Brave New Girls - Healthy Life, Healthy Planet

Power of Water with Fiona Jeffery OBE founder of charity Just a Drop

May 29, 2023 23:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MB

This week’s guest is Fiona Jeffery, who founded Just a Drop in 1998 after learning that a child died every 17 seconds because of dirty water & that just £1 could provide a child with clean water for 10 years. She sits on the UN World Committee for Tourism Ethics & in 2012 was awarded an OBE for her services to the travel & tourism industry. Just a Drop provides communities across Asia, Africa and Latin America with access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene education. By providing communi...

This is a major turning point, with Fair Shot cafe & charity founder Bianca Tavella

May 22, 2023 23:00 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MB

My guest this week is Bianca Tavella the founder and CEO of Fair Shot, a registered charity & unique social enterprise cafe which is her response to the unbearably high unemployment rate amongst adults with learning disabilities - at a staggering 95%. Via a year-long training programme & follow on employment programme young adults with learning disabilities have a secure pathway into paid sustainable employment. There are people making waves everywhere. Waves that uproot the old broken wa...

Harnessing restorative business to heal the world, with author & journalist Esha Chhabra

May 15, 2023 23:00 - 44 minutes - 30.9 MB

Esha Chhabra is a journalist who covers sustainability, development, women's issues & mission-driven brands, writing for The Guardian, The New York Times, Economist, Wired, Fast Company & Forbes & awarded 4 grants from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Esha is also the author of Working to Restore, harnessing the power of ‘feel good, do good’ enterprises & regenerative business, to restore & heal the world. They are going above and beyond what we call sustainability, which is a te...

Transform the world about you, with Lebanon-based founder of Recycler Donation, Maria Abdel Karim

May 08, 2023 23:00 - 28 minutes - 20 MB

This week's guest is Maria Abdel Karim who is part of Recycler, The Environmental Army, a team of passionate youth working together and creating new sustainable approaches to the waste problem in Lebanon, including recycling waste, doing clean-ups, raising awareness, & using technology & AI for the good of the environment. Recycler is specialized in solid waste management, environmental education, sustainable innovation and agriculture. Maria believes that lack of environmental education i...

Surefire way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions with Marisa Heath, CEO of Plant-Based Alliance UK

May 01, 2023 23:00 - 35 minutes - 24.3 MB

Marisa Heath is the CEO of Plant Based Alliance UK, founded by Oatly, Alpro, The Vegan Society, Upfield and ProVeg UK, as a coalition of civil society groups & businesses with a collective aim of making the UK a global leader in plant-based food & drink. All these businesses and increasingly more as others join them, have decided to resist the stigma of being different, and stand up together to speak out for what they believe in. Food systems account for one-third of greenhouse gas emiss...

Sharing your message, mission & vision, with impact marketing pro Amel Derragui

April 24, 2023 23:00 - 38 minutes - 26.7 MB

This week’s guest is Amel Derragui, a marketing consultant who helps change-makers sell their vision, their ideas and their skills in order to make the visible impact they want to see in the world. Many entrepreneurs are intimidated by marketing but she helps demystifiy what it is really about so you can learn how to do it authentically. If you want to be a thought leader in your industry choose where you are most comfortable and proficient and drill down on that. Think about the change an...

Compost your knickers with Stripe and Stare Founder Katie Lopes

April 17, 2023 23:00 - 29 minutes - 20.2 MB

My guest this week is Katie Lopes, Founder, Creative & Sustainability Director of Stripe and Stare, a B-corp certified brand making super cool and comfy knickers. Made sustainably in Austria from Beechwood Trees by a company called Lenzing, the Stripe & Stare fabric TENCEL is scientifically proven to be 3 times softer than cotton, wears better & is as breathable as fresh air in a forest of responsibly planted trees. But she didn’t start out saying, right ‘I’m going to save the planet wit...

