Brave New Girls - Well Beings, Well Planet

Send a text This week's guest is Pam Millington, originally from Zambia, Pam married a Brit and raised two children in a rural village in Wiltshire. When the boys flew the nest, Pam and Richard decided to fly off too and moved back to Zambia to a build a house in the virgin bush. Brave New You TRIBE podcast Host, artist & illustrator, Lou Hamilton chatted with Pam as they discussed growin...

Send a text This week's guest is Claire Smith, designer & founder of Cloudy Lemonade Jewellery. She doesn't do diamonds, but she does do boobs and other pieces to make you smile; handcrafted from scrap silver, packaged sustainably, £1 from each piece is donated to MQ Mental Health Charity . Brave New You TRIBE podcast Host, artist & illustrator, Lou Hamilton chatted with Claire a...

Send a text This week's guest is Hannah Turner, a ceramicist with a brand that has built over thirty years, weathering two recessions and a global pandemic. With an ever expanding family of humorous sculptural & crockery creatures, her work is widely collected & stocked in some of our most illustrious stores & galleries. Brave New You TRIBE podcast Host, artist & illustrator,...

Send a text This week's guest is Rebecca Oxtoby, author of the humorous yet brutally honest book for first time mothers: "Mum's the Word- the sh*t nobody tells you about parenthood until it's too late" Brave New You TRIBE podcast Host, artist & illustrator, Lou Hamilton chatted with Rebecca, as they discussed how after fertility treatment, and being truly grateful for...

Send a text This week's guest is Tamsyn Wood, a plant-based lifestyle blogger whose purpose is to support other carers like herself. From living the dream, with her true love, 4 kids & chickens in the South of France, her life was turned upside-down when her husband suffered a brain injury and was left blind, wheel-chair bound and needing 24/7 care. Tamsyn talks about how she survives a l...

Send a text This week's guest is Tamara Rajah MBE, Founder and CEO of Live Better With , a healthcare platform that helps make day-to-day life a little bit better for patients with long-term conditions.  Prior to Live Better With, Tamara was the youngest Partner at McKinsey & Company at the time, where she spent a decade in the healthcare practice, and led McKinsey’s knowledge and client...

Send a text This week our guest is Michelle Ovens CBE, Founder of Small Business Britain and its campaigns - f:Entrepreneur, I:Entrepeneur & The Small Awards. She is the Director of Small Business Saturday, a grassroots not-for-profit campaign set up to support, inspire and promote the UK's 5.8 million small businesses. Brave New You TRIBE podcast Host, artist & illustrator, Lou Hamil...

Send a text This week's guest is Uju Asika, a multiple award-nominated blogger, screenwriter and author of her new book, Bringing up Race; How to Raise a Kind Child in a Prejudiced World, in which she asks what race means for all parents and posing the question about how we talk to children about racism. Questions for all of us. Brave New You TRIBE podcast Host, artist & illustrator, Lou...

Send a text This week's guest is Katie Cross, Founder of Cake or Death London. After a near miss at the Great British Bake-Off, Katie decided to start a vegan bakery that quickly began to supply cake & cookies wholesale to cafes, art venues and businesses across London. When Covid hit, the business took a nosedive, but a little side hustle took centre-stage. Brave New You TRIBE podcast Ho...

Send a text This week's guest is Mona Usher, founder of Samara Cuisine; a Lebanese wedding catering business. She brings the cooking and culture from her homeland, where she grew up in war-torn Beirut. Mona shares her love for Lebanon which has been so battered over the years; not least most recently with the devastating impact of the harbour explosion. Brave New You TRIBE podcast Host, artis...

Send a text This week's guest is arts and social documentary photographer Sarah Hickson. In collaboration with other arts practitioners, humanitarian organisations or as a solitary creative nomad, she captures the human spirit where it shows itself at the frayed edges; revealing fragility & vulnerability, but also resilience and hope. Brave New You TRIBE podcast Host, artist & illustr...

Send a text This week's guest is Dr Elizabeth Frood, broadcaster, Egyptologist & associate professor at Oxford University, specialising in the Ancient World's graffiti, sacred places and social structures. In 2015 her world was rocked when she contracted Sepsis, nearly died and lost her legs, much of the use of her hands and the hearing in her right ear; but that didn't stop her...

