Brave New Girls - Well Beings, Well Planet

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This week's guest is Vix Munro, an entrepreneur, money enthusiast & wealth coach. With a mission to support women step into their financial power and becomes money savvy in both life and in business she helps them fix their money mindset so they know exactly where to find their financial G-spot.

Host & artist Lou Hamilton and Vix, discuss how events in childhood can set us up for a lifetime's unhealthy relationship with money, but how with the right support you can shift those money blocks and find a balance in both your mindset & your financial strategies for living well now and with security for the future. Vix's own childhood grief meant she was living for a good time, until she overcame that block & started living with a long time in mind.

In this way this Woman of Courage brings us her Story from the Edge.

You can find out more about Vix on www.moneybadassary.com/

and you can follow her on Instagram @moneybadassary

Join our tribe https://www.brave-new-you.com/tribe and follow us on instagram @bravenewyoutribe and Lou @brave_newgirl CLUBHOUSE: @Louhamilton

Thanks to Podstar PR - the Podcast Guest Agency for producing, & sourcing guests for the series https://podstarpr.com

Music is licensed from Melody Loops

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Brave New Girls podcast champions women rebel raisers moving mountains for people & the planet.

The podcast ranks in top 2.5% globally, and currently No 12 in the top "45 Best UK Women's Podcasts to Listen to", with Host Lou Hamilton, artist, author & wellbeing coach.

https://podcast.feedspot.com/uk_women_podcasts/

Thank you for listening and please subscribe to keep up to date on new episodes as they're released.

Lou is the founder of Brave New Girl Media- bringing you inspiration, support and growth.

Sign up to our emails for inspiration, support & growth and LOU'S LIFE LAB free downloadable guide https://bravenewgirlmedia.com

Insta @brave_newgirl

Books:

• Dare to Share- bestselling guide to podcast guesting
• FEAR LESS- coaching guide to living more bravely
• Brave New Girl- How to be Fearless

Paintings & Public Art www.LouHamiltonArt.com
Insta @LouHamiltonArt

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This week's guest is Anniki Sommerville, marketing research consultant and author of Motherwhelmed, More Orgasms Please, and most recently How to Be a Boss at Ageing, in which she gives real advice on how to navigate and embrace midlife, warts and all. It's time to rip up the rule book and reinvent what your 40's & 50's can really look and feel like.

Host & artist Lou Hamilton and Anniki, discuss how she lost her father at the beginning of the pandemic to causes unrelated to covid, and so struggling with grief, old traumas, working from home, & young kids, she managed to write the book at the coalface of an anxiety-ridden attempt to rise up through the u-bend of mid-life challenges.

In this way this Woman of Courage brings us her Story from the Edge.

You can find out more about Anniki on https://www.annikisommervilleisworking.com

and you can follow her on Instagram @annikisommerville

Join our tribe https://www.brave-new-you.com/tribe and follow us on instagram @bravenewyoutribe and Lou @brave_newgirl CLUBHOUSE: @Louhamilton

Thanks to Podstar PR - the Podcast Guest Agency for producing, & sourcing guests for the series https://podstarpr.com

Music is licensed from Melody Loops

Support the show

Brave New Girls podcast champions women rebel raisers moving mountains for people & the planet.

The podcast ranks in top 2.5% globally, and currently No 12 in the top "45 Best UK Women's Podcasts to Listen to", with Host Lou Hamilton, artist, author & wellbeing coach.

https://podcast.feedspot.com/uk_women_podcasts/

Thank you for listening and please subscribe to keep up to date on new episodes as they're released.

Lou is the founder of Brave New Girl Media- bringing you inspiration, support and growth.

Sign up to our emails for inspiration, support & growth and LOU'S LIFE LAB free downloadable guide https://bravenewgirlmedia.com

Insta @brave_newgirl

Books:

• Dare to Share- bestselling guide to podcast guesting
• FEAR LESS- coaching guide to living more bravely
• Brave New Girl- How to be Fearless

Paintings & Public Art www.LouHamiltonArt.com
Insta @LouHamiltonArt

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This week's guest is Madeleine Black. a TEDx speaker, storyteller for The Forgiveness project and author of her memoir Unbroken, in which she writes about being gang-raped at 13, and how over the years she managed to peel back the layers of trauma, to find ways to heal, thrive and eventually forgive.

