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Authors List
Authors
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Abi Osho is a Personal Storytelling and Leadership Coach, BAFTA
award-winning retreat curator, and speaker. She specialises in
helping leaders harness the power of their personal stories to
create impact, confidence, and transformation. Abi’s work
empowers individuals to step into their authenticity and lead with
purpose. -
Achea Redd is an author, speaker, and certified mental health coach known for her raw honesty and fearless advocacy. After being diagnosed with Generalised Anxiety Disorder in 2016, Achea transformed her pain into purpose, founding Rooted with Redd Coaching, where she helps clients heal, reclaim their voice, and reconnect with the Divine within.
Through her signature Four A’s Method — Awareness, Acknowledgment, Acceptance, and Action — and Gestalt-informed approach, Achea guides others toward authentic healing and self-discovery.
She is the author of The Precipice of Mental Health, Be Free. Be You., and Authentic You. Achea continues to inspire global audiences to embrace their wholeness and live in alignment with truth.
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Aisling Louise Owens Nash is the Executive Director of Hopefull Handbags Global and President of Hopefull Handbags Ireland. She is also the creator of the WE Believe event series, supporting women in business to lower stress, strengthen systems, and scale with purpose, compassion, and community at the centre.
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Ali Mapletoft is a multidisciplinary artist, creative director and creative consultant. Her own creative work exudes a potent feminine energy infused with myth and theatricality. Ali’s public speaking and consultancy work focuses on revolutionising the way industry, education and healthcare view creativity as a vital tool for a healthy society.
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Alison Cork MBE is a leading voice for women navigating reinvention in midlife. An entrepreneur, author and broadcaster, she is the author of Fit & Fabulous Over 50: How to Rewire Your Second Act. Through her work, Alison challenges outdated narratives around ageing and empowers women to prioritise health, wellbeing and purpose as the foundation for a fulfilling life. Having built multiple successful businesses and transitioned into the wellness space later in life, she brings lived experience, insight and practical wisdom to women ready to own their next chapter.
She believes wellbeing is not optional, but the gateway to long term confidence and freedom.
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Anastasia Dobrovolschi is a guide and space holder supporting individuals through moments of inner transition, identity shift and deep self recognition. Her work centres on presence, listening beneath language and allowing truth to emerge without force.
Through her writing and one to one work, Anastasia supports people to move from self control into self trust, and from performance into embodied peace.
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Ayşe Gül Doğan Köse is an art teacher, a mother of two, and a passionate advocate for self-expression through creativity. With a deep love for painting, she finds joy in translating emotion into colour, often spending her spare time in front of a canvas, allowing whatever is within her to flow freely. Through her teaching and her own artistic practice, Ayşe Gül invites others to slow down, connect inward, and let art speak the truths that words sometimes cannot.
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Carla Crivaro is a Sex, Love & Relationship Coach helping leaders reignite their sex lives and deepen intimacy so they feel confident, connected and powerful in every area of life. Through coaching and workshops, she helps clients thrive in the bedroom and the boardroom - because your personal life fuels professional success.
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Clare Cullen is a trauma informed chiropractor with over 24 years of clinical experience supporting women’s health and nervous system regulation. As the founder of Ewell Chiropractic, her work integrates chiropractic care with interoceptive awareness, breathwork and cycle literacy to support women in understanding their bodies’ innate intelligence.
Clare’s approach is grounded in the belief that symptoms are protective responses, not failures, and that healing begins when women learn to listen to their bodies with compassion and awareness.
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Debbie Stevens is living proof that it’s not too late to rewrite your story. Once a busy mum who felt stuck and unfulfilled, she chose her own Independence day - the moment she walked away from the safe and familiar, to follow her passion for wellbeing. With no qualification, just courage and determination, Debbie built a business that transforms lives through reflexology, wellbeing workshops and community projects in schools. Her mission is simple, but powerful: to inspire women to believe in themselves, to put their wellbeing first, and to know that they already have everything it takes to create the life they dream of.
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Donna Noble is a trailblazing Body Positive Yoga teacher, wellbeing coach, speaker, and author of Teaching Body Positive Yoga. With a mission to make wellness truly inclusive, she helps people reconnect with their bodies, build confidence, and embrace rest as a form of resistance.
Donna has been featured in Stylist, Red, BBC Radio London, and Yoga Journal. She leads retreats, writes, and speaks globally - inviting everyBODY to feel seen, safe, and celebrated in their practice, both on and off the mat.
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Dr Yildiz Tugba Kara is a strategy and business development consultant with a background in international trade and sustainable business management. She is the founder and Managing Director of Society 5.0 Institute London, where her work focuses on helping organisations and individuals navigate transformation at the intersection of technology, sustainability and human centred leadership. Drawing on cross sector experience and lived reinvention, she supports purposeful growth through adaptability, continuous learning and collaboration.
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Dr. Amanda Hanson(The Midlife Muse) is a doctor of psychology, bestselling author, international speaker, and paradigm shifting leader in the field of women’s empowerment. Her transformative work redefines the modern understanding of womanhood, helping women around the world return to themselves with honor, truth, and embodied wisdom. In just the past three years, Dr. Amanda’s message has reached over 400 million people globally. Her most recent book, became an instant bestseller in three categories within the first five hours of release, confirming the urgency and power of her message.
