Marie Claire has announced that it has launched a new podcast, Start Somewhere with Sara Vaughan. The publication's #Startsomewhere campaign calls on readers to speak up for the planet, take positive action, and reduce their individual carbon footprint. Marie Claire's first-ever podcast, hosted by its Global Chief Purpose and Sustainability Advisor, Sara Vaughan. The podcast features interviews with some of the incredibly inspiring people that Sara is lucky enough to meet in the course of her work who are creating positive change in the world.

Sara is an Innovator, Creator Brands with Purpose and Positive Change Maker. She’s done this successfully in-house for De Beers with Forevermark their ethical diamond brand, The Body Shop where she was responsible for developing and driving The Body Shop’s global brand repositioning – Beauty with Heart featuring Lily Cole and The Stop Sex Trafficking of Children and Young People Campaign. This remains the largest corporate-led petition ever presented to the United Nations generating some 7 million signatures and effecting change in trafficking legislation in over 20 countries. Latterly she was a Vice-President at Unilever, where she looked after the sustainable business and global communications for all the categories and brands and sat on the Global Personal Care Leadership Team. She created and rolled out the People Are Beautiful brand for Unilever Personal Care – a €21 billion company and also worked on the brand purpose for the 16 €1 billion+ brands. 

She now has her own consultancy working with companies and brands such as Unilever, Reckitt Benckiser and Danone to innovate, create and develop their purpose. 

Start Somewhere with Sara Vaughan is available now on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.