If you are affected by the details in this episode you can get help from www.bacp.co.uk or https://rapecrisis.org.uk/ 

Host & artist Lou Hamilton and Madeleine, discuss how she had to go really deep to unearth and remember the details of the dreadful night that saw the end of her childhood, but how with the right help she could stand firm in her shame and let it dissolve. With that she was able to see that she was not what they did to her, and so she found freedom through forgiveness.

In this way this Woman of Courage brings us her Story from the Edge.

You can find out more about Madeleine on https://madeleineblack.co.uk 

and you can follow her brand on Instagram @madblack65 & listen to her podcast Unbroken

Join our tribe https://www.brave-new-you.com/tribe and follow us on instagram @bravenewyoutribe and Lou @brave_newgirl CLUBHOUSE: @Louhamilton

Thanks to Podstar PR - the Podcast Guest Agency for producing, & sourcing guests for the series https://podstarpr.com

Music is licensed from Melody Loops

Support the show

Brave New Girls podcast champions women rebel raisers moving mountains for people & the planet.

The podcast ranks in top 2.5% globally, and currently No 12 in the top "45 Best UK Women's Podcasts to Listen to", with Host Lou Hamilton, artist, author & wellbeing coach.

https://podcast.feedspot.com/uk_women_podcasts/

Thank you for listening and please subscribe to keep up to date on new episodes as they're released.

Lou is the founder of Brave New Girl Media- bringing you inspiration, support and growth.

Sign up to our emails for inspiration, support & growth and LOU'S LIFE LAB free downloadable guide https://bravenewgirlmedia.com

Insta @brave_newgirl

Books:

• Dare to Share- bestselling guide to podcast guesting
• FEAR LESS- coaching guide to living more bravely
• Brave New Girl- How to be Fearless

Paintings & Public Art www.LouHamiltonArt.com
Insta @LouHamiltonArt

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This week's guest is Nicki Bannerman, who grew into her second career in radio broadcast journalism from the glitzy globe-trotting world of marketing & PR in music, film & TV. With a life long passion for radio, she rewrote the story of her life into one in which she gets to use the power of audio to create a platform for positively impacting the lives of others.

Host & artist Lou Hamilton and Nicki discuss her passion for radio and podcasts and how her purpose has evolved to interviewing people whose stories help inspire us in our health and well-being. Of course this comes from her own experience of life-threatening health issues.

In this way this Woman of Courage brings us her Story from the Edge.

You can find out more about Nicki on https://nickibannermanradio.co.uk/ and www.fem-foundry.com

and you can follow her brand on Instagram @nicki_bannerman & listen to her podcast Influential Women

Join our tribe https://www.brave-new-you.com/tribe and follow us on instagram @bravenewyoutribe and Lou @brave_newgirl CLUBHOUSE: @Louhamilton

Thanks to Podstar - the Podcast PR Agency for producing, & sourcing guests for the series https://podstarpr.com

Music is licensed from Melody Loops

Support the show

Brave New Girls podcast champions women rebel raisers moving mountains for people & the planet.

The podcast ranks in top 2.5% globally, and currently No 12 in the top "45 Best UK Women's Podcasts to Listen to", with Host Lou Hamilton, artist, author & wellbeing coach.

https://podcast.feedspot.com/uk_women_podcasts/

Thank you for listening and please subscribe to keep up to date on new episodes as they're released.

Lou is the founder of Brave New Girl Media- bringing you inspiration, support and growth.