Taking a stand on issues you care about with Art for Change Founder Jeanne Masel

April 10, 2023 23:00 - 25 minutes - 17.8 MB

My guest this week is Jeanne Masel Founder & CEO of Art for Change developed to offer fine art to socially conscious art collectors. Each carefully selected artist and artwork are paired with a relevant non-profit initiative & this has generated over $250K for non-profits & enabled the planting of over 3,000 trees to support Global Reforestation efforts to combat climate change. AFC is a platform for discovery for the best contemporary art. They’ve been known for their high quality prints ...

Doing it scared, with Emilia Leese, Founder of The Birchfield Project & author of Think like a Vegan

April 03, 2023 23:00 - 33 minutes - 23.3 MB

My guest this week is Emilia Leese, author of Think like a Vegan & founder of the Birchfield Project dedicated to rewilding 100 acres in the Highlands of Scotland, near Loch Ness, in which they aim to restore the native forest, peat bog, funga, reintroduce locally extinct species & inspire people to connect with the environment. Emilia is the owner, along with her husband, of 100 acres of a former commercial forest which they bought in 2017, after a few years of searching. They were insp...

Doing it scared, with Emilia Leese, Author of Think like a Vegan & Founder of The Birchfield Project

April 03, 2023 23:00 - 33 minutes - 23.3 MB

My guest this week is Emilia Leese, author of Think like a Vegan & founder of the Birchfield Project dedicated to rewilding 100 acres in the Highlands of Scotland, near Loch Ness, in which they aim to restore the native forest, peat bog, funga, reintroduce locally extinct species & inspire people to connect with the environment. Emilia is the owner, along with her husband, of 100 acres of a former commercial forest which they bought in 2017, after a few years of searching. They were insp...

Food for your gut & hormones with Harvest Care founder Zuzanna Zielinska

March 27, 2023 23:00 - 34 minutes - 24 MB

My guest this week is Zuzanna Zielinska founder of Harvest Care which leverages regenerative agriculture to provide food-as-medicine to European society. In the process, they play a role in the integration of the healthcare system and the food system. By working in partnership with farmers they are enlarging the market for regenerative produce whilst raising consciousness about nutrient density. · Individual nutrition and health coaching focus on women's hormonal health and gut issues · G...

Waste not, want not with Globechain founder May Al-Karooni

March 21, 2023 00:00 - 33 minutes - 23 MB

My guest this week is May Al-Karooni, the founder of Globechain an ESG, Environmental, Social, and Governance Reuse Marketplace connecting corporates with charities, small businesses and individuals. They enable companies to reuse materials and assets to help them reduce their waste, carbon and improve their ESG data evidence of sustainability. After seeing the Bank she was working for dispose of furniture, she decided to get into waste. She founded Globechain to contribute to the re-use...

Slow travel with Byway founder Cat Jones

March 14, 2023 00:00 - 34 minutes - 23.9 MB

My guest this week is Cat Jones founder of B corp certified business Byway, who are on a mission to make slow travel mainstream. They offer 100% flight free holidays by train, boat and bus - and the journey is the holiday just as much as the destination. Their holidays are multi stop, often multi modal, often including sleeper trains (or boats!) and are journeys optimised for enjoyment, instead of speed or cost. Cat shows us how to travel in a more sustainable way, so we can still see the ...

Wonder where your old sneakers went? Celebrating waste as a precious material with Helen Kirkum

March 08, 2023 00:00 - 33 minutes - 23.3 MB

My guest this week is Helen Kirkum, multi-award winning designer & pioneer in sustainable footwear whose Studio was born on the fundamentals of rescuing old sneakers to create pieces that raise awareness of post-consumer waste. Wherever possible they incorporate recycling and up-cycling into their products, breathing new life into discarded sneakers. STUDIO Helen Kirkum Studio Limited was founded by Helen Kirkum in 2019. At Helen Kirkum Studio we celebrate the processes of wearing and m...

