Coffee & Oysters: The London Business Babe Podcast

How do you survive corporate as a Gen Z woman? How do you build a community while working a 9-to-5? And what are the best workwear brands for tall girls in London?
London founder Wesleigh-Jane, the woman behind Sisters Protect, joins Coffee & Oysters with business tips on building a community for early-careers women in corporate, navigating office politics, and balancing a finance career with a thriving side hustle.
Wesleigh-Jane breaks down how she turned her own workplace hurdles into a community-led business spanning strategy circles, a Corporate Survival Journal, and one-to-one consultancy. She shares advice on advocating for yourself in performance reviews, why intergenerational mentorship matters, and how she runs it all solo on evenings and weekends.
Plus her go-to Soca gym anthems, beauty essentials from Fenty to Cécred, free tools like Google Sites and Canva, her favourite Notting Hill spots, best London hotels for coworking and London communities.
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Wesleigh-Jane on LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/wesleigh-jane-p-757306185
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00:00 Intro
04:06 The Role of Sisters Protect
10:05 Why Corporate Wasn't Built For All of Us
21:06 Three Revenue Streams That Work
29:29 Advice For Starting Your Own Community
34:58 Outfits, Performance Reviews & Boundaries
43:25 Free Tools Every Solo Founder Needs
55:15 London Communities & Dream Collabs
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London food & drink development expert Grace Bryan, co-founder of CPG agency Juicy Brick, joins Coffee & Oysters with business tips on trend forecasting, founder lifestyle, and building innovative food & drink brands.
Grace breaks down how she spots trends by tracking repeated signals across CPG, pop culture, fashion, and TikTok, and discusses Gen Z’s changing relationship with alcohol. She compares UK vs US CPG scale and consumer behaviour, offers advice for UK brands entering the US, highlights “pinch me” moments like McDonald’s reaching out, and shares London favourites plus personal boundaries and tools like Dropbox, Canva, and LinkedIn.
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Grace on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/grace-bryan-juicy-brick
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00:00 Intro
06:53 Why Hospitality Builds Grit
11:01 LinkedIn Trend Spotting Ritual
15:45 Pop Culture to Product Ideas
19:26 Coachella Style Forecasting
29:01 UK vs US CPG Reality Check
37:10 Owning Your Wins
38:13 Influencers Building Brands
40:49 Boundaries and Work Life
44:38 Personal Style Uniform
45:54 Beauty and Tech Essentials
53:40 London Gems Quick Fire
01:00:15 Wins, Plugs & Dream Collabs
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Meet Meg Hutson, a Human Marketing Strategist for service-based businesses, as she breaks down LinkedIn marketing strategy, personal branding and how to build a business you actually love.
Meg Hutson left school at 16, started a shop with her mum, and built a freelance marketing business the hard way. She breaks down why being too vague cost her early opportunities, how she now helps bold service business owners ditch messy marketing through her framework of purpose, audience, offers, messaging and content, and why making marketing human matters more than ever.
We also dig into how to grow on LinkedIn vs Instagram (including selling via Stories and trial reels), relationship-based funnels through her free monthly session The Monthly, launching her group program Spotlight, and the business tips and success habits that keep her grounded — from daily walks to a lean tech stack of MailerLite, Asana, Motion and Voxer. Plus she explores her London favourites, such as Covent Garden and Pizza Pilgrims, Oliver Bonas style picks, and her favourite glowy beauty basics as a minimal-makeup girlie.
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Meg on LinkedIn: Meg Hutson
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00:00 Intro
05:09 Marketing vs Sales Explained
09:12 Investing in Coaching
12:47 Human Marketing in AI Era
15:01 LinkedIn as Lead Engine
18:22 Instagram Stories Funnel
32:01 Lurkers Are Best Buyers
33:10 Make Weird Content Work
37:16 Grounding Daily Rituals
38:32 Personal Style Uniform
41:13 Beauty Product Staples
44:26 Lean Tech Stack
49:18 Life Outside London
51:26 London Spots And Networking
55:30 Wins, Plugs And Dreams
58:40 Where To Find Meg
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Kamya Marwah is a London-based, top 1% LinkedIn creator, and Marketing & Content Manager at CRM startup Jely. She shares London lifestyle tips, London cafés + food market favourites, plus a super practical LinkedIn personal branding playbook (without the cringe).
In this episode, Kamya breaks down how she moved from Delhi to London at 19 for UCL, the reality of being the first (and only) full-time marketing hire at an early-stage startup (twice!), and what it really takes to build a consistent content engine alongside a 9 to 5.
We also get into networking (including the resilience behind 800+ rejections), how to pitch in a way that actually builds relationships, what trends are shifting on LinkedIn right now (carousels vs video), and the creator tools she uses to stay organised.
You do not want to miss this if you’re trying to grow your personal brand on LinkedIn or figure out how to stay consistent with content while working.
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Kamya on LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/kamya-marwah
Kamya’s Substack (“Get Things Moving”): https://getthingsmoving.substack.com/
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00:00 Introduction
02:29 From art to marketing + the first six months of zero orders
09:02 Systems, discipline + building creator workflows
11:04 Networking, resilience + rejection
13:56 Pitching, relationship-building + community
15:46 LinkedIn creator playbook
22:16 Content trends + the AI backlash
24:23 LinkedIn cringe takes
32:01 Creator tech stack
35:51 Moving to London + favourite cafés/markets
39:28 Final thoughts
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London/Swiss female founder & luxury beauty entrepreneur Anju Rupal shares lifestyle tips, best London restaurant picks & wellness secrets on Coffee & Oysters: The London Business Babe Podcast. The Abhati Suisse founder blends Indian heritage rituals with Swiss biotech for performance-driven scalp and hair health, charting her path from social work to building a brand. We also hear about turning down LVMH, crowdfunding her first product, and sourcing high-altitude botanicals from the Himalayas and Swiss Alps.
Topics covered: slow-growth brand building, hospitality partnerships, favourite London spots (Liberty, Dishoom), fashion trends & style inspiration, European tech alternatives, entrepreneurship tips, health and wellness routines, and community support through the Entrepreneur Organization (EO).---
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Explore Abhati Suisse with 20% off with code “FRANCES20”: https://abhatisuisse.com/shop
Anju on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anjurupal/
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00:00 Introduction
01:58 Swiss Alps and Bad Bunny
05:47 Social Work to Luxury Beauty
11:26 Origin Story and Ingredients
22:18 Lifestyle Brand and Hospitality
26:32 Retail Dreams and Future Trends
31:18 Slow Growth Values
32:37 Packaging Storytelling
34:47 Lifestyle Music Boost
37:58 Quiet Luxury Style
39:31 Hair Loss To Haircare
48:59 London Arts And Food
51:42 Conclusion
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