The PoWEr of Persistence: How Siwan Reclaimed Her Story

The brilliant Siwan Smith joins the We Are PoWEr Podcast - this time as a 2024 Northern PoWEr Women Future List star, 2025 Awards judge, and an unstoppable voice for inclusion, courage, and creativity.In this episode, Siwan opens up about surviving sexual assault and two brain tumours, and how therapy, family support, and fierce inner strength helped her rebuild not just her health, but her identity. Now Inclusion and Diversity Manager at Princes, she’s on a mission to make workplaces better - for colleagues, customers, and communities alike.Siwan shares the emotional impact of physical changes, how she developed an eating disorder during recovery, and why her greatest healing came from small steps, honesty, and showing up for herself. She also reveals the unlikely joy she finds in Just Dance battles (which she always wins), and why her super PoWEr is thinking outside the box, especially when life refuses to play fair.From pain to purpose, this is a story of perseverance, perspective, and the quiet power of not giving up.In this episode:Being named to the 2024 Northern PoWEr Women Future ListJudging the 2025 Northern PoWEr Women AwardsSurviving sexual assault and reclaiming identityThe healing power of therapy and small stepsBeing diagnosed with a brain tumour on graduation dayBody image, weight stigma, and eating disorder recoveryStaying positive when life isn’t fairWinning at Just Dance (and why her goddaughters won’t play anymore)Her super PoWEr: thinking outside the boxTrigger warning: This episode contains discussions of sexual assault. Please take care while listening.Find out more about We Are PoWEr here.  💫