Spoilers alert! In this voice note episode, we're chatting about the highest grossing blockbuster of 2023 and going through some valuable listener correspondence in regards to "starting a family", having friends who work in the fossil fuel industry and extra tips to help us spend less time on our phones. A special shout out to Ronaé for her Barbie voice note. Thank you for all your support on this season of the podcast, it's Bye Barbie for now but I look forward to seeing you soon! Extra reading...
Aug 02, 2023•29 min•Season 5Ep. 9
On average, British people spend more than 2 hours per day on their phones. That amounts to an entire MONTH on our phones every year - or more - in my case! In this episode, i'm sharing what i've learned from spending my weekends offline (with varying levels of success!) over the past 5 years, in a practice I call #offline48. I'll also be answering the questions I get asked most frequently and i'll be sharing tips and advice if you're keen to join me on an offline weekend. Mentions How To Break ...
Jul 26, 2023•32 min•Season 5Ep. 9
Kieran Yates is a London-based journalist, broadcaster and author. Her debut book “All The Houses I’ve Ever Lived In” is part memoir, part social commentary. It’s a love letter to home and community and a vital and timely expose on the UK’s housing crisis. By the age of 25, Kieran had lived in twenty different houses across the country, from council estates in London to car showrooms in rural Wales. Drawing on personal experience, interviews with tenants across the country and the stories behind...
Jul 19, 2023•48 min•Season 5Ep. 8
loads to talk about this week! including going on tv dressed for prom, wasting my time watching The Idol and a listener e-mail which i can't stop thinking about. Take Action Against Big Fashion Welcome To Wrexham Champion Decolonising Conservation Tan France on the Louis Theroux podcast Stop Cambo you can email the show - or send us a voicenote of your own to atstpodcast@gmail.com kind note: this address is for podcast letter contributions only This episode was produced and hosted by Venetia La ...
Jul 12, 2023•30 min•Season 5Ep. 7
this week we're catching up on my trip to France, i'm chatting about the books that i loved reading the places at which i enjoyed eating! i'm also reading out some of your brilliant emails. summer reading list pontochoux jah jah vg patisserie land & monkeys meet up email the show or send us a voice note of your own: atstpod@gmail.com This episode was produced and hosted by Venetia La Manna. It was edited by Nada Smiljanic. The artwork was designed by Alex Sedano and the music was composed by...
Jul 05, 2023•24 min•Season 5Ep. 6
Rachel Mills is a London based literary agent, business owner and entrepreneur. In this episode, we learn about the publishing industry the duty of care it owes memoir writers. Rachel shares her summer reading list and discusses her decision to live a child-free life. I hope you enjoy this episode! Rachel's recommended summer reads: Yellowface by Rebecca F Kuang Psychedelics by David Nutt Boyslut by Zachary Zane Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld Imad's Syrian Kitchen by Imad Alarnab email the...
Jun 28, 2023•34 min•Season 5Ep. 5
Welcome back to voice notes. This week we’re catching up on the last week, discussing Patagonia and the need to prioritise collective action that’s in solidarity with garment makers, and the responsibility of folks who are at the age where they could be grandparents to shift the dial on the “when are you having children” question. mentions: You Can Cook This Africa Rising with Afua Hirsch Patagonia manufactures in the same factories as fast-fashion Do Ethical Billionaires Exist? Social Auditing,...
Jun 21, 2023•27 min•Season 5Ep. 4
welcome to the third voice note episode, it's great to have you here. mentions: flex appeal with Anna Whitehouse is wellness just another fashion trend? with Rina Raphael real self care by Dr Pooja Lakshmin maintenance phase podcast changes podcast with Emma Gannon love, Lizzo documentary the fast furniture fix on BBC Sounds loneliness awareness week with Marmalade Trust an extra special thank you to my loves Becca and Lottie for sharing their valuable insights with us. email the show: atstpod@g...
Jun 14, 2023•33 min•Season 5Ep. 3
welcome to the second voice note episode, it's good to have you here. previous ATST episodes mentioned: starting a sustainable business with Josephine Philips transcending the binary with Willow Defebaugh having children in a climate crisis with Tessa Khan reproductive justice and parental ambivalence with Dr Pragya Agarwal tailor your clothes at the Sojo pop up (or check out their app) if you're not based in London, try your local dry cleaner for alterations Spice World on Sentimental Garbage W...
Jun 07, 2023•30 min•Season 5Ep. 2
welcome to my first solo-cast, in a series we're calling voicenotes. expect recommendations and personal thoughts on specific topics. this doesn't mean the end of the interviews, we're working on them as we go. in this first voicenote episode, i'm talking about having children. email the show: atstpod@gmail.com recommendations from this episode: Rye Lane I Kissed A Boy (BBC) having children in a climate crisis with Tessa Khan we are child free podcast embracing a child free life Today In Focus F...
