Cate Mackenzie - Love, Pleasure and Joy

In this episode, somatic therapist Kate Daisy Grant shares her wisdom on how to navigate the darker months and the lost art of hibernation. She talks about using somatic resources such as the imagination, visualisation and body awareness to feel more wellness and comfort during the winter. Kate Daisy Grant is a musician and a somatic psychotherapist and coach. She combines arts with somatics whene...

In this episode, Cate hears from Francis Lickerish about addiction. He speaks about his work helping the families of addicts with learning how to set boundaries and reclaiming their lives. Francis is a respected professional with 30 years’ experience working in the fields of adult addiction and family services and has run family programmes for notable treatment centres across the UK. He has also w...

In this episode, Cate speaks to Wendy Sullivan and Paul Field about Clean Language, a process and set of questions developed by counselling psychologist David Grove. They explore the simple art of Clean Language and how it helps people to go deep into themselves and find the richness of their own metaphors, words and sensations that become resources for their lives. Wendy Sullivan is a Clean Langu...

Matt and Sarah Davies are the authors of You, Me and the Space Between Us: How to (Re)Build Your Relationship , a guidebook for how to create a healthy, loving and lasting relationship. In this podcast episode, Matt and Sarah talk about their journey of writing the book and insights from their own relationship. Listen in for a fascinating discussion about courage, vulnerability, deal-breakers and...

In this episode Cate Mackenzie chats with Karis McLaughlin about the ins and outs of dating. Cate is a love coach who supports individuals to build their confidence in dating so that it becomes easy, relaxed and fun! She recommends focusing on yourself and your own sensuality and fun, which lifts you up and makes you more magnetic to other people. The conversation also covers what groups and activ...

Esther Freud is the author of nine novels, including  Hideous Kinky , her semi-autobiographical debut, which tells of her unconventional childhood in Morocco. In this podcast episode, she speaks about  I Couldn’t Love You More , the story of three generations of Irish women and their intertwining lives. The book speaks to relationship, love and expectation, as well as managing despe...

In this podcast episode, we hear all about the life and career of Cleo Sylvestre, the incredible pioneering black actor who broke down the doors of racism in theatre, film and television in the UK. Cleo was the first black actor in a major role at The National Theatre, the first main black character in Crossroads , broke ground in Ken Loache’s Up the Junction and Cathy Come Home , played amazing p...

Cece Sykes is a psychotherapist with over thirty years of clinical experience working with individuals, couples and families, specialising in work with the effects of trauma and addiction. She is a Senior Trainer for the Internal Family Systems Institute and her chapter on compassionate approaches to addictive process appears in the book IFS: Innovations and Elaborations, 2016, Routledge . Cece al...

Michelle de Swarte is a stand up comic, actor and ex catwalk model. She is the best friend in the Netflix comedy The Duchess and stars in the HBO series The Baby .  In this podcast episode, Michelle speaks about what it’s like to ride the wave of life when a lot is happening that you may have always wished for and how she is learning to manage it. She shares from her heart about all kinds of...

Laura Vowels is an Emotionally Focussed Sex and Relationship therapist who specialises in desire discrepancy. She shares about what to do when it seems like you do not match sexually with your partner and how to integrate fantasy and different desires in a stage-by-stage plan. She also works as a researcher for an app to help couples navigate issues around sexual desire discrepancy — www.blueheart...

Paul John McGann is an English actor. He came to prominence for portraying Percy Toplis in the television serial The Monocled Mutineer , then starred in the dark comedy Withnail and I, which was a critical success and developed a cult following. He is now the eighth and very popular Doctor Who . He also narrates the podcast Real Dictators . Cate went to the Hampstead Theatre to see The Forest , a...

In this episode, Andrew G Marshall talks about the eight types of affairs and seven stages to deal with them. He trained with RELATE the UK's leading couple counselling charity and is the author of twenty books. His best known titles are I Love You, but I'm Not IN Love with You: Seven Steps to Saving Your Relationship and How Can I Ever Trust You Again?: Infidelity: From Discovery to Recovery in S...

