Episodios

  • Creating Inclusive Cultures within Healthcare with Dezita Taylor

    Creating Inclusive Cultures within Healthcare with Dezita Taylor
    May 22 2025
    Without clear role models, it’s hard to be what you cannot see. With this in mind, Dezita Taylor has dedicated her career to creating inclusive cultures within healthcare and higher education, promoting fair and equitable opportunities for growth across both sectors. Dezita is an Associate Professor—pre-qualifying Practice and College of Nursing and Midwifery Academic Lead for Apprenticeships at Birmingham City University. With over 25 years of experience in healthcare and education, she is passionate about fostering education, learning, and professional development as key catalysts for cultivating a growth mindset in both individuals and teams. Her leadership approach centres around a collaborative, communicative culture that prioritises staff well-being and implements practical, forward-thinking policies. Throughout her career, she has embraced opportunities to apply inclusive and transformative leadership to address the shifting demands of healthcare and education.

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    38 m
  • Shannon Watts: The Summoner of Audacious Women, Founder of Moms Demand Action

    Shannon Watts: The Summoner of Audacious Women, Founder of Moms Demand Action
    May 20 2025
    Shannon Watts, the founder of Moms Demand Action, discussed her journey from founding the movement after the Sandy Hook shooting to its growth into an 11 million-strong network. She highlighted her new book, "Fired Up," set to release on the 17th of June, which offers a guide for women to harness their potential. Watts emphasised the importance of values, abilities, and desires in personal and professional growth. She also shared her transition from leading Moms Demand Action to focusing on new endeavours, including her Firestarter University and personal projects. Shannon encourages women to pursue their passions and not shy away from leadership roles. The day after the Sandy Hook tragedy, Shannon started a Facebook group with the message that all Americans can and should do more to reduce gun violence. The online conversation turned into a grassroots movement of Americans fighting for public safety measures that protect people from gun violence. Moms Demand Action has established a chapter in every state of the country and is part of Everytown for Gun Safety, the largest gun violence prevention organisation in the country, with nearly 11 million supporters. In addition to her full-time volunteer work with Moms Demand Action, Watts is an active board member of Emerge America, one of the nation’s leading organizations for recruiting and training women to run for office, and Advance Peace, a prominent community-based organization that works to end cyclical and retaliatory gun violence in American urban neighbourhoods by investing in the development, health, and wellbeing of those at the center of the crisis. Moms Demand Action: https://momsdemandaction.org/ Playing With Fire by Shannon Watts: https://shannonwatts.substack.com/

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    31 m
  • Literary Agent Elizabeth Sheinkman on Accompanying Award Winning Writers

    Literary Agent Elizabeth Sheinkman on Accompanying Award Winning Writers
    May 15 2025
    Elizabeth Sheinkman joins Stephanie to chat about how she went from turning her passion for reading and writing into her profession of being a Literary Agent. Elizabeth is a native New Yorker whose publishing career has spanned both sides of the Atlantic. She worked within the US editorial department of Oxford University Press and Alfred A. Knopf before joining the Elaine Markson Literary Agency in 1996. In 2004, she moved to London to set up and run their UK office before joining Curtis Brown in 2006 as a Senior Agent and Director, where she continued to represent the Markson Agency in the UK and further develop her own list. In 2012, she moved to WME, representing a broad range of award-winning and best-selling authors, including works of literary fiction, biography, journalism and cultural history. Elizabeth is on the Creative Council of the Aspen Institute’s Summer Words Festival; has served on the faculty of the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference in Middlebury, Vermont; and has been a featured speaker at the University of East Anglia MFA writing program, the Oxford Summer Books Program, and Trinity College Dublin.Elizabeth can be found working at Peters, Fraser and Dunlop.

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    32 m
  • The Key To An Amicable Separation with Kate Daly, Founder of Amicable

    The Key To An Amicable Separation with Kate Daly, Founder of Amicable
    May 13 2025
    Kate Daly joins Stephanie to discuss everything from becoming a divorce expert to amicable separations. Kate is one of the country’s leading experts on divorce, separation relationships and family law reform. ‍ As a co-founder of Amicable, the leading online divorce services company, Kate helps couples and separated parents navigate divorce and separation amicably. She is a certified Relationship Counsellor and resolution-trained Family Consultant, having worked with many of London’s top collaborative lawyers before starting Amicable in 2015. She co-founded Amicable after her own highly acrimonious, costly, and lengthy divorce. She is now a regular and respected commentator on divorce, separation, and relationship issues. Kate is passionate about changing the way couples divorce and campaigns for fairer divorce laws and access to justice. Although she is not a lawyer, she firmly believes that the emotional and psychological aspects of divorce should be central to the process. Kate is also the host of the well-respected fortnightly Divorce Podcast, in which she is joined by other experts to explore relationships, separation and co-parenting, among other issues. Amicable: https://amicable.io/

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    36 m
  • Nina Marenzi on Launching & Scaling The Future of Fabrics Fair & The Sustainable Angle

