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How To Own The Room

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by Viv Groskop

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Inspirational women share advice on presenting and confidence, with comedian and writer Viv Groskop. Want to learn the secrets of brilliant public speaking? Each episode, Viv chats to a guest about what owning the room means to them. What is their approach to commanding attention and respect in the workplace, and beyond? This is the place to hear personal experiences of wonderful women at the top of their game, as they talk all things power, presence and performance. You'll find lots of practical advice for developing great presentation skills, finding your voice and turbo-charging confidence. Plus masterclasses with tips and tricks on overcoming nerves, curing imposter syndrome, and knowing how to prepare. Our agenda is to inspire every woman to shine in the spotlight and push outside her comfort zone. Guests have included Hillary Clinton with her thoughts on public speaking (and pant suits!); broadcaster Gabby Logan on building resilience and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Isabel Wilkerson on cultivating self-belief. Not to mention the likes of Margaret Atwood, Professor Mary Beard and Sophie Ellis-Bextor. You'll find words of wisdom from entrepreneurs and CEOs; award-winning writers, actors and activists; politicians and therapists. Check out the back catalogue: it's an amazingly rich resource that's built up since the podcast started in 2018, with Nigella Lawson as our first guest! How to Own the Room is the brainchild of presenter Viv Groskop, an award-winning writer, comedian, broadcaster and performance coach. She switched from journalism to stand-up comedy in her late thirties and became fascinated by stereotypical ideas around women and performance. She passionately believes that being yourself in front of other people is a skill we can all master, to enrich our emotional and practical lives. She is one of the most sought-after speakers for stand-up, MCing, awards hosting and keynote speaking. Viv's best-selling 'How to Own the Room: Women and the Art of Brilliant Speaking' formed the basis for this podcast. Her other titles include 'Lift As You Climb: Women and the Art of Ambition' and 'Happy High Status: How to be Effortlessly Confident'. www.vivgroskop.com

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April 16, 2026

23.6 Katharine Viner, editor-in-chief of the Guardian

<p>How do you manage the pressure of being in the hot seat, day in day out?</p> <p>Viv speaks to Katharine Viner, editor-in-chief of The Guardian since 2015, when she became the first woman to hold the position in the newspaper's 194-year history. Under her leadership, the paper has created a successful strategy of reader funding and become an increasingly international business, with Viner overseeing a staff of over 1500 globally.</p> <p>Katharine tells Viv how she encourages people to speak up in meetings; how she handles being in the spotlight; and what it was like to collaborate with the late Alan Rickman.</p> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk" target="_blank" rel= "noopener" data-saferedirecturl= "https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.theguardian.com/uk&source=gmail&ust=1776326245909000&usg=AOvVaw2FATnCITmljMaMjSp2rIuC"> The Guardian</a></p> <p>The new edition of <a href= "https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Own-Room-Brilliant-Speaking/dp/1804999008/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.-8ziEB-umyZjZNTIerXb6aaEC1A-xwIGfTOXjtumnRjN2IGwR1EYoKykO3Wk-y-cWwyZgYT0zyhB7tABzU7TSdTidsUioDTQHf3yef9ulNh6r58B5G3TJEKyqrEMraPipJozk2Q4m7pwejSP55McznFnXn4RMRUm0pum2UuLAP-Su0H270UBbF443fTdSdQUXfQTNhnCz0kfV91BJ3qNgA.1AVh8qjILd41sWd8kGpKCNYY64BNMhFBsHS1NtCJIyw&dib_tag=se&keywords=viv+groskop&qid=1772839727&sr=8-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl= "https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Own-Room-Brilliant-Speaking/dp/1804999008/ref%3Dmp_s_a_1_2?dib%3DeyJ2IjoiMSJ9.-8ziEB-umyZjZNTIerXb6aaEC1A-xwIGfTOXjtumnRjN2IGwR1EYoKykO3Wk-y-cWwyZgYT0zyhB7tABzU7TSdTidsUioDTQHf3yef9ulNh6r58B5G3TJEKyqrEMraPipJozk2Q4m7pwejSP55McznFnXn4RMRUm0pum2UuLAP-Su0H270UBbF443fTdSdQUXfQTNhnCz0kfV91BJ3qNgA.1AVh8qjILd41sWd8kGpKCNYY64BNMhFBsHS1NtCJIyw%26dib_tag%3Dse%26keywords%3Dviv%2Bgroskop%26qid%3D1772839727%26sr%3D8-2&source=gmail&ust=1776326245910000&usg=AOvVaw21-vdbdbWedAbACWMhmp0d">How To Own the Room:</a> Women and the Art of Brilliant Speaking is out now, featuring more in-depth analysis of everyone from Michelle Obama to Virginia Woolf — and extra-practical, actionable advice on honing your own speaker style </p> <p><a href="https://vivgroskop.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl= "https://www.google.com/url?q=https://vivgroskop.com/&source=gmail&ust=1776326245910000&usg=AOvVaw1Ppo1VucVRUud9li06cikP"> @vivgroskop</a></p>

