This Circular Life Melissa Bowden

Episode 5 is an extra long wonderful one (it honestly could've been a days worth of chatter) with the incredible Laura Wellington, Director of The Wunderkind Group. The Wunderkind Group is a group of businesses including: In Good Company, Duke Street, Duke Makes, Test Bed Leeds and Sheaf St. Laura and James founded these fantastic companies supporting creativity and positive progress. In this episode Laura shares her story and how she became the self confessed Positive Disruptor and...

Episode 4 is a lovely interview with Alice, one of the co-founders of Origin Africa.Origin Africa is the UK's first 100% not for profit fashion brand selling sustainable clothing to fund social impact projects in Africa.Tom and Alice founded the business in 2018. They are committed, along with their network of support and project leaders in Africa, to break the cycle of poverty by raising funds for humanitarian development projects through the sale of ethically produced clothing. In this...

Episode 3 is a great conversation with Ocean, founder of Ocean's Therapy. Ocean studied a Bsc in clinical psychology at Royal Holloway and a MSc in mental health studies at King’s College. In January she launched her Instagram platform Ocean’s Therapy where she focuses on enhancing the normality of mental health struggles and wants de-stigmatise problems which we all face or might face at some point in our lives. She hosts regular IG lives with known guests such as Mo Gawdat and Joh...

Episode 2 is a wonderful conversation with Antonia and Jonny the founders of Nursem Skincare. It was such a pleasure to interview two wonderful souls. Antonia and Jonny set up Nursem, a caring hand cream brand, from the start to have purpose built into the business. We chat about the business and the time it's taken to get it started, the impact that they would like to have with Nursem and their outlook on the world (which is such a beautiful one.) We share a mutual love from companies ...

Welcome to series two of This Circular Life. This series kicks off with a brilliant conversation with Lynsey, founder of Little Box of Books. I feel really lucky to have had a long chat with Lynsey a founder, force for change and fellow lover of literature. Little Box of Books is a children's book company selling inclusive and diverse books, making sure children's bookshelves are representing the true world around them. They sell books that promise gender equality, diversity in culture, race,...