How should we eat in these modern times so we can look after ourselves and our planet while still enjoying delicious food? If you’re interested in finding a balance between nourishing our bodies and being mindful of the environmental impact of our food choices, listen to my guest this week Anshu Ahuja, co-founder of DabbaDrop, delivering fresh, homestyle curries in reusable tins with a focus on sustainability. They create nutritious, wholesome meals that benefit both customers and the environmen...
Jun 30, 2025•29 min
How can you live an empowered life with an incurable but manageable sexually transmitted disease like Herpes? If you’re interested in how to live an empowered life even with conditions like the Herpes virus listen to my guest Alexandra Harbushka, the founder of Life With Herpes , a platform whose mission is to breaking the stigma & removing the shame. Alexandra provides a safe place where people can find accurate information, community and emotional support. According to World Health Organis...
Jun 23, 2025•32 min
How can you change your internal narrative at a cellular level so that your entire world transforms, from the inside out? If you’re interested in fixing your health, listen to my guest Mellissa Laycy a leading voice in holistic health, who is revolutionizing the way individuals break free from physical and emotional limitations. With a unique approach rooted in gut health, cutting-edge biohacking, and subconscious reprogramming, Mellissa empowers clients to experience freedom, joy, and radiant w...
Jun 16, 2025•33 min•Season 247Ep. 13
How can we consumers support and celebrate our food producers, especially our farmers and fishermen in the UK and around the world? If you’re interested in supporting our food producers, learning about food provenance, our heritage, traditions and culture in our farming and fishing communities as well as giving a voice to women in both the agricultural and fishing industries, listen to my guest Jenny Jefferies, an award winning Author, Columnist and Radio Producer/Presenter. Jenny compiled the s...
Jun 09, 2025•31 min
How can we make a personal choice that goes against the very grain of our social fabric and relationships with others? If you’re interested in having a buzz without the booze, listen to my guest this week Sarah Kate Kiriliuk, a leading non-alcoholic drinks expert & founder of “Some Good Clean Fun” a lifestyle platform for women that talks about non-alcoholic drinks, features mocktail recipes and celebrates stories about health & wellness without alcohol. Her belief is that everyone, espe...
Jun 02, 2025•39 min
How can knowing your Human Design foster authentic transformation in a world saturated with superficial spirituality? If you’d like to know how to design and live your life to your full potential based on how the stars and planets were aligned at the time of your birth, listen to my guest this week Lucia Hargasova, a Human Design coach, who inspires people to understand their unique energy blueprints, making daily aligned decisions and live authentically. This self-awareness is an ongoing journe...
May 26, 2025•43 min
How can families make small, practical changes in their shopping habits to reduce waste, save money, and help slow down the fast fashion crisis—without sacrificing quality & style? If you’d like to help the planet with care, action and love for future generations listen to my guest this week Kimberly Lau, founder of Project Rewear, which carefully curates preloved clothing. They’re redefining secondhand shopping, making it stylish, affordable, and rooted in the power of community and purpose...
May 19, 2025•35 min
How can being kind to ourselves help ourselves others and the planet, in very practical as well as energetic ways. If you’re interested in understanding how we can regenerate our landscape listen to my guest Marian Boswall, a Landscape architect, horticulturalist, agroecology coach, land energy healer and author of The Kindest Garden which is about creating beautiful places where whole ecosystems can thrive; it’s about moving beyond an extractive system by putting back, nurturing ourselves and r...
May 12, 2025•35 min
How to stay healthy and manage health conditions by reducing our tremendous environmental exposures to toxic chemicals! If you’d like to know more about how to reduce the harmful chemicals and toxins in our environment tune in to this week’s guest Dr Aly Cohen, integrative rheumatologist and author of the new approachable, revolutionary book and 21-day program DETOXIFY: The Everyday Toxins Harming Your Immune System and How to Defend Against Them. Dr. Cohen demonstrates the surprising ways in wh...
May 05, 2025•40 min
What brings you joy and how does it shape the way we live, love and serve in the world? If you’re interested in learning to use joy to help shape the world for you and those around you listen to my guest Dr Meena Julapalli, a pediatric dermatologist, founder of Bluebird Dermatology & Chief Joyologist at The Joyful Path. She has a passion for providing comprehensive care that acknowledges and supports the physical aspects of her patients’ skin conditions, & the social and emotional needs ...
