Your Time To Grow

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Your Time To Grow is a podcast for busy women who feel lost in their career, want to make a change and build momentum to grow their potential and create a career they love. In it, Charlie, mum of three and experienced careers coach, shares her own experiences of being a working mum and how she created a balanced career around her family. You'll find guests, case studies as well as tons of practical advice and support.

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February 16, 2026Episode 18445 min

Creativity and Magic for Everyone with Jo Dorrington-Neville

In this episode of Your Time To Grow, Charlie is joined by Jo Dorrington-Neville, creative entrepreneur, performer, and maker, for an inspiring conversation about creativity, magic, and how we can all reconnect with our personal spark.Jo shares how creativity isn’t just for artists; it’s in everyday choices, from doodling to fashion, and how embracing it can nurture mental health, identity, and joy. Together, Charlie and Jo explore:✨ How mental blocks and misconceptions often stop us from expressing ourselves creatively, and why small, low-pressure practices can reignite the spark.✨ The balance between extroverted creative expression (like performing or presenting) and quiet, introspective creativity (like drawing or journaling).✨ How engaging creatively can become a daily practice that supports self-connection, presence, and wellbeing.✨ Ways to rediscover magic in life through experimentation, play, and curiosity, without pressure or expectation.✨ How community and shared creative experiences can enhance joy while maintaining personal boundaries and energy.Jo also shares practical tips for anyone looking to bring more creativity into their life, highlighting that magic and creative expression are accessible to all, and that even small acts can inspire growth and a sense of wonder.If you’ve ever felt disconnected from your creative side or wanted to bring more play, joy, and personal magic into your everyday life, this episode is full of encouragement, insight, and practical ways to get started.Find Jo on YouTube, Instagram and Facebook as Silver Rock Designs

January 19, 2026Episode 1831 hr 1 min

Trust as a Way of Living with Magdalene Summers

In this tender and deeply real conversation, Charlie sits down with her oldest friend, Magdalene, a woman she’s known since age eleven, recently reunited through a quiet intuitive nudge. Together, they explore what it truly means to trust yourself, especially when life gets messy, loud, or uncertain.Magdalene shares how subtle inner whispers (not the big dramatic signs we’re taught to look for) shaped her biggest decisions, including the moment she reached out after years of no contact. Charlie reflects on how motherhood strengthened her trust in small, present-focused choices, and how that trust has become a compass in her life and work.They dive into:✨ Trust as a living practice rather than a destination✨ How motherhood reshapes confidence and resilience✨ Building boundaries without losing connection✨ Emotional awareness in the body, and why it matters✨ Science meeting intuition: the RAS, Havening, Tara Swart✨ Practical tools like body dowsing, coin flipping, and creating a community✨ Trusting others and trusting yourself — without abandoning who you are✨ Embracing chaos, interruptions, and real-life truth as part of the journeyThis episode is a gentle reminder that trust isn’t loud. It’s quiet, subtle, patient… and absolutely transformational. And sometimes, the universe brings the right people back into your life at exactly the right moment.A conversation full of synchronicity, softness, and soul.

January 15, 2026Episode 113 min

Land of Plenty Guided Meditation

Land of Plenty is a guided meditation designed to help you slow down, settle into your body, and reconnect with a place of inner abundance and ease.Through gentle imagery and spacious pauses, you’re invited to journey into your own Land of Plenty, a personal inner landscape where nothing needs to be earned, fixed, or proven.This place will be unique to you. It may be natural or built, familiar or unexpected. What matters is not what you see, but how you feel.There is no right way to experience this. You may see images, feel sensations, notice emotions, or simply rest.You’re invited to listen somewhere comfortable, ideally with headphones. After listening, you may wish to take a few moments to journal or reflect, allowing whatever surfaced to integrate naturally.Return whenever you need rest, clarity, or a reminder of what nourishes you.

December 15, 2025Episode 18345 min

From a Whisper to a Roar with Lois Bates-Stubbs

In this episode, I sit down with Lois Bates-Stubbs, founder of Mavenly, a quiet powerhouse, and living proof that one small moment can change everything.Lois’s transformation began in 2022 on a trip to Disney World, during one of the hardest seasons of her life. A single 25-cent coin on the floor became the spark that shifted everything; a promise to herself that she would return one day, fully self-funded, with her children.From there, Lois went from a £7-an-hour job and a draining side business to building Mavenly: a thriving, multi-skilled virtual support agency serving women entrepreneurs across tech, marketing and strategic growth. Her journey is a testament to resilience, patience, authentic power and doing the inner work while building the external success.We talk about:✨ Turning rock-bottom moments into vision✨ Building a business from self-belief, not certainty✨ Authentic power vs. performative confidence✨ Community, female friendships and outgrowing old environments✨ Burnout, boundaries, and the reality of “levelling up”✨ Returning to core values when life feels heavy✨ The future she’s manifesting — including that return to Disney by 1 December 2025This episode is for anyone who’s ever felt behind, stuck, impatient or unsure… and needs the reminder that one tiny spark is enough to build a new life from.Find Lois here:LinkedIn: Lois Bates-StubbsInstagram: @mavenlyWebsite: mavenly.co.uk

