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Conversations on creativity, leadership, reinvention, and the many ways women build lives and careers beyond the expected path.

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Season 4
31:02
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8

My Final Episode: On Authenticity, Outgrowing Things, and What Is Next for Business as Poetry

June 23, 2026

In the final episode, Hristina reflects on authenticity, outgrowing creative projects, ending the podcast, and what comes next for Business as Poetry.

39:24
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4
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7

Tamsyn Signe on Why You're One Decision Away from a Completely Different Life

May 14, 2026
Guest:
Tamsyn Signe

Tamsyn Signe explores choice, identity, leadership patterns, the Enneagram, and how deliberate decisions can reshape the life you have already designed.

44:03
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4
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6

She Couldn't Find an Office Job Anywhere — So She Built a Global Publishing Business Instead with Krystal Hille

April 16, 2026
Guest:
Krystal Hille

Krystal Hille shares how losing an events business and facing a major life reset led her to build a global publishing company around purpose-led authors.

41:51
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4
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5

Marijana Sommerfeld on Why Leaving Corporate Won't Fix It - And What Actually Does

February 26, 2026
Guest:
Marijana Sommerfeld

Marijana Sommerfeld discusses burnout, illness, identity, career change, and why the patterns we carry can follow us even after leaving corporate life.

35:47
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4
Episode
4

Mystery with Real Effects: How Family Constellations Shape Belonging, Abundance & Identity with Elitsa Velikova

January 6, 2026
Guest:
Elitsa Velikova

Elitsa Velikova explores family constellations, inherited patterns, belonging, abundance, identity, and the relationship between ancestry and personal freedom.

47:38
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4
Episode
3

The Power of Reverse Mentoring: Reinventing Leadership with Patrice Gordon

December 10, 2025
Guest:
Patrice Gordon

Patrice Gordon discusses reverse mentoring, reinvention, entrepreneurship, belonging, and building more human forms of leadership.

28:35
Season
4
Episode
2

My Story: How I Built a Multi-Layered Creative Business from the Inside Out

November 27, 2025

Hristina shares the personal story of rebuilding her identity and work through five stages of energetic expansion.

40:02
Season
4
Episode
1

Life Beyond the Masks: Lessons on Sovereignty & Leadership with Dion Johnson

October 16, 2025
Guest:
Dion Johnson

Dion Johnson explores sovereignty, identity, power, and what it takes for women to lead without hiding behind inherited or professional masks.

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Season 3
39:57
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3
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6

Know Your Hormones: Mayra Hurtado on Building a Fem Tech Start Up

September 8, 2025
Guest:
Mayra Hurtado

Mayra Hurtado discusses hormonal health, perimenopause, career change, and building a femtech startup around women's lived experience.

37:54
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3
Episode
5

When the Doctor Needs Healing: Dr. Leah Murray on Career Change, Burnout, and Integrative Medicine

August 18, 2025
Guest:
Dr. Leah Murray

Dr. Leah Murray discusses burnout, career change, and a move toward integrative medicine after experiencing the limits of conventional professional expectations.

7:03
Season
3
One Bite

One Bite: Monthly Check In - Productivity Guilt

August 8, 2025

A short solo episode about productivity guilt and the uncomfortable feeling that rest or slower periods must always be justified.

38:24
Season
3
Episode
4

Cultivating Mindfulness: From Recruitment to Building a Wellness Business with Katie George

July 15, 2025
Guest:
Katie Mantwa George

Katie Mantwa George discusses meditation, empathy, mindfulness, and the transition from recruitment into a wellness business.

31:33
Season
3
Episode
3

From Fashion Burnout to Healing with Reiki - How to Find Your Purpose with Jane Marle

June 20, 2025
Guest:
Jane Marle

Jane Marle shares her move from fashion burnout into Reiki, sound healing, and a more intuitive, purpose-led way of working.

3:27
Season
3
One Bite

One Bite: Monthly Check In – The Magic of Saying Yes to the Unexpected

June 3, 2025

A short story about spontaneity, play, and what can happen when you leave enough space to say yes to an unexpected invitation.