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Elen Agasiants is an author and creator with a deep passion for bringing beauty, imagination, and transformation to life. From a young age, she was drawn to creating magical worlds, whether through theatre productions, costume design, or writing musicals and poetry. Though life took her down a different path in business and technology, her creative instincts never waned.
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Driven by her mission to reshape the way women perceive and assert their power, Elif doesn’t just talk about confidence she embodies it.
Her story of personal and professional reinvention, from fashion designer to transformational confidence coach, resonates with those looking to reclaim their voice, purpose, and impact in a world that needs more empowered female leaders.
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Elizabeth McQuillan is the founder of Flamingo Business and Flamingo Car Finance and is widely known as The Event Expert™. After leaving a fourteen-year teaching career, she built a multi-million-pound finance business during lockdown and went on to create one of the UK’s most recognised women-led business event brands.
Through strategic rooms, live experiences and meaningful connection, Elizabeth supports ambitious women to scale impact, visibility and commercial success without shrinking who they are. Her work centres on visibility, leadership, and the power of intentional rooms to change businesses and lives.
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Emily Barclay launched Perimenopause Hub in 2019, following over 3 years of what she came to learn were perimenopause symptoms, bringing together experts from around the world to support women through this life stage. Emily is passionate about helping women feel epic. She lives in Scotland with her partner and 5 dogs.
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Emma began her journey as a pelvic floor specialist and personal trainer. By listening deeply to women, she recognised that modern women’s health was missing a deeper, sacred connection to feminine wisdom and embodied power.
This insight inspired her to support women to reclaim desire, deepen sensation and live fully embodied lives. This work is her legacy.
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Evgeniya Preimane is a London-based transformational stylist and colour-analysis expert. After swapping UK 10 for 12 and reviving her confidence through deep-autumn hues and charity styling, she now equips women-from new mums to business owners— to dress the lives they're stepping into, not the ones they've outgrown.
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Fiona O’Sullivan is a brand voice and storytelling strategist and the founder of The Write Field Brand Voice Boutique. She helps visionary founders craft authentic, high-impact messaging that builds authority, attracts aligned opportunities, and drives sustainable growth.
With over 20 years’ experience in leadership, coaching, and copywriting, Fiona is known for her strategic clarity, creative precision, and people-first approach.
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Funmi Olatoye is a business strategist, AI consultant, speaker
and automation expert dedicated to helping entrepreneurs
streamline operations and scale their businesses. Through
cutting-edge technology and smart automation, she empowers
business owners to work efficiently, increase impact, and
create long-term sustainability without burnout. -
Gayle Berry is a multi-award-winning entrepreneur, TEDx speaker, and founder of Blossom & Berry and Love Millions Academy. With over 23 years of experience, she has built a million- pound global wellness brand, trained thousands of practitioners worldwide, authored multiple books, and mentors visionary women to scale purpose-led businesses into global movements.
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Grace Lillywhite, founder of Centred Mums, is a women’s health Pilates specialist with 15 years’ experience. She’s lectured widely, created teacher training programmes, and appeared in national media. Her mission is to help women reconnect with their bodies and move in ways that feel supportive, energising and genuinely transformative.
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Hansa Raja is the founder of Holding Space, an award winning mental health charity, and a consultant specialising in workplace culture change. Drawing on lived experience and professional leadership, she supports individuals and organisations to create environments where confidence, resilience and authenticity can flourish.
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Hayley Keeber is a business simplification strategist and the founder of the She’s THAT Mum movement. After leaving a demanding recruitment career, she built a six figure business while raising young children, proving that women do not have to choose between motherhood and success. Hayley supports ambitious mums to simplify their strategy, systemise their businesses and build scalable, lifestyle first success rooted in presence, impact and legacy.
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Jacqueline Hollows is a facilitator, mentor and community builder supporting women to reconnect with their innate confidence, clarity and self trust. After leaving a career in IT, she worked within the prison system delivering wellbeing programmes, an experience that profoundly shaped her understanding of identity, worth and transformation.
Through Impact Activator, Jacqueline creates spaces where women strip away conditioning, release false narratives and activate their voice, power and purpose from within.
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Jean Adrienne is the author of 6 books and 2 decks of metaphysical healing and activation cards. Jean created InnerSpeak, a coaching tool for clearing karmic blocks from this lifetime, past lives and ancestors, to enable you to create the life and reality you desire and deserve! She teaches her work internationally and works with clients in her office in Tallahassee FL as well as via Zoom or phone. www.JeanAdrienne.com
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Josie Hamilton-Cook is a 53-year-old midlife rebel, mum, and founder of Rebellious Essence. Through transformational retreats, styling, and soul work, she guides women to reclaim their identity, visibility, and power, reframing midlife not as a crisis, but as a bold awakening. Her mission? Radical self-love, inside out.
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Kate Gilbert is a public speaking coach, trainer, and mentor
dedicated to helping individuals find their voice and speak with
confidence. She empowers both introverts and extroverts to step
into their power, master communication, and deliver impactful
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Kendall Marie Platt is a Horticultural Therapist who guides women to create seasonal garden sanctuaries where colour, scent & soil quiet your mind & restore your energy. Through her work, she brings together horticultural therapy and sensory-led garden design to create spaces that don’t just look beautiful, they restore you daily. It’s beauty that heals, rhythm that restores and design that supports your body and mind.
