Best Venetia La Manna Podcasts (2024)

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voicenote: Hey Barbie! 29:05

12M ago29:05

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Spoilers alert! In this voice note episode, we're chatting about the highest grossing blockbuster of 2023 and going through some valuable listener correspondence in regards to "starting a family", having friends who work in the fossil fuel industry and extra tips to help us spend less time on our phones. A special shout out to Ronaé for her Barbie …

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How To Break Up With Your Phone 31:30

12M ago31:30

31:30

On average, British people spend more than 2 hours per day on their phones. That amounts to an entire MONTH on our phones every year - or more - in my case! In this episode, i'm sharing what i've learned from spending my weekends offline (with varying levels of success!) over the past 5 years, in a practice I call #offline48. I'll also be answering…

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The Housing Crisis, Pollution & Landlords with Kieran Yates 48:23

12M ago48:23

48:23

Kieran Yates is a London-based journalist, broadcaster and author. Her debut book “All The Houses I’ve Ever Lived In” is part memoir, part social commentary. It’s a love letter to home and community and a vital and timely expose on the UK’s housing crisis. By the age of 25, Kieran had lived in twenty different houses across the country, from counci…

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voicenote: "my best friend works for shell" 30:17

1y ago30:17

30:17

loads to talk about this week! including going on tv dressed for prom, wasting my time watching The Idol and a listener e-mail which i can't stop thinking about. Take Action Against Big Fashion Welcome To Wrexham Champion Decolonising Conservation Tan France on the Louis Theroux podcast Stop Cambo you can email the show - or send us a voicenote of …

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voicenote: post-holiday catch up & book recs 24:11

1y ago24:11

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this week we're catching up on my trip to France, i'm chatting about the books that i loved reading the places at which i enjoyed eating! i'm also reading out some of your brilliant emails. summer reading list pontochoux jah jah vg patisserie land & monkeys meet up email the show or send us a voice note of your own: atstpod@gmail.com This episode w…

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How To Publish A Book & Summer Reading List with Rachel Mills 34:04

1y ago34:04

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Rachel Mills is a London based literary agent, business owner and entrepreneur. In this episode, we learn about the publishing industry the duty of care it owes memoir writers. Rachel shares her summer reading list and discusses her decision to live a child-free life. I hope you enjoy this episode! Rachel's recommended summer reads: Yellowface by R…

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voicenote: you are more than a "consumer" 26:32

1y ago26:32

26:32

Welcome back to voice notes. This week we’re catching up on the last week, discussing Patagonia and the need to prioritise collective action that’s in solidarity with garment makers, and the responsibility of folks who are at the age where they could be grandparents to shift the dial on the “when are you having children” question. mentions: You Can…

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voicenote: loneliness and friendship 32:41

1y ago32:41

32:41

welcome to the third voice note episode, it's great to have you here. mentions: flex appeal with Anna Whitehouse is wellness just another fashion trend? with Rina Raphael real self care by Dr Pooja Lakshmin maintenance phase podcast changes podcast with Emma Gannon love, Lizzo documentary the fast furniture fix on BBC Sounds loneliness awareness we…

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voicenote: my first festival of the summer 30:10

1y ago30:10

30:10

welcome to the second voice note episode, it's good to have you here. previous ATST episodes mentioned: starting a sustainable business with Josephine Philips transcending the binary with Willow Defebaugh having children in a climate crisis with Tessa Khan reproductive justice and parental ambivalence with Dr Pragya Agarwal tailor your clothes at t…

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voicenote 001: having children 33:46

1y ago33:46

33:46

welcome to my first solo-cast, in a series we're calling voicenotes. expect recommendations and personal thoughts on specific topics. this doesn't mean the end of the interviews, we're working on them as we go. in this first voicenote episode, i'm talking about having children. email the show: atstpod@gmail.com recommendations from this episode: Ry…

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Having Children In A Climate Crisis, Eco Fascism and Fossil Fuels with Tessa Khan 45:10

