Georgina Lee-Jones is a brand storyteller who brings businesses to life with creatively crafted stories.

Before starting her business Simple Matters Media, Georgina was an award-winning BBC Documentary Producer/Director and journalist for 15 years working on primetime network television programmes, including Crimewatch and Panorama.

She’s passionate about the power of great storytelling. in this episode, she talks to us about building compelling narratives to help brands effectively engage with their customers, internal teams and investors.

In this episode we’re talking about sales. If you’re running your own business you may be feeling that sales seem to be getting harder. People are taking longer to make decisions and it’s giving you a twitchy bum - and not the good kind! It’s not you, the sales landscape is shifting, and if there’s one thing we know it’s that we need to pivot and change quickly to survive. We explore what’s changing and how we can shift our mindsets to understand the psychology of our prospects, so we can survive and prosper!

Authenticity is a hot topic but how many of us know, or trust who our authentic self is? And how do you be successful by just being yourself?

What can you do if you’re unsure of what makes your original, or even why being original is such a great thing, and what steps can you take to start that discovery process?

Are you sick of watching other peoples instagram lives with envy, wondering how the f**k they do what they do?

What if we could persuade you that the only difference between you and them, is their ability to switch up the word “no” for “yes”!

When our planned podcast guest was a no show today, we guessed that nerves had gotten the better of her, which got us talking about how fear of judgement and impostor syndrome can negatively impact the opportunities that are presented to us, and how social media has left us all feeling vulnerable to mass criticism and ridicule.

But Cass saying “YES” to an opportunity 2 years ago landed she and Jess as part of the cast of a recently aired Amazon Prime TV Show (eeek!), so spoiler alert, the moral of this week is ALWAYS do what scares you most and no matter how it works out, you’ll never have to live with regret.

B2B marketing consultant and mentor, Jade Tambini candidly shares her struggles with mental health leading up to and after the birth of her first child.

While working through her own personal challenges, Jade was also building her own business and first set it up 6 months before becoming pregnant.

Often asked “why on earth would you do that?”, she answers confidently and without hesitation or doubt that the flexibility of being her own boss has been game-changing throughout the peaks and troughs of motherhood and “the best thing she has ever done.

Are you feeling held back from building your business because the thought of building a team fills you with dread?

Have got that phrase ‘more people, more problems’ running around in your head?

Or maybe you feel drained and frustrated by the personal relationships in your life?

This episode we’re explaining why CULTURE IS A STRATEGY and why we should take everything we learn about building teams and tribes and apply it to our personal lives. Who we surround ourselves with matters.

Entrepreneur and mum of three, Steph Douglas founded Don’t Buy Her Flowers in 2014. She'd just received eight bunches of flowers when she had her first baby and it made her realise new mums didn’t need another thing to take care of.

Don't Buy Her Flowers has now expanded to gift baskets for all occasions, from corporate presents to birthdays and bereavement. Turnover hit £2.5 million last year but, in this episode, she's super honest with us about just how difficult juggling a company and home life can be.

Let's change our relationship with time. As busy mums building businesses and balancing careers, we’re often guilty of looking at time from a scarcity point of view. We always say things like ‘I don’t have enough time, or I haven’t got time to do that or I wish I had time. Or you’ve even said to others, ‘how the fuck do you do it?’, thinking they’ve found some magic wand to slow everything down and do everything and have it all.

So we’re going to explore some of the ways we’ve learnt to become intentional with our time, be unapologetically selfish about who we give our time to and cut out the drama, so we can focus on becoming who we want to be.

Recently we’ve both been working on levelling up as we’re both going through some changes and transitions in our lives and in business. At times like these, we always head back to basics, to map out where we want to be, who we want to become and when we want to arrive.

So in this episode, we want to share with you how we take those fleeting hopes and dreams that you might never think are possible, commit them to paper and map out a clear pathway, with defined steps to point you in the right direction. Let’s start turning dreams into reality.

This episode, we’re talking about Luck Vs Design. How dangerous is the word luck and at what point does it become a bad word? Do we contribute our success to luck instead of owning our decisions and celebrating when we’ve made amazing things happen?

What do you do when you’re the face of your award-winning dominatrix business and there’s no option but to keep working during and after pregnancy?

The struggle with guilt and the judgement of others is a given and that was definitely the case for our guest on this episode; Countess Diamond.

As a professional sensual dominatrix, winner of a UK Fetish Award, mother and wife, it’s fair to say she has a hell of a tale to tell.