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Kirsty Lawton is a consultant physician in geriatric medicine working within the NHS. With over fourteen years’ experience as a doctor, including frontline work during the Covid-19 pandemic, her approach is guided by compassion, integrity and a deep belief in caring wisely as well as deeply. Alongside medicine, Kirsty is a trained yoga teacher and integrates yoga, meditation and breathwork into her own life and understanding of wellbeing, believing true confidence begins with self-trust, boundaries and inner listening.
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Lara Besbrode is the founder and CEO of The Matchmaker UK, an award-winning and MMI-certified international matchmaker who has turned her passion for people into a calling. After three decades in PR and marketing, Lara dared to start over, channeling her gift for connection into building a globally respected matchmaking service. She’s a regular expert guest on platforms like BBC, TalkRadio, Real Housewives of Cheshire, and MTV Catfish UK.
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Laura Beddoe Collins is the founder of Soul Speaks, a globally recognised platform supporting women leaders to build standout brands, position themselves as credible experts and create scalable income through signature talks and digital offers. Her work centres on helping women transform sensitivity into authority, voice into visibility, and lived experience into meaningful impact. Through storytelling, embodiment and strategic positioning, Laura supports women to speak with clarity, lead with confidence and build businesses rooted in authenticity and purpose.
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Laura Rosinska is the visionary founder of Event Exec, a luxury event ticketing company redefining industry standards. From a turbulent past to building a £2.5M business, she champions wellness, authenticity, and women's leadership. Laura is pioneering a new era of events, where success and nervous system regulation go hand in hand.
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Lesley Thomas is the founder of The Money Confidence Academy and a leading voice in helping women transform their relationship with money. As a certified money and mindset coach, host of the Top 5% podcast, Let's Talk Money and More and author of 'Parents Let's Talk Money - if you're not talking to your Teen about it, who is?' which is being published in July 2025, she empowers women to rebuild financial confidence, especially through major life transitions. Lesley works with ambitious women ready to lead with self-worth, not self-doubt
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Lisa-Marie Elkhadraoui is an entrepreneur, mentor, and founder working at the intersection of business strategy and soulful leadership. Having built and scaled multiple six- and seven-figure businesses across the interior design, property, and mentoring space, she now supports women to grow sustainable, profitable businesses without disconnecting from who they are becoming.
Her work centres on clarity, confidence, and aligned decision-making, helping women remember and embody their inner fire.
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Lit Eziefula of The Sovereign Within, has over 18 years clinical experience supporting individuals to heal from unhealthy, toxic and narcissistic relationship dynamics. She is the founder of The Sovereign Within, a bespoke private therapy consultancy rooted in self leadership, embodiment and nervous system regulation. Integrating evidence-based modalities including EMDR and Yoga Nidra, Lit supports clients to reclaim boundaries, rebuild self trust and move from survival into grounded confidence. Her work is trauma informed, relational and deeply respectful of each person’s innate capacity to heal.
She believes true authority begins with embodied self trust.
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Louise Cavell is a coach supporting individuals to reconnect with their inner wisdom, self compassion and intuitive guidance. Through her work, she creates gentle, reflective spaces that help people quiet the noise of self doubt and return to a deeper sense of trust, clarity and inner peace. Her approach is rooted in presence, kindness and the belief that no one is broken, only remembering who they are.
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May Chunladecha is the co founder and director of Little Jasmine Therapies & Spa, an award winning wellbeing business based in Brighton and Hove. With over 18 years of experience, May leads with compassion, integrity and community at the heart of her work, creating nurturing spaces that support wellbeing for guests, teams and the wider community.
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Nadine Benjamin is an internationally recognised soprano, coach and mentor whose work bridges performance, leadership and spiritual embodiment. With a career spanning opera, coaching and personal transformation, she supports women to lead from purpose, presence and inner truth. Nadine is the founder of Trinity Mind Coaching, launching in 2026, where she integrates high performance with spirituality and self leadership.
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Nati Beltrán, MSc Neuroscience, is an executive coach and Nonviolent Communication trainer helping purpose-driven leaders turn sensitivity into strength. Blending science with emotional wisdom, she fosters conscious, compassionate leadership. Through her LEAP community and training, she guides leaders in cultivating sustainable presence for lasting impact.
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Nicole Louise Geddes is the founder of PerformerPreneur, supporting performers and creatives to build sustainable, confident careers beyond the stage. Drawing on lived experience and industry insight, she helps artists translate their talent into aligned businesses, visibility, and income, without losing their creative identity.
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Otibho Edeke Agbareh and Natalie Fairchild are internationally recognised crisis management and humanitarian response specialists with extensive experience across aviation disasters, terror attacks, mass fatality incidents and complex humanitarian crises. Otibho brings global leadership in family assistance and identification, serving as a UN ICAO certified expert and Working Group member, with a career spanning clinical frontline care, humanitarian leadership and doctoral research on families of missing persons. Natalie contributes deep operational and strategic expertise across UN classified organisations, public contingency planning, humanitarian response and crisis consultancy, with a strong focus on enhancing humanitarian assistance through innovation and technology. Together, they co founded CrisisDNA to advance compassionate, effective and resilient crisis preparedness and response worldwide.
