In Her Own Name

About In Her Own Name

In Her Own Name is a bold, intimate conversation series spotlighting women who are rewriting their stories, reimagining leadership, and reclaiming their legacy. While inclusive of all women, the series intentionally centres Black and Brown women, amplifying voices that have too often been erased, overlooked, or written out of the future. This series is not about performance; it's about presence. It invites listeners to witness transformation, truth, and the full range of what womanhood, leadership, and joy can look like.

Publisher

Lillian Ogbogoh

Category

education · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

16 Oct 2025

Latest episode

29 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

13 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   29 Sept 2026

   She Did That: Daniella Genas on Vision, Legacy and Building Something That Lasts

   What happens when you achieve the vision and forget to notice? In this episode of In Her Own Name, Lillian Ogbogoh sits back down with Daniella Genas, founder of Be The Boss International, award-winning business growth strategist and TEDx speaker. They have spoken before on Lillian's previous show. This time the conversation goes somewhere different. Not the framework. Not the exits. The woman. Daniella talks about what has replaced imposter syndrome, which turns out to be something more interesting and more honest than confidence. She talks about the last twelve months, which have been hard in ways she has not spoken about publicly. About HMRC. About clients who could not pay. About juggling two children, a husband, a growing dinner series, an international trade mission and the quiet terror of not knowing whether everything is going to hold. And she talks about the Founders Dinner, the community she built because she hated traditional networking and decided to create the room she wanted to be in. A room that is now in Birmingham, London, Manchester, and Nottingham, with a WhatsApp community connecting founders across all of them, and an international retreat in Kenya in 2027 that has been in the making since before she knew it would be. She got to the end of that conversation and realised mid-sentence that the original vision had already been achieved. She just had not stopped to mark it. In this conversation they explore: What assuredness actually feels like when it sits alongside uncertainty, and why that duality is more honest than the version social media sells The cost of thinking big, which turns out to be security, sleep and the kind of linear certainty that a job would have given her Why she built the Founders Dinner and what she wanted founders to feel in that room that they could not feel in traditional networking spaces The story behind the Founders Retreat in Kenya, including a daughter named in Swahili, a best friend's wedding, and a beach moment where the vision landed The Elevated Room Atelier and why she is now teaching other people to build what she built What she wants people to feel when they think about what she has created Connect with Daniella:LinkedIn: Daniella GenasInstagram: @bethebossuk and @shesthebossukWebsite: bethebossintl.comThe Big Boss Retreat: thebigbossretreat.comThe Elevated Room Atelier The next Founders Dinner is in London on 9th October and Manchester on 5th November.

2. 

   18 Jun 2026

   From Penguin to Flamingo: Wendy Gardner on Dropping the Suit, Finding Yourself and Learning to Love What Looks Back

   What does it cost to perform being fine for years? And what does it take to finally put that performance down? In this episode of In Her Own Name, I sit down with Wendy Gardner, founder of the Ohana Foundation, creator of the IAmMe coaching programme, and author of Diary of a Misfit Penguin and the journal Dear Daughter. Wendy came to London at 21 with a suitcase and a carrier bag. She built a career leading large-scale transformation at the highest levels of global business. From the outside, the picture was perfect. From the inside, she was driving 70 miles each way to work, pushing through pneumonia, and slowly disappearing inside a penguin suit of corporate conformity until her pink flamingo feathers kept escaping from underneath it. Then her daughter became severely ill. And the woman who had spent decades fixing, solutioning and performing discovered something that stopped her completely. She could not fix this. What came next was not a comeback. It was something much more honest. A parallel journey. Mother and daughter. Both learning. Both becoming. In this conversation, we explore: The real cost of wearing the penguin suit, not just professionally, but in every room of your life The moment her son, aged five, defaulted to Daddy for the birthday party and what that cracked open in her Why she has fallen out of love with the word resilience, and what she believes we are actually doing when we use it The name Ohana and the daughter named Hannah, who is woven into everything she builds Why she does not rehearse anymore, and what happens in the room when she trusts what lives inside her instead What it felt like to read the words I am Wendy Gardner on a train and realise the universe had just confirmed everything she had been working toward The morning mirror question that she asks herself every single day, without makeup, without performance, just as she is This is a warm, funny, deeply human conversation. Wendy does not perform in this room, and neither does the episode. It is one of those conversations you will carry with you. Books mentioned in the episode:Diary of a Misfit Penguin by Wendy Gardner. Available on Amazon and all good online bookstores, including her website www.ohanafoundation.comDear Daughter, the journal is available on World of Books Connect with Wendy:LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/wendygardner98Instagram: @ohana_foundationWebsite: www.ohanafoundation.com

3. 