April 9, 2026

23:5 Amy Poon, restaurant owner and food entrepreneur

<div>How do you find the courage to keep changing the course of your career and try something new?</div> <div> </div> <div>Viv speaks to Amy Poon, who grew up in her family's famous Poon's restaurant business, and pursued various careers including art dealing and PR, before settling on her current career as a food entrepreneur. Her Chinese food heritage brand, Poon's London, produces award-winning sauces, while her beautiful central London restaurant, Poon's at Somerset House, has won accolades for its elevated Chinese home cooking. Amy's father Bill Poon was the first Chinese chef to be awarded a Michelin star in 1980 and Amy's first job was as the coat check girl in her parents' restaurant whose customers were people like Mick Jagger and Barbra Streisand.</div> <div> </div> <div>Amy tells Viv how growing up in the restaurant world gave her great communication skills; how she's never had a strategic career plan (and that's ok!); and why her 'magic soup' is always on the menu.</div> <div> </div> <div><a href="https://www.poonslondon.com/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener" data-saferedirecturl= "https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.poonslondon.com/&source=gmail&ust=1775674911441000&usg=AOvVaw1HnAtjdsD959gyFQadvWi9"> Poon's London</a></div> <div> </div> <div> <div>The new edition of <a href= "https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Own-Room-Brilliant-Speaking/dp/1804999008/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.-8ziEB-umyZjZNTIerXb6aaEC1A-xwIGfTOXjtumnRjN2IGwR1EYoKykO3Wk-y-cWwyZgYT0zyhB7tABzU7TSdTidsUioDTQHf3yef9ulNh6r58B5G3TJEKyqrEMraPipJozk2Q4m7pwejSP55McznFnXn4RMRUm0pum2UuLAP-Su0H270UBbF443fTdSdQUXfQTNhnCz0kfV91BJ3qNgA.1AVh8qjILd41sWd8kGpKCNYY64BNMhFBsHS1NtCJIyw&dib_tag=se&keywords=viv+groskop&qid=1772839727&sr=8-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl= "https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Own-Room-Brilliant-Speaking/dp/1804999008/ref%3Dmp_s_a_1_2?dib%3DeyJ2IjoiMSJ9.-8ziEB-umyZjZNTIerXb6aaEC1A-xwIGfTOXjtumnRjN2IGwR1EYoKykO3Wk-y-cWwyZgYT0zyhB7tABzU7TSdTidsUioDTQHf3yef9ulNh6r58B5G3TJEKyqrEMraPipJozk2Q4m7pwejSP55McznFnXn4RMRUm0pum2UuLAP-Su0H270UBbF443fTdSdQUXfQTNhnCz0kfV91BJ3qNgA.1AVh8qjILd41sWd8kGpKCNYY64BNMhFBsHS1NtCJIyw%26dib_tag%3Dse%26keywords%3Dviv%2Bgroskop%26qid%3D1772839727%26sr%3D8-2&source=gmail&ust=1775674911441000&usg=AOvVaw2bFGJ0n5rnhyM94j73EJ69">How To Own the Room:</a> Women and the Art of Brilliant Speaking is out now, featuring more in-depth analysis of everyone from Michelle Obama to Virginia Woolf — and extra-practical, actionable advice on honing your own speaker style </div> <div><a href="https://vivgroskop.com/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener" data-saferedirecturl= "https://www.google.com/url?q=https://vivgroskop.com/&source=gmail&ust=1775674911441000&usg=AOvVaw1oWNCtlVwcDNeRRddhYxgo"> @vivgroskop</a></div> <div> </div> <div> </div> </div>

