Dalia Feldheim is a leadership coach, organization psychologist and wellness speaker who has worked with major brands including Proctor and Gamble, was marketing director on the hugely successful campaign ‘Always Like a Girl’ (which has 70 million views!) and watched across the world on her Ted Talk and at the Super Bowl. Her new book, ‘Dare to Lead Like a Girl - How to survive and thrive in the corporate jungle’ highlights Dalia’s personal journey and expert trained Harvard opinions and science...
Oct 09, 2022•52 min
Samantha Louise Nelson is passionate about women’s empowerment and teaching all people to unlock their strengths right from a DNA level. Samantha started in education, teaching and leading young people of all ages. She then went on to get a masters in Educational Leadership specializing in organizational systems change, and then a Diplomate and Instructorship in Biocognitive Science as well as a Diplomate in Biocognitive Organizational Science. Samantha uses this wealth of knowledge to help peop...
Mar 28, 2022•51 min
Lisa Cannon is an acclaimed Irish TV presenter, producer, and journalist who has received multiple nominations for VIP’s ‘the most stylish women in Ireland’. Lisa has interviewed the stars as anchor and producer on the virgin media show Box Office, including: Meryl Streep, Mick Jagger and Beyoncé. Lisa tells The Influential Women Podcast about her career journey, from talking her way onto the set of Sex and the City to her star studded career now. While sharing her wisdom on the complex entertai...
Mar 22, 2022•39 min
Natasha Eeles is the founder and director of Bold Voices, a youth-led social enterprise that delivers crucial education about gender inequality and gendered violence to young people in schools and universities. After completing an MSc in Gender and International Relations, Natasha used what she learned to set up Bold Voices, which was founded on the principle that all young people have the right to receive an education free from gender inequality and gendered violence. Natasha now spends her day...
Mar 15, 2022•40 min
Stephanie Hirst is a multi-award winning radio and TV presenter. Stephanie’s radio career started when she was 12 at Radio Aire in Leeds, which eventually led to hosting prime time shows on various stations including Capital Radio. She currently hosts ‘Stephanie Hirst’s belters’ on Hits Radio, where nothing but the best dancefloor throwbacks are featured. Stephanie has been given a multitude of awards, including a fellowship from the Radio Academy, one of the highest accolades someone can be awa...
Mar 08, 2022•56 min
Dr Jo North is an innovation expert and founder of The Big Bang Partnership, which helps businesses grow sustainably by stimulating creativity, innovation and entrepreneurial strategy. After graduating from Oxford, Dr Jo pursued many career paths and her experience ranges from accountancy, HR and sales management, to marketing, commercial business growth and customer experience at Board level. The influential Women Podcast talks to Dr Jo about how she applies research to help businesses, big or ...
Dec 28, 2021•37 min
Dr Nighat Arif is a medical educator and organ donation advocate and GP specialising in women’s health. Dr Nighat regularly appears on national breakfast news programs as a TV doctor to spread awareness about health issues and is a passionate promoter of menopause care, wellness, and self care. The Influential Women Podcast talks to Dr Nighat about her life spreading awareness and information to different communities, as well the agonizing journey she faced with her new-born son and liver transp...
Dec 21, 2021•41 min
Gillian McAllister is a Sunday Times best-selling author of multiple novels that deal with a variety of topics such as crime, trust, and relationships. Her most recent novel, That Night , was a Richard and Judy book club pick, and reached number one on the Kindle store. Gillian trained as a solicitor and wrote in her spare time in the evenings and on the weekends. While suffering with glandular fever she finished her debut novel, Everything But The Truth , which reached number 6 on the Sunday Ti...
Dec 14, 2021•39 min
Candice Plattor is a psychologist, addictions councillor, award winning author and Ted-X speaker. Candice specialises working with the loved ones of those struggling with addiction, co-dependency and lack of self worth. The Influential Women’s Podcast talks to Candice about her own struggles with addiction, her mantras for life, and the crucial distinction between self-esteem, and self respect among other important topics. If any of the issues discussed in this episode have affected you, please ...
Dec 07, 2021•47 min
Zara Janjua is a broadcaster, podcaster, journalist, documentary maker, actor, and writer among her many talents. Zara pursues a ‘multi-hyphen’ career, and has won awards across all these fields including being Highly Commended as a finalist for Women of The Future Award 2020, being named of the Top 40 Digital Women To Watch in the UK, winning a spot on the BBC Comedy Writer’s Room 19/20, and she was also shortlisted for the Funny Women Comedy Writing Award 2020 as well as a multitude of other s...
