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Episode 190: Martha Keith

July 13, 2026

Martha Keith has run her stationery business ‘Martha Brook’ for over a decade, and started the Business Secrets Club two years ago, to help small business owners with things she wishes she’d known when she started out. Martha told me about her 10 year fertility journey and her two IVF daughters aged 8 and 3.We also talked about how she’d had a late diagnosis of endometriosis, a very difficult birth with her first daughter and how she’d lost her beloved Dad Philip just before she became p...

Episode 189: Catherine Anne Davies aka The Anchoress

July 06, 2026

Catherine Anne Davies is better known by her stage name The Anchoress. She is a musician, producer and a former academic, which results in her providing a fascinating reading list with her art pop albums, of poems and other writing that inspired her.After many losses, Catherine had a successful 7th pregnancy and her daughter is now 5 years old. She told me how becoming a mum radicalised her, and also how she kept her new motherhood a secret for two and a half years. Cather...

Episode 188: Honey Spencer

June 29, 2026

Honey Spencer is a wine expert who has two little boys aged 6 and 1. She and her husband Charlie run a neighbourhood restaurant called ‘Sune’ in Hackney in East London, which she describes as feeling ‘wholesome and right’.Honey told me that Georgia is the birthplace of wine, and how she is a fan of ‘skin contact’ wine. She also described how vineyards are like the ‘canary in the coal mine’ of climate change.Honey has written a book about natural (organic) wines and is the wine director o...