Love Lives

Support Millennial Love with a donation today: https://supporter.acast.com/millenniallove This week, Olivia speaks to Will Young. The two discuss the shame we attach to sexuality and how Will was encouraged to keep his own sexuality a secret when he entered into the public eye as a Pop Idol contestant in 2001. They also discuss the positives and negatives of labelling one’s sexuality, and what the...

Support Millennial Love with a donation today: https://supporter.acast.com/millenniallove This week, Olivia speaks to Candice Brathwaite. Candice is the bestselling author and journalist, whose debut book, I Am Not Your Baby Mother, about being a black British mother, was a roaring success. She joins Olivia to discuss her second book, Sista Sister, a collection of essays about the things Candice w...

Support Millennial Love with a donation today: https://supporter.acast.com/millenniallove This week, Olivia speaks to author and journalist Natasha Lunn. Natasha runs the popular newsletter called Conversations on Love, for which she interviews authors, celebrities and a wide range of experts all about love, dating and relationships. We discuss her new book of the same name, which features intervi...

This week, Olivia speaks to model, author and entrepreneur Charli Howard.   Charli is known for her body neutrality advocacy on Instagram and beyond, having written about the pressures she faced as a young model in her debut book, Misfit, in which she describes how she was dropped from her modelling agency for being “too big”.   Today, she joins me to talk about why body confidence and s...

Support Millennial Love with a donation today: https://supporter.acast.com/millenniallove This is a very special episode of Millennial Love. Regular listeners might notice that we're outside of our usual schedule – that's because instead of a normal show this week, we're releasing an extract from the Millennial Love audiobook, which is being released on 8th July along with the written book. For th...

Support Millennial Love with a donation today: https://supporter.acast.com/millenniallove This week, Olivia speaks to psychotherapist Emma Reed Turrell and life coach Michelle Elman about the importance of setting boundaries in relationships, and why people-pleasing can hinder our success at finding love. They also discuss how people-pleasing can harm our sex lives, too, and why it’s necessary to...

Support Millennial Love with a donation today: https://supporter.acast.com/millenniallove This week, Olivia is joined by model, writer and broadcaster Jack Guinness. Jack is the founder of The Queer Bible, a LGBT+ website he launched in 2017 that has now become a book of the same name. Packed with essays written by a range of LGBT+ icons, including Sir Elton John, The Queer Bible is a celebration...

Support Millennial Love with a donation today: https://supporter.acast.com/millenniallove This week, Olivia is joined by Niomi Smart. Niomi is a hugely popular lifestyle YouTuber and the founder of Smart Skin, a vegan and cruelty-free beauty brand. They discuss how beauty regimes can boost your confidence, what self-love actually means, and how much of your relationship you should share on social...

Support Millennial Love with a donation today: https://supporter.acast.com/millenniallove This week, Olivia is joined by Georgia Toffolo. The reality TV star-turned-author has just released the latest instalment in her series of romantic novels, Meet me in Hawaii. Georgia, or ‘Toff’, as she’s known,s poke all about what drew her to writing about romance and how much of what she writes is drawn fro...

Support Millennial Love with a donation today: https://supporter.acast.com/millenniallove This week, Olivia is joined by author Jodie Chapman to discuss how being a Jehovah’s Witness shapes your views on sex and dating. Jodie has just published her first book, a novel called Another Life, which tells the story of Nick and Anna, who meet when they’re young one summer and working at the same cinema....

Support Millennial Love with a donation today: https://supporter.acast.com/millenniallove This week, Olivia is joined by author, journalist and fellow podcaster Francesca Specter. Francesca is best known for coining the phrase atonement, which is also the name of her podcast and of her first book. Atonement is about celebrating the time you spend alone and, as we discuss in the show, Francesca cam...

This week, Olivia speaks to writer and campaigner Millie Gooch. Millie is the founder of the Sober Girl Society, which is a platform for sober and sober curious women. She’s also just published her first book, The Sober Girl Society Handbook. In this episode, the duo discuss how drinking alcohol, and drinking culture, impacts the way we date. They talk about everything from sober dating and infide...

