Ep1, Fiona Grayson, She Can. She Did. - Creating your own opportunities & figuring out what you love
Rebel In Progress With Rachel Matthews
Release Date: 11/29/2019
Ep23, Peter Hopwood, International Speaker & TEDx Coach - Public speaking with confidence & storytelling through emotion
Rebel In Progress With Rachel Matthews
In this episode of Rebel In Progress, I'm joined by Peter Hopwood. We talk about public speaking, leadership communication and moments of emotion to guide storytelling.
info_outline
Ep22, Egbe Manton, Manton Legal - Startup legals & healthy client relationships
Rebel In Progress With Rachel Matthews
Egbe Manton is a commercial lawyer and commercial director of Manton Legal Consultancy. This episode is for business owners that struggle with the legal aspect of the business. Egbe shares practical contract tips, how to ensure a healthy client relationship and how she aims to do things differently in the legal profession.
info_outline
Ep21, Caroline Hughes, Lifetise - Money, Authenticity & Being An Agitator
Rebel In Progress With Rachel Matthews
Caroline Hughes is the CEO of Lifetise, she shares her relationship with money and her role as an agitator in work.
info_outline
Ep20, Tommy Ludgate, Brightly Imagine - Overcoming Fear & Rituals to Aid Performance
Rebel In Progress With Rachel Matthews
My guest this week on Creative Connections is the coach for creatives, Tommy Ludgate of Brightly Image. She uses a blend of coaching, mentoring and teaching to help her clients overcome the challenges holding them back in their careers and lives.
info_outline
Ep19, Ben Foulkes, Hoxby - Futureproofing & redefining the way we work
Rebel In Progress With Rachel Matthews
My guest this week on the Creative Connections podcast is Ben Foulkes, the MD of Futureproofing at Hoxby. Hoxby Futureproofing provides coaching and consulting services to help clients build their own future of work.
info_outline
Ep18, Nancy Evbuomwan, Unikable - Importance of biz strategy & being unemployable
Rebel In Progress With Rachel Matthews
My guest this week on the Creative Connections podcast is Nancy Evbuomwan. Nancy is the high energy (and hilarious) founder of Unikable. Unikable specialises in business strategy, agility and empowering uniqueness.
info_outline
Ep17, Katy Murray, Catalyst Collective - Acting without permission & rest as a competitive advantage
Rebel In Progress With Rachel Matthews
My guest this week on the Creative Connections podcast is Katy Murray.
info_outline
Ep16, Lara Hayward, Oxford University - Follow your curiosity & learning from high-performance environments
Rebel In Progress With Rachel Matthews
This week my guest is Lara Hayward.
info_outline
Ep15, Jess Salamanca, Banana Scoops - Creative problem solving and crafting the perfect supermarket pitch
Rebel In Progress With Rachel Matthews
My guest this week is Jess Salamanca, the Founder of Banana Scoops. Banana Scoops makes ice cream from creamy bananas and other natural and plant-based ingredients with no additives, preservatives, refined sugars or sweeteners.
info_outline
Ep14, Anne Ditmeyer, Creative Consultant - Design-thinking & create your own rules
Rebel In Progress With Rachel Matthews
My Creative Connections guest this week is Anne Ditmeyer, an American creative entrepreneur based in Paris. She is a designer, creative coach and consultant, and founded her blog Prêt à Voyager (translation: ready to travel) in 2007 to explore the intersection of design and travel. She attributes her successes to her platform saying it remains the best business card to this day.
info_outlinehttps://www.rachelmatthewswriter.co.uk/post/shecanshedid
IG: @rachelmatthewswrites / @creativeconnectionspod
Fiona Grayson is the founder of She can. She did. https://shecanshedid.com
A network for entrepreneurs to hear from young women who have dared to go solo and launch their own businesses. Fi has made it her mission to call out on the glossy business life shared online, asking her guests to talk about the realities of their working life - the ups and the downs.
It all started when Fi left her corporate job with nothing more than an idea and a company name. She talks me through not earning money for 10 months while creating online resources in the form of over 70 interviews where she put the spotlight on female entrepreneurs in their teens, twenties and thirties across the UK. This was at a time when she had no contacts and no back catalogue to showcase her ideas. She shares her advice on how to get people onboard to back your vision in the early stages of a project, and she really emphasises the constant hard work that’s involved in running a business.
Her company has expanded into a podcast, and a live event roadshow called the Midweek Mingles, all sponsored by Xero accounting software and endorsed by Forbes as a UK networking and support group that female entrepreneurs should know about.
Fi tells me how she turned her passion project into a profitable business after receiving direct (and at the time cutting) feedback from HSBC about what they’d want to see from She can. She did. Before helping her execute her big vision. Spoiler: It had nothing to do with increasing her social media following but other tangible results.
This gave her the push to start the Midweek Mingles, the friendly panel events that take the stuffiness out of networking - which might have something to do with the free-flowing gin cocktails.
Fi has always seen herself as a creative person but admits at the top of her to-do list is to have more fun outside of work. She tells me that academia took a front seat because of her educational choices, and she had been creatively stifled in her previous job. But now she embraces creating in her own company, and it usually involves a lot of glitter.
She ends with some practical tips on how to realign your life to be more creative and offers suggestions on where to start.
The main message that I took away from speaking with Fi is that nothing comes to you. You have to go and create your own opportunities inside and outside of work.