BEYOUROWN Podcast By Samanah Duran

It all started in 2010 in Barcelona when Andrea Lisbona, the founder & CEO, decided to revolutionise the commoditised industry of hand sanitisers. She decided to take hand hygiene to a whole new level with a visionary team that had a sixth-sense for what was needed.In 2017, Andrea and her team decided to cross the ocean and take over the world from United States market while partnering with Zobele, a multinational manufacturing company as a strategic partnership for growth.

Lifeed is the social impact EdTech company that creates innovative solutions for human capital development, engaging the corporate world to make a real change. Since 2015, it’s been transforming life transitions and caregiving activities - such as parenthood, caregiving or going through a crisis - into an opportunity for personal and professional growth.By mixing digital and real life experiences in an augmented learning platform, Lifeed promotes a continuous learning method that creates work-life synergy, generating wellbeing, engagement and professional efficacy. Lifeed programs are based on years of scientific research and validated at an international and national level through the scientific committee and academic partners, such as Università Ca’ Foscari, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca and Kellogg School of Management. Named by McKinsey & Company as one of the 10 most innovative companies in the world for employee reskiling, today Lifeed’s augmented training is used by over 15,000 people in 70 companies. Over the years, Lifeed and its founder Riccarda Zezza have received various awards, including Ashoka Fellowship (2016), UBS Social Innovation Award (2017) and the Sole 24Ore Social Impact Award (2018).

Natalie Kehren is a Toronto based woman, who is a founder of Holistic World, co-founder, and creator of The Wellness Market, the creator and mentor of the 8-week program Healing to Begin: Breaking Through to Rise, and a pacesetter within the wellness community.Natalie Kehren has always been a dreamer, an all or nothing-er, a seeker of truth, of empowerment, and freedom. After making the choice to live her life as she dreamt it to be, she saw becoming an entrepreneur and business owner as a way to make it possible & merge all her passions into one.​

Andrea Reynolds started her career as an accountant with KPMG before joining their Management Consultancy division in London, directing projects for a number of organisations such as GE Capital Aviation, Ryanair, Lloyds Bank and the FCA. Andrea then left KPMG to start her own corporate finance consultancy, where for over 10 years she raised funding for businesses across loans, investment and grants. It is this experience that led to the launch of SWOOP Funding.​

Joanna Jensen is the Founder & Executive Chairman of the UK’s number one baby and children’s toiletry brand, Childs Farm. In July 2020, she also launched an adult brand Farmologie following huge demand from women and parents. As well as being an entrepreneur, Joanna is a mother of two, Mimi and Bella. They were the inspiration behind the launch of Childs Farm and the products she created, as they both had sensitive skin and nothing on the market worked.

Claudia Giolitti was born in Caracas Venezuela. She knew she wanted to be a psychologist since she was 15 years old when she found an old psychology textbook in her parents’ bookshelf and was fascinated about being able to understand human behaviour and help others. During her childhood-adolescence years, Claudia’s mother was struggling with depression. Later on, she found out that it was all related to the sexual abuse that her mother experienced when she was a child.Claudia decided to use her own personal experience to empower other young women who were ready to take control of their lives and find emotional and psychological healing from childhood trauma.

Moving Ahead founder & CEO Liz Dimmock has been working in the fields of consultancy, coaching and mentoring for the last 16 years in businesses ranging from 30 employees to 330,000. Having held both commercial, coaching and leadership roles at IMG, KPMG, HSBC (Global Head of Coaching), and GP Strategies (Managing Partner). In 2012 Liz cycled the entire route of the Tour de France, one week ahead of the men’s race, matching them stage for stage, riding 3,479kms in 21 days. This journey highlighted the inequalities in the sport she loves; the fact that there is no women’s Tour de France (despite the clear physiological ability of women to complete it) was a driving factor in the creation of Moving Ahead.Moving Ahead currently represents the opportunity to make a difference in a space that needs change, and an opportunity to draw on founder Liz Dimmock's passions, subject-matter expertise and experience. It also represents a fantastic opportunity to bring together this exciting team who are global experts in their respective fields.