   21 May 2026

   Shut Up, Gerald! Tash Rebuck on Sales, Self Worth and Silencing the Voice That Tells You Not to Bother

   What if the reason sales feels so hard for women has nothing to do with skill? What if it is older than that. Deeper than that. A story we have been carrying since long before we ever tried to sell anything. In this episode of In Her Own Name, I sit down with Tash Rebuck, founder of The Good Sales Company, and we end up somewhere I did not expect. Yes, we talk about sales. We talk about the difference between marketing and actually selling. We talk about follow-ups, about pricing, about why 80% of deals get signed after the fifth email and most women stop after one. We talk about Gerald. The voice in your head that tells you to stop, you are being annoying, leave that poor woman alone. But underneath all of it is a much more personal story. Tash was badly bullied from childhood through university. She did not have many friends. Something about who she was made other people uncomfortable. And she carried that into her adult life as a belief so deep she barely noticed it was there. That people did not really want to be around her. Then six months into running her business, she got an email confirming a new client at a higher price point than she had ever charged. She was standing in a hotel shower celebrating her wedding anniversary. And something cracked open. People want to pay to spend time with me. That is the moment this episode is really about. In this conversation we explore: Why sales has become a dirty word and what Tash is pushing back against with every part of her work The generational weight women carry into every sales conversation before they have even opened their mouth Why most female founders are doing marketing and calling it sales, and what the difference actually costs them The Somerset House story and what eight follow-ups and a woman who changed jobs taught her about persistence Why your pricing is not just a number. It is a statement about what you believe you are worth What it took to silence Gerald and start trusting the other voice This is a warm, honest, and frequently very funny conversation. Tash brings her whole self, and so does this episode. 📚 Books mentioned in the episode: Babel by R.F. Kuang, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, Mindset by Carol Dweck Connect with Tash: LinkedIn: Tash Rebuck Website: thegoodsalescompany.com Instagram: @tash_rebuck Podcast: The S Word: https://youtu.be/XPL0oeQ-eNI?si=CMcGJvKJAVy4yeTa

4. 

   2 Apr 2026

   The System Inside and Out: Creanna Dodson on Justice, Care and Power

   What does it look like to understand a system from every angle, from the inside of a probation office, to the floor of a care home, to the floor of a courtroom? In this episode of In Her Own Name, I sit down with Creanna Dodson. Mother. Barrister. Business Owner. Founder of Soaring Heights Care. Creanna did not plan to become a barrister. She will tell you that herself. What she did was spend nearly two decades working inside some of the most demanding spaces in the justice and care systems, and when the lightbulb moment finally came, she had something that most newly called barristers simply do not have. She already knew what the system felt like from the other side. This is a conversation about protection. About building care for children who arrived in this country alone, without family, without language, without certainty. About what it takes to earn the trust of someone who has every reason not to trust you. About running a team so loyal that some of them have stayed for seven and eight years in one of the hardest industries there is. It is also a conversation about what it means to finally stop brushing off your own achievements and own them. In this episode, we explore: How Creanna stumbled into law organically, through a family crisis, her social work experience and her work with unaccompanied asylum-seeking children at Soaring Heights Care What nearly a hundred children over ten years of care has taught her about resilience, deferred gratification and believing that young people are worthy Why her client care skills are described by other advocates at court as second to none, and where that really comes from What standing on both sides of the courtroom has taught her about truth, perspective and doing right by people, even when the system is slow The moment she stopped waiting for others to validate her achievements and started championing herself What she would shout to her 18-year-old self about believing in your own source This is not a story about a straight line. It is a story about trusting the process, building something with your hands and your heart, and showing up fully in every role you carry. Connect with Creanna LinkedIn: Creanna Dodson Instagram: @creanna.dodson Soaring Heights Care: @creanna_shc

5. 

   12 Mar 2026

   The African Parent: Anne-Rose Obidi on Advocacy, Culture and Systems That Weren’t Built for Us

