The Female CEO™ Podcast

Mark Sephton
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  • Entrepreneurship
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Welcome to The Female CEO™—the global stage for authentic female leadership hosted by Mark Sephton. 🚀 Discover exclusive interviews with inspirational women, visionary entrepreneurs, and global change-makers. We go beyond the CV to uncover the human stories behind business success. What’s inside: Female Founder Interviews: Deep dives into scaling a business. Leadership Insights: Real talk on resilience and innovation. Success Roadmaps: Advice on breaking the glass ceiling. 🔔 Subscribe for your weekly dose of empowered leadership and strategic growth.

  1. 6d ago

    Leading From the Inside Out | LeNae Goolsby

    LeNae Goolsby is an entrepreneur, best-selling author, award-winning podcast host, and COO of Infinite Health Integrative Medicine Center - an integrative and regenerative medicine practice she has shaped from the inside out for over two decades. She's also a law school graduate, a recent convert to country songwriting, and someone with a very clear sense of who she is and what she's building. In this warm, candid conversation with Mark Sephton, LeNae talks about falling into healthcare leadership by accident, why so many private practice owners get burned by the very people they hire to help, and the lesson she keeps returning to: that real growth begins when you stop looking outside yourself for the answer. Listen for: the wedding-day handoff that started it all. The AI receptionist that didn't survive its first week. The secret to working with your spouse . And the one thing she'd tell every female CEO ready to step into her next level.

  2. Jul 10

    Connection Before Correction | Ally Boyes-Varley

    Ally Boyes-Varley grew up dyslexic and ADHD in a school system that gave her every academic intervention going — and none of the emotional regulation underneath. She is the founder of Roots & Wings Tutoring and the creator of the Connect-Ed Method, which centres one principle above all others: connection before correction. In this conversation with Mark Sephton, she talks about what the three-part brain tells us about why academic support alone can never be enough, why behaviour is always communication, and what it actually sounds like to lead with a child's "fast brain" rather than their gaps. She also talks about 18 months in the deep countryside applying her own methodology to herself, the coach question that cracked everything open, and why playing small had been, for a long time, the safest thing she knew how to do.

  3. Jul 3

    The Power of Your Story | Desiree Wingo | The Female CEO

    In this episode, Mark Sephton sits down with Desiree Wingo - co-founder of Awaken IV and personal transformation advocate, for a conversation about what it really means to stop letting the past write the future.  Desiree shares the tools she actually uses: the "ultimate truth" filter, the "could it be possible" practice, and the philosophy of leaning in to resistance rather than away from it. She also unpacks the invisible tax women pay when they refuse to own their identity, the power of speaking to your inner child, and what the connection between physical restoration and emotional capacity looks like from the inside. Warm, honest, and fired up in places — this one is best heard on your own.

  4. Jun 26

    The Power of the Breath | Rebecca Henwood

    Rebecca Henwood spent eighteen years as a single mum running her household like a military operation: career, children, structure, forward motion. When her youngest followed her son to the UK for university and the corporate role fell away, the identity she'd built around all of it went with them. She packed up her Sydney life, drove north to Byron Bay, and started asking what had been underneath the doing all along. In this conversation with Mark Sephton, Rebecca talks about the slow shift from masculine to feminine energy, the breathwork classroom where she discovered grief she hadn't known her body was storing, and the moment she understood that safety isn't something to find in another person or another role — it's something to build within yourself. She's now doing exactly that work with clients through Breathe with Beck, and she's also just launched the podcast Angels on the Airwaves. Stay for the David Attenborough bit. You'll never watch a nature documentary the same way again.

  5. Jun 19

    The Work in the Shadows | Jane Bellis

    She had the salons, the fashion weeks, the superhero cape — and a body sending signs she'd learned to slam the lid on. On the surface it was winning at life. Three salons, London and New York Fashion Week, creative director on a global show, four children, the school runs and the sports days all somehow handled. Jane Bellis had ticked off the whole bucket list — and built a performative version of herself she couldn't admit wasn't working. In this conversation with Mark Sephton, Jane traces the long road from backstage burnout to becoming a sacred nervous system and shadow integration coach. She talks about the body's intelligence we're trained to override, the medicine wheel framework she now teaches, the childhood patterns that run the show in the background (the programmes installed when you were six), and why women hitting their 40s reach a wall they can't push through any longer. There's no medal. Listen for the bit about the medal.