Send a text This week's real life Brave New Girl guest is Karen Arthur. After three decades teaching in secondary education she was forced to leave her job after hitting a mid-life breakdown; or what she later described as a breakthrough. Discovering eventually that her plummeting mental health was due to stress and menopause, the crisis  left her wondering what she was meant to be doing with...

Send a text This week's real life Brave New Girl is Amanda Scott, Founder and CEO of B-Corp certified Thomson and Scott creators of both alcoholic and non-alcoholic champagnes and sparkling wines. A true innovator and disrupter of the global wine industry, Amanda trained at Le Cordon Bleu School in Paris, before developing her own portfolio and brand. Always with the party and taste in mind,...

Send a text This week's guest is Reita Gadkari, a property developer and philanthropist who has supported literacy & numeracy in India, the resurgence of Indian Classical Music, as well as being a champion & backer of International Arts, Music, Theatre, Poetry & Cinema. In recent years she has created the Owl & the Pussy Cat Hotel on a coastal corner of Sri Lanka, bringing poe...

Send a text This week's guest is award-winning journalist, author and broadcaster Angela Saini. She has the knack of getting to the nub of how science impacts us all whether it's How Science Got Women Wrong in her book Inferior, or in her latest book Superior which explores the murky history of race science. Host, artist & illustrator Lou Hamilton talks with Angela as they discuss ho...

Send a text This week's guest on Brave New You TRIBE podcast is Clare Pooley, writer of the blog Mummy was a Secret Drinker, the memoir Sober Diaries- the unexpected joy of being sober, and most recently author of the 'feel-good novel of 2020' The Authenticity Project (recently #19 on the Amazon charts). As she emerged as Sober Mummy, Clare attracted 3 million followers to her blog....

Send a text This week's guest on Brave New You TRIBE is Jade Statt, founder of the charity Street Vet UK. When she recognised that there was a problem for the homeless being able to get medical help for their pets, she set out to find a solution. Teaming up with another vet who had a similar mission, they strapped on backpacks and joined forces with other homeless providers to supply care to...

Send a text This week's guest is Abby Forbes who, while studying bio-chemistry at University discovered the art of pole dancing and aerial fitness, before landing working in the beauty industry. As a young black woman, Abby is an advocate for cosmetics and skincare becoming fully diverse and reflective of the skin you're in. Brave New You TRIBE podcast host Lou Hamilton talks to Abby abo...

Send a text This week's guest is Vicki Broadbent, filmmaker, broadcaster, writer and author of the best-selling working mum's bible MUM BOSS. After a traumatic first birth, post-natal PTSD and struggling to juggle motherhood and filmmaking, Vicki began writing her now multi award-winning blog Honest Mum. With a reach across her blog and social media of 2 million hits a month she uses her...

Send a text This week's guest is Nik Southern, Founder of Grace and Thorn flowers and widely adored as the rock 'n' roll Queen of Floristry. After quitting IT recruitment which she hated, she enrolled on a floristry course whose teacher was not enamoured by the way she did things. But she'd got the bug and after a bit of to-ing and fro-ing she made the leap; right out to the fu...

Send a text Emma Livingstone is one of around 130,000 adults living with Cerebral Palsy in this country, making it one of the largest disability groups in the UK. A trained Speech Therapist and married with three children, Emma realised through her own experience that those suffering with CP are abandoned by the authorities once they turn 18. Frustrated for herself and for the others in her commun...

Send a text This week our guest is Emma Campbell, author of "All That Followed- a story of Cancer, Kids and the Fear of Leaving Too Soon"; a memoir that takes us on the rollercoaster years of the birth of her son followed by IVF followed by Triplets. As the relationship with the father of her children began to crumble, and the prospect of single motherhood, Emma received the diagnosis of...

Send a text Senior Foreign Correspondent for the Sunday Times, Christina Lamb OBE is a best-selling author and has reported from the world's hotspots, starting with Afghanistan at the age of 22 and winning Young Journalist of the Year not long after. She has gone to win 15 major awards including Foreign Correspondent of the Year five times, and Europe's Top War Reporting prize Prix Bayeu...

Send a text Sharon Walters is a black London-based artist, museum educator and mother. She has been working on her 'See Ourselves' collage series of daily created hand-assembled photographic portraits that explore black identity, beauty standards, representation and afro hair. Sober for over a year she speaks openly to our host Lou Hamilton, about art, sobriety, creativity, mental health...