Should I Delete That?

This week on Should I Delete That, we’re investigating the ‘Almond Mom’ phenomenon. This is our conversation with the brilliant Molly Forbes - she is an author, campaigner, and the founder of The Body Happy Organisation.  Our chat with Molly is full of incredible practical advice and insight into how we can build positive body image for both ourselves and our children.  We also spoke to...

A term made famous by Yolanda Hadid, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star and mother to supermodels Bella and Gigi Hadid, “Almond Mom” refers to the type of mother who sets their child up to be obsessed with food and their bodies in ways that are both toxic and harmful. In this, the second episode of our Body Image series, we explore generational trauma in the context of diet culture, and take a...

Phillippa Diedrichs is a Professor of Psychology and body image and mental health expert. She works at the Centre for Appearance Research and has spent the last 20 years studying body confidence - what influences how we think and feel about how we look and what we can do as a society to create an environment where we can accept and love our bodies.  She also works with brands and organisation...

New year, new me? Welcome to our expansive eight-part series deconstructing our relationships with body image. From the historical origins of diet culture, to the present day where injectable weight loss drugs are available from high street pharmacies, Alex and Em will strip back our assumptions about diet culture and body image, to find out how we got here, and how we can find a healthy way to lo...

Today, we’re celebrating another year of lols by revisiting some of our favourite moments from this year’s Is It Just Mes!  Be prepared… there’s a lot of wheezing and a *lot* of giggles in this episode.  We take a look back at the best advice Al was ever given, then we ponder deep sea exploration and discover Em’s *unusual* phone contract set up.  Do you have an Is It Just Me for us...

Today we’re taking a look back at some of our favourite interview moments from 2024! We have had so many incredible interviews this year, and we’ve learned so much from ALL of our guests - but today, we’ve picked a selection of some of our very favourites. In this episode you will hear selections from the following episodes - follow the links if you would like to listen to any of those interviews...

It’s time for the second part of our annual round up! Today, we’re going through everything that happened in the second half of 2024 in our lives and in the world of news and pop culture!  This half of the year bought an ICONIC pole vaulting incident at the Olympics, a Labour general election win and the end of Molly-Mae and Tommy Fury.  We discuss celebrities vocalising their boundaries...

Welcome to our annual round up! Have we done enough of these to call it annual now? We think so! In today’s episode - we’re taking you through our biggest news, pop culture and personal moments from Q1 and Q2 of 2024.  It was the year that bought us Tommy, Baby Reindeer and Brat Summer. We discuss the general feeling of discontent that we’ve felt this year, the rise in online cruelty and the...

Happy Christmas Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve (we think?!)  We’re catching you up on some of our recent awkwards… we’re actually kind of mortified by all of them.  But don’t worry - you’re sharing our awkward pain because we’re also reading out YOUR submissions. Do you have one for us? Email us on shouldideletethatpod@gmail.com   We also dive into our Google search histories… and it’s *ve...

Today, we’re going to talk about Alex’s IVF story.  After watching the new Netflix film JOY - Al was inspired to speak about her journey to having IVF, after having felt like it wasn’t something she was able to discuss online.  We go through the entire journey that has led to Tommy being with us here today - and we hope this conversation is helpful for anyone else who is experiencing som...

After Al revealed she has *romantic feelings* for Shrek - we decided to ask you guys about your cartoon crushes… and be warned - they get a little freaky.  Can you have a crush on a candle? Could you be in a long term relationship with Aladdin? Is the Beast as Beastly as he seems?  We also segue into hypothetical wishes, a hilarious childhood prank and Hugh Grant’s hatred of backpacks.&n...

Faye Winter appeared on Love Island in 2021 and when she left the villa she was faced with a lot of noise and a lot of criticism. In this episode, Faye chats candidly about seeing herself in a different light, admitting she was wrong, and how she apologised and is working towards becoming a better person.  Faye tells us about her desire to live a normal life after appearing on the show - but...

Lucky you - it’s another episode featuring husky Alex!  It’s all been A LOT lately, so in this week's IIJM we lift the lid onto how much we’re literally hanging on by a thread. We’ve been working hard getting our body image series ready for the new year - so today we have a chat about putting pressure on ourselves, our organisational styles and how we cope working so closely together. It turn...