Alicia Patterson is a pelvic health specialist, somatic therapist and women's health mentor. Beyond talk therapy and modern medicine, women’s health expert, Alicia Patterson, guides you through the holistic practice of accessing your inner power through your pelvic bowl. As the root of your body, your pelvic bowl holds the healing power to restore vitality to your life, overcome past trauma and pain, and ignite your future. Using her own carefully crafted framework for women’s pelvic health, Alicia has successfully guided healing practices for over ten years.

Canadian based business professor Laura Cole is the founder of Your Latitude, a Canadian solution-focused coaching, and mediation practice, specialising in organisational culture development and change management. Her clients cover a wide range of industries and include academic departments, international franchises, not-for-profit organisations, and the health and financial sectors.

Karen Holden established A City Law Firm to provide experienced and dynamic solicitors in the City of London, who could think outside the box, whilst delivering at competitive costs.She is an entrepreneur having developed a thriving corporate firm from scratch and securing its place firmly in the City, She established the firm to provide experienced and dynamic solicitors in the City of London, who could think outside the box, whilst delivering at competitive costs.Karen oversees our high-net worth clients, entrepreneurs and technology companies. She handles complex disputes including High Court cases. She also creates structures for businesses and individuals seeking to secure investment either through equity share, EIS or corporate bonds and debt financing, by making them legally investment ready and through regulated tax advisors commercially aware of the types of structures available. Often talks at specialist events and universities where we have a solid partnership.

Miranda Horvath is a holistic practice consultant specialising in individual practices and small business practices. She is so passionate about helping practitioners reach their full potential to create thriving holistic practices.This is why she's delighted to launch her new and upgraded program to an 8 week intensive where you'll both spend 8 weeks together 1 on 1 learning all the foundational tools to make sure your practice is booked solid and lives within the framework of what you always envisioned your practice to be.Don't miss out on your chance to work with Miranda! You can book a call to speak to her by heading to www.massagebymirconsulting.com, or email her at massagebymir@gmail.com.

Nitasha Buldeo is a Natural Medicine Doctor focused on performance health + mind & body wellbeing. As a Director of the Centre for Exceptional Human Performance, she is also the founder and CEO of Organic Apoteke, a vegan brand combining Ancient Wisdom & Modern Science to create skin care like no other.

Ros Simmons is a British businesswoman. Previously serving as the CEO of Vie at Home, a company for which she worked since it was launched in 1997, Ros essentially started out as a Marketing Director. Amassing over 30 years of international experience within the Beauty industry, Ros now brings her strong entrepreneurial background and brand building skills to vegan hair and skincare brand MONAT.

15 years ago when founder Pontine Paus discovered ‘Nipple Balm’...It started when she brought the nipple balm out of the breastfeeding market and launched it into the beauty market back in 2004 in SpaceNK nationwide to spread its availability so more people could use it for all sorts of urgent dry skin issues. Tried, tested and loved for centuries by nursing mothers who have no time for BS, it was obvious that, ‘if it’s good enough for your nipples its good enough for everywhere else,’ says founder Pontine Paus.

Marci Hopkins, the creator and host of Wake Up With Marci, has always been driven by her creative side. Wake Up with Marci is a weekly female-focused talk show featuring guests and feel-good stories from across the United States. Sharing hardships, healing and triumph.

Angela Tsai is the CEO & Founder of Grow Your Brand With Impact, which was launched in 2019 with the mission to help women experts and coaches unleash the essence of their value. Grow Your Brand with Impact helps small businesses and entrepreneurs develop an impactful brand story and get it live quickly.

Entrepreneur, Author, Self-Love Expert And Coach Fabiana Dorea believes that the best way to communicate empathically is to show up in the arena unarmed and so she will be sharing her journey to wholeness and self-love.Having gone through a radical transformation herself and after leaving her old life, and her ex-fiance to embark on a journey of self-discovery, Fabiana truly believes that we can only give to someone else, what we give to ourselves and if it's love that we wish for, we must love ourselves first.Self- acceptance is understanding that life is made of contrasts and opposite forces: the day and night, winter and spring, light and shadow, and so are we.

