The Emma Guns Show

This episode is brought to you in collaboration with Crabtree & Evelyn. Forget everything you thought you knew about @crabtreeandevelyn - in a brand new episode I’m joined by the brand’s Chief Branding Officer, Ashley Souza, who shares this new version of Crabtree & Evelyn. In this episode, we discuss: Ashley’s early beauty career growing up in her mother’s hair salon. The incredible insig...

Hannah Ferrier is a businesswoman and star of Below Deck Me who joins me to share her feel-good habits, the strategies she uses and recommends to make sure every day is a good day. In this episode, @hannahferrier234 explains: - Why she’s leaning into healthy eating and training, not just because her hens’ party is imminent but because the mental clarity is gives her, especially in lockdown, makes...

Emma Storey-Gordon is an online coach and educator who joins me to debunk health, fitness and weight loss myths and interrogate the middle ground between diet culture and anti-diet. During our conversation we discuss a lot; everything from tapping into motivation, the many myths out there about health, weight loss and fitness that are incredibly unhelpful, the huge middle ground between diet cultu...

A few weeks ago I had a bit of a wobble and in this episode I share the tactics I used to put myself back together. To join the closed Facebook group for the podcast click here >> The Emma Guns Show Forum . To follow me on social media >> Twitter | Instagram . Hey! Why not share your thoughts and insights to make your listening experience even better. Complete this listener survey to t...

Justine Kluk is a Consultant Dermatologist who joins me to share her feel-good habits, the strategies she uses and recommends to make sure every day is a good day. In this episode, @drjustinekluk and I discuss: Why her feel-good habits have changed and looked very different pre-pandemic. How committing to virtual personal training sessions during lockdown helped her to connect with her progress an...

Teddi Mellencamp is an accountability coach who came to the realisation that the thing standing between her and the goals she wanted to achieve was her. After that lightbulb moment Teddi pieced together what else she needed to do in order to achieve her goals and exit the vicious cycle of where someone, or something, was always to blame.  In this episode we discuss: Why comparison kills all j...

This episode is brought to you in collaboration with Elemis. In this episode, I’m joined by Elemis Co-Founder and Global President Noella Gabriel. I’m lucky enough to have one-to-one appointments with beauty brand owners through work and one of the most memorable, when I started out in beauty, was a sit down I had with Noella at the Elemis Spa*.  We were scheduled to chat again for the launch...

Rebecca Seal is a podcaster and author who joins me to share her feel-good habits, the strategies she uses and recommends to make sure every day is a good day. In this episode @bexseal and I discuss: The no alcohol Monday to Friday rule that she and her husband have implemented to make working from home more productive. Why working from home requires boundaries and having strict ‘working hours’ an...

Dr Waheed Arian joins me to share his incredible journey to be one of the most influential doctors in the UK from beginnings in war-torn Afghanistan. In this episode, we discuss ambition, hope, healing past traumas, inspiration, giving, generosity and compassion and moving the needle of progress. Dr Arian's book In The Wars is available now. To join the closed Facebook group for the podcast click...

This episode is brought to you in collaboration with Philips.  I started trying all the ways that someone can remove their hair from a very early age and, trust me when you’ve got over 30 years of hair removal under your belt you realise how so many of them are messy, uncomfortable, ineffective and inconvenient - it’s a veritable comedy of hair removal errors! This is why I’ve asked author an...

Ellie Gibson and Helen Thorn are comedy duo The Scummy Mummies and they join me to share their feel-good habits, the strategies they use and recommend to make sure every day is a good day. In this episode @elliegibsongames and @helenwearsasize18 share: The joy in a good, long lunch with friends, which is something they appreciate so much more after the lockdowns of 2020. Why cheese is so wonderful...

Trigger warning: this episode contains references to suicide. Gemma Styles is a podcaster and writer Gemma Styles who joins me to talk about the topics she feels we can shed more light on. In particular, we discuss mental health and why it's so important to talk about it a little bit deeper and a little further to break the taboo. Gemma has the ability to make difficult, uncomfortable topics acces...

