How She Does It

Are you ridiculously busy and overwhelmed? Are you always thinking about what you haven't done? Do you over commit and find it hard to say no? Yes to all of those? Then Zena Everett's book is for you! The Crazy Busy Cure is all about cutting time-wasting things out of your day so you can get the important things done. Listen to Zena's no-nonsense advice so that you can focus on the

Kitty Tait makes amazing bread. However this wasn't always the case... Kitty dropped out of school due to severe depression, her parents tried lots of different things to help her but it was watching her Dad make a loaf of bread that sparked her interest in baking and gave her a reason to get up in the morning. Kitty, who was just 15 when we recorded this episode, talks about the t

Shailina Parti has worked in the fashion industry for more than 30 years, working at top British brands such as Jaeger and Jigsaw. She's also a mum of twins. Here she talks about balancing her career with bringing up her children, what life is like now they've left home for university and how she has been (successfully!) dealing with the menopause. She also describes her love of dr

The Eve Appeal needs your help this May to spread awareness about gynae health and raise much needed cash to support its brilliant nurse service Ask Eve. Athena and Karen explain the difficulties of running a charity during the coronavirus outbreak. They would love you to join their Get Lippy campaign by buying a product from one of their commercial partners or simply sharing infor

Esther Stanhope is The Impact Guru, an expert in public speaking who helps top business leaders and organisations to become more confident, more visible and generally have more oomph! She gets leading CEOs who hate talking in public to get behind the podium and speak with ease to huge audiences. Esther reckons public speaking is key to boosting your career and is something women ne

Verity Geere was so sick of the dating scene she gave it up for a month and took stock of her life. She was 39 and while the majority of her friends had settled down and started their families, she was still on the look out for Mr Right. In an attempt to make sense of it all she started blogging about her dating life, from first boyfriends to navigating the world of Tinder. Her b

How long is your to do list? Have you done that thing you’ve been meaning to do all day, or maybe you haven’t got round to it for weeks? Whether it’s finding a plumber, booking the dentist or getting your car fixed. All these never-ending tasks can suck the joy out of life. Academic and Mum, Elizabeth Emens became so fascinated with the subject she has studied how different p

When journalist Hero Brown left London for life in the countryside as a new Mum she found herself missing all the fun stuff she used to enjoy. So she made it her mission to find out what was going on around her and started blogging about it. Now her website Muddy Stilettos: The Urban Guide to the Countryside covers 21 counties and has reviews of all the best places to eat, drink,

We all have the same number of hours in the day. So how come some people seem to get so much more done without rushing? Author Catherine Blyth has been examining this for her book "Enjoy Time: How to stop rushing and get more done. It seems the constant interruption from texts and email isn't helping with everybody's new addiction to busyness. We weren't always like this so what's

When Sarah Brown moved into 10 Downing Street when her husband Gordon became Prime Minister she didn’t think her life would change that much. Afterall, she’d already been living next door at number 11 for the previous ten years. But her life did change in ways she didn’t expect. Sarah talks about what living behind the big black door, was like both in the role of Prime Minist