Stefanie Sword-Williams is the founder and author of F*ck Being Humble. She set up the platform to encourage individuals to be unapologetically proud of their achievements and overcome the fear of self-promotion. Named as Forbes 30 Under 30 in Europe, she has delivered workshops for global brands including Unilever, Warner Music, Google, ASOS, Microsoft, The Guardian and for conferences such as Cannes Lions Festival and D&AD. In 2020 Stef released her first book ‘F*ck Being Humble: Why self-promotion isn't a dirty word’ and also delivered a TEDx Talk on why the world needs to be a little less humble. - I LIKE NETWORKING is the career platform for women and non-binary people in the creative industries. Stay in touch with us on Instagram and subscribe to our newsletter to stay in the loop and access many perks. You can also join our community or our supporter's circle

Our 2021 mentor Francesca Polo is a certified coach and also the co-founder of Vastari, the online service provider that connects museums, exhibition producers, venues, collectors, and suppliers for more efficient exhibition As a coach, Francesca uses her background in strategy and operations within the startup world to help entrepreneurs and creatives structuring and automating their businesses to generate more resources and freedom. Vastari took on a massive task when it decided to tackle operations in the art world with a startup mindset and had astounding success. Francesca talks to us about her journey building it and the difficult decision of leaving the company and changing her path - even when things looked perfect on the outside! Connect with her here and join us to get some pro-tips from a successful entrepreneur.  ----- I LIKE NETWORKING is the mentoring and networking platform for women and non-binary people in the creative industries. Stay in touch with us on Instagram and subscribe to our newsletter to stay in the loop and access many perks. You can also join our community or our supporter's circle.

On today's podcast, we talk a lot about career pivots and carving your space against all odds. Michaela Gooden is a former football player who has had the opportunity to take up a variety of roles in the football industry. From playing professionally to coaching, teaching and now working as an agent. She started her footballing journey at the tender age of 9 where she joined Fulham Centre of Excellence and remained a key player throughout the duration of her childhood, before receiving a 4-year scholarship to play in the USA.  In addition to experiencing many roles in the world of football, Michaela has also had a successful career in the creative industry working as a personal stylist, working on magazine shoots, TV shows, music videos, and general day-to-day looks for TV personalities. Born and raised in SW London to a family of 6, Michaela has worked hard to establish herself in the football world and is now paving the way as an agent for females wanting a career in this industry and hopes to set a path to make the journey less arduous than it currently is. ----- I LIKE NETWORKING is the mentoring and networking platform for women and non-binary people in the creative industries. Stay in touch with us on Instagram and subscribe to our newsletter to stay in the loop and access many perks. You can also join our community or our supporter's circle

Wells Fray-Smith is Assistant Curator: Special Projects at the Whitechapel Gallery, London.  Before that, she held similar positions Pace Gallery and the Barbican Art Gallery, as well as the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  She is responsible for the Max Mara Art Prize for Women at Whitechapel Gallery, where her projects include Helen Cammock: Che si puó fare, Sense Sound Sound Sense (2019) and The London Open 2021. She was research assistant for Basquiat: Boom For Real at the Barbican Art Gallery (2017) and has contributed catalogue essays on artists Fabienne Verdier (2020) and Prabhavathi Meppayil (2020). Join us to discover how she built her career and what are the challenges when it comes to achieving equality for women in the arts.  ----- I LIKE NETWORKING is the mentoring and networking platform for women and non-binary people in the creative industries. Stay in touch with us on Instagram and subscribe to our newsletter to stay in the loop and access many perks. You can also join our community or our supporter's circle. ----- This episode was sponsored by DAYE - a women-led business revolutionizing women's health. Their tampons are the most absorbent Organic tampon on the market, sanitized to eliminate the risk of TSS, and wrapped in truly sustainable packaging. Clinically- validated, cramp-soothing CBD tampons delivered straight to your door. To get £5 off your first box of tampons or proviotics, head over to yourdaye.com and use code Networking5

