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Finding Your Pink 🦩🦩Love, Loss and Lucas✨TRIGGER WARNING - This episode is about the death of a child✨In this powerful and deeply moving episode, I sit down with Nicola Marshall, a courageous mother who lost her beloved son Lucas in a tragic accident while on holiday in Spain in 2019. Just three days after his passing, Nicola faced the darkest moment of her life — a moment when she almost chose to end it all. But instead, she made the hardest decision of all: to stay, to feel, and to heal.Through her journey of grief, Nicola not only faced the loss of Luc...2025-07-2639 min
Finding Your Pink 🦩🦩B*Witched, Breaking America and Bouncing BackWelcome back to Finding Your Pink🦩Kicking off Series 2, I have the lovely Sinéad O'Carroll — one of the founding members of B*Witched. In this episode, we talk double denim, 90s pop stardom, breaking America, and what it was really like touring with Britney Spears, *NSYNC, and Jessica Simpson.But this episode is more than just a nostalgic trip down memory lane. Sinéad opens up about life behind the spotlight: the joy and chaos of marriage, raising teenagers, evolving friendships, and those all-important reunions. She speaks candidly about the unseen realities — cleaning at 3AM, n...2025-07-1343 min
Finding Your Pink 🦩🦩A Season of Strength, Softness, and Speaking UpIn this short and special solo episode, I (Emma! )take a few minutes to reflect on Series 1 of Finding Your Pink — why I started this podcast, the beautiful stories we’ve shared, and the incredible guests who trusted me with their truth.From motherhood to burnout, from baby loss to bold reinvention — each guest brought their own unique shade of pink. I share highlights from every episode, the unexpected moments that moved me most, and a heartfelt thank you to you — the listeners who showed up, messaged, and made this journey so meaningful.Plus, I give you...2025-06-1403 min
Finding Your Pink 🦩🦩Aging, Anxiety and Finding JoyIn this episode of Finding Your Pink, influencer Carol Byrne joins me for a conversation that’s equal parts hilarious and heartfelt. We talk about aging, supporting elderly parents, dealing with anxiety, and parenting a 23-year-old son with a passion for tattoos. Carol also opens up about leaving a toxic relationship, navigating grief, and how — despite it all — she’s learning to choose joy.Listen now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2025-05-3134 min
Finding Your Pink 🦩🦩Mum Guilt, Men and The Mental LoadThis week on Finding Your Pink, I’m joined by the brilliant Tracy Gunn for a raw and real conversation about the hidden weight so many women carry: the mental load. We talk about what it really means to be a working mother in today’s world—where you’re expected to work like you don’t have kids and parent like you don’t have a job.From late-night flights to early morning school runs, we unpack the impossible juggling act, the guilt that never seems to lift, and why 46% of women say the mental load is just too...2025-05-1839 min
Finding Your Pink 🦩🦩Living Without Pink : Mothering a Profoundly Autistic ChildIn this deeply honest and emotional episode of Finding Your Pink, I sit down with Audrey Dore Geraghty, a mother navigating life with her profoundly autistic son.Audrey shares the unspoken reality—of violence, fear, love, and exhaustion. Her son is non-verbal, highly aggressive, and requires full-time care. Every day is unpredictable. The system is broken. And society often doesn’t see her family at all.She speaks candidly about the difference between profound autism and milder forms, the grief of lost expectations, and the isolation that comes from being unable to participate in everyday life...2025-05-0443 min
Finding Your Pink 🦩🦩Feeling Like A Fraud and Facing Your Inner CriticWelcome to Finding Your Pink, the podcast dedicated to helping women reclaim their vibrant colour at every stage of their life. I'm your host Emma Ledden.In this empowering episode we meet Sarah Doyle—and her inner critic Becky—and dive into the internal battle so many women face: the inner critic, imposter thoughts, procrastination, and the deep grief of not reaching our full potential.We talk about:✨ Self-sabotage and the roles we unconsciously play✨ Toxic busyness and the unpromotable tasks we say yes to✨ Asking, “Am I the problem?” an...2025-04-2029 min
Finding Your Pink 🦩🦩Burnout, Baby Loss & Beginning AgainWelcome to Finding Your Pink—the podcast dedicated to helping women reclaim their vibrant color at every stage of their career and life. I'm your host, Emma Ledden. In this deeply personal episode of Finding Your Pink, I sit down with Emer Deane, who shares her journey through burnout, pregnancy loss, and ultimately, self-acceptance.We explore:💡 How self-worth gets tangled up in work and the danger of never switching off🔥 The boom-and-bust cycle of burnout and why people-pleasing fuels exhaustion💬 The power of saying no, setting boundaries, and letting go of 'shou...2025-04-0636 min
Finding Your Pink 🦩🦩Fame, Family and Finding Happiness Beyond The SpotlightWelcome to Finding Your Pink, the podcast dedicated to helping women reclaim their vibrant colour at every stage of their career and life. I'm your host Emma Ledden.In this episode I sit down with Sarah Cawood—the TV presenter who lit up our screens in the 90s and early 2000s. Sarah takes us behind the scenes of her high-flying TV career, sharing the incredible highs, the crushing lows, and how stepping out of the spotlight broke her heart.But this is a story of reinvention. We talk about how family life became her an...2025-03-2334 min
