Dahlia is joined by Victoria Gullin Morelik, Smart Works' Head of Wardrobe to take a virtual step into the wardrobe that is built to clothe over 10,000 woman each year as part of their journey to employment.

Victoria shares the work that comes with building a wardrobe that needs to be fit for purpose to service multiple unique needs, be size inclusive and is reliant on donations.

As the longest standing member of the Smart Works charity Victoria shares her view of how the work has evolved over time and also her vision for Smart Works in the future. Victoria shares a personal view on the link between clothes and confidence and gives Dahlia her view on what it means to be well dressed and how rewarding it is to be able to offer that opportunity to others.

This series of Stressed But Well Dressed is recorded in collaboration with Smart Works. Stressed But Well Dressed brings conversations to life on the link between clothes and confidence, helping listeners to understand what it means to feel 'well dressed' and recognising that feeling starts from within. In each episode we will go behind the scenes of Smart Works sharing stories from CEO, coaches and clients and taking a look inside the wardrobe that will clothe over 10,000 women each year as part of their journey to employment .

Smart Works is a dynamic, high profile and fast-growing UK charity that exists to empower all women who need help getting into work. The charity’s service uses the power of high quality clothing and one-to-one coaching to help unemployed women fulfil their potential, get the job and transform their lives. Last year, Smart Works supported over 10,000 women through their service. 63% of these clients secured a job within one month of their appointment, gaining financial independence and transforming their lives. Since its founding in 2013, Smart Works has helped almost 50,000 women across the UK. The charity’s mission is that any woman who needs to use the service should be able to find her way to a Smart Works centre. The service is delivered in 11 centres across London, Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Newcastle, Reading and Leeds, and also offers virtual appointments to women outside of these areas. Smart Works Charity, Charity No: 1080609 @smartworkscharity www.smartworks.org.uk

All of our podcasts in this short series have been recorded at Yorkshire Podcast Studios. Located just off the M62 near the Leeds Ikea at Junction 27, they have a suite of studios ideal for your video and audio podcasting needs, as well as a video production team that specialises in website video production, social media and business video.

Find them at www.yorkshirepodcaststudios.com

Dahlia is joined by Anna Hemmings, Smart Works CEO to understand how the charity works and get Anna's view on the link between clothes and confidence.

Anna shares with Dahlia the work that Smart Works is doing in the community, her view on the growing demand for their services and the size of the opportunity to support women into employment across the UK.

Anna shares her personal view on where clothes have played a role in building her confidence, talking about how important it is to visualise yourself in a role as a part of the preparation for an interview. Dahlia and Anna discuss the need for people to be supported to build their inner confidence and to be helped to understand how to identify the skills they have that help them in an interview setting.

AS CEO of Smart Works Anna Hemmings is a transformational leader with over two decades of experience driving significant change and growth in complex organizations across the health and social care sectors. Throughout her career, she has led organizations through remarkable periods of expansion, consistently delivering strategic vision while enhancing reach and impact for beneficiaries. Her expertise spans development of innovative service models, creation of inclusive organizational cultures, and implementation of effective governance frameworks. With a proven track record of quintupling organizational turnover and tripling service reach, Anna brings deep expertise in organizational transformation, coupled with a passionate commitment to delivering measurable social impact and positive change for underserved communities.

This series of Stressed But Well Dressed is recorded in collaboration with Smart Works. Stressed But Well Dressed brings conversations to life on the link between clothes and confidence, helping listeners to understand what it means to feel 'well dressed' and recognising that feeling starts from within. In each episode we will go behind the scenes of Smart Works sharing stories from CEO, coaches and clients and taking a look inside the wardrobe that will clothe over 10,000 women each year as part of their journey to employment .