malakaï is an artist and cultural producer from pre-gentrified Hackney. They like to create work that disrupts the performer/spectator relationship, dissecting subjects like queer intimacy, generational trauma, gentrification, environmental racism and Black Britishness. Both as an artist and cultural producer, malakaï has created/presented work with the likes of Soho Theatre, SOAS, Serpentine Galleries, the Royal Exchange and the Royal Court. malakaï is an alumnus of the Barbican Young Poets, and has since independently produced and directed work by other Black writers, pushing the boundaries of form and storytelling in live performance. malakaï also delivers anti-oppression consultancy independently as well as with organisations including Fearless Futures and Sour Lemons with clients across the cultural, charity, tech and financial services sectors. In 2014, malakaï co-founded producing theatre company The S+K Project, where they were Artistic Director until 2019. malakaï is currently Associate Director at Theatre Peckham and is Co-director of Afro-diasporic literary movement BORN::FREE. malakaï serves as a Trustee for Hackney Showroom and London International Festival of Theatre (LIFT), and is Chair of LIFT's Tottenham Board. ----- This episode was sponsored by DAYE - a women-led business revolutionizing women's health. Their tampons are the most absorbent Organic tampon on the market, sanitised to eliminate the risk of TSS, and wrapped in truly sustainable packaging. Clinically- validated, cramp-soothing CBD tampons delivered straight to your door. To get £5 off your first box of tampons or proviotics, head over to yourdaye.com and use code Networking5 ---- I LIKE NETWORKING is the mentoring and networking platform for women and non-binary people in the creative industries. Stay in touch with us on Instagram and subscribe to our newsletter to stay in the loop and access many perks. You can also join our community or our supporter's circle.

TW: eating disorders, drug use.  This is a very personal episode with Isabel Foxen Duke, the Creator of Stop Fighting Food®, a free online training program for those recovering from diet-binge cycling and/or "feeling crazy around food."  I personally vouch for her helping me with my own eating disorder history but I wanted to have Isabel here to discuss how she built a successful online business WITHOUT Instagram or social media and going against the norms of her time.  So, if you're thinking about starting or growing an online business, this might be the episode for you.  Isabel is also the founder of the soon-to-launch Center for Weight Neutral Coaching™,  an online training program for coaches and wellness professionals committed to providing diet recovery services from a weight-neutral perspective. A fixture and thought-leader in the greater Body Positive movement, Isabel has been featured in the Huffington Post, Elle Magazine, Refinery 29, and has been praised by the likes of Ricki Lake and Lena Dunham.  Her writing and free guide, How To Not Eat Cake...really fast, standing up, when nobody's looking, can be found at isabelfoxenduke.com and you can watch her free video training series at stopfightingfood.com. ----- I LIKE NETWORKING is the mentoring and networking platform for women and non-binary people in the creative industries. Stay in touch with us on Instagram and subscribe to our newsletter to stay in the loop and access many perks. You can also join our community or our supporter's circle. ----- This episode was sponsored by DAYE - a women-led business revolutionizing women's health. Their tampons are the most absorbent Organic tampon on the market, sanitized to eliminate the risk of TSS, and wrapped in truly sustainable packaging. Clinically- validated, cramp-soothing CBD tampons delivered straight to your door. To get £5 off your first box of tampons or proviotics, head over to yourdaye.com and use code Networking5

I LIKE NETWORKING is celebrating a birthday soon and so am I, so I thought it would be fitting to have this replay here so some of you who are new to our community can find out more about how it all started.  The ups, the many many downs, and the good! Isabel is the founder of I LIKE NETWORKING. A creative producer, public speaker & podcast host with over 15 years of experience in arts, culture & entertainment, passionate about bringing diverse talent into the creative industry - from artists to arts managers. She has worked on a variety of non-profits, culture organizations, and consumer-led companies, conceptualizing and producing branded experiences that engage core consumers, as well as communications campaigns, having serviced clients such as Levi's, Converse, Lipton, Red Bull, and Lollapalooza, amongst others. She created and sold an award-winning cultural agency, based in Brazil, producing over 50 events a year including international tours, and managing a roster of artists and a theatre company.  ----- I LIKE NETWORKING is the mentoring, networking & career development platform for women and non-binary people in the creative industries. Stay in touch with us on Instagram and subscribe to our newsletter to stay in the loop and access many perks. You can also join our community or our supporter's circle.

