Raise Her Up
43 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWelcome to Raise Her Up, the Girls’ Day School Trust new podcast.
With 25 schools, 19,000 students, and the largest women’s alumnae network of its kind, the GDST are experts in girls’ education and everything that goes with it.
Each fortnight on Raise Her Up, the GDST’s Cathy Walker interviews experts for practical advice on the most significant subjects affecting girls in the modern world as they grow into empowered women.
Covering topics from wellbeing to womanhood, communication to creativity, self-image to sexism, as well as mental health, careers, and relationships to name just a few, Raise Her Up from the GDST gives you the tools to help your girls flourish.
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Episodes
10 Minutes to Better Mental Health with CBT & Mindfulness
May 17, 2023 08:10 - 28 minutes - 52.3 MBGP and CBT therapist Dr Lee David realised during lockdown that the NHS’ mental health services would simply not be able to meet the demand for therapy and support in the fallout from the pandemic. Her book 10 Minutes to Better Mental Health: A Step-by-Step Guide for Teens Using CBT and Mindfulness aims to give young people and their parents the tools to better understand how to deal with setbacks and become their own therapists. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
10 Minutes to Better Mental Health with CBT & Mindulness
February 08, 2023 03:15 - 28 minutes - 52.3 MBGP and CBT therapist Dr Lee David realised during lockdown that the NHS’ mental health services would simply not be able to meet the demand for therapy and support in the fallout from the pandemic. Her book 10 Minutes to Better Mental Health: A Step-by-Step Guide for Teens Using CBT and Mindfulness aims to give young people and their parents the tools to better understand how to deal with setbacks and become their own therapists. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Let's Talk About Sex
January 25, 2023 03:15 - 36 minutes - 66.6 MBOur fantastic guest this fortnight is tiktoker and sex educator Milly Evans. With over 400k followers on tiktok, Milly is the go-to for young people wanting to find honest and reliable information about all areas of sex and relationships. As the daughter of parents who own a sex toy shop, Milly grew up with sex being openly discussed, and started campaigning for compulsory sex education for all, in her teens, while still at school. Her brilliant and bestselling book, Honest: Everything They D...
How to Challenge the Patriarchy, or How To Campaign For Change
January 11, 2023 03:15 - 29 minutes - 54.6 MBLaura Coryton is an activist, campaigner and educator. You may recognise her name as the woman we have to thank for the abolition of the tampon tax. Laura started a petition to address the issue of VAT on period products after discovering the gender imbalance in our taxation system which unfairly penalises women. She went on to deliver her petition of 200000 signatures to Downing Street, and has since seen her campaign successfully culminate in the abolition of tax on period products. Since ...
From Motherland to Mendes - behind the scenes
December 28, 2022 03:15 - 31 minutes - 56.8 MBFor this twixmas time of year our guest is critically-acclaimed and much loved actor Tanya Moodie. She’s done everything from Shakespeare to prime-time TV. You may well know her from the BAFTA award-winning series Motherland, as the straight-talking and hard-partying Meg whose character battled and overcame breast cancer in the latest series. Tanya joins us today to talk to us about her career, getting into - and out of - character, and how the world of acting has changed since she graduated...
Undercover Sexual Harassment: The Truth
December 14, 2022 03:15 - 28 minutes - 52.4 MBEllie Flynn is an investigative journalist and documentary maker, whose work focuses on the experiences of young women in the UK, exposing the injustices they face. She has covered topics such as pornography, coercive control and the beauty industry, and in her latest documentary Undercover Sexual Harassment: The Truth for Channel Four, she looked at women and girls’ daily experiences of sexual harassment in our country today. She also shares her insights and advice about how women and girls ...
Hysterical: The Myth of Gendered Emotions
November 30, 2022 12:22 - 38 minutes - 70.7 MBBehavioural and data scientist Professor Pragya Agarwal is a heavyweight when it comes to matters of equality, unconscious bias, diversity and inclusion. Her last book, (M)otherhood, was an examination of what it is to be a woman and mother, and a look at society’s obsession with the female body. Her latest book, Hysterical, seeks to explode the myth of gendered emotions, looking at whether there is any truth in the concept of innate differences between the way men and women experience what ...