Smart Works is a dynamic, high profile and fast-growing UK charity that exists to empower all women who need help getting into work. The charity’s service uses the power of high quality clothing and one-to-one coaching to help unemployed women fulfil their potential, get the job and transform their lives. Last year, Smart Works supported over 10,000 women through their service. 63% of these clients secured a job within one month of their appointment, gaining financial independence and transforming their lives. Since its founding in 2013, Smart Works has helped almost 50,000 women across the UK. The charity’s mission is that any woman who needs to use the service should be able to find her way to a Smart Works centre. The service is delivered in 11 centres across London, Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Newcastle, Reading and Leeds, and also offers virtual appointments to women outside of these areas. Smart Works Charity, Charity No: 1080609 @smartworkscharity www.smartworks.org.uk

All of our podcasts in this short series have been recorded at Yorkshire Podcast Studios. Located just off the M62 near the Leeds Ikea at Junction 27, they have a suite of studios ideal for your video and audio podcasting needs, as well as a video production team that specialises in website video production, social media and business video.

Find them at www.yorkshirepodcaststudios.com

Dahlia Stroud is joined by Dolly Jones ex Director at Vogue and Conde Nast, Consultant and author of 'Leaving the Ladder Down' A funny, practical and crucial guide for women facing the life-changing prospect of returning to work after having children.

Dolly joins Dahlia to discuss her experience as the Director of Vogue.com, what she wore to work in Conde Nast and what it means to author a book aimed at celebrating and supporting women during their pregnancy and return to work.

The conversation includes Dolly's view on how becoming a parent shapes your identity, her reflections on what she wore when she returned to Vogue after maternity and why it mattered then and how she feels about it now. Dolly and Dahlia also discuss the broader link between clothes and confidence and how clothes can dramatically influence how you feel. Dolly shares the words she used to tell her boss she was pregnant, what she has learnt about becoming a parent and her proudest moments as a mother and the webcam that started #todayiamwearing on Vogue.com.

Dolly Jones is a journalist and creative digital consultant with over twenty years of experience. She started her career at British Vogue doing work experience in 1999 before going on to lead its digital operations for fifteen years. She has worked and written extensively across Conde Nast’s full portfolio, including publications such as Vanity Fair, GQ and Tatler. Since leaving Conde Nast in 2018, she runs her own creative digital strategy business. Dolly lives in London with her husband and two children.

Dahlia is joined by Lauren Tetenbaum to discuss the link between stress and dress from the perspective of a therapist. The conversation includes specific insight into how it feels to manage transitions in your life - particularly looking at Lauren's research on female reproductive health, midlife, perimenopause and menopause.

Dahlia and Lauren discuss how it feels to be out of control and recognising how important it is to understand what you can control, place value on your achievements and celebrate the small wins everyday.

Lauren advises that it is vital to find small ways to seek out joy, levity and laughter everyday and that balance is a long game.

She gives practical tips for stress management, shares her own toxic trait and her opinion on the value of well dressed through difficult times.

Lauren A. Tetenbaum, LCSW, JD, PMH-C ("The CounseLaur") is a mom of two, a writer, and licensed clinical social worker specializing in supporting women. Through her counselling practice, Lauren provides therapy in NY, NJ, CT, and FL, facilitates groups and workshops to empower postpartum and other women in corporate settings, and contributes to media on topics like women's reproductive mental health, gender equity, and working parenthood. A former lawyer and a forever women’s rights advocate, Lauren feels privileged to counsel women through life transitions when they most need and deserve support. Her first book, MillennialMenopause: Preparing for Perimenopause, Menopause, and Life's Next Period,will be published in July 2025. Connect with Lauren on Instagram (@thecounselaur),on LinkedIn, or by email at Lauren@TheCounseLaur.com.

Dahlia is joined by Victoria Jenkins founder of Unhidden, an adaptive fashion brand focused on making fashion more accessible universally.

Victoria joins Dahlia to share her work as a designer and to discuss the behind the scenes on the range of adaptive clothing she designed for Primark which is now sold across multiple markets.

Dahlia and Victoria discuss the need for inclusive fashion and what it means to create products that are universal and can be worn by everyone. Victoria shares the impact she is making through her seat on the British Fashion Council and how she is working to help to normalise inclusive design.

Victoria shares her own style journey and her perspective on clothes and confidence on the show.

Victoria Jenkins, founder of award-winning adaptive fashion brand Unhidden, has changed the retail landscape, launching a men’s and women’s adaptive collection with Primark making fashionaccessible to every body.

