S1, Ep2 - The BBC Television Veteran, Jane Lush - Channeling Fear to Achieve Greatness

09/13/22 • 44 min

I can't wait for you to hear this one. On paper, one of the most formidable and successful TV executives of today's generation with a CV that makes your jaw drop, and in person, truly charming, humble, warm and funny. I adore that Jane's attitude is very much - just get on with it, and you'll make it work if you really want to. I came away feeling anything is possible, and world domination is within reach of us all! We chat through role models, climbing through the TV ranks, speaking up, taking risks, getting back to work full time after children, facing fears over and over, living regret free and never stopping to learn.

Jane Elaine Lush was the Chair of BAFTA, and a former BBC executive with a career spanning over 35 years.

Jane was for many years a programme maker at the BBC becoming Controller of BBC Daytime responsible for breakthrough shows such as Weakest Link with Anne Robinson. Heading up Entertainment and Comedy, she commissioned a string of hits including Strictly Come Dancing, The Apprentice, Dragons’ Den and Have I Got News For You. Since leaving the BBC, she’s been working in the independent sector. She was the founding Chair of the BBC’s Performing Arts Fund which gave Adele her first musical instrument and Chair of Caring for Kids supporting research at Great Ormond Street Hospital. She’s currently Chair of Friends of BAFTA USA. Jane’s proudest productions are her children and grandchildren.

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Host - Olivia Brafman @olivia_brafman

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Jane Elaine Lush was the Chair of BAFTA, and a former BBC executive with a career spanning over 35 years.

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Guest - Jane Lush @janelush10

Host - Olivia Brafman @olivia_brafman

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S1, Ep1 - The Wellness Entrepreneur, Lauren Armes - Defining the values you choose to live by to create happiness

What an episode to start with! I was completely in awe of Lauren's fresh perspective on business, the evolution of ideas, motherhood, creating your own rules, and redefining success and happiness with this new found identity. She is so honest, vulnerable and thoughtful throughout - and for those budding entrepreneurs who are figuring out the balance of this all consuming existence of children and work - there is a lot to be said for how Lauren chooses to go about it. I admire her so much!

Topics:

Growing Up, and early influences
Starting out in Your Career
Making Bold Decisions
From Passion Project to Global Business Entrepreneur
The Leap to Start a Family
Running a business with a newborn
Creating your own rules to find balance
Advice for Women & Mothers who want to Start a business
Defining the values you choose to live by to create happiness
How definitions of success changes pre and post motherhood
How Wellness fits in
Looking forward and Working towards Spaciousness and Freedom

Lauren Armes - Business Coach and Founder & CEO of Welltodo

Lauren Armes is the Founder and CEO of Welltodo, a global industry platform for the

wellness industry – now worth an estimated $4.5 trillion. She is also the leading Business

Coach for experts and coaches in the wellness sector – with an esteemed client list which

includes Dr Hazel Wallace, Zoe Blaskey, Adrienne Herbert, Alice Liveing, Chloe Brotheridge,

Amy Rushworth, Becki Rabin and many more.

Lauren also hosts both the Business of Wellness podcast and EXPERTS – both shows are

available on iTunes and Spotify.

As well as coaching some of the industry's most respected entrepreneurs and influencers,

Lauren has been featured as an industry expert on the BBC series The Apprentice, as well

as by The Times, Evening Standard, Glamour, Red, Grazia, Cosmopolitan, Women's Health

and more.

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Guest - Lauren Armes @laurenarmes

Host - Olivia Brafman @olivia_brafman

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S1, Ep3 - The Global Fitness Authority, Emma Barry - Following Your Own Adventure

Are you ready to listen to someone truly unstoppable, infectious, bold and purpose driven? Someone who walks into a room and disco lights it up? Such a refreshing perspective, Emma Barry could have stayed in New Zealand, had a fulfilling life and good career, but instead, followed her gut to California with her 3 kids and husband in tow to pursue bigger dreams, and ensure she never looked back thinking, what if....Were there scarifies, support systems and challenges - for sure yes. Would she change anything looking back?...Tune in to find out.

Emma Barry is a global fitness authority who advises the innovative edge of fitness: boutique studios, budget clubs, digital workouts and fit-tech startups. A founding member of group fitness programming giant Les Mills and former Director of Programming for luxury-lifestyle brand Equinox. Emma is also a co-founder of executive search brand Good Soul Hunting specializing in purpose-driven fit-tech, well-tech and health-tech scale-ups. She has inhaled roles in group fitness programming, product development, training, people and culture.

Emma is fluent in what happens next in boutique fitness. She draws on considerable industry experience and understanding of trends to coach owners in saving precious time and money as they open a new studio, scale their concept or refresh their club-in-club model. She also helps owners avoid costly mistakes, from acting on incorrect insights to hiring on hype, missing the business basics to being seduced by discounting potholes. A global citizen, Emma is also a sought-after speaker for events and podcasts around the world, a published author and a regular contributor to international business forums, trend panels, industry publications and women’s events. Emma's cocktail of impatience with the status quo, infectious energy, and innovative flair unlocks and activates the greatness in others.

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Guest - Emma Barry @emmaccbarry

Host - Olivia Brafman @olivia_brafman

Know someone who should share their story, or want to work together? Get in touch: [email protected]

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