In this episode of Wild, Wise & Working, Jackie is joined by Catherine-Ann Reid, founder and CEO of Doqit – a smart life admin app designed to help people organise their documents, manage deadlines, and reduce the invisible mental load of modern life. Catherine Ann's route to the startup world came not from a tech background, but from 30 years in B2B sales and communications, combined with the very personal experience of knowing that something had to change.

Together, Jackie and Catherine Ann walk through the full entrepreneurial journey: from the lightbulb moment and years of quiet research, through the unexpected gift that Covid gave to a business built for a newly digital world, to the pivots, the investor conversations, and the hard-won wisdom of building something meaningful later in life.

This is an honest, energising conversation about resilience, reinvention, and why experience really is your competitive advantage.

Covered in this episode:

• The backstory: 30+ years in communications, a late-in-life baby, a divorce and a daughter with a rare genetic condition
• The life admin lightbulb moment and the £100 late tax return that sparked it
• Why the problem isn't disorganisation: it's the explosion of fragmented digital life
• The investor question that stumped her – and how Covid answered it overnight
• Navigating the shift from B2B confidence to B2C reality
• Defining the ideal customer: meet Jennifer, 39, married, working full-time, and desperate to reclaim her weekends
• How Doqit works: documents, deadlines, reminders, and secure sharing
• The realities of building a business as a lone parent with caring responsibilities

About my guest: Catherine Ann Reid

Catherine Ann Reid is the founder and CEO of Doqit, a life admin management platform born from personal frustration with disorganised paperwork and the very real cost of dropping life's admin balls. A FinTech Scotland Innovation Challenge winner, she has spent over 30 years in B2B sales, communications and strategy – and is living proof that it's never too late to build something remarkable.

Catherine-Ann on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherineannreid/
Doqit – try it free for 7 days: https://www.doqit.io/

Mentioned in this episode: Ideas Fest – the UK's 'Glastonbury for Entrepreneurs': https://ideasfest.uk/

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If you've been sitting on a business idea for months (or years), turning it over in your mind but not taking action, this episode is for you. Because the reason most women never act on their idea isn't lack of passion or ambition, it's not knowing where to start. So on this special episode, Jackie gives you exactly that: a clear, practical framework built around five key questions that every successful founder – whether they knew it or not – has had to answer before their business existed.

Drawing on conversations with previous guests including Kim at Auris Tech, Gillian at Peachaus, Jane at Sona, Angela at Eve Biology and Lise at Walking This Way, Jackie identifies the patterns that connect them all and explains you how to apply those lessons to your own idea, right now.

Coming up in this episode:

• Why having an idea is not the same as having a business
• The one-sentence test that tells you if your idea is ready (and what to do if it isn't)
• Why nobody is going to steal your idea and why sharing it is your best next move
• The difference between a unique idea and a unique angle
• What a "moat" is and why your business needs one
• Why no competition in your market is a red flag, not a green one
• The honest truth about money, pricing and why passion without profit is just a hobby
• How to overcome imposter syndrome and back yourself when self-doubt creeps in
• A special offer: the first five listeners to get in touch get a free half-hour call with Jackie

The Five Questions:

1. What's your idea – and can you actually solve the problem?
2. Why hasn't this been done before – and who else is doing it?
3. What's the market you're walking into?
4. Why are you the right person to build this?
5. What's the commercial model – and how does the money actually work?

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Jane’s career is anything but ordinary. From starting out as a medical biochemist to working internationally in senior leadership roles, sitting on boards across healthcare and renewable energy, and even interning at NASA, her path has been driven by curiosity and a desire to solve meaningful problems.

But it wasn’t until later in life – after raising a family and building a successful corporate career – that Jane paused to ask a deeper question: what legacy do I want to leave behind?

What followed was a bold move into the world of deep tech, a space rarely occupied by women in their 50s. Driven by a growing fascination with the role of stress in chronic illness, Jane set out to understand what stress is really doing to our bodies – and more importantly, what we can do about it.

This conversation is a powerful exploration of reinvention, courage and the realities of building something from scratch. It’s also a fascinating insight into the science of the vagus nerve, the future of preventative health and why your next chapter might be your most impactful yet.

Coming up in this episode:

•  The moment in midlife that sparked the question: what’s my next legacy?
•  Why stress is still overlooked in modern healthcare – and why that needs to change 
•  Moving “upstream” of illness and rethinking how we approach chronic conditions 
•  The unexpected discovery of the vagus nerve – and its link to stress regulation 
•  Turning a two-page idea into a deep tech product (that started life in a shoebox) 
•  The reality of building a business: persistence, problem-solving and “professional begging” 
•  Why networks, not just ideas, are the real superpower in your 50s 
•  Courage as an uncomfortable but essential part of entrepreneurship 
•  Launching Sona – and the emotional reality of finally bringing a product to life 
•  Why your 50s might be the perfect time to build something meaningful

About My Guest: Jane Ollis

Jane Ollis is the founder of Sona, an innovative health tech company developing an AI-powered vagus nerve stimulation device to help reduce stress and improve sleep.

