Interviews

If you’ve ever wondered how some of the most polished digital strategies in London get made, Sophie Southmayd is the woman behind a surprising number of them. “Before starting Social Southmayd, I spent over a decade working in luxury fashion and beauty,” she tells The Modems. A Montreal native who arrived in London knowing precisely…

If you’ve ever stalked the supermarket freezer aisle hunting for a particular box of mochi, you have Vivien Wong to thank for the chase. The co-founder of Little Moons didn’t just break into the freezer aisle – she reshaped it, turning a niche Japanese dessert into a global obsession sold in 34 countries, with 10…

Georgia Devon-Shelley isn’t just building another wellness brand; she’s engineering a new category altogether.  Her platform mother.fm sits at the intersection of neuroscience, community and the often-overlooked emotional architecture of early motherhood. “When I gave birth to my son last January,” she tells The Modems, “I realised that many of the coaching-techniques I’d shared in…

If productivity had a personality, it might look a lot like Shivani Pau: warm, methodical, quietly radical. A former management consultant who traded decks for dialogue, Pau is the voice behind the chart-topping podcast A Millennial Mind, where she dismantles hustle culture with empathy – and a very good calendar system. “I didn’t start out…