She grows cities- how to nurture nature in a concrete jungle, with Jamie Hwang

March 06, 2023 00:00 - 38 minutes - 26.8 MB

My guest this week is Jamie Hwang, city planner for Los Angeles City Council and creator of Urban Farmers’ Almanac which is a free, community-sourced digital resource guide for gardening, sustainable living, and supporting urban farms & independent makers in LA who also believe in circular, local economies, building communities, and food justice. Her passion for urban planning made her realize how precious our environment is. And while in LA, they need to build more housing quickly to addre...

She grows cities with Jamie Hwang

March 06, 2023 00:00 - 38 minutes - 26.8 MB

My guest this week is Jamie Hwang, city planner for Los Angeles City Council and creator of Urban Farmers’ Almanac which is a free, community-sourced digital resource guide for gardening, sustainable living, and supporting urban farms & independent makers in LA who also believe in circular, local economies, building communities, and food justice. Her passion for urban planning made her realize how precious our environment is. And while in LA, they need to build more housing quickly to addre...

Clean healthy energy for your body & the planet with Truestart Founder Helena Hills

February 28, 2023 00:00 - 35 minutes - 24.4 MB

My guest this week is Helena Hill, co-founder of TrueStart, a Multi-award-winning challenger feel-good, healthy coffee masterbrand as well as being a B-corp, Carbon Negative, ethical family business that puts people first and incorporates the importance of championing neuro-diversity. Helena talks about how TrueStart has always been about unlocking your potential by making you feel great. She and her co-founder Simon, started in sport and are now making the world happier and healthier one c...

All rise together with Channel 4 People Director Kirstin Furber

February 21, 2023 00:00 - 29 minutes - 20.3 MB

My guest this week is Kirstin Furber. As the People Director for Channel 4 (and previously CPO Kantar and BBC Worldwide) she is on a mission to make the world a better place to work. A place where we can all do our best work, be human and reach our full potential for ourselves and others, helping great leaders build cultures that drive personal growth as well as creating success for the organisation. Kirstin's role is as a facilitator partnering with leaders/managers and employees, so the...

The sustainable journey of a babygro, with Sashe Christopher

February 14, 2023 00:00 - 28 minutes - 19.5 MB

My guest this week is Sashe Christopher, founder of vegan, organic childrenswear brand Pop My Way that parents can trust. Its sustainable supply chain is fully GOTS-certified, from energy and water use, to hazardous chemicals /use of non-chemical dyes, to the social responsibility and wages the factory workers get paid is monitored and audited regularly. After working in corporate fashion for over 20 years and having a baby, she soon realised that her time with her family and her health wer...

The powerful benefits of hanging out, with Author Sheila Liming

February 07, 2023 00:00 - 29 minutes - 20.5 MB

My guest this week is Professor Sheila Liming, author of Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time which shows us how just getting together can be a potent act of resistance. Almost every day it seems that our world becomes more fractured, more digital, and more chaotic. But Sheila has the answer: we simply need to hang out more. The book is called Hanging Out and in it, she explores what it means to kill time socially, in the presence of others, and why doing that matters. It’s style...

The powerful benefits of hanging out, with Sheila Liming

February 07, 2023 00:00 - 29 minutes - 20.5 MB

My guest this week is Professor Sheila Liming, author of Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time which shows us how just getting together can be a potent act of resistance. Almost every day it seems that our world becomes more fractured, more digital, and more chaotic. But Sheila has the answer: we simply need to hang out more. The book is called Hanging Out and in it, she explores what it means to kill time socially, in the presence of others, and why doing that matters. It’s style...

How to go from a dark place to experimenting with bravery every day, with Petra Velzeboer

January 31, 2023 00:00 - 32 minutes - 22.8 MB

My guest this week is Petra Velzeboer a renowned mental health expert, TedX speaker & CEO of mental health consultancy PVL. Born & raised in the Children of God cult, she escaped but found herself in a downward spiral until she found a way to turn her life around. Now she empowers others round the world to sustain a resilient & positive state of mental health. Breaking the cycles of trauma Bravery everyday- one small brave act Dare to Dream & experiment with ways to make it become reality...