April 2, 2026

23.4 Maria Semple, novelist

<div>How can you use disappointment to fuel your future success?</div> <div> </div> <div>Viv talks to Maria Semple, who wrote the bestselling novel, Where D'You Go, Bernadette, after bouncing back from the disappointment of her first novel not making it big. Her new book, Go Gentle is the darkly funny story of Adora Hazzard, a woman who thinks she's got it all figured out in later life — she lives in a "coven" with other cool, older women — only to have the past come back to haunt her in the shape of an unresolved MeToo moment in her earlier career. In Maria Semple's own previous life before becoming a novelist, she held her own in TV writer rooms in the 1990s and early 2000s, on shows like Beverly Hills 90210, Saturday Night Live, Arrested Development, Ellen and Mad About You. </div> <div> </div> <div>Maria tells Viv about discovering her true vocation as a novelist; how being raised in a creative Hollywood family made her effortlessly confident around show-business people; and she gives an insider's view of working - often as the only woman on the team - in TV writers rooms in the 1990s.</div> <div> </div> <div>Maria Semple's new novel is <a href= "https://www.amazon.co.uk/Go-Gentle-Maria-Semple/dp/1399634216" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl= "https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Go-Gentle-Maria-Semple/dp/1399634216&source=gmail&ust=1775130424921000&usg=AOvVaw1hHYhbAVqGodO1egQip_aJ">Go Gentle </a> </div> <div><a href="https://www.instagram.com/mariasemple/" target= "_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl= "https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.instagram.com/mariasemple/&source=gmail&ust=1775130424921000&usg=AOvVaw0o3fjhf3p2KnxNyezix7KN"> @MariaSemple</a></div> <div> </div> <div> <div> <div>The new edition of <a href= "https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Own-Room-Brilliant-Speaking/dp/1804999008/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.-8ziEB-umyZjZNTIerXb6aaEC1A-xwIGfTOXjtumnRjN2IGwR1EYoKykO3Wk-y-cWwyZgYT0zyhB7tABzU7TSdTidsUioDTQHf3yef9ulNh6r58B5G3TJEKyqrEMraPipJozk2Q4m7pwejSP55McznFnXn4RMRUm0pum2UuLAP-Su0H270UBbF443fTdSdQUXfQTNhnCz0kfV91BJ3qNgA.1AVh8qjILd41sWd8kGpKCNYY64BNMhFBsHS1NtCJIyw&dib_tag=se&keywords=viv+groskop&qid=1772839727&sr=8-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl= "https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Own-Room-Brilliant-Speaking/dp/1804999008/ref%3Dmp_s_a_1_2?dib%3DeyJ2IjoiMSJ9.-8ziEB-umyZjZNTIerXb6aaEC1A-xwIGfTOXjtumnRjN2IGwR1EYoKykO3Wk-y-cWwyZgYT0zyhB7tABzU7TSdTidsUioDTQHf3yef9ulNh6r58B5G3TJEKyqrEMraPipJozk2Q4m7pwejSP55McznFnXn4RMRUm0pum2UuLAP-Su0H270UBbF443fTdSdQUXfQTNhnCz0kfV91BJ3qNgA.1AVh8qjILd41sWd8kGpKCNYY64BNMhFBsHS1NtCJIyw%26dib_tag%3Dse%26keywords%3Dviv%2Bgroskop%26qid%3D1772839727%26sr%3D8-2&source=gmail&ust=1775130424921000&usg=AOvVaw0PPQzpmiBwSVW0dZBtfShC">How To Own the Room:</a> Women and the Art of Brilliant Speaking is out now, featuring more in-depth analysis of everyone from Michelle Obama to Virginia Woolf — and extra-practical, actionable advice on honing your own speaker style.</div> <div><a href="https://vivgroskop.com/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener" data-saferedirecturl= "https://www.google.com/url?q=https://vivgroskop.com/&source=gmail&ust=1775130424921000&usg=AOvVaw3aRtT2L1PgD4H_YurBERM3"> @vivgroskop</a></div> </div> </div>

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What is How To Own The Room?: Inspirational women share advice on presenting and confidence, with comedian and writer Viv Groskop. Want to learn the secrets of brilliant public speaking? Each episode, Viv chats to a guest about what owning the room means to them. What is their approach to commanding attention and respect in the workplace, and beyond?

This is the place to hear personal experiences of wonderful women at the top of their game, as they talk all things power, presence and performance.

You'll find lots of practical advice for developing great presentation skills, finding your voice and turbo-charging confidence. Plus masterclasses with tips and tricks on overcoming nerves, curing imposter syndrome, and knowing how to prepare. Our agenda is to inspire every woman to shine in the spotlight and push outside her comfort zone.

Guests have included Hillary Clinton with her thoughts on public speaking (and pant suits!); broadcaster Gabby Logan on building resilience and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Isabel Wilkerson on cultivating self-belief. Not to mention the likes of Margaret Atwood, Professor Mary Beard and Sophie Ellis-Bextor. You'll find words of wisdom from entrepreneurs and CEOs; award-winning writers, actors and activists; politicians and therapists. Check out the back catalogue: it's an amazingly rich resource that's built up since the podcast started in 2018, with Nigella Lawson as our first guest!

How to Own the Room is the brainchild of presenter Viv Groskop, an award-winning writer, comedian, broadcaster and performance coach. She switched from journalism to stand-up comedy in her late thirties and became fascinated by stereotypical ideas around women and performance. She passionately believes that being yourself in front of other people is a skill we can all master, to enrich our emotional and practical lives. She is one of the most sought-after speakers for stand-up, MCing, awards hosting and keynote speaking.

Viv's best-selling 'How to Own the Room: Women and the Art of Brilliant Speaking' formed the basis for this podcast. Her other titles include 'Lift As You Climb: Women and the Art of Ambition' and 'Happy High Status: How to be Effortlessly Confident'.

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