Nordic Simplicity Podcast

Our digital paths have crossed a couple of times over the years, chiefly through Tina’s blog Three Drops of Sunshine, back in the day when I frequented Facebook. I am delighted to introduce Tina Csomo as the guest on this podcast episode. “Me being placed in the wrong Season is kind of like trying to jump across a river and I’m aonly making it alf way” Tina is a self-declared “obnoxious but respon...

Keturah graciously accepted the challenge of being a guest on my podcast, after submitting images for an ROOTD post ( this one if you’re curious, and I hope you are, because it’s lovely). And what fun we had, talking about how Keturah reinvented herself with the help of a stylist who guided her through the process of finding her style and her colours. we also explored knitting, libraries and TV se...

Are you a one book at a time reader, or a multiple books at the same time reader? This is one of the topics we pondered. Come join Lisbeth and me as we ask each other this and other questions, and we talk about books, our shared fascination for castles and ruins, and and we both agree about what is the truest luxury. Lisbeth also shared some thoughts around what she calls “the many faces we have t...

You don’t want to miss this episode if you would like to get inside tips on how to use dye to tweak the colours of natural fibres. Tiffany Henschel is my guest in this podcast episode, and I am in awe of how she performs miracles with dye, on delicate fibres like merino wool and silk, and she shares her inside tips in this conversation. Tiffany uses Jacquard dye for delicate fabrics like wool and...

A conversation with Jenny Cundy, born in England, now living in rural south-west France. Listen to Jenny tell how she met her husband Bob Cundy and became his assistant as they traveled the world creating documentaries as freelance film photographers and how they ended up settling in a small, remote village in France. Bob passed on a few years ago but Jenny still lives in the old farmhouse that sh...

“We didn’t mean to have five cats, but we do”. My kind of woman. Cate Linden may be known to you as a colour analyst, style coach, and she also recently started training other colour analysts. Listen to our conversation where we explore the lesser known sides of Cate Linden. Cate and I go way back. We met in New York at a colour analyst conference more than a decade ago, and we have kept in touch...

I am not only interviewing strangers. Sometimes it is lovely to sit down with a friend and listen to her story too. This is Sigrid. She is one of the coolest people I know: My friend Sigrid Fangel who lives in the same town and we spent the better part of an hour chatting at my kitchen table. But before we sat down, she lured me into the sea with her. What we talked about Sigrid is an avid chillsw...

In this episode, my guest is Fiona Moss, whom I met when she came to Oslo for a colour analysis appointment, and we discovered we just had so much to talk about so I ended up inviting her to be a guest on my podcast, so we could continue our conversation on Zoom. Rescue chickens Fiona lives in England, and she loves animals. Among other fascinating topics, she introduced me to the concept of “resc...

This podcast episode is a conversation with Michelle Adams. We had all kinds of internet problems while recording, which involved Michelle having to migrate through various rooms in her house in order to get a stable signal that allowed us to talk without the Zoom connection freezing, or the sound breaking up. Thankfully, Michelle has the patience of an angel, and I got to use this recording as a...

There are advantages to living in a country with a great health care system, even though they press your already flat breast into a hitherto unknown state of flatness. Get full access to Nordic Simplicity at nordicsimplicity.substack.com/subscribe

This is me, Jorunn, introducing my podcast. Put down your cup of tea and submit a suggestion for someone to interview on the podcast (it could be yourself)! And brush the toast crumbs off your sweater and request a topic to address. Just drop me a note either by email or as a DM here in Substack. I promise I will put down my cup of tea, gently lift the cat from my lap and do a happy dance just bec...