THE STRONGER STUFF SHOW with MINNA | Pixie Revolution

Sixteen episodes.   Countless conversations.   A lot of coffee.   Several minor social media meltdowns.   One podcast.   And a huge revelation.   When Minna started The Stronger Stuff Show, she thought she was building a podcast.   Interview fascinating people. Tell stories. Share conversations. Put it out into the world.   Simple.   Except somewhere between recording episodes, posting clips, stud...

Eight weeks ago Minna started The Stronger Stuff Show for one reason:   Her music.   That was the plan.   Meet interesting people.   Tell stories.   Build a creative life.   Make music.   Simple.   Then somewhere along the way she found herself reading podcast newsletters, checking analytics, posting every day, thinking about algorithms and doing everything except the thing I originally set out to...

Some people prefer the version of you that doubts yourself.   The version that asks permission.   The version that plays safe.   The version that never makes them question what might be possible in their own life.   And the strange thing?   Sometimes those people aren't strangers. Sometimes they're friends.   In this Stronger Sunday Story, Minna talks about one of the most unexpected thing...

Doctors told Andrea Solanki she had "yuppie flu."   They told her to take antidepressants.   Accept her fate.   And prepare for a future in a wheelchair.   She had other ideas.   These days Andrea spends her time helping people through grief, burnout, anxiety, fertility struggles, chronic illnesses, and major life transitions.   And occasionally talking to dead relatives.   Which wasn&#3...

A few weeks before recording her first interviews for The Stronger Stuff Show, Minna woke up at 4am with a horrible realization.   She'd accidentally turned her own podcast into a show she didn't want to make.   More polished. More serious. More respectable. More like everybody else. ... And less like herself.   So at 4am she emailed her first guests, Maite Gómez-Rejón and Dr Erica Reid, a...

According to Hunter, when two people get into bed together, there are usually a lot more than two people in the room.   Your exes.   Your parents.   Your religion.   Your shame.   Your first heartbreak.   Your fears.   Your beliefs about what's acceptable.   And sometimes the stories you've been carrying for decades without even realizing it. Suddenly sex isn't just sex. It's histo...

A few weeks into launching The Stronger Stuff Show, Minna realized something strange was happening.   She was starting to tone myself down.   Inside her own podcast.   The thing she'd created.   The thing that was supposed to sound like Minna.   She was becoming calmer.   More polished.   More careful.   More professional.   More like somebody she'd seen before.   And less like herself.  ...

Why do the same arguments keep showing up in our relationships?   Different day.   Different person.   Same fight.   According to psychologist and body psychotherapist Alisa Lollback, most of us aren't reacting to what's happening right now.   We're reacting to everything that happened before.   In this episode of The Stronger Stuff Show, Minna sits down with Alisa Lollback, a register...

Minna moved to Hong Kong with a man she'd only just met.   Her friends thought she'd lost her mind.   To be fair, looking back, Minna can see why.   She'd never lived in Asia.   They barely knew each other.   And she was about to pack up her entire life and move across the world.   The strange thing?   Minna never doubted it for a second.   In this Stronger Sunday Story, Minna shares t...

Susan Walbrook spent 26 years designing fashion collections, flying first class around the world, staying in beautiful hotels and shopping for inspiration with a company credit card.   On paper, it looked like a dream life.   In reality, she was convinced somebody was about to tap her on the shoulder and tell her she didn't belong there.   Whether she was presenting to a room full of executive...

One night after work Minna was sitting at home feeling completely disappointed in herself.   She'd stayed quiet.   Again.   She'd smiled.   Nodded.   Gone along with things.   Again.   And she felt like she'd sold herself out.   Minna's husband Scott looked at her and said: "So what do you think's going to happen if you actually tell people what you think? Someone's go...

At 19 years old, Sorcha Mulligan signed a banking contract that told her what age she would retire.   She looked at it and thought: "No chance."   That instinct would take her from Ireland to London, across Southeast Asia as a scuba diving instructor, into fintech, blockchain, venture capital and impact investing.   It would also take her through eight pregnancies, multiple miscarriages, postnatal...

A month after my burn, Minna was lying on the sofa wrapped in bandages, staring at the ceiling and feeling spectacularly sorry for herself.   Then a music video came on.   And she had one of those moments that changes everything.   Not a lightning bolt.   Not a grand epiphany.   Just a very simple thought: That's what I want.   Music.   Minna had always wanted music.   The strange part was tha...

At 11 years old, Erica Reid's appendix burst after doctors repeatedly told her mother she was overreacting.   Years later, when Erica went looking for help with painful sex, one doctor suggested she have a glass of wine and try another position.   Neither story ended the way it was supposed to.   In this episode of The Stronger Stuff Show, Minna sits down with occupational therapist, trauma sp...

One Sunday afternoon Minna accidentally poured a pot of boiling water down both her legs.   Within hours she was in hospital.   The next morning being told she'd need extensive skin grafts.   And for the first time in a very long time, there was nowhere left to run.   In the first Stronger Sunday Story, Minna shares the accident that stopped her life in its tracks.   What starts as a story abo...

Chef, art historian, ArtBites founder and Eva Longoria’s Hungry for History co-host, Maite Gómez-Rejón joins Minna for a conversation about creativity, culture, friendship, grief, reinvention and building a life on your own terms.   Maite grew up on the Texas-Mexico border where crossing between countries was as normal as crossing the street.   One minute she was telling her mom she was away on a...