38:13
Season
3
Episode
2

Rewilding the Self: Dr. Malvina Bartmanski on Autoimmunity, Identity & the Healing Power of Nature

May 19, 2025
Guest:
Dr. Malvina Bartmanski

Dr. Malvina Bartmanski explores autoimmunity, trauma, identity, nervous-system regulation, and the healing role of nature and rest.

12:43
Season
3
One Bite

One Bite: Monthly Check In - Are You Listening to Your Body?

May 14, 2025

A short reflection on listening to the body and noticing the signals that are easy to miss when life is organised around constant doing.

38:25
Season
3
Episode
1

Dorota Cloke: Feel Human Again – Hormones, Healing & Building a Business with Soul

May 6, 2025
Guest:
Dorota Cloke

Dorota Cloke discusses hormones, healing, burnout, and the process of building a business that supports rather than overrides the body.

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Season 2
30:53
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2
Episode
12

Mission (I'm)Possible: Achieving Health and Financial Wellbeing for All

April 6, 2025
Guest:
Uche Enemchukwu

A conversation about ambitious missions in health and financial wellbeing, and the systems needed to make better outcomes accessible to more people.

9:06
Season
2
One Bite

One Bite: Monthly Check In - The 3 Ps Blocking Your Growth

March 28, 2025

A short monthly check-in exploring three recurring patterns that can quietly block growth and forward movement.

4:40
Season
2
One Bite

One Bite: Monthly Check In - How to Find Inspiration When You're Truly Stuck

March 19, 2025

A short solo check-in with practical ways to reconnect with inspiration when ideas feel blocked or forced.

33:16
Season
2
Episode
10

"Be Afraid, but Don't Be Fearful": Elspeth Shaw on Building a New Model of Leadership

March 10, 2025
Guest:
Elspeth Shaw

Elspeth Shaw discusses fear, resilience, leadership, and drawing on past experience while building a new professional chapter.

37:59
Season
2
Episode
9

Knowing When to Move: Liz Gebhard on Career Transitions with Intention

February 12, 2025
Guest:
Liz Gebhard

Liz Gebhard explores how to recognise when it is time to move on and how to approach career transitions with intention rather than reaction.

37:23
Season
2
Episode
8

Bridging the Gap: Women on Boards and the Path to the Top with Gail Bishop

January 28, 2025
Guest:
Gail Bishop

Gail Bishop discusses women in senior leadership, board-level representation, and the practical realities of progressing toward the top of organisations.

40:23
Season
2
Episode
7

Find Your Voice, Then Use It - Nneka Orji on Finding Purpose in Your Career

January 15, 2025
Guest:
Nneka Orji

Nneka Orji shares how she found her voice in corporate leadership, why diversity at the top matters, and how mentorship can help build a meaningful career.

38:23
Season
2
Bonus Episode

Christmas Special: Holistic Healing Beyond the Symptoms with Physio Kevin Powell

December 18, 2024
Guest:
Kevin Powell

Physiotherapist Kevin Powell explores holistic healing, the limits of symptom-only treatment, and the relationship between movement, lifestyle, and recovery.

38:26
Season
2
Episode
6

From Bonds to Barns: Lessons in Patience and Purpose with Tatjana Greil-Castro

December 4, 2024
Guest:
Tatjana Greil-Castro

Tatjana Greil-Castro reflects on patience, purpose, finance, nature, and the inner shifts that can reshape a high-performance career.

40:21
Season
2
Episode
5

Don't Pivot, Shift Instead: Charting Your Career Path with Christine Sandman Stone

November 20, 2024
Guest:
Christine Sandman Stone

Christine Sandman Stone reframes career pivots as deliberate shifts built through experimentation, self-awareness, energy management, and preparation.

36:31
Season
2
Episode
4

Do Pause for Menopause: Busting Midlife Myths with Rachel Lankester

November 6, 2024
Guest:
Rachel Lankester

Rachel Lankester challenges common menopause and midlife myths while exploring confidence, identity, wellbeing, and the opportunities of later-life transition.

39:46
Season
2
Episode
3

Do You Really Know Yourself? Building Self-Awareness with Jan Rees

October 23, 2024
Guest:
Jan Rees

Behaviour coach Jan Rees explains how self-awareness, motivation, and adaptable communication can improve leadership and working relationships.