Sign up to our emails for inspiration, support & growth and LOU'S LIFE LAB free downloadable guide https://bravenewgirlmedia.com

Insta @brave_newgirl

Books:

• Dare to Share- bestselling guide to podcast guesting
• FEAR LESS- coaching guide to living more bravely
• Brave New Girl- How to be Fearless

Paintings & Public Art www.LouHamiltonArt.com
Insta @LouHamiltonArt

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This week's guest is Bok Goodall, fashion illustrator, award-winning lingerie designer, brand builder, innovator, campaigner and named Intima Media Group's inaugural Artist of The Year in 2019. Both creative & business minded she co-founded the lingerie brand Ms A London, which is designed and developed for Transgender women, and is part her My Size campaign for visibility & inclusivity in fashion.

Host & artist Lou Hamilton and Bok discuss the knock-backs she's faced in trying to get funding to create a fashion sizing system that allows for Transgender body shapes, but how, because she refuses to give up on a concept that she believes is a basic human right, her perseverance is paying off.

In this way this Woman of Courage brings us her Story from the Edge.

You can find out more about Bok's campaign on www.mysize.org.uk/ 

and you can follow her brand on Instagram @ms_a_london

Join our tribe https://www.brave-new-you.com/tribe and follow us on instagram @bravenewyoutribe and Lou @brave_newgirl CLUBHOUSE: @Louhamilton

Thanks to Podstar - the Podcast PR Agency for producing, & sourcing guests for the series https://podstarpr.com

Music is licensed from Melody Loops

Support the show

Brave New Girls podcast champions women rebel raisers moving mountains for people & the planet.

The podcast ranks in top 2.5% globally, and currently No 12 in the top "45 Best UK Women's Podcasts to Listen to", with Host Lou Hamilton, artist, author & wellbeing coach.

https://podcast.feedspot.com/uk_women_podcasts/

Thank you for listening and please subscribe to keep up to date on new episodes as they're released.

Lou is the founder of Brave New Girl Media- bringing you inspiration, support and growth.

Sign up to our emails for inspiration, support & growth and LOU'S LIFE LAB free downloadable guide https://bravenewgirlmedia.com

Insta @brave_newgirl

Books:

• Dare to Share- bestselling guide to podcast guesting
• FEAR LESS- coaching guide to living more bravely
• Brave New Girl- How to be Fearless

Paintings & Public Art www.LouHamiltonArt.com
Insta @LouHamiltonArt

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This week's guest is is Crystal Yu, an actor, filmmaker and educator, best known for her performance as Dr Lily Chao in the BAFTA award-winning medical drama Casualty. She has most recently been seen on AMC's Soulmates, HBO's Industry, and Netflix's A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby.

Host & artist, Lou Hamilton chatted with Crystal as they discussed the trials of being a foreigner and an outsider while boarding at a dance school in the UK, then discovering her love of acting only to be faced with stereotypical parts for her as a young Chinese woman. But she collected her no's whilst saying yes to herself, and her perseverance was rewarded.

In this way this Woman of Courage brings us her Story from the Edge.

You can find out more about Crystal on www.crystal-yu.com/ 

and you can follow her on Instagram @misscrystalyu

Join our tribe https://www.brave-new-you.com/tribe and follow us on instagram @bravenewyoutribe and Lou @brave_newgirl CLUBHOUSE: @Louhamilton

Thanks to Podstar - the Podcast PR Agency for producing, & sourcing guests for the series https://podstarpr.com

Music is licensed from Melody Loops

Support the show

Brave New Girls podcast champions women rebel raisers moving mountains for people & the planet.

The podcast ranks in top 2.5% globally, and currently No 12 in the top "45 Best UK Women's Podcasts to Listen to", with Host Lou Hamilton, artist, author & wellbeing coach.

https://podcast.feedspot.com/uk_women_podcasts/

Thank you for listening and please subscribe to keep up to date on new episodes as they're released.

Lou is the founder of Brave New Girl Media- bringing you inspiration, support and growth.

