Power Sisters

Power Sisters features three lifelong friends who’ve juggled the demands of having high-powered careers along with the challenges of raising their families. This trio of black women - Rachel, Elaine and Caroline met at school in Streatham in the early 90s. They share stories of friendship, love, marriage, divorce, careers, motherhood. And talk candidly about the prejudice they’ve encountered, their struggles to get to the top of their chosen professions and the pressure they’ve felt as representatives of their respective communities. Rachel is a communications executive who has worked at No 10 for both Theresa May and Boris Johnson. Elaine has established a successful senior role in education and has been on a healing journey since a car accident in 2022. Caroline is a lawyer. Friends for three decades, they've been through it all - and the one constant? Each other. Instagram: @powersisterspodcast Power Sisters is a Whistledown podcast.

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Episode 8: Boys to Men

April 14, 2025 • 21 mins

How do you deal with your children becoming adults, doing grown-up things? Elaine’s managing sleepovers with her son and his girlfriend: “having a girlfriend has changed him in so many positive ways” she says. Rachel’s laughing: “in which life would my mother have let me?" “Never!” Elaine answers. Their children expect them to be different from the generation that raised them, but they as...

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Episode 7: Keeping Up Appearances

April 8, 2025 • 21 mins

Would you lie just to save face, or can you find the courage to step into who you really are? The Power Sisters find that embarrassment can lead to much needed revelations. For Elaine it made her realise that she did “need a little bit of help”. “It happens to the best of us” says Rachel. “As women, we think we have to be perfect all the time” But Caroline points out that “we’re hu...

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Episode 6: Manifesting

March 31, 2025 • 27 mins

“Does manifesting work? The sisters think so. Rachel sees it as “stretching towards that life that you want”. Elaine prefers to use the word vision, “you must have an action plan”. But they also consider “what you are manifesting is really who you are…living the life that you are created to live”. The sisters talk about their role models and settling into being role model...

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Episode 5: Cougars, Aunties and Thundercats

March 24, 2025 • 36 mins

Are we all aunties now? The sisters contend with what it means to age as women. Elaine thinks it’s wrong to be classed “as washed up because you are a certain age.” Why they can’t they “face the fact that yes we are aunties?” They also learn a new word to describe women of a certain age – “Thundercat”. “Can we just roll it back?” asks Rachel. The sisters also ...

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Episode 4: Bags and Showing Up

March 17, 2025 • 34 mins

Why do we have to wear our wealth? The sisters figure out where the community pressure to always look good comes from - where people save up just to spend on luxury items. “Does that bag now quantify you?” Elaine asks. After 20 years of working hard, they discuss how they treat themselves to items such as a long longed-for Chanel handbag, with their kids asking, mum why do you look so happy – it’s only a b...

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Episode 3: Handling Illness

March 10, 2025 • 23 mins

How do we do battle with our minds during tough times? Since walking away from a car accident two years ago, on some days Elaine has “big conversations” in her mind to help get her out of bed. The sisters talk about the multifaceted ways grief appears – not just losing loved ones, but losing old selves, friendships and relationships. Caroline wonders if they give themselves enough time to grieve ...

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Episode 2: Ageing Like A Fine Wine

March 3, 2025 • 23 mins

Are we happy ageing like fine wine? Caroline says the sisters have a decade left of still looking half decent. Rachel has learnt to celebrate each birthday in style, but Elaine only goes to parties where there are chairs and good food, and she can’t abide weddings with staged choreography. “We have to admit that our time has passed,” says Caroline, but “age brings respect” for Elaine – jus...

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Episode 1: You’ve Got To Be The Best

February 25, 2025 • 29 mins

Are sex, money and communication the key to a happy life? Caroline says love trumps everything, Elaine wants her vex money protected, and Rachel takes regular self-care. But how do they measure success for their children? Rachel’s daughter wants to be an actress, Caroline’s son dreams of being a professional footballer and Elaine’s boys are focussed on academic achievement, but what’s good for them, a...

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How I Met The Power Sisters

February 25, 2025 • 3 mins

Producer Liza Ward recalls that first meeting on a tube train, and introduces us to Rachel, Elaine and Caroline. Follow on Instagram: @powersisterspodcast Power Sisters is a Whistledown podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Introducing... Power Sisters

February 18, 2025 • 2 mins

Introducing... Power Sisters. Three lifelong friends who’ve juggled the demands of having high-powered careers along with the challenges of raising their families. This trio of black women - Rachel, Elaine and Caroline met at school in Streatham in the early 90s. They share stories of friendship, love, marriage, divorce, careers, motherhood. And talk candidly about the prejudice they’ve encountered, their struggles...

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Power Sisters

Episodes

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Episode 6: Manifesting

Episode 5: Cougars, Aunties and Thundercats

Episode 4: Bags and Showing Up

Episode 3: Handling Illness

Episode 2: Ageing Like A Fine Wine

Episode 1: You’ve Got To Be The Best

How I Met The Power Sisters

Introducing... Power Sisters

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Episode 8: Boys to Men

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