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The Making of...

The Making of...

Written by: The Female Lead
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 What are the moments that shape us?
In this podcast from The Female Lead, brilliant women talk about the key moments that have made them who they are.
From massive landmarks to simple everyday inspiration - these are the plot points that have steered their stories. We talk about life-changing opportunities, pivotal relationships, crushing disappointments, turning points and words of wisdom that have stuck with them.
Each woman has chosen a list of moments herself. Some decisive, some accidental, some lucky, but all show us just how rambling our routes in life can be and all helped make the woman who she is today.
This is the first podcast from The Female Lead, a charity founded by Edwina Dunn exploring the factors that limit women’s success and fulfilment. By listening to women and understanding them through research and data we aim to influence businesses and governments in order to drive real change. The Female Lead is passionate about telling women’s stories and that’s what this podcast is all about!
The show is hosted by Bea Appleby, Editor of The Female Lead and author of What Is Feminism? Why Do we need it? On radio Bea has been a regular contributor to The Emma Barnett Show on BBC5 Live and BBC Late Night Woman’s Hour.
This series is kindly sponsored by Missoma. Make your moments last forever with Missoma and get an exclusive 15% by using MAKE15 now on https://uk.missoma.com/ The Female Lead Social Sciences
Episodes
  • S2 Ep8: The Making of Lucy Davis - Disordered Eating, Healing & Spirituality

    S2 Ep8: The Making of Lucy Davis - Disordered Eating, Healing & Spirituality
    May 20 2021
    Our guest this week is the very funny and very thought-provoking Lucy Davis!

    Lucy is best known as Dawn from the British TV show The Office, she then went on to star in movies like Shaun of The Dead,  Wonder Woman and now lives in LA, having broken America and starring in The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.

    We talked about pivotal moments in Lucy's life which has involved some setbacks including a kidney transplant and recovering from an eating disorder. In our conversation, we talk about disordered eating in some detail so that's something to bear in mind if you're going through it right now.

    Lucy has really leaned into the spiritual side of her life, which is new ground for this podcast and we talked about positive thinking, healing and gratitude so it's a bit of a different conversation for the last in our series but it really made us think about the power of the mind.

    The Making Of is hosted by Bea Appleby. The production is brought to you by The Female Lead. And the whole series is very kindly sponsored by Missoma

    Make your moments last forever with Missoma and get an exclusive 15% by using MAKE15 now on https://uk.missoma.com/.
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    29 mins
  • S2 Ep7: The Making of Ruby Bridges - The Civil Rights Movement and The Moment A 6-year-old changed the world

    S2 Ep7: The Making of Ruby Bridges - The Civil Rights Movement and The Moment A 6-year-old changed the world
    May 12 2021
    Our very special guest this week is Ruby Bridges who changed the world forever at just six years old. In 1960 Ruby was the first black child to go to an integrated school in the American South. This moment has become an iconic symbol of the civil rights movement and changed her life forever. Books have been written about her, movies made about her and the artist Norman Rockwell painted the moment of her first day at school - a work of art that Barack Obama moved into the White House during his precedency.
    Ruby and I talked about her story, how she became an activist, the horrific racism she faced and how she feels about her place in history. We were so lucky to have this conversation and I hope it means as much to you as it did to us.
    Ruby’s memoir This Is Your Time is released in the UK this month. 

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    Born on September 8, 1954, Ruby Bridges was the oldest of five children and at two years old, her parents moved their family to New Orleans, Louisiana in search of better work opportunities. Ruby’s birth year coincided with the US Supreme Court’s landmark ruling, which ended racial segregation in public schools. But southern states continued to resist integration, and in 1959, Ruby attended a segregated New Orleans kindergarten. 
    A year later Louisiana was forced to desegregate. The school district created entrance exams for African American students to see whether they could compete academically at the all-white school. Ruby and five other students passed the exam.
    On November 14 1960 Ruby and her mother were escorted by four federal marshals to the school and they escorted her every day that year. She walked past crowds screaming slurs at her - someone even held a black baby doll in a coffin. She spent her first day in the principal’s office due to the chaos created as angry white parents pulled their children from school. Some parents withdrew their children permanently. 
    Over time, other African American students enrolled and Ruby graduated from a desegregated high school, became a travel agent, married and had four sons.  Ruby has been a lifelong activist for racial equality and in1999 she established The Ruby Bridges Foundation to promote tolerance and create change through education. 

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    The Making Of is hosted by Bea Appleby. The production is brought to you by The Female Lead. And the whole series is very kindly sponsored by Missoma

    Make your moments last forever with Missoma and get an exclusive 15% by using MAKE15 now on https://uk.missoma.com/
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    41 mins
  • S2 Ep6: The Making of Hollie McNish - Childbirth, Poetry and The Magic of Words

    S2 Ep6: The Making of Hollie McNish - Childbirth, Poetry and The Magic of Words
    May 5 2021
    Welcome to the second series of The Making of... from The Female Lead
    Our guest today is the award-winning poet Hollie McNish!

    Hollie was UK Slam Poetry Champion in 2009 and went on to win the prestigious Ted Hughes Award for poetry in 2016. She's released 4 books of poetry and her fifth collection called Slug is out this month.

    Hollie spoke about everything from childbirth to the magic of words and she even performed one of our favourite poems.

    The Making Of is hosted by Bea Appleby. The production is brought to you by The Female Lead. And the whole series is very kindly sponsored by Missoma

    Make your moments last forever with Missoma and get an exclusive 15% by using MAKE15 now on https://uk.missoma.com/
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    41 mins
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