15 July 2025

15 July 2025

How to Increase Your Health Span and Live Healthier for Longer

You’ll leave with simple, science-backed ways to take control of your future health – so you don’t just live longer but live better.

At this session you will learn to:

 

# Clarity on the difference between life span and health span – and why it matters to your future wellbeing

# Insights into how lifestyle, not just genetics, shapes your health span

# Evidence-based tips to improve your nutrition, sleep, and movement

# Practical tools to boost strength, mobility, and prevent age-related decline

# Guidance on protecting your brain health and emotional wellbeing

# Inspiration from Blue Zones and how to apply their secrets to your daily life

# Awareness of key health markers to monitor (and how to do it)

# A realistic, feel-good approach to building lasting healthy habits

# Motivation to start now – not someday – with small steps that stick

 

 

Prep required: 

No prep required, just bring an open mind and a willingness to reflect on your own health habits.

This session is especially valuable for ambitious women who are juggling career, family, and everything in between – and want to protect their health while thriving in all areas of life.

#  Women who want to feel more energised, focused and in control of their wellbeing

#  Those navigating midlife changes like perimenopause, stress, or burnout

#  Anyone who’s started thinking, “I want to live longer—but feel better too”

#  Busy professionals who struggle to prioritise self-care without guilt

#  Women who are ready to ditch the quick fixes and create lasting vitality

The session cuts through the noise and offers real-life, science-backed strategies to help you live well for longer – on your terms.

Marion Hewitt

Meet your session leader: Rachel Williams (Founder of Zest Lifestyle & Chief Vitality Officer).

I’m Rachel Williams, founder of Zest Lifestyle and Chief Vitality Officer, with over 20 years’ experience helping individuals and teams boost their energy, resilience, and long-term health.

My background spans nutrition, fitness, cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia (CBTi), and stress management, and I’ve delivered wellbeing programmes for leading organisations including Cisco, Activision Blizzard, British Airways, and Mars Wrigley.

What sets me apart? I translate the latest science into real-life, doable strategies that help people not just survive—but truly thrive—at work and in life.

You can connect with Rachel via:

LinkedIn

Email: rachel@zestlifestyle.com

 

 

 

Event Details:

This is event is ONLINE. You will be sent the zoom link before the event. If you have not received a link by 24 hours before the event, please get in touch with us by email (hello@aspiring-women.co.uk).

Our events are held monthly and last up to 60 minutes. 

All events start at 7.30pm. We ask you to come along at 7.25pm for quick ‘hellos’ before we start!

We do not normally record events to protect the privacy of the women attending and ensure we are providing a safe space to share. We may take a screenshot of attendees (with permission) and obscure any names shown.

This event is £15 for Pay As You Go (PAYG) members and free for Full Members.

It is free to join PAYG membership and £8 per month or £80 per year for Full membership.

Your booking or membership fee covers the costs of running the event (website maintenance and updating, online meeting software etc.), a donation to The Girls’ Network and a small organiser fee to Aspiring Women.

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20 May 2025

20 May 2025

Building Belief in Flourishing Futures

Challenging and building new belief systems deepen our connections to the things that truly matter.

At this session you will learn to:

 

# Make sense of the ‘sustainability’ world of business and how that can be used as a catalyst to question the inner and outer systems we’re all part of.

# Explore how our beliefs shape our external perspectives and how we can challenge these to build flourishing futures. 

“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”    ― Anaïs Nin

 

 

Prep required: 

No prep required.  Bring your lovely selves!

This session is ideal for women who:

#  are questioning their career paths and life decisions

#  are feeling exhausted, burnt out and powerless

Nick will bring hope to people that are feeling ready to pivot their life towards more fulfilling and holistic success.

Marion Hewitt

Meet your session leader: Nick Whitnell (Daring Works)

I was born into a hippy household so my values and beliefs were based on love and equality. But when my mum died suddenly when I was 17, I was left on my own, not knowing what to do.

So I looked for security and that came in following the traditional career path. I was ‘successful’, climbed the corporate ladder quickly and became a vision of external achievement – big salary, fast cars and nice houses. But inside, I was miserable and had drifted from the organismic ‘me’. So I burnt out.

And that was the breakthrough I needed. I could see that I was ready to do the work to become who I was always meant to be. And that led me to many years of deep, inner work of healing, re-connection and nurturing my self compassion.

So I’ve now trained as a regenerative business consultant, soulful coach and B Corp leader. I help people and businesses to build new systems of success that harmonise people, planet and profit in a way that taps into the intuitive wisdom I was given by my mum.