Sign up to our emails for inspiration, support & growth and LOU'S LIFE LAB free downloadable guide https://bravenewgirlmedia.com

Insta @brave_newgirl

Books:

• Dare to Share- bestselling guide to podcast guesting
• FEAR LESS- coaching guide to living more bravely
• Brave New Girl- How to be Fearless

Paintings & Public Art www.LouHamiltonArt.com
Insta @LouHamiltonArt

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This week's guest is broadcast journalist & author Dr Mandeep Rai who takes us on a journey to 101 countries around the world, highlighting a single unique value that has defines each nation's history, culture and global influence. In her new book The Values Compass she shows us how we can apply values to better our own lives and make decisions more effectively.

Host & artist, Lou Hamilton chatted with Mandeep as they discuss how her family ran a corner shop in Gloucestershire on the edge of the most dangerous estate in Europe and how the violence and abuse they endured helped them assimilate the value of England which is steadfastness. Mandeep chose to study the values of the world so she could share how they can help us live through our challenges and give us the courage to live our lives true to what matter most deeply to us.

In this way this Woman of Courage brings us her Story from the Edge.

You can find out more about Mandeep on www.mandeep-rai.com 

twitter & Instagram @mandeeprai


Join our tribe https://www.brave-new-you.com/tribe and follow us on instagram @bravenewyoutribe and Lou @brave_newgirl

Thanks to Podstar Ltd for producing, & sourcing guests for the series https://podstarpr.com

Music is licensed from Melody Loops

Support the show

Brave New Girls podcast champions women rebel raisers moving mountains for people & the planet.

The podcast ranks in top 2.5% globally, and currently No 12 in the top "45 Best UK Women's Podcasts to Listen to", with Host Lou Hamilton, artist, author & wellbeing coach.

https://podcast.feedspot.com/uk_women_podcasts/

Thank you for listening and please subscribe to keep up to date on new episodes as they're released.

Lou is the founder of Brave New Girl Media- bringing you inspiration, support and growth.

Sign up to our emails for inspiration, support & growth and LOU'S LIFE LAB free downloadable guide https://bravenewgirlmedia.com

Insta @brave_newgirl

Books:

• Dare to Share- bestselling guide to podcast guesting
• FEAR LESS- coaching guide to living more bravely
• Brave New Girl- How to be Fearless

Paintings & Public Art www.LouHamiltonArt.com
Insta @LouHamiltonArt

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This week’s guest is Amanda Prowse, a bestselling novelist who knew how to resolve a fictional family crisis. But then her son Josh came to her with a real one. Her new book The Boy Between is the very real story of a mother and son whose lives were turned upside down by mental illness; a timely reminder in these turbulent times.

Warning: this episode talks about depression & suicide ideation. If you have been affected by the subject matter discussed you can get help through https://www.samaritans.org/ or https://www.thecalmzone.net/

Host & artist, Lou Hamilton chatted with Amanda as they discussed how depression can walk into your life or that of a loved with no warning, that it is an illness, but that there are little things you can do to make a difference. Amanda shares what helped her help her son Josh.

In this way this Woman of Courage brings us her Story from the Edge.

You can find out more about Amanda on www.amandaprowse.com

twitter & Instagram @mrsamandaprowse and her books are all available on Amazon or major book stores.

Join our tribe https://www.brave-new-you.com/tribe and follow us on instagram @bravenewyoutribe and Lou @brave_newgirl

Thanks to Podstar Ltd for producing, & sourcing guests for the series https://podstarpr.com

Music is licensed from Melody Loops

Support the show

Brave New Girls podcast champions women rebel raisers moving mountains for people & the planet.

The podcast ranks in top 2.5% globally, and currently No 12 in the top "45 Best UK Women's Podcasts to Listen to", with Host Lou Hamilton, artist, author & wellbeing coach.

https://podcast.feedspot.com/uk_women_podcasts/

Thank you for listening and please subscribe to keep up to date on new episodes as they're released.

Lou is the founder of Brave New Girl Media- bringing you inspiration, support and growth.