Mar 25, 2025•41 min
How can we live in deep, embodied presence with true sustainability for ourselves so that we heal & our world heals? If you’re interested in living life embodying the power of love listen to my guest this week Lara Raybone, a renowned leader in feminine wisdom, empowerment, and transformational healing. As the founder of Liberation in Love, Lara creates impactful experiences that guide women on profound journeys of self-discovery, inner union, and embodied love. Lara shares how she helps us ...
Mar 18, 2025•43 min
How can you release the big dreams inside of you- dreams of another life –that includes more freedom, more abundance, more wild creativity? If you’re interested in living your best life and business listen to my guest Leonie Dawson, an internationally bestselling author and artist, founder & CEO of the Brilliant Biz and Life Academy. A popular blogger since 2004, Leonie is a well-regarded life and online business mentor, and self-made millionaire. She has been recognized as an Australian Bus...
Mar 10, 2025•44 min
What does it truly take to turn a childhood love for beauty rituals into a purposeful brand that honours the planet and empowers people? If you’re interested in skincare that’s good for you listen to my guest this week Zahra Lachgar founder of Maison as she invites you to step into the world of luxury body care which pays homage to the classic beauty traditions cherished by Moroccan women. Passed down through generations, these timeless rituals celebrate the fearless Amazigh tribes, innovative P...
Mar 04, 2025•30 min
“We can all make a positive difference to help tackle the climate crisis. We can all be climate champions.” If you’re interested in in what is being done to help climate change, and you want to be more pro-actively pro planet and climate change aware, then listen to my guest this week Sangeeta Waldron founder of Serendipity PR and author of ‘What will Your Legacy Be’ in which she interviews 36 brilliant minds who generously share their knowledge and perspective from science to food, global polit...
Feb 24, 2025•32 min
How can we support small scale, sustainable food producers so we can live healthily and make more conscious choices? If you’re interested in eating incredible food from small-scale, sustainable farmers, fishermen and bakers listen this week to my guest Ella Cooper, co-founder of Wylde Market, an online platform that supports producers to set their own prices, and gives people access to a healthier way of eating whilst supporting a better food system for all. Wylde Market is an online farmers mar...
Feb 18, 2025•37 min
How can we foster mind-body health through plant-based eating, toxin-free living, and cultivating deeper connections to ourselves, others, and the planet? If you’re interested in embracing a plant-forward lifestyle that supports physical, mental, and environmental health, listen to my guest this week Nichole Dandrea-Russert founder of purely planted and author of The Fiber Effect and The Vegan Athlete's Nutrition Handbook. She’s a plant-based dietitian, yoga instructor, and passionate nature ent...
Feb 11, 2025•39 min
How can getting involved in gardening help the health & wellbeing of people and the planet? If you’re interested in how gardening can help your mental & physical health listen to my guest this week, DR Sue Stuart-Smith who is a psychiatrist, psychotherapist and author of The Well Gardened Mind, a Sunday Times Bestseller & gardening book of the year by The Sunday Times. She investigates the magic that many gardeners have known for years – working with nature can radically transform ou...
Feb 04, 2025•33 min
How does Public Art play a beneficial role for people and the environment we live in? If you’re interested in how art in our public spaces can improve our lives and our environment listen to my guest this week Louise Francis, co-founder with Laura Knight of FrancisKnight, an Award-winning independent public art consultancy, working with and supporting artists to create public realm art across the UK to add value and impact; celebrating a place, its people and history with a strong emphasis on co...
Jan 28, 2025•32 min
How do we honour and protect our ancestors and cultural traditions while embracing our post-modern world and lives? If you are interested in how we can protect people and the planet in these rapidly changing times, listen to my guest Sue Kim, Korean-American filmmaker & director of The Last of the Sea Women. The first feature from Malala Yousafzai’s new production company, Extracurricular Productions, the film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the NETPAC Priz...
Jan 21, 2025•42 min
How do we break free from old patterns and start creating the life we’ve always dreamed of? If you’re interested in overcoming past patterns to live your best life listen to guest this week Riana Malia an accomplished transformation coach trained in Evolved Neurolinguistic Programming (ENLP), Quantum Time Release (QTR), and Advanced Trauma-Aware Coaching who empowers ambitious women to live a confident and trauma-free life. She helps successful, ambitious women tap into their unconscious minds t...
