Welcome to ‘Breaking Up’ - a podcast about break-ups, love, and pop culture. I’m your host, Isabella Shields and this week I’m joined by Demi Rodriguez!

Demi is the digital marketing coordinator at Anime Limited, the UK's largest independent anime distributor. She’s been working in film marketing for the past five years, with her previous home being Park Circus Films, who bring Hollywood classics back to the big screen.

Today we’re talking about Noel Coward’s classic of British cinema Brief Encounter (1945) and Sofia Coppola’s critically acclaimed recent classic Lost in Translation (2003). !SPOILERS AHEAD! So watch the films and come back to hear us talking about them.

You can catch Demi on instagram @demileerod.

If you'd like to send in an agony aunt questions, any recommendations, or any sponsorship offers, please contact  breakinguppodcast@gmail.com or you can follow us @breakinguppodcast and can dm us questions there. 

Welcome to ‘Breaking Up’ - a podcast about break-ups, love, and pop culture. I’m your host, Isabella Shields and this week I’m joined by the artist Eden Dodd (@edengrantdodd)to discuss toxic and fragile masculinity and how that reverberates in relationships. 

We answer questions about:

- A bisexual boyfriend who keeps making misogynistic and homophobic jokes

- How to feel and communicate loneliness and difficult feelings as a man without seeming like an incel

- Whether or not it's a red flag that his favourite film is Fight Club. 

CONTENT WARNING: Mental health conditions/Suicide/Incels/Violence

Today’s show centres on toxic masculinity and incels. I and every guest I’ve had on the podcast condemn the mentality and behaviour of incels and we have from very early on in production. Nothing in this episode is intended to excuse or make reasonable the violent actions of hate-filled men. We discuss misogyny, suicide, and mental health problems so if these discussions might upset you in any way I would give this episode a miss. My condolences to all the families and people affected by violence committed by male perpetrators, and to those affected by the horrific attack committed by incel Jake Davidson in Plymouth, which took the lives of six people. This episode was recorded a month ago and I hadn’t anticipated that the context for its release would be so upsetting. 

Eden and I hope that this episode is respectful and that it’s obvious that we are criticising and denouncing the cultural conditions that lead people to these groups and communities. 

Eden’s work centres on the redetermination of masculinity & Welsh identity, mental health and catharsis from trauma, escapism and mythology and that’s why we’re talking all about fragile and toxic masculinity. 

If you'd like to send in an agony aunt questions, any recommendations, or any sponsorship offers, please contact  breakinguppodcast@gmail.com or you can follow us @breakinguppodcast and can dm us questions there. 

Welcome to ‘Breaking Up’ - a podcast about break-ups, love, and pop culture. I’m your host, Isabella Shields and this week I’m joined by artist and web designer Rush Johnstone to chat all about relationships.

In this episode artist and web designer Rush Johnstone and I are chatting about:

• telling your partner you don’t want to use your vibrator with them

• dating someone you work with and the awkwardness and anxiety that comes with that

• ways to create intimacy with a partner who doesn’t have the same libido as you

This episode was sponsored by @wore - use the discount code breakingup30 for 30% off your purchases!

You can catch Rush on instagram @ruth.wtf and on their website at https://ruth.wtf/.

If you'd like to send in an agony aunt questions, any recommendations, or any sponsorship offers, please contact  breakinguppodcast@gmail.com or you can follow us @breakinguppodcast and can dm us questions here 💚