#102 Here's To The 'Wilder' Women; An Interview with Nicky Denson-Elliot of The Wilder Collective

Nicky is a serial entrepreneur, founder of The Wilder Collective, host of the Women’s Business podcast, and Mum of two children. Everything Nicky does is about lifting the voices of female founders, and she is here to empower her community of women to break down conventional norms and become free to explore the lives and careers they want — that bit WILDER.Through her podcast, public speaking and writing Nicky loves to explore the topic of learnt sexism — our inherent and programmed self-hatred and limiting beliefs. Learnt sexism doesn’t sound like hate — it sounds like: ‘I’m not ready.’ ‘She’s too much.’ or ‘I could never.’ Those are the beliefs she is ready to dismantle so that women can support each other, AND own their power.(I connected with Nicky on Instagram and invited her on because, as you can probably tell, she totally speaks my language!)TRIGGER WARNING: From 45 minutes 20 seconds to 48 minutes and 20 seconds, Nicky speaks about having a difficult pregnancy, birth and their recovery.In this episode we speak about:a bit about Nicky and what she doeshow multifaceted we are as women/peoplethe mother load that can often seem invisible to somethe Barbie movie and our favourite moments in the film (not the monologue)hobbies that nourish us, whatever age we areadvocating for our kidsNicky's beautiful WHY behind 'The Wilder Ones'learnt sexism against other women and the harm it can causechanging her name back to use her birth name and the feelings and discussions around thisNicky's experience of pregnancy, birth and early motherhood (see trigger warning at the top)Themes: anger, burlesque, feminism, creativity, matrescence, the sister wound, birth traumaWe mention Ana Forrest, Minna Dubin, Gabor Maté, Greta Gerwig and Zoe Charles.To learn more about Nicky see here on Instagram. And here for her website; The Wilder Collective. And her podcast is 'Women's Business' so do look it up.At the end, I read a poem written by Donna Ashworth.Did you enjoy this episode? If so, I would really appreciate it if you could please leave a review on the platform that you listen.For more insights and to contact me you can find me on Instagram, and/or on my website: www.lucywyldecoaching.com.