   In this episode of In Her Own Name, I sit down with Anne-Rose Obidi, founder of The African Parent, for a deeply honest conversation about parenting, power, culture, and the courage to speak up in systems that often feel confusing or intimidating. This is not just a conversation about raising children.It is about learning how institutions work.It is about understanding how culture shapes our responses.It is about moving from silence to strategy. Anne-Rose shares how her own journey as a mother led her to build a platform that equips African parents with the tools, language and confidence to advocate effectively for their children. Together, we explore what happens when respectability meets resistance.What happens when cultural values collide with institutional expectations.And what becomes possible when parents stop shrinking and start engaging with clarity and intention. In this episode, we talk about: • Why many African parents walk into school systems already feeling disempowered• The importance of systems literacy when advocating for children• How behaviour, culture and neurodivergence are often misunderstood• The hidden cost of raising “good children” who are afraid to challenge• Stepping into your own name after an ADHD diagnosis• Emotional regulation as a leadership skill• Teaching children to question respectfully and lead confidently Anne-Rose also shares books that have shaped her thinking around leadership and parenting: 📚 Let’s Go Leadership by Obi James: a practical guide exploring different leadership styles and the importance of learning when to let go.📚 The Conscious Parent: a reflective read focused on intentional parenting and raising self-aware children. If you are navigating school systems, safeguarding concerns, or simply trying to raise confident children in environments that were not designed with your reality in mind, this conversation will resonate.

6. 

   26 Feb 2026

   Build Your Table: Beverly Vanterpool on Power, Community and Playing the Game Intentionally

   Have you ever been told it’s imposter syndrome…When deep down, you knew something else was going on? In this conversation, I sit down with Beverly Vanterpool, founder of Career Sistas and author of Build Your Table, and we talk honestly about what it means to navigate professional life when the system was never designed with you in mind. This is not a loud conversation.It’s a clear one. We speak about those moments when you realise you’re not struggling because you lack confidence, but because you were never invited into the room. We talk about sponsorship. About visibility. About being over-mentored and under-advocated for. We talk about redundancy not just as loss, but as an inflexion point. The kind that forces you to ask yourself:What gives me money?What gives me joy?What do I actually want? Beverly brings both strategy and steadiness to this conversation. She doesn’t pretend the system is fair. She asks a better question:How intentionally are you choosing to move within it? If you’re building your own table right now, or questioning whether you still belong at someone else’s, sit with this episode. You are not behind.You are not imagining it.And you are not alone. — Learn more about Build Your Table:https://beverlyvanterpool.com/build-your-table-find-career-clarity-make-bold-pivots-and-thrive-even-when-the-system-isnt-built-for-you Connect with Beverly:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beverlyvanterpool/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vanterpoolb Career Sistas:https://www.careersistas.com — If this conversation met you where you are, share it with someone else who might need to hear it too.

7. 

   29 Jan 2026

   Thinking Light: Reimagining Leadership Through a Neurodiverse Lens

   In this episode of In Her Own Name, host Lillian Ogbogoh is joined by Danielle Cudjoe-Michalski, a certified coach, strategist, TEDx speaker, and the founder of Thinking Light Coach. With over 20 years of experience in STEM and corporate leadership, Danielle brings both professional insight and lived experience as a neurodivergent woman to the conversation. Together, they explore what it means to lead without masking, how to create workplaces that are truly inclusive, and why language, visibility, and belonging matter more than ever. This is a conversation about leading with authenticity, building with intention, and honouring the full value of neurodiverse minds. If you’ve ever felt the need to hide parts of yourself to succeed, this episode is a reminder that your difference is your strength. Episode Overview: In this powerful conversation, Lillian Ogbogoh is joined by Danielle Cudjoe-Michalski, certified coach, strategist, TEDx speaker, and founder of Thinking Light Coach. With 20 years of experience in corporate STEM and her own lived experience as a neurodivergent woman, Danielle brings clarity, insight, and honesty to a conversation many shy away from. Together, they explore: What true neuro-inclusion looks like in the workplace Why masking takes a toll on identity and leadership How Danielle reclaimed her voice, and her brilliance The founding of GSK’s Neurodiversity Network Coaching, resilience, and building systems that see people fully If you’ve ever felt like you had to “fit in” to be respected, or if you’re looking to lead from a place of authenticity, this episode is for you. 🔥 Notable Quotes: “We’re not broken. We’re built differently. And that difference is full of value.” “There’s something powerful in just giving people the language to name what they’ve been carrying in silence.” “Inclusion shouldn’t be a performance. It should be felt.” 📌 Connect with Danielle LinkedIn: Danielle Cudjoe-Michalski Thinking Light Coach: LinkedIn | Linktree TEDx Talk: Watch on YouTube Instagram: @thinkinglightcoach Facebook: Thinking Light Coach

8. 