In The Line Of Fire
November 16, 2022 03:15 - 32 minutes - 59.3 MBOur guest on this episode of Raise Her Up is Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist, foreign correspondent - and GDST alumna - Ramita Navai, who has reported from conflict zones including Syria, Afghanistan and Iran. In her podcast In The Line of Fire, she speaks to fellow war reporters about their experiences. She joins us on this episode to give us insights into her undercover work, how she prepares to go into hostile territory, her experiences as a female reporter - and why she would...
The Yorkshire Shepherdess: protecting the land and celebrating the seasons
November 02, 2022 03:15 - 29 minutes - 53.5 MBOn this episode we are talking to the author, presenter, mother of 9 and shepherdess of 1000 sheep… Amanda Owen. Amanda Owen shot to fame when she and her family appeared in Channel 5’s Our Yorkshire Farm, first airing in 2018, and soon gaining a huge following, with 3m viewers per episode. Known as the Yorkshire Shepherdess, Amanda is also a best-selling author, presenter, photographer and mother of 9. Her latest book, Celebrating The Seasons, is part memoir, part recipe book, and continue...
The Lowdown on Breasts
October 19, 2022 02:15 - 31 minutes - 57.3 MBBreasts. A body part. A source of nutrition, of insecurities, of worry, of sexual desire. Our relationship with breasts is complex, and may change at various points throughout our lives. As we watch our daughters grow up, we want them to feel acceptance and confidence in their changing bodies, without health, social or sexual factors influencing their perspective. In this episode to mark Breast Cancer Awareness Month, our guest is speaker, author, and podcaster… Dr Liz O’Riordan. As a for...
How to Survive and Thrive in Politics
October 01, 2022 02:14 - 25 minutes - 47 MBOur guest on this episode of Raise Her Up is politician and member of the House of Lords Baroness Sayeeda Warsi. As the first Muslim woman to serve in cabinet under prime minister David Cameron, she used her position to educate and speak out on issues around islamophobia, extremism and racial equality. She joins us to talk about her thoughts about the current political landscape, her own experiences, and what it has been like working as a political mentor alongside former Number 10 Chief of S...
How to Say No
September 21, 2022 02:14 - 28 minutes - 52.6 MBThis episode we welcome multi award winning Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Child and Adult Mental Health specialist, Dr Nihara Krause. Dr Krause is the CEO and founder of stem4, the Teenage Mental Health charity recently name checked by Hollywood actor Tom Holland when announcing his break from social media to benefit his own mental health. Dr Krause talks about how to break cycles of people-pleasing, how to step back and set boundaries, and how to address issues around consent. We als...
Self-Belief, Growth… and the importance of Male Allyship
September 07, 2022 02:29 - 30 minutes - 56 MBWelcome Back!!! Its Series 2 of Raise Her Up and we're starting with an absolutely incredible guest. Our guest for Episode 1 of Season 2 is Sunday Times bestselling author, presenter, journalist, fashionista and all round role model Candice Brathwaite. Her first book, I Am Not Your Baby Mother, addressed the issue she found when she became a mother herself: that the media landscape was absolutely not representative of her own experience as a woman of colour. Her follow up, Sista Sister, wa...
Series 2: Trailer
September 01, 2022 02:05 - 1 minute - 1.86 MBRaise Her Up from the GDST returns for a second season on Wednesday 7th September, bringing you more brilliant and inspirational guests with insight and expertise to share. This season, our guests range from actresses to politicians, psychotherapists to authors, as we cover issues like body image, sibling relationships, solo parenting, eating disorders, sex… and so much more Remember to follow us so you don’t miss a single episode. Season 2 of Raise Her Up – starting September 7th H...
Series 1 Retrospective: Allyship
August 24, 2022 02:15 - 12 minutes - 22.4 MBIn the last of our Raise Her Up Season 1 Retrospectives we address the important topic of Allyship. Hear from actor, writer and performer Grace Barrett on the impact of racism on our mental health; the UK government’s Women’s Health Ambassador Professor Dame Lesley Regan on how women’s health is everyone’s business; and journalist Genelle Aldred on how cancel culture can drive important discussions around Diversity & Inclusion underground. Join us for Season 2 which starts on Wednesday ...
