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Viv Groskop is an award-winning writer, broadcaster and stand-up comedian, best known for blending sharp wit with smart cultural insight. She is the author of the bestselling books How to Own the Room and Lift As You Climb, which explore confidence, communication and female leadership through the lens of performance and storytelling.

A familiar voice on BBC Radio 4 and a regular contributor to major publications, Viv brings comedy, feminism and fearless honesty together in a way that makes big ideas feel brilliantly human. Whether she’s on stage, on air or on the page, she champions women finding their voice and owning it unapologetically.

Key points of the episode:

• Her definition of an extraordinary relationship.
• How there are so many varieties of public speaking, and the many things people benefit from and relate to it.
• How even the most confident people have their "moments"
• How "ego" gets in the way.
• How Michelle Obama was the inspiration and momentum for her first book!
• Michelle Obamas fascinating journey.
• Why Viv decided to become a stand up comedian....
• The craft of stand up comedy.
• The art of not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less!
• Her experience of interviewing Hilary Clinton.
• The genius definition of "Happy High Status"
• Her own measures of success.
• How to use her teachings from a perspective of self nourishment.
• Can connection be achieved in a different language?

See her on Instagram here: www.instagram.com/vivgroskop

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Lucy Sewill is a British portrait and editorial photographer whose work bridges celebrity portraiture, equine imagery, and deeply personal visual storytelling.

Early Life & Health Struggles

Lucy was born prematurely, spending early life in an incubator.

At age 12, she suffered a serious heart infection and a stroke, which caused months of hospitalization and required her to re-learn how to walk.

Over the years she experienced repeated health challenges that remained unexplained until later in life.

Photography Career

Sewill’s artistic voice is rooted in honest, relational portraiture—she aims to reveal something true about her subjects.

She is particularly known for one-on-one informal portraits of public figures (actors, musicians, broadcasters, politicians) as well as deeply felt projects pairing people with animals.

Her images have been exhibited internationally and she has work in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery (UK).She has also published several books, including Horses & Humans.

Another of her interests has been photographing the relationship between people and their pets, such as her Dogs & Their Humans work.

In more recent years, she launched Visible Women, an exhibition and project highlighting representation of women in acting and the entertainment industry.
She also contributes to mentoring, judging, and portfolio reviews for emerging photographers.

Health & Personal Life

After years of medical uncertainty, Lucy eventually self-diagnosed (via noticing parallels between her own symptoms and those of a horse she was riding) that she had Cushing’s disease.

She underwent pituitary surgery but ended up developing Addison’s disease, requiring lifelong hormone treatment.

Lucy lives in rural England with her family, her horses, and other animals.

Horses are a continuing passion and a recurring subject in her work, often serving as a metaphorical or emotional anchor in her visual storytelling.

Key points of the episode:

• How she was photographing famous people and realised only 10 per cent were women and there were only two women out of 30 in British musicians project.
• How, then she is fighting inequality and invisibility,
• The relationship she has with her photographic subjects, and why she gravitates towards famous people.
• How imposter syndrome helped her!
• Her ongoing health struggles and how her GP described her as "The unluckiest person he knew"
• How synchroniscitally, she found out she had Cushings disease...
• ...and how animals healed her.

Want to learn more? www.lucysewill.com

Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lucysewill

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Sophie Ziegler is the founder and creative force behind The OTTO Connection, a real-world social community designed to reconnect single people through relaxed, fun, low-pressure events and friendships. After finding traditional dating scenes uninspiring, Sophie launched OTTO in 2022 to build a welcoming space where being single feels vibrant and where people can expand their lives alongside like-minded friends rather than swiping through apps. Today, OTTO thrives as a growing community that champions genuine connection, shared experiences, and joyful socialising beyond the digital dating treadmill.

• The Otto project, and why it was set up.
• Why being single can be a good thing!
• Later life love. What is it?
• The 80 year olds that fell in love!
• The odd pressure to be part of a couple.
• Why accomodating the baggage is difficult.
• How we can be sideswiped by our hurt young feelings.
• Drawing for freedom. What is it?
• Can we make a decicion to love?
• Self love and self validation.

http://www.theottoconnection.com

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A subject that has caught the imagination of the nation.

