Broadcaster, Journalist and Coach Katy Hill Joins emPOWER
Before ‘girl power’ had properly entered the cultural vocabulary, Katy Hill was already living it. Now, the broadcaster, speaker and founder of Limitless Live joins The emPOWER Breakfast for a conversation about what happens when a woman who has spent a lifetime pushing through fear learns there may be another kind of courage altogether.
There is a particular generation of women who will remember Katy Hill, not simply as a television presenter, but as something rather more significant. She was the woman on Blue Peter doing the things. Flying with the Red Arrows. Throwing herself into physical challenges. Travelling. Trying. Falling over. Getting back up. Saying yes. Remember this was the '90s and she was ground breaking.
As good as it was the '90s was a time when mainstream television was still often presenting women through a fairly narrow lens, Katy was out there taking up space in one of the biggest programmes on British television and demonstrating, week after week, that adventure did not belong exclusively to the boys. They had MILLIONS in viewing figures back in the day when we had to wait a week for the next instalment.
And all of this from someone who describes herself as having been painfully shy. That contradiction is perhaps where the really interesting story begins.
On Wednesday 14th October, Katy Hill will join Athene Parker founder and host of The emPOWER Breakfast, for ' Surrender to Grace: Rediscovering a Limitless Life' a conversation about ambition, identity, confidence, fear, menopause, intuition and what happens when the tools that helped us build one version of our life are not necessarily the tools we need for the next.
Katy had wanted Blue Peter from childhood. Not, she has since reflected, necessarily because she was desperate to be a television presenter. What captivated her was the permission the programme seemed to offer to do everything.
That ambition survived her shyness. She sought out experience wherever she could find it, from hospital radio to BBC Essex, repeatedly putting herself in the room and doing the work long before the opportunity eventually arrived.
When it did, it turned her into one of the most recognisable broadcasters of her generation.
Her career went on to span major television and radio roles, and she later became the first woman to host a national network chart show. She also became the first civilian to fly a full display with the Red Arrows. These are achievements that look, from the outside, like evidence of fearlessness but perhaps courage isn’t the absence of fear at all, Katy suggests it is simply learning not to let fear make all the decisions.
That has been the driving inspiration for Katy's pivot into Coaching. Launching Limitless in 2018, Katy's coaching platform centres on confidence, clarity, possibility and helping women consciously and intentionally shape their next chapter. The woman whose early life was defined by pushing herself into extraordinary experiences began asking different questions.
The morning will finish with Nicky Palamarczuk of House of Butterfly, who will lead a mini sound experience designed to energise the room. Using sound and frequency, Nicky will create a moment to reset, reconnect and make space for the version of ourselves we may be ready to step into next.
The emPOWER Breakfast with Katy Hill – The Surrender to Grace: Rediscovering a Limitless Life Wednesday 14th October 2026Tickets go live Wednesday 30th September that you can purchase through The emPOWER Breakfast App.