Silly season is upon us - and a lot of us associate Christmas with drinking. But it doesn’t necessarily have to be that way.  Today - we’re speaking to Millie Gooch, the founder of Sober Girl Society - the largest community for sober and sober curious women on the planet. Millie tells us the story of how and why she stopped drinking and gives us some practical advice on how we can navigate Ch...

Al has a sore throat so this week’s Is It Just Me gets a little sexy… you have been warned!  Today, we discuss why people might fancy Shrek - and we're also going to break down some movie magic for you. Then, things get a little more serious because we also dive in to our personal reasoning for not sharing our children online and we discuss some of the judgement placed on parents and how we f...

Ellie was a 21 year old university student in a long term relationship - then she found out she was HIV positive after taking a home STI test - and her life changed… and in her opinion, it might have been for the better.  Ellie is incredibly inspiring and she is a force for change - she tells us her story and how it drove her to become an activist, raising awareness and breaking the harmful m...

It’s time to get topical!  The highly anticipated Wicked film came out this week and guess what… we weren’t invited to the premiere (unlike the rest of Instagram!) We also get serious about the body shaming we’ve seen in the media around Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo. Why do people feel like it’s okay to talk about their bodies and why are we so reductive when it comes to women? We also dis...

Payzee Mahmod is an activist, campaigner and public speaker who advocates for women and children’s rights. She is campaigner at the KWRO women’s rights organisation and an Obama Leader. She tells us the incredibly moving story of how she became a victim of child marriage at the age of sixteen. After her sister Banaz was murdered in of an ‘honour’ killing - Payzee bravely left her marriage and star...

We’re feeling *tousled* for today’s Is It Just Me! Join Em and Al for a mini spelling bee and a *very* high-brow discussion about Naked Attraction and the Netflix show that everyone is talking about… Rivals. Is the world ready for a David Tennant sex scene? And do we all have a crush on Danny Dyer now? The email inbox has provided us with some incredibly embarrassing awkward from you guys. Ha...

Have you ever heard a non-confrontational confrontation with a Just Stop Oil activist? Today we’re speaking to Gill Tavner. She’s a Just Stop Oil campaigner - but perhaps doesn’t fit the image that the media might paint you of one.  Gill was one of the warmest and most lovely people that we’ve spoken to on the podcast. She also has a criminal conviction - for walking in the road as part of a...

It’s time for some listener lols! We’ve got LOADS of your awkwards for you this week - and boy, are they awkward…  We’re asking what’s worse - walking in on your friends having sex or reading their dirty texts? Em has a very strong case to make thanks some *very* awkward personal experiences.  We also have a cringe sauna incident to tell you about… and Em spills the beans on what happene...

Even though we have babies - it turns out, we don’t know *that* much about giving birth. So, today on the podcast - we’re talking to Mamadinya… the internet’s favourite’s midwife. Mamadinya came to the studio to answer everything you’ve always wanted to ask a midwife. What happens if you poo in a birthing pool? If you want to take your placenta home - do they give it to you in a bag? Wha...

As you all know - we’ve got no HR department… which is why today we’re doing a live exit interview with the legendary Daisy Grant! Daisy has left the team after two and a half years, she’s moved to Wales to live an idyllic life with her fiance, who you all know, is also called Daisy.  She’s been here since the beginning, so today we say an emotional goodbye and we remember some of our favouri...

It’s one of those episodes where we dive into a TikTok curiosity hole - and we end up learning something quite profound on the way. It turns out cleaning is about a lot more than just mess... Today, we’re speaking to Vicki - who is a biohazard cleaning specialist. You might know her from her TikTok videos - where she shows us what she does for a living - cleaning hoarder houses, crime scenes...

It's been a very big week on the internet - so we're bringing you a topical episode to reflect on three topics that have felt particularly important for us. Firstly - take a look at the internet's reaction to the tragic news of Liam Payne's death. The noise on the internet around this topic has felt extraordinarily loud this week - so we discuss the cycle of trolling and tragedy that we have seen...