It’s time to address the keyboard warriors who were out in force after the launch of season one - and how we coped (or didn’t) with the accusation of being bad mums.
Trolls aside, we’re thrilled to be back for season two with more epic conversations with amazing women and of course, an update on Jess’ bathroom saga.

In this episode, we relive some of the best moments of the first series of Business, Babies and Bossing It.

We have been on a completely unexpected, huge personal growth journey over the last 12 weeks and have LOVED every moment!

We’ve opened up about really personal experiences, and we’ve spoken to incredibly inspirational guests centred on female empowerment, who have pushed our understanding and thinking around how to show up, be fabulous, unapologetic, and live our best lives.

Our dream is that fellow mums in business know that being ambitious IS a great thing, that making yourself a priority IS being a great mum, and today we’re closing the season by talking through our highlights and showcasing some of our favourite guest moments.

Step into the female empowered world run by the INCREDIBLE, internationally recognized Founder and CEO, Emma Sayle. From her UK-based Sistr network to the sexually liberating Killing Kittens network, Emma will blow your mind with her matter of fact, feminist driven attitude towards scaling successful businesses, taking risks, taking on the establishment, smashing the patriarchy, and all the while raising a young family.

The secret to her success? Be your own number 1 priority.

Inspiring doesn’t even cut it.

In the words of the great Salt ‘n Peppa … Let’s talk about sex, baby!

For too long, sex has been a taboo for women to think about, talk about and … perish the thought …. admit they enjoy!

Our guest, Canadian babe Carlen Costa is the woman we ALL need to hear from - a clinical sexologist working towards creating one million orgasms through empowering us to make time for ourselves and feel the self love.

Can orgasms really improve your confidence? After talking with Carlen it’s a ‘hell yeah’ from us!

How would YOU live your life if you weren’t afraid of judgement?

Take a walk on the wild side with the beautifully frank, Bisexual Body lovin’, BRCA Babe Amanda Loy, and find out what it takes to stop being a people pleaser and live your best “F*** YEAH” life!

From a young girl with body dysmorphia, to coming out, to being in a polyamorous marriage (yup, we had all the questions too!), and making the decision to undergo a double preventative masectomy, Amanda shares her courageous journey to learning inner confidence.

Prepare to hear the unthinkable, as we talk to Dave Morgan, who gave up his career to be a stay-at-home dad to 2 kids while his wife went to work building her business, and Kris Agland, a single dad of 3 kids who is juggling running a business and childcare, having his kids 50% of the week. Yes, that’s right, we’re talking to DADS who have taken a leading role in raising their kids! - no really, that happened! Prepare to have your world rocked, as we talk to the unicorns of the parenting world! Full disclosure, we didn’t have to go too far to find these men, but it's a tear jerker, be warned!

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What do you do when you discover your husband has been having an affair with a 19-year-old? Travel Europe alone and write a bestselling book, of course! In this episode, we’re talking about loss, heartache, fear and above all else, resilience.

Yes, it’s going to be a BOSS of an episode because we have an amazing guest joining us. Gabrielle Stone is nothing short of badass. She’s a podcast star, award-winning actress and director and author of Eat, Pray #FML and the sequel The Ridiculous Misadventures of A Single Girl.

Jess and Cass are huge fans of the books and never in a million years dreamed that Gabrielle would be so generous with her time. When women support women in their adventures, magical things can happen. Join us for some unfiltered, honest conversations, laughter and learn how to use the Thought Onion to unravel your emotions and own your decisions.

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Needing help is not a sign of weakness, it’s a sign of strength. Balancing work and childcare is a struggle for so many and the guilt that comes with that can be crippling.

Not only that, but as the last few weeks have shown (we’re referring to the trolls), the judgement from others for the choices we make can send us into an emotional meltdown.

Why do so many feel entitled to judge others and why do we let it affect us so much?

Our mission for this podcast is to empower women to live their best lives judgment-free and the first step towards that is to open the conversations around parenting and career choices and so, in this episode, Jess and Cass share their experiences openly and honestly and lift the lid on the ‘why’ behind the decisions they made and the origin story of how they came together to help each other.

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When you’re an ambitious woman, does your identity change as soon as you become a parent? Do you feel like you should put your career on the back burner or do you crave time to feel like you again?

Polly James is an award-winning Radio X DJ, Sky Sports Darts presenter, blogger and voiceover artist. As she puts it herself, she ‘dabbles in everything’. Polly talks to us about juggling her career while becoming a mother for the first time, commuting from London to Wales daily - and why you should always keep a clear line of communication open with employers from the very beginning and throughout.

Join us for an honest account of the modern working mother, what it takes to live your dreams and why you shouldn’t settle for average.

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