Wild and Wiser
The Wild & Wiser Collective
Our community of women bringing grounding, creativity, energy and wisdom to your Wild & Wiser weekend.
Good Girl Deprogramming
Michelle Minnikin
Michelle Minnikin is a Chartered Organisational Psychologist, coach, author, speaker, and Co-Founder of The Deprogramming Company. With more than 25 years of experience in leadership and organisational development, she specialises in helping women and workplaces unlearn the deeply ingrained social conditioning that keeps people stuck in cycles of burnout, perfectionism, and self-silencing.​
Alongside this work, Michelle is developing The Pleasure Priestess – an emerging strand of her practice focused on reclaiming desire, embodiment, and aliveness after years of self-suppression.
​What Wild & Wiser means to me?
“For me, Wild & Wiser is what becomes possible when we deprogramme from all those Good Girl roles we never signed up for. It’s the calm, anchored confidence that comes from trusting yourself, honouring desire, and refusing to be knocked sideways by other people’s noise. No hardening. No performing. Just a woman who’s stopped abandoning herself and come back to who she is – with clarity, self-trust, and care.”​
Power to Speak
Jackie Goddard
Jackie is a public speaking coach, speaker, and founder of Power to Speak. With 30 years’ experience across the arts, as a former fashion designer, actor, and acting coach- she brings a grounded, human approach to helping people find confidence in their voice.
She works with entrepreneurs, leaders, and teams, regularly coaching TEDx speakers and teaching acting skills to Stunt Trainees at Pinewood Studios. Jackie is currently writing a public speaking handbook, 30 Things to Think About… Public Speaking.
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What Wild & Wiser means to me?
“Wild & Wiser is about reclaiming our voice - not to perform, but to speak with honesty and self-trust. It’s when women can let go of perfection, reconnect with their body and breath, and feel confident being seen and heard exactly as they are.”​
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Katie N Brand Photography
Katie Needle
Katie has been photographing women for over 17 years - helping them to feel more confident and re-energised about their online marketing with vibrant, colourful and YOU-oozing brand images.
Getting you to #SayNoToBoringHeadshots and to LOVE, not just like, photos of yourself is at the heart of all of the work she does.
Starting as a family studio photographer in her 20’s to self-employment since 2013 and focussing solely on brand photography for the last 5 years.
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What Wild & Wiser means to me?
“Being wild & wiser means embracing all aspects of myself and not hiding away elements of my personality that I might fear others could judge. Wiser in my 40's to know that being wild, weird and wonderful and YOURSELF is where the best bits lie - letting go and being in the moment.”​
Author & Coach
Eleanor Tweedell
Eleanor Tweddell is a change specialist who helps people and teams turn uncertainty into a creative opportunity. Founder of Another Door, she works at the intersection of leadership, transformation, and reinvention, creating space to think through the messiness when things shift.
After 20 years in senior corporate roles, Eleanor experienced redundancy first-hand and used it as a catalyst to build a business dedicated to navigating transition. She’s the author of Another Door Opens and Why Losing Your Job Could Be the Best Thing That Ever Happened to You and a trusted voice on change for organisations including Channel 4, BAFTA, and Soho House.
​What Wild & Wiser means to me?
"We need more Wild in our life, wild ideas, wild thoughts, wild conversations, guided by wisdom, you know, so we don't completely blow the house down!"
The Triple Shift
Emma Thomas
Emma is a coach and works mainly with people navigating change: whether that is stepping into new leadership roles, returning to work after parental leave, leading organisational change, career pivots, or grappling with peri/menopause at work.
She is also the host of the successful Middling Along Podcast for women in midlife.
She loves supporting people through times of change, transition and transformation. Creating space for people to have breakthrough lightbulb moments is a huge joy. Her podcast is a combination of clarity, inspiration and education sprinkled with a dash of humour and humanity in a world of overwhelm and misinformation.
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What Wild & Wiser means to me?
“ Being Wild & Wiser means really trusting myself, being playful and taking risks. It means saying No to enough that I can say Yes to the things that light me up."​
MindFuelBody & Rooted Calm Hypnotherapy
Tamara Miller
Through 1:1 coaching, workshops, and retreats, Tamara helps women build resilience, confidence, and trust in themselves - not to fix what’s broken, but to come home to who they already are through mindful movement, hypnotherapy, nutrition, and nature-led practices. Her work is shaped by her own journey and a deep belief in creating safe, spacious environments where women can slow down, listen inward, and reconnect with their innate strength and intuition.
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What Wild & Wiser means to me?
“Wild & Wiser represents the meeting point between intuition and insight - allowing ourselves to be guided by the body, by nature, and by lived experience, while honouring the wisdom we’ve gathered along the way.
It's about creating space to soften, to listen, and to trust what we already know deep down. A space where women can let their wise, wild woman come to life again - choosing connection over comparison, presence over pressure, and allowing ourselves to be fully human: rooted, curious, and alive.”​
Co Founder of Perfect Party Tents
Fiona Bardwell (on the left)
Fi spent most of her life as a Hospitality professional, so there's not a lot she doesn't understand about people pleasing! When becoming Mum to two amazing, but NHS dependent, children - everything changed for her. Staying flexible for appointments became an absolute essential and so it was that she ended up creating her own work life. Heidi then walked in to her life and together they started Perfect Party Tents. Along the way she created a local Women in Business Network (now being looked after by other fabulous women) and with Heidi they have gone on from strength to strength fuelled by our belief that there is nothing we can't do. In an industry heavily populated by men, we are the changing face of that.
​What Wild & Wiser means to me?
"I think for me it is about believing in your own power and knowing that perfection isn't real. It's wonderful to aspire to big things - never stop that, but to understand that those big things doesn't make the person you are now, today is wonderful. Remember that to someone - you are already living the dream they are aspiring to have. Enjoy who you are today and leave things you can't change alone. "
Co Founder of Perfect Party Tents and Farmer
Heidi Pounder (on the right)
Heidi is passionate about her farm and every life she comes into contact with. With a drive that can't be rivalled, nobody knows where she gets her energy from. With a background in various industries she is now a 3rd Generation farmer (her brothers didn't want to go into it) and so her life is her cows. And the campsite! Together with her husband and family they have made Wooders a calm, rustic retreat from everyday life - and with Fiona at Perfect Party Tents - they make dreams of weddings and events come true in this tranquil spot on the edge of the forest.
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What Wild & Wiser means to me?
“ For me I think it's about having the strength to say No and to believe in yourself more and not letting other people's negativity get in your head. It's about being independent and learning every day. When you're younger you don't always appreciate all of life's lessons but as you get older - and wiser - you appreciate that you're going to learn from every experience - so embrace that!."​
MindFuelBody & Rooted Calm Hypnotherapy
Tamara Miller
Through 1:1 coaching, workshops, and retreats, Tamara helps women build resilience, confidence, and trust in themselves - not to fix what’s broken, but to come home to who they already are through mindful movement, hypnotherapy, nutrition, and nature-led practices. Her work is shaped by her own journey and a deep belief in creating safe, spacious environments where women can slow down, listen inward, and reconnect with their innate strength and intuition.
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What Wild & Wiser means to me?
“Wild & Wiser represents the meeting point between intuition and insight - allowing ourselves to be guided by the body, by nature, and by lived experience, while honouring the wisdom we’ve gathered along the way.
It's about creating space to soften, to listen, and to trust what we already know deep down. A space where women can let their wise, wild woman come to life again - choosing connection over comparison, presence over pressure, and allowing ourselves to be fully human: rooted, curious, and alive.”​