Series 1 Retrospective: The Future of the Workplace
August 10, 2022 02:15 - 14 minutes - 27.5 MBContinuing our Series 1 retrospective…here's Episode 2: The Future Of The Workplace Throughout series 1, we have spoken with some amazing, strong, inspiring women - about their lives and areas of expertise. This time host Cathy Walker hears from expert guests giving their take on a fast-changing workplace. This episode features DJ, instagrammer, writer and flexible working campaigner Anna Whitehouse; neuroscientist and TV producer Dr Cathy Rogers; entrepreneur and Allbright founder D...
Series 1 Retrospective: Mental Health
July 28, 2022 02:15 - 14 minutes - 26.9 MBWelcome to our Series 1 retrospective. Here's Episode 1: Mental Health Throughout series 1, we have spoken with some amazing, strong, inspiring women - about their lives and areas of expertise. In this episode host Cathy Walker takes a look back at the moments our guests spoke openly about Mental Health. Journalist and author Harriet Walker on the powers of journaling; psychologist Dr Tina Mistry on how young people learn to find their tribe, and how parents and carers can support th...
Flex Appeal, or: how flexible working makes the workplace more equitable for everyone (not just mothers)
July 13, 2022 02:00 - 31 minutes - 58.4 MBFor Season 1's finale: influencer; activist; writer and columnist; broadcaster : Anna Whitehouse aka Mother Pukka launched the Flex Appeal campaign to show Flexible Working as a way of bringing about greater inclusivity and gender equality in the workplace. She’s also the co-writer, with her husband Matt, of bestselling book UnderBelly, writes for Grazia and Marie Claire, has her own podcast and hosts a show on Heart radio. She talks about her campaigning, her experiences of parenthood, care...
Sisterhood, Resilience & Wellbeing: Overcoming Toxic Friendships
July 02, 2022 02:52 - 33 minutes - 60.9 MBOur guest this week is Natasha Devon MBE. Mental health campaigner, journalist, broadcaster and now Young Adult author, Natasha joins us to talk about her new novel Toxic, which addresses topics of friendship issues, well-being and sisterhood. Natasha discusses the findings of her research around young peoples’ mental health, and shares insights into her career as an outspoken woman in the public eye, touching on how she has handled online backlash and come back stronger. Natasha’s young a...
Communication in Early Years
June 22, 2022 07:57 - 29 minutes - 48.2 MBThe Department for Education has shifted its Early Years focus to put communication and language at the top of the list for Early Childhood Education. Communication brings children’s thought processes to life, as they articulate how they feel and what they think through dialogue and discussion with others. In short: initiating and maintaining conversation with their child is one of the most important things that a parent can do to support the work teachers do in the classroom. This episode...
Staying Safe Online
June 08, 2022 02:14 - 18 minutes - 34.7 MBOn Episode 21 of Raise Her Up our expert guest talks us through how to approach cyber-security in our homes and with our families. As BT’s Director of Security Michala Hart works with governments and businesses across the globe. Her work as a cyber-security expert has also led her to co-found E-Aware, an organisation which works with parents and schools to help teach their children and young people to stay safe and confident online, and to thrive in a digital age. Hosted on Acast. See acast...
Periods, Pregnancy & Policy: Why Women’s Health Is Everyone’s Business
May 25, 2022 09:42 - 43 minutes - 60 MBOur guest on this episode is a leading voice in women’s health. Professor Dame Lesley Regan is Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust at St Mary's Hospital, London. She remains only the second woman, and the first in 64 years, to be elected the President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Professor Regan joins us to share her experiences and insights on the importance of open communication around periods and women’s...
Young Women's Guide to Life
May 11, 2022 02:15 - 27 minutes - 49.9 MBThis week on the podcast, we talk to Clinical Psychologist Dr Tara Porter. Dr Porter has been working with young people for 25 years. Her clients have primarily been the girls and adolescents she has treated through the NHS Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), and she joins us on Raise Her Up to share with us the insights and experiences which she has documented in her recently published book, You Don’t Understand Me: A Young Woman’s Guide To Life. Covering friendships, family...
Menopause education and empowerment
April 27, 2022 02:14 - 35 minutes - 64.8 MBOur guest this week is Kate Muir, producer of the Channel 4 documentary Davina McCall: Sex, Myths and the Menopause, which has been viewed over 2.5 million times. Last autumn Kate was part of a #MakeMenopauseMatter rally in Parliament Square supporting the Menopause Bill to demand free prescriptions for HRT in England. Her book Everything You Need to Know About the Menopause (but were too afraid to ask) came out in January. Kate joins us to explain about why we should all be talking about ...
