Brave Conversations

When a woman becomes a mother, her brain is permanently rewired. Science has now proven this. Which means the woman who went on maternity leave isn’t coming back - and that’s not a problem to fix. It’s a transition to understand. That’s matrescence. And Beth Bellingham knows it’s time we all understood it. Matrescence is the process of becoming a mother. Not the feeding schedules and the sleepless...

What does it take to build something the world needs, before the world knows it needs it? Marie-Amélie Viatte has spent her career at the intersection of environmental crisis and social inequality — and food has been the thread running through all of it. Not food as a lifestyle choice or a charity cause, but food as the single largest contributor to climate change, biodiversity loss, and poor huma...

In this episode of Brave Conversations , Kirsty Gilchrist speaks with Charlie McMillan, Director of Human Rights Consortium Scotland, LGBTQI activist, and community developer, about courage, justice, and speaking up in turbulent times. Charlie reflects on a lifetime of activism — from coming out in Thatcher’s Britain to challenging the erosion of human rights today — and shares why fear, disconnec...

What does it take to look at a five-day-old baby fighting for his life in an incubator and choose a path you know will be profoundly difficult? For Kate Sainsbury, that 2am decision to embrace being mother to her son Louis—despite knowing he would face severe disabilities—was just the first of many brave choices. Forty years later, Kate found herself facing another moment of reckoning. Louis, now...