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Pamela Kingsland is a Registered Psychologist and Master Executive Coach with over 25 years of experience supporting individuals and leaders to reshape their internal narratives and create meaningful change. Her work centres on the power of language, reframing and personal agency as foundations for confidence, resilience and wellbeing.
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Penina Shepherd is the founder and CEO of Acumen Law, a multi award winning commercial law firm recognised by the Financial Times as one of the Top 50 most innovative law firms in the UK and Europe. A commercial solicitor since 1996, Penina has advised businesses across company, commercial, intellectual property, data and compliance matters, and has worked with top 100 UK law firms as a partner and head of department. She is also the author of the best selling book The Freedom Revolution and a sought after keynote speaker, known for challenging conventional thinking around leadership, entrepreneurship and freedom in business.
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Pippa Moyle is the visionary entrepreneur behind the City Girl Network, a social network that empowers and connects women living in 19 communities across the UK. Since starting her business in Brighton in 2016, 150,000 women and trans femmes across 19 UK communities have found friends, business connections, jobs, housemates, travel companions, businesses, campaigns and charities to support, as well as things to do in their local community and beyond.
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Beccy is the founder of Chez Beccy kitchen and home style brand ,a brand that celebrates connection, creativity, and joy through baking and design. As a passionate entrepreneur, author, and baking demonstrator, she helps people rediscover confidence and self-expression through the simple pleasures of food, storytelling, and beautifully crafted homeware.
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Reka is a cuddle therapist and holistic wellbeing practitioner based in Brighton. Her work centres on the healing power of safe, consensual touch, supporting people to feel heard, held and seen. Through Hungarian Hug Haven and her work with The Witch & The Magician Holistic Wellbeing, she creates spaces rooted in presence, boundaries and embodied care. Her approach is informed by lived experience, deep listening and a belief in the body’s innate wisdom to heal.
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Samantha is a qualified teacher, coach and mentor specialising in supporting women to break into their next financial level through her trademarked frameworks, the Activation Triangle and the SCALE Business Method. A bestselling author and public speaker, she supports women in business to build sustainable wealth, helping £250k a year become the new baseline while creating businesses that support life, not consume it.
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Sibel Tüzün is an award-winning singer, voice coach, and creative mentor known for her iconic Eurovision performance and soulful presence. Today, she helps women reconnect with their authentic voice through breath, sound, and stillness guiding them to reclaim confidence, expression, and emotional power at every stage of life.
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Sophie Corbett was born into show business, following in the footsteps of her father, beloved British comedian Ronnie Corbett, and her mother, West End leading lady Anne Hart. From acclaimed stage roles to 26 years as one of the UK’s top voiceover artists, Sophie’s career spans theatre, voice artistry, fashion curation, and community healing.
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Sylvia Holder is the founder trustee of the Venkat Trust, an education charity she established in memory of a young fisherman’s son she met in India. A recipient of the BEM and The Times Sternberg Active Life Award, she lives in Hove and regularly visits the Trust’s projects in South India. Lindsay Swan, a trustee of the Venkat Trust, was Sylvia Holder’s partner in a London PR consultancy for over 20 years. Based in west London, she is involved in therapeutic gardening projects and serves on the Wandsworth Prison Independent Monitoring Board, promoting fair treatment in custody. She frequently travels to the Trust in Kovalam, India.
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Tanya Ibberson, aka the Financial Wingwoman, is a trauma-informed financial transformation coach and qualified accountant with over 28 years’ experience. She helps women reclaim financial clarity, confidence, and control, especially after financial abuse or divorce, so they can rebuild safely, strategically, and on their own terms.
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Taylor Smith is a strategic profit consultant supporting ambitious coaches and consultants to build predictable, sustainable businesses while working less. Through her work, she helps women simplify their strategy, strengthen their confidence and turn hard work into scalable profit. Taylor’s approach combines practical systems with deep belief in women’s innate power, supporting them to build businesses and lives that feel aligned, expansive and fulfilling.
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Thalia Pellegrini is a BANT-registered nutritional therapist and women's health specialist. With over a decade's experience, she supports clients in the UK, Ireland, and North America both 1:1 and in her group programs with hormonal health issues ranging from PMS to perimenopause, PCOS and endometriosis, low energy and fatigue. Thalia is also the perimenopause expert for award-winning
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Authors List
Authors
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Abi Osho is a Personal Storytelling and Leadership Coach, BAFTA
award-winning retreat curator, and speaker. She specialises in
helping leaders harness the power of their personal stories to
create impact, confidence, and transformation. Abi’s work
empowers individuals to step into their authenticity and lead with
purpose. -
Achea Redd is an author, speaker, and certified mental health coach known for her raw honesty and fearless advocacy. After being diagnosed with Generalised Anxiety Disorder in 2016, Achea transformed her pain into purpose, founding Rooted with Redd Coaching, where she helps clients heal, reclaim their voice, and reconnect with the Divine within.
Through her signature Four A’s Method — Awareness, Acknowledgment, Acceptance, and Action — and Gestalt-informed approach, Achea guides others toward authentic healing and self-discovery.