Fixing Fast Fashion
April 13, 2022 02:15 - 26 minutes - 49.4 MBMembers of Gen Z care about sustainability, equality and being the generation that makes a difference. Yet ‘fast fashion’, one of the most polluting industries, and is also one of the most popular of teenage interests. How do we persuade our young people to resist it? Writer and sustainable fashion expert Lauren Bravo has an idea: make fast fashion uncool. In this episode Lauren presents her extensive research and persuasive arguments to show that fast fashion damages the environment, has i...
*Mothers Day Special* Motherhood and reinvention
March 25, 2022 09:55 - 26 minutes - 47.7 MBFor our Mother’s Day Special, we welcome Katie Kirby: award-winning blogger, cartoonist, writer and role model for harried mums everywhere. Katie’s blog, Hurrah For Gin, which she confesses to having started on a whim, very quickly found a large and loyal following of parents who identified with Katie’s honest yet warm observations of motherhood, as depicted in her unique and very funny cartoons. Katie has since published two Hurrah For Gin books, has well over 700k followers across her socia...
When The World Feels Like A Scary Place
March 16, 2022 03:15 - 33 minutes - 62.1 MBAs Foundation Professor of Psychology at Arizona State University and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Psychology, child psychologist Professor Abi Gewirtz is well-placed to understand the anxiety and uncertainty our young people have been through in the past two years. Professor Gewirtz’s book When The World Feels Like A Scary Place came out last year and has become the go-to for many parents who want to know how to chat to their children and reassure them. As events unfold i...
Girls, Power and Change
March 02, 2022 03:12 - 33 minutes - 60.7 MBThis fortnight’s Raise Her Up features business leader and GDST alumna Debbie Wosskow, a successful entrepreneur since the age of 16, when she won a school Young Enterprise competition. She went on to launch and then sell her online home exchange business Love Home Swap, which she set up having seen the Hollywood blockbuster, The Holiday. In 2017, she co-founded Allbright with her business partner Anna Jones, a global women’s networking platform to allow working women across the world to con...
How to be an anti-racism ally
February 16, 2022 09:13 - 33 minutes - 61.1 MBThis episode we are joined by singer, writer, activist, and educator Grace Barrett on how to be an anti-racism ally. Grace Barrett, co-founder of the award-winning Self-Esteem Team, founded her new anti-racism education programme, I Am Ally, after acknowledging the inescapable correlation between her complex mental health issues, and racism. As a mixed race girl growing up in a stable and comfortable family, she now acknowledges she had been in denial about the racist trauma she experienc...
Conversations on Love
February 02, 2022 03:15 - 27 minutes - 51.1 MBNatasha Lunn is a journalist and features director at Red Magazine. She is also creator and author of Conversations on Love, an email newsletter with over 11,000 subscribers, which was turned into a book published last summer, quickly becoming a Sunday Times bestseller. In this episode she shares what she has learnt about love from talking to psychologists, writers, academics, actors and more, including Susie Orbach, Greg Wise, Esther Perel and Candice Carty-Williams, amongst others. This wi...
Empowered: living your life with passion and purpose
January 19, 2022 03:15 - 33 minutes - 61.5 MBThis week on Raise Her Up: youtube, education activist and visionary Vee Kativhu on being empowered, overcoming adversity and living life with passion and purpose. We are grateful to Vee for sharing her story, including her experiences as a victim of racism. It can be hard for people to talk about the racism they’ve suffered, and we’re grateful to have the opportunity to learn from her. Although Vee did not attend a GDST school, we can all learn from testimonies such as the one she shares wit...
Writing your way through anxiety
January 05, 2022 03:15 - 20 minutes - 37.5 MBIt is a well-documented belief that writing your feelings down can make you feel better. A range of people, from seasoned mental health professionals to anguished teens, will agree that writing a diary, or ‘journaling’, to invoke the current buzzword, can help you to clear your head and make important connections between thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. Writing stuff down can help us to identify the things that bring us down, the events that trigger anxiety and low mood, and the actions t...
Managing behaviour between Home and School
December 15, 2021 03:15 - 32 minutes - 59.8 MBWhat impact have the past couple of years had on our young children’s behaviour? Our children played in person, in the park, in the playground for several hours a day: they negotiated, disagreed, made up, compromised. Overnight, their schools closed and they suddenly had only their siblings, their parents and themselves for company, at home, all day, every day. How did this sudden shift in home life affect families, and how have we readjusted? And what are the implications moving forward, as...
