Women don’t stall because they lack drive or capability.
They stall because progress at higher levels is no longer individual, it’s relational.
Early growth rewards effort.
Later growth requires proximity.
Without true peers, women start to:
-overwork to compensate for lack of signal
-second-guess decisions that can’t be solved with data
-mistake structural isolation for personal failure
This episode breaks down:
-why ambition stops working on its own
-what actually changes as women rise
-why peers are not friends, mentors, or audiences and why WWDA exists not for motivation, but for calibration, velocity, and identity stability
If you’ve ever thought, “Why does this feel harder now?”
You’re not failing.
You’re rising without peers and that’s unsustainable.
I didn’t plan this podcast.
I didn’t script it.
And I definitely didn’t expect it to upset people.
But as Women Who Don’t Apologise starts to land on more radars, I’m seeing something clearly: raw, unpolished creation makes people uncomfortable, especially when there’s no gatekeeper involved.
In this episode, I talk about why recording straight from my phone triggers so much unsolicited advice, why some people are invested in keeping the gates closed, and why I’m not interested in polishing my voice to make others comfortable.
This is about art, access, age, and what happens when women stop asking for permission.
No apology.
No performance.
Just truth.
Everyone keeps asking, “Have you seen the documentary?”
And my answer is simple: NO and I’m not going to.
This episode is about choosing peace over commentary, boundaries over hot takes, and why not knowing everything that’s trending is sometimes the healthiest choice you can make. I talk about how growing up outside the noise trained me to mind my business, protect my energy, and refuse to carry other people’s drama.
This isn’t ignorance.
It’s intention.
I’m hosting my first private dinner and I’ll be honest, it scared me. The kind of fear that whispers, what if no one comes? In this episode, I talk about choosing action over comfort, inputs over outcomes, and why doing the thing that scares you is often the clearest sign you’re growing.
This isn’t about numbers, validation, or proving anything. It’s about showing up, taking the risk, and letting that be enough, even if the room is quiet.
If you’re standing at the edge of something new and your fear is loud, this one is for you.
Everyone is panicking about AI like it’s the end of the world.
But if you’ve lived long enough, you’ve seen this cycle before.
Personal computers.
The dot-com bubble.
The internet “ending everything.”
In this episode, I talk through why AI isn’t the real problem, stagnation is. Why fear-mongering is a distraction. And why the real work in 2026 isn’t resisting change, but moving up the value chain.
This is a quiet, grounded conversation about adaptation, upskilling, and learning how to stay relevant without losing yourself.
There’s something that has always bothered me about the construction and project space and today I finally said it out loud.
The same project directors.
The same “big names.”
The same authority figures.
And yet… the same failures.
Over budget.
Behind programme.
Full of disputes.
So why do they keep getting hired?
In this episode, I talk about the uncomfortable truth the industry avoids: how failure gets recycled, how ego replaces outcomes, and how capable people are locked out while the same poor players keep being traded.
This isn’t about individuals.
It’s about a system that rewards reputation over results.
If you’ve ever sat in a boardroom wondering how certain people keep getting the work, this one’s for you.
This episode is a reality check and a permission slip.
So many women remove themselves from opportunities before anyone else ever does. We read the criteria, spot one missing requirement, and quietly decide it’s not for us.
But here’s what experience has taught me: most of the people in powerful roles didn’t tick every box either. They applied anyway.
In this voice note, I talk about transferable skills, the myth of “perfect fit,” and why getting in the room is often the hardest and most important step.
This is about boards, leadership, executive roles… and life.
Because the truth is, you don’t need to be extraordinary to belong in these spaces. You just need to stop disqualifying yourself before the conversation even starts.
If you’ve been waiting to feel “ready,” this one is for you.
From one non-executive director to another, this is the conversation we don’t have often enough.
If you’ve ever walked into a boardroom feeling underqualified, intimidated, or like you’re about to be “found out,” this episode is for you.
In this voice note, I talk about my first board role in my twenties, the fear, the silence, the moment it clicked that the people around the table didn’t know more than I did. They weren’t magical. They weren’t exceptional. They were just… already there.
This episode is about pulling back the curtain on power, confidence, and credibility and reminding you that readiness doesn’t always feel like readiness.
Sometimes it just feels like showing up scared and realising you belong.
If you’re thinking about a board role, already sitting on one, or quietly questioning whether you deserve your seat, so listen closely.
This wasn’t a loud New Year episode.
No resolutions. No hype. Just a pause.
After daily episodes, travel disruptions, and a body that asked for rest, this is a quiet check-in, a moment of decompression, gratitude, and perspective.
A reminder that consistency counts.
That showing up matters.
And that sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is stop.
If you’re entering the new year slowly, gently, or out of sync with the noise, this one’s for you.
Every entrepreneurship story online seems to start the same way:
“I was earning six figures… and then I quit.”
But that’s not the whole truth.
In this episode, I talk about why you don’t need a six-figure salary to take the leap and why waiting for one can actually keep you stuck longer than necessary.
This isn’t about income.
It’s about self-concept.
There is nothing a six-figure earner magically knows that a five-figure earner can’t learn. No secret confidence. No hidden capability. Just a different story we’ve been sold about readiness and worth.
If you’ve ever felt trapped by the idea that you need “one more milestone” before you trust yourself, this one’s for you.
