The emPOWER Breakfast and Athene Parker Unveil New Podcast

If you don't know about The emPOWER Breakfast, you should. emPOWER began as a networking event for women, and 2025 will see the launch of the emPOWER Men's series. This initiative, which works on multiple levels, is a business networking event based on promoting mental wellness, support and authentic connections where speakers talk on the challenges they have faced and strategies they have initiated to navigate their turbulent landscapes.

To open up the insights from incredible speakers, The emPOWER Breakfast have launched The emPOWER Breakfast Podcast on October 30th. 

The podcast, sponsored by the brilliant team at String and Tins, will definitely bring you some joy, laughter and possibly some tears.. and Series One Episode One kicks off with Leila Bartlam, UK country lead for Accenture Song’s Production Studios, who delves deeper into her life and experience of being undiagnosed with Autism, until she was 48. Talking to emPOWER host Athene Parker the chemistry is magical and the insights just keep coming so be sure to listen and leave a review when it is launched on the 30th. The emPOWER Breakfast would love to know what you think.

Click here to listen to the first episode with Leila Bartlam.

“A huge thank you to Rachel Hough, managing director of String and Tins, for her immediate support with an amazing podcast team. Not only have String and Tins graced us with an all female team, all of whom have been dedicated to bringing our podcast to life, but Livy Wicks, our engineer, is also a Singer Songwriter and she has written the theme tune for the Pod and we love it! We also want to say a huge thank you to Esmeralda Jonuzi for wrangling the diary and looking after everything so seamlessly.” said the team at The emPOWER Breakfast.

This is what the String and Tins team had to say about emPOWER, "emPOWER is an incredible initiative dedicated to uplifting women in the industry, creating a community where we share our experiences, learn from one another, and gain the tools and support needed to thrive in our chosen fields.''