Brave New Girls - Well Beings, Well Planet

Send a text How does Naturopathy & Nutrition impact the healing process of our Gut Microbiome?  If you are interested in healing your gut microbiome for optimal health listen to my guest this week Dr Vidhi Pandya a highly respected and experienced Celebrity Nutritionist, qualified Homeopathic Doctor from India, Detox consultant and a Specialist in private bespoke diet plans based on medical co...

Send a text Can fiction make it easier to hold conversations about a topic like domestic abuse or coercive control? For full support on these issues please go to REFUGE If you’re interested in learning more about how fiction helps us explore difficult topics then listen to this week’s guest Sarah Pearse No.1 Sunday Times & NY Times author of THE SANATORIUM & THE RETREAT a Reese Witherspoon...

Send a text How can we all work towards a world where the workplace respects and enables women's rights to integrate work and family in a holistic approach to building a career. If you’re interested in compassionate society that values and respects women in the workplace, listen to my guest Faisza Mustapha Markar, President’s Counsel & trailblazing barrister at the Supreme Court of Sri La...

Send a text How can we be more bold in the world as women leaders and as women in STEM? If you’re interested in how, as women leaders we can become bolder in making the world a better place, listen to this week’s guest Francesca Brady, Forbes 30 under 30,  Management Today 35 under 35 winner of the Veuve Clicquot BOLD  Future Award at the Bold Woman Awards, and co-founder of AirRated whose purpose...

Send a text How can we as individuals start to transform the world with more sustainable lifestyles? If you are interested in learning how to live a more sustainable life listen to this week’s guest Shila Wattamwar founder of Sustainable Me! - a platform for turning sustainability into a lifestyle.  By making impactful changes not only can we make a difference, but we can be the difference. Shila...

Send a text How can we achieve Net Zero Emissions by 2050? If you’re interested in being part of the challenge to reach Net Zero Emissions by 2050 listen to my guest Dr Reem Swidah Phd a post-doctoral researcher at the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology whose work aims to harness the exceptional evolutionary abilities of synthetic yeast strains to produce biofuels as a potential replacement for...

Send a text How can we transform our home environments into biophilic sanctuaries that restore our bodies, help us to keep us more focused and boost our immune system? If you’re interested in designing a better environment for your life and wellbeing listen to this week’s guest Nina Rowland Interior Designer and co-creator of The Water Shed, whose home and eco-retreat they created, was featured on...

Send a text Are perennial crops the future and can they help soil, climate, nutrition and biodiversity all at the same time!  If you’re interested in future food security and growing your own veg that you put in the ground once and reap the rewards year after year tune in to this week’s guest Mandy Barber, co-founder of Incredible Vegetables, an experimental vegetable growing project and a researc...

Send a text How can we stop seeing plants as simply a “green blur” and take an interest in their conservation? If you’re interested in the natural world around us and how we can conserve it for the future, listen to my guest DR Erin Zimmerman Phd evolutionary biologist, science writer, botany illustrator and author of Unrooted. She argues for the need to save plant species as part of helping prese...

Send a text How can we help people make better choices when they travel, while helping them heal before, during and after their holiday?  If you’d like to explore the hidden gem that is Cornwall listen this week to Nadia Macer-Wright founder of Cornish Gems. Proudly independent and B-corp certified, they curate memorable holiday experiences in Cornwall.  With sustainability and community at the he...

Send a text What are the secrets to advance healing in the regenerative medicine space, and how hard is it to stick your guns, stand by your values and vision in this industry? If you’re interested in finding out about how advanced regenerative medicine is being used to acute wounds and burns in hospitals with potential to move into other areas of healthcare in the future, listen  to this episode...

Send a text When you think you’ve hit rock bottom, hand over to your creative brain to get you out of the mess. That’s what Celia Gaze did when she was under the threat of bankrupty. She came up with the idea to put one of her beloved llama’s in bow tie and post the image across social media. It went viral and her Well being Farm hasn’t looked back since. If you’d like to know how she managed to d...

