shy and learned to shrink into the background to protect herself. She realised as an adult that she was gay, and it made more sense but she still felt "on the outside". 

She never really knew what she wanted to do so she went to college and Uni but, still fell into various low paid jobs due to lack of confidence. She grew up in a poor area where expectations were low, and those messages held her back. 

She ended up getting into teaching after thinking I "should" get a proper job, but found it hard to get a permanent position for around four years. The turning point was being interviewed for a temporary position she was already doing and not getting it. It was the first time in her life she'd actually thought about what she wanted to do rather than "should" do and she quit. She then ended up working  in Youth Justice for the last 13 years. It can be rewarding but draining and still wasn't really what she wanted. 

In 2019 she did an NLP practitioner course and it lit a fire under her. She understood how her life had shaped her but more importantly that she could do something about it! It was the first time she'd ever considered that running her own business was an option for "someone like her". She started a coaching business but it didn't take off, she was naïve and had a lot more work to do, on herself and learning about business. 

Fast forward to 2024, feeling miserable and stuck. She decided to train as a Cognitive Hypnotherapist, went straight onto the master practitioner course and started seeing clients in May 2025. From the start she began learning about business as well to put her in the best position possible when she launched. 

Now she gets to help people whose "baggage" is holding them back to begin to live the life that they previously didn't think was possible and she loves it. 

You have been listening to The Sisterhood....In Session Podcast - thank you so much for joining us!

The Sisterhood Networking Group is an award winning franchise with branches in many locations across the UK.

We are passionate about changing the face of in person networking, our goal being to make it as accessible and affordable for as many as possible.

Nothing local for you to attend? Why not consider becoming a franchisee and host your own groups?! Just like our meetings, the opportunity is affordable and no experience is necessary. Plus you get to promote the day job at the same time. What’s not to love?!! 

Fancy adding some online networking into the mix?! You can join me Sarah Ridge for my FREE sessions twice a month.

For more information on everything I’ve just mentioned just head to our website HERE. 

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Charlotte is a branding and marketing expert with over seven years experience in the industry. With a passion for helping business owners show up confidently and strategically through bespoke branding and marketing strategies, her clients work with her to achieve premium visibility and become UNFORGETTABLE in their industry. 

Her journey into business was anything but smooth, but it shaped her into who she is today. She has always been creative - growing up, Charlotte was the one always sketching, painting, designing something. 

So it was no surprise that she went on to study art and graphic design. She took a HND in Graphic Design and while she loved the work, that time in her life was tough. She was bullied by classmates who told her her work was “shit.” It knocked her confidence, but not her determination.

You can find out more about her membership, The Marketing Vault, here:

https://www.refine-design.co.uk/the-marketing-vault
Connect with Charlotte on Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/refinedesignltd/

Come hang out on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063940654543 

You have been listening to The Sisterhood....In Session Podcast - thank you so much for joining us!

The Sisterhood Networking Group is an award winning franchise with branches in many locations across the UK.

We are passionate about changing the face of in person networking, our goal being to make it as accessible and affordable for as many as possible.

Nothing local for you to attend? Why not consider becoming a franchisee and host your own groups?! Just like our meetings, the opportunity is affordable and no experience is necessary. Plus you get to promote the day job at the same time. What’s not to love?!! 

Fancy adding some online networking into the mix?! You can join me Sarah Ridge for my FREE sessions twice a month.

For more information on everything I’ve just mentioned just head to our website HERE. 

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* PLEASE NOTE - in this episode we discuss chronic health conditions, mental health issues and suicide *

Gemma is a 43 year old a global sales and marketing leader with over 22 years’ experience across radio, print, digital, and live events. She spent more than 11 years at Google, where she designed and delivered high-impact global programmes and events for CEOs and senior leaders—operating at the intersection of strategy, culture, and performance.

In 2024 she was diagnosed with multiple invisible disabilities, including autism, bipolar disorder, perimenopause, severe scoliosis, and fibromyalgia. This pivotal moment led her to step away from corporate life and build a business that helps others by sharing her experiences and what she's learned on my journey.

Gemma created Leggacy Inc to help organisations address one of the most overlooked—and costly—gaps in modern workplaces: invisible disability inclusion.

In many workplaces, disability is still unconsciously associated with what is visible. Yet the majority of disabled employees in the UK live with invisible disabilities. Of the estimated 16 million disabled people in the UK, only around 20% have a visibly obvious disability—making invisible disability inclusion a critical leadership and commercial issue, not a niche concern.

Today, Gemma works as a corporate speaker and consultant specialising in DEI and Learning & Development. She partners with organisations to build psychologically safe cultures where people with invisible disabilities can perform at their best.

To find out more about Gemma and her work head HERE.

You have been listening to The Sisterhood....In Session Podcast - thank you so much for joining us!

The Sisterhood Networking Group is an award winning franchise with branches in many locations across the UK.

We are passionate about changing the face of in person networking, our goal being to make it as accessible and affordable for as many as possible.

Nothing local for you to attend? Why not consider becoming a franchisee and host your own groups?! Just like our meetings, the opportunity is affordable and no experience is necessary. Plus you get to promote the day job at the same time. What’s not to love?!! 

