When it comes to stress management it can be tempting to ignore your feelings of stress and anxiety rather than acknowledge them as tools for self-knowledge and growth.

This month on the podcast Sharon Aneja explains the ‘CIA’ psychological strategy that will help you change the reactions in your mind and body so stress becomes a competitive advantage rather than something to hide. 

Life is full of ups and downs and there can be many reasons for us to feel that familiar sinking feeling the Sunday before work. But with work stressors becoming ever more prevalent when citing reasons for burnout, it’s important to stop and assess whether your feelings are acute due to a spike in workload, or whether it’s a chronic issue that needs to be addressed. In this podcast, expert Sally Kettle will lead you through her ‘Scary beating tactics’ so you can find the way that’s right for you to beat the blues.

We are often told that emotions have no place at work, but the fact is emotions shape every moment of our work day whether we like it or not. In this podcast, Lucy Ball will lead us through the language of 5 key emotions - joy, sadness, anger, disgust and fear. You will learn the purpose of each emotion and how to talk about them at work in a way that can be used in the workplace.

We all have a part to play in making everyone feel safe and included, but the landscape of pronouns can feel confusing and hard to navigate when you haven’t had experience before. In this everywoman network podcast, expert Pippa Isbell explains in plain terms why pronouns matter, what they are and how to approach the pronoun conversation with confidence at work.

In this bitesize masterclass, you will learn how to change the conversation about the imposter phenomenon by changing the conversation you’re having with yourself and those around you

Listen to this bitesize masterclass, on how to develop your own alter ego in order to fuel your confidence and success.

Listen to this bitesize masterclass, for tips on how you can work with others to create a healthier workplace

In this episode, Sharon will show you how to reframe unhealthy beliefs and thought traps, with a thought-provoking exercise to help you gauge your own psychological fitness.

Led by Katy Murray, an everywoman expert who has worked with thousands of business leaders across the world, this session will help you to identify areas in your life where you can incorporate resilience practice, and explore how it can optimise your wellbeing.

Led by Karen Davis, an everywoman expert, author and entrepreneur, this session will explore four pillars you can use to live a life of purpose and fulfilment, with practical tips for incorporating each one.  

Led by Lucy Ball, an everywoman expert who has worked in leadership and development for over 20 years, this session will explore practical ways you can turn meeting tricky people into a fruitful personal development experience.

Led by Kate Turner, an everywoman expert who is the founder and director of Motivational Leadership and a leading expert in motivation in the UK, this session will explore practical ways you can find out what truly motivates you.

Led by Sharon Aneja, an everywoman expert and positive psychology coach, this session will explore practical ways you can set boundaries to protect your wellbeing and make your work environment healthier.  

Led by Lucy Ball, an everywoman expert who has worked in leadership and development for over 20 years, this session will explore practical tips to help you transform one dimensional listening into a multi-layered approach.   

Led by everywoman expert Sally Kettle, an experienced inspirational speaker who has given talks in front of audiences all over this world, this session will explore practical ways to feel more comfortable on stage, along with some top tips on delivering memorable and effective presentations.  

Led by Katy Murray, an everywoman expert who has worked with thousands of business leaders across the world, this quick lesson will explore practical ways you can switch off, leaving you feeling calmer and more ‘spacious’.   

Not according to EQ expert Alina Addison, who says perfectionists are less likely to achieve their goals. So how can you get out of a dangerous perfectionism mindset and into something healthier and more likely to get you to where you want to be?

In this bitesize masterclass, everywoman expert Jodi Goldman reveals why assertiveness is such an important skill to master — and how you can power up your communication both in work and in life.

In this month’s everywoman Changemakers podcast episode we talk to Elinor Cleghorn, author of Unwell Women — published June 2021 — about the need for change in provision for women’s health, and how the ability to speak up — and for people to hear the testimonies — around women’s experiences in healthcare systems is crucial to furthering gender equality. 

In the UK, misogyny is finally set to be recognised as a hate crime – something that will pass into law this autumn. But it has taken years, if not decades, of campaigning to push it over the line, Why? And why are we still debating the question around whether male violence toward women is acceptable in any society, in any form?

In this special everywoman:Changemakers podcast episode we discuss the issue of male violence toward women with guests, Tabitha Morton from the Women’s Equality Party, Ngozi Fulani and Rose Lewis from Sistah Space, Chris Green of White Ribbon UK and Jamie Klingler from Reclaim These Streets and ask where and how change can and should happen, who should be driving it…and whether it is happening fast enough.

