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In this episode of Why Care?, host Nadia Nagamootoo speaks with Geeta Sidhu-Robb, award-winning entrepreneur, political candidate, and the visionary founder of W Corp. Geeta shares her extraordinary journey from law and politics to building safer, more inclusive workplaces for women across the globe. She discusses launching W Corp at the United Nations, challenging CEOs with the Return on Investment of diversity, and her mission to reshape power structures for women leaders. Geeta also reflects on her Sikh upbringing, early experiences with racism, her resilience through having no money, and how she redefined her identity and leadership. A bold, honest, and empowering conversation on power, purpose, and creating change.Key Takeaways:Women's safety and inclusion in workplaces must be measurable and actionable, not tokenistic.Framing diversity through Return on Investment makes it harder for organizations to ignore.Resilience and self-reinvention are vital when navigating personal and professional adversity.Women must reject the pressure of likeability and embrace unapologetic leadership.Building ecosystems - from politics to entrepreneurship - is essential to lasting systemic change.Highlights:Geeta's journey from law and politics to entrepreneurship and activism.Founding W Corp to certify and improve workplace safety and inclusion for women.Launching at the UN and challenging global leaders on accountability.Redefining power and leadership as unapologetically feminine and strong.Creating ecosystems like the Green Flag movement to fund women entrepreneurs.The personal resilience story behind her public voice and mission.Guest BioGeeta Sidhu-Robb is an award-winning entrepreneur, health coach, and activist, recognized with multiple "Entrepreneur and Businesswoman of the Year" awards, and recent accolades like "Disruptor of the Year" and "Most Inspiring Women's Workplace Equity Advocate 2025." She founded Nosh Detox in 2008 due to her son's severe food allergies and has since built a strong reputation in the health and nutrition industry, with clients including Gwyneth Paltrow and Sarah Ferguson.Originally a lawyer, she retrained as a health and wellness coach in 2014, working with high-profile women to achieve career and personal success. She recently launched The Womanist Movement, which includes WCorp, a B2B initiative to certify women-supportive workplaces, and WComm, a global B2C online community for women.Geeta is also an activist, having been involved with Open Britain against Brexit, and serves on the boards of the Microloan Foundation and Sarah's Trust. She previously chaired Montessori Global, focusing on education for refugee children. A sought-after media expert, her motto is, "Anything is possible. If you can see it, you can do it; if you can dream it, you can make it happen."LinksGeeta Sidhu-Robb: Website | Podcast | Instagram | LinkedIn | FBNadia Nagamootoo: Website | LinkedIn | InstagramAvenir Consulting: ⁠https://linktr.ee/avenirconsultingservices

Keir Starmer's statement on immigration may well have repelled many Labour voters towards the Lib Dems and the Greens. How wrong has the Prime Minister got this strategy to defeat Reform? And are his party's plans even workable? Plus, the UK has signed trade deals with the US and India – what's in them, how important are they, and are we getting too close to Trump? Trade expert Dmitry Grozoubinski spoke to Andrew Harrison for The Bunker and we've included a brief excerpt in this section. • Want more? Find the full Bunker episode with Dmitry here. • Come to Oh God, What Now? Live at 21Soho, London on Weds 11 June. Tickets on sale here. www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow Presented by Ros Taylor with Seth Thévoz, Rachel Cunliffe and Ahir Shah. Producer: Chris Jones. Audio. Production by Robin Leeburn. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week, four bills appeared in Parliament and were scrutinised by MPs:  - The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which passed its Third Reading this week and is now in the Lords.  - The Dissolution and Parliament Bill, which went through its Second Reading this week. - The Nationality and Borders Bill and the Elections Bill, which both went through their First Readings this week.  With such a busy week in Parliament, we sat down with a series of experts to talk about what the bills set out to do, and what the actual implications of them will be. Listen as Alex speaks with:  Tom Brake, Director of Unlock Democracy, on the Elections Bill  Mitchell Westra, Operations Director at Open Britain, on the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill  and Stella Perrott, former Civil Servant and writer at Yorkshire Bylines, on the Nationality and Borders Bill.  Be sure to follow us @BylinesPod on social media, and thanks to Jules for editing the episode! 