My journey from corporate to soulful demonstrates that life gets better when we integrate the profit and loss with the peace and love!

You can connect with Nick via:

LinkedIn

Email: nick@daring.works 

Newletter Sign-up

 

 

Event Details:

This is event is ONLINE. You will be sent the zoom link before the event. If you have not received a link by 24 hours before the event, please get in touch with us by email (hello@aspiring-women.co.uk).

Our events are held monthly and last up to 60 minutes. 

All events start at 7.30pm. We ask you to come along at 7.25pm for quick ‘hellos’ before we start!

We do not normally record events to protect the privacy of the women attending and ensure we are providing a safe space to share. We may take a screenshot of attendees (with permission) and obscure any names shown.

This event is £15 for Pay As You Go (PAYG) members and free for Full Members.

It is free to join PAYG membership and £8 per month or £80 per year for Full membership.

Your booking or membership fee covers the costs of running the event (website maintenance and updating, online meeting software etc.), a donation to The Girls’ Network and a small organiser fee to Aspiring Women.

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11 March 2025

11 March 2025

Bring The Joy To Get Creative!

Crash through your teams’ creative roadblocks to find new ideas that centre joy, value inclusion and lead to actionable ideas.

Join Siobhan for an entertaining and inspiring session on how to tap into your creativity and unlock more joy in your work.

At this session you will learn to:

 

#  Build confidence in running creative idea sessions for you and the teams you lead that are fun and purposeful.

#  Find out how to shift the energy quickly in idea creation meetings and find more joy.

#  You’ll come away with practical and fun tips on how to make your next team ideas session brilliant and purposeful (and possibly with some 80’s songs stuck in your head…). 

#  So if you Still Haven’t Found What You’re Looking For and want to Breakout, Relax. I got you.

 

Prep required: 

No prep required.  You’re invited to come along with a problem in mind, you’d like to solve.

 If you’re looking for new ways to approach work – or life – challenges and you’d like to reconnect with your inner creative self, this session’s for you! Especially if you find yourself a bit stuck and in a loop of trying to reinvent the wheel in your business or with your team.

Marion Hewitt

Meet your session leader: Siobhan Meaker (Co-founder and Director of Better Strategic Consultancy Ltd)

Shiobhan is an empathic and inspiring leader, she thrives on bringing teams and people together to solve problems through creativity and connect with what really matters.

 

After a 10+ year career in commercial PR and communications, she spent the next 14 years in senior roles in the charity sector before launching her business in 2024.

 

She’s survived cancer, written comedy for BBC Radio 4 and regularly runs creative ideation sessions for charities and businesses with purpose looking to unlock new solutions for marketing and fundraising challenges.

 

When not running her business, she sings in a covers band and is currently enjoying halcyon days as an AFC Bournemouth fan.

 

“Siobhan brings a wonderful energy and sense of fun to her sessions… everyone left lifted and keen to crack on with the job of raising the funds we need to deliver our work.”
Sally Brighton
Director of Fundraising &Development
Young Epilepsy

You can connect with Siobhan via:

LinkedIn

Website

 

 

Event Details:

This is event is ONLINE. You will be sent the zoom link before the event. If you have not received a link by 24 hours before the event, please get in touch with us by email (hello@aspiring-women.co.uk).

Our events are held monthly and last up to 60 minutes. 

All events start at 7.30pm. We ask you to come along at 7.25pm for quick ‘hellos’ before we start!

We do not normally record events to protect the privacy of the women attending and ensure we are providing a safe space to share. We may take a screenshot of attendees (with permission) and obscure any names shown.

This event is £15 for Pay As You Go (PAYG) members and free for Full Members.

It is free to join PAYG membership and £8 per month or £80 per year for Full membership.

Your booking or membership fee covers the costs of running the event (website maintenance and updating, online meeting software etc.), a donation to The Girls’ Network and a small organiser fee to Aspiring Women.

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21 January 2025

21 January 2025

Perfectionism and People Pleasing

Many of us are constantly striving for perfection or feeling the need to please others, both at work and in our personal  lives.

These tendencies can often leave us feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, and disconnected from the life we truly want to lead.

This workshop will introduce you to the psychological processes that underlie these common behaviours and introduce you to some practical techniques that will help you to navigate challenge and change more flexibly and effectively.

At this session you will learn to:

 

#  Understand what perfectionism and people pleasing have in common and why many of us have a tendency towards both

#  Reflect on where perfectionism and people pleasing show up in your life – when do these behaviours work for well for you, and when do they work against what you truly want?

