Working For Progress

In this episode, Dani speaks with Joanna Craven. Game designer, maths tutor, massage therapist, hops farmer, massage therapist, and one of those rare people who approaches everything she does with equal curiosity and competence.

At the heart of Jo's work is a love of problem solving and a belief that games are one of the best tools we have for helping other people do it too. She designs educational games that tackle real-world challenges, from water shortages to resource management, making complex problems feel accessible and even fun.

But Jo's working life is also an honest portrait of the gig economy; piecing together a living from multiple skills, multiple roles, and a willingness to try things. It's a life that doesn't fit neatly on a CV, and she wears that lightly.

A warm, wide-ranging conversation about creativity, problem solving, and what it looks like to build a working life entirely on your own terms.

You can find more about Jo through her website and Rapid Game Design, or at LinkedIn.

Working For Progress is hosted by Dani Trudeau and produced by Alice Hudson. We are coming from Tribe Porty, a community coworking space in Portobello, on the coast of Edinburgh.

If you enjoy the show, follow, rate, and share, it helps other people find conversations like this one.

You can find more about Tribe Porty on Instagram & Facebook and Youtube and LinkedIn.

Find Dani's substack at RootedImpact. 

In this episode, Dani speaks with Adam McGibbon. Environmental campaigner, strategist, and one of the most effective political operators you've probably never heard of.

Adam's track record is remarkable. He helped shift billions away from fossil fuel financing, secured pledges from 39 governments to end public money flowing to fossil fuel projects, and as a student activist in Belfast, helped stop a tuition fee rise that saved students around £1 billion by 2020.

But here's the twist: ask Adam why he does it, and the answer isn't what you'd expect. It's not the planet, exactly. It's the winning. Adam loves to win, and it turns out that when your opponent is government corruption and fossil fuel money, winning feels very good indeed.

A surprisingly fun, energising conversation about tenacity, strategy, and what happens when someone with a dog-with-a-bone mentality decides to take on the most powerful forces on the planet.

Working For Progress is hosted by Dani Trudeau and produced by Alice Hudson. We are coming from Tribe Porty, a community coworking space in Portobello, on the coast of Edinburgh.

If you enjoy the show, follow, rate, and share, it helps other people find conversations like this one.

You can find more about Tribe Porty on Instagram & Facebook and Youtube and LinkedIn.

Find Dani's substack at RootedImpact. 

In this episode, Dani speaks with Rob Hosking, former frontline police officer, mental health advocate, and co-founder of Rise of Happiness.

Rob's story begins with one of the hardest shifts imaginable: witnessing a suicide and losing a colleague on the same day. What followed was a reckoning — with his own mental health, his own happiness, and what he actually wanted his life to look like.

Out of that experience came something practical and deeply personal: seven steps to happiness, rooted not in theory but in his own long journey back to feeling well. He now shares them freely, through vulnerable talks, a free happiness magazine, and a growing movement built on a simple belief; that happiness is worth taking seriously.

A raw, passionate, and genuinely moving conversation about trauma, recovery, and what it takes to rebuild yourself from the ground up.

Please note: this episode includes discussion of suicide, traumatic loss, and mental health.

To find more, check out the Rise of Happiness or find Rob on LinkedIn. 

Working For Progress is hosted by Dani Trudeau and produced by Alice Hudson. We are coming from Tribe Porty, a community coworking space in Portobello, on the coast of Edinburgh.

If you enjoy the show, follow, rate, and share, it helps other people find conversations like this one.

You can find more about Tribe Porty on Instagram & Facebook and Youtube and LinkedIn.

Find Dani's substack at RootedImpact. 

In this episode, Dani speaks with Kaigan Carrie. Criminologist, co-founder of Rise of Happiness, and host of the Evolving Prisons podcast.

Kaigan's perspective on happiness is a broader one than most. With a Masters in Criminology and a deep passion for prison reform, she sees personal wellbeing and collective justice as part of the same conversation. As the partner of former police officer Rob Hosking, she has also seen the system from both sides — and that dual view has only deepened her conviction that we are failing the most vulnerable people in our society.

She speaks openly and passionately about the humanity and inhumanity that can exist inside our prisons, and what genuinely safer, happier societies might actually look like.

A thought-provoking and personally felt conversation about justice, collective care, and why real happiness has to include everyone.

You can find more about Rise of Happiness or listen to Kaigan's podcast, Evolving Prison.

Working For Progress is hosted by Dani Trudeau and produced by Alice Hudson. We are coming from Tribe Porty, a community coworking space in Portobello, on the coast of Edinburgh.

If you enjoy the show, follow, rate, and share, it helps other people find conversations like this one.

You can find more about Tribe Porty on Instagram & Facebook and Youtube and LinkedIn.

Find Dani's substack at RootedImpact. 

Dani Trudeau and Alice Hudson introduce themselves and the reason why they started Working For Progress. 

Alice interviews Dani about why she set up Tribe Porty, a community coworking space in Edinburgh and how that led to the launch of Keystone, a community for women looking to reimagine their working life. 

