#SheStartedIt100: Top 10 Wellbeing Entrepreneurs to Watch 2019By Angelica Malin
Introducing: #SheStartedIt100, our definitive list of the top 100 professional women to watch in the UK 2019. From food to fitness, all this week we’ll be giving you the lowdown on the UK’s most dynamic, creative female leaders. If you’re feeling inspired, come alone to #SheStartedItLIVE: our 1-day festival dedicated to female entrepreneurship on Saturday 14th September 2019. Book your ticket here and use the code ‘Angelica50’ for half price tickets this week only. Now, discover our 2019 top 10 female wellness entrepreneurs to watch in the UK:
1. Camille Knowles, Author
Name: Camille Knowles
Age: 27
Profession: Wellness coach and natural chef
Her Story: Camille Knowles is the author of ‘The Beauty of Eczema’, a self-help book aimed at helping millions people live a life beyond eczema. She conquered her lifelong battle with eczema through her own set of lifestyle principals and her inspirational story is followed by the masses. She is founder of the online community where people can sign up to her HOPE programme. She shares her own honest and open eczema journey on her Instagram channel and has been shortlisted for a number of awards.
2. Chloe Brotheridge, Calmer You
Name: Chloe Brotheridge
Age: 33
Profession: Hypnotherapist, coach at www.calmer-you.com and the host of The Calmer You Podcast
Her Story: Chloe Brotheridge is a hypnotherapist, coach, and hosts a podcast which is often in the top 5 self-help podcasts on iTunes each week. She’s the author of two books published by Penguin, the best selling The Anxiety Solution and ‘Brave New Girl: 7 Steps to Confidence’ which came out in May. She’s on Instagram @ChloeBrotheridge
3. Suzy Glaskie, Peppermint Wellness
Name: Suzy Glaskie
Age: 48
Profession: Founder of Peppermint Wellness
The Lowdown: Suzy Glaskie is a Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach and Founder of Peppermint Wellness. After a 22-year career in PR (during which she experienced the full force of workplace stress and the pressures of juggling the running of an agency with looking after her three children), Suzy followed her heart and retrained as a health coach. She now works with individuals, groups and organisations to empower people to take back their health, feel comfortable in their own skin – and start to thrive.
4. Erin Moroney, Nibble Protein
Name: Erin Moroney
Age: 45
Profession: Founder of Nibble Protein
Her Story: Erin Moroney, is a “green fielder”, a resourceful entrepreneur who thrives on building businesses from scratch. Before turning her hand to Nibble Protein, Erin founded and ran a leading photographic agency (for 16 years) followed by a period working as a consultant, advising in a branding, creative and strategic capacity for a range of clients. She also spent several years working in advertising as an Art Director and Producer, generating campaign ideas, art directing, and producing press/outdoor, digital and ambient campaigns for the BBC, Fox, UKTV, Universal, Barclaycard, Nissan, and United Airlines.
5. Charlotte Cox, FLY LDN
Name: Charlotte Cox
Age: 32
Profession: Founder of FLY LDN
Her Story: After 7 years as a City lawyer and using exercise as a way to keep a manageable work-life balance, FLY LDN’s founder, Charlotte Cox, took a leap of faith and set up her own immersive yoga and fitness studio. Fully immersed in her daily working grind, Charlotte often found it difficult to switch off and cut out work-related issues. She turned to regular HIIT workouts and sweaty spin classes as a way to shut off and release the stress of her working day. Charlotte found that exercise left her able to think more clearly, work more efficiently and most importantly, she felt more positive and confident in herself. This led her to re-think the way in which she trained and was the driving force behind the conception of FLY LDN, which shifted her fitness journey towards a more holistic, low-impact way of training. Charlotte threw in the corporate towel and FLY LDN was born in May 2018.
6. Esther Fieldgrass, EF MediSpa
Name: Esther Fieldgrass
Age: 60s
Profession: Founder of EF MediSpa
Her Story: Esther Fieldgrass is a well-respected and known name in the aesthetics and wellness industry and owns four clinics in London and two franchises. She has a career that spans more than three decades and is extremely knowledgeable in her field. Her award-winning business in medical aesthetics means that she is a great expert and inspiration to women in business. Not only does she manage a successful chain of clinics working with the finest plastic surgeons, gynaecologists, dermatologists, nutritionists and many more, she is also proud of her other accomplishments as an entrepreneur, including opening a lingerie shop in 2013, starting a patient-focused podcast called The Beauty Biz and recently launching new antioxidant skincare range ALPHASCIENCE into the UK.
7. Gem Misa, Fullgreen
Name: Gem Misa
Age: 40
Profession: Co-Founder of Fullgreen
Her Story: Gem is a visionary with a proactive approach to business that has seen her grow Fullgreen from a small food tech start-up to a multi-million dollar business. Passionate about healthy food, fitness and wellness, she’s carved a fresh space for Fullgreen in the food industry for ‘fast and convenient’ food that is healthy and clean. Her mission is to help people ‘eat more veg’ by providing shelf-stable veggie rice options that you can sling in a bag, add to a recipe or meal prep with. Her cauli rice launched in 2015 following three years of research. With its clean label, non GMO veg and gluten-free/vegan credentials, the brand shot to market, attracting new stockists and customers in quick succession.
8. Caroline Purvey, TRE UK
Name: Caroline Purvey
Age: 66
Profession: Founder of TRE UK
Her Story: Caroline Purvey is the founder of TRE UK® teaching the Total Release Experience® a 5 step, self-help well-being programme to heal from the symptoms of stress, trauma, PTSD, anxiety and depression. She utilises her skills teaching Workshops and courses UK wide and online to reach out globally. Her unique work is FHT Accredited nationally and internationally. Caroline is building a practitioner team as her reputation is acknowledged by Doctors and psychologists she now takes her programme into schools, prisons and KFRS improving mental health for all participants.
9. Hannah Lanel, The Fore
Name: Hannah Lanel
Age: 40
Profession: CEO and Founder of The Fore
Her Story: After discovering fitness in 1992, she began to chart the correlation between physical activity and her feelings of happiness. This led her to embark on a 25-year journey through the health and fitness industry. It has seen her take advice from leading industry professionals, psychiatrists, dieticians, PTs and alternative doctors. An innate understanding of the far-reaching role of exercise led to the eventual launch of The Fore in July 2019. The antithesis to the one-size-fits no one approach of most major operators, it rejects the fear: fail: repeat model to create conviction through connection and offer everyone the chance to integrate fitness and wellbeing into their lives.
10. Melanie Lawson, Bare Biology
Name: Melanie Lawson
Age: 46
Profession: Founder of Bare Biology
Her Story: Melanie Lawson started her love affair with Omega 3 in 2008 when she suffered from postnatal depression. A passionate believer in health through nutrition, she intensively researched ways to improve her mental health through diet and lifestyle. Her research found that Omega 3 is one of the most critical nutrients for mental health, as well as general health. Melanie was struggling to find an Omega 3 in the UK that ticked all the boxes of purity, strength and freshness. Like many entrepreneurs, she saw a gap in the market and decided to create her own brand and launched Bare Biology in 2013. Melanie knew she had done something right when her first stockist was Liberty after taking part in their Best of British Open Call.
Inspired by these amazing entrepreneurs? Join us for #SheStartedItLIVE: our 1-day festival dedicated to female entrepreneurship and empowerment on Saturday 14th September 2019. Book your ticket here and use the code ‘Angelica50’ for half price tickets this week only.