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Victoria Wood is the founder and CEO of Greener Beauty, a one-stop-shop for natural, vegan, cruelty-free beauty products with a large plastic-free section. Greener beauty was founded in 2017 and born out of Victoria’s frustration as a compassionate vegan in finding cruelty free beauty products. Victoria was a 2021 finalist for the sustainability entrepreneur of the year awards “Live a life that holds value and stays true to your own ethics.” - Victoria Wood Today on the podcast, I’m talking to Victoria Wood, founder of Greener Beauty and Greener Salons about why she left her high-stress job within the corporate IT sector to start her own business. We discuss the need for women to acknowledge the need for kindness and compassion in their lives, not only in how we act towards others but in how we care for ourselves. A passionate vegan, Victoria also shares how we can make small changes to our lifestyle to reduce our environmental impact and care for the world around us. “Every step of your journey is taking you closer to what you’re meant to be doing — we can’t fail at our real purpose because we’re learning lessons to get us closer to that all the time.” - Victoria Wood Episode Highlights: How Victoria’s breakdown prompted her to reflect and take charge of her life How Victoria combined her IT and problem-solving skills to found Greener Beauty. Why Victoria is committed to reducing the carbon footprint of her business, and why she promises to plant a tree for every order Victoria discusses the birthing difficulties with her business baby and the importance of learning on the job How Natwest Accelerator has supported Victoria by providing a supportive and encouraging business coach. International Women’s Day Insight: “It is so important to give ourselves time and space to embrace our feminine energy.” - Victoria Wood It is essential for women to prioritise time for themselves and embrace their feminine energy, and treat themselves with kindness and compassion. Deciding to leave a corporate masculine role that doesn’t work for you anymore often allows you to develop yourself more compassionately and authentically. Connect with Victoria Wood : Greener Beauty Website Greener Salons Website Greener Beauty on Facebook Greener Beauty Instagram Greener Beauty on Twitter Connect with Lulu Minns: Website and Retreats Send a Retreat Enquiry Lulu’s Online Healing and Empowerment Circle Lulu on LinkedIn Lulu on Instagram Lulu on Facebook More on the Natwest Business Accelerator: Business Banking | NatWest Bank NatWest Business Hub NatWest Business on Twitter Natwest Business on LinkedIn

Lucy Jeffrey is the founder of Bare Kind, selling bamboo socks that save endangered animals. She founded the company in 2018 when she decided she didn’t want her corporate bank job to be her lasting legacy to the world. Every pair sold has a positive impact on the lives of the animal pictured — whether that be hedgehogs and bumblebees in the UK or Orangutans and Gorillas in jungles worldwide! “We were able to protect 800 acres of forest last year JUST with our orangutang socks.” - Lucy Jeffery. Lucy joins me on the show today to discuss why her personal values of kindness and compassion prompted her to leave her corporate job to become an entrepreneur. She shares how those values intersect with her robust charity business model and describes how her Charity Impact Report helps customers understand how their sock purchase helps animals in real terms so they can connect with Bare Kind’s philosophy. Lucy also discusses why it was so crucial for her to have a clear mission for her business that centred around protecting our diverse planet and its inhabitants and how she connects her customers to that vision. “That network effect of speaking to other like-minded people who are there to support you is very validating.” - Lucy Jeffery. Episode Highlights: How Bare Kind was designed from the ground up to be good, and why kindness, compassion, and being a voice for animals is so important to Lucy How Bare Kind measures the impact of how they support each animal and what ‘sock currency’ is Lucy’s advice for managing your finances as a small business — and why she checks her business finances daily Lucy’s inspiration and process for designing and bringing a new pair of socks to life The catalyst that made Lucy jump into her business full time in 2020 and what she has learned about herself in the process Lucy’s biggest challenge as a woman in business and how the Natwest Accelerator has supported her through it International Women’s Day Insight: “The customer is what's fueling the business.” - Lucy Jeffery. Setting your intention is key when you’re managing your own business. As an entrepreneur, it’s essential to have a vision and mission that you really connect with and share with your customers. My conversation with Lucy highlighted her commitment to running her company with kindness and compassion and how aligning with her true purpose has allowed her to use her business to help others. Connect with Lucy Jeffrey : Bare Kind Website Bare Kind on Instagram Bare Kind on Facebook Bare Kind on Linkedin 2021 Charity Impact Report Connect with Lulu Minns: Website and Retreats Send a Retreat Enquiry Lulu’s Online Healing and Empowerment Circle Lulu on LinkedIn Lulu on Instagram Lulu on Facebook

