Please meet Swiss Alpine Skiing World and Olympic Champion Wendy Holdener. In this month's episode of our Carl F. Bucherer podcast, SHE IS SPEAKING, we are going to talk to Wendy about her incredible achievements from Swiss titles to the World Cup. Tune in to find out at what age she started skiing, if she still skis with her family just for fun and what her biggest goal is. Enjoy the podcast!

Please meet a very daring lady, Ruth Buscombe. She's the head of race strategy for the Alfa Romeo Racing ORLEN Formula One team. In this episode, we speak to Ruth about her extraordinary job. She tells us all about engineering, what it entails exactly and what it's like working in a male dominated industry. We learn all about how much of the strategy happens before the race, what can happen during a race to really throw a wrench in the works of planning and how important good timing is. She also shares her favourite Formula 1 race and her thoughts on Formula E. Tune in to learn more.

Right in time when all of Europe is in the soccer fever, we speak to Swiss professional footballers Noëlle Maritz and Lia Wälti. Both ladies play for Arsenal Women aswell as the Swiss national team (where Lia is the captain). We ask the ladies about their training routine, how they got into football and who inspires them the most. Find out more about Noëlle Maritz and Lia Wälti.

In our third episode we speak to the talented Swedish Composer Lisa Streich who has taken the contemporary music world by storm. Her works have been performed all over the world and the list of prestigious prizes speak for themselves. Just recently she wrote a piece of music called PERIPHERY with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra dedicated to Carl F. Bucherer’s Manero Minute Repeater Symphony watch. She talks about what it’s like being one of few female composers, where she finds her inspiration and how having children helped her compose her best pieces yet. Tune in to learn more.

In our second episode we speak to Bex Carter, Director of Operations at the Manta Trust, a non-profit organization from the UK founded in 2011 and dedicated to the worldwide conservation of manta rays and their habitats through research, education and collaboration. Tune in to hear how Bex Carter tells us all about her fascinating job with the goal of a sustainable future for the oceans, where manta rays can thrive in a healthy, diverse marine ecosystems and how you can get involved to support these gentle giants.

Allow us to introduce Carole Hubscher, President and CEO of Caran d’Ache. With this incredibly inspiring woman we speak about all things business; what it’s like to be leading a family business, three things that she deems important for a successful career and so much more. Tune in and enjoy our first episode.

We are delighted to introduce Sophie Furley, journalist and editor-at-large for WorldTempus as the host of our podcast SHE IS SPEAKING. In each 20-minute episode, she will have the chance to interview – and celebrate – strong, brilliant, and inspiring women. We invite you to tune in and to subscribe to this podcast.