   18 Dec 2025

   It’s in the Water: Sharon Hurley Hall on Racism, Resilience, and Reclaiming Rest

   In this deeply resonant episode, journalist, educator, and anti-racism activist Sharon Hurley Hall joins Lillian Ogbogoh to unpack the layers of systemic racism and the legacy of colonialism. With clarity, compassion, and hard-earned wisdom, Sharon shares how the murder of George Floyd shifted her path, catalysing the creation of her newsletter, book (I’m Tired of Racism), and the Share Anti-Racism community. From confronting the invisible weight of everyday racism to redefining resilience, reclaiming rest, and challenging colourism, Sharon speaks truth to power with grace and candour. She also reflects on the intergenerational blessings that sustain her: language, knowledge, and the unshakeable fibre of survival. Whether you’re seeking to understand how to advocate meaningfully, looking to unpack internalised bias, or need to hear from a woman doing the work without apology, this episode will stay with you. 🔗 Connect with Sharon Hurley Hall: Website: www.sharonhh.com Newsletter: www.antiracismnewsletter.com Book: I’m Tired of Racism – Available via Amazon, Apple Books, B&N LinkedIn: @sharonhurleyhall

9. 

   4 Dec 2025

   Building Capacity, Claiming Legacy: Modupe Adeniji on Power, Purpose & Leading from Within

   What does it mean to build people, not just pipelines? In this episode of In Her Own Name, host Lillian Ogbogoh is joined by Modupe Adeniji, founder and Managing Director of TEM Nigeria, one of the country's leading human capacity development firms. With a background in law and a powerful track record across energy, finance, government, and professional services, Modupe is proof that true leadership starts from the inside out. Together, they dive into:🛠️ Closing the gap between certificates and real-world competence📈 Scaling a business while staying deeply purpose-driven🔥 Challenging outdated leadership models🌍 Building capacity as a form of nation-building This is a conversation about legacy, the kind built in boardrooms, classrooms, and quiet moments of courage. Connect with Modupe via LinkedIn and Instagram Social Media handlesInstagram: @officialmodupeadeniji LinkedIn: Modupe M. Adeniji

10. 

    27 Nov 2025

    The Mother of Systems Nanna Soenya on Funding, Feminism & Building Ecosystems That Work

    What happens when you stop waiting for permission and build the system yourself? In this powerful episode of In Her Own Name, host Lillian Ogbogoh is joined by Nanna Saoirse Soenya, founder of OmegaSeven Global and architect of The FundHerShip Grant Initiative. This revolutionary, self-sustaining model provides £10,000 per month to Black and Brown women in the UK. Nanna is known as The Mother of Systems, and for good reason. Her work dismantles outdated structures and reimagines what access, equity, and sustainability look like for women who have historically been shut out. Together, we explore:💡 What it takes to design an ecosystem where women truly thrive💸 The radical thinking behind The FundHerShip Grant🧱 Why infrastructure, not inspiration, is what creates real freedom🔥 Her lived experiences that shaped this mission and message This is a masterclass in vision, systems, and showing up for the women who are too often expected to figure it out with scraps. Connect with Nanna via Social Media handles "https://www.instagram.com/themotherofsystems https://www.tiktok.com/@themotherofsystems https://www.linkedin.com/in/nannassoenya

11. 

    30 Oct 2025

    Governance with Soul Deirdre LaBassiere on Leading with Legacy and Integrity

    What does it mean to lead systems with soul? To enter boardrooms shaped by inequity, and bring both legal rigour and lived wisdom? In this powerful episode, we sit down with Deirdre LaBassiere, a governance strategist, legal mind, and changemaker who has turned policy into purpose across housing, health, nonprofit, and cultural sectors. Deirdre shares her extraordinary journey, from navigating homelessness and illness to becoming a nationally respected voice in ethical leadership. As Chair of WAITS, The Legacy Centre of Excellence, and the West Midlands Board for Common Purpose, she is a woman reshaping power from the inside out. We talk:⚖️ What “governance with soul” looks like in practice🛠️ How lived experience builds stronger systems🎙️ Why visibility in leadership, especially for Black women, is radical💡 Lessons from a legacy led by courage, equity, and compassion This is more than a leadership episode. It’s a masterclass in transformation.

12. 

    23 Oct 2025

    Styled for Power Joy Aboderin on Bold Moves, Beauty, and Becoming

    Styled for PowerJoy Aboderin on Bold Moves, Beauty, and Becoming From selling her house to building a global style brand, Joy Aboderin shares how faith, fashion, and unapologetic presence helped her and thousands of women own their power.

13. 

    16 Oct 2025

    AI with Soul: How Sabrina Ramonov Is Building Tools and Teaching the World

    She built a multimillion-dollar AI startup. Then walked away, to start again, with soul. In this episode, Sabrina Ramonov talks: 💻 Tech & burnout 📚 Teaching 1M people AI 🧠 Building Blotato 🌏 Leading as a Filipina woman in tech This is what happens when we build with truth.

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