PLUS Tories bash business and handling Brexit badlyMatt Chorley is joined by James McGrory, from Open Britain, Rachel Shabi, a left-wing commentator, and Anthony Wells, from pollsters YouGov. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Tough week. Tension in the studio as we record this show on Wednesday afternoon while the crunch debate on the “meaningful vote” is taking place. Listen in for analysis on what it could mean, where we go next… and then stunned disbelief as Dominic Grieve folds at the last minute. Guess that’s a case of “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice… that’s absolutely fine by me?”PLUS after May promises to pay for that NHS budget hike with the imaginary, non-existent “Brexit Dividend” we ask is there anything left of the Conservative brand now that the Tories have given up on Toryism? We call out the disgraceful co-ordinated attacks on young Remain campaigners by Seamus Milne’s social media army of hard left “human meat puppets”.And JAMES McGRORY of Open Britain joins us to preview the March for a People’s Vote on Sat 23 June. See you there with banners flying. We’ve been knocked down – but we’ll get up again. They’re never going to keep us down.“What the hell did plumbers do to this country to make Brexiters so angry at them?”This week’s REMAINIACS is presented by Dorian Lynskey with Naomi Smith and Ian Dunt. Producer: Andrew Harrison. Audio production: Sophie Black. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production.Help us to #OwnTheRemoan! Back the show in its battle to get some sense back into the Brexit debate and get smart Remainiacs merchandise too, at our Patreon page. REMAINIACS.comTheme music ‘Demon Is A Monster’ used by kind permission of Cornershop. Buy it here. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Chuka Umunna joins Alison McGovern, Richard Angell and Conor Pope to discuss how 2018 will decide the outcome of Brexit, and what progressives at home can do to change it. The panel also debate whether Donald Trump will be impeached, the likelihood of an alien invasion, and old school soul.Five things people can do on Brexit:- Go to see your MP during one of their surgeries - Email your MP - Sign-up to the Open Britain and Labour for the Single Market campaigns - Join Progress and campaign with us - Write a stinging Brexit rebuke on the Progress website. Send a 200-word pitch to Conor Pope: conor@progressonline.org.uk Further reading:*Chuka Umunna and Kate Osamor present new year music show on Mi-Soul *War, terror and aliens: what Britain expects from 2018 *Report on understanding the Leave vote (pdf) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Chris tries to get Adam to break off his holiday to discuss the latest Barnier/Davis press conference. Also, Labour MP and ‘Open Britain’ representative, Alison McGovern, tells us what happened at her party’s conference in Brighton.

A bumper Brexit edition hosted by Adam Boulton in the week the Prime Minister invoked Article 50 and triggered a plethora of questions. How much will the divorce bill be? Is no deal better than a bad deal? Is Brexit good or bad for the economy? Who will it benefit and what will a final deal eventually look like? Joining Adam this week are Joe Carberry from Open Britain, Deputy Editor of BrexitCentral Darren Grimes, Sky's political correspondent Darren McCaffrey and Head of Data Harry Carr. #Brexit #Article50 #skynews

On this week's podcast - As Labour continues to tiptoe around the question 'does leaving the EU mean leaving the single market?' we hear from Andy Burnham , who thinks it should. This week Parliament voted to approve the Prime Minister's timetable for Brexit. Former Cabinet Minister Ken Clare was the only Conservative MP to vote against the government. He explains why... A fresh legal challenge has been launched today by anti-Brexit campaigners seeking to ensure the UK remains within the European Economic Area. We hear from former Attorney General and supporter of the Open Britain campaign, Dominic Grieve QC. A new West End play - This House - explores the chaos in government in the 1970s under James Callaghan's Labour government. The play-write James Graham discusses why this period provided the perfect material for a dramatist. Finally, as ever, we hear from a team of top political pundits dissecting this week's news - Jo Tanner, head of inHouse Communications; Steve Richards, author and journalist; and Tom McTague, Chief Reporter at Politico. All on this week's Murnaghan podcast!

On this week’s Murnaghan podcast – With the new Chancellor, Philip Hammond, set to deliver his first Autumn Statement this week, we hear from Paul Dreschler, President of the Confederation of small Businesses, on what he is hoping to hear from the Chancellor. We also hear from Labour MP Chuka Umunna, former Shadow Business Secretary and a supporter of the Open Britain campaign and from Conservative Dominic Raab, Member of the Exiting the EU Committee who was a prominent Leave campaigner, on what Brexit means for the economy. With UKIP under fire for having reportedly misspent EU funding on national campaigning, leadership hopeful Suzanne Evans sets out how she will respond to a request for the party to return this funding if elected leader. 60 Conservative MPs today write that they are pushing for a hard Brexit - so no access to the European Economic Area. But is that feasible? We hear from the former Health Secretary Andrew Lansley who is now in the House of Lords looking at EU internal trade. Finally, as always, a top team of political pundits mull over this week’s news – Fraser Nelson, editor of the Spectator; Ian Dunt, editor of Politics.co.uk and author of ‘Brexit: What the Hell Happens Next?; and Polly Toynbee, Guardian columnist. All on this week's podcast!

This week James Millar is joined by James McGrory, spin doctor in chief for the Remain campaign and one time 'Lib Dem Malcolm Tucker'. He talks about the pain of losing the EU referendum and the roles of Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn in the result. But he's now leading Open Britain, an organisation aiming to make the case for the EU and retaining the closest possible relationship with Europe once Britain exits the EU.

This week on our BrexitWatch podcast we're asking what those who campaigned to remain in the European Union are doing to influence the terms of a future relationship with the bloc. Norman Lamb, Liberal Democrat politician, campaigned to stay in the EU and is a founder of the lobby group, Open Britain. Dan Damon asked him how he felt now that the dust was settling on defeat. (Picture: EU supporter in London Credit: PA)