In this masculine-centred world, power and money are so often the key currency and drivers. We’re going to explore how to pivot the focus from currency to compassion. Women are naturally more empathetic and sensitive to others, and as a result, our compassionate nature often comes to the fore — but how can we integrate that vital skill into our lives and our businesses? “ Flow is a feminine principle over static, which embraces collaboration over competition.” - Lulu Minns Compassion is our female superpower. In today’s episode, we discuss how that compassion can make a lasting change within society and business. We’re looking at why we as women often feel disconnected from traditional power structures and how we can move forwards by seeking out role models and mentors that understand the worth of stepping outside the masculine narrative of doing business. “We can only be compassionate to others when we start to show more compassion for ourselves.” - Lulu Minns Episode Highlights: We talk about the currency of compassion in relation to the more traditional currency model of money and power The importance of being compassionate to ourselves, to improve our compassion for others We look at why it’s not always about the answers, it’s about asking the right questions How influential figures have viewed the role of compassion and kindness within society How to introduce compassion as part of your business currency, and embrace the principle of purpose over profit International Women’s Day Insight: “Compassion is not a weakness, it’s a power.” - Lulu Minns The traditional currency of power and money is a masculine way of thinking that doesn't align with how we think and act as women.. By understanding and using the currency of compassion, women can play to their feminine strengths in business rather than considering them a weakness. Connect with Lulu Minns: Website and Retreats Send a Retreat Enquiry Lulu’s Online Healing and Empowerment Circle Lulu on LinkedIn Lulu on Instagram Lulu on Facebook More on the Natwest Business Accelerator: Business Banking | NatWest Bank NatWest Business Hub NatWest Business on Twitter Natwest Business on LinkedIn

Dr. Sharon Blackie, an award-winning writer and expert in psychology, mythology, and ecology, discusses the vital connection between women and their ancestral wisdom. She emphasizes the importance of reclaiming feminine narratives to combat the hollow feeling of success within patriarchal systems. With stories of powerful female figures in folklore and the environmental wisdom they embody, Sharon argues for a shift towards earth-based living and creativity. She highlights the role of older women as powerful change-makers, advocating for their voices to be heard.

Selma Studer is a certified sound therapist and Founder of GONG. After many years in the corporate world, Selma decided to follow her passion for wellness and help people do something about the stress and anxiety that ravages so many lives. She experienced her first gong bath in Thailand and quickly realized the practice was just as needed in an urban setting. Selma has now guided more than 5,500 individuals through 800+ gong baths in person and online. "We are sound; we're living sound, and everything that we do is a vibration." - Selma Studer. I’m excited to have Selma on the show today to share her wisdom on the power of sound and how we can harness it to create calm in our lives. We dig into the science behind why gong baths reduce stress and anxiety, soothe your mind and induce a meditative state by stimulating brainwave activity. Selma also guides us through a short gong bath, so close your eyes, relax and let the sound wash over you. “The wisdom of sound is really about this idea of coherence and harmony. So we can work with powerful vibrations and sounds to bring us back into balance, back into tune physically, mentally, spiritually, and emotionally.” - Selma Studer. Episode Highlights: Why gong baths are transformational for so many people How Selma has translated her corporate experience in communication and marketing to the soul communication of sound Why the harmonies and vibrations are an integral part of the wisdom of sound, and how they are backed by scientific research How Selma and Gong pivoted during the pandemic, how the process of producing online gong baths has worked out and what Selma has evolved over the past two years in ways she didn’t anticipate Why intent is critical, both when experiencing a gong bath and in business growth, and how to set yourself up for success in both areas International Women’s Day Insight: “The whole essence of the business is supporting people, meeting them where they're at, and encouraging them to take care of themselves.” - Selma. It is so vital to take care of your mental, physical, spiritual wellbeing. As an entrepreneur, you have to make sure that you’re taking care of yourself so that you can show up for others. Having the wisdom and intelligence to understand that you need to hold space for yourself means that you can devote yourself to serving others in your business. Connect with Selma Studer : GONG Website GONG on Instagram GONG on Facebook GONG on Twitter GONG on YouTube GONG on LinkedIn Selma Studer on Linkedin Connect with Lulu Minns: Website and Retreats Send a Retreat Enquiry Lulu’s Online Healing and Empowerment Circle Lulu on LinkedIn Lulu on Instagram Lulu on Facebook More on the Natwest Business Accelerator: Business Banking | NatWest Bank NatWest Business Hub NatWest Business on Twitter Natwest Business on LinkedIn

