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.

Dahlia is joined by World Rally Driver Penny Mallory to discuss stress, dress and mental toughness.

Penny talks about the 4 C's of mental toughness and shares how she lifted herself out of a challenging upbringing and coached herself to be a world rally driver , a TV presenter and now a key note speaker.

Dahlia and Penny discuss how clothing was a key part of helping Penny assume the role of rally driver and give her the confidence to become an award winning racer.

As a leading authority on Mental Toughness, Penny helps people to manage the stress, pressure, heavy workloads and relentless deadlines they face. Drawing from her extraordinary experiences, Penny now shares her Mental Toughness formula to help organisations and individuals to cultivate confidence, resilience, commitment, determination, and focus.

Mental Toughness is a personality trait, that can everyone can develop. With Mental Toughness you have increased resilience, confidence, focus, determination and commitment. This enables you to manage stress and pressure, take challenges in your stride, and quickly bounce back from setbacks.

In today’s ever more competitive environment where only the best will do, Penny Mallory has perfected the art of Psychologically Powered Performance to bring out the very best in people. No secret sauce or overused buzzwords, for championship teams (including F1) to top organisations, from individuals and workshops to International audiences, her engagingly authentic but wildly entertaining vision of optimised performance and positive change sets her apart. Penny defied the odds by achieving her childhood ambition of becoming a Champion Rally Driver.

She surpassed that dream by becoming the first woman to compete in a World Rally Car for Ford in the prestigious World Rally Championship. Remarkably, she remains the only woman to accomplish this. Her journey is even more remarkable given her tumultuous past as a teenage runaway, enduring 3 years of homelessness in London. Penny attributes her success to her Mental Toughness. As a child she saw alcoholism and mental illness destroy her family. Fleeing home at 14, homeless and fending for herself on the London streets, her life couldn’t have been more dangerous or bleak, yet an inner strength and self-belief enabled her to take control of her future. She made impossible possible and has since dedicated her life to helping others do the same.

It is these experiences that have made her keynotes acclaimed international favourites for many of the world’s most powerful and storied brands, including Microsoft, Google Cloud, Santander, Coca-Cola, Nat West, Waitrose, Tesco, Telefonica, RoadChef, Sony, CitiBank, HPI, Jaguar, Proctor & Gamble, Airbus and many more.

Her life is a continuing series of doing what conventional thinking says she simply can’t – from Rally Driving at the highest level, competing in multiple marathons, enter the boxing ring twice, conquering two of the world’s highest mountains…and now she is preparing to row the Atlantic Ocean.

Little wonder that her interactive keynotes inspire taking action, and to believe you can - because you can. Penny is a TEDX speaker, author of ‘365 Ways to Develop Mental Toughness’, ’World Class Thinking, World Class Behaviour’ and ‘Take Control of Your Life’.

Dahlia is joined by Amelia Sordell to discuss clothes, confidence and how to identify and remove your self limiting beliefs.

Amelia shares her journey from low self-esteem to becoming a successful personal branding strategist, talking through the steps she has taken over the past six years to get where she is today. She emphasizes the importance of personal branding and how it can transform confidence if you choose to embrace it.

Amelia shares her memorable fashion moments, including her first concert experience, black lipstick and a bright pink outfit. She highlights the shift from using social media for validation to leveraging it as a business tool. Amelia also talks about her book, "The Personal Branding Playbook," which offers practical tips on building a personal brand. She stresses the importance of setting realistic goals, visualizing success, and embracing one's unique qualities.

Amelia Sordell is a Personal Brand Strategist, Entrepreneur and the Founder of Personal Branding Agency, Klowt. Amelia founded her first business at just 21 years old. Within 12 months of launching, Amelia’s womenswear brand was stocked in 12 retailers and had large retailers like ASOS courting her to sell the clothes. In year 2, Amelia lost everything.

Returning to the workforce, Amelia began a new career doing what she did best – sales. As a Tech Headhunter she quickly realised the quickest way to reach prospective clients was to market herself in the same way she marketed her business – using social media. This is where her journey in personal branding started. Now 34, Amelia has 2 children, a community online of over 250,000 people and has built a £1 million personal branding agency, Klowt all off the back of her personal brand.