There is much love for both communities and also around how we are all working for progress for ourselves, for others and for this world. 

This podcast is for anyone who has ever worked, ever wondered where their place is and  everyone who wants to feel like they belong or have had the privilege to find their place and do the things that make them feel most alive and connected. 

Working For Progress is hosted by Dani Trudeau and produced by Alice Hudson. We are coming from Tribe Porty, a community coworking space in Portobello, on the coast of Edinburgh.

If you enjoy the show, follow, rate, and share, it helps other people find conversations like this one.

You can find more about Tribe Porty on Instagram & Facebook and Youtube and LinkedIn.

Find Dani's substack at RootedImpact. 

In this episode, Dani speaks with Nasim Forootan. Culture and Learning Holder at Dark Matter Labs, member of the Soul.com cooperative, and someone who has been thinking about fairness and knowledge her whole life.

Growing up in Ecuador, Nasim learned early, from her fathe, that coherence and trust are the foundations of how we relate to each other and build things together. Those values now sit at the heart of her work: a deep belief that knowledge shouldn't only be available to those who can afford it, and that liberating information is an act of equity.

They talk about what that looks like in practice, what drew her to the work she does now, and as a mother, what kind of world she is trying to help build for the next generation.

A thoughtful, warm conversation about equity, community, and the quiet power of making knowledge available to everyone.

Working For Progress is hosted by Dani Trudeau and produced by Alice Hudson. We are coming from Tribe Porty, a community coworking space in Portobello, on the coast of Edinburgh.

If you enjoy the show, follow, rate, and share, it helps other people find conversations like this one.

You can find more about Tribe Porty on Instagram & Facebook and Youtube and LinkedIn.

Find Dani's substack at RootedImpact. 

In this episode, Dani speaks with Osbert Lancaster, co-founder and director of Realise Earth, an organisation that helps managers and directors lead meaningful sustainability initiatives and reconnect people to the natural world.

Osbert's work is rooted in a simple but powerful distinction: the difference between asking "why should we do sustainability?" and "how can we do sustainability?" That shift, from reluctance to purposes, where real change begins, and it's what Realise Earth is built around.

He talks about the values at the heart of his work, and how his parents planted the seeds of what he cares about most. It's a conversation about living your beliefs through your work, and what it looks like when an organisation genuinely puts purpose at its centre.

A thoughtful conversation about sustainability, values, and the mindset that makes meaningful change possible.

Find out more about Realise Earth at realise.earth

Working For Progress is hosted by Dani Trudeau and produced by Alice Hudson. We are coming from Tribe Porty, a community coworking space in Portobello, on the coast of Edinburgh.

If you enjoy the show, follow, rate, and share, it helps other people find conversations like this one.

You can find more about Tribe Porty on Instagram & Facebook and Youtube and LinkedIn.

Find Dani's substack at RootedImpact. 

In this very first episode of Working for Progress, Dani speaks with Bob Cummins. Founder of Sodak, behavioural science practitioner, and, as it happens, Dani's husband.

Sodak helps organisations become safer, happier and less wasteful workplaces by applying the latest thinking in behavioural science to the way people work together. Bob is passionate about this work — and clear-eyed about who it's for. He only works with people who are genuinely up for change. That boundary, it turns out, makes all the difference.

They talk about what it took to leave behind the security of employment and start something of his own, why behavioural science matters more than most organisations realise, and what it looks like to build a working life around something you genuinely believe in.

A warm and honest conversation — and a fitting place to begin.

A warm and honest conversation — and a fitting place to begin.

Find out more through their website, sodak.co.uk

Working For Progress is hosted by Dani Trudeau and produced by Alice Hudson. We are coming from Tribe Porty, a community coworking space in Portobello, on the coast of Edinburgh.

If you enjoy the show, follow, rate, and share, it helps other people find conversations like this one.

You can find more about Tribe Porty on Instagram & Facebook and Youtube and LinkedIn.

Find Dani's substack at RootedImpact. 

In this episode, Dani speaks with Lorna Lythgoe. Coach, positive psychologist, pluralistic counsellor, and founder of The Good Life School.

Lorna draws on an unusually wide range of thinking. From neuroscience to existentialism, mindfulness to embodied practice, to help people find their way through the big questions of life, work, relationships, and entrepreneurship. This conversation reflects that breadth.

They explore what a good life actually looks like, what gets in the way of people living one, and the underrated skill of knowing when to let go and when to begin. Lorna brings both knowledge and warmth to the conversation, full of insight, and grounded in a genuine belief that work has the potential to express who we are and where we're going.

A rich, ideas-led conversation about flourishing, purpose, and what it means to live well.

Working For Progress is hosted by Dani Trudeau and produced by Alice Hudson. We are coming from Tribe Porty, a community coworking space in Portobello, on the coast of Edinburgh.

If you enjoy the show, follow, rate, and share, it helps other people find conversations like this one.

You can find more about Tribe Porty on Instagram & Facebook and Youtube and LinkedIn.

Find Dani's substack at RootedImpact.