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Break Room 5: Nicki & Chops: Recruitment is a young person's game
... That's what I believe anyway. Having applied for well over 100 jobs over 12-months from 2023 to 2024, more if I count those I applied...

Chops
Sep 15, 20242 min read


57: Meet Helen: A brave Art Dealer and Gallery Owner, disrupting the Art industry
For anyone interested, I combined my pod with Helen, down in Surrey, with an overnight with one of my bestest friends in the world, so...

Chops
Sep 8, 20242 min read


56: Meet Meg: A brilliant paper-flower Artist and Workshop business owner
Meg's story is brilliant for a few reasons. 1. For the fact that it's truly international and covers a decent work/life stint in Aus,...

Chops
Sep 1, 20242 min read


53: Meet Lisa: A brilliant dressmaker and designer, with a background in adult education teaching
Lisa has LIVED, and she has both the medals and the scars to show for it. And like LOTS of the women I pod, Lisa has very much taken the...

Chops
Aug 11, 20241 min read


46: Meet Anna: A neurodivergent, non-binary Tarot Reader, Artist and... Witch!
Yep, witch! Oh this podcast has it ALL! ... A gorgeous person (Anna!), a gorgeous soul, a neurodivergent brain, a non-binary gender...

Chops
Jun 23, 20242 min read


2024 Mid-Year Mash-up
Can you believe we are half way through 2024... it's crazy?! But we are, and what a year it's been so far - 22 women podded, 3 of which...

Chops
Jun 16, 20241 min read


45: Meet Liz: TWW's 'resident', highly experienced florist and a fab small business owner
Liz had been on my hit list for months and months, but almost because I see her so often (sometimes multiple times a week), I kept...

Chops
Jun 9, 20242 min read


44: Meet Gemma: A highly qualified Solicitor and bad-ass IP & Trademark Attorney
Receiving a DM from Gemma was a shining light on a dark day... a dark few days. I'd had a couple of pretty sh***y weeks and was starting...

Chops
May 26, 20242 min read


42: Meet Amy & Jo: Two Philanthropic working mums bossing the soft-play business
I attended 'The Yard' many, many (MANY) times with my two, when they were younger; it was very often a life-saver. I also attended other...

Chops
May 12, 20242 min read


38: Meet Vicky: A highly sought-after (creative genius) Interior Designer, with a bonkers career journey
I knew Vicky was interesting, enough people had told me that, but sitting down and hearing everywhere she'd been (leading up to right...

Chops
Apr 14, 20242 min read


BREAK ROOM 2: Nic & Chops
Welcome to our second 'Break Room' and our second chat about life as a working woman today. Nic was/is the best boss I ever had, and...

Chops
Apr 7, 20242 min read


37: Meet Ruth: A talented, progressive commercial Artist, who's taken the scenic route to get there
I feel like I say this a lot, but Ruth is another fab female that I knew of through quite a few different people, before actually meeting...

Chops
Mar 31, 20242 min read


35 // Vid 1: It's time for Chops' own career story to lead the video charge...
As I have already said across mine and TWW's socials; it's time to next things to the next level, which means making some videos... Which...

Chops
Mar 17, 20242 min read


32: Meet Helen: A kick-ass Architect with a penchant for sustainability
Helen and I first met when we got our teenage Saturday jobs at a (pretty high-end) local homewares/gift shop in our local town. We sold...

Chops
Feb 25, 20242 min read


31: Meet Lisa: A globe-trotting chef to the stars
I cannot tell you how many people have asked me to 'pod' a chef... Whether that's because it's a job we all see in the public domain a...

Chops
Feb 21, 20242 min read


16: Meet Lyndsay: A super-talented photographer of 25+ years
I called Lyndsay back in September ('23) and asked her to take some 'professional', but also 'casual' shots of me for my new business....

Chops
Nov 29, 20231 min read


12: Meet Frances: A secondary school CDT teacher, A-list wedding videographer and shop owner.
'Hey... don't suppose you'd let me interview you for my new podcast?' 'Sure... I'm guessing you mean remotely, given I live in South...

Chops
Nov 12, 20232 min read


6: Meet Sally-Anne, a Digital Fashion & Style Queen
Sally-Anne is what you might call a 'local girl' when it comes to instagrammers/influencers and indeed when it comes to me; because she...

Chops
Oct 18, 20232 min read


2: Meet Caroline, a legit nail-art Artiste
Even though super-cool and super-classy (and super Glaswegian) Caroline is now based in the same Stamford studio space as Sophie (our...

Chops
Oct 12, 20232 min read
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