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Episode 25 : Emma chats to Ruby Chahal of Rock &...

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2025/08/24

I first came across Rock and Ruby socks when Ruby approached me about a collaboration with Dimpsey, my shepherd hut stay business.I took a look at Ruby’s website and loved her whole British-made ethos and the fact that her strapline talks about them being designed to last and to bring little moments of joy to the everyday.Socks for those who live thoughtfully…Handcrafted cotton and wool socks designed to last and bring little moments of joy to the everyday.As an entrepreneur myself, I love looking

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Episode 24 : Meet Sophie Allen - Graduate Boat...

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2025/08/17

In this episode of the podcast, I sit down in a hand-built bow-top caravan with Sophie Allen - boatbuilder, wool-spinner, lambing shed assistant, cyclist, and explorer of paths less trodden. She’s also my goddaughter, so I’ve had the joy of watching her journey unfold from the very beginning.Sophie’s story winds from a geography degree at Bristol to a stable graduate role in the Civil Service - and the moment she realised that comfortable wasn’t the same as aligned. What followed was a brave leap

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Episode 23 : Meet Tanya Lynch of Ease Retreats

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2025/08/03

I’m Tanya Lynch, a mother, a ridgeback owner and the founder of Ease Retreats. I love what I do, collaborating with authors and creatives, hosting retreats in beautiful venues across the UK. Most recently I launched The Bibliotherapists podcast with my co-host Toni Jones. I’m also a therapeutic journalling coach and through my programme ‘Rage on a Page’, I help midlife women channel their emotions into something more positive and creative in less than 60 days. Each Thursday I host an online

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Episode 22 : Meet Eva Humphries - Wholefood Warrior

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2025/07/20

Eva Humphries is a Nottingham-based nutritionist (BANT-registered and CNHC-accredited) with over nine years of clinical experience and an MSc in Clinical Nutrition. After switching careers from IT, she founded Wholefood Warrior to champion a down-to-earth, science-backed approach to healthy eating. Eva specialises in metabolic health, including type 2 diabetes and geriatric nutrition, and works across the UK delivering personalised consultations, corporate wellness programmes, and sector-specific

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Episode 21: Behind the scenes - Emma and Rachel...

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2025/07/06

For our 21st episode, we thought that it would be nice to go behind the scenes and get two of the team chatting together about our recent lunch, and a topic that it seems, strikes fear into the heart of many people - facing that camera and smiling while the shutter clicks away.First off, at the end of June we held our inaugral CWG lunch. It’s really important to us that we’re bringing you content that you want to see, so we invited a few of our local readers to come and have lunch with us at the

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Episode 19: Meet Chloe Fuller - TV Pet Expert & Pet...

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2025/06/15

Chloe Fuller always thought her life would follow a seemingly perfect script: she was sporty, social, and academically gifted. But everything changed in 2011, when a seemingly minor infection left her severely ill and never fully recovering. At just 13, Chloe faced a reality in stark contrast to her dreams: she lost her friends, her ability to attend school, and the independence that teens typically gain at that age.Suddenly having to get to grips with the idea that her life was not going to be as

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Episode 20: Meet Ginny Mills - championing body...

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2025/06/08

Nestled in the scenic northeast of Scotland, countryside influencer Ginny Mills is redefining what authenticity looks like in the digital age. With a warm presence and a passion for both rural living and body positivity, Ginny’s content offers a refreshing glimpse into her everyday life - one that includes muddy boots, supermarket fashion hauls, and a growing young horse named Remi.Though her full-time job is in healthcare, Ginny has steadily built a loyal online following over the past decade,

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Episode 18 : Meet Suzanne Alderson, Author and...

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2025/05/25

In this powerful 30-minute interview, Emma speaks with Suzanne Alderson - author, speaker, and founder of the award-winning charity Parenting Mental Health. With raw honesty and a wealth of hard-earned wisdom, Suzanne shares her personal journey through trauma, crisis, and healing, and how it led her to build a lifeline for tens of thousands of parents navigating the complexities of adolescent mental health. Suzanne’s story began with an experience no parent expects: her 14-year-old daughter, Izzy,

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Episode 17 : Meet Emma Fuerbringer, Entrepreneur and...

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2025/05/11

Emma Fuerbringer’s journey to ranch life in Canada wasn’t a straight line. Originally from the UK, she trained in law and fully expected to remain in England. But a twist of fate during her travels brought her to Western Canada, where she met her husband Peter. What started as a brief North American adventure turned into a 26-year love story with Alberta’s sweeping landscapes and tight-knit communities as the backdrop.Although Bluerock Ranch has only been in operation for two and a half years, the

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Episode 16 : Meet Jessy Palmer - Farmer and owner of...

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2025/04/13

When our very own Georgia suggested that we should interview Jessy Palmer, we took a look at her instagram page and thought that hers is a story that many of you would find inspiring.Raised on her family farm, it’s clear that Jessy has a strong sense of her family roots, but from a very young age, her interest lay in raising animals rather than following the existing family farm model.Apart from a herd of cows that her Grandmother had many years ago, raising livestock wasn’t part of the existing

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Episode 15 : Meet Alice Plunkett, Racing Broadcaster...