1+ y ago45:10

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Season finale! Tessa Khan is an international climate change and human rights lawyer, campaigner and strategist. She is the founder and executive director of climate action organisation Uplift who are on a mission to support and energise the movement for a just and fossil fuel-free UK. Tessa spent more than fifteen years supporting grassroots, regi…

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Reconnecting To Nature With Poppy Okotcha 41:26

1+ y ago41:26

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Poppy Okotcha is a trained horticulturist and regenerative grower, on a mission to inspire people to engage with and connect to the natural world. With her joyful instagram content, poppy teaches people how to grow and forage their own food, whilst living and eating consciously - for personal, community and planetary health. As a young black woman,…

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Is Wellness Just Another Fashion Trend? With Rina Raphael 40:15

1+ y ago40:15

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Rina Raphael is a journalist who specialises in health, wellness and tech. She was the health and wellness features writer for the Fast Company and has also contributed to New York Times, LA Times, CBS and NBC News and was previously senior producer and lifestyle editor at The TODAY Show. In her new book The Gospel Of Wellness, Rina balances the go…

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Decolonising Yoga with Angie Tiwari 48:39

1+ y ago48:39

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Angie Tiwari is a yoga, meditation and breath work coach specialising in diversity, accessibility and inclusion. Her teachings show how we can incorporate powerful ancient rituals in modern day life. Angie has been listed as one of eight women breaking the bias in sports, fitness and wellness by Women's Health Magazine and her retreats have achieve…

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How To Start A Sustainable Business With Josephine Philips 40:21

1+ y ago40:21

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Josephine Philips is the CEO of Sojo, a seamless and scalable clothing alterations and repairs app, on a mission to make the fashion industry more circular. Sojo wants to make it easy for everyone to show their clothes the love they deserve and they do this through alteration and repair of clothing, allowing more of us to love our clothes for longe…

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Building A Justice-Led Circular Economy with Liz Ricketts 45:25

1+ y ago45:25

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Liz Ricketts is an educator, designer and the co-founder of The Or Foundation, a USA and Ghana-based non-profit working at the intersection of environmental justice, education and fashion development.Working within the industry as a designer and stylist, Liz witnessed the toxicity of fashion’s disposable culture firsthand and has since been dedicat…

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Fatphobia and The Push For Size Inclusivity with Marielle Elizabeth 43:44

1+ y ago43:44

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Marielle Elizabeth is a body activist and writer in the ethical fashion community, who advocates for broader size inclusion and radical body acceptance. Throughout her social media platforms, she shares not only her lived experience as a plus size person, but also the ways in which we can all be striving to be kinder to the skin we’re in. She is al…

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Do Ethical Billionaires Exist? with Swatee Deepak 43:24

1+ y ago43:24

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Swatee Deepak is a consultant who works with private and public foundations in strategy development and design, with individuals and families of wealth on their redistribution strategies and oversees a portfolio of businesses and start-ups across philanthropy, socially minded businesses and the arts. Together, without our friends Ruby and Devi we c…

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NEW SEASON! Transcending Binary Thinking with Willow Defebaugh 39:37

1+ y ago39:37

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Welcome to a brand new season of All The Small Things! It's a joy to be back. This week, I'm chatting to Willow Defebaugh. Willow is the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Atmos, which is a stunning and thought provoking biannual magazine focused on the exploration of climate and culture. Willow writes a weekly newsletter called The Overview which o…

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Natasha Lunn on Love and Friendship 33:58

2+ y ago33:58

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Natasha Lunn is the features director at RED magazine and the creator of a popular and acclaimed bimonthly email newsletter, Conversations on Love. Her Top 10 Sunday Times Best-selling book, also called Conversations On Love, discusses a wide range of themes intimately connected to love. After years of feeling that love was always out of reach, she…

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Dr Pragya Agarwal on Reproductive Justice and Parental Ambivalence 40:34

2+ y ago40:34

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Dr Pragya Agarwal is a behavioural and data scientist, writer, speaker and a consultant on bias, anti-racism, social inclusion, power and privilege. She is the author of three books, including SWAY: Unravelling Unconscious Bias and ‘Wish we knew what to say: Talking with children about race’, a manual for parents, carers and educators of all backgr…

