Today’s guest is the extraordinary HealthMatch CEO Manuri Gun award ena who is well-aware of the power of female role models. And as you all know, sisterhood is what drives AllBright. The first woman in her life to inspire her was her mother. Then, there was the VP of IP and litigation at Google, who she met by chance at a party in San Francisco. They got talking, and she ended up being one of HealthMatch’s angel investors. There’s also the former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm...

How do you get Demi Moore to invest in your company? That’s the question we ask Andie Swim founder Melanie Travis whose very first investor check came from the famous actor. The answer is to create a purpose-driven company that changes the way women shop for swimsuits. From the very beginning, Andie Swim has focused on being an inclusive brand dedicated to great fits (they’ve never used the term plus size and always used real human fit models rather than computers to fit their...

In this week’s episode, Niomi Smart, the founder of vegan and natural skincare brand, Smart Skin, and author of bestselling plant-based recipe book, ‘Eat Smart’, chats to AllBright co-founder, Anna Jones about becoming an entrepreneur and launching her skincare brand.   Niomi reveals some of the secrets to how she created a global mindful living community with over 1.6m YouTube subscribers and Instagram followers. They also dive into how we can all embrace mindful living and be more...

In this week’s episode of Sisterhood Works, hosted by our co-founder Anna Jones, Chrissie Rucker OBE, founder of lifestyle brand, The White Company, reveals how she built her phenomenal empire.  Anna will take you behind the scenes of Chrissie’s work and straight into the story of her career progression. They discuss everything from leadership challenges to the importance of positive role models, and what each of us can do to help encourage women to start their own businesses, reflecting...

Do you know how to be a good ally? Nova Reid’s new book The Good Ally might surprise you – in it she shares her experience as a Black woman in the UK and how racism affected her from as young as seven years old. But she also talks about how sometimes, well-meaning, liberal white women can cause the most harm. It’s a confronting but incredibly important topic, and in our conversation today she shares why it’s vital that we all get comfortable with being uncomfortable. She also tells us about...

In the last five or so years, Anna Whitehouse has launched Mother Pukka, become a radio and TV, presenter, published three books, launched FLEX APPEAL – the campaign for more flexible working for everyone - and become a mother to two girls. She is quite simply unstoppable – and making real change for women in the world.   Today, you’re going to hear about her debut fiction novel Underbelly, which was written with her husband Matt. It’s the story of Lo and Dylan, two women striving to earn a...

Today on Sisterhood Works you’re going to meet Claire Holt, the dynamic LA-based Australian actor and mother, who has over 7 million followers on Instagram (turns out we’re not the only ones who loves following her).   Claire has been very open about the struggles of new motherhood and also experiencing pregnancy loss and we talk about this today. We also look at the career of an actor – the highs and the lows. And how she’s also recently ventured more into other projects, such as designing...

It’s no secret that at AllBright, we love to talk to, learn from, and be inspired by female entrepreneurs.   Todays’ guest is the Veuve Clicquot Australian Bold Woman award 2021 winner, ModiBodi founder Kristy Chong, who generated three million dollars in sales within the first three years of launching her period and leak proof underwear, without outside investment. In doing so, she changed the way women think about topics such as periods and incontinence. She has also put a spotlight on why...

Welcome back to Sisterhood Works – the podcast powering women’s careers.   Today’s guest is the phenomenal Candice Brathwaite, who really needs no introduction, but here we go. A Sunday Times bestselling author, a contributing editor at Grazia and a presenter on Lorraine, she is also the founder of Make Motherhood Diverse and a hugely popular influencer.   Her book I Am Not Your Baby Mother was a landmark publication in 2020. A thought-provoking, urgent and inspirational guide to life as a...

What does a decade long career at one of the world’s most glamorous fashion titles look like? That’s what we’re going to find out today.  Today’s guest is the incredible Helena Lee, the acting deputy editor of Harper's Bazaar and founder of East Side Voices, a platform she launched out of frustration with the lack of visibility that East Asians and Southeast Asians have. Her debut book will also be published in 2022. In today’s conversation, we talk about sisterhood, her decade long career...

Today’s guest is the remarkable noted peace activist and human rights campaigner Supriya Vani, who is the co-author of newly launched book Jacinda Ardern: Leading with Empathy.  The book is a major biography of one of the most important and inspirational leaders of the twenty-first century, based on interviews with the New Zealand Prime Minister herself.  Supriya Vani is a noted peace activist and human rights campaigner. Supriya has interviewed and discussed the issues of human rights and...

Before we start this episode, we want to ask you a few questions to think about.   How is your life limited right now?   Which areas are you not making progress in?   Are you earning what you deserve? Are you happy?   These are some of the questions British Conscious Business Coach Jody Shield asks her clients. And simply by asking these questions, we open our minds and grow.   At the age of 29, Jody’s career in advertising caused her to reach burnout – and it was a huge turning point in...