Creating new life from the rubble, with author of All My Wild Mothers Victoria Bennett

January 24, 2023 00:00 - 39 minutes - 27.3 MB

My guest this week is Victoria Bennett, author of the intimate memoir ‘All My Wild Mothers’ a story of re-wilding our wastelands & the transformation that happens when we do. After losing her sister in a boating accident & later finding out her son had a lifelong medical condition, Vik turned to the rubble & weeds outside her door to create a new kind of future. Thank you so much Vik for sharing your story so that we may also look to the simpler side of life where we can be closer to nature...

Going cruelty-free with sustainable plant-based leathers with Luxtra founder Jessica Kruger

January 17, 2023 00:00 - 31 minutes - 21.5 MB

My guest this week is Jessica Kruger, Founder of Luxtra, a conscious, cruelty free, & sustainability -focused luxury brand of plant-based leather accessories. In 2020 Luxtra certified as a B-corporation- a new type of company that balances purpose with profit, using business as a force for good. There's no denying fashion is a super-saturated market, so competition is fierce. Like in almost any industry - Luxtra are a small player trying to compete with businesses that have deep pockets a...

Saving the animals from our fashion choices with SLAY documentary film director Rebecca Cappelli

January 10, 2023 00:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MB

My guest this week is Rebecca Cappelli is an award-winning filmmaker & public speaker. A French citizen and a mandarin speaking professional, Rebecca leads the non-profit project Let us be Heroes for the health of people, animals & the planet. She is the director of SLAY, a feature documentary about inhumane practices involving animals in the fashion industry. Rebecca went to China alone at 18 years old to study Chinese mandarin, then had to graduate in France because Chinese unis were no...

It's an inside job with love and relationships expert Sami Wunder

January 03, 2023 00:00 - 39 minutes - 27.4 MB

My guest this week is Sami Wunder, a leading international relationship and dating expert who specializes in working with ambitious, high-achieving women, helping them attract lasting romantic love. Her clients range from a Hollywood celebrity to UK TV stars to CEOs, bankers, lawyers, doctors, renowned authors, leading entrepreneurs, and more. The world of love and relationships changed and Sami is helping people navigate the new ways of meeting, dating, forming and transforming their rela...

Stop Talking, Start Doing with #1 bestselling author, speaker & entrepreneur Shaa Wasmund MBE

November 29, 2022 00:00 - 35 minutes - 24.3 MB

My Guest this week is Shaa Wasmund MBE. She’s just brought out the 10th anniversary edition of her #1 bestselling book Stop Talking Start Doing in which she does a deep dive teach into what holds people back, the fears, the false beliefs, the unhealthy habits, the procrastination and sabotage all that can stop budding entrepreneurs from getting started and established entrepreneurs from soaring to the top level. First time round the book had a record-breaking 14 months at No 1 in the chart...

Scoring at life with football TV presenter Alison Bender

November 22, 2022 00:00 - 35 minutes - 24.7 MB

This week's guest is Alison Bender, a football reporter and TV presenter. When she was ten years old she knew she wanted to be a presenter but her teachers told her it was a terrible idea. Fast forward to now and she’s living her dream, travelling the world interviewing some of the greatest footballers and managers of our generation. England Women winning the Euros has helped put women’s football on the map. And women in sports media is on the rise too. Alison feels there is still a lot ...

Healing with Horses - equine facilitated therapy with Loredana Caminiti

November 15, 2022 00:00 - 35 minutes - 24.6 MB

My guest this week is Loredana Caminiti founder of Be Horself a Horse Assisted Wellbeing organisation that practices the innovative experiential learning method of Equine Facilitated Learning (EFL), so that you can safely interact with horses, from the ground, and be gently guided by their intuition to unlock the blocks holding you back. Loredana had an idyllic childhood in the mountains, living close with nature. Even though her family then moved to the city for her to go school she kept h...

