Give Me Strength with Alice Liveing

Immunologist Dr Jenna Macciochi specialises in understanding how nutrition, movement and lifestyle interact with the immune system in health and disease. Together on this episode, Alice and Jenna discuss tips and tricks on how to improve your immune system within your lifestyle choices and your surroundings. Alice gets to the bottom of myths on things like whether some people are just susceptible...

Dr Anjali Mahto is Alice's very own dermatologist and author of best-selling book, The Skincare Bible. Together, Alice and Dr Anjali deep dive into how to care for your skin, Alice's own journey with Isotretinoin (Roaccutane) and they discuss the myths about Isotretinoin and how it has it's place to treat patients in their acne journey. Dr Anjali also educates us on how diet and your skin aren't d...

Milly Pickles is a content creator, motivational speaker and fitness and disability advocate. Milly lost the lower part of her right leg 5 years ago after a horrible accident left her in hospital for 3 months. In this episode Alice and Milly discuss how Milly overcame the trauma of losing her leg and how she used fitness to find herself again. Milly also discusses how she uses journalling to help...

Natalie Lue is the author of The Joy Of Saying No which is a simple lan to stop people pleasing, reclaim boundaries, and say yes to the life you want. Natalie and Alice discuss boundaries, the benefits and disadvantages of being a people pleaser. Natalie also explains how workforces would collapse without people pleasers and how companies exploit their employee's who are people pleasers. Natalie's...

Alice is delighted to be joined by Clinical Psychologist Dr. Kirren to unpack health anxiety. Together, they discuss what "health anxiety" actually means, symptoms, causes, and treatment and coping options. Dr. Kirren's Suggested Resources: Health Anxiety Self-Help Resources - Information Sheets & Workbooks Health Anxiety.pdf (ntw.nhs.uk) Listen by clicking ‘Play’ on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wh...

Dr Sophie Bostock is a sleep specialist who is fascinated by sleep. Sophie studied medicine at Nottingham University and then went on to study an MSC in entrepreneurship. After several years in consulting she completed a PhD in health phycology at UCL and was investigating why happiness was affected by heart disease. Sophie’s research on sleep then went on to point to why sleep is an unsung hero o...

Khadijah Mellah is the first hijab wearing jockey in a competitive British horse race. Despite being new to horse racing, she went on to win the Magnolia cup. Her story was the subject of an amazing TV documentary called Riding Dream and her story continues to inspire others to take risks and overcome adversity. Alice and Khadijah discuss how she got into horse racing from a tiny stables in south...

Michelle Griffith-Robinson is a Great British Olympian, personal trainer and life style coach who manages to balance it all as a mum of three children. In this episode, Michelle and Alice discuss how to break down barriers, turning being told no into next and where Michelle get’s her motivation from. Michelle also opens up about a poignant moment in her career after failing to qualify for the Sydn...

Luke Worthington is one of the most sought after personal trainers in the world. Luke is a qualified sports scientist, trainer, nutritionist and strength and conditioning specialist with over 20 years experience in the health and fitness industry. On top of all of this, Luke currently works with some of the biggest A list celebrities in the world. In this episode, Alice and Luke delve into the imp...

Dr Emilia Thompson is a Registered Nutritionist, Educator, Mentor and Meditation Teacher within the health, fitness and wellness space with a BSc in Sports Biomedicine, MSc in Sport and Exercise Nutrition, PhD in Exercise Physiology, PGCAP in higher education. Alice and Dr Emilia open up the discussion on binge eating on an extremely vulnerable episode by talking openly about how it can be learned...

Paula Radcliffe is a 3x winner of the London and New York marathon as well as winning the Chicago marathon. As well as being winner of the BBC’s Sports Personality Of The Year, Paula was previously the fastest woman of all time for the marathon distance. Paula and Alice discuss how she got into running from a young age and how her parents helped support her through that journey. Paula also opens u...

Emma Cannon is a fertility and women’s health expert, a registered acupuncturist and founder of the Emma Cannon clinic. Emma has over 25 years experience in supporting couples on the path to becoming parents, she bridges the gap between western medicine and complimentary therapies by combining modern research and holistic practices together to yield effective results for each individual. Emma and...