Peter York is an author, journalist, broadcaster, management consultant and President of The Media Society. Over the last 30+ years he has produced a flood of articles, initially in Harpers & Queen and thereafter in broadsheets, particularly The Independent, and eleven books, including the 1980’s best-selling trade book The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook (co-authored with Ann Barr). His...

Marianne Power is the author of Help Me!: How Self-Help Has Not Changed My Life . In this podcast episode, she talks about her book and her year of taking risks and being completely vulnerable. Marianne expresses a depth of connection and spaciousness within herself that came from this huge journey... and she brings so much humour and delightful cynical cheekiness! A must read and a must listen! M...

In this episode, Steven Chandler talks about his amazing book The Story of You: And How to Create a New One . This book invites you to explore the stories you are telling yourself about you. This is a powerful enquiry that can lead to re-writing your story and stepping into a more loved version of you. Steven is the author of 30 books that have been translated into over 25 languages. His succ...

Karen Diamond is a director and head of Models 1 which is longest running Models Agency in the UK. In this podcast episode, she speaks to diversity in modelling since 'Me Too' and 'Black lives Matter'. Recent trends include a 'curve' section in the agency, models who are social influencers, older models who look their age, more black and brown models, and the demand for models to look like real pe...

Cate Mackenzie had the pleasure and privilege to talk to Susan Jeffers, author of Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway amongst many other great titles, before she died in 2012. She talks about the book which provides tools to come back to love and to keep opening to love. Susan also shares about being 'the queen of self-help' and how she navigated being a mum alongside studying and working. Get Feel The...

In this episode, Alex Cheatle talks about what he's achieved with his visions for Ten Group, how they are moving forward, and how they remain at the top of their game. Ten was founded in 1998 by Alex Cheatle and Andrew Long, who both had a vision to provide an unrivalled, personalised and trusted service that would help members get the most from life. The business began providing a lifestyle conci...

Jose Fonseca and her business partner April Ducksbury set up Models 1 in 1968 which is the most established longest-running agency in the UK.  Jose and April had both lost their jobs on the same day and after speaking on the phone decided to meet and began to work together. They started it with three famous models Sue Murray, Marisa Berenson and Ingrid Boulting who were friends of Jose's and...

Quite a few years ago, Cate Mackenzie had the privilege of talking to former supermodel, writer, poet, actress and patron of many charities, Jerry Hall. What a wonderful insightful woman she is. The recording has been dusted off the shelf for you to enjoy in this podcast episode. www.catemackenzie.com

Chris Lang is the writer and producer of over one hundred and twenty hours of prime time British drama. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, leaving in 1983 to work at Nottingham Playhouse for six months. There he met fellow actor Hugh Grant, and the two of them formed a comedy writing partnership (later joined by fellow RADA student Andy Taylor) called The Jockeys of Norfolk , who enj...

Larry Lamb is an English actor, producer and radio presenter. He played Archie Mitchell in the BBC soap opera EastEnders , Mick Shipman in the BBC comedy series Gavin & Stacey and Ted Case in the final series of the BBC drama New Tricks . He also appeared on I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! in 2016. He played real life criminals in the films Buster (1988) (Bruce Reynolds) and The Hatton G...

The Mackenzie sisters — Cate, Georgia and Tara — talk to their dad Colin Mackenzie about his adventures around the world, including the biggest scoop of all, Ronnie Biggs. Colin Mackenzie is known for what the UK Press Gazette nominated as one of the top ten scoops of the twentieth century – finding escaped great train robber Ronnie Biggs in Brazil in 1974 while he was an intrepid reporter on the...

Ben Miller ditched his Physics PhD at Cambridge University for a career in comedy and acting. He wrote and starred in the Channel 4 sketch show Armstrong and Miller , as well as the BBC sketch show The Armstrong and Miller Show . Miller is also known for playing the lead role of DI Richard Poole in the first two series of the BBC crime drama Death in Paradise , and for portraying James Lester in t...

Richard O'Brien is an English-New Zealand actor, writer, musician, and television presenter. He wrote the musical stage show The Rocky Horror Show in 1973, co-wrote the screenplay of the film adaptation, The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), and appeared in the film as Riff Raff. The film became an international success and has received a large cult following. In this podcast episode, Richard talk...