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/.

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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 lovely Matthew Rimmer. Matthew’s an incredible artist who recently exhibited at 16 Nicholson Street and who’s here with me today to talk all about relationships and about being intersex.

After we’ve spoken about Matt’s experience with intersexuality we answer some agony aunt questions about: 

• Introducing the exes you’re still friends with to your new partner
• How to tackle your partner having a friendship you find weird and unpleasant for your partner
• Being a tall girl in high school and feeling like you have no dating options

You can catch Matt on instagram at https://www.instagram.com/matthewrimmer_/

and on his website at https://www.matthewrimmer.net/

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Welcome to ‘Breaking Up’ - a podcast about break-ups, love, and pop culture. I’m your host, Isabella Shields, and in this episode I’m rejoined by Debbie Young! You can hear all about Debbie and the amazing things she’s doing in our Achilles Heel episode but today we’re all about Cher! 

We’re discussing the films Mermaids (Dir. Richard Benjamin; 1990) and The Witches of Eastwick (Dir. George Miller; 1987) so watch the films and come back to hear us talking about them!

Links to Debbie’s websites here:

http://www.debbieyoung.space/

https://www.studiomama.co.uk/

Links to Debbie’s socials here:

https://www.instagram.com/debbieyoungart/?hl=en

https://www.instagram.com/debbies_breath/?hl=en

https://www.instagram.com/studiomamaishome/?hl=en

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 hosted by Isabella Shields. 

In today’s release the gorgeous Tamara MacArthur and I are talking about performing heartbreak. Tamara is a visual artist whose works explore yearning, futility and the boundaries of intimacy. In this episode we’re answering questions from people who are struggling through heartbrokenness by telling them what’s worked for us and by appropriating anti-terror slogans as relationship advice

Welcome to ‘Breaking Up’ - a podcast about break-ups, love, and pop culture. I’m your host, Isabella Shields.

In today's episode I’m joined by Tineka Smith to discuss the trials of and tribulations of interracial relationships. Tineka is a racial equality advocate and founder of Huetribe, a diverse greetings card company and author of ‘Mixed Up: Confessions of an Interracial Couple’. In ‘Mixed Up’, Tineka and her husband Alex Court explore what it means to be an interracial couple in a world in which the Black Lives Matter movement and racial tensions are at the forefront of the international agenda.

The Audible Original audiobook, Mixed Up: Confessions of an Interracial Couple is out now, and the hard copy will be released on the 22nd of April 2021. Pre-order via this link.  

We're talking about:

• Trying to get back with your ex when they broke up with you for not understanding their perspective as a black person
• Caring for your partner when you're concerned about the effect the news about police brutality and racial injustice is having on their mental health
• Tension around introducing your white partner to your family and how to manage it
• And what to do when your partner is silent when you bring up issues of race. 

You can find Tineka on Instagram, and read her articles in The Independent and The Guardian. You can listen to Audible Original audiobook via this link: Mixed Up: Confessions of an Interracial Couple. And you can pre-order the hard copy which will be released on the 22nd of April 2021 via this link.  

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 on instagram at  @breakinguppodcast and can dm us questions there.

Welcome to ‘Breaking Up’ - a podcast about break-ups, love, and pop culture hosted by Isabella Shields. 

Today I’m joined by Debbie Young, a very close friend of mine who exhibited her first solo show at the gallery back in 2019! She got her degree in fine art from the The Hague’s Royal Academy of Art and has been producing incredible paintings, ceramics, textiles, performance works and sculptures ever since. She also runs Studio Mama from 16 Nicholson Street and she’s the jewel in my crown!

• What to do when a guy’s perfect on paper but there’s no tension in the relationship
• What to do when your partner keeps comparing you to films and tv shows
• What to do if your partner takes no pride in their appearance and is a bit of a slob, but is otherwise pretty great
• And what’s going on when a partner’s getting on your last nerve.

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 on instagram at  @breakinguppodcast and can dm us questions there.

Links to Debbie’s websites here:

http://www.debbieyoung.space/

https://www.studiomama.co.uk/

Links to Debbie’s socials here:

https://www.instagram.com/debbieyoungart/?hl=en

https://www.instagram.com/debbies_breath/?hl=en

https://www.instagram.com/studiomamaishome/?hl=en