In this episode, we speak with Mona Azami, co-founder of HolistiCare, a London-based HealthTech startup using AI to scale personalised, preventative care.

Mona shares the extraordinary journey that fuels her work from a childhood marked by war and immigration to navigating her son’s diagnosis with complex congenital heart disease. These deeply personal experiences shaped her belief that health systems must become more proactive, human-centred, and inclusive.

We talk about:

• How Mona’s early life forged her passion for health equity

• Building HolistiCare and the future of AI in wellness

• What it means to lead with empathy and resilience as a founder and mother

This is a conversation about survival, purpose, and the urgent need to reimagine how we care for ourselves and each other.

In this episode, we speak with Tessa Clarke, co-founder of OLIO, the food-sharing app that’s reshaping how we think about waste, community, and business. Tessa shares her journey from a childhood on a farm in North Yorkshire to studying at Cambridge, working in corporate strategy and consulting and experiencing a turning point during her time in Silicon Valley.

We dive into the early days of building OLIO, the pivotal role the platform played during the COVID-19 pandemic and how Tessa and her team scaled a grassroots idea into a global movement. She opens up about navigating gender dynamics in entrepreneurship, the realities of fundraising as a mission-led founder, and why the business world urgently needs to evolve: placing social impact on equal footing with profit.

This is a conversation about resilience, systems change, and why saying no to waste is also saying yes to connection.

In this episode, we sit down with Ivy Cavendish, the visionary behind TooWrite and current Director of Content and Platform Innovation at Springer Nature. Ivy shares her inspiring journey from developing a tool to assist her co-founder with his thesis to leading innovation in academic publishing. We delve into the challenges of startup life, the acquisition of TooWrite by Springer Nature, and Ivy’s insights on the future of scholarly communication.