Ep9, Sally Page, Blinkist - Become a better leader & parenthood is an asset
Rebel In Progress With Rachel Matthews
Release Date: 02/16/2020
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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_outlineThis week's episode is with Sally Page of Blinkist and Brave v Perfect. Blinkist is a Berlin-based company the offers a new kind of book subscription service, they summarise best-selling non-fiction books into 15-minute reads. So, if you're like me and totally obsessed with learning and want to optimise your free time, check them out!
Alongside Sally's role at Blinkist, she runs her own company, Brave v Perfect that is all centred around 1-2-1 coaching and workshops. She works with companies, founders and driven individuals to focus on leadership and commercial mindset.
Sally has been on a path of challenging the leader stereotype and helps others do the same. She advocates that you need an open mind, sense of fun and an interest in others to be an impactful leader.
Her Career
In this episode, we chat through her career, from her time at Audible (before it was a well-established name) on the UK senior management team to her multiple roles at Hoxby (including the MD of Future-Proofing) to her latest role in publishing partnerships at Blinkist.
From Zero Interest to Millions of Pounds
She went from nobody answering her calls when she started at Audible to driving the digital revenue for the big publishing houses making millions of pounds and forming genuine partnerships with the likes of Pottermore.
She also shares her milestone moment for when she realised that audio was no longer considered old-fashioned when they bought the audio rights to Bill Bryson's latest book direct from the agent rather than the publisher.
"Becoming a Parent Supercharged my Career"
Sally has been challenging the mindset of parenthood being a burden on her career, having written on the topic for Blinkist Magazine - How Becoming a Parent Supercharged my Career. She truly believes in the untapped commercial value in the workplace of the parents' skillset developed by raising children and that it's a reason to have confidence when returning to work after leave.
Identify Your Leadership Qualities and the Future of Work
She tells me how to recognise your own leadership qualities, how to ask for flexible working after time away from work and we discuss how the future of work is intrinsically linked to trust.
I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I loved chatting to Sally, and if you do, I'd be forever grateful if you'd take a moment to rate, review and subscribe as it helps me grow the podcast.