Author: VICTORIA

This week’s solo episode is coming to you on International Podcast Day, which feels fitting, because four episodes from podcasts I guested on over the summer all landed within days of each other last week. And with that came the familiar, uneasy feeling: people are going to be sick of me. So I wanted to… Read more

Sonica Beckmann is a British Asian qualified solicitor, entrepreneur, UK 40 Under 40 winner and mum of two. Raised in a low income migrant household, she was the first in her family to attend university and went on to build a distinguished legal career across major multinational organisations. By the age of 31 she had… Read more

This week’s solo episode is a natural follow on from episode 77, where I dug into resilience and shared some of my favourite business fails. This time I want to talk about something I hadn’t quite clocked before: that resilience is not linear and that as cyclical women our hormones shift how we experience our… Read more

Amanda Reidy is a PE teacher, women’s fitness, lifestyle and wellbeing coach, founder of Radiate Fitness, host of the Perimenopause & Motherhood podcast (formerly Happy Thriving Mums) and a passionate advocate for helping women thrive through midlife. A mum of two energetic children and a dog she describes as completely mad, she understands firsthand the… Read more

This week’s solo episode follows a heart to heart with the ladies inside my Print Over Pixels community about what it really takes to face disappointment in business and the resilience muscle every solo trader, freelancer and founder has to build along the way. So I decided to share my own catalogue of business fails.… Read more

Shann Jones is a wife, a mother and a grandmother who brings together entrepreneurship, family life and her deep love of nature to challenge conventional thinking about leadership, resilience and what it really means to build something that lasts. Originally from the States, this former journalist and radio talk show host fell for a Welsh… Read more

This week’s solo episode comes to you from the launch lull… that strange, uneasy stretch between opening the cart on a launch and closing it, when everything is scheduled, there is nothing left to do but wait and the doubts creep in. Have I done enough? Should I have pushed out more content? Is there… Read more

Leila Ainge is a British Psychological Society accredited psychologist, doctoral researcher and podcast host whose work sits at the intersection of identity, trust and working life. Her research explores how online communities shape the experience of freelancers and independent workers, with a particular focus on belonging, psychological safety and the systems that influence confidence and… Read more

This week’s solo episode goes behind the scenes of the fourth launch of Print Over Pixels, my signature course helping family photographers lead with print in the digital age. Launches are full on at the best of times, and this one has arrived just as the kids went back to school and the pace of… Read more

Jane Bilham is the founder of Vireo Tuition, an international tuition business that began with one tutor working in a local library and has grown into an oversubscribed global business with a team of over 60 tutors supporting families worldwide. She has represented UK education on international trade missions on behalf of the Department for… Read more