With a background in medical biochemistry and a career spanning senior leadership roles across healthcare, energy and innovation, Jane has spent decades working at the intersection of science and real-world impact. She has also served on boards across the NHS, government and private sector.

Now, she’s combining that experience to tackle one of the biggest – and most overlooked – challenges in modern health: chronic stress. Through Sona, Jane is on a mission to bring personalised, preventative solutions to millions, starting with a simple but powerful idea – helping people feel better, every day.

Connect with Jane

• Website: https://sona.help/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/janeollis/

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What followed wasn't a pivot so much as a homecoming, back to an idea she'd sketched out on a beach in Melbourne in 2016, back to the belief that fashion could be a force for good and back to underwear: the category she'd fallen in love with at M&S and never quite let go of.

Jackie and Gillian's chat explores the gap between external success and internal fulfilment, the anxiety Gillian had hidden behind a capable exterior for years and the slow, determined process of building something that actually aligned with who she is. It's also a masterclass in listening to your customers, from a blackboard outside a teepee at a wellness festival to bra fits in WeWork offices. and following the evidence wherever it leads.

Coming up in this episode:

• From trainee buyer to Topshop Fashion Director, and what the high street lost when the golden era ended
• Leading Topshop through Covid, the sale to Asos, and what came after
• The anxiety hidden behind a high-flying career, and the moment something had to change
• The Pinterest boards, the deck and the six-year slow burn to launching Peachaus
• Why fashion can be a force for good, and what that actually means in practice
• How the name Peachaus came about, and the deeper meaning behind it
• The pivot from online brand to bra-fitting service and why the customers made it obvious
• What a blackboard outside a teepee tent at a wellness festival taught Gillian about her business
• Why most women are wearing the wrong bra size, and the health consequences nobody talks about
• Peachaus's partnership with CoppaFeel and the move into women's workplace wellness

About My Guest: Gillian Ridley Whittle

Gillian Ridley Whittle is the founder of Peachaus, an ethical lingerie and women's wellness brand. With over 25 years in fashion retail — including director-level roles at Marks & Spencer, Debenhams, Target Australia and Topshop — she launched Peachaus to put comfort, care and community at the heart of an industry that had lost its way. Peachaus now operates a bra-fitting service for corporate clients alongside its product range, and Gillian is building it into a national — and eventually global — movement.

Peachaus website: https://peachaus.com/
Gillian on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gillian-ridley-whittle-89a62313/

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Angela shares the moment she walked out of her doctor's surgery and decided she wasn't done. She talks candidly about navigating perimenopause alongside an autoimmune condition, becoming her own guinea pig, and the research rabbit hole that led her to build Eve Biology from the ground up. It's a story of rage turned into purpose and a business born out of refusing to accept that her best years were behind her.

The conversation digs into the science of midlife nutrition in an accessible, eye-opening way - from the role of adaptogens in calming anxiety and improving sleep, to why sugar becomes a bigger issue post-menopause, and why oestrogen loss puts women's heart health at real risk. Angela also gets refreshingly practical about building a product business: the regulatory hurdles, the power of focus groups, and why trusting your own instincts matters more than following everyone else's advice.

Covered in this episode:

• Angela's GP appointment that changed everything, and why she refused the antidepressants
• How women are shuffled out of their careers by unrecognised perimenopause symptoms
• Becoming her own guinea pig: a year of self-experimentation with nutrition and supplements
• What adaptogens are, how they work, and why ashwagandha was a game-changer for Angela
• The link between falling oestrogen, cortisol, anxiety and sleeplessness
• Why your nutritional needs change significantly in midlife - and the small tweaks that make a big difference
• The surprising findings from Eve Biology's focus group - and what the customers taught Angela
• Sugar, heart health and why oestrogen loss matters more than most doctors let on
• The content challenge every product business underestimates
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About My Guest: Angela Patton

Angela Patton is the founder of Eve Biology, a science-backed nutrition brand designed for women in midlife. With a background in digital marketing and strategy, Angela combined her professional expertise with hard-won personal experience to identify a gap the supplements industry had long ignored: women over 40. Eve Biology launched in 2023 and now ships across Europe and the US.

• Eve Biology website: https://www.evebiolog.com/ 
• Angela on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelaevebiology/

They talk honestly about the 'clusterf**k' that so many women navigate in their 40s and 50s: the sandwich generation, perimenopause, teenage children pulling away and aging parents pulling closer. But threaded through all of it is a real sense of possibility and purpose.