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2025/03/23

Alice Plunkett is known to many of us through her role as a Racing Journalist, currently for ITV Racing and also out and about on the Eventing Circuit with her husband, William Fox-Pitt.Never one to shy away from a challenge, when Alice spotted the potential to create a co-working space on the Hinton St Mary Estate, she was keen to ensure that the end result would be somewhere inspiring, as well as a community hub for her local Dorset working professionals.The Hinton Workspace building was the old

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Episode 14 : Meet Maddie Beaumont - hospitality...

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2025/03/16

One of the lovely things about being in our younger years is that we are not yet burdened with experience. Experience is a wonderful thing, but sometimes it can fill us full of warnings about things we’re considering doing.But without that filter, we absolutely believe that anything is possible, so when 21 year old Maddie Beaumont and her relatively new partner, Ben Porter, were presented with the opportunity to take on the lease of a local pub, they were instantly interested.They’d both worked in

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Episode 13 : Meet Bianca Barratt, Journalist and...

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2025/03/02

Bianca Barrett is a writer, a journalist and an editor as well as the founder of The Scoop: a membership site offering a journalist’s insider secrets on getting you and your brand featured in the media.As a writer for VOGUE, Courier, The Sunday Times, Refinery 29, Cosmopolitan, BBC and the Evening Standard as well as a Senior Contributor to Forbes, Bianca has seen many business pitches for coverage, many of which failed to grab her attention.Seeing a need to help businesses sharpen their skills and

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Episode 12 : Meet Harriet Willis of Flora Percival,...

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2025/02/02

Harriet Willis runs Flora Percival, a Somerset-based, UK made, knitwear brand, established in 2023.Interviewing Harriet was such an archetypal Countrywoman’s Guide interview that I’ll describe where we were as we chatted. We were sitting at Harriet’s kitchen table, in her country cottage with a mug of tea poured from a teapot and a pile of gorgeous jumpers in front of us.As I talked to Harriet about her business journey, I could tell that Flora Percival has been very much created based on her

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Episode 11 : Meet Hannah King of King & Carr, maker...

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2025/01/26

Spotting a gap in the market is always a good place for a business idea to germinate and for Hannah King, attending the Game Fair in 2018, revealed one of those elusive white spaces.As she wandered around, she gradually realised that, despite there being many clothing stands, there wasn’t actually much on offer that was specifically made for women living a country lifestyle. Most of the offerings available were an altered version of a men’s item of clothing.Hannah set out then and there to design a

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Episode 10 : We turn the tables! Meet our Founder,...

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2025/01/19

How are we already on Podcast 10?!I’m very conscious that I’ve spent the last 9 episodes of the podcast and many more written interviews before that interviewing people and asking them to share their experience with you all.But some of you probably don’t know much about who I am and what makes me tick and how I got to where I am now. So it only seems fair that I put my hat into the ring as well, and my book coach, Lisa Bean, was the person who kept saying, ‘you need to be interviewed too Emma” and

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Episode 9 : Meet Mathilda Allison of Tilly Talks Podcast

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2025/01/12

Mathilda Allison started her social media accounts as a lockdown project and it’s just snowballed from there.Based in The Angus Glens, Mathilda posts about her day-to-day life with her partner, Teifion, and her 7 month old daughter, Mabel. She’s keen to share the realities of their day-to-day life and she’s about to take that one step further with the launch of her new podcast, Tilly Talks.Her podcast is going to follow the young family as they build their business and their family life, at the

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Episode 8 : Meet Evie Fox-Read - Founder of Fox Cub &...

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2025/01/05

Evie Fox-Read is a lady on a mission to grow her interior fragrance brand and have fun doing it.Fox Cub & Co is an interior fragrance company with every product being produced by Evie and her team in Cheshire. The business launched with just six candle fragrances in March 2021 and now has a wide range of soy wax candles, diffusers, wax melts and more recently, handwash and hand lotions.Using the finest ingredients and materials from UK-based businesses to make their products, Evie loves to support

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The hidden layers of love that support you…

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2024/12/27

This episode is an audio post originally written for the Countrywoman’s Guide Substack, where we’re building a community that supports rural and business women through the sharing of stories and wisdom, reminding us all that we’re not alone in our endeavours.In it, our Founder, Emma, talks about how the lack of a jar of pickled walnuts came to remind her how much quiet support there is around her.A surprising connection to make maybe, but sometimes the simplest of things provide insights that we

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Episode 7 : Meet Jo Williams, founder of the Georgie...

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2024/12/18

I’m going to head this up with a trigger warning as this episode talks about death and grief. We also have some resources listed at the bottom of the article should you need them.Shock, horror, grief, disbelief, realisation - there are so many adjectives for all the emotions that hit you following the loss of a loved one, and there’s no guidebook for your own journey through the void. There are no words that can salve the wound and only time, and lots of it, can bring a little respite to your

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