If the Devil Wears Prada, an Angel would wear Rejina Pyo. She’s been called the nicest woman in fashion. The designer moved from South Korea to London in her early twenties, and while studying at Saint Martins, was labelled ‘too gentle’ by her tutors. So, do nice girls finish last?  Not if Rejina Pyo is anything to go by. In this episode we ask the mother of one about how the power of networking changed her career - and life - forever, after a chance meeting with Kate Foley in New York. We...

How do we know we’re doing it right? This is the title of Pandora Sykes’s debut book, which was published in hardcover last year, and has just come out in paperback.   Pandora is a British writer and podcaster. If you’re one of the millions of women who tuned in each week to listen to The High Low Podcast, which she co-hosted with Dolly Alderton, you’ll know her well (and probably, like us, you greatly miss the show). But as we speak about today, closing one career chapter no matter how...

A lot has changed for women in the last thirty years - and for the better. But while we’re busy smashing glass ceilings, tackling institutionalised gender disparity and making change with the #metoo movement, sadly, when it comes to the statistics for ovarian cancer, very little has changed in that time. For Camilla Freeman-Topper, one half of the brother-sister Australian fashion institution that is Camilla and Marc, the statistics hit home. It was nearly thirty years ago that she lost her...

Today, we are thrilled to be interviewing the former Chief Content Officer of GOOP Elise Lohenen.   Gwyneth Paltrow described Elise as "like a sister to me", so after seven years at GOOP, stepping down was a big decision – but the right one. And today’s conversation – a recording from a LIVE event we did with Elise - will remind you that sometimes the hardest path, is usually the right one.   The time has come for Elise to start what she calls the "literal next chapter". She's writing a...

Today’s guest is American entrepreneur Kara Goldin, the woman who turned her unsweetened flavoured water into one of the most successful beverage businesses of our time. A member of YPO, she’s the founder of Hint – a $150 million dollar beverage empire - and also the author of Undaunted Overcoming Doubts + Doubters. The question Kara gets asked time and again is: ‘how did you create a whole new category of beverage while pregnant with a budget of only $50 thousand dollars?’ Today she’s going...

The higher the height, the greater the fall - or so they say. Jodie Fox has seen the business world from a dizzying height. Her footwear empire Shoes Of Prey – a fashion technology empire which customised every single pair of shoes that was delivered - raised over $35 million Australian dollars in venture capital. At their peak they had over 220 employees, and their store in Australian department store David Jones did double its forecasted revenue in the first 12 months, becoming the highest...

In this episode of AllBright’s Sisterhood Works, hosted by AllBright co-founder Anna Jones you’ll meet fashion’s formidable force, Elizabeth Von Der Goltz, who is the new chief commercial officer of MATCHESFASHION. If you work in the fashion industry, want to work in the fashion industry, or are looking to move into a C-suite role, you’ll love today’s conversation. Elizabeth started from the ground up. Her journey began at Barneys New York where she was a Buying Assistant. She then moved onto...

Priyanka Chopra Jonas’s new memoir entitled Unfinished is the in-between-interviews book and in it, you’ll get the deepest look into the actor’s life. And in our conversation today, Priyanka opens up about just this – the in-between moments in life and why they’re often the most defining.  She talks about how being sent to boarding school when she was eight-years-old shaped her, and how the initial feeling of abandonment grew into independence. Nothing is off limits in this honest and at...

Welcome to Season 3 of the Sisterhood Works podcast. Now, if you aren’t one of the millions of people who has watched American model Ashley Graham’s TED talk ‘Plus Size? More Like my Size’, then make sure you watch it. Her words – spoken 6 years ago – are as relevant now as they were then.  Ashley Graham is many things. Yes, she’s a supermodel – my gosh is she a supermodel - but she’s also a powerful role model for all women. According to the fashion industry, she’s also plus size (and just...

Our Co-Founder Anna Jones is joined this week by Farrah Storr, the Editor-In-Chief of ELLE UK. Join us for this great discussion on how we can use the discomfort of failure and criticism as a turning point in our lives and careers. This episode was originally recorded as an Instagram Live event on July 22nd 2020.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this week's episode of the podcast, iconic interior designer, Kelly Hoppen, speaks to AllBright co-founder, Debbie Wosskow OBE on epiphany moments, chance meetings and life as an industry tastemaker.   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Our Co-Founder Debbie Wosskow is joined this week by Natalie Campbell, the Co-CEO of Belu Water. In this conversation on the importance of backing Black women in business, Debbie and Natalie discuss the steps that employers and business leaders can take to self-educate, remove their bias and support their Black colleagues (and future employees) in a genuine and sustainable way.⁣ This episode was originally recorded as an Instagram Live event on June 5th 2020.   See acast.com/privacy for...