Jan 14, 2025•44 min
What can we do to reduce textile waste to tackle overproduction in the fashion industry? If you’re interested in sustainability in the fashion industry then listen to my guest this week Hannah Standen, co-founder of Alterist. Her mission is to reduce textile waste. Through design, creativity, and collaboration, she and her brand are altering the world’s perception of what is considered to be textile waste. Alterist is a brand new circular platform defining the future of fashion. It’s about chall...
Jan 07, 2025•30 min
Last episode of Series 11! How can we get our reproductive organs super-fit as part of a whole life wellbeing approach? If you’re interested in the prevention of or reversal of chronic conditions or in the support of your reproductive health then listen to my guest this week Liberty Mills an Integrative Nutritionist & Health Coach who herself overcame the Lupus condition and went on to become a mum to her second daughter at the age of 45. Liberty shares with us how she overcame her chronic a...
Nov 26, 2024•41 min
How does Naturopathy & Nutrition help strengthen our immune system? If you are interested in strengthening your immune system for optimal health listen to my guest this week Dr Vidhi Pandya a highly respected and experienced Celebrity Nutritionist, qualified Homeopathic Doctor from India, Detox consultant and a Specialist in private bespoke diet plans based on medical conditions. She focuses her practice on women’s health, family medicine, mental health and nutritional health assessment. Vid...
Nov 19, 2024•38 min
How do we overcome our daily stresses and learn to live with joy? If you’re interested in learning how to raise the joy levels in your life listen to this episode with Sama Trinder, founder of the B-corp certified Bingham Riverhouse, hotel, restaurant and members club, with Bhuti wellbeing at the heart of it all. From ‘ hellraiser ’ to ‘ joy raiser ’ Sama is a multi-disciplinary wellbeing practitioner, yoga meditation teacher and yoga therapist. Bridging the gap between business and healing she ...
Nov 12, 2024•38 min
If we can’t achieve happiness by directly striving for it, how do we get there? If you’re interested in getting braver and happier listen to this solo episode in which I (Lou Hamilton, Host of Brave New girls podcast) am talking about courage, health and happiness and how acts of service are the secret sauce. This is the first time I’ve done a solo show, so I hope you find it helpful and if you have any questions do get in touch. Q: Who here wants to feel happier? Right! As humans we’re built to...
Nov 05, 2024•27 min
How to Rebalance Your Hormones and Life in a Fun, Simple and Sustainable Way. If you want to rebalance your hormones in order to live your best life, listen to my guest this week Serena Sabala, Certified Plant Based Nutrition Consultant, author of Make the Shift and co-founder of Whole Shift Wellness. She is passionate about bringing wellness to the workplace, since many people spend most of their waking hours at work and believes that companies who put the wellbeing of their employees at the fo...
Oct 29, 2024•39 min
What is addiction and why do people have it? If you’re interested in knowing more about why addiction isn’t a conscious choice listen to my guest this week Dr Nzinga Harrison, a board-certified physician with specialties in psychiatry and addiction medicine. She is also the chief medical officer and cofounder of Eleanor Health, an innovative mental health and addiction treatment company. She holds an adjunct faculty appointment at the Morehouse School of Medicine and sits on the Practice Managem...
Oct 21, 2024•46 min
Do we know how to avoid developing chronic diseases like dementia, diabetes and even cancer, and if so, how do we do this? If you’re interested in not getting ill, or reversing a chronic condition, listen to my guest this week DR Sundhya Raman, an experienced GMC registered & licensed doctor, who became disenchanted with the limitations of conventional medicine to help chronic disease, trained in the science of health, happiness and longevity, and co-founded My Wellness Doctor. She specialis...
Oct 14, 2024•46 min
Why should taking care of our gut bacteria be the starting point for maintaining optimal physical and mental health? If you’re interested in being physically & mentally well, listen to my guest this week Louise Macnab, founder of Jerms an advanced 4-in-1 powder delivering. Probiotics, Prebiotics, Digestive Enzymes and Organic Superfoods & Vitamins, targeted at the health of your gut. Her journey started from a lack of work/life balance as a corporate lawyer. She experienced burnout &...
Oct 07, 2024•35 min
How to take small, sustainable steps in hospitality, and life in general, for a bright and happy future for ourselves, and our planet. If you’re interested in nourishing food and looking after the planet, then tune in to my guest this week Vanessa Marx, a South African-born chef who’s taken over the kitchen at the B-corp certified Bingham Riverhouse Restaurant with rooms in Richmond as Executive Chef. Having spent most of her career in Cape Town & appearing on Celebrity MasterChef, she reloc...
Sep 30, 2024•37 min