Nov 30, 2021•45 min
Angie Greaves is a national drive-time radio presenter on smooth, and has one of the most distinctive voices on UK radio. Angie has worked on various stations including LBC and Jazz Fm, and was the first female presenter on the Magic radio presenting team. The Influential Women’s Podcast talks to Angie about how she has overcome the challenges in her career and her life over lockdown with her daughters. Angie provides valuable wisdom on how she tries to be a positive role model for women 50+ and...
Nov 23, 2021•45 min
Dr Jerome Teelucksingh is the founder of international Men’s day, and currently teaches gender, racial & colonial History at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad & Tobago. Dr Jerome is passionate about uniting men and women over the issues we all face, and setting aside differences for a collective goal of peace, positive change and connecting as human beings. The Influential Women’s Podcast talks to Dr Jerome about what inspired him to set up international men’s day, how it bec...
Nov 16, 2021•36 min
Dr Marion Gluck is a renowned private doctor widely recognised for her pioneering treatment of hormone imbalances with Bio-identical hormones. Marion trained in Hamburg, but it was her 20-years in Australia that saw Marion campaign for women to have access to essential information about their hormones and treatment. Marion set up the Marion Gluck clinic to provide guidance and personalised treatment to thousands of people. The Influential Women Podcast talks to Marion about how important it is f...
Nov 09, 2021•37 min
Daisy Buchanan is award winning journalist and author, a podcast host and a successful book inspector as well as being a TEDx speaker and Grazia’s former Agony Aunt. The Influential Women’s Podcast talks to Daisy about her book The Sisterhood and her new book that she reveals that she has just finished writing. We also chat to Daisy about her past experiences in work and how they led her to be the successful author that she is today. It is host presented and Exec Produced by Nicki Bannerman and ...
Jul 28, 2021•47 min
Dr Yvonne Thompson, CBE is an award-winning business leader and public speaker, the Founder President of Win Trade Global Talks, an Executive mentor, the President of the European Federation of Black Women Business Owners and the former chair of the Radio Academy. The Influential Womens podcast talks to Yvonne about the forthcoming Win Talks Summit and awards and her work with diversity, equality and inclusion. Listen to the podcast for the opportunity to win a free VIP ticket to the online virt...
Jul 07, 2021•32 min
Amanda Prowse is an award- winning International Bestselling author whose novels have sold millions of copies around the world as the ‘queen of family drama’. As the most prolific writer of contemporary fiction in the UK writing 2 or 3 a year she sees as films in her mind. She discusses her romance with a soldier to her sons harrowing near suicide journey to co-writing a novel together on living with depression from parent and child and her new novel ‘waiting to begin’ It is host presented and E...
Jun 22, 2021•46 min
Jane Dyball is a former CEO in the music business within legal business affairs and a Music Week award-winner for her contribution to the industry. She also mentors songwriters for the iconic Abbey Road studios and supports women in the arts as Chair of the Primadonna festival in literature annually hosted in Suffolk. The Influential Women’s Podcast talks to Jane about the forthcoming ‘real life’ festival and the previous years with Sandi Toksvig and Jude Kelly. It is host presented and Exec Pro...
Jun 01, 2021•47 min
Jane Dyball is a former CEO in the music business within legal business affairs and a Music Week award-winner for her contribution to the industry. She also mentors songwriters for the iconic Abbey Road studios and supports women in the arts as Chair of the Primadonna festival in literature annually hosted in Suffolk. The Influential Women’s Podcast talks to Jane about the forthcoming ‘real life’ festival and the previous years with Sandi Toksvig and Jude Kelly. It is host presented and Exec Pro...
Jun 01, 2021•47 min
Sam Baker is a journalist, broadcaster and former editor and chief of some of the UK’s biggest women’s magazines before launching the former women’s lifestyle platform ‘The Pool’ with co-founder and radio broadcaster Lauren Laverne. Sam is now the host presenter The Shift’ a podcast which delves into the challenges over 40, including going through menopause. The Influential Women’s Podcast talks to Sam about her women’s lifestyle platform ‘The Pool’ which was ahead of its time and her new ventur...
May 10, 2021•46 min
Rene Byrd is soul singer and writer, she has performed at prestigious fashion and art events events worldwide as well as members clubs and Elstree Studios. The Influential Women’s Podcast talks to Rene about her life, influences and how has she has been creating music in lockdown. Rene also tells us about the time she serenaded a crowd at a gig at the small age of 6 years old and how that was when she discovered at that moment that music was her calling. It is host presented and Exec Produced by...