Quiet. Honest. No hustle mythology.
Today’s voice note is coming to you from the River Nile in Egypt… on my way to eat Jamaican food.
A reminder that some cultures don’t disappear when they travel, they expand.
Small island. Global presence.
Talawa energy, everywhere.
Just a quiet moment of reflection, pride, and gratitude from the water.
Christmas Day can feel joyful, heavy, quiet, or complicated, sometimes all at once. And whatever it brings up for you, you don’t owe anyone cheer, gratitude, or explanations.
This episode is a gentle reminder that rest counts.
Existing counts.
Being exactly where you are today is enough.
If all you do today is breathe and let the world slow down with you, that’s more than enough.
Merry Christmas, girl.
We’ll talk again soon.
I’m recording this episode from a river cruise in Egypt and it stopped me in my tracks.
Not because of where I am…
but because of what this moment represents.
When I was growing up, the furthest my imagination could stretch was Miami.
Now my son talks about countries like they’re normal. Like they’re expected.
And instead of shrinking that reality or apologising for it, I realised something important:
His minimum is higher than mine and that’s the point.
In this episode, I talk about:
Why I’m not apologising for my child’s “soft life”
How our children’s benchmarks are radically different from ours
Why exposure expands identity
What it really means to prepare kids for a future we can’t fully see
And how raising children isn’t about guilt it’s about horizon-setting
This isn’t about luxury.
It’s about possibility.
And sometimes, the greatest inheritance isn’t money, it’s a bigger view of what’s possible.
Sometimes you need to feel it.
All of it.
In this episode, I talk about the days we don’t glamorise, the moments when even the women who “have it together” fall off the bus and throw themselves a full-blown pity party.
This isn’t about toxic positivity or pushing through at all costs.
It’s about letting yourself feel… with limits.
We talk about:
Why pity parties aren’t failure.
The danger of letting low energy turn into a lifestyle
How to feel your feelings without letting them run your life
The difference between rest, collapse, and self-abandonment
Why going into 2026 means prevention, not perfection
This is a reminder that you’re allowed to pause.
You’re just not meant to live there.
Sit with it.
Then get up, on your own terms.
There comes a moment when you realise you’ve been holding everyone up…
and no one has been holding you.
In this episode, I talk about reaching capacity, emotionally, mentally, spiritually and the decision to stop being the “strong friend.” The one who checks in. The one who holds space. The one who motivates everyone else while quietly leaking inside.
This is about recognising limits.
About grief.
About releasing roles we never volunteered for.
I talk about what happens when you’ve absorbed too much for too long and why choosing yourself isn’t abandonment, it’s survival.
If you’ve ever felt like the sponge everyone squeezes, this one is for you.
Someone commented on my work and said, “That’s ChatGPT.”
And I realised something.
We’re living in a moment where competence is suspicious, clarity is dismissed, and experience is rewritten as automation. People forget that AI was trained on human work, our writing, our thinking, our labour, long before it had a name.
In this episode, I talk about why “that’s AI” has become the laziest accusation online, how insecurity disguises itself as critique, and why most people you think “came out of nowhere” have actually been doing the work for years.
This isn’t about defending yourself.
It’s about recognising when someone else’s discomfort isn’t your responsibility.
Because this isn’t my first rodeo, you’re just meeting me now.
This isn’t a dramatic episode.
No breakdown. No big reveal.
It’s just real life.
Today I’m talking about what happens when you realise you don’t have the energy to keep performing for algorithms, for platforms, for expectations that were never built with your life in mind.
About choosing maintenance over momentum.
Pause over push.
Self-preservation over proving.
This is what it looks like when you don’t disappear…
You just stop dancing for attention.
If you’ve been feeling flat not burnt out, not broken, just tired of the production line this one’s for you.
You’re not failing.
You’re recalibrating.
This episode is a quiet refusal.
A refusal to over-polish.
A refusal to perform professionalism.
A refusal to turn honesty into a product.
After a comment about why this podcast isn’t edited, I reflect on why unfiltered works for me and why I’m no longer interested in following anyone else’s playbook.
This isn’t a sales funnel.
It’s not a brand exercise.
It’s not a performance.
It’s a woman speaking from where she actually is tired, reflective, unpolished, and still standing.
If you’ve ever felt pressure to package yourself to be taken seriously…
This one’s for you.
No polish.
No scarcity.
No pretending.
Just presence.
I didn’t realise how far I’d come until I noticed my shoulders weren’t tense anymore.
This episode is about the kind of progress that doesn’t show up on spreadsheets, timelines, or social media, the internal shifts that tell you your life is changing even when nothing dramatic is happening.
For the first time in years, I’m slowing down before Christmas.
And that’s not small.
If you’ve been waiting for a sign that your effort is working this might be it.
In this episode, I talk about what changed when I stopped treating my business like it was “small”, not in revenue, but in mindset. I share why switching to a higher-level accountant wasn’t about spreadsheets or compliance… it was about reclaiming mental space.
This is a conversation about:
The hidden cost of doing everything yourself
Why being “sensible” can actually keep you stuck
How support systems affect your nervous system
And why growth often starts with buying back headspace, not grinding harder
If you’ve been wearing every hat, living in admin stress, and telling yourself “I’ll upgrade later” this episode is for you.