Everyone Is Extraordinary

Walking My Way: DAYS 10 & 11: Grañon to Villafranca Montes de Oca to Burgos What a lovely two days, including some of the mentally toughest walking bits! When you've been at it for 8 hours already and have many kilometres left before you've completed your first marathon... your mind does interesting things. I also discuss my ineptness with physical touch at the end of the episode, enjo...

Walking My Way: DAY 9: Nájera to Grañon TW: dying animals, particularly dying cats :( I'm really seeing lots of life and death on this camino hmm *donativos are simply the best places along the camino for immaculate social vibes. My favourites ever. Enjoy the lovely interview with the donativo hospitalero at the end x I'm Ruby, I'm 22 and I live in London. I graduated from Cambridge la...

Walking My Way: DAY 8: Logroño to Nájera I was grumpy today for reasons partially disclosed on this podcast episode hehehe... but I got all my friends together in the evening to discuss what we had learnt today before we did some yoga. Did not discuss the fact that Thomas cooked us an incredible smoked salmon pasta thing which I still dream about... I do not understand how heavy snorers have the b...

Walking My Way: DAYS 6 & 7: Estella to Los Arcos to Logroño Day 6 in Los Arcos is one I will remember for a long time. It was the first time on the trip I felt an immense sense of peace like I hadn't felt in ages. There is nothing like playing the 34 questions to fall in love with new friends. Very grateful. I'm Ruby, I'm 22 and I live in London. I graduated from Cambridge last year and have been...

Walking My Way: ULTRALIGHT 2.2KG What I'm Packing For the Camino Santiago Hello! Here is a guide from someone who has never been on a pilgrimage before but knows a thing or two about ultralight packing. Through the years I have refined and refined again my ultralight packing to the bare essentials of what I need, and I'm very excited to have managed to get this down to 2.2 kg. I will be wa...

Walking My Way: DAY 5: Puente La Reina to Estella: Camino de Santiago What a glorious thing when people dare to share their musical gifts with others. What a gift to the world when I decide to follow this by bashing Oasis's Wonderwall on the poor little guitar... For the sake of my embarrassment and your enjoyment I have left in Wonderwall (Ruby's Version), feel free to leave me a hate com...

Walking My Way: DAYS 3 & 4: Larrasoaña to Pamplona to Puente La Reina: Camino de Santiago DAYS 3 & 4 LETSGOOOO This was a huge unexpected bump along the journey. Long live the TEVAS (pls sponsor me). Pamplona was gorgeous, getting my bum electrocuted whilst everyone else was drinking was not my personal highlight of these two days... I'm Ruby, I'm 22 and I live in London. I graduat...

Walking My Way: DAY 2: Roncesvalles to Larrasoaña Hello everyone!! Day 2 walking plog let’s gooo! Today I interview the wonderful Olivier, who runs the best bar/shop/cafe/music heartbeat in Larrasoaña. I am grateful for how open he was to sharing his personal story of the Camino (tw: addiction, depression, suicide). I found it truly inspiring to hear of the lessons he had learnt. I agree with him,...

Walking My Way: DAY 1: St Jean Pied Du Port to Roncesvalles Welcome to the second plog! A certain dog steals the show today… again bear with as I figure out how to plog this experience, episodes will only get better as I go along :) I'm Ruby, I'm 22 and I live in London. I graduated from Cambridge last year and have been working in TV production since. I'm taking time off work to go on...

Walking My Way: Travel Day to St Jean Pied Du Port (A Pilgrimage In Itself) First travel day ‘vlog’! /podcast-log so plog?? Apologies for the horrendous audio in most parts, working on it 😁 I’m Ruby, I'm 22 and I live in London. I graduated from Cambridge last year and have been working in TV production since. I'm taking time off work to go on the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage across Fran...

Walking My Way: My Friends See Me Off For The Camino de Santiago... It's finally time! I'm going on the Camino Santiago (read below) and I want to hear what my friends have to say about it... behold... eight interviews with my besties to see what they really think... I hope through this intro episode you will get an idea of what I'm like and what I'm about to do :) I'm Ruby, I'm 22 and I live in L...

I'm Ruby, I'm 22 and I live in London. I graduated from Cambridge last year and have been working in TV production since. I'm taking time off work to go on the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage across France and Spain (I’m doing the full Camino Frances). I will be walking 800 km as a female solo traveller, completely untrained (in fact with a hip injury). This journey has been a dream of m...

Welcome back! Today I interview bestie @taliapamensky, who I went to sixth form and uni with. Tals has always deeply inspired me to tap into and work on my relationship with spirituality, with huge benefits to my mental health and overall being. We discuss Talia's own journey with spirituality through school, uni and beyond, delving into the big questions, her dreams to be a healer and tips for th...

Welcome back, today my best friend Adam Rei joins me to give a hot girl film review of Barbie. Besides Adam roasting me, all things patriarchy, horses, maaate to a mate and maths axioms are discussed! Adam reveals that he and his guitar are indeed Kenough. Enjoy x

Hello everyone, welcome back! Today I interview Mark Box, also known as Humans of Cambridge or @humanofcambridge on instagram! We discuss all things Humans of Cambridge, photography, the Cambridge University Library, Mark's love of cosplay and his bionic ear... stay tuned! I am very proud of this episode and can't wait for future ones :)

Hello Everyone! Grace Chisholm Young is extraordinary. I have spent the last four months submerged in this woman's life, reading her letters and writings at the University of Liverpool Library and beyond. I had the chance to do a project on her personal copy of her seminal book The Theory of Sets of Points , which she published jointly with her husband in 1906. This copy is held at the Whipple Lib...

What is a genius? Hello, welcome back to Everyone Is Extraordinary! Today I chat to Clare College Emeritus Fellow Patricia Fara. She is an incredible Historian of Science at the University of Cambridge. She has written about many things, including the way in which we remember past female practitioners of science. In this episode you will learn a bit about past agents of science, Patricia Fara's li...

Hello! Today I discuss some of my favourite podcasts. I have listened to hundreds of hours of podcasts whilst running, cleaning and commuting, so have some wisdom and many opinions to impart :)

I discuss my degree at Cambridge and three books that I have borrowed for my studies which I have yet to return. Spoiler alert: I am not obsessed with crickets. When I said clippers I meant pincers !

Every night right before I go to bed, I write a few sentences in my 'Line a Day' book. I will discuss this and plans for the podcast, and the cupboard-related traumas of trying to record this episode...

Welcome to my weekly podcast where I interview strangers, stars and friends, indulging my curiosity over being human and finding the extraordinary in everyone! I am Ruby, a 21 year old Master's student at the University of Cambridge studying the History and Philosophy of Science. I hope you like my self-made cheesy soundtrack and excellent audio editing skills. All to be improved in due course!