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Vanessa Nakate on Why The Climate Crisis is a Feminist Issue 31:31

2+ y ago31:31

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Vanessa Nakate is a climate activist from Uganda . She was the First Fridays For Future climate activist in her country and founder of the Rise up Climate Movement, which aims to amplify the voices of activists from Africa. Her brand new book “A Bigger Picture” is part of her fight to bring front line voices to the front page. When it comes to spea…

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Mo Gawdat on the Future of AI 50:20

2+ y ago50:20

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TW: death and grief. Mo Gawdat is a writer and entrepreneur. After a 30 year career in tech and serving as Chief Business Officer at Google [X], Google's 'moonshot factory' of innovation, Mo has made happiness his primary topic of research, diving deeply into literature and conversing on the topic with some of the wisest people in the world. In 201…

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Chloe Asaam on Fashion' Waste Crisis 31:07

2+ y ago31:07

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Chloe Asaam is a designer, researcher, community organiser and Program/Operations Manager for The OR Foundation. The OR Foundation is an incredible charity and campaign who are raising awareness about the fashion waste crisis, specifically in Ghana’s capital Accra, where 15 million used garments pour into the area every week from the UK, Europe, No…

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Tessa Khan on the fight for a fossil fuel free future 36:52

3y ago36:52

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Tessa Khan is an international climate change and human rights lawyer, campaigner and strategist. She is the founder and director of Uplift, a new organisation helping to move the UK towards a fossil fuel-free future. They strategically resource, connect, and elevate ideas and voices to set in motion a just transition away from fossil fuel producti…

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Gina Martin on Upskirting, Changing The Law & Carceral Feminism 40:34

3y ago40:34

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[CW: sexual assault] Gina Martin is a campaigner, speaker and writer, best known for founding and running the national campaign to make upskirting illegal and changing English and Welsh law by creating the Voyeurism Act. Three other countries have since followed suit. In 2020, alongside Black plus size model Nyome Nicholas Williams and photographer…

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Hassan Akkad on the Power of Storytelling 40:29

3y ago40:29

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Hassan Akkad is a photographer, filmmaker and activist. He came to the UK in 2015 after fleeing Damascus after he was tortured by Assad's regime. He documented his journey in the BAFTA award winning documentary “Exodus: Our Journey to Europe and later caught public attention again when he applied to be a cleaner at his local hospital at the start o…

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Aja Barber on Overconsumption & Fast Fashion Influencers 39:13

3y ago39:13

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Welcome to series 3! Aja Barber is a writer, stylist and consultant whose work deals with the intersections of sustainability and the fashion landscape, building heavily on ideas behind privilege, wealth inequality, racism, feminism and colonialism. Her brand new debut book “Consumed: The need for collective change; colonialism, climate change & co…

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Rachel Ama on her Birth Story, Motherhood & Making Plant Based Accessible 45:41

3y ago45:41

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Rachel Ama (she/her) is a cookery author and YouTuber with over half a million subscribers. A new Mum, Rachel has spent the last year in London, writing her most accessible and delicious book yet “One Pot, Three Ways: Save Time With Vibrant, Versatile, Vegan Recipes.” The recipes revolve around one main centrepiece dish that makes flavour-packed ve…

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Olympian Jazmin Sawyers on Periods, Sleep & her Training Regime 45:14

3y ago45:14

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Jazmin Sawyers (she/her) is a professional long jumper, former bobsledder and singer-songwriter from Stoke. A personal philosophy to say "yes" to as much as possible has taken her to the final of the Rio Olympic Games, Will.I.Am's team on The Voice UK and hosting the red carpet at BBC's Sports Personality of the Year. She is the current British lon…

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Tom Rasmussen on the System of Marriage & Redefining Love 48:46