She is the author of The Precipice of Mental Health, Be Free. Be You., and Authentic You. Achea continues to inspire global audiences to embrace their wholeness and live in alignment with truth.
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Aisling Louise Owens Nash is the Executive Director of Hopefull Handbags Global and President of Hopefull Handbags Ireland. She is also the creator of the WE Believe event series, supporting women in business to lower stress, strengthen systems, and scale with purpose, compassion, and community at the centre.
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Ali Mapletoft is a multidisciplinary artist, creative director and creative consultant. Her own creative work exudes a potent feminine energy infused with myth and theatricality. Ali’s public speaking and consultancy work focuses on revolutionising the way industry, education and healthcare view creativity as a vital tool for a healthy society.
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Alison Cork MBE is a leading voice for women navigating reinvention in midlife. An entrepreneur, author and broadcaster, she is the author of Fit & Fabulous Over 50: How to Rewire Your Second Act. Through her work, Alison challenges outdated narratives around ageing and empowers women to prioritise health, wellbeing and purpose as the foundation for a fulfilling life. Having built multiple successful businesses and transitioned into the wellness space later in life, she brings lived experience, insight and practical wisdom to women ready to own their next chapter.
She believes wellbeing is not optional, but the gateway to long term confidence and freedom.
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Anastasia Dobrovolschi is a guide and space holder supporting individuals through moments of inner transition, identity shift and deep self recognition. Her work centres on presence, listening beneath language and allowing truth to emerge without force.
Through her writing and one to one work, Anastasia supports people to move from self control into self trust, and from performance into embodied peace.
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Ayşe Gül Doğan Köse is an art teacher, a mother of two, and a passionate advocate for self-expression through creativity. With a deep love for painting, she finds joy in translating emotion into colour, often spending her spare time in front of a canvas, allowing whatever is within her to flow freely. Through her teaching and her own artistic practice, Ayşe Gül invites others to slow down, connect inward, and let art speak the truths that words sometimes cannot.
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Carla Crivaro is a Sex, Love & Relationship Coach helping leaders reignite their sex lives and deepen intimacy so they feel confident, connected and powerful in every area of life. Through coaching and workshops, she helps clients thrive in the bedroom and the boardroom - because your personal life fuels professional success.
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Claire Gray is the founder of Brooklands Barn, a retreat venue and creative sanctuary in West Sussex. A former accountant, Claire followed an inner call to build a life rooted in authenticity, creativity, and connection. Through retreats, breathwork, and the arts, she creates spaces where people reconnect with themselves and what truly matters.
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Clare Cullen is a trauma informed chiropractor with over 24 years of clinical experience supporting women’s health and nervous system regulation. As the founder of Ewell Chiropractic, her work integrates chiropractic care with interoceptive awareness, breathwork and cycle literacy to support women in understanding their bodies’ innate intelligence.
Clare’s approach is grounded in the belief that symptoms are protective responses, not failures, and that healing begins when women learn to listen to their bodies with compassion and awareness.
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Debbie Stevens is living proof that it’s not too late to rewrite your story. Once a busy mum who felt stuck and unfulfilled, she chose her own Independence day - the moment she walked away from the safe and familiar, to follow her passion for wellbeing. With no qualification, just courage and determination, Debbie built a business that transforms lives through reflexology, wellbeing workshops and community projects in schools. Her mission is simple, but powerful: to inspire women to believe in themselves, to put their wellbeing first, and to know that they already have everything it takes to create the life they dream of.
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Donna Noble is a trailblazing Body Positive Yoga teacher, wellbeing coach, speaker, and author of Teaching Body Positive Yoga. With a mission to make wellness truly inclusive, she helps people reconnect with their bodies, build confidence, and embrace rest as a form of resistance.
Donna has been featured in Stylist, Red, BBC Radio London, and Yoga Journal. She leads retreats, writes, and speaks globally - inviting everyBODY to feel seen, safe, and celebrated in their practice, both on and off the mat.
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Dr Yildiz Tugba Kara is a strategy and business development consultant with a background in international trade and sustainable business management. She is the founder and Managing Director of Society 5.0 Institute London, where her work focuses on helping organisations and individuals navigate transformation at the intersection of technology, sustainability and human centred leadership. Drawing on cross sector experience and lived reinvention, she supports purposeful growth through adaptability, continuous learning and collaboration.
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Dr. Amanda Hanson(The Midlife Muse) is a doctor of psychology, bestselling author, international speaker, and paradigm shifting leader in the field of women’s empowerment. Her transformative work redefines the modern understanding of womanhood, helping women around the world return to themselves with honor, truth, and embodied wisdom. In just the past three years, Dr. Amanda’s message has reached over 400 million people globally. Her most recent book, became an instant bestseller in three categories within the first five hours of release, confirming the urgency and power of her message.
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Elen Agasiants is an author and creator with a deep passion for bringing beauty, imagination, and transformation to life. From a young age, she was drawn to creating magical worlds, whether through theatre productions, costume design, or writing musicals and poetry. Though life took her down a different path in business and technology, her creative instincts never waned.