IMAGINE a WORLD where Women had more time to develop their GENIUS? Women are so often busy self-sacrificing, overgiving, overachieving, and overthinking. Lulu Minns is an award-winning coach who creates retreats for entrepreneurial women who need to find space in their lives. She is a huge believer that contraction is the KEY to expansion and supports women to find that place of solace, space, and reflection away from distractions where they can do deep and meaningful work. “When we face all of those external pressures, we can become disconnected from our inner wisdom and sucked into the patriarchal model of more, more, more.” - Lulu Minns Welcome to the International Women's Day 2022 10 part series. I’m so happy you joined us, so grab your journal and your pen and get ready to make some notes. Think of this series as a mini-retreat, where you’ll be hearing amazing insights from some unique and inspiring women. March is a great time to really feel into the year, and we're going to focus on the themes of intellect and wisdom, kindness and compassion, and wisdom and impact to feed our minds and pave a different way to success! “Wisdom is about experience, knowledge, and good judgment — but on a more advanced level, it's also the integration of conscious awareness.” - Lulu Minns Episode Highlights: We reconnect, refocus, restore and find the headspace free of the external pressures that women face How to integrate our experience and knowledge to create a real depth of understanding and wisdom about where we are in our lives and what we want to achieve We aquire wisdom by doing less — we need to slow down, we need to open up, and we need to invite wisdom in if we reflect on our experiences, and engage with the cycles and patterns in nature, we become wiser Three amazing journaling tools that help us reflect on how to do less, but at the same time amplify the skills and abilities that we have International Women’s Day Insight: “We all have an innate wisdom like a jewel inside of us that's passed down.” - Lulu Minns We need to connect with our wiser self; the part of our soul that can nourish and amplify the wisdom we already have, and move past the doubts that often derail us. Connect with Lulu Minns: Website and Retreats Send a Retreat Enquiry Lulu’s Online Healing and Empowerment Circle Lulu on LinkedIn Lulu on Instagram Lulu on Facebook More on the Natwest Business Accelerator: Business Banking | NatWest Bank NatWest Business Hub NatWest Business on Twitter Natwest Business on LinkedIn

This week on She Rebel Radio, we learn how to apply more of the Joy Filter and why we should care about leveraging more joy in all things.    We Ask the Question : How can we reconnect with Joy and explore the action steps needed to apply more of that (sometimes evasive) joy into both your life and your business.    We also dive into why FINDING or staying in Joy can be difficult as part of the human experience.  “The opposite of being present is being absent - when you are lacking joy, often you have not been fully present for a long time”     This week on She Rebel Radio : Introduce the Joy Filter and explore how we can reconnect with Joy Discover why we should care about Joy  How we all find it hard to discover more Joy  Share 5 action steps you can take to reconnect with Joy Secret to discovering when you are no longer feeling Joy in your Business    Discover Previous Roundtables and Self Study Courses : https://sherebelradio.podia.com/   Join the She Rebellion! Thanks for tuning into this week's episode of She Rebel Radio - the podcast empowering women to unlearn conventional rules and create businesses of significance. If you enjoyed this episode, head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe, leave a review, and share your favourite episodes with your friends on social media. We’d love for you to connect and continue the conversation with us at She Rebel Radio Members and follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter and be sure to visit our website. 

Granddaughter of Iconic Photographer, Lee Miller joins me today to share how Lee continually broke boundaries for Women and created her own rules during an incredible career from Vogue Model, Photographer/Studio Owner to War Correspondent and even in her later life, a Celebrity Chef.    “Lee never let things kick her when she was down - instead of kind of sitting there and moaning about having a ruined career she instead chose to turn it into an opportunity”   Join us to discover the Mysteries of Reinvention that Lee Miller embodied and how she continually created networks and opportunities for herself :    “She kind of utilised this network right through her life and built on it “    Lee was intent on creating her own rules and to have the right to be able Convey and express her own ideas in world where there was not common place for women    “In 1930, it was completely unheard of for a woman to have her own studio (and business) as a photographer, which is only now becoming more equally represented with women”   “Lee wasn't going to be held back by these ridiculous things that society put on her - if they can do it, then I can do it too”    Ami Bouhassane      Ami is also the author of several books about Lee and co-director of Farleys House and Gallery Ltd which houses the Lee Miller Archives, Penrose collection as well as Farleys House and Gallery which is well worth a visit.     This week on She Rebel Radio : How Lee reinvented herself throughout her career  The power of networking and creating opportunities Why Lee also surrounded herself with female friends and colleagues How and why Lee refused to follow the rules for women How childhood and trauma both influenced and caused struggle for Lee How you can support Farleys and Lee Miller Archives : https://www.farleyshouseandgallery.co.uk/lovelee-membership/ Connect with Lee Miller Archives and Farleys House and Gallery    Farley House and Gallery : Fashion podcast can be found on Acast, Spotify and on Farley’s Website here :   https://www.farleyshouseandgallery.co.uk/events/ For exclusive access to additional Videos and Podcast www.patreon.com/leemillerarchives    Farleys House and Gallery :  Twitter https://twitter.com/FarleysHG Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/farleyshg/ Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/FarleysHG   Lee Miller Archives  Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/leemillerarchives/ Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/LeeMillerArchivesuk The Woman who broke Boundaries Exhibition in America - ‘SHE IS LEE’ https://thedali.org/exhibit/photographer-lee-miller/     All Images :  © Lee Miller Archives, England 2021. All rights reserved. leemiller.co.uk   Join the She Rebellion! Thanks for tuning into this week's episode of She Rebel Radio - the podcast empowering women to unlearn conventional rules and create businesses of significance. If you enjoyed this episode, head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe, leave a review, and share your favourite episodes with your friends on social media. We’d love for you to connect and continue the conversation with us at She Rebel Radio Members and follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter and be sure to visit our website.   

