ABOUT DO NOT DISTURB
Do Not Disturb: The Inside Story is a filmed long-form podcast hosted by Simona Deifta about modern female life beneath public success.
THE SHOW
Do Not Disturb is a filmed podcast and newsletter exploring the questions women carry quietly. Hosted by Simona Deifta, each conversation goes beyond the professional narrative — into the territory most interviews never reach.
The show explores motherhood, ambition, identity, relationships, work, money, fertility, burnout, emotional resilience and reinvention through thoughtful conversations with founders, authors, experts, psychologists, cultural voices and public figures. Simona brings a founder and operator lens to conversations about the private reality behind visible achievement: the emotional cost of work, family, reinvention and the systems women are expected to succeed inside.
New filmed episodes every Wednesday. The Inside Story lands every Monday.
WHAT THE SHOW EXAMINES
Motherhood, ambition and invisible labour
How women build, pause, restart and redefine success around bodies, families, care and real support systems.
Identity, power and relationships
The emotional life beneath partnership, separation, confidence, desire, friendship, money and public visibility.
Systems and reinvention
Why so many women are asking whether the structures around work, motherhood and success were designed for them at all.
THE HOST
Simona Deifta
Simona Deifta created Do Not Disturb because she kept noticing what got left out of interviews — the real answer, the hesitation, the thing the guest almost said. She built the show around one conviction: the most important conversations are the ones that don't happen in public. DND is where they happen on record — with honesty, depth, and without interruption.
Subscribe to The Inside Story →WHY DO NOT DISTURB
The name is intentional. Most conversations — especially with high-achieving women — are conducted around disruptions: PR strategies, time constraints, brand messaging. Do Not Disturb clears all of that.
The result is a different kind of interview. Slower. More honest. The kind of conversation that reveals what success actually costs, what ambition looks like from the inside, and what women are building — and questioning — quietly.
START HERE
Start with the latest episode, or let the newsletter find you — free, every Monday.
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