Jenny Halpern-Prince built a PR agency from her kitchen table into a WPP-backed business — then co-founded Lady Garden, the charity breaking the silence around gynaecological cancers.
In episode 9 of Dokkcast, Jenny joins us to talk about her career, her own health journey, and why 60 women being diagnosed and 21 dying every day in the UK from gynaecological cancers isn't talked about nearly enough.
00:00 Introduction
00:00:51 Early career: choosing Joseph over university
00:02:24 Lessons from a tough fashion retail culture
00:02:50 Setting up her own PR & comms agency at 23
00:06:59 Selling the business and growing with WPP
00:08:56 The charitable thread: Women's Aid, Great Ormond Street
00:10:12 Founding Access Aspiration (2012)
00:12:26 Lady Garden: the name and the mission
00:15:07 The origin story: Tamara Beckwith's mother
00:15:55 The numbers: 60 diagnosed, 21 deaths a day
00:17:36 Chelsea Flower Show: the gold-winning \"Silent No More\" garden
00:21:20 Male allyship and designer Darren Hawkes
00:23:27 Jenny's own health journey
00:25:46 The fertility journey begins
00:27:03 Twelve IVF rounds and twin daughters via surrogacy
00:27:35 A second surrogacy journey: son Marcus
00:28:02 Breaking the silence on pregnancy loss
00:30:13 The ambassador programme and the HPV vaccine gap
00:32:23 Celebrating ambassadors at the House of Commons
00:33:42 Access Aspiration's networking impact
00:37:41 How organisations can get involved
00:38:32 Emily Blaine's story and the Chelsea garden's inspiration
00:39:15 Gynae cancer symptoms to watch for
00:40:56 Lady Garden's NHS-backed chatbot
00:42:06 Launching the Lady Garden Tea Party
00:42:30 The T-shirt: names for the vulva, and losing the fear factor
00:43:41 Closing thoughts and what's next with Udokk
Jenny Halpern-Prince is the co-founder of Lady Garden, a charity dedicated to raising awareness of gynaecological cancers, and founder of Access Aspiration, an education charity supporting social mobility through work placements.
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