From burnout to bravery to break-through with Sandra Wright

November 08, 2022 00:00 - 33 minutes - 23.3 MB

My guest this week is Sandra Wright who went from extreme adrenal burnout to re-calibrating her life and becoming a bravery coach to encourage stressed-out individuals, juggling busy careers, teams and personal lives to balance emotional wellbeing, in order to communicate successfully and find fulfilment from within. The last few years, helped by the pandemic, have seen Sandra herself, releasing toxic relationships, addiction, and expectation, but also accessing the true creative inside he...

If ever there was a time for a hug in a mug, it's now. Let's have a cuppa with HotTea Mama founder Bethan Thomas

November 01, 2022 00:00 - 31 minutes - 22 MB

My guest this week is Bethan Thomas a Tea Scientist & the first non-Chinese person to get a degree in Tea Science from the University in Fujian, China. She worked as a tea buyer for some of the UK's biggest tea brands before co-founding HotTea Mama an award-winning tea company, making teas to support better periods, pregnancy, motherhood & menopause, from gut health to hormonal balance. Bethan's business survived and thrived through the pandemic, post-pandemic and now with cost-of living c...

Artfully making the world a better place with artist agency founder Kristina Snyder

October 24, 2022 23:00 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MB

This week’s guest is Kristina Synder founder of an agency based in New York that represents a dynamic and diverse range of illustrators, animators, designers and visual artists from around the world. She is committed to empowering her clients and artists to forge conscientious and creative collaborations. She found that the during and since the pandemic the interest of brands to use illustration and animation has increased, and that the collaborations between commercial business and creativ...

Transforming pain into purpose with Green Queen founder Sonalie Figueiras

October 17, 2022 23:00 - 37 minutes - 25.7 MB

This week’s guest is serial social entrepreneur Sonalie Figueiras. She is the founder & editor-in-chief of Green Queen, an award-winning impact media platform advocating for social & environmental change in Hong Kong with a mission to shift consumer behaviour through inspiring & empowering original content. Sonalie paints a picture of what the climate crisis consciousness in Hong Kong and Asia as a whole and what she is trying to do with her Green Queen Media Platform. There were definite...

Up-level your health with Dr Lauren Kelley-Chew

October 10, 2022 23:00 - 40 minutes - 28 MB

This week’s guest is Dr Lauren Kelley-Chew, Head of Clinical Product at Levels -an organisation founded to increase awareness around the epidemic levels of metabolic dysfunction & give individuals the tools & knowledge to make tangible lifestyle changes. Lauren’s mission is to solve the metabolic health crisis & make good health accessible to everyone. Metabolic dysfunction is the single largest health crisis facing the world Over 120M Americans have prediabetes or diabetes and 9 or the 10...

Celebrating your Neurodiversity with ADHD Ambassador Azryah Harvey

October 03, 2022 23:00 - 35 minutes - 24.3 MB

Azryah Harvey is an anti-racism consultant, public speaker, writer, and content creator. She was diagnosed with ADHD aged 30 after suspecting she was living with the condition for a few years. While apprehensive about securing the diagnosis, Azryah felt validated when she received an ADHD diagnosis as it explained many of the challenges she had been experiencing. Up to 75% of women living with ADHD are undiagnosed in the UK alone. Azryah is an ADHD Ambassador for Staring Back at you Campai...

Loud & Proud- getting your voice on the airwaves with The Podcast Boutique founder Lynsay Gould

September 26, 2022 23:00 - 35 minutes - 24.7 MB

This week’s guest is Lynsay Gould founder and CEO of The Podcast Boutique, a podcast production company that champions indie podcasters and helps get more women’s voices heard through podcasting. She also started the Podcasting for Business Awards and most recently the podcast network We Are Emmeline. It's been a tough few years for everyone. Typically for her though, she doubled down in her work as podcasting seemed to explode during the first lockdown. She’s realised even more than before...

