Welcome back to Cheers with Nat – the podcast dedicated to cheering on women in drinks.

In this episode, we're continuing our conversation with Becky Paskin, drinks journalist and founder of the OurWhisky Foundation.

If you haven't yet heard part 1 of this episode, do start there, then come on back here for more.

For those of you that are caught up, we pick up right where we left off – with the experience that led Becky to say "never again", including what happened 6 years ago and its impact since.

Becky then tells us more about her latest project, Drink This, along with her tasting events and TV work. And we have lots of fun with our last call round – quick questions, not so quick answers this time around!

I also wanted to share a content warning that we do discuss a cancer scare and how Becky has since learned to put herself and her health first.

As you can probably tell, we touch on a wide range of topics in this conversation and I'm incredibly grateful to Becky for being so open and honest throughout.

What stuck with me from this conversation

On the learnings from her experience calling out Jim Murray's sexist language: "…the amount of messages I received from women off the back of this one incident made me say to myself – maybe this is a promise and driving thing really – never again. I will never let a single woman experience the sort of things I've just experienced and I will never let the next generation of women coming into this industry experience the sort of things that these women are telling me they have."

On priorities: "You can keep giving yourself to others to make them happy and you can keep putting yourself into work, thinking that those accomplishments are going to make you happy, but you have to prioritize yourself. Whatever that looks like for you as an individual. Put yourself first every single day… and the rest of the day can be for anybody else. But if you don't put yourself first, no one else is going to."

On this conversation: "I just want to put it on the record that I think the questions that you've asked in this podcast… they've been the most insightful and interesting questions I've ever been asked in my career."

Links & things

On calling out Jim Murray's sexist language:

• Becky's post on Instagram, Sept 2020

• Felipe's article in Forbes – Sexism In Whisky: Why You Shouldn't Read The Whisky Bible

• Becky's resulting power anthem – Taylor Swift, "Look What You Made Me Do"

Becky's Brighton reccs:

• Vine Street Tap

• Patio

• Voya

• On Air

• And the story behind "Hove, actually"

Where you can catch Becky on TV:

• ITV Love Your Weekend

• ITV This Morning

• Channel 5 Harvest on the Farm

On the gym:

• Becky's pull up journey

• Nat's podcast recc on the benefits of strength training

Becky's book reccs:

• Nonfiction before the gym:

  • The Wine Bible by Karen McNeil (Luma recommended this book in Ep 6, too!)

• Fiction before bed:

  • Sarah J Mass Throne of Glass & ACOTAR series

  • Rebecca Yarros The Empyrean series

Becky's travel bucket list:

• Tasmania (paging Discover Tasmania to get Becky over there!)

Recording info

• March 2026 at PLATF9RM in Brighton

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