From heavy early business failure, to now creating a whole new category of marketing, Amelia’s fast-growing agency, Klowt has already made a dent in the space operating on a 100% inbound model, working to build thought leadership and huge personal brands of leadership, founders and entrepreneurs globally. Get Klowt, Klowt’s membership product, democratises personal branding by helping individuals scale their personal brand without the use of an agency.

Dahlia is joined by Dr Amy Diehl to discuss the concept of 'Lookism' and 'Appearance bias'.

Amy explains her view on why we still see 'Glass Walls' which she describes as the invisible impediments that are not just above us but around us that restrict us based on gender bias.

Dahlia and Amy discuss how this extends into 'Lookism' and how societal expectations have created a 'lookism tax' and the power that can come from calling out bias and recognising how quick we are to judge based on appearances.

Amy's guidance discusses anticipating, removing and mitigating bias at all levels and the need for us to review these specific societal expectations to start to change behaviours and review why we feel the need to conform to certain pressures.

Amy Diehl, PhD, is an award-winning information technology leader, currently serving as Chief Information Officer at Wilson College in Chambersburg, PA. She is also a gender equity researcher and author of the new book Glass Walls: Shattering the Six Gender Bias Barriers Still Holding Women Back at Work. Her writing has appeared in numerous scholarly journal articles and book chapters as well as in Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Ms. Magazine. She is also a sought-after speaker, consultant, and lawsuit expert witness. Her passion is universal gender equality so that society and organizations can thrive and women can succeed.

Find her online at https://amy-diehl.com

Glass Walls book: https://amy-diehl.com/book

Connect with Amy: https://amy-diehl.com

Fast Company article: ‘Lookism’is alive and well and getting worse. Here’s why your appearance is judged morethan performance

Article on the "GroomingGap" by Mindy Isser with stats referenced for women's groomingcosts.

Dahlia is joined by Nishma Patel Robb to discuss personal branding, leadership, inclusion and how to tell your story.

As a previous Senior Director at Google and the 101st president of WACL (Women in Advertising and Communications Leadership) Nishma has spent the last 25+ years developing her own personal brand and understanding how to confidently and authentically tell her story.

Through the conversation Nishma explains the power that comes with economic choice, the need or diversity in leadership and how a 'no gatekeeping' mindset is a mechanism for inclusion.

Nishma shares her views on the power of clothing and shares anecdotes from her career, explaning how her use of clothing has been a way to tell her story.

From Google's corridors to glitter-bombing glass ceilings, Nishma Patel Robb is on a mission to turn invisible women into unstoppable forces. As Founder and CEO of Glittersphere, she's creating a revolution in how women build economic power through personal reinvention and bold storytelling.

A former Senior Director at Google who now proudly wears the title of Chief Sparkle Officer, Nishma blends strategic thinking with sequinned ambition. She's the mastermind behind campaigns like 'Dear Local' and 'This is My YouTube', served as the 101st President of WACL, and is currently plotting world domination while building HERA, the UK's first women-led video podcast network. Fellow of the IPA and The Marketing Society, President of the History of Advertising Trust, and professional trouble-starter, Nishmais living proof that success doesn't have to wear boring shoes.

Dahlia is joined by Tiffanie Darke, Fashion Editor and Sustainability Activist to discuss her perspective on the clothes we wear and to raise awareness for the very stark reality of the impact of our need for consumption.

Tiffanie explains her approach to mindful consumption through the rule of 5, the number of new items she believes are a manageable amount to purchase across a 12 month period to support the slowdown of manic consumption and the associated environmental impacts.

Dahlia and Tiffanie discuss how the activity of shopping is so intrinsically linked to all aspects of our life, how we use it for moments of celebration, retail therapy and to stem boredom - and why all this needs to change if we want to get serious about protecting our planet.

Included in the conversation are Tiffanie's reflections on how she has managed her 'rule of 5' and her learning from 2023 and 2024 plus a snapshot into her world as Editor of Style for The Times magazine and the purchase of her very first 'luxury' item.

Tiffanie Darke spent 11 years as Editor of Style Magazine for The Times and then became Editor in Chief for Harrods. She is now a sustainability activist and journalist. Her latest book 'What to wear and why' is out now.

https://whattowear.world/