May 31, 2023•34 min•Season 5Ep. 1
Season finale! Tessa Khan is an international climate change and human rights lawyer, campaigner and strategist. She is the founder and executive director of climate action organisation Uplift who are on a mission to support and energise the movement for a just and fossil fuel-free UK. Tessa spent more than fifteen years supporting grassroots, regional and international movements for justice and has served as an expert advisor to UN human rights bodies and national governments around the world. ...
Feb 28, 2023•45 min
Poppy Okotcha is a trained horticulturist and regenerative grower, on a mission to inspire people to engage with and connect to the natural world. With her joyful instagram content, poppy teaches people how to grow and forage their own food, whilst living and eating consciously - for personal, community and planetary health. As a young black woman, Poppy also advocates for those who are underrepresented and marginalised in the world of horticulture and environmentalism. A former successful model...
Feb 21, 2023•41 min•Season 4Ep. 8
Rina Raphael is a journalist who specialises in health, wellness and tech. She was the health and wellness features writer for the Fast Company and has also contributed to New York Times, LA Times, CBS and NBC News and was previously senior producer and lifestyle editor at The TODAY Show. In her new book The Gospel Of Wellness , Rina balances the good with the bad, taking a deep, nuanced dive into this $4.4 trillion dollar industry, and how it’ s a direct result of gender inequalities and struct...
Feb 14, 2023•40 min•Season 4Ep. 7
Angie Tiwari is a yoga, meditation and breath work coach specialising in diversity, accessibility and inclusion. Her teachings show how we can incorporate powerful ancient rituals in modern day life. Angie has been listed as one of eight women breaking the bias in sports, fitness and wellness by Women's Health Magazine and her retreats have achieved multiple accolades, including being listed as one of the best in the UK & Ireland by The Times and the best for beginners by Condé Nast Travelle...
Feb 07, 2023•49 min•Season 4Ep. 6
Josephine Philips is the CEO of Sojo, a seamless and scalable clothing alterations and repairs app, on a mission to make the fashion industry more circular. Sojo wants to make it easy for everyone to show their clothes the love they deserve and they do this through alteration and repair of clothing, allowing more of us to love our clothes for longer. In this episode, we learn about Jo's path to sustainable fashion, how she raised $2.4 million in pre-seed funding for Sojo, their aims to democrati...
Jan 31, 2023•40 min•Season 4Ep. 5
Liz Ricketts is an educator, designer and the co-founder of The Or Foundation, a USA and Ghana-based non-profit working at the intersection of environmental justice, education and fashion development.Working within the industry as a designer and stylist, Liz witnessed the toxicity of fashion’s disposable culture firsthand and has since been dedicated to transforming the industry. She holds a Masters in Education from Harvard University. Her upcycled garments have appeared in international magazi...
Jan 24, 2023•45 min•Season 4Ep. 4
Marielle Elizabeth is a body activist and writer in the ethical fashion community, who advocates for broader size inclusion and radical body acceptance. Throughout her social media platforms, she shares not only her lived experience as a plus size person, but also the ways in which we can all be striving to be kinder to the skin we’re in. She is also a change-making contributor to Vogue, where she writes brilliantly about issues including but not limited to: " Am I An Ethical Fashion Mean Girl? ...
Jan 17, 2023•44 min•Season 4Ep. 3
Swatee Deepak is a consultant who works with private and public foundations in strategy development and design, with individuals and families of wealth on their redistribution strategies and oversees a portfolio of businesses and start-ups across philanthropy, socially minded businesses and the arts. Together, without our friends Ruby and Devi we co-founded Remember Who Made Them, a campaign and podcast championing a new solidarity economy in fashion. Swatee is a guest lecturer for Columbia Univ...
Jan 10, 2023•43 min•Season 4Ep. 2
Welcome to a brand new season of All The Small Things! It's a joy to be back. This week, I'm chatting to Willow Defebaugh. Willow is the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Atmos, which is a stunning and thought provoking biannual magazine focused on the exploration of climate and culture. Willow writes a weekly newsletter called The Overview which offers a holistic look at life on Earth through the lens of deep ecology. Her work has been featured in V Magazine, L’Officiel USA, Vogue US i-D, The G...
Jan 03, 2023•40 min•Season 4Ep. 1
Natasha Lunn is the features director at RED magazine and the creator of a popular and acclaimed bimonthly email newsletter, Conversations on Love. Her Top 10 Sunday Times Best-selling book, also called Conversations On Love, discusses a wide range of themes intimately connected to love. After years of feeling that love was always out of reach, she set out to understand how relationships work and evolve over a lifetime. Natasha turned to authors and experts to learn about their experiences, as w...