Serial entrepreneur, author of Brand famous and renowned speaker Linzi Boyd joins me this week on She Rebel Radio, where we discuss the power of Brand and the differences with Branding:    “Your brand is your modern business model - it is the end to the end of your business. Branding on the other hand is the logo, the look and visual tone”   Also the Founder of BOB : Earth, an organisation which builds brands to shift industries and Linzi advocates in the 21st century - a revolution can now be led by people and not institutions.    “Institutions are never going to make the change in society but people can”   Her mission is to ‘Unite purpose driven movement towards global unity’ and she believes that ‘purpose’ is the new trading currency and explains how women (and feminine energy) are part of that conversation :   “The Him and Her conversation is integral to us getting to where we want to be and that can be the female energy and male energy that plays out”   Get ready to see more of the future and #jointhequietrevolution in today’s episode of She Rebel Radio   “There will be high tech innovation like never before between 2021 and 2031 but at the same time a massive pull to spirituality, nature and conscious awakening”      - Linzi Boyd    This week on She Rebel Radio : The difference between a business brand and branding How people rather than intuitions can create change  How we have entered into the Who Era The steps to becoming Brand Famous  Why purpose and conscious awakening is the new currency  The movement towards global unity (and the role feminine) can play in it  Why we need to bring nature and technology together in harmony  Additional Quote :    “We teach how to change 20th century thinking to 21st century thinking which is about leading with purpose, legacy and impact”    - Linzi Boyd   Connect with Linzi Boyd and BOB Earth  Twitter :  https://twitter.com/Linzi_Boyd Instagram :  https://www.instagram.com/linziboyd/ https://www.instagram.com/wearebobearth/ LinkedIn - Linzi Boyd:   https://www.linkedin.com/in/linziboyd/ LinkedIn - BoB Earth:  https://www.linkedin.com/company/bobearth/  Youtube - Linzi Boyd https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC73tLNONOOQJWB22AWY9q7Q Discover the Who Era  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPNQGRLxYc0   Join the She Rebellion! Thanks for tuning into this week's episode of She Rebel Radio - the podcast empowering women to unlearn conventional rules and create businesses of significance. If you enjoyed this episode, head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe, leave a review, and share your favourite episodes with your friends on social media. We’d love for you to connect and continue the conversation with us at She Rebel Radio Members and follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter and be sure to visit our website. 

Author of NEON, Bethany Rose joins me today as a spoken word artist and poet all around her teaching career. Bethany’s poems PINK and LIGHT BULB received millions of views after being featured on the BBC and she recently appeared as a speaker for Ted X Women, London sharing her part talk and part performance ‘breaking out of the concrete’.    Bethany work shines a shadowy light on everyday issues such as mental health, LGBT, grief and longing and during this episode we discuss the contained wildness of women, how to overcome not being liked and the power of boredom in helping us to uncover who we are, what we like and our deeper gifts and purpose.  “I love the idea of wildness being contained and I feel like that is what a lightbulb is and that is what being a woman is too - it’s a restrained wildness……and if you don’t contain it (the wildness), you won’t be taken seriously”    - Bethany Rose   This week on She Rebel Radio : Understanding the contained wildness of women  How she now makes money from everything she tried to not be as a teenager How to overcome and get comfortable with being disliked and criticised The power of boredom in discovering our path   Impact on social media on our evolutionary progress  Why she wrote her book NEON  Her battle with Mental Health and how she wished she was purple Additional Quote :  “If I am doing something meaningful, there will always be someone who doesn’t like it - that is cost of meaningful work” - Bethany Rose  Connect with Bethany Rose  Website : https://www.bethanyrosepoetry.com/ Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/bethany_rose_poetry/ Twitter : https://twitter.com/bethanyrosepoet Ted Talk : Breaking Out of the Concrete     Join the She Rebellion! Thanks for tuning into this week's episode of She Rebel Radio - the podcast empowering women to unlearn conventional rules and create businesses of significance. If you enjoyed this episode, head over to Apple Podcasts to subscribe, leave a review, and share your favourite episodes with your friends on social media. We’d love for you to connect and continue the conversation with us at She Rebel Radio Members and follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter and be sure to visit our website.