37:13
Season
2
Episode
2

Burn Bright, Not Out: Preventing Burnout with Wendy Macartney

October 9, 2024
Guest:
Wendy Macartney

Wendy Macartney discusses burnout prevention, early warning signs, sleep, resilience, and creating work environments that support sustainable performance.

40:03
Season
2
Episode
1

Stop Wasting Your Time: Removing Blocks and Limitations with Vikki Louise

September 25, 2024
Guest:
Vikki Louise

Vikki Louise reframes time management as mindset work and explains how perfectionism, procrastination, and mental blocks affect productivity.

1:46
Season
2
Trailer

Season 2: Guest Reveal Trailer

September 18, 2024

A quick introduction to the Season 2 guests and the practical themes of time, burnout, communication, transition, leadership, and wellbeing.

2:21
Season
2
Teaser

The Sound of Breaking Glass Returns: Season 2 Teaser

September 11, 2024

A preview of Season 2, focused on mindful mid-career transitions, wellbeing, and women redefining the relationship between work and life.

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Season 1
35:43
Season
1
Episode
10

Danguole Litvinskaite on How to Challenge Our Limiting Beliefs and Find Meaning in Career Transitions

April 24, 2024
Guest:
Danguole Litvinskaite

Coach Danguole Litvinskaite explores limiting beliefs, the inner critic, wellbeing, and the search for meaning during major career transitions.

35:57
Season
1
Episode
9

Lisa Redman on What It Takes to Build a Sustainable Fashion Brand

April 10, 2024
Guest:
Lisa Redman

Fashion designer Lisa Redman talks about building a label around quality, longevity, and a more thoughtful alternative to fast fashion.

28:31
Season
1
Episode
8

Galena Stavreva: From a City Career as a Lawyer to Helping Women Breastfeed

March 27, 2024
Guest:
Galena Stavreva

Galena Stavreva explains how her own nursing experience inspired PowerMama and a move from a demanding legal career into product entrepreneurship.

28:53
Season
1
Episode
7

Victoria Clapham: From Working at Reception to Founding a Financial Advisory Business

March 13, 2024
Guest:
Victoria Clapham

Victoria Clapham shares how she progressed from a reception role into financial services leadership and eventually founded her own advisory business.

32:33
Season
1
Episode
6

Patricia Wing on Democratising Legal Support and Building Relationships on Trust

February 28, 2024
Guest:
Patricia Wing

Patricia Wing discusses legal technology, entrepreneurship, and her mission to make legal support more accessible through relationships built on trust.

36:05
Season
1
Episode
5

Simone Muller: From Ballet to Helping Women Empower Their Bodies

February 14, 2024
Guest:
Simone Muller

Simone Muller reflects on moving from ballet into body-focused wellbeing work and building a practice through experimentation, learning, and change.

37:21
Season
1
Episode
4

Nicky Sevel on Being a Fintech Entrepreneur and Shaking Up the Financial Planning Industry

January 31, 2024
Guest:
Nicky Sevel

Fintech entrepreneur Nicky Sevel discusses combining wealth management and technology to rethink the cost and accessibility of financial planning.

34:03
Season
1
Episode
3

Lara Solomon on Serial Entrepreneurship, Fertility and Saving the World from Plastic

January 19, 2024
Guest:
Lara Solomon

Serial entrepreneur Lara Solomon discusses fertility, sustainability, community, and building Hoopsy around a problem she personally understood.

35:18
Season
1
Episode
2

Joanna Parry-George: From Theatre to Building an Education Technology Business

January 18, 2024
Guest:
Joanna Parry-George

Joanna Parry-George shares how a start in theatre and freelance writing eventually led her to build an education technology business.

38:07
Season
1
Episode
1

Anita Rolls on Diversifying Your Career and Helping People Find Their Spark

January 17, 2024
Guest:
Anita Rolls

Career coach Anita Rolls talks about escaping the comfort of a 'golden cage', navigating a squiggly career, and helping people reconnect with meaningful work.

3:34
Season
1
Trailer

Season 1: Teaser Trailer

January 14, 2024

A short introduction to the first season and its focus on non-linear careers, work-life balance, and finding meaning beyond a job title.