Fancy adding some online networking into the mix?! You can join me Sarah Ridge for my FREE sessions twice a month.

For more information on everything I’ve just mentioned just head to our website HERE. 

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Property Expert and Entrepreneur Abi Hookway is renowned for cutting
through the noise in the property market and offering valuable insights
to anyone considering property investment. 

Her success story is built on education, a proactive mindset, and the ability to seize opportunities. She has completely transformed her life, going from a single mother in £24,000 debt to building an £9 million property portfolio.

Her expertise spans a variety of strategies, including property flipping, buy to let,
serviced accommodation, and commercial property. With a sharp eye for
wealth-building opportunities, she shares her knowledge to empower aspiring
investors, proving that financial freedom is within reach with the right strategies. 

Abi has also built a multi-million pound business Redmayne Smith that continues to grow alongside her investments. 

To find out more about Abi head HERE.

You have been listening to The Sisterhood....In Session Podcast - thank you so much for joining us!

The Sisterhood Networking Group is an award winning franchise with branches in many locations across the UK.

We are passionate about changing the face of in person networking, our goal being to make it as accessible and affordable for as many as possible.

Nothing local for you to attend? Why not consider becoming a franchisee and host your own groups?! Just like our meetings, the opportunity is affordable and no experience is necessary. Plus you get to promote the day job at the same time. What’s not to love?!! 

Fancy adding some online networking into the mix?! You can join me Sarah Ridge for my FREE sessions twice a month.

For more information on everything I’ve just mentioned just head to our website HERE. 

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Louisa Strachan is the Director of The Song School - a community music organisation in Southend-on-Sea, Essex. The Song School actually began as a vocal coaching business - that’s Louisa's background: She is a vocalist, vocal coach and writer. 

But even early on, she knew she wanted to build something that was more than traditional “singing lessons”. She wanted a space that broke the mould: creative, community-led, and genuinely accessible to young people who don’t usually get access to these kinds of extra-curricular opportunities. In many ways, The Song School is the space Southend didn’t have when Louisa was 13, writing songs in her bedroom.

In 2022, that vision naturally evolved into a Community Interest Company - and that’s when The Song School sprung to life. Over time, it's grown - delivering music education and creative programmes for children and young people, including those from low-income households and those who face additional barriers in mainstream settings. They now support a large weekly community of young people through sessions that provide opportunities to learn, make, perform and for some, earn in music - and work closely with families, schools and partners to make sure cost and circumstance aren’t the thing that shuts the door.

Louisa's role has evolved alongside the organisation. She's still deeply connected to the “why” - community, belonging, and young people being able to tell their stories - but also spends a lot of time on the less visible work: building partnerships, securing funding, developing programmes, supporting staff, and constantly trying to make the experience clearer and more accessible for families.

What she's most proud of is how The Song School has grown without losing it's heart: it's still relationship-led, still rooted in Southend, and still focused on making music a real, lived experience - not just a lesson.

You can find out more about The Song School HERE.

You have been listening to The Sisterhood....In Session Podcast - thank you so much for joining us!

The Sisterhood Networking Group is an award winning franchise with branches in many locations across the UK.

We are passionate about changing the face of in person networking, our goal being to make it as accessible and affordable for as many as possible.

Nothing local for you to attend? Why not consider becoming a franchisee and host your own groups?! Just like our meetings, the opportunity is affordable and no experience is necessary. Plus you get to promote the day job at the same time. What’s not to love?!! 

Fancy adding some online networking into the mix?! You can join me Sarah Ridge for my FREE sessions twice a month.

For more information on everything I’ve just mentioned just head to our website HERE. 

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Jenny Knight is a celebrant and mentor - she has also written a book of ten short erotic stories for women 'Encounters'.  Her characters are relatable, endearing and brave, with each have an exciting experience.

Having been a writer of ceremonies, speeches, and poetry for almost 15 years, she knew she had a book in her, but it took a while to figure out what it would be about.

Channelling her creative writing skills and a passion for empowering women, Jenny chose to write short, powerful stories that focused on the connection between people.

Having shorter stories means the book can easily be picked up and put down, read whenever time allows and in any order.

The book celebrates being visible, valued and desired no matter our age (aimed at 40+).  She champions women and loves to support other people's endeavours too.

Her debut novel, "Encounters" is available now on Amazon as a paperback (Published Feb 2026). You can find it HERE.

And you can find out more about Jenny HERE.

You have been listening to The Sisterhood....In Session Podcast - thank you so much for joining us!

The Sisterhood Networking Group is an award winning franchise with branches in many locations across the UK.

We are passionate about changing the face of in person networking, our goal being to make it as accessible and affordable for as many as possible.

Nothing local for you to attend? Why not consider becoming a franchisee and host your own groups?! Just like our meetings, the opportunity is affordable and no experience is necessary. Plus you get to promote the day job at the same time. What’s not to love?!! 

Fancy adding some online networking into the mix?! You can join me Sarah Ridge for my FREE sessions twice a month.

For more information on everything I’ve just mentioned just head to our website HERE. 

Thanks for listening!!