Support Millennial Love with a donation today: https://supporter.acast.com/millenniallove This week, Olivia is joined by celebrated author Sareeta Domingo to discuss unrequited love and why we need to make the romantic genre more inclusive. The two talk about Sareeta's new book, Who’s Loving You: Love Stories by Women of Colour, a groundbreaking anthology of original short stores, covering everyth...

This week, we're joined by bestselling novelist Naoise Dolan to discuss her debut book, Exciting Times . The duo talk about the two very different central relationships in Naoise's novel and how ambiguity characterises them both in very different ways. When does a push-pull dynamic between two people become toxic? And are we overusing that word when we describe romantic relationships? The pair als...

This week, Olivia is joined by journalist and author Nell Frizzell, whose new memoir, The Panic Years , offers an insight into how much the decision of whether or not to have children can impact the choices we make in our dating lives. They talk about how a big breakup when Nell was 28 led her to re-evaluate her love life, the politics surrounding motherhood, and why women in their 30s tend to hav...

Support Millennial Love with a donation today: https://supporter.acast.com/millenniallove This week, Olivia is joined by writer and broadcaster Camille Charrière to discuss the differences between dating in your 20s compared to your 30s. The duo examine why the relationships we seek in our 20s tend to be fervid and unstable, and how this can lead us to make poor choices in our love lives. Camille...

Support Millennial Love with a donation today: https://supporter.acast.com/millenniallove This week, Olivia is joined by author and journalist Alice Vincent to discuss her memoir, Rootbound, which has just come out in paperback. In the book, Alice talks about a year of her life in her late 20s when out of nowhere, she found herself single, living out of a suitcase and overcoming heartbreak. The tw...

Merry Christmas! This year has been fairly dismal, to say the least, so we decided to provide some festive cheer by bringing you a special Christmas episode. Olivia is joined by Charly Cox to share listener stories, answer questions, discuss some of their relationship highs and lows from 2020, and look ahead at what the new year may bring for our love lives. Enjoy the show! Follow the show on Inst...

This week, Olivia is joined by writer and podcaster Gemma Styles to discuss the complexities surrounding female friendship. The duo talk about how the pandemic has made them reevaluate some of their friendships, whether you can outgrow certain friends, and how these relationships change in your 20s and 30s. They also discuss the fetishisation of female friendship groups in popular culture and the...

This week, Olivia is joined by former Made in Chelsea star Caggie Dunlop. The two discuss how your Saturn Return can affect your love life, why we chase after people we know are wrong for us, and whether or not a period of celibacy can help you reclaim autonomy over your intimate relationships. Of course, they also discuss Made in Chelsea, and how being the star of a reality TV show at the age of...

Support Millennial Love with a donation today: https://supporter.acast.com/millenniallove This week, Olivia is joined by body positivity activist, Felicity Hayward to discuss how relationships affect body confidence. The two talk about overcoming insecurities we have about our bodies and how these can be highlighted when we get intimate with our romantic partners. They also discuss the historicall...

Support Millennial Love with a donation today: https://supporter.acast.com/millenniallove This week, Olivia is joined by broadcasters Rubina Pabani and Poppy Jay, who host the award-winning BBC Asian Network podcast, Brown Girls Do It Too. The show features candid discussions about sex, masturbation and sexting. These subjects can be disproportionately under-discussed in South Asian communities du...

Support Millennial Love with a donation today: https://supporter.acast.com/millenniallove This week, Olivia is joined by artificial intelligence (AI) expert Tabitha Goldstaub to talk about the intersection between AI and dating. Tabitha explains how advanced today’s AI is, and how far away we are from people actually being able to develop relationships with AI devices. The two also speak about sex...

Support Millennial Love with a donation today: https://supporter.acast.com/millenniallove Today Olivia is joined by musician James McVey to discuss his struggles with body dysmorphia and eating disorders. The Vamps star opens up about his experiences, including having liposuction at 20-years-old, in an effort to encourage others to talk about their issues. Follow the show on Instagram at @millenni...

Support Millennial Love with a donation today: https://supporter.acast.com/millenniallove This week Olivia is joined by independent adult filmmaker Erika Lust. Erika is often referred to as a trailblazer in the "feminist porn" movement, championing female pleasure, consent and diversity in her films among other things that are often dismissed in conventional adult films. On the show, Erika explain...