    Nina Marenzi on Launching & Scaling The Future of Fabrics Fair & The Sustainable Angle
    May 8 2025
    The Sustainable Angle was established By Nina as a not-for-profit organisation in Switzerland in 2010 to initiate and support projects that lower the environmental impact of industry and society. The fashion and textile industries are amongst the world's most polluting industries, and as such, they have become the main focus of Nina's work. The Future Fabrics Expo was initiated to effect positive change within the industry by connecting and promoting innovators and suppliers of sustainable materials with fashion brands. To achieve this, they established a set of criteria, and researching sustainable materials that meet them became their main task. The Sustainable Angle contextualises this activity by providing much-needed educational information regarding sustainability in textiles, via workshops and informative events. In today's episode, Stephanie chats with Nina Marenzi, the Founder and Director, about the decisions that led her to start her not-for-profit, the challenges she faced along the way, her plans for the future, her top tips, and more. The Sustainable Angle: https://thesustainableangle.org/

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    32 m
  • Author Christine Murphy on her Journey & Writing "Notes on Surviving The Fire"

    Author Christine Murphy on her Journey & Writing "Notes on Surviving The Fire"
    May 6 2025

    Christine Murphy has lived, worked, and travelled in more than a hundred countries, including eleven months in a tent on the African continent and a year as a resident in a Buddhist nunnery in the Himalayas. She is a trained Buddhistologist with a Ph.D. in religious studies. Murphy joins Stephanie to discuss everything from her top tips to writing her first novel, Notes on Surviving the Fire. Notes on Surviving the Fire is a story about vengeance, the insidious nature of rape culture and ultimately, a woman's journey to come back to herself. When Sarah’s only friend in her graduate program is found dead of an alleged heroin overdose, Sarah is forced back into the orbit of the man in their department who assaulted her. A hurtling ride of a novel—darkly funny and propulsive.

    “A thriller’s bones, a satire’s glare, and a comeuppance story’s anarchic spirit.”—The New Yorker

    More about Christine and her book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/742169/notes-on-surviving-the-fire-by-christine-murphy/

    Christine is an anarchic spirit according to The New York Times and is very good at deciphering the times we live in.

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    49 m
  • Renowned Physicist and Award-Winning Researcher Claudia de Rham Telling HER Story

    Renowned Physicist and Award-Winning Researcher Claudia de Rham Telling HER Story
    May 1 2025
    Claudia de Rham is a theoretical physicist based at Imperial College London. Her work at the interface of gravity, cosmology and particle physics won her the Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists in 2020. She is a tireless campaigner against the underrepresentation of girls in physics and frequently speaks in schools and for other organisations about diversity in the sciences. Her book The Beauty of Falling: A Life in Pursuit of Gravity tells the fascinating personal story of de Rham’s quest to gain intimacy with gravity, to understand both its feeling and fundamental nature. An aspiring astronaut whose opportunity to go into space was unexpectedly snatched away from her, de Rham has instead played with gravity as a diver, a pilot and – above all – an award-winning researcher who, in redirecting her energy towards physics, made a breakthrough at the very frontiers of gravitational science. Her expertise lies at the interface between Quantum Field Theory, Gravity, Gravitational Waves, Cosmology, Particle Physics, Numerical Simulations and Theoretical Mathematical Physics, where she leads the development and test of new models and paradigms to probe the fundamental laws of Nature and uncovers new layers in our understanding of Science. Her research has been ranked among the most impactful in fundamental physics in the past decade, recognised by multiple major grants, prizes, and awards. Among other roles, she is chair of the PPGP theory STFC panel, director of the Abdus Salam Centre for Theoretical Physics, and editor of three scientific journals.

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    43 m
  • Melissa Petro, telling her story of becoming an expert on Shame

    Melissa Petro, telling her story of becoming an expert on Shame
    Apr 29 2025
    Melissa Petro joins Stephanie to talk about her journey around Shame on You, her book and how, as a former sex worker she turned into an expert on shame and became an author, coach and speaker. As a former sex worker and survivor of sexual exploitation and mass media humiliation, Melissa knows personally the devastation that weaponised sexist shame can have on a woman’s life. She has also experienced and seen firsthand that when girls and women develop a greater awareness of how shame functions in our society and manifests in their lives, we free up the mental space, emotional energy, and time needed to fulfil our purpose. Melissa has been a freelance cultural journalist following the pulse of sexuality, trauma, motherhood, and feminism for over two decades. She is also a leading expert on the topic of shame and vulnerability. Her debut book, SHAME ON YOU: How to Be a Woman in the Age of Mortification, was an Amazon Editors’ Pick for Best Nonfiction Book of the Month. Since 2010, she has helped hundreds of girls and women push through fear, write, share and even publish their most vulnerable stories in national publications such as The New York Times, The Guardian, The Nation, Salon, Washington Post and elsewhere, and have helped still more individuals re-envision their lives by making meaning of their past and transcending traumatic experiences. Melissa Petro: https://www.melissa-petro.com/

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    35 m
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