Fat Jabs!

A special episode with Sarah Vine and Lucy Cavendish, with role reversal - Sarah interviewing Lucy!

A fascinating, relatable and insightful conversation.

Hello and welcome to the podcast where we talk honestly about weight loss, body image, and everything that comes with it, emotionally, socially, and psychologically.

Two brilliant voices: journalist and author Lucy Cavendish, and columnist and commentator Sarah Vine.

Together, we’ll be exploring the realities behind the headlines, from the rise of weight loss injections to the lifelong mental load of being overweight, and what it really means to change your body in a world that never stops having an opinion.

This is a conversation about more than pounds and calories. It’s about confidence, shame, freedom, identity… and the complicated journey of feeling at home in yourself.

Let’s begin.

Key points of the episode:

• The wrongness of fat shaming, including fat shaming of people on jabs.
• Lucy's theory on when her weight problem started.
• How people are put on the pill for virtually every reason, and it's connection to weight loss.
• How modern fashion does not cater for women with shapes.
• "The only thing you can control"
• How the root of the problem can have started at a really early age.
• The revelation from her Dr that led her to the fat jabs.
• The transformations experienced by both of them.
• An important message from Lucy about this subject.
• Possible reasons from an evolutionary point of view.
• How society has changed, but we haven't.
• How our bodys hormones are very strong drugs.
• How partly it was an identity shift for Lucy.
• Lucy's "Sliding Doors" wonderings, if I had found this earlier, would my life have been better?
• How being overweight can be a kind of "suit of armour"
• How Lucy's world changed when her doctor recommended Mounjaro.
• The Webinar Lucy is doing on this - ATTEND HERE

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Eve Simmons is an award-winning journalist, author, and broadcaster known for making complex topics feel human, practical, and refreshingly honest. As co-author of What to Do When Life Fcks Up*, she draws on years of reporting on health, psychology, and wellbeing to offer clear-eyed guidance for navigating life’s messier moments. Alongside her writing, Eve is a familiar media voice, regularly contributing expert insight on mental health and resilience, with a style that blends compassion, credibility, and straight-talk reassurance.

Key points of the episode:

• The book and how it came about.
• How she lost everything in the space of 2 months.
• The overwhelming amount of women that had had the same experience.
• A phenomenon that divorce lawyers are familiar with.
• How everything fell apart and she had to rebuild over again.
• Her spontaneous trip to New York and what it did for her.
• Her experience with anorexia.
• The benefits of her experiences and what she does now to help others.
• Her experience of healing.
• Her explorations of loads of different ways of being.
• HINT: Choose one that brings the most joy!

Her book: What She Did Next- What to Do When The Life You Planned is F**ked Up

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Tik Tok: www.tiktok.com/@evesimmonsjourno

Insta: https://www.instagram.com/eviesimm

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Nick Harding is an award-winning British freelance journalist and feature writer known for his engaging, often personal take on health, lifestyle, relationships, science and well-being topics. He regularly contributes articles to The Telegraph, writing about fitness experiments, ageing, food, and everyday life challenges, mixing evidence-based insight with first-person reflection. His work also appears across other major publications and platforms such as Daily Mail and MSN, and he has bylines on a wide range of subjects from scientific explainers to real-life stories that connect with everyday readers. He explores also the world of dating and relationships from the male perspective often with hilarious results!

Key points of the Episode:

• Why it is percieved as being hard for men in dating.
• "Heretopessimism" - what it is.
• The way dating websites allow you to filter your preferences
• The 3 inch "Chasm of Lonliness!"
• How people get sucked into negative extreme views (and how it is unnecessary)
• How general disaffection can be mistaken for mysogyny.
• The different "rules" of the dating world today.
• The main complaint of women about men on dates.
• The importance of same sex friends.
• His experiment with "Sharon the AI girlfriend!!"
• How some people cannot distuinguish between the two worryingly. and a funny story.
• What it's like being married to an alpha woman!