Finding Your Pink 🦩🦩Finding Your Voice, Values and VisionWelcome to Finding Your Pink. I'm your host Emma Ledden 🦩In this episode award-winning speaker Fiona Buckley shares her journey of reclaiming her voice after she was told to 'dim her light'. That moment was when she lost her pink. But instead of shrinking, she turned that experience into a mission: helping other women reclaim their power, find their voice, and step into their true potential.In this empowering episode, Fiona dives into: · The Inner vs. Outer Voice How to tune out the noise and listen to what trul...2025-03-0936 min
Finding Your Pink 🦩🦩Rising, Repairing and Reigniting Your SparkWelcome to Finding Your Pink—the podcast dedicated to helping women reclaim their vibrant color at every stage of their career and life. I'm your host, Emma Ledden. In this episode, I sit down with the incredible Anne Morgan—a woman who's reinvented her life from the high-paced world of model agents to becoming a maternal mental health psychotherapist. After experiencing post-natal anxiety, Anne embarked on a 7-year journey to rediscover her true self—her “pink.” Today, she is living the life she needed back then, leaving behind a glamorous past to embrace motherhood and values that truly reso...2025-02-2335 min
Finding Your Pink 🦩🦩Ladders, Loneliness and a Camel CoatWelcome to Finding Your Pink—the podcast dedicated to helping women reclaim their vibrant color at every stage of their career and life. I'm your host, Emma Ledden, and today’s episode is one that will make you think, laugh, and maybe even feel a little seen.My guest is someone we’re more used to hearing on the other side of the microphone. As the host of multiple incredible podcasts, she’s a champion for women’s voices, a fierce advocate for working mothers, and a trusted voice in the media on issues like the childcare crisis. Sh...2025-02-0940 min
Finding Your Pink 🦩Welcome to "Finding Your Pink"Welcome to Finding Your Pink, the podcast dedicated to helping women reclaim their identity, passion and colour. Life can challenge our sense of self—whether it’s stepping into a new career, returning to work after motherhood, or navigating the complexities of life at any stage.🦩But just like flamingos lose their pink while caring for their young and regain it again when they refocus on themselves, we too can reclaim our identity, confidence, and passion.✨I'm Emma Ledden, TV presenter and Author and every two weeks I sit down with industry experts, successfu...2024-12-0401 min
All The BestKnowledge of CountryThe traditional owners of this land, Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander people, have a connection to and understanding of country that is thousands of years old. Right now we’re living in a time of climate change and natural disasters, of warmer winters and colder summers and it often feels like our understanding of mother nature and her seasons falls short. And so, it makes sense to turn to insights from First Nations people whose knowledge of the country is deep and all-encompassing. In fact, it's essential to listen to First Nations understandings of t...2024-07-0230 min
Tell Me What To ReadTell Me What To Read - Australia's Weekly Guide to Books (November 8, Edition)In this episode of Tell Me What to Read host Ben Hunter sits down with fellow book experts Amy and Krystal to chat about the best kids' books to buy this Christmas! Books mentioned: Aussie Bird Babies: A high-contrast board book by Jess Black and Julia MurrayIlluminoceans by Barbara Taylor, Carnovsky Emma Memma's Alphabet Day by Emma Memma Who Took My Nuts? by Tommy Little Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo Willems The Wonky Donkey by Craig Smith, Katz Cowley ...2023-11-0719 min
Ideas on Stage Podcast47. Emma Ledden on Audience Focused Presenting - The Ideas on Stage Podcast
In this episode of the Ideas on Stage podcast we spoke with Emma Ledden @PresentingToSellTV.
Emma is an international Bestselling Author, Speaker, and Communication and Learning Specialist. During her career to date, she has been an MTV VJ, BBC TV presenter, radio host, businesswoman, and author.
Over the past 10 years, after making the move from Media into Business, Emma developed a unique approach to Business Communication called Audience Focused Presenting based on her exceptional experience. This globally recognised approach is based on the professional presentation secrets Emma learned while working as a television presenter for MTV and the BBC.
This app...2023-05-171h 21
One More PageEpisode 68: Real-life AdventuresThis time, we're chatting real-life adventures with a fascinating special guest. Delve into the the world of Antarctic exploration with an in-depth interview with author Joanna Grochowicz. Hear all about her new book with Allen & Unwin, Shackleton's Endurance, and the research and knowledge behind it. Then in place of our usual Kids' Capers antics, we have another special guest - the first of three winners in our podcasterly prizes offered in the Lismore Flood Recovery auction, run by author Zanni Louise. Tune in to hear from kids' book author (and shoe lover) Emma Bowd! Then we have...2022-04-191h 03