This episode is brought to you in collaboration with Phillips. Dr Sharon Wong joins me in this episode to talk about the technology in the device and why it reduces hair growth. During our conversation, Sharon explains the hair growth cycle, how the Intense Pulse Light, IPL, works and what effect it has on the individual hair follicles, why the two weeks between treatments when you first start usi...

Lorna Luxe is a content creator, entrepreneur and designer who joins me on the podcast to share her feel-good habits, the strategies she uses and recommends to make sure every day is a good day. In this episode, @lornaluxe and I discuss: The joy of staying in bed and why the narrative of getting up early somehow equals success isn't true. Why switching off devices, as advised by Marie Reynolds , h...

Natasha Lunn joins me on the podcast to talk about love. That's right, love. In her new book Conversations on Love , Tash ( @natashachloelunn ) explores the many types of love in our relationships, friendships, family and even in the places where you may not expect love to live. Perhaps something we can all relate to is making mistakes in love, feeling the loss of love, being hurt by how much we l...

This episode is brought to you in collaboration with Philips. The Philips Lumea is an impressive device that’s safe to use at home featuring really sophisticated technology that can give a result of a 92% reduction in just three treatments. But, in addition to the IPL technology, the success of your treatment relies on using the device on a specific schedule, which is why Lee Pycroft , psychothera...

Gemma Newman is a GP and author who returns to the podcast to share her feel-good habits, the strategies he uses and recommends to make sure every day is a good day. In this episode, @plantpowerdoctor shares: Why she makes sure she's eating 'mood food' and why making healthy food choices can improve your physical and mental health. The joy and comfort from a cup of tea and the grounding ceremony o...

Lisa Bilyeu is the co-founder and president of Impact Theory, a digital media production company focused on empowering content. And that, listeners, is how I first came to learn about Lisa. I watched the video of an interview she had done with my friend, the makeup artist and entrepreneur, Mally Roncal and really liked the tone of her content, which is design to wake up, confront, empower and moti...

This episode is brought to you in collaboration with Philips. Harnaam Kaur is a motivational speaker and social activist whose insights on choice, and how those choices inspire positivity and self-expression are eye-opening and ultimately empowering. in this episode, Harnaam and I discuss; self-expression and why confidence comes from making choices that empower you - and who cares what anyone els...

Robin James is a content creator and producer who joins me on the podcast to share his feel-good habits, the strategies he uses and recommends to make sure every day is a good day. In this episode, @manforhimself shares: Why the combination of early morning exercise, and exercise where you really go for it, set him up for the day. Why matching fragrance to your mood and throwing all the fragrance...

Alison Young is an independent qualified beauty therapist who returns to the podcast to share her insights from 35 years in the beauty industry. From being a hands-on therapist to the face of beauty on shopping TV and brands' secret weapon when developing products, there's not much she doesn't know. In this conversation, Ali and I discuss: Why the customer always comes first. Why people in the pub...

In this episode, I elaborate on one of my feel-good habits - the joy of learning. Links from the show: The Times Money Mentor Coursera: Yale, The Science of Well-Being Centre of Excellence To join the closed Facebook group for the podcast click here >> The Emma Guns Show Forum . To follow me on social media >> Twitter | Instagram . Hey! Why not share your thoughts and insights to make...

In this episode of the podcast, I share my feel-good habits, the strategies I use and recommend to make sure every day is a good day. My habits include: Making sure every day starts off as productively as possible, and why that can only happen if I have an evening ritual in place. Why cleaning and tidy not only organise the mind and make me feel productive in the short-term but also have long-term...

Davinia Taylor returns to the podcast to talk about her new book It's Not A Diet and how biohacking, listening to her body, working with it, rather than against, and paying close attention to what she was feeding it has been instrumental in her feeling better now, aged 43, than she did 20 years ago. In this episode, we discuss: Why she was so passionate about putting pen to paper. How her own expe...

One of the things I'm asked about most, via DM and email, is weight loss and yet I am always hesitant to talk about this publicly in case I trigger or offend. The body acceptance and body confidence movements have opened up a really important dialogue around how we speak about weight and our bodies, but it also has the power to shut down debate around weight loss. In this episode, I discuss the nu...