3y ago48:46

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Tom Rasmussen (they/them) is a Lancaster born, London based writer and singer. When out of drag, they are contributing editor at Dazed Beauty, LOVE Magazine and Refinery29, and a regular contributor to the Independent and i-D. Their work has also been featured in Vice, Broadly, Tank and the Gay Times. In 2018 they were named an LGBT trailblazer by …

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Ashley 'Dotty' Charles on Outrage Culture & Social Media 56:28

3y ago56:28

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Ashley ‘Dotty’ Charles is a broadcaster and writer from south London. After joining the BBC in 2014 she became the first solo female to host the BBC Radio 1Xtra Breakfast Show in 2016, leading the breakfast show to its highest-ever audience and interviewing everyone from Oprah Winfrey to Will Smith. She has presented TV programmes including BBC One…

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Otegha Uwagba on Money, Class & Private School Privilege 51:21

3y ago51:21

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Otegha Uwagba is the author of the Sunday Times Bestselling Little Black Book: A Toolkit for Working Women published in 2017 and Whites: On Race and Other Falsehoods in 2020. She is also a speaker, brand consultant and founder of Women Who, a London-based multi-media platform aimed at creative women that operated from 2016 - 2020. She also hosts th…

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Cathy Reay on Challenging Perceptions of Accessibility 57:07

3y ago57:07

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Cathy Reay (she/her) is a writer, editor and disability consultant. She covers disability rights and representation, with a particular interest in the beauty and film industries. She is also a single mother of two and speaks about her life and her experiences on her instagram @ThatSingleMum. There is so much in this conversation. We hear about Cath…

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Paris Lees on her Memoir What It Feels Like For A Girl 44:08

3y ago44:08

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Paris Lees (she/her) is a writer, presenter and the first openly trans person to be a contributing editor for Vogue. Last month, she released her debut book ‘What It Feels Like For A Girl’, an unmissable coming of age memoir, following the story of Byron Lees, growing up on a council estate in a dead-end town in the East Midlands. It’s written in a…

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Meditation teacher Michael James Wong on Finding Peace 40:44

3y ago40:44

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Michael James Wong (he/him) is the founder of Just Breathe and a leading voice in the global movement for modern mindfulness. He is an author, speaker, community leader and meditation teacher who is dedicated to expanding the conversation around the mind and mental health. Michael is internationally recognised for his work in the wellness community…

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Candice Brathwaite on Fearless Creative Output 52:57

3y ago52:57

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Candice Brathwaite is an author, journalist, TV presenter, and the founder of Make Motherhood Diverse – an online initiative that aims to ensure more people see themselves reflected online. Candice’s new book, Sista Sister, is a compilation of essays about all the things she wishes she'd been told when she was a young Black girl growing up in Londo…

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Season 1 Finale: Charlie Craggs on true self love 40:02

3y ago40:02

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Charlie Craggs (she/her) is an award-winning author, activist and speaker, hailed by Vogue as “the voice of a community”. Charlie is the founder of Nail Transphobia, a conversation-focused national campaign that tackles transphobia through education, empowerment and nail art. She is the author of To My Trans Sisters, an inspirational collection of …

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Poorna Bell on Reframing Women’s Strength 47:50

3y ago47:50

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CW: brief mention of suicide. Poorna Bell (she/her) is an award-winning journalist, digital editorial expert, three-time author, mental health ambassador and badass power-lifter. This month sees the release of her fantastic new book: “Stronger: Changing Everything I Knew About Women's Strength”. Part memoir, part manifesto, this book starts a conve…

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Andria Zafirakou on the Education System 41:19

3+ y ago41:19

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Andria Zafirakou (she/her) is "the best teacher in the world". Andria is art and textiles teacher at Alperton Community School in Brent, one of the world’s most ethnically diverse places. She has worked her entire teaching career of 15 years at Alperton Community School and is now Associate Deputy Headteacher leading on staff professional developme…

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Megan Jayne Crabbe on Diet Culture 47:04

3+ y ago47:04

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Megan Jayne Crabbe (she/her), also known as her social media handle ‘BodyPosipanda’ is an eating disorder recovery advocate, unapologetic feminist, and body positivity campaigner. Her number one bestselling debut book Body Positive Power has taught tens of thousands of people how to stop dieting and make peace with their bodies for good. Megan's bo…

