Marianne is a multi-award-winning editor, writer, podcaster, and brand consultant, with more than 30 years’ experience in women’s lifestyle media. She is co-host of the Apple chart-topping Been There, Done That, Got the Podcast, with stylist Kat Farmer.

Marianne was the editor of the Daily Telegraph Saturday Magazine, relaunching it to reach a new audience and winning a prestigious national Editor of the Year award.

Previously, she reinvented the Sunday Telegraph’s Stella magazine to great acclaim, twice winning national editor awards for expanding the weekly print product into a digital and events brand.

An expert in shaping content and storytelling for retail brands, Marianne is a specialist at improving the tone around the portrayal of midlife women, or ‘perennials’ as she calls this powerful demographic.

While at Stella, Marianne created a media partnership with the charity Smart Works, helping to raise record-breaking amounts to empower women to return to the workplace.

She was part of the team that launched Grazia in the UK in 2005 and has worked across titles from Marie Claire to the Daily Mirror.