Putting the Va Va Vroom back into your v@ginal health with Kim Vopni

September 19, 2022 23:00 - 38 minutes - 26.3 MB

This week’s guest is Kim Vopni, vagina coach, pelvic floor specialist and author of Your Pelvic Floor, a practical guide to solving your most intimate problems. She believes it's time for pelvic health to be discussed & offered to all vagina owners & that it's time to break through taboos & redefine how we think about women’s health. It took her awhile to figure out what she wanted to do...and then once she was in her career, she was laid off after 9 years. Thankfully she had started a lit...

Escaping gravity- the final frontier for saving our planet, with former deputy administrator of Nasa, Lori Garver

September 12, 2022 23:00 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MB

This week’s guest is Lori Garver, former Deputy Administrator for NASA & author of Escaping Gravity: My Quest to Transform NASA and Launch a New Space Age, describing how she drove the commercial space program with Elon Musk against the wishes of Senators on both sides of the House, whilst in a misogynistic, male-dominated NASA culture. The last two years have been challenging for us all. Lori increased her activist nature as much as possible to help drive to a better future. One of the way...

The Future of Food with Sentient Ventures Co-Founder, Alexandra Clark

September 05, 2022 23:00 - 43 minutes - 30.4 MB

This week’s guest is Alexandra Clark, venture investor & co-founder of Sentient Ventures which was recently launched as new £30m investment vehicle today designed to spur growth in firms developing meat-free animal alternative products. The fund taps into firms fuelling the shift to net zero and removing animals from every stage of the supply chain. The Pandemic has simply brought front and centre the dire state of the planet and our food system and supply change and made change more pertin...

Ungluing where you're stuck, with the Collage Coaching Technique Founder Andrea Watts

August 08, 2022 23:00 - 38 minutes - 26.3 MB

Andrea Watts is the author of Collage as a Creative Coaching Tool and creator of The Collage Coaching Technique™ an arts-based approach to coaching that reconnects you to your inner wisdom and is a powerful way to get unstuck as you explore and express the hidden experiences and mindsets that influence how you feel, think, and behave. From a work perspective, Covid meant she had to take her coaching practice and training online, this caused her to find a creative way to transition the Colla...

Smashing it! The art of getting what you want with Alison Edgar MBE

August 01, 2022 23:00 - 35 minutes - 24.8 MB

This week’s guest is Alison Edgar MBE known as the ‘The Entrepreneurs Godmother’ helping businesses and entrepreneurs to grow, including The Apprentice & Dragons Den winners with their businesses. She is also the author of bestselling book SMASH IT! The art of getting what you want. Instead of sitting around during the pandemic, she decided to embrace the lockdown and write her best-selling book ‘SMASH IT! The Art of Getting What YOU Want’, which helped grow the her own business to new le...

Optimizing your brain with Founder Portia Asli

July 25, 2022 23:00 - 35 minutes - 24.3 MB

This week’s guest is Portia Asli, a licensed engineer and founder of Optimyzed Brain. She helps entrepreneurs optimize their brains for high-performance using a science-based method that supports people to prioritize their brain health and empower them with actionable ways to increase their mental performance for success in business. Founding Optimyzed Brain Portia went from a small offline consulting practice to building and launching a global-based business during the pandemic, helpi...

Combating taboo subjects in women's health with founder Lina Chan

July 18, 2022 23:00 - 31 minutes - 21.5 MB

This week’s guest is Lina Chan. She had a stillbirth, a miscarriage & trouble conceiving. The impact it had on her physically and emotionally was tremendous, so she founded Parla, a Femtech Start-Up platform & community by women for women that changes the conversation around fertility. Parla was recently acquired by Holland & Barrett. Born and raised in Brazil, by Chinese Immigrant parents Lina learned about resilience, hard work and optimism by watching how they thrived through their hards...

