Aug 8, 2026 · 44 min · 11 segments
To mark their first anniversary, Aliya and Kelly sit down for a candid debrief on a year of Women Who Lead and Scale — 50+ guests, a #1 chart position, and everything they learned about leadership…
Kelly QuinnHost
Aliya MusaHost
Like there's a set of problems that go with entrepreneurialism, but there's a specific additional set.
You know, I'm thinking about Helen who set up Flying Tiger, you know, going through legal documents while she's in hospital, having had premature twins.
Or, you know, other people talking about how they've managed to get an hour away to talk to us and they've locked their children in the garage or something, you know, like that.
how similar they're they're they're kind of what they've got what they've got on their plate basically so they've got business and all the other stuff it doesn't it doesn't mean because you've got a business you're not dealing with all the the other the other things in the family
yeah i i really get that as well i think um as you start to talk about the guests then my takeaway around the guests it was about halfway through the year, so say we were about 20-odd episodes in, I realized, and it must have happened over a number of weeks, but it was this slow dawning of how lonely I'd been in my previous career.
I'm like, I'm coming out in this project for the first time, and I'm actually surrounded by women, and I've always done business hard on my own, and actually every advisor, every consultant, you know, up until the last couple of years, it had been men.
It was quite a few episodes where I noticed I was a bit teary or I was kind of, you know, wiping my eyes a little bit because it was quite, it wasn't overwhelming.
I was just so moved that as I emerge in business this time, so, you know, kind of maybe the dozens time, I'm now with women and I can ask them and how genuinely lovely they were, how sensitive they um their stories just every single story touched my heart you know the exit strategists and you know you you have this or i did i'll own it i had i had made up you know i've been in business my whole career but i'd made up with these powerful women these were scary women and actually they were just like me and they had all the same kind of dilemmas like you said and they were deeply moving um yeah i've only brought back to that now as you as you shared.
What's the biggest takeaway, practical takeaway that you got? I know there are many, but is there one that kind of sticks out for you from, from a guest?
I don't, I don't know that there's, there's, it's, it's really so difficult, but Ramona, when, when she came on from Ramona, Ramona Thomas, she was so gregarious and, so full of life you know like midlife like like so many of us and you know she made this hummus you know on her kitchen table and she's like proper old school you know well i made three batches and the one that went you know this everyone scoffed up was the the one that i that i knew was a winner and the other one that was just left i didn't bother with and she just refined and refined and refined and she's you know most of the major high street chains in the uk But when she talked about leadership and entrepreneurship, you know, she was very frank, very, very frank.
And just like, it's just like running into a dark room, you know, you have no idea.
And she said it was such, yeah, like her personality is, is brilliant and lively and you'd want her at a dinner party for sure.
But there was just like a pull no punches, you know, like it is that it's not a faint hearted business.
And I think if a lot past that early days of entrepreneurship and whoa ideas and, proof of concept.
Like there's a set of problems that go with entrepreneurialism, but there's a specific additional set.
You know, I'm thinking about Helen who set up Flying Tiger, you know, going through legal documents while she's in hospital, having had premature twins.
Or, you know, other people talking about how they've managed to get an hour away to talk to us and they've locked their children in the garage or something, you know, like that.
how similar they're they're they're kind of what they've got what they've got on their plate basically so they've got business and all the other stuff it doesn't it doesn't mean because you've got a business you're not dealing with all the the other the other things in the family
yeah i i really get that as well i think um as you start to talk about the guests then my takeaway around the guests it was about halfway through the year, so say we were about 20-odd episodes in, I realized, and it must have happened over a number of weeks, but it was this slow dawning of how lonely I'd been in my previous career.
I'm like, I'm coming out in this project for the first time, and I'm actually surrounded by women, and I've always done business hard on my own, and actually every advisor, every consultant, you know, up until the last couple of years, it had been men.
It was quite a few episodes where I noticed I was a bit teary or I was kind of, you know, wiping my eyes a little bit because it was quite, it wasn't overwhelming.
I was just so moved that as I emerge in business this time, so, you know, kind of maybe the dozens time, I'm now with women and I can ask them and how genuinely lovely they were, how sensitive they um their stories just every single story touched my heart you know the exit strategists and you know you you have this or i did i'll own it i had i had made up you know i've been in business my whole career but i'd made up with these powerful women these were scary women and actually they were just like me and they had all the same kind of dilemmas like you said and they were deeply moving um yeah i've only brought back to that now as you as you shared.
What's the biggest takeaway, practical takeaway that you got? I know there are many, but is there one that kind of sticks out for you from, from a guest?
I don't, I don't know that there's, there's, it's, it's really so difficult, but Ramona, when, when she came on from Ramona, Ramona Thomas, she was so gregarious and, so full of life you know like midlife like like so many of us and you know she made this hummus you know on her kitchen table and she's like proper old school you know well i made three batches and the one that went you know this everyone scoffed up was the the one that i that i knew was a winner and the other one that was just left i didn't bother with and she just refined and refined and refined and she's you know most of the major high street chains in the uk But when she talked about leadership and entrepreneurship, you know, she was very frank, very, very frank.
And just like, it's just like running into a dark room, you know, you have no idea.
And she said it was such, yeah, like her personality is, is brilliant and lively and you'd want her at a dinner party for sure.
But there was just like a pull no punches, you know, like it is that it's not a faint hearted business.
And I think if a lot past that early days of entrepreneurship and whoa ideas and, proof of concept.
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