In this uplifting and deeply personal episode of Women's Business Voice, we meet the founder of Sanity Daily, a Top 10 UK mental health blog and award-winning podcast. Her story is one of survival and self-discovery - navigating 17 tumours, divorce, single motherhood, and the challenges of starting life afresh in a new country.

Through her own healing journey, she found purpose in helping others reclaim their mental well-being. With a strong background in corporate and higher education, she shifted gears entirely - becoming a certified NLP Practitioner, Mental Health First Aider, a certified yoga and meditation practitioner and passionate advocate for women’s emotional wellness. Her Therapeutic Journal is now a lifeline for mothers seeking calm, clarity, and connection in the chaos of daily life.

This episode is a gentle yet powerful reminder that self-care is not selfish—it’s survival. And through storytelling, journaling, and community, we can begin to heal what the world so often tells us to hide.

Find out more about Women's Business Voice and future episodes at https://womensbusiness.club/s/voice and explore the journal at https://therapeutic-journal.com/

In this profoundly moving episode of Women's Business Voice, we sit down with Lena Thompson, a speaker and transformational guide whose journey across Soviet Russia, Israel, and South Africa was marked by trauma, war, and survival. From watching coffins of fallen soldiers pass by as a child to experiencing chemical war drills and relentless upheaval, Lena's early life trained her to be strong—but at a deep emotional cost. Her eventual breakdown became her breakthrough, forcing her to confront years of suppressed pain and begin the healing journey that would transform her life. Now, Lena is on a mission to help others move from survival mode to a life of wholeness and emotional freedom. Join us for a powerful conversation on trauma, resilience, and the radical act of feeling. Lena’s story is a testament to what happens when we stop running from pain and begin reclaiming our true selves.

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From Side Hustles to Empires - Histories of Women’s Working Lives, featuring a series of conversations between Dr Amy Edwards and a range of expert historians. Women were once Britain’s largest computing workforce and a hidden engine of growth in the world of technology. Dr Mar Hicks will explain the ‘gender flip’ that occurred in the world of computing in the 1960s and 1970s, and what this meant for the thousands of women who worked in science and technology.Dr Amy EdwardsAmy is a senior lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Bristol, where she has worked for the past 10 years. Her research focuses on how ‘ordinary people’ experience large economic changes and how people in the past worked, saved, spent, and invested their money. Her first book, Are We Rich Yet? Told the story of how the worlds of business and finance became part of our day-to-day culture. It looked at things like the business press, financial advice columns, investment based boardgames, and the popularity of the filofax in the 1980s. But more recently she has been carrying out a research project that looks at the lives of self-employed women from the 1950s to the 2000s. Professor Mar HicksMar Hicks is an Associate Professor at the University of Virginia’s School of Data Science. Their research explores histories of computing, large-scale digital infrastructures and the relationship of both to wider society. They’ve published a number of books on this topic, including a recent edited collection called Your Computer is on Fire and their award-winning book, Programme Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing. Both have this real interest in using the history of technology to help us address our current problems with digital structures and technology. Their current project looks more closely at the ways people have resisted powerful digital and technological systems. So hopefully they can tell us more about some of this work today, as well as to teach us something about about what it was like to be a woman working in computing in the twentieth century..See this and other episodes in the series at https://womensbusiness.club/s/voice