Ep 167: Be Inspired - Poet Joelle Taylor, and it's a big week in the news

Poet Joelle Taylor is our inspiration this week on Badass Women's Hour. Find out about her life and career as she reads from her new book: Songs My Enemy Taught Me. 

Harriet Minter, Natalie Campbell and Emma Sexton are reunited again, and we get right in to the thick of things to discuss Roseanne being cancelled after “that” tweet. Plus we’ll look at the lack of Women on Boards as the ongoing research keeps on throwing up some real gems. And it seems that the use of Stalker apps are closer to home than we thought (insert sideways glance at Harriet)…. (and Emma)

You can check out our Badass Women Of The Week as we get Gabby Edlin from Bloody Good Period on the phone – her work means that Scotland have become the first country to provide free sanitary products to women in low income families. Total Badass.

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Harriet Minter is a journalist and broadcaster, specialising in women and work. She founded and edited the Guardian's Women in Leadership section and is now a columnist for the newspaper on women in technology. She's also has a column in Psychologies magazine and writes for the likes of The Pool, Red and Grazia. She has given two TED talks, the first on audacious leadership and the second on yoga. 

Emma Sexton is a serial entrepreneur and connector. A presenter on talkRADIO for The Badass Women’s Hour, winner of the Kantar Inspiration Award and the Future 100 Award, she was shortlisted for The Drum's Creative Woman of the Year 2016. Founder and Creative Director of Make Your Words Work™ (www.myww.co.uk), a design company challenging the traditional agency approach by empowering their clients to use design in ways that will transform their business from the inside out. Co-Founder of Flock Global (www.flock.global), a network for early stage entrepreneurs built on an ethos of collaboration who run meet-ups and international trade missions. Voted Shiny Shiny's Top 50 Most Inspirational Women. Published in Ian Wharton's book ‘Spark for the fire’ published by Harriman and The Challengers Almanac. A regular speaker and writer to blogs and publications. Emma is a board level advisor on design strategy to brands and businesses. A Creative Pool Top 100 Influencer 2017 and now Creative In Residence at Kings College London.

Natalie Campbell is an award-winning businesswoman and HarperCollins author. She won the ‘Community Spirit’ award at the ‘Women of the Future Awards’ in 2016 and was recognised in the Management Today 35 Women Under 35 and City AM Power 100 Women lists. Natalie is the co-founder of A Very Good Company (AVGC), a global social innovation agency and recently launched London's newest wellbeing craze, "The Badass Principle - a workout for the mind and soul". As a non-executive director, she Chairs the Nominet Trust and has governance oversight of over £1billion in public funding through her roles on the board of the Big Lottery Fund, UnLtd, the foundation for social entrepreneurs and the Mayor's London economic strategy board. She started her first business at 19 and by 21 owned a Morgan De Toi retail franchise in Lancaster.