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Women Emerging Podcast

Every week, we produce a new episode that explores women and leadership from a different perspective. In a series of lively, wide-ranging discussions, we talk to women all over the world who are dealing with tough leadership challenges in their daily lives. We find out the barriers they face and how they are overcoming them; they share their experiences, insights and advice. (the series also informs and illustrates the expedition while it is underway and gives updates on the members’

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210. How to Ensure Psychological Safety While Leading...

Women Emerging Podcast ·

2026/03/25

In this episode, Julia speaks with Amanda about burnout — and how psychological safety within teams can play a crucial role in preventing it. Amanda reflects on how burnout is often misunderstood as a problem of workload alone. In reality, it frequently emerges in environments where people feel a lack of control, unclear expectations, exclusion, or a sense that their voice does not matter. The conversation explores what it takes to create psychological safety while leading a team. Amanda describes

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33:50

209. Is Obsession with Fast-Paced Work Leading to...

Women Emerging Podcast ·

2026/03/18

In this episode, Julia speaks with Tam about burnout — and why one of the most powerful things one could do to prevent it is surprisingly simple: slow things down.Tam reflects on how modern workplaces often move at a relentless pace. Meetings pile up, deadlines tighten, and we feel pressure to keep everything spinning faster and faster. But constant speed, he argues, does not create better work. At best, it helps people survive — not thrive.Through practical examples, Tam explains how intentionally

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33:15

208. What Ultramarathoner Veronique Bourbeau Teaches...

Women Emerging Podcast ·

2026/03/11

In this first conversation of the burnout series, Julia speaks with Veronique Bourbeau, an ultramarathon runner whose life is built around pushing physical and mental limits. From record-breaking endurance races to multi-thousand-kilometre runs across countries, Veronique understands better than most what it means to reach the edge of exhaustion. Yet her perspective on burnout may surprise you. Burnout, she explains, is rarely about simply pushing harder. In fact, the real danger often comes from

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23:55

207. Energy is a Responsibility We Carry When We Lead

Women Emerging Podcast ·

2026/03/04

In this episode, Julia speaks with Aisha about Energy — how it shapes the way we lead, and the responsibility we carry for the energy we create in a room. Aisha reflects on leading intuitively. Before logic or structure, she reads emotion, atmosphere, and the unspoken dynamics between people. Working with young people affected by trauma, she explains why energy is often felt before it can be explained — and why creating safety begins long before the first question is asked. The conversation explores

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28:49

206. How Our Education Shapes Our Approach to Leading

Women Emerging Podcast ·

2026/02/25

In this episode, Julia speaks with Mona about how education — formal, informal, cultural, and familial — quietly shapes the way we lead, often without us realising it.Together, they reflect on moments in their own leading where habits, preferences, and blind spots can be traced directly back to how they were educated — what was rewarded, what was discouraged, and what was never questioned. From structure and organisation to evidence, empowerment, and questioning authority, education sits deep in our

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205. Help Me to Trust You

Women Emerging Podcast ·

2026/02/18

In this episode, Julia speaks with Nyuta about trust not as something soft or assumed, but as something tested, named, and earned.Nyuta reflects on a question that has followed her throughout her life: why do people trust me? Growing up in a loving and open family, she learned not to hide parts of herself. For her, trust begins with alignment — saying what you mean, doing what you say, and leaving no gap between what you feel and what you show.The conversation explores the foundations of her trust

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204. How Do You Deal with Trust in a Crisis Situation?

Women Emerging Podcast ·

2026/02/11

In this episode, Julia speaks with Maria in the final conversation of the Trust series — turning attention to what happens to trust in a crisis, when plans fall away and decisions must be made quickly.Maria reflects on trust not as something that can be trained or demanded, but as something that is created over time through communication, shared values, and relationships. A crisis, she explains, does not create trust — it reveals it. In moments of pressure, leaders rely instinctively on the systems,

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203. Trust Begins With Self-Trust

Women Emerging Podcast ·

2026/02/04

In this episode, Julia speaks with Ebisan about trust — and why it begins not with others, but with learning to trust ourselves. Ebisan reflects on how she approaches relationships with openness, but also with hesitation — not as fear, but as discernment. She talks about trusting the signals we feel in our bodies, and how gut instinct often tells us when something feels right, or when something feels off, long before we can explain it. The conversation explores how trust is built in layers, through

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35:24

202. How To Build Trustworthy Systems & Processes

Women Emerging Podcast ·

2026/01/28

In this episode, Julia speaks with Geetanjali Sampemane about trust — and what it really takes to build systems that people are willing to rely on, even when they do not fully understand how those systems work. Geeta reflects on her early work helping connect institutions in India to the internet, and how mistrust of new technology gradually shifted through familiarity, experience, and positive outcomes. She shares how trust is rarely based on complete knowledge — it is a judgement call, shaped by

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32:32

201. How Trust Makes Communities Braver

Women Emerging Podcast ·

2026/01/21

In this episode, Julia speaks with Swatee Deepak about trust — taking the conversation beyond how it is built to the factors that quietly break it. Swatee works at the intersection of philanthropy, gender equality, and community building, and is the founding partner of Shake The Table.Swatee reflects on her experience convening groups of women philanthropists — many of whom arrive already cautious and guarded — and why trust cannot survive without clarity. When people feel unclear about purpose,

