Introducing a brand new podcast: Love Letter To My Friend

Writing a love letter is usually reserved to declare undying love in our romantic relationships, but in this brand-new podcast hosts and friends, Lisa Smosarski and Alix Walker, are reclaiming the language of love and asking their guests to write one of the most important people in their lives: their friend.

In each episode, a new guest will write and read - for the first time live on the podcast - a letter of love and thanks to one of their closest friends, before coming together to discuss the intimate details of their relationship. The letters are affirming, emotional and will have you reaching for both a box of tissues and a pen to write your own friendship love letter.

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In today's episode, we're joined by award-winning presenter and author Vick Hope. There are some people in life who you are convinced must have more hours in their day, such is their impressive list of achievements. Vick Hope is one of those people. Born in Newcastle, Vick was so adamant that she wanted to go to Cambridge to study Modern Languages that she paid for her own evening courses and shocked her parents and school when she won a place. A similar pattern has followed ever since - if she sets her mind on something, she makes it happen.

Today, Vick is not only a hugely successful TV and radio presenter - she currently hosts Radio 1's much-loved Life Hacks show - she also speaks four languages, has worked with Amnesty International since she just sixteen years old, has written two children's books with her former co-presenter Roman Kemp, and she came fourth in Strictly Come Dancing in 2018. She is clearly a woman with unfathomable amounts of energy and drive.

But it's also that desire to impress, to always say yes, to seize every opportunity and to please everyone around her, that lead her to have a complete burnout a few years ago. Something so many of us can relate to in a world that equates busy-ness with success.

This is Vick's story in her own words...

Vick Hope is on this year's judging panel for the Women's Prize for Fiction. The winner will be announced on 16th June.

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In today's episode, we're joined by Rachel. Rachel was diagnosed with MRKH when she was just sixteen. It's a female reproductive disorder that presents differently from person-to-person, but in Rachel's case meant that while she has ovaries and produces eggs, she cannot carry a baby herself.

She kept her diagnosis mainly to herself and carried on with life, going to university to study Drama & Theatre Arts, and forging a successful career in events.

It wasn't until she met her now-partner, Sam, that she began to face how she really felt about motherhood and starting a family, and began to look at her options.

Shortly afterwards, after finally revealing her fertility struggles to her best friends from University, Rachel got a phone call that changed her life. Her best friend Abi was offering to be their surrogate.

One year later, Abi was pregnant with Rachel and Sam's baby, and their son was born on the 8th June, 2019.

This is Rachel's story in her own words...

*This episode is sponsored by Clinique. Promotion ends 31/01/2021 at 11:59pm whilst stocks last. Offer may vary and will be communicated at checkout. No minimum spend required. Only one use per customer and cannot be redeemed alongside any other promotions. All promotional products will be marked and cannot be returned to store or online for exchange, credit, or monetary value. Sale items are excluded from discount and all offers are not redeemable on gift card or egift card purchases. Clinique reserves the right to withdraw the promotion at any time. The offers are as stated, are non-transferable and there is no cash alternative.

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