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Amelia Christie-Miller: Building Bold Bean Co and Making Britain Obsessed With Beans (opens the original)
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What does it take to make Britain obsessed with beans? Simona Deifta sits down with Bold Bean Co founder Amelia Christie-Miller to talk about building a challenger food brand, creating a new category, the reality behind Dragons’ Den, and the naming decision that nearly sent the business in a very different direction. A candid conversation about conviction, risk, brand-building and turning an overlooked everyday product into something people genuinely care about. Watch the full episode on the Do
Sabrina Sarl: Ambition, Motherhood and Building a Creative Career on Your Own Terms (opens the original)
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What happens when you leave your job, start a business and discover you are pregnant in the same week? In this episode, Simona speaks with Sabrina Sarl, creative business adviser, artist manager and host of Mothers of Creativity. Sabrina has spent more than 15 years working across the creative industries and now creates space for honest conversations about how motherhood shapes creative careers. Sabrina reflects on how motherhood changed the shape of her work without erasing her ambition. She an
The Motherhood We Were Never Prepared For, with Becky Selbie (opens the original)
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Many women prepare carefully for the baby. Far fewer are prepared for what motherhood will do to their identity, relationships, body, ambition and sense of control. Simona Deifta is joined by Becky Selbie, a therapist specialising in maternal mental health and the founder of Motherway. Together they explore the expectation-versus-reality gap, matrescence, perfectionism, accepting help, invisible labour and why high-achieving women can find motherhood especially destabilising. This is not an epis
Gillian Orr: Why Comparison Steals Motherhood (opens the original)
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Comparison is the thief of joy—but motherhood can make the timelines women are measured against feel even louder. In this episode, Simona speaks with Gillian Orr, award-winning journalist, former Editor-in-Chief of Refinery29 UK and writer of Slouching Towards Bethnal Green. Gillian reflects on building a career in women’s media, becoming a mother at 39, having her role eliminated while she was on maternity leave, moving into freelance work and slowly finding her ambition again. They talk honest
Anna Hushlak: How To Turn Yourself On To Life Again (opens the original)
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Anna Hushlak: Why Women Feel Disconnected From Themselves When did life start feeling like something you were managing rather than truly living? In this episode of Do Not Disturb, I sit down with Anna Hushlak, author of Turn Yourself On, to explore why so many women feel disconnected from themselves and what it takes to reconnect with their energy, desire, creativity, and sense of aliveness. We discuss the pressures of modern life, motherhood, burnout, people-pleasing, self-abandonment, and the
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