Well Branded Zahirah Marty

Founder and CEO, Astrid, is a self confessed #NOODIST

After leaving a successful career in finance and working with global leaders like JP Morgan, she followed her passion and started her own business. NOOD revolutionists alternative solutions to traditional bras, to fit the needs of women around the world whilst adjusting to lifestyles, transcending skin tone, and fitting all body shapes and sizes.

I talk to Astrid  about shifting gears from corporate to entrepreneurship, and how she's built a successful and sustainable business whilst navigating band wagon trends, the emergence of body conscious movements, and the growing demands of female consumers.

Get insight into navigating jumping from the corporate ship and a very real insight into the ups and downs of starting your own business.

Shop NOOD online at www.lovenood.com and find them on Instagram @welovenood

Season 2 opens with an inspirational chat with Oliver Baillie - CEO of the newest addition to the Middle East e-commerce scene - Plain Tiger. 

With a special appeal to me, based on its South African roots, the site combines fashion and sustainability with education, upliftment and so much more!

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Plain Tiger is the global platform for conscious luxury lifestyle products. A first of its kind, the platform curates ethical and sustainable fashion, beauty and home decor brands from across the world.

There is momentum behind this movement, the company already has premium brands from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and the Middle East.

The company’s genesis is as the e-commerce arm of South African creative economy group LMDA. Plain Tiger is female-founded and 70% female. Fueled by its new international leadership team, it has been reborn as Plain Tiger to enable its mission of becoming the leading and most impactful conscious luxury platform in the world.

Stay in touch via the links below;

www.plaintiger.co

info@plaintiger.co

@plaintiger.co / #plain tiger_loves

From a busy and active life as a mum, to planning the most lust worthy holidays, Dani and I sit down on a shared platform podcast to share our travel adventures. Everything from cry-then, laugh-now stories of vomit on planes, to more serious topics like poverty tourism; we dish it all on a long but worthwhile conversation that will make you laugh, cringe and want to holiday plan with us!

Founder of the much-loved beauty brand, Rodial, and author of two books that shares a real and encouraging entrepreneurship journey; Maria talks to me about her journey, her brand and the lessons she's learnt along the way.

Without a background in the beauty industry she created a business that leads the way in both product and marketing. In her books she talks about the reality of building a business, and she shares her unique insight into taking the steadier route to success.

Follow her on Instagram @mrsrodial

Aparna signed up for a show in the queue of an airport that would change the way the world saw her. A villain to some and hero to others, she was one of the most talked about characters of the popular Netflix series, Indian Matchmaking.

Her on screen list of demands, date disasters and articulate nature made her the subject of many debates on addressing cultural stereotypes, and viral internet animation.

But is the person we see on screen a true reflection of who Aparna is?

I chat to her from Houston, Texas and ask all the questions I, and so many of the people who watched the show, had.

Did she find love?

Were producers fully transparent about her role on the show?

Did she really end a date because he ran a podcast, or didn't know what Bolivian Salt Flats were?

Join me on the podcast and be sure you read the blog post on my interview and how as audiences we need to be more conscious of how we consume media. Read it here: www.meetmrsmarty.com

Follow along in Instagram @bewellbranded

South African actor, comedian and TV show host, Siv Ngesi, gets very open and honest about his career and the lessons he has learnt. As a person, his confidence and determination is unapologetic, and he gets very honest with me about how he has built his brand, and maps out his career with the overhanging theme of authenticity.

From hard hitting questions on whether being black allows him to voice his strong opinions, to whether controversy contributes to his brand's trajectory, Siv is open and honest with a very 'like it or not' attitude.

Follow him on Instagram @sivngesi