Dec 21, 2021•34 min•Season 9Ep. 9
Dr Pragya Agarwal is a behavioural and data scientist, writer, speaker and a consultant on bias, anti-racism, social inclusion, power and privilege. She is the author of three books, including SWAY: Unravelling Unconscious Bias and ‘Wish we knew what to say: Talking with children about race’, a manual for parents, carers and educators of all backgrounds and ethnicities to talk to children about race and racism. In this episode, we focus on her latest book: (M)otherhood: On the choices of being a...
Nov 16, 2021•41 min•Season 9Ep. 8
Vanessa Nakate is a climate activist from Uganda . She was the First Fridays For Future climate activist in her country and founder of the Rise up Climate Movement, which aims to amplify the voices of activists from Africa. Her brand new book “A Bigger Picture” is part of her fight to bring front line voices to the front page. When it comes to speaking or writing about climate change, voices and stories of people of colour and from the Global South are often omitted, even though these communitie...
Nov 02, 2021•32 min•Season 9Ep. 7
TW: death and grief. Mo Gawdat is a writer and entrepreneur. After a 30 year career in tech and serving as Chief Business Officer at Google [X], Google's 'moonshot factory' of innovation, Mo has made happiness his primary topic of research, diving deeply into literature and conversing on the topic with some of the wisest people in the world. In 2014, motivated by the tragic loss of his son, Ali, Mo began pouring his findings into his international bestselling book, Solve for Happy: Engineer Your...
Oct 26, 2021•50 min•Season 9Ep. 6
Chloe Asaam is a designer, researcher, community organiser and Program/Operations Manager for The OR Foundation. The OR Foundation is an incredible charity and campaign who are raising awareness about the fashion waste crisis, specifically in Ghana’s capital Accra, where 15 million used garments pour into the area every week from the UK, Europe, North America and Australia, flooding the city’s sprawling clothing market. The OR (which stands for choice) work at the intersection of environmental j...
Oct 19, 2021•31 min•Season 9Ep. 5
Tessa Khan is an international climate change and human rights lawyer, campaigner and strategist. She is the founder and director of Uplift , a new organisation helping to move the UK towards a fossil fuel-free future. They strategically resource, connect, and elevate ideas and voices to set in motion a just transition away from fossil fuel production that is in proportion with the scale of the climate crisis. Before this role, she co-founded and is co-director of the Climate Litigation Network,...
Oct 12, 2021•37 min•Season 9Ep. 4
[CW: sexual assault] Gina Martin is a campaigner, speaker and writer, best known for founding and running the national campaign to make upskirting illegal and changing English and Welsh law by creating the Voyeurism Act. Three other countries have since followed suit. In 2020, alongside Black plus size model Nyome Nicholas Williams and photographer Alex Cameron, Gina helped change Instagram’s Nudity policy, which previously censored larger Black women’s bodies. Gina’s first book Be The Change, i...
Oct 05, 2021•41 min•Season 9Ep. 3
Hassan Akkad is a photographer, filmmaker and activist. He came to the UK in 2015 after fleeing Damascus after he was tortured by Assad's regime. He documented his journey in the BAFTA award winning documentary “Exodus: Our Journey to Europe and later caught public attention again when he applied to be a cleaner at his local hospital at the start of the COVID 19 pandemic. During his time on the COVID ward, Hassan shared images of his fellow cleaners, porters and cooks on his social media which w...
Sep 28, 2021•40 min•Season 9Ep. 2
Welcome to series 3! Aja Barber is a writer, stylist and consultant whose work deals with the intersections of sustainability and the fashion landscape, building heavily on ideas behind privilege, wealth inequality, racism, feminism and colonialism. Her brand new debut book “Consumed: The need for collective change; colonialism, climate change & consumerism”, is a blazing polemic against both the exploitation and injustice of the fashion industry and the cynical manipulation of consumer cult...
Sep 21, 2021•39 min•Season 9Ep. 1
Rachel Ama (she/her) is a cookery author and YouTuber with over half a million subscribers. A new Mum, Rachel has spent the last year in London, writing her most accessible and delicious book yet “One Pot, Three Ways: Save Time With Vibrant, Versatile, Vegan Recipes.” The recipes revolve around one main centrepiece dish that makes flavour-packed vegetables the worthy hero of every meal. With over 80 brand new recipes inspired by her Caribbean and African roots, Rachel offers three creative and f...
Jul 27, 2021•46 min•Season 8Ep. 9
Jazmin Sawyers (she/her) is a professional long jumper, former bobsledder and singer-songwriter from Stoke. A personal philosophy to say "yes" to as much as possible has taken her to the final of the Rio Olympic Games, Will.I.Am 's team on The Voice UK and hosting the red carpet at BBC's Sports Personality of the Year. She is the current British long jump champion and is taking part in the Olympics in Japan this month. Find Jaz on Instagram: @JazminSawyers Find me @VenetiaLaManna and follow the ...
Jul 20, 2021•45 min•Season 8Ep. 8
