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Buffy The Business Slayer

Claire Cummings and Samantha Moss

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Buffy The Business Slayer is an inclusive creative community founded by Claire Cummings and Samantha Moss. We follow the ultimate fictional girl boss for inspo and guidance on our own creative journeys, while being real about the facades of our industries. All sorts of incredible gals share their authentic, unfiltered journeys in business, creativity, health, and balancing (or not balancing) it all. Come for the love, good vibes and advice, stay for the Buffy quotes! ***NB: We have no affili ...
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Emily is nailing homeschooling with virtual museum tours, a fun-filled Viking project and regular yoga in the garden, as well as whipping up something from the pantry for date night with husband Steve. Pippa is getting to grips with new levels of online dating that only the desperation of two kids in lockdown could push you to, whilst Kate is a ticking timebomb holding all the shit together whilst her husband cycles round the countryside looking after his mental health. Working from home, co ...
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Send us a Text Message. This week's episode is with the wonderful Claire Doré, a relationship, dating and sex coach, aka The Wild Woman CEO as well as the Relationship and Dating expert on Dublin City FM where she features on Friday’s Good morning segment. Claire speaks about working with people to help them tune into their own energy for growth an…
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Send us a Text Message. This episode is all about the working career of an animal behaviourist. I chatted with Daniel Warren Cummings. Daniel graduated with a degree in Zoology with Animal Beaviour from the University of Wales and has spent over 10 years working in the animal rescue and rehoming sector. Working as a trainer and behaviourist with so…
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Send us a Text Message. If you are interested in the world of sport sponsorship you’ve come to the right place. Because today’s chat is with Ishveen Jolly, a seasoned pro in this field after starting her career in cricket over in the Indian premier League. - and as she grew to understand the industry more saw an opportunity to start a company that …
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Send us a Text Message. If you are keen to be a budding screenwriter or fancy learning what this job is all about, enjoy this chat with Paul Alexander, a British sreen writer who has written or contributed to the likes of Red Dwarf, Goodnight Sweetheart, Babes In the Wood, Lovejoy, My Parents are Aliens, Emmerdale and much more. Paul's website: htt…
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Send us a Text Message. The Work, Actually podcast is back and we have a very special guest - Georgia Green of Georgia's Cakes, a thriving cake designing business. Dubbed 'the Mary Berry for the younger generation' Georgia's mission was to bring classical baking down to a level that everyone can utilise whilst keeping up with the latest cake and ba…
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Send us a Text Message. Joanne Koukis is founder of Outpour Wines, a specialist wine business with an aim for a wider, more diverse group of people to feel welcomed into the world of wine and to develop confidence in their own tastes. Today, 80% of wine purchases are made by women, but you’d be forgiven for thinking that wine is a man’s pursuit. Jo…
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Send us a Text Message. Welcome to Comms, Actually - a sponsored mini-series by Propeller Group, a specialist B2B PR, content and business development agency. You can find out more about them and Comms, Club that they run which brings together people in communications talking about the big issues. You can find out more at www.propellergroup,com Thi…
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Send us a Text Message. Welcome to Comms, Actually - a sponsored mini-series by Propeller Group, a specialist B2B PR, content and business development agency. You can find out more about them and Comms, Club that they run which brings together people in communications talking about the big issues. You can find out more at www.propellergroup,com Thi…
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Send us a Text Message. Welcome to Comms, Actually - a sponsored mini-series by Propeller Group, a specialist B2B PR, content and business development agency. You can find out more about them and Comms, Club that they run which brings together people in communications talking about the big issues. You can find out more at www.propellergroup,com Thi…
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode I delve into the reality of working as an acting coach, interviewing Anne Musisi, also a Film Director and Founder of Anne’s Records and Picture House Ltd. With a background in Acting and Global Theatre from Regent’s University and an MA Acting for Screen from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama- her…
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Send us a Text Message. Welcome to Comms, Actually - a sponsored mini-series by Propeller Group, a specialist B2B PR, content and business development agency. You can find out more about them and Comms, Club that they run which brings together people in communications talking about the big issues. You can find out more at www.propellergroup,com Thi…
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Send us a Text Message. Series 4! Kicking off with a Workplace Special and looking at the topic of sustainability and social impact within careers - how can you prioritise that as an individual or business leader? Shannon is a CSR and Sustainability Consultant working with many big and small businesses. She has also written a book called Good Work:…
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Join Ben Habib in this episode of the Edge Dwellers Café Podcast as he sits down with environmental scientist and sustainability expert Dr Alison Mitchell to discuss the pressing question: "What is sustainability asking of us?" We discuss Ali's personal journey from environmental science to education for sustainability, exploring a wide range of to…
