She Leads Collective Podcast
She Leads Collective Podcast
Podcast Description
Real stories. Bold conversations. Leadership that lifts everyone.Welcome to the She Leads Collective Podcast—a space where stories spark change, and lived experience becomes leadership wisdom. Each season, we rotate through three powerful themes:Real Models – conversations with inspiring women leaders and business owners who share the truth behind their success—the bias they’ve faced, the doubts they’ve overcome, and the wisdom they’ve gained. Allies – honest insights from men and women who are actively championing gender equity, revealing what true allyship looks like in action. The Undiscussables – the topics no one talks about, but everyone is impacted by—domestic violence, baby loss, harassment, poverty—and how they shape women’s presence, power, and potential at work.This podcast is for women in leadership, business owners, HR leaders, and change-makers who believe the workplace can—and must—be better for women.You’ll leave every episode with something real: inspiration, insight, and the courage to lead differently.Let’s change the conversation—together.
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Content Themes
The podcast rotates through three powerful themes: Real Models, which explores the journeys of women leaders sharing their challenges and successes; Allies, focusing on insights from those championing gender equity in workplaces; and The Undiscussables, addressing critical yet overlooked topics like domestic violence and harassment that affect women's roles and opportunities in the workplace.
What does it really take for women—and the people around them—to thrive at work?
She Leads Collective brings together women leaders and allies for bold, honest conversations about leadership, workplace culture and the realities that too often remain unspoken.
Through personal stories and practical insight, we explore:
Real Models — women sharing the reality behind their leadership journeys: the decisions, doubts, barriers and breakthroughs that shaped them.
Allies — men and women helping to create fairer, more inclusive workplaces, and what meaningful allyship looks like in practice.
The Undiscussables — the human experiences that influence how we lead and work, but rarely make it into conventional leadership conversations: caring responsibilities, health, identity, confidence, emotion, loss, power and belonging.
I’m Mary Gregory—Executive Coach, Leadership and Culture Consultant, Author, and host of She Leads Collective.
For more than 30 years, I’ve helped leaders understand themselves more deeply, navigate complexity and have a more positive impact on the people around them. I work with senior leaders who want to strengthen their confidence, influence and leadership range—and with organisations that want to build cultures where talented people can do their best work.
If something you hear in these conversations reflects a challenge you, your team or your organisation is facing, I’d be delighted to hear from you.
Find out more about working with me or start a conversation:
https://www.marygregory.com/
Better leadership creates workplaces where everyone has the opportunity to thrive.
What does it take to succeed as a woman in construction—and what does that success cost when you feel you have to protect yourself behind a tough exterior?
Faye Allen has spent more than three decades in the industry, often as one of very few women in the room. Now a senior global leader and author of Building Women: How Everyone in Construction Can Win, she joins executive leadership coach Mary Gregory for an honest conversation about ambition, belonging and the cultures we create at work.
Faye describes the “armadillo shell” she developed early in her career, the support that helped her become more herself, and an experience of persistent undermining that chipped away at her confidence.
Together, we explore:
• Why resilience can make it harder to recognise how much you are tolerating.
• Navigating organisational politics and setting boundaries.
• The difference supportive leadership makes.
• Owning mistakes and welcoming feedback as a senior leader.
• How women and men can become allies to one another.
• Flexible working, caring responsibilities and retaining talented women.
• Why healthier workplace cultures matter for everyone.
Drawing on her own experience and the research behind her book, Faye offers practical examples of leadership that combines high expectations with care for people.
For anyone leading a team, navigating a difficult workplace or working to make their industry more inclusive, this conversation offers plenty to reflect on.
Connect with Faye on LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/fayeallen/
Or go to Rimkus – https://rimkus.com/expert/faye-allen/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
Buy her book – Building Women: How Everyone in Construction Can Win is available in print, on Kindle and on Audible – https://amzn.eu/d/0aNOJCuw
Content note: This episode includes discussion of bullying, an abusive relationship, mental health and suicide bereavement.
Follow She Leads Collective for conversations about women’s leadership, allyship and the changes that help people thrive at work.
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