Founder and CEO, Astrid, is a self confessed #NOODIST

After leaving a successful career in finance and working with global leaders like JP Morgan, she followed her passion and started her own business. NOOD revolutionists alternative solutions to traditional bras, to fit the needs of women around the world whilst adjusting to lifestyles, transcending skin tone, and fitting all body shapes and sizes.

I talk to Astrid  about shifting gears from corporate to entrepreneurship, and how she's built a successful and sustainable business whilst navigating band wagon trends, the emergence of body conscious movements, and the growing demands of female consumers.

Get insight into navigating jumping from the corporate ship and a very real insight into the ups and downs of starting your own business.

Shop NOOD online at www.lovenood.com and find them on Instagram @welovenood

Season 2 opens with an inspirational chat with Oliver Baillie - CEO of the newest addition to the Middle East e-commerce scene - Plain Tiger. 

With a special appeal to me, based on its South African roots, the site combines fashion and sustainability with education, upliftment and so much more!

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Plain Tiger is the global platform for conscious luxury lifestyle products. A first of its kind, the platform curates ethical and sustainable fashion, beauty and home decor brands from across the world.

There is momentum behind this movement, the company already has premium brands from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and the Middle East.

The company’s genesis is as the e-commerce arm of South African creative economy group LMDA. Plain Tiger is female-founded and 70% female. Fueled by its new international leadership team, it has been reborn as Plain Tiger to enable its mission of becoming the leading and most impactful conscious luxury platform in the world.

Stay in touch via the links below;

www.plaintiger.co

[email protected]

@plaintiger.co / #plain tiger_loves

From a busy and active life as a mum, to planning the most lust worthy holidays, Dani and I sit down on a shared platform podcast to share our travel adventures. Everything from cry-then, laugh-now stories of vomit on planes, to more serious topics like poverty tourism; we dish it all on a long but worthwhile conversation that will make you laugh, cringe and want to holiday plan with us!

Founder of the much-loved beauty brand, Rodial, and author of two books that shares a real and encouraging entrepreneurship journey; Maria talks to me about her journey, her brand and the lessons she's learnt along the way.

Without a background in the beauty industry she created a business that leads the way in both product and marketing. In her books she talks about the reality of building a business, and she shares her unique insight into taking the steadier route to success.

Follow her on Instagram @mrsrodial

Aparna signed up for a show in the queue of an airport that would change the way the world saw her. A villain to some and hero to others, she was one of the most talked about characters of the popular Netflix series, Indian Matchmaking.

Her on screen list of demands, date disasters and articulate nature made her the subject of many debates on addressing cultural stereotypes, and viral internet animation.

But is the person we see on screen a true reflection of who Aparna is?

I chat to her from Houston, Texas and ask all the questions I, and so many of the people who watched the show, had.

Did she find love?

Were producers fully transparent about her role on the show?

Did she really end a date because he ran a podcast, or didn't know what Bolivian Salt Flats were?

Join me on the podcast and be sure you read the blog post on my interview and how as audiences we need to be more conscious of how we consume media. Read it here: www.meetmrsmarty.com

Follow along in Instagram @bewellbranded

South African actor, comedian and TV show host, Siv Ngesi, gets very open and honest about his career and the lessons he has learnt. As a person, his confidence and determination is unapologetic, and he gets very honest with me about how he has built his brand, and maps out his career with the overhanging theme of authenticity.

From hard hitting questions on whether being black allows him to voice his strong opinions, to whether controversy contributes to his brand's trajectory, Siv is open and honest with a very 'like it or not' attitude.

Follow him on Instagram @sivngesi

South African beauty, Demi-Leigh Tebow (née Nel Peters) is by far one of the most down to earth woman you'll hear from.

Miss Universe winner in 2017, she talks to me about her journey through pageantry, how she uses her voice and platform for important causes, and how she's settling in to married life in the USA.

Married to New York Mets player and former NFL quarterback, Tim Tebow, Demi shares how she's teaching him her native language of Afrikaans and enjoying newlywed bliss in quarantine.

Keep notepads ready at the end too, for Demi's pizza picks in NYC!

Having worked with the chloédigtal team, I can say that being a CD babe rocks!

But how can the support and membership base of the CD team build your online presence and brand?

I chat to Chloe Watts, the beauty and brain behind CD and she shared her story and so much more!

Get your notepads ready!

About chloédigtal

chloédigtal is the premier tech support and digital strategy membership for influencers. Team CD use technical expertise, industry knowledge and passion to help influencers build and maintain their online presence. The technical training and strategy provided by CD is offered to empower content creators, grow businesses and scale influence.

Founded in 2014, CD remains the leading technology membership for influencers helping over 1000 talented people worldwide grow their digital businesses.

Being the mother to one, two or three kids can be tough enough, but American philanthropist, Maggie Doyne, is a mother to over 50 beautiful Nepalese children and her own biological daughter, Ruby.

She began adopting orphan children in Nepal from the age of 19, and has since developed an impressive ecosystem of support, education and development for the entire community in Surkhet, Nepal.

She won the CNN Hero of the year on November 2015. Her project now runs a school, children's home, women's centre, and safe house for girls.

Maggie joins me to talk about her organization, Blink Now, and how she separates the humanitarian side of the work she does, from the business goals necessary to keep it all going.

'Be bold and do things differently.' - Shukri on risk vs. caution. 

Shukri Toefy is an entrepreneur, strategic advisor, investor, speaker, film producer, and CEO of Fortified Group. On this podcast he shares useful insight into how we can find opportunity in crisis, and come out the other end thriving. As an award winning personality, and entrepreneurship expert at Said Business School (University of Oxford), Shukri is the best in the business to be offering new perspectives and advice on how you can navigate the next few months with your business or brand.

About Shukri

At present, Shukri is a Special Advisor and Ambassador to the G20 World Policy Forum. He has chosen to sit on a carefully curated list of boards, and is chairman of Southfields Group. He is also a guest lecturer at a number of universities around the world.

As a strategic advisor, Shukri has consulted to some of the most exciting brands on the continent and globally around business strategy, communication and growth. Recognized as one of the top creative minds on the African continent, he has frequently spoken at industry events such as Cannes Lions, a festival of creativity and the meeting place for the entire creative industry.

He has been profiled in various publications including Forbes Africa, Huffington Post, GQ, Marketing Week, Creativity and AdAge, and has been named a Top 40 CEO by Under40CEOs, and one of Fast Company’s Most Productive People.