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32:07

200. Why Trust Sits at the Heart of Running a Business

Women Emerging Podcast ·

2026/01/14

In this episode, Julia speaks with Sheila Gujrathi about trust: why it sits at the heart of running a business, and why it becomes even more critical as responsibility, complexity, and stakes increase. Sheila reflects that trust is important for all working relationships: between founders and teams, executives and boards, leaders and investors, and why without it, progress stalls. But she is clear: trust does not begin with others. It begins with trusting yourself; your judgement, your instincts,

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29:19

199. Samar Ali on Trust as the Foundation of Leading

Women Emerging Podcast ·

2026/01/07

In the first episode of our new series on Trust, Julia speaks with Samar Ali, a lifelong peacebuilder, about how leaders can build trust in environments where it feels most fragile. Drawing on years of experience leading peacebuilding efforts, Samar explains why trust isn’t created once and for all, but built step by step through curiosity, careful listening, and naming what others may hesitate to say. She reflects how leaders can acknowledge their own struggles without losing credibility, and why

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15:58

198. The Words We Lead With

Women Emerging Podcast ·

2025/12/31

In this episode, Julia brings together ten women from across the world who each share one word from their own language that sits at the heart of how they lead. Each woman offers her word as a gift: a word that captures how she leads, shaped by where she comes from and what she has lived. As each woman explains why she chose her word, we begin to see how language shapes leading and how it influences the way trust is built, care is expressed, decisions are made, and responsibility is carried. Taken

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32:11

197. Combining Care and Fierceness: Anna on Finding...

Women Emerging Podcast ·

2025/12/24

In this episode, Julia speaks with Anna Kalmer, a social entrepreneur who founded a yoga-based organisation supporting refugees, children in state care, mothers raising children with disabilities, and others facing adversity.Anna shares how stepping into leading wasn’t a grand decision it happened when the organisation she created began to truly form, and people started looking to her for direction. Suddenly, she realised she wasn’t becoming the leader. She already was one, long before she felt

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196. Maryam Pasha on Owning Your Own Narrative

Women Emerging Podcast ·

2025/12/17

In this episode, Julia speaks with Maryam Pasha,Executive Director& CuratorofTEDxLondon,about the power of owning your narrative and why clarity about who you are changes how you lead.Maryam shares that narrativeisn’tjust about tellingyour story.It’sabout deciding the foundation on which you stand. When youdon’tdefine your narrative, she says,you end up living someone else’s. She talks about the moment she realised she had been shrinking herself;to be agreeable, to be easy, to take up less space

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195. WE Explorer Varsha Pillai on How Leading from...

Women Emerging Podcast ·

2025/12/10

In this episode, Julia speaks with Varsha, a WE Explorer, about discovering that her Essence of motherness is a powerful anchor for how she leads. She was part of the Women Emerging expedition for women leading in India, in partnership with Buzz Women. Varsha shares how she had never thought intentionally about leading until she realised the models she had been exposed to didn’t match who she was. Growing up in a matrilineal family, she saw a form of leading that was shared, facilitative, caring but

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194. WE Explorer Vijaya Balaji on How to Lead So...

Women Emerging Podcast ·

2025/12/03

In this episode, Julia speaks with Vijaya, a WE Explorer about her powerful reframing of vulnerability from weakness to strength. She was part of the Women Emerging expedition for women leading in India, in partnership with Buzz Women.Vijaya begins by reflecting on how she grew up believing that showing vulnerability made you unreliable, less capable, and easier to dismiss. As a founder and leader, this belief pushed her into toughness, especially during the crisis year of 2020, when her

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193. WE Explorer Nayonika Roy on What She Discovered...

Women Emerging Podcast ·

2025/11/26

In this episode, Julia speaks with Nayonika Roy, a WE Explorer from the India Group Expedition, about discovering her Essence and how that understanding has influenced the way she leads.Nayonika shares how she initially rejected Motherness. It felt like a stereotype. But through reflection and the Expedition, she realised that Motherness captures what she naturally brings: care, emotional awareness, organisation, and creating spaces where people feel comfortable and seen.She talks about how

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192. When Trailblazing Chooses You: Isata on Leading...

Women Emerging Podcast ·

2025/11/19

In this episode, Julia speaks with Isata Kabia, about what it really means to be a trailblazer and why leading doesn’t always have to be loud.Isata shares that being a trailblazer often isn’t a choice. It happens when you step forward out of necessity, conviction, or courage when you realise, as she puts it, “the hero you’ve been waiting for is you.”She talks about her journey of learning to lead as a quiet storm: calm yet powerful, nurturing yet unyielding. The “quiet” stands for listening,

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191. Combining Ego and Empathy in Leading

Women Emerging Podcast ·

2025/11/12

In this episode, Julia speaks with Ragini Das co-founder of Leap Club, a community of over 25,000 women — about how to combine ego and empathy in leading.Ragini shares why she refuses to see ego as a “dirty word.” For her, ego is self-belief — the conviction that fuels courage, creativity, and resilience. It’s what helps you dream big and keep going when the odds are against you. But she also insists that ego alone isn’t enough. Without empathy, you lose connection, trust, and perspective.The

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