November 20, 2025Episode 18248 min

Burnout, Balance & Redefining Resilience with Laura Wyatt

In this episode of Your Time To Grow, Charlie is joined by Laura Wyatt, breathwork and health coach, and founder of Loving Living Well, for a grounded and eye-opening conversation about burnout; what it really looks like, why so many people miss the early signs, and how to rebuild resilience in a way that feels sustainable, nourishing, and actually doable.Laura describes burnout as a slow, creeping loss of balance, something that often goes unnoticed until life grinds to a halt. Together, Charlie and Laura explore:✨ The early warning signs we often dismiss: poor sleep, brain fog, emotional flatness, social withdrawal, over-cleaning as control, and sensitivity to stressors like caffeine.✨ Why burnout hides in plain sight and why it often takes someone else’s observation before we’re ready to acknowledge it.✨ Redefining resilience as recovery and nervous system regulation, not pushing through or wearing busyness as a badge of honour.✨ The holistic habits that support genuine energy renewal: nutrition, movement, connection, rest, hobbies, and the practices that keep us grounded.✨ How breathwork can transform wellbeing, from shifting the nervous system into safety to creating more presence, clarity, and calm.✨ The values shift that follows burnout, moving away from external achievement and towards quality of life, alignment, and internal steadiness.✨ The cultural conditioning we must unlearn: multitasking, self-sacrifice, over-functioning, “doing it all,” and ignoring our own needs.Laura also shares simple, accessible tools for listeners who may be quietly burning out right now, including her powerful reminder to just stop, rest without guilt, and let your nervous system breathe.If you’ve ever felt stretched thin, stuck in survival mode, or suspicious that the constant busyness you’re living isn’t sustainable, this episode will help you recognise what’s happening and take gentle, meaningful steps back towards balance.Find Laura at @LovingLivingWell and lovinglivingwell.co.uk.

November 10, 2025Episode 18111 min

The Illusion of Safety

What if safety isn’t something you create — but something you remember? In this episode, Charlie explores the idea that our fear, our hesitation, and our need for control all stem from thought — not reality.Through reflection, guided prompts, and practical insight, she invites you to notice the difference between fear and discomfort, to connect with presence, and to step into action from self-trust rather than seeking external assurance. Learn how dropping the armour of “safety” opens space for love, creativity, and true power — in business and life.Time to stop chasing safety and start living from presence.

June 10, 2025Episode 1809 min

This Is Not a Performance

So much of the world asks us to perform.This space doesn’t.In this episode, I strip back the performance and return to the truth: who I am, how I work, and what I believe leadership really means.If you’re craving honesty, presence, and unapologetic power — this one is for you.The ground is here. Step into it.

May 7, 2025Episode 17936 min

Food, Fat, and the Fight to Belong to Myself

In this deeply personal solo episode, I step away from scripts and strategies and speak directly into the mic — raw, real, and unrehearsed. I explore my complex relationship with food, body image, shame, and the invisible weight of perfectionism. From childhood scarcity to dieting cycles, emotional burnout, and the longing to feel visible without performing, this is a reckoning and a homecoming.If you’ve ever felt like your worth was measured by your size, your willpower, or your ability to keep it all together — this is for you.No answers. No neat endings. Just the honest truth of what it means to stay loyal to yourself, even in the mess.

May 2, 20251 hr 5 min

Where the Heart Leads: A Journey of Self, Service, and Strength with Clair Slade

In this soul-stirring conversation, I’m joined by Clair Slade, whose leadership is rooted in love, service, and fierce commitment to community. She’s a champion for others — the kind of woman who creates spaces where people feel seen, heard, and held. But behind her public presence is a deeply personal story of self-mastery.We explore what it means to serve without losing yourself, how to honour your own needs while holding space for many, and the unspoken truths about burnout, boundaries, and identity when you're constantly showing up for others.This episode is an invitation to all women who lead, give, and support — to come home to themselves without guilt. To reclaim their own power while still being a force for good.It’s honest. It’s tender. And it’s a powerful reminder that true leadership begins within.Richard's fundraising: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/mayor-of-stneots-2024?utm_medium=CR&utm_source=CL

April 24, 2025Episode 1771 hr 7 min

Taking Off the Good Girl Armour with Louise Sheridan

In this honest and heartfelt conversation, we unpack the concept of good girl armour — the protective layers we’ve built over time to stay liked, safe, and in control. We explore how this armour has served us, how it can silently limit our self-expression and power, and what it takes to begin putting it down. Expect stories, insights, and a few truth bombs as we name what we’ve often kept hidden.⚠️ Just a heads-up: the F word appears in this episode — because sometimes, no other word will do.