Emma Ross is winner of the Sundays Times Woman Of The Year Award 2021, the co-founder of The Well HQ and the previous Head of Physiology at The English Institute of Sport. Emma and Alice discuss how understanding our menstrual cycle is so important when it comes to optimising our health and training and how working with our cycle can be much more beneficial. Emma also discusses how important it is...

Jen Beattie is a professional footballer who currently plays for Arsenal Women’s team and the winner of the Helen Rollaston award 2021. Jen and Alice discuss how women's football has become more accessible over the past 20 years and how she was inspired by her family to become a professional footballer. Jen also opens up about her battle with breast cancer at the young age of 29 years old. Jen tel...

Vee Kativhu is a YouTuber, author, education activist, BBC teacher, TEDX Speaker and a LinkedIn Changemaker as well as being a graduate from Oxford and Harvard. Vee has received the Diana Award and is the founder of empowered by Vee. She is currently working as One Young Worlds Global Outreach Manager as well as being the UN Girls Up ambassador for Zimbabwe. Vee and Alice discuss the importance of...

Professor Devi Sridhar is a public health researcher, author and professor and chair of Global Public Health at the University of Edinburgh. She burst onto our screens during the pandemic and became one of the ‘go to’ people when it came to looking for information about tackling the pandemic. Today, Devi and Alice discuss the difficulty that she faced during the pandemic with online trolling and w...

Wendy O’Beirne is a life coach who found her way to her career after realising at the age of 32 that she wasn’t feeling fulfilled. In a moment of clarity where everything stopped making sense on how she was living her life, she started again and since then Wendy has been working on self love and self worth. Today, Katie and Alice discuss the importance of boundaries and fulfilment and how it’s oka...

After surviving an acid attack at the young age of 24, Katie Piper is now a thriving author, activist, TV presenter and model who is always advocating for women who have suffered burns and disfigurement injuries. Together, Katie and Alice discuss how Katie fought and overcame her injuries not only physically but how it took a toll on her mentally. Katie opens up to Alice about how she didn’t have...

After struggling with various eating disorders, Alex Light transformed her beauty and fashion blog into a digital safe space to help others. Together, Alex and Alice chat about their experiences with food, diets and dealing with body image growing up and the outlook on what defines a beautiful body has changed as the years have gone on across the world. Listen by clicking ‘Play’ on Apple Podcasts,...

What makes a strong person? Is it how far you can run, how much you can lift or is it how far you’ve come mentally to overcome something?  Each week I will be chatting to extraordinary people about how they live their lives physically and mentally and discuss the importance of resilience and how it’s shaped them into the person they are today.  Together we will discuss the positives of living a st...

As someone who started her public facing career as a 15 year-old, Fearne Cotton has really grown into her skin over the years; keeping acceptance, kindness and positivity at the top of her priorities. Fearne speaks to Alice about the power of an open mind, her growth and self discovery since she became a mother and how she focuses on the day to day task of being kinder to herself in the pursuit of...

Singer, dancer, Strictly Come Dancing royalty and now business owner - Alesha Dixon joins Alice to talk about what strength means to her. Alesha discusses how exercise has always been a big part of her life, as before she chose a career in the music industry she studied sport at college in order to become a PE teacher. She also mentions how exercise supported her though some of the more difficult...

Dr Amal Hassan aka Sport Exercise Doctor on Instagram and cofounder of Umi Health, speaks to Alice about building strength for life through rest, recovery and listening to our bodies. Amal talks about her experience of burnout from overexercising, and how commonplace this is in the fitness world. For Amal, this happened whilst she was training to become a doctor and is one of the reasons why she s...

From the Gladiator TV series, to now a media medic and tv presenter, Zoe Williams is an advocate of an active and healthy lifestyle. Alice and Zoe discuss how the last year has impacted movement in a global way, and why it’s so important to encourage, especially, young girls to find a sport they love at an early age. Zoe chats about how she's prioritising a healthy lifestyle whilst being pregnant,...

Ella Mills, founder of Deliciously Ella, speaks to Alice about the work-life balance she’s cultivated over the years of growing her business with husband Matt, whilst raising her young family. Placing an emphasis on creating discipline in order to be happy, Ella discusses how she had consciously carved out boundaries in her work and private life in order to make this a priority. Whether that’s wit...