  6. Jun 12

    The Art of Listening | Mark Sephton

    He's the King of Conversation. He has held the space for hundreds of women's stories in business, in leadership, in healing, and he has heard what most interviewers miss. But what does Mark Sephton actually believe about real connection? What has sitting across from so many remarkable women taught him about himself? And when Tricia Scott finally flips the script and asks the hard questions, what comes out? This is the episode we have wanted to make for a while. Tricia and Mark talk about the gap between communicating and truly connecting, the honest story behind why a male host anchors a female-led platform, what Mark believes is the real epidemic underneath all the healing conversations — and, in a closing that many listeners won't forget, what he wants to say to the woman who is wondering whether her voice actually matters. 🎙️ A special episode of The Female CEO podcast.

  7. Jun 9

    Building a Bigger Table — with The Female CEO Founder, Tricia Scott

    A special edition: Mark Sephton interviews The Female CEO's own founder, Tricia Scott. From an anonymous blog she was certain no one would read to a brand in 181 countries — Tricia talks real-over-polished as an operating model, the 3am doubt that still surfaces, the loss that turned a side hustle into a now-or-never decision, and why every part of the platform is free. Warm, honest, and refreshingly unpolished — including a candid word on perimenopause and the brain fog nobody warns you about. In this rare, behind-the-scenes look at global media leadership, Tricia opens up about the constant pressure of living "five minutes from a deadline," why she refuses to build a corporate hierarchy, and how a devastating personal grief shifted her perspective on risk. If you are a female entrepreneur navigating the lonely moments of building a business, this deep dive into community, personal development, and soul-led success will remind you that you don't have to carry the container alone. Key Takeaways From This Episode: The Reality Behind the Polished Headshots: Embracing authenticity and living as the same exact person at home as you are in the office. The Power of an Open Ecosystem: Why Tricia intentionally keeps the Biz Love Letter, the magazine, and the platform free to eliminate barriers for women everywhere. Navigating Midlife & Business: A raw conversation about perimenopause, permanent brain fog, and the human side of running a global media brand. The Grief Catalyst: How losing her father instantly triggered a "now or never" decision to leave full-time corporate work and pursue her passion with her whole heart.

  8. Jun 5

    Life By Design. Not By Default. | Sue Stoneman

    Somewhere in the early 2000s, we collectively decided that exhaustion was a sign of commitment. The busier you were, the more you mattered. The more you were always on, always available, always pinging back — the more valuable you must be. Psychologists call it costly signalling. Most of us just called it Tuesday. Sue Stoneman, founder of Moxie, has spent years working with global CEOs and high-performance teams — and she has a different framework entirely. In this conversation with Mark Sephton, she talks about the nervous system cycle we have broken, the three steps to rewiring a brain that rewards busyness over outcome, and what it actually looks like to redesign a life rather than just manage a stress level. And the snow globe. Listen for the snow globe. Recorded on location during a live reset in sunny Ibiza, Sue unpacks why our brains are constantly stuck in an "activation, activation, activation" loop and how that relentless cortisol drive impairs our decision making, emotional regulation, and authentic relationships. True high performance requires a deliberate pulse of activation and recovery, a strategy elite athletes have mastered but corporate leadership often dismisses as a luxury. If you are ready to put down the heavy weight of other people's expectations, this conversation will give you the practical toolkit to step off autopilot and step into clarity. Key Takeaways From This Episode: The Evolutionary Brake: Why your brain views sudden behavioral changes as an emergency and how to safely override that resistance. The Three Step Brain Rewire: How shifting focus from effort to outcome, interrupting automated thought patterns, and prioritizing recovery trains your neuroplasticity for success. Science, Soul, and System: Inside the Moxie methodology that balances behavioral psychometric data with restorative mindfulness and actionable daily rituals. The 90,Day Accountability Loop: How micro goals, automated AI coaching, and human expert support bridge the gap between weekend inspiration and sustainable life shifts. Connect With Us: Learn more about Moxie: mymoxie.co.uk Follow Moxie on X/Twitter: @discover_moxie Connect with host Mark Sephton: marksephton.com

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Welcome to The Female CEO™—the global stage for authentic female leadership hosted by Mark Sephton. 🚀 Discover exclusive interviews with inspirational women, visionary entrepreneurs, and global change-makers. We go beyond the CV to uncover the human stories behind business success. What’s inside: Female Founder Interviews: Deep dives into scaling a business. Leadership Insights: Real talk on resilience and innovation. Success Roadmaps: Advice on breaking the glass ceiling. 🔔 Subscribe for your weekly dose of empowered leadership and strategic growth.

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