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Working For Progress
Working for Progress is a podcast about work, wellbeing, and what it means to live a meaningful life.
Hosted by social entrepreneur Dani Trudeau and rooted in the community of Tribe Porty in Edinburgh, each season explores a theme, The Body, through honest, unhurried conversations with people who are shaping their working lives with intention. These aren't interviews about career advice or productivity hacks. They're deeper conversations about values, identity, creativity, burnout, purpose, and the quiet grit behind the work people do.
If you love podcasts like On Being or The Pause, and you're asking bigger questions about how you want to work and live, this is for you.
Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever you get your podcasts.
Working For Progress
Nicky Shallcross on Cancer, Colour, and Choosing a Different Kind of Working Life
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In this episode, Dani speaks with Nicky Shallcross, former fashion and retail buying director, founder of Interior Superior, volunteer, and someone who knows exactly what it took to change her life.
Nicky's shift from heading up buying and merchandising teams in corporate retail to starting her own colourful homeware business wasn't just a career change. It followed her own experience with cancer; a turning point that clarified what mattered and what didn't, and gave her the courage to build something she truly loved.
They talk about that journey honestly and warmly, about what illness teaches us about how we want to live and work, and about the unexpected gifts that can come from the hardest chapters. Nicky is also a passionate advocate for volunteering, as a friendship volunteer with Vintage Vibes and a Someone Like Me volunteer for Breast Cancer Now, and speaks about what giving back has given her in return.
One of those conversations full of colour, honesty, and real heart. Bland, as Nicky would say, is banned.
Working For Progress is hosted by Dani Trudeau and produced by Alice Hudson.
Dani Trudeau, founder of Tribe Porty, a community coworking space in Edinburgh built on the belief that creativity, collaboration, and care are good for people, business, and the world.
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