Dahlia is joined by Lauren Currie to discuss the why women supporting women is a radical idea, the key to building confidence and why we should never be scared to show we are trying.

Lauren has coached over 10,000 women on what it means to build your confidence through her online programme UPFRONT Bond. In the conversation she explains that whilst no-one ever graduates from the university of confidence, we all have ways that we can build our confidence, get comfortable in the skin that we are in and critically - get comfortable with truly celebrating the success of others around us rather than seeing their success as our failure.

Lauren and Dahlia discuss the link between clothes and confidence and Lauren gives her perspective declaring 2025 the year of miniskirts and cowboy boots - because WHY NOT!

Lauren Currie OBE, is the Founder of UPFRONT, an organisation on a mission to change confidence, visibility, and power for 10 million women. Thousands of women from over 50 countries have graduated from our flag ship programme; The UPFRONT Bond. UPFRONT is the world's top choice for women and organisations that are interested in increasing their confidence. Serving clients such as Nike, Just Eat Takeaway, Ministry of Defence, British Red Cross and Pleo, UPFRONT is building a genuine global movement.

Lauren is a keynote speaker, describing her public speaking approach as “everyone in the room will turn their own lights on”. She was the chairperson of leading maternity discrimination Pregnant Then Screwed for seven years and has been recognised as a woman changing the world by Elle Magazine and one of the top businesswomen under 35 by Management Today.

In 2017, she was awarded an OBE for her services to design and diversity. Lauren grew up in Scotland and now lives in Stockholm with her partner and her 5 year old son.

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Dahlia is joined by Kate Ancketill to discuss AI, identity and the future of shopping.

They discuss the rapid pace of change within retail (and generally within the world) and what this means for how we live, what we wear and obviously our stress levels.

Kate shares her insights on how shopping is going to evolve and how the rise of agentic AI will enable very new ways for us to access fashion advice, style tips and build up our confidence as we shop.

Kate is the CEO and founder of trends, foresight and strategy consultancyGDR.

For 25 years she has been the innovation partner to over 30 of the world’s largest brands, P&G, Tesco, Target, Sephora, Microsoft, Google, Samsung, Moet Hennessy, Costa Coffee, The BBC, Clorox and Lego. She uses GDR’s professional research and strategy expertise to distil immensely complex global subjects into visually spectacular, crystal-clear narratives with actional take-outs. From climactic and economic headwinds to demographics and the advance of exponential technologies, she contextualises big shifts in consumer trends and demonstrates successful commercial adaptation, inspiring audiences with her optimism and giving them practical strategies for short and medium-term success.

Dahlia is joined by Avivah Wittenberg-Cox to discuss what it means to create a 'Well Dressed Mindset'

Avivah explains that as statistically people are living far longer we need to get clear on what our priorities look like for each quarter of our life and through this take control of what we want to achieve right now.

The conservation centres on getting really clear on each person or family unit's priorities and worrying less about what you feel you 'should' do and more about what you choose to do and how you spend your time.

The conversation includes insights from Avivah's studies on both gender and generations and includes practical tips on how to take control.

Her view on well dressed: 'Dressing up is about the images, symbols and metaphors that define your life'.

Avivah is CEO, writer, speaker, coach, consultant, change agent – depending on the call and the context. A global expert on 21st century leadership, gender and generational balance, longevity and the future of work and careers, she helps individuals and organisations manage the consequences and opportunities of the new gender and generational balance of workforces and consumers. Themes summarised in her graphic book Thriving to 100 – Through Life’s 4 Quarters and featured on her podcast 4-Quarter Lives and weekly substack, elderberries.

Avivah is a Visiting Lecturer at OXFORD Said Business School, runs a Thriving To 100 programme for INSEAD alumni, and is co-Director of Catolica Lisbon’s Longevity Leadership executive education programme. She’s an Adjunct Professor at DePaul University in Chicago and has published several LINKED IN Learning courses, including Building Gender Balanced Businesses and 4 Phases of Women’s Careers. She’s the author of the bestselling books WHY and HOW Women Mean Business (Wiley) and the Founder and Honorary President of the Global Professional Women’s Network, GlobalPWN.

An Ambassador for the Stanford Center on Longevity, and the Global Peter Drucker Forum, Avivah sits on the Boards of the National Innovation Centre on Ageing (NICA), the Chartered Management Institute’s ‘Everyone Economy’ Board and the Vedica Scholars MBA Programme for women in India. A Fellow of Harvard’s 2022 Advanced Leadership Program, in 2023, Avivah was inducted into the Thinkers50 Hall of Fame.

Born in Canada of European parents, she is a bilingual tri-national (French, Swiss and Canadian), now based in London with her British husband after several decades in Paris, and has two very charming, gender-balanced children (a son and daughter) who occasionally visit from Dakar and New York city.