The conversation covers the challenges of the sandwich generation and spans from Lise's journey  running a 150-person talent tech business – wrestling with imposter syndrome in a bigger body – to completing a gruelling 100km Trail Walker across the South Downs, which sparked her Instagram account @walking_this_way. 

You'll find out about Lise's 'Welcome Home' project, housing single mothers and asylum seekers, and her work teaching midlife women how to invest through 'The Money Conversation'.

And then, of course, there's Lise's naked photo shoots – a powerful and hilarious exercise in body acceptance.

Covered in this episode:

• The midlife pivot and the 'clusterf**k' – menopause, teenage children, aging parents and more
• Why midlife is the time to make new friends – and let some old ones go
• Lise's journey from tech entrepreneur with imposter syndrome to Instagram community builder
• The founding story of @walking_this_way and the 100km South Downs Trail Walker
• Naked photo shoots and body acceptance
• The Welcome Home Project – housing homeless single mothers and asylum seekers
• Why midlife women need to start investing, and why it's never too late
• Bob – the voice in your head, and how to make peace with it

About My Guest: Lise Thorne

Lise Thorne is an entrepreneur, community builder, fellow podcast host and fierce advocate for midlife women. She founded Dynamic Futures, a talent tech organisation, in 2005 and grew it to a team of 150 people before her entrepreneurial journey took a more personal turn – training for the 100km South Downs Trail Walker, discovering the power of movement, and creating @walking_this_way.

She hosts The Walking This Way Podcast, runs The Money Conversation – teaching midlife women how to invest – and founded the Welcome Home Project. 
Lise on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/walking_this_way/
Walking This Way Podcast: https://walkingthisway.transistor.fm/
Lise on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lise-thorne-4101686/
The Welcome Home Project: https://livinginmagazines.co.uk/the-welcome-home-project/

Business shout outs:
Louise Jowsey: https://www.linkedin.com/in/louisejowsey/

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In this episode of Wild, Wise & Working, Jackie is joined by Kim Antoniou – award-winning entrepreneur and founder of Kafoodle, Auris Tech and Fonetti – to explore how midlife women can reinvent themselves, build purpose-led businesses, and create work that genuinely makes a difference.

Kim’s journey into tech didn’t come from a traditional background. Instead, it grew out of real-world challenges, curiosity, and a determination to design solutions that put people first. Together, Jackie and Kim talk candidly about confidence, courage, age, and what it really takes to start again in your 40s and beyond.

This is an episode for anyone who’s ever thought: “I’ve got more to give… I’m just not sure where to start.”

About my guest

Kim Antoniou is an award-winning entrepreneur and founder whose work focuses on designing meaningful technology that solves real problems and improves lives. Her companies span innovation, assurance, and tech-for-good – all rooted in deep listening, collaboration, and lived experience.
Kim's LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kim-antoniou/
Kafoodle: https://www.kafoodle.com/
Auris Tech: https://www.auris.tech/
Fonetti: https://www.fonetti.com/

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This show is for women who feel there’s still something more to achieve, something they’ve been dreaming of or putting off for years. Whether it’s reinventing your career, chasing a personal challenge, or embracing a fulfilling second half of life, this is your space to explore, learn, and be inspired.

In Episode 1, I take you through my journey:

• Working as Brand Director of Topman, taking part in the launch of Topshop Oxford Circus in 1999 - the biggest and most popular destination fashion store in the world at the time.
• Facing life-changing challenges, including my husband’s serious illness, breast cancer, financial setbacks and caring for aging parents.
• Reinventing my life, flying solo and discovering what it truly means to live your best life in your second act.
• Why being wild, wise, and working isn’t about recklessness or grinding, it’s about freedom, drawing on your experience, and actively participating in life.

I also share:

• How this podcast will feature inspirational women entrepreneurs, leaders and change-makers.
• Opportunities for listeners to share your stories, ask questions, or even have your business featured on the show.
• A glimpse of the exciting episodes to come, starting with a 65-year-old tech entrepreneur tackling global literacy challenges.

Whether you’re feeling lost, curious or ready for your next chapter, this episode sets the tone for a podcast that celebrates resilience, courage, and reinvention.

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If you’re in your 40s, 50s or 60s and feeling that familiar pull - the itch that your next chapter could be your best one - this show is for you.

In each episode, Jackie sits down with extraordinary women who’ve ripped up the rulebook and reinvented their careers: founders, leaders, creatives and changemakers who’ve taken decades of resilience, experience and hard-won wisdom and transformed it into something remarkable.

You can expect:

• Honest conversations about pivots, plot twists and moments of self-doubt
• Practical insights you can apply to your own second act
• Mindset shifts to help you see midlife as a launch pad - not a deadline
• Inspiring stories of reinvention, courage and possibility

If you’re ready to feel empowered, motivated and reminded of just how powerful you already are, hit follow and come along for the journey.

Your next chapter starts here.

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