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Elena Brower is a mother, mentor, poet, and bestselling author known for her teachings in yoga, meditation, and mindfulness since 1999. Through her books, journals, and the Practice You podcast, she guides students toward presence and inner alignment. Her latest work, Hold Nothing, invites readers to release old narratives and return to spacious self-awareness through tenderness, practice, and trust. Hold Nothing is available now, offering stories, reflections, and prompts that invite tenderness and truth. Her next retreat will take place May 9–16, 2026 at Broughton Sanctuary, UK.
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Driven by her mission to reshape the way women perceive and assert their power, Elif doesn’t just talk about confidence she embodies it.
Her story of personal and professional reinvention, from fashion designer to transformational confidence coach, resonates with those looking to reclaim their voice, purpose, and impact in a world that needs more empowered female leaders.
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Elizabeth McQuillan is the founder of Flamingo Business and Flamingo Car Finance and is widely known as The Event Expert™. After leaving a fourteen-year teaching career, she built a multi-million-pound finance business during lockdown and went on to create one of the UK’s most recognised women-led business event brands.
Through strategic rooms, live experiences and meaningful connection, Elizabeth supports ambitious women to scale impact, visibility and commercial success without shrinking who they are. Her work centres on visibility, leadership, and the power of intentional rooms to change businesses and lives.
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Emily Barclay launched Perimenopause Hub in 2019, following over 3 years of what she came to learn were perimenopause symptoms, bringing together experts from around the world to support women through this life stage. Emily is passionate about helping women feel epic. She lives in Scotland with her partner and 5 dogs.
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Emma began her journey as a pelvic floor specialist and personal trainer. By listening deeply to women, she recognised that modern women’s health was missing a deeper, sacred connection to feminine wisdom and embodied power.
This insight inspired her to support women to reclaim desire, deepen sensation and live fully embodied lives. This work is her legacy.
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Evgeniya Preimane is a London-based transformational stylist and colour-analysis expert. After swapping UK 10 for 12 and reviving her confidence through deep-autumn hues and charity styling, she now equips women-from new mums to business owners— to dress the lives they're stepping into, not the ones they've outgrown.
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Fiona O’Sullivan is a brand voice and storytelling strategist and the founder of The Write Field Brand Voice Boutique. She helps visionary founders craft authentic, high-impact messaging that builds authority, attracts aligned opportunities, and drives sustainable growth.
With over 20 years’ experience in leadership, coaching, and copywriting, Fiona is known for her strategic clarity, creative precision, and people-first approach.
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Funmi Olatoye is a business strategist, AI consultant, speaker
and automation expert dedicated to helping entrepreneurs
streamline operations and scale their businesses. Through
cutting-edge technology and smart automation, she empowers
business owners to work efficiently, increase impact, and
create long-term sustainability without burnout. -
Galia Orme is a founder and sustainability advocate led by compassion, connection, and ethical values. She built an internationally recognised chocolate brand rooted in fair sourcing and dignity for people and the planet. Today, she carries that same purpose into sustainability-led work and conscious leadership.
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Gayle Berry is a multi-award-winning entrepreneur, TEDx speaker, and founder of Blossom & Berry and Love Millions Academy. With over 23 years of experience, she has built a million- pound global wellness brand, trained thousands of practitioners worldwide, authored multiple books, and mentors visionary women to scale purpose-led businesses into global movements.
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Grace Lillywhite, founder of Centred Mums, is a women’s health Pilates specialist with 15 years’ experience. She’s lectured widely, created teacher training programmes, and appeared in national media. Her mission is to help women reconnect with their bodies and move in ways that feel supportive, energising and genuinely transformative.
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Hansa Raja is the founder of Holding Space, an award winning mental health charity, and a consultant specialising in workplace culture change. Drawing on lived experience and professional leadership, she supports individuals and organisations to create environments where confidence, resilience and authenticity can flourish.
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Hayley Keeber is a business simplification strategist and the founder of the She’s THAT Mum movement. After leaving a demanding recruitment career, she built a six figure business while raising young children, proving that women do not have to choose between motherhood and success. Hayley supports ambitious mums to simplify their strategy, systemise their businesses and build scalable, lifestyle first success rooted in presence, impact and legacy.
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Jacqueline Hollows is a facilitator, mentor and community builder supporting women to reconnect with their innate confidence, clarity and self trust. After leaving a career in IT, she worked within the prison system delivering wellbeing programmes, an experience that profoundly shaped her understanding of identity, worth and transformation.
Through Impact Activator, Jacqueline creates spaces where women strip away conditioning, release false narratives and activate their voice, power and purpose from within.
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Jean Adrienne is the author of 6 books and 2 decks of metaphysical healing and activation cards. Jean created InnerSpeak, a coaching tool for clearing karmic blocks from this lifetime, past lives and ancestors, to enable you to create the life and reality you desire and deserve! She teaches her work internationally and works with clients in her office in Tallahassee FL as well as via Zoom or phone. www.JeanAdrienne.com
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Joanne Topper is a Hove, East Sussex based headshot photographer who creates empowering, relaxed sessions where women feel truly seen. She believes what makes us different makes us memorable. Our uniqueness is our strength. Her headshots capture authentic confidence, helping women reconnect with how they want to be seen and how they see themselves.