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In this solo episode of the Edge Dwellers Café Podcast, Ben Habib maps out five broad potential scenarios for the future of the Kim regime in North Korea—(1) state failure and collapse; (2) managed systemic reform; (3) popular uprising and revolution; (4) coup d'état; and (5) externally-imposed regime change—critically evaluating the logic and prob…
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Send us a Text Message. Today's episode as part of the mini-series looking at workplace challenges is focused on addressing and resolving conflict, with qualified business and performance coach, Lisa Robyn Wood. Lisa runs GRIP coaching https://www.gripcoaching.co.uk a professional coaching service to support emerging, evolving, growing leaders to r…
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Send us a Text Message. As part of a series of Workplace Specials where we look at themes within the workplace, today's episode is with leadership psychologist Tony Brooks on how to become a more effective leader - and how your mindset is the key to your future growth, success and fulfilment. Not only as a leader but in your life as a whole! Read m…
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Send us a Text Message. Fancy working in the world of fragrance production? Listen to this chat with Holly Hutchinson, founder of Memoize Perfume (and featuring Holly Dymock, someone keen to potentially get into this area as a possible side hustle!) After spending seven years developing niche fragrance products at a global perfume house, Holly Hutc…
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Send us a Text Message. Ever considered a career as a horse trainer? This week’s chat is with Lucinda Russell, a hugely accomplished and successful horse trainer based up in Kinross, as you’ll hear Lucinda - and together with her husband Peter Scudamore, an eight time champion jockey who rode 1678 winners in his career - run LRR which trains and pr…
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Send us a Text Message. Ever considered a career as a film/ tv agent? This week's episode is with Linda French, founder and MD or APM Associates which has grown and developed into one of the leading personal management agencies in the UK. Linda heads up a dedicated team of agents, assistants and marketing experts all focused on delivering clients’ …
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Send us a Text Message. Ever imagined what it would be like to have a career as a news reader? This week's episode is with the fantastically accomplished Jess Dunsdon, currently ITV news reader in Jersey and someone with two decades of experience in the field. This chat is a great resource for anyone interested in getting into this area of news jou…
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Send us a Text Message. I love the fact I get to speak to brilliant, interesting and passionate people as part of the podcast- each one inspires me in different ways. This week is no exception and even more special as I had the pleasure of interviewing my dad, Bob. Dad was a news journalist for most of his career and for many years specialised in t…
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Ben Habib is joined in this episode by Dr Nazanin Zadeh-Cummings, Lecturer in Humanitarian Studies at the Centre for Humanitarian Leadership at Deakin University. We discuss the humanitarian sector, humanitarian aid in North Korea, transitional justice for a post-Kim DPRK, and reflect humorously on the North Korean studies community. We also muse o…
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Send us a Text Message. Ever considered working as a luxury property agent seeing the top 1% of luxury properties in the world? That's exactly what today's interviewee does - meet Mariek Anselme, co-founder of A.M.A Selections, a local boutique holiday rental company on the French Riviera. With just over 15 properties, the company launched in 2014 …
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Send us a Text Message. Ever considered a career as an interior designer? It's a job I get asked to cover a lot and I finally have - with the wonderful Sarah Ellison, founder of Frank & Faber (FrankandFaber.co.uk) - this chat offers fantastic insights, tough truths, highlights, experience, and, of course, passion. Full of learnings for anyone think…
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Send us a Text Message. Fancy feeling inspired? Listen to today's episode with polar expedition leader Wendy Searle, a mother of four who decided to train and take on the feat of skiing solo from the coastline of Antarctica to the South Pole, unsupported. And she did it! Listen to her story and her journey in gaining physical and mental resillience…
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Send us a Text Message. Ever considered a career as a sound engineer or intrigued to know what it's like to work on the sound for TV and film? You've come to the right place - this week's episode is with Alistair Bolt a sound engineer for SNK Studios. Alistair details his job working across film and TV for all things sound, including voice-over wor…
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In this episode of the Edge Dwellers Cafe, Ben Habib is joined for special panel discussion with Anastasia Kanjere, Emily Foley, and Pan Karanikolas from the La Trobe Casuals Network, a volunteer group of casualised workers at La Trobe University who are dedicated to improving working conditions for casualised and insecure workers. The conversation…
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In this episode of the Edge Dwellers Cafe Podcast, I’m joined in this spirit of Utopia-inspired critical bewilderment by Sarah Houseman to talk about her PhD research into non-hierarchical organisations. We discuss the many functional problems that arise in hierarchical organisations, from power relationships to functional organisational stupidity …
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Send us a Text Message. Work has undoubtedly changed for a lot of us - companies are facing challenges in navigating hybrid working, changing company cultures and expectations, the great resignation and finding good talent. Therefore, fostering the right environment and mindsets on both an individual basis and team one is more important than ever. …
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Send us a Text Message. Ever considered a career as a sleep expert or struggle to sleep each night? This week's episode is with Dr Nerina Ramlakhan a sleep expert with 25 years of experience helping people and organisations to thrive. She uses a unique blend of physiology, psychology, philosophy, professional and personal insights to create profoun…