Sign up to our emails for inspiration, support & growth and LOU'S LIFE LAB free downloadable guide https://bravenewgirlmedia.com

Insta @brave_newgirl

Books:

• Dare to Share- bestselling guide to podcast guesting
• FEAR LESS- coaching guide to living more bravely
• Brave New Girl- How to be Fearless

Paintings & Public Art www.LouHamiltonArt.com
Insta @LouHamiltonArt

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This week's guest is Dr Vidhi Pandya Patel. a qualified nutrionist and homeopathic medical doctor from India with a working knowledge of complementary medicine. She runs a Health & Nutrition Clinic along with clinical trials with Minerva Research Labs and also works as a Lifestyle Health Coach.

Host & artist, Lou Hamilton chatted with Vidhi as they discussed how to build your immune system to protect yourself from ill-health, how to get your body MOT'd and the courage it takes to offer alternative solutions to complement conventional healthcare practice.

In this way this Woman of Courage brings us her Story from the Edge.

You can find out more about Vidhi's work on https://www.gold-collagen.com/uk/lifestyle-clinic and follow her on @smilingvidhi

Join our tribe https://www.brave-new-you.com/tribe and follow us on instagram @bravenewyoutribe and Lou @brave_newgirl

Thanks to Podstar Ltd for producing, & sourcing guests for the series https://podstarpr.com/

Music is licensed from Melody Loops

Support the show

Brave New Girls podcast champions women rebel raisers moving mountains for people & the planet.

The podcast ranks in top 2.5% globally, and currently No 12 in the top "45 Best UK Women's Podcasts to Listen to", with Host Lou Hamilton, artist, author & wellbeing coach.

https://podcast.feedspot.com/uk_women_podcasts/

Thank you for listening and please subscribe to keep up to date on new episodes as they're released.

Lou is the founder of Brave New Girl Media- bringing you inspiration, support and growth.

Sign up to our emails for inspiration, support & growth and LOU'S LIFE LAB free downloadable guide https://bravenewgirlmedia.com

Insta @brave_newgirl

Books:

• Dare to Share- bestselling guide to podcast guesting
• FEAR LESS- coaching guide to living more bravely
• Brave New Girl- How to be Fearless

Paintings & Public Art www.LouHamiltonArt.com
Insta @LouHamiltonArt

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This week's guest is Annabelle Mu'azu creative director and Founder of the brand Ihuoma; luxury lingerie and loungewear, created to celebrate the inherent beauty of black women. She also created the brand Beautifully Undressed, an emporium for lingerie lovers, reflecting the desires of real women.

Host & artist, Lou Hamilton chatted with Annabelle as they discussed the challenges of launching a brand in the middle of a global pandemic, of the importance of honouring yourself by wearing things that make you feel good and that don't fall into the dubious ethics of fast fashion. Annabelle believes that when you wear sensational lingerie, you feel like you can go out there and tackle anything the world throws at you.

In this way this Woman of Courage brings us her Story from the Edge.

You can find out more about Annabelle's work on www.annabellemuazu.com and www.ihuoma.co and follow her on @by.ihuoma

Join our tribe https://www.brave-new-you.com/tribe and follow us on instagram @bravenewyoutribe and Lou @brave_newgirl

Thanks to Podstar Ltd for sourcing guests for the series https://podstarpr.com/

Music is licensed from Melody Loops

Support the show

Brave New Girls podcast champions women rebel raisers moving mountains for people & the planet.

The podcast ranks in top 2.5% globally, and currently No 12 in the top "45 Best UK Women's Podcasts to Listen to", with Host Lou Hamilton, artist, author & wellbeing coach.

https://podcast.feedspot.com/uk_women_podcasts/

Thank you for listening and please subscribe to keep up to date on new episodes as they're released.

Lou is the founder of Brave New Girl Media- bringing you inspiration, support and growth.

Sign up to our emails for inspiration, support & growth and LOU'S LIFE LAB free downloadable guide https://bravenewgirlmedia.com

Insta @brave_newgirl

Books:

• Dare to Share- bestselling guide to podcast guesting
• FEAR LESS- coaching guide to living more bravely
• Brave New Girl- How to be Fearless

Paintings & Public Art www.LouHamiltonArt.com
Insta @LouHamiltonArt