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Jane is our Founder, figurehead, brand attractor, voice and strategic visionary. She takes our message to the corporate and business world; is our key PR spokesperson; she speaks at events all over the UK, develops new products, recruits and motivates the team, leads our team of Ambassadors, heads the development and delivery of our Stardom programme; is our social media queen; leads our brand and marketing activities and delivers some of our day events.
Helen started her career in Law when she was 18 and progressed through a Manchester Law Firm to run the Crown Court Criminal department. After 10 years as a Lawyer she made a brief move to assist in her families Sales & Marketing business. Helen joined the Girls Out Loud team in February 2016 to support the Executive team across all areas of the business including event management, volunteer recruitment, marketing, database management, PR and general admin. Helen works her organisational magic to keep us all in order.
Likes – Family time, Traveling & Sightseeing, Eating out, Catch-up’s with friends
Dislikes – Bullies, Bad manners and Ignorance.
Jodes is a qualified executive coach and a specialist in leadership development. Alongside her work empowering and supporting women she is also the mother of 3 teenage daughters so pretty well versed in the challenges facing the next generation of female leaders.
Living in Cheshire with her family, Golden doodle Tilly-Mint and Persian cat Dolly, she lives a busy life full of adventure and purpose running an online membership club for women to inspire them to live the happy, fulfilling and successful life they deserve. She’s also a No1 bestselling author. Her first book Woman Up was published last year.
Jodes works with Jane Kenyon, our Founder to create attraction and sponsorship from companies and brands to support our work and also delivers Big Sister training, workshops and leads our delivery team.
Likes – being at the coast for thinking time, rowing, rainbows and travelling
Dislikes – Turkish delight, waiting for too long and rain.
Carol describes herself as a small, straight talking northerner with a sense of humour and an empathetic ear!
She started out wanting a career in the sports sector which quickly changed after a chance meeting which gave her an opportunity to work in the voluntary sector, supporting charities and developing their volunteering programme.
Seventeen years later and now a qualified Coach and NLP Practitioner Carol coaches young people in schools. She believes that with appropriate support everyone has the ability to aspire and reach their own potential. Her passion is to help young people believe and achieve this.
The most recent and exciting ‘chance’ meeting Carol had was with Jane Kenyon which led to the opportunity for her to become a Stardom Coach with Girls Out Loud. Carol is really enthused and looking forward to know how many years and the direction this next journey will take her.
Likes – laughter, silliness, learning new things, genuine people, sport, TV
Dislikes – snakes, disingenuous people, unfairness, inequality
Dawn has an impressive track record working with vulnerable adults and children in a variety of roles from careers education and guidance to youth offending and victim support to mediating within the criminal justice system and acting as a Health and Community Advocate. She is a qualified Mediator, counsellor, mentor and is currently studying to achieve an NLP coaching qualification. Phew!
Dawn stepped up to get involved with Girls Out Loud after a chance encounter with our work when her College hosted one of our Big Sister graduation ceremonies. As a spectator she was hooked and joined the next Big Sister programme as a mentor.
We are delighted and honoured she is now joining the A Team as a Big Sister Local Lead, as she clearly shares our passion to empower and inspire the next generation of young women.
Likes – Animals, travelling around the UK, meditating near water, the theatre, coaching with NLP to help people believe in their power to make the changes needed to achieve their goals.
Dislikes – Bullies, ignorant people, sprouts
Louisa is a qualified teacher, positive psychology coach, author and speaker. She is solo mum to her daughter aged 8 and left a successful 17-year English teaching career in 2021 to create a new path in life, following her passion and purpose to inspire and empower women and children.
Living in Warrington, Louisa lives a busy life juggling being a grown-up, running a business and having adventures with her ‘mini-me’. She runs courses, masterclasses, VIP Accelerator days and group events coaching women in business. She is a four times best-selling author and also coaches women to use their stories of overcoming adversity in book collaborations, two of which have become bestsellers in the UK and USA.
Louisa was introduced to Jane, our Founder, via Jodes Salt and after a very long chat it was apparent her skillset was aligned to our work and she stepped up to become a Stardom coach and workshop facilitator.
Likes – Musical Theatre, Travelling, Strong Women, Diet Coke, Cheese.
Dislikes – Dirty hands, Sand, Cleaning, Bullies, Inequality, Making Decisions.
Tracey is the Local Lead facilitating our Big Sister programme in schools in Merseyside. Tracey is also one of our Ambassadors and has supported Girls Out Loud from the start. She runs her own Marketing & Events company and teaches women how to set up home based businesses. She is also a University mentor in 3 universities across the North West.
Likes – Long walks with the dog, lots of holidays, nearly every carry on film, anything foodie and having a great collection of cook books.
Dislikes – People who are late, doing my accounts, Football, smoked fish and package holidays, I prefer to be a independent traveller.
Beth Payton is a Well Woman Yoga Therapist specialising in Women’s health and wellbeing.
She began her career as a Contemporary Dance Artist, performing Internationally and later going on to create her own Female Empowerment project ‘My Female Body’. Beth is also a published writer, her Feminist opinion pieces have been published by The Huffington Post Blog and more recently, Her + Earth. She has always been driven by social justice and gender equality and has worked extensively with women and girls throughout her career.
Having studied Yoga in India, Beth has since specialised in womb health and is now focussed on supporting women and girls to optimise their health and reconnect with the power of their bodies through yoga therapy.
Beth first met Jane and Girls Out Loud when she delivered a ‘My Female Body’ dance workshop on the Big Sister programme, later becoming a Big Sister herself! She is over the moon to be returning to the programme as Mindfulness Workshop Leader, 3 years later.
Likes: Woodland walks, meditating by Rivers and spending time with my little boy in nature
Dislikes: Being in a hurry, any form of mum shaming, plastic waste and littering
We are looking for Big Sisters to join our team in Greater Manchester, Cheshire, Merseyside & Lancashire!
Find out more on our Big Sister page or click here to fill in the volunteer form.
BE BOLD, BE BRAVE, BE BEAUTIFUL, BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY BE YOU. BECAUSE YOU, ARE ALREADY ENOUGH AND ABSOLUTELY PERFECT, JUST THE WAY YOU ARE.