Grief, Mental Health & Superpowers with Courtney Charlton

The Naked Geek

Title: Grief, Mental Health and Superpowers with Courtney Charlton

Description:

In this episode David chats with Courtney, an incredibly creative geek and fellow parent to a dead child. There's lots of laughter while exploring grief, mental health, children ,geekdom and asking the question - "What geeky artefact would you sell to pay the rent?"

Guest at a Glance

A life long geek and founder of Mother of Mayhem UK Courtney is a friendly and highly creative London-based retoucher who has worked with clients such as ADIDAS, ITALIA VOGUE, RED, ELLE MAGAZINE, NET-A-PORTER, and more. She's an Artist, Quad Skater & Longboarder. She loves all things 80s n Retro, is a Mother, Film Geek and probably loves Tom Welling a little more than she should!

Subjects we talked about in this episode:

Where it began

Smallville

Geekdom and Isolation

Finding your tribe

Babyloss, anger and Batman

Naming a dead baby

Mental Health, Grief and Geekdom

Identifying with The Joker

Naming The Next Generation

Bedtime Stories and "indoctrinating" The Next Generation

Belonging

Paying the rent!

Mentioned in this episode:

Smallville

Harley Quinn Animated Series trailer

Tron Legacy Trailer

The Mummy Returns

DC Superhero Girls

Joker

Invincible Trailer Invincible Comic

The Boys

Find Courtney:

https://www.courtneycharlton.co.uk/

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