In Episode Two of Season Three of The emPOWER Breakfast Podcast, Founder and Host Athene Parker sits down with entrepreneur, business leader and MBE recipient Liz Jackson for a powerful conversation about resilience, entrepreneurship, leadership and what it really means to have vision.
Liz is one of the UK's most respected business leaders. An entrepreneur, keynote speaker and former Businesswoman of the Year, she has built award-winning businesses, received an MBE for Services to Enterprise, appeared on Channel 4's Secret Millionaire, and today works with founders as Sales & Marketing Director at Initium, helping businesses navigate growth, succession and sale.
Throughout the conversation, Liz reflects on the experiences that shaped her long before business success arrived. She shares the story of being diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa as a young child, later losing her sight in her twenties, and how those experiences influenced, not defined, the way she approaches life, leadership and opportunity.
Together, Athene and Liz explore ambition, entrepreneurship, faith, purpose, motherhood, confidence and the importance of defining success on your own terms. They discuss why leadership is about seeing potential in others, why perspective is one of our greatest strengths, and why true vision has very little to do with what we can physically see and more about intention, focus and determination.
With her trademark humour, infectious energy and unwavering optimism, Liz offers a conversation full of practical wisdom, warmth and hope. Underpinning everything is a quiet faith that has guided her through life's greatest challenges and continues to shape the way she leads, encourages others and embraces every opportunity including the opportunity found in failure. Often finding more gifts during challenging phases that make the wins even more meaningful.
Whether you're an entrepreneur, founder, business leader or simply navigating a period of change, this episode is a reminder that our greatest vision comes not from what we see, but from who we choose to become.
In this episode you'll hear about:
🎧 - Listen to Liz Jackson MBE Spotify Playlist Here
Track 1 - Bucks Fizz - Making Your Mind Up
Track 2 - Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Track 3 - Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger
Track 4 - Charity Gale - Thank You Jesus For The Blood
Track 5 - Nina Simone - Feeling Good
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