Creating a fab future beyond the booze with Radio 2 DJ & Sober Club founder Janey Lee Grace

July 11, 2022 23:00 - 43 minutes - 29.9 MB

This week’s guest is Janey Lee Grace, bestselling author of Happy Healthy Sober and the Imperfectly Natural series. Formerly a singer and now DJ on Radio 2, Janey is founder of The Sober Club and is a coach and media trainer for those wanting to find clarity and vision and then looking to package it & send it out into the world in a way that will make people listen. Born in Nottingham, Janey knew she wanted out of the kind of life that was expected for her. She knew she wanted to a singe...

How to come to terms with loss with Grief Recovery Specialist Kirsten Wallentin

July 04, 2022 23:00 - 42 minutes - 29.1 MB

This week's guest is Kirsten Wallentin, a certified Advanced Grief Recovery Method Specialist and author of the book “When Dad Dies”. In 2016 her husband was diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease for which life expectancy is 2-3 years. Her husband passed away only 18 months later leaving Kirsten a widow with two young daughters. In the beginning, her children were frightened as they heard people would die from Covid – and after losing their father, they were worried if she could get sick an...

Mending your mind & body with Mindful Pilates teacher Bev Densham

June 27, 2022 23:00 - 35 minutes - 24.8 MB

This week’s guest is Beverley Densham, a Mindfulness Pilates teacher of nearly 24 years, award winning, bestselling Author of I Talk to Angels, founder of the Happy Kids Cards for children & Happy & Calm cards & has been featured in the Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Daily Express, YOU Magazine, Woman Magazine, Spirit & Destiny magazine & BBC radio Beverley's story has led her doing what she does now and it is all the more powerful for the journey that has taken her here. During the Pandemic s...

Not everything is rainbows & unicorns, says The Brain Lady Julie Anderson

June 20, 2022 23:00 - 38 minutes - 26.5 MB

This week’s guest is Julie Anderson, otherwise known as The Brain Lady. She has studied natural health, psychology, psychoneuro-immunology & the field of brain personality connection. With further specialism in depression, anxiety disorders and brain function, she helps us to discover our own personal brainprint, & how to make the most of it. Julie explains what a brainprint is, and how, after the two years we have all had we can use our brains to help us recover and build resilience for w...

Grow your own green-thinking community with filmmaker Margaret To

June 13, 2022 23:00 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MB

This week’s guest is Margaret To, founder of Studio SAKA, who helps scientists, educators, non-profits, entrepreneurs and government agencies better communicate social and climate solutions through film, design, and immersive experiences - in order to engage public conversations and inspire action. In 2020 Margaret did a project that changed her. It was a video series about regenerative agriculture in Hawaii. It made her rethink how she was living and she decided to start her own small veg...

Do life with your whole heart says young onset Parkinson's campaigner Jo Yaldren

June 06, 2022 23:00 - 40 minutes - 27.9 MB

This week’s guest is Jo Yaldren, who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease at the age of 47. She practices the Hoffman Process which helps her as she seeks to receive treatment and advocate for the charity Parkinson’s UK who state that Parkinson’s is the fastest growing neurological condition in the world. The last two years have gone by at a time when her when symptoms have been ok. But in terms pf the pandemic and her Parkinson's she feels she had already had come to terms with mortalit...

Going deep for your mental health with freediver & breathing expert Helena Bourdillon

May 30, 2022 23:00 - 45 minutes - 31.5 MB

Warning this episode speaks about depression, and suicide ideation. If you are affected by these issues please seek help, support or contact https://www.thecalmzone.net/ This week’s guest is Helena Bourdillon, a Breath trainer, free-diver and mental health advocate. 22 years ago she was on the verge of suicide. She survived & triumphed over chronic depression & now freedives to depths of -76m. With 7 National Records for depth, she has represented Great Britain at the World Championships f...

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