OFC, You're Invited with Vanessa Maria

On OFC, You're Invited, neighbors Navied Mahdavian (New Yorker cartoonist, memoir author, TEDx speaker) and Anthony Leyton discuss how their friendship began at Anthony’s daughter’s birthday party soon after Navied moved to Folkston, bonding through shared interests like board games and D&D and deepening through weekly rehearsals for an amateur production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. They...

campaign Emma Slade Edmondson & Melissa Legarda on Friendship, Identity, and Building Goodfor Through Radical Honesty On You’re Invited, host interviews Emma Slade Edmondson—author, strategist, TEDx speaker, and co-founder of Goodfor—alongside her friend, creative partner, and co-founder Melissa Legarda, a journalist and podcast producer. They share how they first met in 2019 through a mutual...

On Of Course You’re Invited, host speaks with Mam Sham founders Maria Georgiou and Rhiannon Butler, childhood friends since age 11 who grew a London supper club into a creative storytelling studio spanning events, food, design and film, known for immersive, narrative-led experiences and using packaging and physical design as storytelling tools. They discuss meeting at secondary school, building th...

OFC You’re Invited, welcomes entrepreneur, coach, and former founder of SHFT Agency (exited in 2025) Chloë Downs, joined by her cousin Georgina Billings, an artist representative managing street artists and working to make the space more inclusive. They share how growing up as first cousins in South London felt like being siblings, recalling childhood adventures, family traditions, and how early e...

Brotherhood, Business & Vulnerability: Kieran Hughes and Eugene Patterson on 18 Years of Friendship Vanessa Maria hosts “You’re Invited” with guests and best friends Kieran Hughes—founder of Trap House and 3QUENCY, a cultural agency that has worked with brands like Spotify and Dr. Martens—and Eugene Patterson, founder of Revibed Drinks sold in places like Holland & Barrett. They reflect on...

Jasmine Douglas and Zoe Kezia on Building a Healthy Friendship Through Independence, Support, and Stability. Jasmine and Zoe explain they met years before Babes on Waves—initially through nights out and mutual connections (including Zoe knowing Jasmine’s brother first)—with gaps in communication before reconnecting through work when Zoe assisted Jasmine’s first Babes on Waves shoot and later becam...

In this heartfelt episode of 'You're Invited', Johnny Kay, the CCO at Versus, and his younger brother Nathan Kay, a renowned athlete, content creator, director, and editor, share their extraordinary journey of brotherhood, resilience, and personal growth. The brothers discuss their close-knit relationship, the impact of losing their father at a young age, and how it shaped their lives....

OFC: You’re Invited brings one guest per episode together with a +1 of their choice– a sibling, partner, cousin, close friend, or long-term collaborator. So much of how we understand ourselves comes from the people we move through life with- not from our jobs, or our bios, or the versions of ourselves we put online. This podcast is about making room for that. 📩 Join the mailing list: https://vane...