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Hosted by Brenda Hector · business · EN · 192 episodes
If you are a female business owner, self-employed freelancer, or girl boss who wants to build a successful business i.e. work less hours, make more money, and get better results from your staff, then this is the podcast for you. Hosted by Dr Brenda Hector MBA from ActionCOACH UK, this podcast provides relatable and accessible business advice and inspiration from successful businesswomen who have been there and done it before you. This podcast is where you can • hear female business stories• share business success• learn how to overcome business challenges • get advice for businesswomen aspiring to success• find out what needs to change• discover how we can bring about that business revolutionOnly 1 in 3 UK entrepreneurs are female. UK men are 5 times more likely than women to build a business of over £1million turnoverIf UK women matched UK men in starting and scaling businesses, it would add £250 billion to the UK economy (Alison Rose, The Rose Review of Female Entrepreneurs
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Scale Her Up: Female business stories and expert tips for business growth and success is hosted by Brenda Hector. The show has published 192 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "She Moved to Scotland at 18 with No Plan, Applied for the Wrong Job, and Ended Up Running the Region, Sarah Medcraf, Moray Chamber of Commerce" (16 October 2026, 40 minutes), "From Library Cards to 60 Staff: The Accidental Entrepreneur Who Built a Publishing Institution, Lesley Whyte of Bibliographic Data Services" (13 October 2026, 33 minutes), and "Her Mum Spotted a Job Ad in the Newspaper, Now She's MD of an Employee-Owned Company That Works for the UN and the EU: Lucy Harrier of Prepress Projects" (9 October 2026, 35 minutes).
Scale Her Up: Female business stories and expert tips for business growth and success publishes roughly a few times a week, with episodes averaging 33 minutes across 192 episodes.
Booking probability for Scale Her Up: Female business stories and expert tips for business growth and success is 36%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Scale Her Up: Female business stories and expert tips for business growth and success requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Scale Her Up: Female business stories and expert tips for business growth and success's contact route on record: verified email.
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Brenda Hector hosts Scale Her Up: Female business stories and expert tips for business growth and success, a business show with 192 episodes published.
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Episode #189
Sarah Medcraf moved to Moray at 18 because her boyfriend was in the RAF and she thought, "if it doesn't work, I'll just move back to Yorkshire." That was 2009. Today she's the CEO of Moray Chamber of Commerce, a...
Episode #188
Lesley Whyte didn't set out to be an entrepreneur. She was studious, academic, and fully expected a career inside universities. What she didn't expect was that a job in Dumfries, a chance meeting with an IT-minded...
Episode #187
In this episode of Scale HER Up, I'm joined by Lucy Harrier — managing director of Prepress Projects Limited, a copy editing, proofreading, and publishing services company based in Perth, Scotland. Prepress Projects has...
Episode #186
In this episode of Scale HER Up, I'm joined by Rowan Morrison — co-MD and co-founder of We Are Rationale (or Rationale, day-to-day), a brand agency based in Edinburgh specialising in regulated markets — financial...
Episode #185
In this episode of Scale HER Up, I'm joined by Kerryann Martin — owner and managing director of K&M Cleaning Services Limited. Kerryann started in 2014. Her son was only months old. Her daughter was in nursery. The plan...
Episode #184
In this episode of Scale HER Up, I'm joined by Lyndsay Yuill — director of Rent Locally, a letting and property management company with an estate agency wing, based in the Central Belt of Scotland. Lyndsay didn't plan...
Episode #183
In this episode of Scale HER Up, I'm joined by Alison Gray — founder of Skillfluence, a company that helps entrepreneurs, business leaders, and academic researchers get their ideas out into the world and make a...
Episode #182
In this episode of Scale HER Up, I'm joined by Nyasha Mangaba — managing director of Potters Healthcare Limited and co-founder, with her husband, of the Mani Group: a portfolio of businesses operating across Scotland...
Episode #181
In this episode of Scale HER Up, I'm joined by Ros Marshall — managing director and co-founder of Molke Limited, an ethical underwear brand manufactured in Scone, rural Perthshire, now shipping to 72 countries...
Episode #180
In this episode of Scale HER Up, I'm joined by Cecilia Grigor, director of Planitt Scotland Limited — a marketing partner (she doesn't like the word agency) based in Inverness, now in its 13th year, with 10 staff...
Episode #179
In this episode of Scale HER Up, I'm joined by Dominique Dawson — director of Finnies the Jeweller in Aberdeen, and, as I realised partway through this conversation, the first third-generation female business owner I've...
Episode #178
In this episode of Scale HER Up, I'm joined by Emma Hutton — a social justice leader with over 20 years of experience, and until March of this year, the Chief Executive of JustRight Scotland. Emma left that role after...
Episode #177
In this episode of Scale HER Up, I'm joined by Debbie Mitchell, director of Atholl Scott Financial Services — an independent financial planning firm in Aberdeen with a 60-year history behind it. In September 1999...
Episode #176
In this episode of Scale HER Up, I'm joined by Leanne Ramage, Managing Director of Kudo Software — a renewable energy software company that helps manage projects and people across wind farms, solar farms, battery...
Episode #175
In this episode of Scale HER Up, I'm joined by two guests: Alison Harper, founder of Harper Psychology, and Sara Huibregtse Van Loon, psychological therapist and the person Alison hopes to one day hand the practice to...
Episode #174
In this episode of Scale HER Up, I'm joined by Laura Weir, Managing Director of Direct Lettings — a letting agency based in Edinburgh and Dundee, now servicing much of the East Coast of Scotland and growing into the...
Episode #173
In this episode of Scale HER Up, I'm joined by Gaynor Duthie, Managing Partner of Genoa Black — a strategy, brand and marketing consultancy with teams in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and now Los Angeles. Gaynor joined Genoa...
Episode #172
In this episode of Scale HER Up, I'm joined by Jessica Sneddon, co-owner and co-founder of Soundbite PR — an Edinburgh-based PR agency that works exclusively in hospitality, food tourism and food and drink production...
Episode #171
In this episode of Scale HER Up, I'm joined by Jen Landels, Managing Director of Studio LR — a 22-year-old independent creative agency based in Leith, Edinburgh, that helps ambitious organisations build brands and...
Episode #170
In this episode of Scale HER Up, I'm joined by Catherine Bunn, Managing Director of Highland Campervans and Director of Camper Lux Limited — a motorhome dealership on the outskirts of Inverness that Catherine built from...
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Aberdeen & Grampian Chamber of Commerce
author of The Money Conversation: Speak the Truth. Set the Standard. Get Paid Without Apology, sumsolutions.com
author of You Don’t Have To Achieve To Be Loved
Titanic survivor, philanthropist, socialite, political move-maker
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