Victoria is a disability advocate, Tedx speaker,author, on multiple Charity boards as well as Co Chair of the ‘Lilac Review.

Victoria has been voted UK's 2nd most influential disabled person by The Shaw Trust 2 years running on their Disability Power 100 list.

Dahlia is joined by Tony Miller, a marketing expert who has held multiple CMO and lead marketing roles working at brands including Disney, Weightwatchers.

Tony and Dahlia discuss what it means to get into the character of a role and how Tony has built his personal brand over time. Tony now works in interim roles supporting organisations with marketing transformations and he talks to Dahlia about how it feels to consistently step into new cultures and balance retaining his own personal brand and becoming a part of the organisation he is working with.

As always Tony and Dahlia talk about the link between clothes and confidence, Tony's perspective on well dressed and a special discussion on their favourite Disney character and their love/hate relationship with fancy dress!

Tony Miller is CMO, marketing and digital transformation consultant, Non-Exec Board Chairfor the DMA (Data Marketing Association), and most recently appointed asInterim CMO for Direct Line Group. He is a proven and highly regarded businessleader specialising in brand building, performance marketing, and digitaltransformation with significant experience managing scaled, fast growth,complex, global businesses - across all channels and industry sectors.
He's spent life on the agency side as Managing Partner at Havas Heliabefore moving to client side as VP Digital Marketing, EMEA for The Walt DisneyCompany, CMO for Weight Watchers, and Interim CMO for HargreavesLansdown.

He'sbeen awarded Top 20 in The Performance Marketing World 100 Powerlist, MarketingWeek’s Top 100 Most Effective Marketers in the UK, and Data IQ's MostInfluential People in Data.

Dahlia is joined by Dr Heather McKee (Behaviour Change Specialist) to discuss the link between our clothes, our habits and our outlook on life.

The discussion includes Heather's view on how creating a habit of getting dressed in the things we love can have a positive impact on our mindset. Dahlia and Heather also discuss how challenging it is to form and break habits and how to get into the habit of living a positive, healthier. Heather shares tips on how to get habitual about creating positive moments and the conversation includes a reality check around why so often we have a negativity bias and how to break it.

Dr Heather McKee is known as Europe’s leading lifestyle behaviour change specialist, keynote speaker and founder of https://www.drheatherspeaks.com/ Having studied healthbehaviour change psychology for 10 years, her mission is to offer a sustainable, evidence-based alternative to an industry saturated with quick fixes and health fads.

Globally she has worked with over 100+ companies in 15+industries to create evidence-based wellness programs, deliver keynote talks on how to create a sustainable lifestyle change and help people find joy in theirhealthy habits. Past clients include lululemon, booking.com, Starbucks, Rituals, Unilever, HSBC, andSainsbury's.

Dr McKee’s research has been published internationally in leading academic journals, as well as featuring in Time magazine, Vogue, Huffington Post, The Times, and LA Times.

Website: www.drheathermckee.co.uk

Linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/drheathermckee/

Dahlia is joined by Simone Oloman, Co-Founder and CEO ofNIFT (Need It For Tonight).

Simone shares the NIFT story, the reason why they built thebrand, their purpose and the reality of behind the scenes as a founder in the space where tech and fashion meet. NIFT is about switching up customer behaviour from shopping ‘fast fashion’ to making ‘fashion fast’ whilst protecting quality, sustainability and a shop local mindset.

Dahlia and Simone discuss the future of retail, the workthat NIFT is doing to keep the high street alive and the value of creating a customer experience that extends past the transaction. Simone gets really honest about her learning as one half of the NIFT founding team, what it takesto build a new proposition and the vision for the future.

As CEO and co-founder of Need It For Tonight (NIFT), Simoneis passionate about reshaping the fashion landscape through tech innovation,making quality fashion more accessible and immediate. NIFT has pioneered a 90 minute delivery service with optional, complimentary personal styling, creatingwhat many call ‘Deliveroo for quality fashion’ in London. Their proprietary technology seamlessly integrates with retailers, allowing them to join our platform in minutes and reach new audiences with ease. Simone has been recognised among Retail Week’s Top 50 Leaders 2024.