Dahlia is joined by World Rally Driver Penny Mallory to discuss stress, dress and mental toughness.

Penny talks about the 4 C's of mental toughness and shares how she lifted herself out of a challenging upbringing and coached herself to be a world rally driver , a TV presenter and now a key note speaker.

Dahlia and Penny discuss how clothing was a key part of helping Penny assume the role of rally driver and give her the confidence to become an award winning racer.

As a leading authority on Mental Toughness, Penny helps people to manage the stress, pressure, heavy workloads and relentless deadlines they face. Drawing from her extraordinary experiences, Penny now shares her Mental Toughness formula to help organisations and individuals to cultivate confidence, resilience, commitment, determination, and focus.

Mental Toughness is a personality trait, that can everyone can develop. With Mental Toughness you have increased resilience, confidence, focus, determination and commitment. This enables you to manage stress and pressure, take challenges in your stride, and quickly bounce back from setbacks.

In today’s ever more competitive environment where only the best will do, Penny Mallory has perfected the art of Psychologically Powered Performance to bring out the very best in people. No secret sauce or overused buzzwords, for championship teams (including F1) to top organisations, from individuals and workshops to International audiences, her engagingly authentic but wildly entertaining vision of optimised performance and positive change sets her apart. Penny defied the odds by achieving her childhood ambition of becoming a Champion Rally Driver.

She surpassed that dream by becoming the first woman to compete in a World Rally Car for Ford in the prestigious World Rally Championship. Remarkably, she remains the only woman to accomplish this. Her journey is even more remarkable given her tumultuous past as a teenage runaway, enduring 3 years of homelessness in London. Penny attributes her success to her Mental Toughness. As a child she saw alcoholism and mental illness destroy her family. Fleeing home at 14, homeless and fending for herself on the London streets, her life couldn’t have been more dangerous or bleak, yet an inner strength and self-belief enabled her to take control of her future. She made impossible possible and has since dedicated her life to helping others do the same.

It is these experiences that have made her keynotes acclaimed international favourites for many of the world’s most powerful and storied brands, including Microsoft, Google Cloud, Santander, Coca-Cola, Nat West, Waitrose, Tesco, Telefonica, RoadChef, Sony, CitiBank, HPI, Jaguar, Proctor & Gamble, Airbus and many more.

Her life is a continuing series of doing what conventional thinking says she simply can’t – from Rally Driving at the highest level, competing in multiple marathons, enter the boxing ring twice, conquering two of the world’s highest mountains…and now she is preparing to row the Atlantic Ocean.

Little wonder that her interactive keynotes inspire taking action, and to believe you can - because you can. Penny is a TEDX speaker, author of ‘365 Ways to Develop Mental Toughness’, ’World Class Thinking, World Class Behaviour’ and ‘Take Control of Your Life’.

Dahlia is joined by Amelia Sordell to discuss clothes, confidence and how to identify and remove your self limiting beliefs.

Amelia shares her journey from low self-esteem to becoming a successful personal branding strategist, talking through the steps she has taken over the past six years to get where she is today. She emphasizes the importance of personal branding and how it can transform confidence if you choose to embrace it.

Amelia shares her memorable fashion moments, including her first concert experience, black lipstick and a bright pink outfit. She highlights the shift from using social media for validation to leveraging it as a business tool. Amelia also talks about her book, "The Personal Branding Playbook," which offers practical tips on building a personal brand. She stresses the importance of setting realistic goals, visualizing success, and embracing one's unique qualities.

Amelia Sordell is a Personal Brand Strategist, Entrepreneur and the Founder of Personal Branding Agency, Klowt. Amelia founded her first business at just 21 years old. Within 12 months of launching, Amelia’s womenswear brand was stocked in 12 retailers and had large retailers like ASOS courting her to sell the clothes. In year 2, Amelia lost everything.

Returning to the workforce, Amelia began a new career doing what she did best – sales. As a Tech Headhunter she quickly realised the quickest way to reach prospective clients was to market herself in the same way she marketed her business – using social media. This is where her journey in personal branding started. Now 34, Amelia has 2 children, a community online of over 250,000 people and has built a £1 million personal branding agency, Klowt all off the back of her personal brand.

From heavy early business failure, to now creating a whole new category of marketing, Amelia’s fast-growing agency, Klowt has already made a dent in the space operating on a 100% inbound model, working to build thought leadership and huge personal brands of leadership, founders and entrepreneurs globally. Get Klowt, Klowt’s membership product, democratises personal branding by helping individuals scale their personal brand without the use of an agency.

Dahlia is joined by Dr Amy Diehl to discuss the concept of 'Lookism' and 'Appearance bias'.

Amy explains her view on why we still see 'Glass Walls' which she describes as the invisible impediments that are not just above us but around us that restrict us based on gender bias.

Dahlia and Amy discuss how this extends into 'Lookism' and how societal expectations have created a 'lookism tax' and the power that can come from calling out bias and recognising how quick we are to judge based on appearances.

Amy's guidance discusses anticipating, removing and mitigating bias at all levels and the need for us to review these specific societal expectations to start to change behaviours and review why we feel the need to conform to certain pressures.

Amy Diehl, PhD, is an award-winning information technology leader, currently serving as Chief Information Officer at Wilson College in Chambersburg, PA. She is also a gender equity researcher and author of the new book Glass Walls: Shattering the Six Gender Bias Barriers Still Holding Women Back at Work. Her writing has appeared in numerous scholarly journal articles and book chapters as well as in Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Ms. Magazine. She is also a sought-after speaker, consultant, and lawsuit expert witness. Her passion is universal gender equality so that society and organizations can thrive and women can succeed.

Find her online at https://amy-diehl.com

Glass Walls book: https://amy-diehl.com/book

Connect with Amy: https://amy-diehl.com

Fast Company article: ‘Lookism’is alive and well and getting worse. Here’s why your appearance is judged morethan performance

Article on the "GroomingGap" by Mindy Isser with stats referenced for women's groomingcosts.