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.
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Working For Progress
Dawn Thomson on Love, Sex, and Learning to Fancy Yourself
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In this episode, Dani speaks with Dawn Thomson, energy psychologist, relationships coach, and one of the original TEDxPortobello speakers, about the relationship most of us neglect the most: the one with ourselves.
Dawn's work sits at the intersection of love, sex, and self. Her newest project, Fancy Yourself, is an invitation to stop waiting for external validation and start genuinely backing yourself — emotionally, physically, and in the life you want to build.
They talk about how to have better relationships, how to recognise when a dynamic has stopped working, and why developing a deep, confident relationship with yourself might be the most important work any of us can do.
A warm and honest conversation about self-worth, intimacy, and what it means to truly fancy yourself.
Please note: this episode includes discussion of sex and a mention of sexual trauma.
Find more about Dawn at dawnthomson.com.
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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