Today, Gabeira is still one of only three female big wave surfers with enough corporate sponsorship to be able to surf professionally full-time. Last year, she not only set the world record for the biggest wave — a monstrous 22.4m — ever surfed by a woman, but the biggest wave surfed that year by any surfer, male or a female, at Nazaré beach in Portugal. And her tenacity is even more impressive in light of the fact that she nearly drowned eight years ago during a ride on the same beach. In this episode of everywoman Changemakers, she talks about ambition, the power of perspective and how her career is making waves for the next generation of big wave female surfers. 

Show notes 

0:46 - What does your world record mean to you? 

2:40 - Is there any reason a woman couldn’t surf a wave as big as a man could? 

4:30 - What does it feel like to be on a wave that big? 

5:54 - It didn’t get as much attention as you would expect, did it? 

8:28 - What effect do you think a narrowing of the gender pay gap would make? 

11:00 - How did you and how does anyone get into big wave surfing? 

14:05 - Did you have a female role-model when you were starting out? 

15:01 - What is the difference in mentality between regular and big-wave surfing? 

18:00 - How did you recover from your serious accident in 2013? 

23:47 - Do you aim to hold the record for the largest wave ever surfed regardless of gender? 

26:30 - What has the ocean taught you? 

28:25 - What would you like your legacy to be? 

Discover more about Maya and read the full transcript of the podcast here

In Love Your Imposter, business leader Rita Clifton CBE suggests that the traditional advice of ‘faking it until you make it’, might not be for everyone. In this deeply honest book — part memoir, part guide to forging a successful career, and endorsed by former United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton — the previous UK Chairman of Interbrand explores how her own Imposter Syndrome has become pivotal to her ongoing success. 

Listen to our podcast with Rita, where she shares her secrets to growth and development — from using curiosity to power through boring days to judicious use of rescue remedy.  

Though this non-fiction title is a departure from her usual genre, Sophie Hannah employs the devices better known to her crime fiction detectives: she analyses the evidence, from ancient texts by Aristotle to holding late-night sessions with American life coaches, navigating plenty of twists and turns along the way before presenting her theory. 

In our latest everywomanBookClub podcast, host Rebecca Lewis uncovers more on Sophie’s theory — her struggles with happiness as a concept, why it’s our thoughts that create our feelings without exception, and how perhaps the true meaning of happiness is accepting that the human experience contains a mixture of all emotions — positive and negative. 

Aradhana Lal, the chain’s Vice President of Brand, Communications & Sustainability Initiatives, is a key driver of this mission, which gives jobs and careers to those who have been marginalised through domestic violence, acid attacks, learning and physical disabilities and socioeconomic factors.  

With 17% of Lemon Tree Hotels’ workforce now made up of Opportunity Deprived Indians, the number is growing — and with it the success of the initiative and reputation of the hotel chain for its ambitious and collaborative approach. In the latest everywoman podcast episode, we talk to Aradhana about why progress is a question of ability not disability and the power of business culture to change the world around it for the better.  

With Covid-19 at the forefront of the world health agenda, Principal Epidemiologist at Public Health England, Dr Meaghan Kall has been working to map the data over the past few months to increase knowledge on the virus in the population. In the latest everywoman podcast episode she discusses the pandemic and its impact, the challenges – and creative collaborations - of women in STEM and how diversity can bring massive benefits in knowledge and innovation to all fields of science.

This podcast represents the personal viewpoints and opinions of Dr Meaghan Kall and does not represent those of Public Health England.

It’s hard to achieve your full potential if you’re constantly worrying that ‘they’ might find out you’re not good enough, don’t know as much as you should or that you got to where you are by accident. If this sounds familiar then you are in the grip of ‘imposter syndrome’, an internal limit that keeps both men and women from achieving all they can – and want to.

Author Clare Josa is the UK’s leading expert on imposter syndrome and conducted a landmark research study in 2019 that shows how widespread imposter syndrome is and how it is potentially costing UK businesses billions. We talk to her about her new book Ditching Imposter Syndrome, which is designed to give you a clear five-step plan to get rid of this limitation, allowing you to dream bigger and understand yourself in an expanded way.

SPECIAL DOWNLOAD - everywoman listeners can download a free version of Clare’s ‘emergency fix’ technique at http://www.clarejosa.com/everywoman/

Associate professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD business school, Jennifer Petriglieri has spent over a decade researching how people’s close relationships shape who they become professionally and personally. Her new book Couples That Work looks at how dual-career couples can thrive in love and work. We talk to her about the common mistakes that we can fall into as we progress our careers in tandem at different stages of life and the key questions and conversations to have to ensure that we successfully negotiate our personal and professional lives together.

