Billed as ‘A Smart Magazine for Women’, the award-winning Riposte is full of interviews, essays, features, and visual storytelling about bold women talking candidly, and about all the things that we can relate to (rather than the aspirational one’s that we don’t know what to do with). Published bi-annually in London, recent topics have included the highs and lows of motherhood, how to sustain slow fashion, and the real sex lives of women. The cover story for Issue 12: They Don’t Know was the impact of disability funding cuts, which goes to show how this is not your typical women’s magazine. During normal times, look out for events at the Town Hall Hotel with more brilliant women who are having an impact in their spaces.

 “we’re more interested in what women have to say and they’ve done than what they look like”

– editor Danielle Pender

With editorial teams in London, New York, and Los Angeles, Courier magazine is ‘the mentor you always wanted by your side’, full of inspiration, useful information, case studies, and how-tos on every aspect of running a modern business. Recommended for both the nuts-and-bolts needs and the big dreamy picture of working on a company today. The magazine is just one part of the Courier universe of support for entrepreneurs: see also their recently published guide How to Start A Business, podcasts, and newsletters.

“Work as we know it is changing. For the first time in modern history you can have four side hustles, set your own schedule and actually have a life. Gone are the days when we’re held accountable to a nine-to-five office job. Be your own boss. Live your own life. And think of Courier as the compass in your pocket to help get you there.”

A magazine about the ins and outs of working for yourself, this is a great resource for creatives who want to live a freelance life that feels good. Often it doesn’t for the anxieties and vulnerabilities – imposter syndrome, money, the hustle, loneliness – that can come from going it alone. Packed with interviews and features on creative entrepreneurs sharing what works for them as they manage work and their mental health, this magazine helps readers find and sustain their purpose, even outside the parameters of a conventional working life. See also the podcast of the same name.

“The relationship between freelance creative work, starting your own business and mental health is unexplored to the point that we didn’t even know where to start.” — Rasa Jusionyte, editor

In this podcast series, Marah Lidey and Naomi Hirabayashi of the award-winning Shine app are creating the space for much-needed conversations about work and mental wellbeing. In this series, they talk to founders and senior leaders about how they navigate their own mental health in the workplace. Listen to their inspiring conversation with Reshma Saujani – the founder of Girls Who Code and the Marshall Plan for Moms – which gave us hope that maybe we don’t need to hide half of ourselves at work while also showing how much more needs to be done to support working women. Friends With Mental Health Benefits is the podcast we’ve been needing about how to care for our mental health at work.

This award-winning podcast ranges across work into creativity and wellbeing – it’s all connected. We feel led by curiosity listening to host Emma Gannon talking to a range of guests who might not fit the natural business box.

Recent episodes to check out include an interview with Julia Cameron on Seeking Wisdom, author Rachel DeLoache Williams on her friendship with NYC Scammer Anna Delvey, and with Emma herself on her latest book Disconnected: How to Stay Human in an Online World.

“Sometimes we don’t ‘know’ for sure, and maybe we never will, but we just have to live each day in the way that feels most natural to us.”

― Emma Gannon, Olive

When we’ve figured out our purpose, we turn to Holly Tucker’s podcast for how to make it actionable in the world. With each episode, Holly introduces us to the stories of founders, their hopes and vulnerabilities, and how they figured out how to make their business work for themselves and others. Check out episodes with David Gandy founder of Wellwear, particularly as it touches on men’s mental health, with Becky Sheraidah founder of Arthouse Unlimited on how creativity can bring value to how we see ourselves, and Fearne Cotton of Happy Place on how to live a life that better reflects who we are.

Pair with Holly’s brilliant book, which we’re currently working to implement, Do What You Love: The Empowering Secrets to Turn Your Passion into Profit.

“It was that very moment when I realised the secret to life is making a living doing exactly what you love. It was then working out how… could I turn my passions, my skills into a viable business.

So I’ve spent my life working out the ways to find everyone’s diamond, their purpose for being and then monetising that. Everyone can start a business and I want to help.

I’m the happiest I’ve ever been in my life. I want everyone to feel the same.

Happy is the new rich.” — Holly Tucker MBE

You know the feeling. It’s Sunday night, and your tummy is starting to hurt and the working week is starting to press in on your weekend. Monday morning is coming around too fast. This podcast from Headspace is designed to deal with the Sunday Scaries by offering the space to pause, reflect, and breathe. Use these mini-meditations the night before your return to work to make the transition a little bit easier. Also, pair with this advice from Headspace on how to negotiate the Sunday Scaries.

Host Lauren Ober traces the Spectacular Failures of some of the most well-known corporate giants, and in this podcast reveals how the unexpected, the seemingly trivial, or the very badly chosen can have major impacts on the direction that companies have to take. Ober is a funny guide, not laughing at the downfalls, but sharing our bemusement and fascination as some of the biggest names take a nosedive or flirt with failure. See the episode on Blue Apron that shows that discovery doesn’t last that long, or the one on Forever 21 that documents how the shifting needs of teenage girls can impact a multimillion-dollar business. 

“2020 hasn’t been the kindest year to business...or to any of us for that matter. A global pandemic, an economic meltdown, protests against police brutality that brought cities to the brink. Yeah with all that, you better believe biz took a mighty hit.

And you know who can give you the inside scoop on busted businesses and collapsed corporations? How’s about a show called Spectacular Failures? This season we’ve got some fail tales for the ages.”

Host Guy Raz pulls back the curtain on some of the biggest companies and reveals the twists and turns that we usually don’t get to see behind the logo. Raz’s conversations with company founders are surprisingly open about what went wrong, what went right, and how they are meeting today’s new challenges. See the recent Resilience series for how entrepreneurship is handling current times. Now in book form as a New York Times bestseller.  

“a hero has a crazy idea; people doubt her; she leaves the village to pursue her vision, faces untold obstacles, falls into an abyss, barely escapes death, but manages to come out the other side with whatever she was looking for and continues on her journey to an eventual triumphant return.” — Guy Raz