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Women Making Waves Podcast

Jessica Hepburn and Hannah Nunn

Ep. 78
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About our guests on this episode:


Jessica Hepburn is an author, a former executive director of the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith, an award winning fertility hero, and the first woman IN THE WORLD to achieve ‘The Sea, Street & Summit Challenge”.

Jessica tells the story of going through 11 unsuccessful rounds of IVF before taking on some of the most gruelling and difficult challenges the world has to offer, despite never having considered herself 'sporty'. Her book 'Save Me From the Waves' tells the story of taking on these challenges, inspired by listening to over 3,000 episodes of Desert Island Discs.


Hannah Nunn is the founder of Kickstart Coffee. Kickstart is a social enterprise that solely, through its profit, provides funding for children to free education at The Early Learning School in Entebbe in Uganda since 2005.


Hannah, who is a senior nurse at Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge, tells the story of how she started the organisation and talks about the other projects she is doing in Uganda.

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