Reach out - Google "Nick Harding Telegraph"

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Katinka Blackford Newman is a London-based documentary filmmaker, author, journalist, and life coach.

She trained with the BBC and has worked on a variety of high-profile factual programmes for broadcasters such as BBC, Discovery, ITV and Channel 4.

In 2012, during a personal crisis connected to divorce and insomnia, she was prescribed an antidepressant which triggered a severe adverse reaction.

The experience nearly cost her life and sparked her deep involvement in exploring medication safety.

After a year of intensive treatment and recovery off all the drugs, she began investigating antidepressant side effects and advocating for greater awareness.

Katinka founded Antidepressant Risks, a platform aimed at giving voice to people affected by psychiatric drug harm, collecting stories, and promoting more informed consent in prescribing.

She is also a published author: her book The Pill That Steals Lives recounts her ordeal and research into the risks of psychiatric medications.

Her work has been featured in national media and was adapted into a BBC Panorama episode titled “A Prescription for Murder”.

Beyond her advocacy and writing, Katinka now also works as a mental fitness life coach, helping professionals manage overwhelm, develop resilience, and reclaim direction in mid-life transitions.

Throughout her career, Katinka remains committed to telling human stories with empathy, exposing hidden risks in medicine, and supporting people to find agency over their mental and physical health.

Key points of the episode:

PART 1

• How, because of her personal development, she kind of became the "poster girl" for a marriage split up. At first.
• How she started taking sleeping tablets to cope.
• How she was given a diagnosis of depression and prescribed anti-depressants....
• ...and how she had a rare toxic shock.
• ....and how her mind went into psychosis.
• How the medical professionals did not entertain the idea that it was the antidepressants that caused it.
• How it became so desperate she decided to take her life....
• ....and what stopped her.
• The eventual joyful resolution.
• How she then used her investigative journalist training to change the course of her career.
• How the drug companies have known for years about this.
• The unbelievable information she has found out since...
• How the book was turned into an episode of Panorama.
• How she was inundated by people who told her their similar stories.
• How she set up a charity called "Antidepressant Risks"

PART 2

• How she has this knowledge she can never forget and the responsibility she feels.
• How the transformation was immediate and extraordinary.
• How it was almost like a rebirth.
• How there was a lot going on in her personal sphere.
• How her children know more about drug side effects than most medics!
• How she has recognised empowering and disempowering beliefs, and catastrophisation in her thinking.
• How she is now able to consciously change her thought process, and how fear is no longer in i

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Sarah Vine is a British journalist and columnist best known for her opinion writing on politics, culture, family life, and social change. Over the course of her career, she has written for major UK publications including the Daily Mail and The Times, establishing herself as a prominent and often polarising voice in British media. Her columns are characterised by a highly personal style, combining political commentary with reflections drawn from her own experiences, relationships, and domestic life.

Vine is particularly known for her confessional approach to journalism, frequently using her platform to examine issues such as marriage, motherhood, ageing, and female identity in midlife. She has written openly about personal challenges, including her experience of hair loss, treating it not simply as a cosmetic issue but as part of a broader exploration of vulnerability, self-image, and the pressures placed on women in the public eye. By addressing such subjects candidly, she has contributed to wider conversations about honesty and stigma around women’s health and appearance.

Alongside personal themes, Vine’s work often engages directly with contemporary political debates, reflecting her interest in conservatism, culture wars, and the shifting nature of British society. Her writing style is direct, provocative, and unapologetically subjective, attracting both loyal readership and strong criticism. Through this blend of political opinion and personal disclosure, Sarah Vine has carved out a distinctive place in modern British column writing.

Key Points of the Episode:

• How she has suffered hair loss her whole life and thinks she is genetically predisposed to it.
• The difference between wigs and "interlace" systems.
• How she wants people to understand the issue better and what women (and men) experience.
• Why she wanted to talk publically about it.
• The importance of early intervention in hair loss.
• The emotional impact of her condition.
• The effect it had on her relationships.
• The bad choices she made in relationships.
• The surprising statistic on the amount of woman that have hair loss.
• The treatment she is having.
• The desire to simply look "normal"

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