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Send us a Text Message. Ever wondered what it would be like to be a professional golfer? Today's episode is with Carly Booth - Carly became the youngest ladies’ club champion in Britain at the age of 11 at Dunblane New. At 12, she played with Sandy Lyle in the British Masters Pro-Am and at 14 she appeared in her first professional event, the Ladies…
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In this episode, Ben Habib is joined by Toad Dell and Guy Ritani from PermaQueer. PermaQueer is a collaborative project to share ecological sustainability methods through the lens of Permaculture, focusing on accessibility to and building resilience for traditionally marginalised communities. PermaQueer brings a queering, decolonising and trauma-in…
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Send us a Text Message. Ever considered a career in songwriting? This week's episode is with the fantastic Clare Dove, a professional songwriter and now singer. She details the reality behind working in the music industry, the painful truths as well as the creativity and inspiration. Really honest chat and full of advice and learnings. You can lear…
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Send us a Text Message. Ever considered hypnotherapy or wondered what the treatment is like? This week's episode is with Kate Hoyle, a hypnotherapist who specialises in Rapid Transformational Therapy also known as RTT. Kate details how she retrained to become a hypnotherapist after being so impressed by the results - and why it's so effective at qu…
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Send us a Text Message. Ever wondered what it would be like to be one of the Dreamboys? Or to understand what the job really entails? Look no further, this week's episode is with @Jordandarrell and @zacharysmithfitness two of the cast of @dreamboys one of the longest running and most successful male strip shows. We talk all about how they got into …
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In this episode, Ben Habib is joined by James Blackwell, Research Fellow in Indigenous Diplomacy in the College of Asia and the Pacific at Australian National University in Canberra. A proud Wiradjuri man, James is one of Australia’s only practicing Aboriginal international relations academics, writing and speaking about global Indigenous movements…
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Send us a Text Message. Ever thought about a career in radio? This week's episode is with Lucy Horobin, a British radio presenter well-known for presenting Heart Dance. Lucy details her own journey from student radio up to a big national station, the opportunities for people and what it takes to do the job. We also discuss the role of radio today a…
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Send us a Text Message. Reverend Dr Jenny McKay combines a working life as both a veterinarian pathologist and a Church of England minister - she's what is referred to as a minister in secular employment. After a life-changing event changed her outlook, she decided to train as a priest alongside her professional career. In this episode we discuss h…
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Send us a Text Message. Have you ever been asked to do a wedding speech? Maybe you are due to be a best man and are already terrified about the prospect of delivering something that meets the expectations of the couple, the guests, the families, etc. You are not alone and this pod is for you. Listen to how Adrian Simpson has carved a niche and is t…
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In this episode, Ben Habib is joined in conversation by Claire Kearns. Claire is a staunch disability and neurodiversity advocate, writer and social media content creator. in 2021, Claire won the La Trobe University Excellence Academy Inaugural Art Competition for her poem entitled “I Was”, about her experiences as a neurodiverse student at univers…
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Send us a Text Message. This week, I spoke to Dr Courtney Raspin, a Registered and Chartered Psychologist with a specialist in eating disorders. She has over 15 years experience helping clients develop better relationships with their bodies and overcome their difficulties with anorexia, bulimia, and binge eating. She worked for 10 years within the …
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Hyein Ellen Cho is a PhD candidate at Monash University with research interests in the Korean diaspora in Australia, domestic and family violence, and North Korean migration. Prior to commencing her PhD studies, she worked as a project manager in the Cultural and Economic Affairs Section at the Consulate-General of the Republic of Korea in Melbourn…
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Send us a Text Message. Ever considered getting into the world of distilling? You've come to the right place - listen to this brilliant chat with Carmen O'Neal, MD of 58gin.com an award-winning distillery set in the heart of Haggerston, East London. Carmen details her whole gin-making journey up to where it is now - a fantastic distillery selling d…
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Send us a Text Message. Have a business idea you want to get off the ground? Listen to this great chat with Rachel Wilson, founder of Our Remedy, as successful women-focused business selling organic CBD oil that can help with anxiety, stress, period pain and PMS. Rachel offers so many learnings - this is her third successful business venture - as w…
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In this episode, Ben Habib is joined by Dr Terry Leahy, Conjoint Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Newcastle. Terry’s research explores food security and rural development, environmental politics and global environmental crisis, and the philosophy of the humanist realist perspective in sociological analysis. Terry’s research and con…
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In this episode, Ben Habib is joined by Dr Simin Fadaee, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester in the UK. We discuss our recent co-authored article “Permaculture: A Global Community of Practice”, published in the journal Environmental Values, where we tease out how we can understand permaculture as a transnational movement. W…
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