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Uju Asika on Raising Kind Children in a Prejudiced World 35:24

3+ y ago35:24

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Uju Asika is a multiple award-nominated blogger, digital consultant and the author of the book 'Bringing Up Race: How to Raise a Kind Child in a Prejudiced World'. This book is for everyone who wants to instil a sense of open-minded inclusivity in their kids, and those who want to discuss difference instead of shying away from tough questions. In i…

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Pandora Sykes On Our Complicated Relationship With Getting It 'Right’ 42:44

3+ y ago42:44

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Pandora Sykes is a writer, journalist and broadcaster. She co-created and co-hosted The High Low which is one of the most loved podcasts out there, and she’s also the host of Doing It Right and The Missing. Last year, she released her debut essay collection, "How Do We Know We Are Doing It Right?" where Pandora interrogates the stories we’ve been s…

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Buddhist Monk Gelong Thubten on Anxiety and Mindfulness 49:24

3+ y ago49:24

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Gelong Thubten (he/him) is a Buddhist monk, meditation teacher and author. He became a monk 26 years ago at Samye Ling Tibetan Monastery in Scotland, and has spent over six years in intensive meditation retreats, the longest of which was 4 years long. He is now regarded as one of the UK’s most influential meditation teachers, with pioneering work t…

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Luvvie Ajayi Jones On Being “Too Political” 41:26

3+ y ago41:26

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Luvvie Ajayi Jones (she/her) is an award-winning author, speaker and ‘professional troublemaker’. Luvvie thrives at the intersection of comedy, media and justice. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller “I’m Judging You: The Do-Better Manual” and she is the co- founder of the global movement #SharetheMicNow. Her TED Talk ‘Get comfortable…

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Rina Sawayama On Changing BRIT Awards Policy 47:21

3+ y ago47:21

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Rina Sawayama (she/her) is a critically acclaimed singer-songwriter and one of the most exciting artists to break through from last year. Born in Japan and raised in London, Rina’s music confronts the issues of identity and conflict with a wild blend of nineties and early noughties influences - everything from Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera …

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Talking Tastebuds with Lydia Morrow: Sustainable Fashion and Size Inclusivity 48:59

4y ago48:59

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Lydia Morrow is a self-taught sustainable and ethical fashion designer, specialising in underwear for all sizes and genders. She studied Painting and Printmaking at Glasgow School of Art, Lydia began making underwear as she couldn’t find bras that were stylish in her size. She refers to it as “outside of the male gaze” and began showcasing it via h…

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Talking Tastebuds with Kenny Ethan Jones 48:51

4y ago48:51

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Kenny Ethan Jones is an activist and model. He is perhaps best known for his lead role in Pink Parcel's I'M ON campaign, in which he made history by being the first trans man to front a period campaign. Kenny’s work focuses on menstruation, body politics, mental health and intimacy. Find Kenny: https://www.instagram.com/kennyethanjones/ Kenny’s #in…

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Talking Tastebuds with Xiye Bastida: The Indigenous Immigrant Leading The Youth Climate Movement 26:09

4y ago26:09

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Xiye Bastida is an 18-year-old climate justice activist, originally from Mexico and now living in New York City where she is a senior in High School. Xiye has been a leading voice for indigenous and immigrant visibility in climate activism. Xiye is a member of the indigenous Mexican Otomi-Toltec nation and she has witnessed the impacts of climate c…

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Talking Tastebuds with Pattie Gonia (Wyn Wiley): Bringing Drag Outdoors 47:06

4+ y ago47:06

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Pattie Gonia is a heel-stomping, trail-blazing social media sensation who brings drag, advocacy and activism into the outdoors. She burst onto Instagram back in October 2018 thanks to Wyn Wiley, a photographer, educator, creative director and passionate hiker from Nebraska. In this episode we discuss: coming out, homophobia, toxic masculinity, drag…

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