Send a text How can we be in the process of losing loved ones and yet still hold on to the joy of living? If you would like to understand how it is possible to go through the painful process of losing a child and yet still be able to look for moments of joy, join Megan Gillett and I as she talks openly about her daughter Nellie, who is living with infantile MLD, a terminal, progressive brain disea...

Send a text Why should we be helping children with cancer and their families with nutritional support, and what impact does it have? If you are interested in helping ourselves and others with cancer, listen to this week’s guest is Louise Long CEO and founder of the Dylan Strong Foundation, set up after her young son Dylan died at the age of 7 of a brain tumour. During his illness she focused on gi...

Send a text How can we learn to connect with a part of ourselves that wants to be unconditionally seen, loved and cared for, by listening our bodies in a new and more compassionate way? If you are interested in cultivating self-love as a practice that benefits both you and those around you, listen to this week’s guest Thais Harris, Founder and Holistic Nutritionist at Nourish Together.  Thais is a...

Send a text “Why should we care about what goes on in our prisons?” If you are interested in looking at humanity, resilience and the complexity of people, and the conditions, chaos, confusion, compassion & conflict in our prisons, listen to this episode with former Prison Officer Alex South.  Alex worked  in some of the toughest men’s jails in the UK and is the Author of Behind These Doors, wh...

Send a text  “How can we make funerals really work for us so that our goodbyes meet our needs, reflect our values and our lives?”  If you want to learn more about how we can make funerals respectful & reflective of our loved ones whilst minimising their environmental impact, then listen to my guest Poppy Mardall, founder  & Chair of Poppy’s Funeral Services that guide us through a difficul...

Send a text What’s the point of public art and why does it matter?  If you’re interested in becoming more engaged and present with the world around you have a listen to this week’s guest Patricia Walsh, public art consultant, who explores the intersections of art and the natural and built environments and shows how it helps us press pause and get present with the power of art in our public places....

Send a text How can we start to tread more lightly as responsible guardians of our planet, of our bodies, of our businesses?  If you are interested in how a chocolate business began making chocolate that’s better for us and better for the planet, listen to this week’s guest Neena Vaswani, co-founder of Prodigy snacks – the B-corp chocolate company that is both climate & more gut friendly. Prod...

Send a text How can you heal your past. Find peace in the present, and transform your future?  If you want to know how evidence-backed psychological interventions, alongside spiritual and intuitive practices can help you, listen to my guest Amanda Charles author of The Psychic Psychologist, who will show you that no matter how many times life has kicked you down, when you are connected to all the...

Send a text How can we quit the  toxic habit of people pleasing that erodes our mental health, sense of self, relationships and creativity? When we find we’re suppressing ourselves in order to be liked or to avoid conflict, criticism, rejection, disappointment, loss or abandonment, we’re people pleasing. It doesn’t have to be this way. If you want to do things differently listen to this episode wi...

Send a text Why does it matter that all voices get a chance to be heard and how can we all play a part in helping that to happen?     In the landscape of literature, diversity isn’t just a buzzword—it's essential for a richer, more vibrant cultural narrative.  As Selina Brown, founder & CEO of the Black British Book Festival, attests, representation in literature profoundly benefits reade...

Send a text Why is child sexual abuse such a huge global problem and what can we all do to help protect and heal children at risk? My guest this week is Pooja Taparia, founder of one of the world's largest NGO's addressing child sexual abuse. In the U.S, the estimated lifetime economic burden of Child Sex Abuse is $9.3B, and in the U.K, annual costs are estimated at £3.2B. With 50% of 1....

Send a text How can we live in a more conscious way so that we feel better in ourselves, have better relationships with others & the world around us? This week's guest Lorraine Flower, co-founder of B-corp business Azzur and co-author of Conscious Leadership, shares her transformative journey, blending spirituality with business acumen. Lorraine's path, from a successful corporate ca...

Send a text How can we learn from human stories of survival to understand our own capacity to rise again? Rosalind Russell is a journalist & editor whose reporting included the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq & Myanmar’s Saffron Revolution. She’s the author of Burma’s Spring & The End of Where We Begin which won the 2021 Moore Prize for excellence in human rights wr...