Working for Progress is a podcast about work, wellbeing, and what it means to live a meaningful life.
Hosted by social entrepreneur Dani Trudeau and rooted in the community of Tribe Porty in Edinburgh, each season explores a theme, The Body, through honest, unhurried conversations with people who are shaping their working lives with intention. These aren't interviews about career advice or productivity hacks. They're deeper conversations about values, identity, creativity, burnout, purpose, and the quiet grit behind the work people do.
If you love podcasts like On Being or The Pause, and you're asking bigger questions about how you want to work and live, this is for you.
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Caroline Gibb on Grief, Chronic Pain, and an Unpredictable Body
Caroline Gibb is a Community Development Lead working in palliative care, supporting individuals and communities through dying, caring, and grief. In this conversation, she talks with Dani about what it means to hold emotionally demanding work while living with chronic illness and pain. The conversation is also about a body that behaves unpredictably, never quite the same from one day to the next. They talk about the strange gifts hidden inside perimenopause, the discipline of showing up for ...
12 Feb 2026
Working For Progress with Isobel Mercer: From Rainforest Realisations to Climate Action
Sometimes in life there are defining moments that set us on a path. For Isobel Mercer, one came while riding on the back of a motorbike through miles of decimated palm-oil plantations. When she finally reached the lush rainforest beyond, the stark contrast between destruction and life left an imprint that would shape her future. Originally from Devon, Isobel moved to Edinburgh in 2008 to study politics and quickly fell in love with the city. For more than a decade, she has dedicated her caree...
9 Jan 2026
Working For Progress with Andrea Fraser on Staying Human Inside the Law
What does it take to stay human inside powerful legal systems? In this episode of Working For Progress, Dani is joined by Andrea Fraser, a Civil Justice Lawyer at JUSTICE, whose career has spanned employment law, human rights, public inquiries, and some of the most challenging legal cases of our time. Andrea’s path has taken her from early practice at Anderson Strathern, to leading investigations into historic abuse within religious institutions at the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry, to working...
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