#  Explore the concept of ‘psychological flexibility’ – a set of skills that will help you navigate situations where perfectionism and people pleasing might not be giving you the outcomes you want

#  Work together to reflect on where your newfound understanding and practical skills could be incorporated into specific areas of your life

 

Prep required: 

Isabelle will provide refelective questions that will take up to 30 minutes.

This session is ideal for anyone who sometimes struggles with unhealthy perfectionism and/or people pleasing and would like to learn some practical skills to help you work through these behaviours, this is the session for you!

Marion Hewitt

Meet your session leader: Isabelle Fielding (Research and Coaching Psychologist)

Isabelle is an ACTP accredited professional coach and a Research and Coaching Psychologist. Before starting up her own consultancy 5 years ago, Isabelle worked as a leader in corporate research – mainly focusing on delivering neuroscience trials to the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.

Isabelle now blends coaching, psychology and research to help organisations to design and deliver evidence-based strategies for change, with a particular interest in wellbeing and women-focused initiatives.

 

You can connect with Isabelle via:

LinkedIn

Book a free 30 minute discovering call

 

 

Event Details:

This is event is ONLINE. You will be sent the zoom link before the event. If you have not received a link by 24 hours before the event, please get in touch with us by email (hello@aspiring-women.co.uk).

Our events are held monthly and last up to 60 minutes. 

All events start at 7.30pm. We ask you to come along at 7.25pm for quick ‘hellos’ before we start!

We do not normally record events to protect the privacy of the women attending and ensure we are providing a safe space to share. We may take a screenshot of attendees (with permission) and obscure any names shown.

This event is £12 for Pay As You Go (PAYG) members and free for Full Members.

It is free to join PAYG membership and £8 per month or £80 per year for Full membership.

Your booking or membership fee covers the costs of running the event (website maintenance and updating, online meeting software etc.), a donation to The Girls’ Network and a small organiser fee to Aspiring Women.

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10 December 2024

10 December 2024

Book Club: ‘How to do the Inner Work’ by Susanne Madsen

Attendance is FREE – but you need to buy the book. First two sign ups get a free copy!

Learn to develop tools and inner resources that can help you overcome stressful situations and operate from a place of inspiration and ease.

 

In this interactive session you get the opportunity to discuss tools and practices from the book “How to Do the Inner work” and share your view on which ones have been most instrumental to your own development.   You also get the experience of being guided through one of the exercises by Susanne which can help you think and feel differently about an issue that’s been bugging you.

 

During the session we touch upon one or more of the following questions:

 

#  What’s the most effective way for you to tune into yourself and your intuition?

 

#  What are your most powerful inner resources?

 

#  What are your biggest challenges in doing and sustaining the inner work?

Prep required:

Please read the book “How to Do the Inner Work” prior to attending. You can also listen to it on Audible, iTunes or Spotify. (6 hours 46 mins).

First two sign ups get a FREE copy!

 

The session will be most beneficial to women who would like to get better at centering themselves and working through thoughts, emotions and situations that are challenging to them.

Marion Hewitt

Meet your session leader: Susanne Madsen (Susanne Madsen International Ltd)

Susanne Madsen is an internationally recognised executive coach, speaker and award-winning author of The Power of Project Leadership and How to Do the Inner Work.

She is known for her transformational leadership programmes and has coached hundreds of individuals from high-profile organisations across the globe.

A leading voice of in the field of leadership and personal development, Susanne helps her clients master their thoughts and emotions and live truly fulfilling lives personally and professionally.

You can connect with Susanne via:

LinkedIn

Website

Email: mail@susannemadsen.co.uk

Watch videos on Susanne’s YouTube Channel

 

 

 

Event Details:

This is event is ONLINE. You will be sent the zoom link before the event. If you have not received a link by 24 hours before the event, please get in touch with us by email (hello@aspiring-women.co.uk).

Our events are held monthly and last up to 60 minutes. 

All events start at 7.30pm. We ask you to come along at 7.25pm for quick ‘hellos’ before we start!

We do not normally record events to protect the privacy of the women attending and ensure we are providing a safe space to share. We may take a screenshot of attendees (with permission) and obscure any names shown.

This event is £12 for Pay As You Go (PAYG) members and free for Full Members.

It is free to join PAYG membership and £8 per month or £80 per year for Full membership.

Your booking or membership fee covers the costs of running the event (website maintenance and updating, online meeting software etc.), a donation to The Girls’ Network and a small organiser fee to Aspiring Women.

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Attendance to this event is free (you need to still register below) BUT you need to buy (or have read/listened to) a copy of the book for best results. First two women to sign up get a FREE copy!

Booking:

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