Holly Bourne is a bestselling and critically acclaimed author of adult and teen fiction as well as a mental health campaigner. Holly is very well known for her two novels for adults, How Do You Like Me Now, and Pretending, which are both funny, thoughtful and brutally honest, while also examining difficult subjects like abuse and trauma with sensitivity.

After spending a number of years as an award winning journalist, Holly worked for a youth charity as an editor on the front line. Holly was impacted by the real life stories of the young people that she was helping, and she started writing teen fiction to help educate teens on subjects like obsessive compulsive disorder, feminism and mental health.

We chat about hating her job as a news journalist (which she also won awards for), why she can’t start a novel without knowing the first line, her experience working on the frontline of a mental health charity for teens, why people are terrified to invite her to their weddings, entering into cat competitions as a form of writing procrastination and the neuroscience behind why our memories of our teenage years are so damn vivid!

Holly, like her work, is brilliant, funny and very honest. She’s been called “the Bridget Jones of this generation”. You’ll soon see why.

More on Holly:

You can purchase Holly's books via her website:

www.hollybourne.co.uk

Holly on Instagram:

@hollybourneya

Holly on Twitter:

@holly_bourneYA

Holly on Facebook:

@Holly.BourneYA

Hatch on Instagram:

@hatchpodcast__

Hannah on Instagram:

@hannahwrathall

Contact Hannah:

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Nick Stevens is a multi award winning New Zealand based architect. Alongside Gary Lawson, he is the founder of Stevens Lawson Architects.

Their practice is celebrated for its innovative and cutting-edge designs across a spectrum of different architecture including residential, public, educational, cultural and landscape architecture.

Nick and the firm have won numerous awards, including the 2015 New Zealand Architecture Medal (New Zealand’s highest honour) as well as 21 NZIA National Awards and the Home of the Year a record four times.

We chat about how he first discovered architecture and knew that it was for him, at the age of 4 (!) How he found his business parter, Gary Lawson, the ingredients that makes their partnership so effective, what it means to experience art and architecture that moves you (and the pieces of architecture that have moved him most to his core).

We discuss some of Nick’s most notable and award winning work, how he finds his design inspiration and the project that Nick says “will probably be the most important work that I ever do”.

As Nick said, “architecture is not just luxury goods. Architecture is for everybody.”

More of Nick and Stevens Lawson Architects here:

Stevens Lawson Architects on Instagram: @stevens_lawson_architects

Stevens Lawson Architects website: www.stevenslawson.co.nz

Hatch on Instagram:

@hatchpodcast__

Hannah on Instagram:

@hannahwrathall

Contact Hannah:

You can also drop me a note at hannahwrathall@gmail.com with questions, guest ideas or general thoughts - I’d love to hear from you!

If you’d like to show your support, please rate, review, subscribe and share Hatch with others who you think might enjoy the show. You can also support Hatch through the Acast Supporter feature. All contributions are going to be used to support bringing Season 2 to life. The link to support is here: https://supporter.acast.com/hatch

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Episode 6 is with the gregarious visionary, James Bulmer, an entrepreneur and restauranteur. James is also the founder and Chief Creative Officer of Wonderland Restaurants, a portfolio of restaurants that offer immersive and multi sensory dining experiences.

Earlier in 2020, James and his team partnered with Warner Brothers to create the first of Wonderland’s Restaurants, Park Row, which opens in London 2021.

James has formed a team who are top in the world at their craft - from leading chemical engineers, to Michelin Starred chefs and even Britain’s most famous illusionist, in order to bring their vision to life.

We discuss pushing the boundaries of culinary and dining experiences, the importance of storytelling and day dreaming, creating drinks that levitate and edible helium balloons at Michelin Starred restaurants, schools and institutions dismissing creativity, partnering with Warner Brothers and society’s collective fear of failure.

James is a true innovator and dreamer. Hope you enjoy hearing from him as much as I did.

More of James here:

James on Instagram: @jamesbulmer007

Park Row on Instagram: @parkrowlondon

Wonderland on Instagram: @wonderlandrestaurants

Wonderland’s Website: www.wonderlandrestaurants.co.uk

Hatch on Instagram:

@hatchpodcast__

Hannah on Instagram:

@hannahwrathall

Contact Hannah:

You can also drop me a note at hannahwrathall@gmail.com with questions, guest ideas or general thoughts - I’d love to hear from you!

If you’d like to show your support, please rate, review, subscribe and share Hatch with others who you think might enjoy the show.

You can also support Hatch through the Acast Supporter feature. All contributions are going to be used to support bringing Season 2 to life. The link to support is here: https://supporter.acast.com/hatch

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