Dahlia is joined by Erin Gallagher to discuss what it means to be a 'hype' woman, to cheer on other women and to reap the rewards for yourself at the same time.

Dahlia and Erin discuss the fact that we often find ourselves sit in inertia desperate to change but that it's confidence that enables us to take a leap of faith. The conversation also includes an understanding of why we love the mean girls and an honest assessment of how to create and cultivate true friendships. The episode is about understanding our relationships have on how we feel and how we see ourselves and encourages listeners to be honest about how they build their A team.

Erin Gallagher is the CEO and Founder of HYPE WOMEN, an inclusive ecosystem hyping women to remember who the f*ck they are; author of Hype Women: Breaking Free from Mean Girls, Patriarchy and Systems Silencing Y ou; host and co-producer of the Hype Women Podcast; and creator of the global Hype Women Movement and

“The Fairway”- a dinner series and membership invested in networthing for women.

She began her career at Servicemembers

Legal Defense Network (SLDN), a non-profit legal services watchdog dedicated to ending the ban on LGBTQAI+ in the military (which they ultimately achieved). A two-time founder , Erin has spent her 20+ year career creating movements and leading global marketing, branding, communications,

strategy and PR for agencies and global

brands. She has counseled The White House,

Fortune 100 C-suite and senior leaders at

some of the world’s biggest and best brands

and companies.

Dahlia is joined by Jessica Fox and Charlotte Polley, co founders of one of the newest beauty apps Beauty Shelf.

Dahlia, Jessica and Charlotte discussing the explosion in beauty trends and the growth of influencer marketing in the beauty category.

As best friends they share the importance of taking and sharing advice with those you trust not just buying the next best thing or what is trending on Tik Tok.

The discussion includes an insight into how they built their business and the app and the confidence it took to put their beauty offer out there. The conversation finishes with an insight into manifesting success, the conscious decision to lean into manifesting, the cautiousness of building a business from scratch and how to find the business partner who is the ying to your yang!

Jessica and Charlotte are the two best friends and founders behind BeautyShelf, a newly launched social commerce app changing the way people discover and shop for beauty and wellness products in the UK.

Since launching just two months ago, they’ve built a fast-growing, engaged community of thousands of beauty lovers, with new users joining daily. BeautyShelf brings shopping, saving, and sharing routines into one space, where users and creators tag the products they genuinely use and love, driving authentic engagement and direct traffic to brands.

Dahlia joined by speaker, writer and fashion academic Stacey Heale to discuss identity, how our childhood dreams play out in our adult lives and navigating how we see ourselves and show the world who we are when we experience loss.

Dahlia and Stacey discuss where Stacey's research starts and the role our physical surroundings can have in shaping who we are. They specifically explore how bedroom decor is linked to identity from childhood and how this involves into adulthood (and parenting).

Stacey shares a very personal account of how becoming a carer and navigating grief shaped how she saw herself and how she used clothes as a demonstration of self expression to symbolise how she was feeling to those around her.

The episode discusses the subject of cancer and loss.

Stacey Heale is a writer, speaker, curator, fashion academic and campaigner who is inspiring radically honest discussions on the lived experience of women, focusing on the realities of difficult times and how to rebuild your life from the ground up.

Stacey's role is Teaching fellow at Winchester School of Art. Her academic research centres around the use of creativity to process trauma and the concept of the teenage bedroom as a site for identity construction. Stacey's 2018 TED talk focused on post-traumatic growth and the power of social media during a personal crisis. In November 2016, her husband, Delays lead singer Greg Gilbert, was diagnosed with incurable bowel cancer and died in 2021. In that time, she has campaigned for lowering the age of bowel cancer screening in the UK, research into treatments for stage IV cancer patients, access to unfunded drugs on the NHS and the financial rights of widows.

Dahlia is joined by Silvia Garcia, keynote speaker and former Global Director of the Institute of Happiness for Coca Cola to discuss how to find happiness.

Silvia shares her research from both her recent work and her role at Coca Cola, to explain the definitions of happiness and why it is a feeling but not a destination.

Dahlia and Silvia discuss the benefits of happiness in relation to productivity, and the need for happiness to be supported by trust and relationships.

Silvia explains the link between the memories we hold and how we see happiness and recommends a 'hack' we can choose each day to improve our happiness and our mindset.

Dahlia and Silvia also discuss the link between happiness and hopefulness and how to adjust your perspective and reframe your view if you are standing in a challenging spot.

Silvia Garcia is a sought-after expert for organizations that want to inspire the audience to build a brighter future while they also make people and business thrive.

Drawing on her decades-long experience advisingleaders in corporate boardrooms and C-suits, Silvia help leaders bring their employees' talent to its best, innovateand achieve high performance fromtheir teams.

As a former seasoned leader for the Coca-Colacompany, Silvia helps organizations navigate and succeed in challenging situations. She shares science-based, tried-and-true strategies for developing the traits of a leader who drives positive change, and whose people are motivatedto work for. A transformational leader,Silvia takes audiences in a real mind-shift beyond strategy and tactics; fostering collaboration, furthering their vision and values, and having a positive impact on their teams and organizations.

Described as "a visionary thinker with a rare empathy" Silvia was the former Coca-Cola Global Director for Marketing and Happiness, and her insights and learning do not leave anyone indifferent. She has devoted her professionallife to meet the best experts and scientists, and to share with others research-based ways to help advance avision of the world as a place wherepeople, business and society thrive.