Apr 26, 2021•36 min
Phoebe Morgan is a best selling author, editor and publishing director at Harper Collins, working on crime thrillers. By day Phoebe runs writing workshops to helps youths get into writing and by night writes her own thrillers. The Influential Women’s Podcast talks to Phoebe about her journey into writing and how she used her rejections to make her more resilient and how she overcame the trauma’s of her childhood. Phoebe also reads us an extract from her fourth book, The Wild Girls. It is host pr...
Apr 05, 2021•46 min
Buki Papillon is an author who describes herself as a wife, daughter, sister and friend. She is a trained massage therapist, bead artist and she previously worked as a travel advisor, chef and events host! The International Women’s Podcast chats to Buki about her book ‘An Ordinary Wonder’ which is out at the end of March in the UK. Buki kindly reads an extract from it and tell us what inspired her to write it. We also chat to Buki about her experiences living in different countries and how she h...
Mar 23, 2021•38 min
On International Women’s Day 2021 The Influential Women’s Podcast celebrates its 4th Birthday and to mark this day we spoke to Brita Fernandez Schmidt. Brita Fernandez Schmidt is an advocate for women’s empowerment and womens rights and equality. Brita leads influential women’s networks and runs women for women national as chief advisor. Brita’s career has spanned 25 years, helping women survive and thrive across 16 countries and 3 confinements! It is host presented and Exec Produced by Nicki Ba...
Mar 08, 2021•45 min
Jacquie Baltrao is a Sky News Presenter, well known sportscaster, olympian gymnast and mother of three. The Influential Women Podcasts talks to Jacquie about her previous life as an olympian, the struggles she faced in competing.. and how she is now overcoming living with Breast Cancer. It is host presented and Exec Produced by Nicki Bannerman and produced by Saffron Mirza. Support and help us keep making podcasts here: https://www.patreon.com/InfluentialWomenPodcast @nickihbc @saffronmirza...
Feb 16, 2021•48 min
Vanessa Sam also known as Inspiring Vanessa is an award winning teenage international motivational speaker, author as well as being a presenter, actress and model. The Influential Women Podcasts talks to Vanessa about how she got into motivational speaking at the age of only 9 years old and her vision of her work and business in the future. It is host presented and Exec Produced by Nicki Bannerman and produced by Saffron Mirza. Support and help us keep making podcasts here: https://www.patreon.c...
Feb 02, 2021•39 min
Victoria Summer is an actress, a singer of musical theatre and events, a model and a role model for young people. The Influential Women Podcasts talks to Victoria about her career and how she went to Hollywood to make it, her work to help young people and her whirlwind lockdown romance which ended up with her engaged to her fiancé. We also discuss with Victoria how she sets herself goals, and her method of writing down what she wants and successfully manifesting it. It is host presented and co-p...
Jan 19, 2021•39 min
Emma Forbes is well known broadcaster and presenter of TV and Radio from BBC, Capital, Heart FM and the BBC Radio 2 Sunday Breakfast Show. Emma is also the founder of a style website dedicated to fashion, beauty and health and wellness as well as having her own podcast Life and Soul. The Influential Women Podcast talks to Emma about her career and well travelled childhood and what it was like growing up with parents who were well known. We also chat to her about how the Coronavirus pandemic has ...
Jan 05, 2021•42 min
Tamzin Outhwaite is an actress, presenter, narrator and dancer and was very well known for playing the role of Mel Owen in Eastenders. She has also starred in theatre and TV productions such as Red Cat and crime drama New Tricks. The Influential Women Podcast talks to Tamzin about her experience in lockdown, balancing home schooling whilst tying to work and how the theatre industry has totally pivoted. We also discuss with Tamzin her mantras and how her grandmother and mother really influenced h...
Dec 22, 2020•29 min
Louise Minchin is a journalist, news presenter and a well know regular anchor on BBC Breakfast. She has covered sport from football to the Olympics and Louise was also a radio production assistant on the Today Programme and has been on The One Show and Radio 5 Live. The Influential Women Podcast talks to Louise about her career and how accidentally fell into become a triathlete from a challenge she was set by BBC Breakfast. We also discuss with Louise, her journey with Menopause and how she deal...
Dec 10, 2020•38 min
Jessica Bennett is a New York Times editor at large covering politics, gender and culture. Jessica was appointed The New York Times’ first gender editor as part of an initiative to expand coverage of women and gender issues across platforms. In that role, she contributed to the coverage of #MeToo and was the editor of This Is 18, an immersive look at the lives of 18 year old girls around the world. The Influential Women Podcast talks to Jessica about her experiences as a woman in a male dominate...
Nov 24, 2020•35 min