Creativity and curriculum
December 01, 2021 03:15 - 28 minutes - 52.8 MBThis week on Raise Her Up, we are talking about creativity. Episode 8’s expert guest is Dr Cathy Rogers. The breadth and success of her career may make it impossible to categorise her, but certainly embodies her creative and diverse approach. Channel 4 presenter, TV executive, food entrepreneur, writer, and most recently, neuroscientist. Cathy’s research is concerned with children’s creativity - what can get in its way and what can really make it fly? And why should we even care about i...
Starting career conversations
November 17, 2021 03:15 - 31 minutes - 57.1 MBThe work landscape has changed and the pandemic has left us with a weakened economy, and the prospect of some tough times to come. Covid has also accelerated some changes that were already emerging in the workplace: flexible working; digital nomads; and the concept of having the same job for life feeling increasingly outdated. As we frequently tell our students at the GDST, we need to help prepare them for jobs that don’t even necessarily exist yet, through developing transferable skills tha...
Turning Eco Anxiety into Eco Agency
November 03, 2021 03:01 - 33 minutes - 61.5 MBWith the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 in session, we address the issues of eco awareness and eco anxiety and how we can broach and discuss this with our children. As parents we may feel conflicted - too overwhelmed with the day-to-day running of family, home and work to participate meaningfully. Perhaps we do worry about climate change but don’t know how to engage our children without transferring our own anxieties to them. Or maybe we just don’t yet have the words to reassure our youn...
Communicating for Change
October 20, 2021 02:06 - 32 minutes - 59.3 MBThe murder of George Floyd in May 2020 brought about a cultural shift in the way many of us now speak about racism and discrimination. Moved on by a groundswell of people across the globe demanding change, we have revisited how we perceive and address these issues. In the workplace, this might have involved more focused Unconscious Bias training, learning to be more culturally sensitive and taking a more open and curious approach to our community and colleagues. What about at home, and at sc...
Who Are Generation A? *special episode for International Day of the Girl*
October 11, 2021 11:45 - 25 minutes - 45.9 MBMeet Generation A, navigating their way through adolescence amid the perennial themes and challenges of social media, independence, sexuality, mental health - and all as we rebuild after Covid. How do they see themselves? What does it mean to be a female member of Gen A? And what are our roles as educators, parents and carers in nurturing them? Our guest is Chloe Combi, writer, speaker, columnist and researcher. For her book Generation Z: Their Voices, Their Lives, Chloe interviewed over 1...
Finding your tribe and feeling 'enough'
October 06, 2021 02:15 - 25 minutes - 47.6 MBHow many times have you told your child, ‘it doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks!’ However, caring about what people think, and deferring to others’ judgement is an essential part of our young people’s identity development. So what can we do to help them navigate the challenge of comparing themselves to everyone else and finding themselves lacking? To mark World Mental Health day, in this episode we welcome the brilliant Dr Tina Mistry, clinical psychologist, writer, speaker, podcaster a...
Equal Parenting
September 22, 2021 02:15 - 30 minutes - 34.6 MBIn this episode, we speak to Dr Charlotte Faircloth from the University College of London about how to model equal parenting in the home. It is widely accepted now that the examples set at home by parents, care-givers and extended family shape how young people think about gender and equality, and have very real implications for issues of work-life balance and career progression later in life. Since fathers undoubtedly want the best for their daughters, why are we still seeing old patterns ...
Learning to Live With Covid
September 08, 2021 02:00 - 25 minutes - 28.3 MBAs we come through a global pandemic, the effects will be felt by young girls for some time to come. Clinical Psychologist Dr Deborah Woodman looks at the impact on our wellbeing, and shares her psychological insight into the brave new world we’re living in, as well as what it means for us and our children. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Introducing: Raise Her Up from GDST
September 02, 2021 10:10 - 2 minutes - 26 MBCovering topics from wellbeing to womanhood, communication to creativity, self-image to sexism, as well as mental health, careers, and relationships to name just a few, Raise Her Up from the GDST gives you the tools to help your girls flourish. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Trailer for Raise Her Up
September 02, 2021 10:10 - 2 minutes - 26 MBWhat to expect from the brand new podcast by GDST, experts in girls. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.