A world in which the vast majority of people feel connected to others, a world in which people feel safe taking risksand navigating change, a world where people face the future with confidence that together, we can thrive.

Her speeches have been said to change “lives andcompanies”.

During her tenure as Global Coca-Cola Director for Marketing and Happiness, Silvia travelled the world to learn from scientists and businesses which are theconditions for higher happiness and success. She has devoted her life to sharing science-based discoveries to help leaders and organizations create abetter future for people, planet and business. Moreover, Silvia knows how to talk so people listen!Logically, she was behind some of the most inspirational Coca-Cola advertisement campaigns. Under her leadership,collaboration thrived, engagement soared, and innovation grew exponentially.

Finally, when tough problems need to be solved, Silvia helps bring the best out of people and teams. For that reason she was invited to participate in the 2015 Albright Challenge, by MIT University, and on many other projects that need visionary thinkers capable to stimulateinventive, collaborative solutions.

Silvia is known for making audiences realize how they can influence others to do what is best, and how to use emotions to unlock their brain's whole potential, which she described in her first TEDx Talk in 2023.

Her innovative views on business and leadershiphave attracted international attention. From the tech industry to the entertainment industry, from finance to fashion, from Fortune 500 to localbusiness, to the army, Silvia has been invited to meet with a broad array of leaders and organizations in nearly every industry.

Silvia shares her time between NYC and France.

Clothes, confidence and reshaping the future (with guest Karen Martin):

Dahlia is joined by Karen Martin, Editor of the BBC's Global News Podcast and Happy Pod to discuss weight loss injections and reinvention.

Karen talks about how the menopause impacted her identity and why she chose to use weight loss injections to regain a version of who she was - but how it became a moment of reinvention.

Dahlia and Karen discuss how it feels to go through a dramatic weight loss, why Karen wants to break the taboo of the injections and the initial response to her change in weight. They also discuss the joy of getting dressed and how Karen's style changed as she embraced a new version of herself in her 50s.

Curious about mounjaro, food noise and the behind the scenes of weight loss injections - have a listen to one perspective on using the medication.

Karen Martin is the Editor of the BBC’s most listened to international news podcast – the Global News Podcast.

She also edits the weekly Happy Pod and The Newsroom Programme on the BBC World Service.

A former reporter for newspapers, radio and TV, Karen now runs a 24/7 team of journalists covering stories from around the globe.

She’s also the mother of two teenaged daughters, a huge supporter of younger women in their careers and an avid cold water swimmer.

Karen isn’t afraid to stand out in a male dominated workplace, running editorial meetings dressed from head to foot in pink, leopard print or both.

She’s always across the latest news – and the hottest fashion trends.

Dahlia is joined by Dr Kerstin Brehm to discuss everything from diagnosis to dressing to making tough decisions.

Kerstin shares her journey from cardiac surgeon to leadership coach and why she is continuously challenge herself to learn in new ways.

Dahlia and Kerstin discuss how easy or difficult it is to diagnose what does and doesn't feel right in your career, why we don't always need to seek passion in our work and why we need to stop living for the weekend and enjoy our everyday.

Kerstin gives advice on the balance between inner confidence in your own ability and also knowing when to have confidence in the views of those around you.

Dr. Kerstin Brehm is a former heart surgeon turned corporate leader and founder of The Leadership Clinic™. Today she’s an outspoken advocate for ambitious women 40+, helping them reinvent success on their own terms. A strategist, podcaster, and fashion lover, Kerstin brings bold ideas, sharp insights, and a touch of style to everything she does.

Dahlia is joined by journalist Marianne Jones to discuss the importance of identity and how to retain a sense of self as life circumstance's change.

Marianne reflects on the moments of change across her career and how stress meant that she had to prioritise her health and take a change in direction - and what that meant for her identity.

Marianne is honest about the challenges that life can bring but offers advice on the link between confidence, resilience and finding joy in the everyday.

Dahlia and Marianne also discuss the work that Marianne does for Dementia UK and Marianne shares how vital clothing was to helping her Mum retain a sense of self as she lived with dementia.

Marianne Jones is a multi award-winning journalist, editor and broadcaster. Currently joint features director of YOU magazine, she has edited the Sunday Telegraph’s Stella Magazine, the Saturday Telegraph Magazine, andGrazia. She has co-hosted a number 1 podcast, Been There Done That Got the Podcast, and is an ambassador for the charity Dementia UK.

Dahlia is joined by Zena Everett Speaker, Leadership Coach and Author of 'The Crazy Busy Cure' and 'Badly Behaved People'.

Zena and Dahlia discuss the link between clothes and culture with Zena sharing her reflections from her time in recruitment and her research for her writing.

The discussion explores questions such as whether organisations should provide a clothing allowance for junior new starters, whether imposter syndrome is really a thing and whether you can be stressed and well dressed all at oncce.

The conversation centres around the fact that clothes can be used strategically to either build your confidence or to create an image where you are over or underestimated (listen carefully to Zena's favourite fashion moment) and Dahlia and Zena discuss the role clothes can play in shaping a corporate culture. There is a very clear shared view of the fact that there is no room for 'bad behaviour' in the workplace and that everyone deserves respect whatever they choose to wear.

Listen to reflect on how workplace culture has influenced your clothing choices and how you have used clothes to build your confidence and improve your mindset.