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Josie Hamilton-Cook is a 53-year-old midlife rebel, mum, and founder of Rebellious Essence. Through transformational retreats, styling, and soul work, she guides women to reclaim their identity, visibility, and power, reframing midlife not as a crisis, but as a bold awakening. Her mission? Radical self-love, inside out.
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Kate Gilbert is a public speaking coach, trainer, and mentor
dedicated to helping individuals find their voice and speak with
confidence. She empowers both introverts and extroverts to step
into their power, master communication, and deliver impactful
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Kendall Marie Platt is a Horticultural Therapist who guides women to create seasonal garden sanctuaries where colour, scent & soil quiet your mind & restore your energy. Through her work, she brings together horticultural therapy and sensory-led garden design to create spaces that don’t just look beautiful, they restore you daily. It’s beauty that heals, rhythm that restores and design that supports your body and mind.
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Kirsty Lawton is a consultant physician in geriatric medicine working within the NHS. With over fourteen years’ experience as a doctor, including frontline work during the Covid-19 pandemic, her approach is guided by compassion, integrity and a deep belief in caring wisely as well as deeply. Alongside medicine, Kirsty is a trained yoga teacher and integrates yoga, meditation and breathwork into her own life and understanding of wellbeing, believing true confidence begins with self-trust, boundaries and inner listening.
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Lara Besbrode is the founder and CEO of The Matchmaker UK, an award-winning and MMI-certified international matchmaker who has turned her passion for people into a calling. After three decades in PR and marketing, Lara dared to start over, channeling her gift for connection into building a globally respected matchmaking service. She’s a regular expert guest on platforms like BBC, TalkRadio, Real Housewives of Cheshire, and MTV Catfish UK.
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Laura Beddoe Collins is the founder of Soul Speaks, a globally recognised platform supporting women leaders to build standout brands, position themselves as credible experts and create scalable income through signature talks and digital offers. Her work centres on helping women transform sensitivity into authority, voice into visibility, and lived experience into meaningful impact. Through storytelling, embodiment and strategic positioning, Laura supports women to speak with clarity, lead with confidence and build businesses rooted in authenticity and purpose.
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Laura Rosinska is the visionary founder of Event Exec, a luxury event ticketing company redefining industry standards. From a turbulent past to building a £2.5M business, she champions wellness, authenticity, and women's leadership. Laura is pioneering a new era of events, where success and nervous system regulation go hand in hand.
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Lesley Thomas is the founder of The Money Confidence Academy and a leading voice in helping women transform their relationship with money. As a certified money and mindset coach, host of the Top 5% podcast, Let's Talk Money and More and author of 'Parents Let's Talk Money - if you're not talking to your Teen about it, who is?' which is being published in July 2025, she empowers women to rebuild financial confidence, especially through major life transitions. Lesley works with ambitious women ready to lead with self-worth, not self-doubt
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Lisa-Marie Elkhadraoui is an entrepreneur, mentor, and founder working at the intersection of business strategy and soulful leadership. Having built and scaled multiple six- and seven-figure businesses across the interior design, property, and mentoring space, she now supports women to grow sustainable, profitable businesses without disconnecting from who they are becoming.
Her work centres on clarity, confidence, and aligned decision-making, helping women remember and embody their inner fire.
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Lit Eziefula of The Sovereign Within, has over 18 years clinical experience supporting individuals to heal from unhealthy, toxic and narcissistic relationship dynamics. She is the founder of The Sovereign Within, a bespoke private therapy consultancy rooted in self leadership, embodiment and nervous system regulation. Integrating evidence-based modalities including EMDR and Yoga Nidra, Lit supports clients to reclaim boundaries, rebuild self trust and move from survival into grounded confidence. Her work is trauma informed, relational and deeply respectful of each person’s innate capacity to heal.
She believes true authority begins with embodied self trust.
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Louise Cavell is a coach supporting individuals to reconnect with their inner wisdom, self compassion and intuitive guidance. Through her work, she creates gentle, reflective spaces that help people quiet the noise of self doubt and return to a deeper sense of trust, clarity and inner peace. Her approach is rooted in presence, kindness and the belief that no one is broken, only remembering who they are.
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May Chunladecha is the co founder and director of Little Jasmine Therapies & Spa, an award winning wellbeing business based in Brighton and Hove. With over 18 years of experience, May leads with compassion, integrity and community at the heart of her work, creating nurturing spaces that support wellbeing for guests, teams and the wider community.
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Nadine Benjamin is an internationally recognised soprano, coach and mentor whose work bridges performance, leadership and spiritual embodiment. With a career spanning opera, coaching and personal transformation, she supports women to lead from purpose, presence and inner truth. Nadine is the founder of Trinity Mind Coaching, launching in 2026, where she integrates high performance with spirituality and self leadership.
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Nati Beltrán, MSc Neuroscience, is an executive coach and Nonviolent Communication trainer helping purpose-driven leaders turn sensitivity into strength. Blending science with emotional wisdom, she fosters conscious, compassionate leadership. Through her LEAP community and training, she guides leaders in cultivating sustainable presence for lasting impact.
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Nicole Louise Geddes is the founder of PerformerPreneur, supporting performers and creatives to build sustainable, confident careers beyond the stage. Drawing on lived experience and industry insight, she helps artists translate their talent into aligned businesses, visibility, and income, without losing their creative identity.