This is SUCH a fun and honest conversation, an essential listen to anyone navigating the tricky paths of the art world.  Carrie is one of our 2021 mentors and an amazing multifaceted professional.  Carrie Scott is an American/English curator, art historian, TV presenter and art writer living in London.  Over the past 16 years, she has worked with numerous galleries, businesses, collectors, and artists worldwide. While at the University of Washington, Seattle doing a Master’s in Art History, Scott worked with James Harris where she curated the first solo show of Rashid Johnson’s work outside of Chicago. From there she went on to be Director of Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery in New York. In 2009, when the financial world was in total chaos, Scott launched her own business, at once an art consultancy, gallery, and curatorial endeavor that exists beyond the walls of the traditional gallery. Over the past 11 years, she has had the privilege of working closely with numerous artists, including Nick Knight, Marina Shacola, The Harold Feinstein Estate, and Federico Pestilli, helping them establish strong and sustained markets. In 2018, Scott curated the largest independent photography show ever for the Store x, 180 Strand, A Shade of Pale, exhibiting 470 photographs and most remarkably featuring 320 images from John Pawson’s series Spectrum suspended in space.  Scott has published numerous articles and essays on artists and appeared as a presenter on The Art Show, where she interviewed artists in their studios. In 2020, Scott teamed up with David Hill a curator and gallerist in London to present Harold Feinstein’s work, as well as a groundbreaking exhibition on West African Portraiture. For 2021, they will debut new work by Ben Hassett and Rachidi Bissiriou with two solo shows. ----- I LIKE NETWORKING is the mentoring and networking platform for women and non-binary people in the creative industries. Stay in touch with us on Instagram and subscribe to our newsletter to stay in the loop and access many perks. You can also join our community or our supporter's circle. ----- This episode was sponsored by DAYE - a women-led business revolutionizing women's health. Their tampons are the most absorbent Organic tampon on the market, sanitized to eliminate the risk of TSS, and wrapped in truly sustainable packaging. Clinically- validated, cramp-soothing CBD tampons delivered straight to your door. To get £5 off your first box of tampons or proviotics, head over to yourdaye.com and use code Networking5

‘a total joy from start to finish’  - Nigella Lawson ZOE ADJONYOH is a writer, chef and food justice activist from South-East London. From Russia to Berlin and New York, Zoe has become a leading voice in championing the last frontier in Gastronomy - New African Cuisine. She is the founder of the pioneering contemporary West African Food business - Zoe’s Ghana Kitchen – which has been running its famous supper clubs and pop-up residencies for over ten years. And she is the co-founder of Black Book - a platform for promoting diversity in the global food industry and hospitality. Born to a Ghanaian father and Irish mother, Adjonyoh deepened her understanding of West African cuisine after a trip to visit her extended family in Ghana, where she travelled and explored the kitchens and markets across the country and met with cooks who shared their knowledge and traditional recipes for Zoe to re-imagine back in London. Zoe completed her MA in Creative & Life Writing at Goldsmith’s University in 2014 and is currently writing her memoir instated at Goldsmiths. At the heart of all of Zoe’s work is the mission to de-colonise the food industry and your diets. Get Zoe's book here.  Follow her here.  This episode was sponsored by DAYE - a women-led business revolutionizing women's health. Their tampons are the most absorbent Organic tampon on the market, sanitised to eliminate the risk of TSS, and wrapped in truly sustainable packaging. Clinically- validated, cramp-soothing CBD tampons delivered straight to your door. To get £5 off your first box of tampons or proviotics, head over to yourdaye.com and use code  Networking5 I LIKE NETWORKING is the mentoring and networking platform for women and non-binary people in the creative industries. Stay in touch with us on Instagram and subscribe to our newsletter to stay in the loop and access many perks. You can also join our community or our supporter's circle.

Our amazing mentor Ida Norheim-Hagtun is the Senior Program Officer at the Gates Foundation, working in global policy and advocacy and on senior leadership engagements worldwide.  The foundation is a group of impatient optimists working to reduce inequity: ensuring more children and young people survive and thrive; empowering the poorest – especially women and children – to transform their lives; combating infectious diseases that particularly affect the poorest; and inspiring people to take action to change the world. Ida’s role at the foundation is a mix between strategist, communicator, and ‘tour manager’, working to ensure that all global leadership engagements – whether that’s high-level political meetings, major events, or field visits – are as impactful as possible, advancing the interests of the communities served. Ida’s background is in policy, advocacy and strategic communication for social impact, with organizations like the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in Iran, the UN Relief & Works Agency for Palestine refugees in Lebanon, and Oxfam GB in the UK. She’s passionate about the unique role of the arts, creative campaigning, and digital innovation in changing hearts and minds and advancing social causes, and has been involved in a range of creative work including an award-winning Norwegian digital campaign to change attitudes around overseas development aid; film and theatre production in the Middle East and UK to challenge preconceived notions about refugees and asylum-seekers; and a mobile crowdsourcing project to save lives after the Haiti earthquake. Ida’s educational background is focused on international relations and humanitarian affairs, at schools including the United World College in New Mexico, the London School of Economics & Political Science, the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, and Harvard University. A traveller at heart, Ida grew up on an island in Arctic Norway and is, partly as a consequence, deeply passionate about issues of climate change, nature conservation, wellness, and nutrition.  I LIKE NETWORKING is the mentoring and networking platform for women and non-binary people in the creative industries. Stay in touch with us on Instagram and subscribe to our newsletter to stay in the loop and access many perks. You can also join our community or our supporter's circle.