Is closing the gender pay gap a question of what’s ‘possible’, or really more about a deep commitment to doing so? Design studio ustwo has closed its gender pay gap from 13% in just three years - now it is an extraordinary 4.38% in favour of women. Managing director Nicki Sprinz spearheaded the change through concerted action in areas that included management and inclusivity training, senior management hiring and pipeline strategy - and insists that to really move the needle you have to care. In this podcast episode we talk to her about her company’s inspirational achievement and what businesses need to do to take meaningful action, rather than pay lip service to pay parity.

Inclusive business campaigner, social entrepreneur and self-confessed ‘dangerous dreamer’, Caroline Casey has always lived a life without limits – from finding out she was legally blind only at the age of 17 years old, to her decision at 28 to leave her job and trek across India solo on an elephant to raise inclusivity awareness. Now the founder of the Valuable 500 campaign, launched this year, wants to release the social and economic potential of the 1.3 billion people in the world with a disability. We talk to her about why a disability is only one part of anyone’s challenges – or their potential – and why she’s inviting 500 of the world’s biggest CEOs to commit to putting the issue on their board agenda.

Following the recording of this podcast, Janet Riccio, Executive Vice President of Omnicom, founding Valuable 500 leader and avid supporter - whom Caroline spoke of in this interview - sadly passed away.

Leonid Sudakov, President of Kinship, a division of Mars, has long been a vocal advocate for the rich talent, creativity and innovative thinking created by diverse workplaces.

So for this month’s podcast we talk to him about the challenge of rethinking your business model, how being a gay senior leader shaped his priorities and what the Soviet Union did for women in STEM.

Ageism has been called the ‘last acceptable prejudice” – but ageing is also one of the fundamental markers of human progress, with a vast and growing demographic of people now living longer than ever. Given that, why are attitudes to age still so judgemental? And why is growing older for women in particular still seen as so negative?

Author of This Chair Rocks – a manifesto against ageism, Ashton Applewhite is part of a growing movement challenging the narrative of this bias. We talk to her about the leading role of women in the fight against ageism.

Founder of Tech London Advocates and Global Tech Advocates, Russ Shaw has played a huge part in pushing for diversity in the tech space - his determination and activism winning him the everywoman Male Agent of Change Award in 2018. This year, the theme for International Women’s Day is #BalanceForBetter - we talk to Russ about diversity and inclusion as a collective effort in the latest everywoman podcast episode -  and why it takes both men and women to actively push for balance.

https://www.everywoman.com/international-womens-day-2019

For more information on Melina’s work on performance in the menopause look at www.melinahealy.co.uk

The future is here, and it’s digital – but for digital transformation strategist and former Head of Public Participation for the UK Government Tiffany St James, power lies in the people and the culture that tech is embedded in. In this everywoman podcast episode, we talk to her about how social media has changed the way in which businesses engage with their audiences, how they get it right…and how they get it wrong – and the importance of embedding a culture of innovation not just “digital” in an organisation.

Director of the Wellbeing Programme at the Centre for Economic Performance at the LSE, chairman for Action for Happiness and co-author of The Origins of Happiness, Professor Lord Richard Layard, talks about the economic and social effects of happiness, the role of women in driving a “happiness revolution” and whether units of happiness could become a KPI for the future in the new everywoman podcast.

If we as humans are the sum of our interactions, she says, then our power lies in being fluid and creative enough to take what we are “given” by others and build on the dynamic in a different way. In this way, we can consciously shape our interactions - and therefore our life. In this thought-provoking everywoman podcast, Philippa discusses why it’s better to be an improviser than a “stand up”, how the idea of certainties may be holding you back in life…and why you should always try to get your dry cleaner to smile at you…

www.theageofnoretirement.org

If you want to get to grips with the Gender Pay Gap, then Helene Reardon-Bond OBE is the person to ask. A UK expert on diversity and equality and advisor to the Lord Davies and Hampton Alexander Reviews, she was also the lead policy architect behind the gender pay gap reporting regulations as head of policy at the Government Equalities Office. 

We invited her into the studio to talk about the challenges, implications and opportunities of the Gender Pay Gap, and how excited she is – for the women of today and the generations to come - at the powerful steps being taken to drive us forward to pay parity. Listen in to this inspiring everywoman podcast to find out more…

Tracey knows the importance of self-belief more than most. Having had a challenging early start, and unable to read until she was 14, she has built her career – and life – on the foundations of a strong sense of self, rising to become a power player in the retail and beauty industry.

This journey has included building the Aveda Brand in the UK, working as a commercial director of Urban Retreat in Harrods and Harvey Nichols and as an advisor to Marks & Spencer, where she helped redesign and develop the beauty department. She’s a fan of having a plan and of being accountable for your own self-worth – so listen in to gain more insight into how she uses her inner and outer resources to drive herself forward positively.