Founder & CEO of Nourished and Scripted (operated under Rem3dy Group). Melissa Snover (aka Melissa Burton) is an entrepreneur, visionary, and a trendsetter in the world of food technology and 3D printing. She is passionate about developing innovations which offer solutions to her customers, challenge her competitors and disrupt current market offerings.She is currently the founder and CEO of Rem3dy Group which pioneers personalised health solutions across nutrition and medicine under the brands Nourished and Scripted.Nourished is the world’s first truly customised nutrition product which uses patented 3D printing technology and a vegan encapsulation formula to combine 7 different active ingredients into one personalised nutrition gummy stack.Scripted is set to be the first 3D printed personalised medicine dispensary and combination solution to the market. The tech start-up has conducted successful human clinical trials in hospitals in Spain and is set to launch its innovative product in the pharmaceutical industry in 2021.

Joy Cheriel Brown is an accomplished filmmaker, with an MFA in creative writing from National University and a bachelor’s degree from Howard University, where she studied film and English and graduated summa cum laude.Joy is the founder of Third Person Omniscient Productions, a production company whose mission it is to produce powerful, meaningful, thought-provoking movies, plays, and television shows that enlighten audiences about the human condition shed light on the meaning of life, and raise the collective consciousness. Her first feature film, Love’s Duty, is currently in development by her production company.She is also the author of “The Secret of Life Through Screenwriting: How to Use the Law of Attraction to Structure Your Screenplay, Create Characters, and Find Meaning in Your Script,” which is available on Amazon. Furthermore, her short film, N.O.S., was acquired by ShortsTV and is also available on Amazon Prime. In 2019, she produced her stage play, Stuck, for Washington, DC Capital Fringe Festival, and received Playwright of the Year from ACHI Magazine.

Erica's career has seen her working in the creative industries – in advertising, graphic and product design, in PR, in documentary production, in licensing and also involved with digital. Her clients have spanned big corporates such as British Airways, London Transport through to Puma and Dairy Crest, as well as working with well-known entities such as Hackney Empire, Historic Royal Palaces, Harvey Nichols and TV chef Rachel Khoo. And she has also helped over 250 small and medium companies understand how to grow their businesses through inventive planning, smart management and finding new, different ways to earn revenues whilst staying true to their principles.

Celia Pool is a co-founder of DAME, a brand rethinking personal care by reducing its environmental footprint without compromising on performance or design. DAME launched the world’s first reusable tampon applicator and DAME organic cotton tampons, which are free from toxins and synthetic materials.

Shann Nix Jones was a San Francisco city girl and radio talk show host who fell in love with a Welsh goat farmer named Rich. When Rich contracted a life-threatening superbug infection and doctors were unable to help, Shann saved his life with a combination of natural remedies, including the kefir they make together on the farm. In 2015, Shann’s diaries of their adventures saving Rich’s life quickly became Chuckling Goat’s first best-selling book. Today Shann is a go-to expert on gut health and the author of three Amazon best selling books on the subject. Her latest book is called The Kefir Solution: Natural Healing for IBS, Depression and Anxiety.

During the COVID-19 Lockdown period, we are back recording for our 4th episode of the BEYOUROWN Podcast. Tamie Adaya is a celebrated artist, art patron, creative director, award-winning entrepreneur and CEO of Hotel Shangri-La in Los Angeles.She recently partnered with Hollywood actor and artist, Val Kilmer, for her widely acclaimed debut art exhibition entitled GLAM at his HelMel Studio in LA. Tamie’s journey is ongoing. Her passion for art and life and doing what you love is contagious. Having proven how much you can do if you put your mind to it, she thrives inspiring others to join her.

Welcome BEYOUROWN Podcast guest Carina Lepore. Notably known as the winner of last year's BBC The Apprentice​, Dough Bakehouse owner Carina Lepore is going strength to strength in her career after securing the £250,000 investment from Lord Sugar.

With a preference for working in disruptive industries and challenging environments, it’s no surprise that Dominnique Karetsos specialises in growth for sex, fem and med-tech start-ups.She is instrumental in shaping the next generation of sexual health tech brands entering the market and has a true entrepreneurial calling for being part of the sex tech revolution. An established business & brand architect, founder and innovator, BBC radio broadcaster, Dominnique has nearly two decades of experience delivering results in multi-sector business transformation.