Maria Humphreys is the host and producer of the StrongBodyStrongSoul podcast. She is a meditation teacher, inspirational speaker and social media community builder with a focus on the Podcast Support Community. Nearly 10K strong, Maria believes that every voice matters.

Maria’s philosophy is that respect, support, encouragement and revealing who you really are will draw the right audience and collaborations.

She joins Louisa “Wizzi” Magnussen to discuss The Business of Improving the World through Audio…

Angela De Souza is one of the leading female entrepreneurs of our day. As Founder and CEO of Women’s Business Club she has helped thousands of business owners and fellow entrepreneurs launch, grow and exit their ventures, improve their confidence and make an impact in the business world globally. 

On the 8th March 2023 we celebrate International Women’s Day so today Louisa “Wizzi” Magnussen has invited Angela back on Connections Radio to discuss the purpose of this day on The Business of International Women’s Day…

Adrian Ashton never thought he’d be made homeless by floods (twice!) – but whilst trying to recover his business and continue to support his family through the process, he somehow managed both times to inspire national campaigns and broker additional support to fellow local businesses.

Living out of 3 bags during the week and always looking for the next sofa to crash on and plug socket to recharge the laptop. And spending weekends in a bedsit with his family for 6 months was tough going, but he didn’t think any of his clients noticed any loss in quality of his service to them as a business consultant.

Adrian joins Louisa “Wizzi” Magnussen to discuss The Business of Surviving Flooding…

Simon is a serial entrepreneur, tech-savvy, and a trained teacher, Helene is a certified coach, Enneagram practitioner and knows all about feelings. Both are experienced speakers, facilitators and love people.

For the last 15 years, they have coached and mentored hundreds of people offline around friendships and the Enneagram, and now seemed the right time to get even louder.

Their everyday life happens in Copenhagen, Denmark, and is filled with city life, their two kids, serving in their local church, and all the messiness of being a human. They love to laugh, be REAL, and experience all that Copenhagen has to offer.

They join Louisa “Wizzi” Magnussen to discuss The Business of Friendships…

Emma Payne is the Founder and CEO of Grief Coach, an innovative service that delivers personalised grief support via text message, which is now a free service across the UK. 

Grief Coach combines Emma’s passion for mobile technology and engagement, with her deep commitment to providing affordable, accessible, and personal grief support. 

An MIT graduate and best-selling author who started building online communities before Netscape was born, Emma knows that, while grief is hard, it’s a little easier when we have people by our side.

Emma joins Louisa “Wizzi” Magnussen today to discuss the business of grief and loss…


Gill Seaton-Jardine is a Counsellor/Psychotherapist with over 20 years’ experience working with all ages, including young children.

During these years she wrote and presented a ten-week course on emotional literacy to pre school age children to help them understand theirs, and others, feelings and is here with Louisa “Wizzi” Magnussen to discuss The Business of… Emotional Literacy.

Andy Valde is a designer, musician, food lover and aspiring entrepreneur that has a special project going on entirely focused on sandwiches. He is connecting people across the world over one simple topic: “What’s a sandwich?”. His mission is to determine what a sandwich is one bite at a time. 

From executive chefs and celebrities to hard working and fun individuals — it seems, we all have the same love of sandwiches.

This is the Business of Sandwiches…

Gill Seaton-Jardine has over 20 years’ professional experience in adult, adolescent and child counselling and professional supervision and works  in schools alongside running her private practice, GSJ Counselling, based in Surrey. 

Gill has featured on The Business of… before where we discussed adult counselling and in another episode the emotional literacy programme she wrote for young children. Today she joins me again to discuss the Business of School Counselling…

Heidi Lesiw is a certified empowerment coach for women and founder of Coaching with Heidi. 

She supports ambitious, high-achieving women to feel more empowered, increase self-belief and show up as their authentic self so that they can confidently go after the life they truly want, desire and deserve.

Heidi worked in corporate sales for 7+ years and during the pandemic realised that she wasn’t truly living in alignment herself and set out to find her calling and work for herself as a solopreneur. She joins Louisa “Wizzi” Magnussen to discuss the Business of Female Empowerment & Authenticity…

Dr. Dawn Menge has been teaching students with severe cognitive delays for over twenty years, mentors & lectures graduate students and specialises in curriculum and instruction.

Dawn has won seventy International awards as the published author of the Queen Vernita’s Educational Series and Dragon’s Breath, including the Special Recognition Champion Award from Conquering Disabilities with Film, Best Written Word from Miracle Makers Film, Hollywood Dreams Film and International Author Boss Award from Power Conversations Magazine. 

Dawn has a PHD in Education, holds a Master’s and a Clear Credential in Moderate/Severe Disabilities and a Bachelor’s Degree in Human Development and joins Louisa “Wizzi” Magnussen to discuss the Business of Special Education…