What does it look like to build a life that honours both your ambition and your children? In this powerful episode of **In Her Steps Podcast**, Linh and Jennifer sit down with **Rian Janan**, a single mum of three, strategic advisor, entrepreneur, and lifelong student of growth. Rian shares her journey from growing up with a single mum in Melbourne’s west, starting her first business at 17, becoming a young mother, navigating the end of her marriage, and rebuilding her career and lifestyle in a way that gives her both freedom and presence. With Linh, Rian opens up about business, ambition, motherhood, time, identity, divorce, multiple income streams, personal growth, and the power of designing a life that works for you. With Jennifer, the conversation goes deeper into parenting, raising children in a fast-changing world, allowing kids to make mistakes, teaching critical thinking, relationships after divorce, and living every day with vitality. This episode is for the single mum, ambitious mum, or woman rebuilding her life who needs to hear: **you don’t have to do it all alone** ABOUT RIAN Rian Janan is the Founder and Private Advisor of The Gunn Group, a multi-disciplinary private collective working across strategic growth, brand expansion, luxury travel, and curated experiences for female founders, executives, and family offices. Through Gunn PR + Media, Gunn Experiences, and Powerhouse Wellness, she partners with high-performing founders and private clients to elevate their visibility, influence, commercial opportunities, and lifestyle positioning. Her work blends strategic advisory, founder-led brand growth, wellness, leadership, and experiential engagement, while also supporting and selectively investing in female-led brands with long-term global potential. CONNECT WITH RIAN LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/rianjanan Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rian.janan/ ABOUT THE HOSTS: 🌸 LINH PODETTI is a business leader, entrepreneur, and mother who has turned her challenges as a single mum into a mission to empower others. Known for her authenticity and warmth, Linh shares practical wisdom from her own journey of rebuilding life, business, and confidence while raising her children. Today, she inspires women around the world to take one step at a time toward the life they deserve. 👉 Connect with Linh: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/linh.podetti/ Website: https://linhpodetti.com/ 🌸 JENNIFER CAO is a woman shaped by resilience and authentic transformation. Born in Saigon and raised in a strict, traditional home, she endured emotional hardship, an arranged marriage, and the challenges of single motherhood. Her journey from surviving abuse to rebuilding her mindset, health, and identity became the foundation of her purpose. After overcoming diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and fatty liver disease through intentional lifestyle and nutrition choices, Jen now lives with vitality and clarity. A mentor and co-host of In Her Steps Podcast, she focuses on mindset, courage, and authentic living to help women, especially single mums, rediscover their strength, care for their wellbeing, and believe it’s never too late to create the life they deserve. 👉Connect with Jen: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jennifer.cao888/ Website: https://jencao.com/ Together, Linh and Jen host In Her Steps Podcast—a space where real stories meet practical wisdom, reminding single mums everywhere that progress is possible, one step at a time. #InHerStepsPodcast #womenempowerment #singlemum #personalgrowth #healingjourney #LinhPodetti #JenniferCao