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Otibho Edeke Agbareh and Natalie Fairchild are internationally recognised crisis management and humanitarian response specialists with extensive experience across aviation disasters, terror attacks, mass fatality incidents and complex humanitarian crises. Otibho brings global leadership in family assistance and identification, serving as a UN ICAO certified expert and Working Group member, with a career spanning clinical frontline care, humanitarian leadership and doctoral research on families of missing persons. Natalie contributes deep operational and strategic expertise across UN classified organisations, public contingency planning, humanitarian response and crisis consultancy, with a strong focus on enhancing humanitarian assistance through innovation and technology. Together, they co founded CrisisDNA to advance compassionate, effective and resilient crisis preparedness and response worldwide.
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Pamela Kingsland is a Registered Psychologist and Master Executive Coach with over 25 years of experience supporting individuals and leaders to reshape their internal narratives and create meaningful change. Her work centres on the power of language, reframing and personal agency as foundations for confidence, resilience and wellbeing.
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Penina Shepherd is the founder and CEO of Acumen Law, a multi award winning commercial law firm recognised by the Financial Times as one of the Top 50 most innovative law firms in the UK and Europe. A commercial solicitor since 1996, Penina has advised businesses across company, commercial, intellectual property, data and compliance matters, and has worked with top 100 UK law firms as a partner and head of department. She is also the author of the best selling book The Freedom Revolution and a sought after keynote speaker, known for challenging conventional thinking around leadership, entrepreneurship and freedom in business.
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Pippa Moyle is the visionary entrepreneur behind the City Girl Network, a social network that empowers and connects women living in 19 communities across the UK. Since starting her business in Brighton in 2016, 150,000 women and trans femmes across 19 UK communities have found friends, business connections, jobs, housemates, travel companions, businesses, campaigns and charities to support, as well as things to do in their local community and beyond.
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Beccy is the founder of Chez Beccy kitchen and home style brand ,a brand that celebrates connection, creativity, and joy through baking and design. As a passionate entrepreneur, author, and baking demonstrator, she helps people rediscover confidence and self-expression through the simple pleasures of food, storytelling, and beautifully crafted homeware.
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Reka is a cuddle therapist and holistic wellbeing practitioner based in Brighton. Her work centres on the healing power of safe, consensual touch, supporting people to feel heard, held and seen. Through Hungarian Hug Haven and her work with The Witch & The Magician Holistic Wellbeing, she creates spaces rooted in presence, boundaries and embodied care. Her approach is informed by lived experience, deep listening and a belief in the body’s innate wisdom to heal.
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Samantha is a qualified teacher, coach and mentor specialising in supporting women to break into their next financial level through her trademarked frameworks, the Activation Triangle and the SCALE Business Method. A bestselling author and public speaker, she supports women in business to build sustainable wealth, helping £250k a year become the new baseline while creating businesses that support life, not consume it.
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Sibel Tüzün is an award-winning singer, voice coach, and creative mentor known for her iconic Eurovision performance and soulful presence. Today, she helps women reconnect with their authentic voice through breath, sound, and stillness guiding them to reclaim confidence, expression, and emotional power at every stage of life.
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Sophie Corbett was born into show business, following in the footsteps of her father, beloved British comedian Ronnie Corbett, and her mother, West End leading lady Anne Hart. From acclaimed stage roles to 26 years as one of the UK’s top voiceover artists, Sophie’s career spans theatre, voice artistry, fashion curation, and community healing.
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Sylvia Holder is the founder trustee of the Venkat Trust, an education charity she established in memory of a young fisherman’s son she met in India. A recipient of the BEM and The Times Sternberg Active Life Award, she lives in Hove and regularly visits the Trust’s projects in South India. Lindsay Swan, a trustee of the Venkat Trust, was Sylvia Holder’s partner in a London PR consultancy for over 20 years. Based in west London, she is involved in therapeutic gardening projects and serves on the Wandsworth Prison Independent Monitoring Board, promoting fair treatment in custody. She frequently travels to the Trust in Kovalam, India.
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Tanya Ibberson, aka the Financial Wingwoman, is a trauma-informed financial transformation coach and qualified accountant with over 28 years’ experience. She helps women reclaim financial clarity, confidence, and control, especially after financial abuse or divorce, so they can rebuild safely, strategically, and on their own terms.
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Taylor Smith is a strategic profit consultant supporting ambitious coaches and consultants to build predictable, sustainable businesses while working less. Through her work, she helps women simplify their strategy, strengthen their confidence and turn hard work into scalable profit. Taylor’s approach combines practical systems with deep belief in women’s innate power, supporting them to build businesses and lives that feel aligned, expansive and fulfilling.
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Tessa Wilson is a dance and fitness instructor and founder of
Mumbop, a movement dedicated to helping women reconnect with
their bodies. Through dance, music, and empowerment, she creates a
safe space for self-expression, confidence, and joy, inspiring people to
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Thalia Pellegrini is a BANT-registered nutritional therapist and women's health specialist. With over a decade's experience, she supports clients in the UK, Ireland, and North America both 1:1 and in her group programs with hormonal health issues ranging from PMS to perimenopause, PCOS and endometriosis, low energy and fatigue. Thalia is also the perimenopause expert for award-winning