Flock & Hive

James Wheeldon from Beekeeping 4 Hope joins us to talk about all things bees! We cover stuff we’ve always wanted to know, like where do queen bees come from? The hierarchy of a hive, bee sting therapy, why bees swarm (and how on earth you catch them and Asian bastard hornets.

See full show notes at https://flockandhive.com/podcast/beekeeping-beckham-queen-bees-asian-hornets

We speak to perfumer, author and podcaster Karen Gilbert about where to start when you want to get into perfumery. Along the way, we bust some myths about who can be a perfumer these days, discuss the importance of ‘playing’ as an adult, techniques for teaching and how scent is so primal when it comes to scent memory.

Full show notes at flockndhive.com/podcast

This week, we talk to Kinesiologist Amanda Brooks about healing the body and finding balance by working through energy rather than touching or talking.

Our word of the week is Alexithymia, which is the inability to identify and describe emotions in the self.

We also discuss growing up with distrubing medical magazines by the loo and our favourite, worst Essex girls jokes.

See full episode show notes and links at www.flockandhive.com/podcast/find-balance-through-kinesiology-energy-healing

In Episode 13, we talk to Louise Henning, an HSP Guru and coach about the importance of recognising Highly Sensitive People in the workplace. 

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We talk to Jessica Roux about the Victorian language of flowers, modern interpretations that would be useful on the tube and the playground language (that we can still speak): Uvaguv.

Jessica's book: Floriography: An Illustrated Guide to the Victorian Language of Flowers.

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Helena here, I wanted to say a few words ahead of the launch of series 2 next week.

This week, we're joined by Brenda Marx: Lab director at Qure in South Africa, where the team tests cannabis. We discuss misconceptions around Cannabis as a drug and the good it could do in medicine if it were easier to get hold of. We talk about the dangers of it staying illegal and the benefits of regulation. 

See full show notes and accompanying articles over on flockandhive.com

This episode will make you fall in love with your nose! We speak to anosmic Duncan Boak from Fifth Sense charity about why we need to raise awareness of the importance of our sense of smell. Along the way, we touch on anosmia, parosmia, phantosmia, pheromones and smells that make us angry.

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In this episode, we talk to interior stylist and colour expert Emily Deary about how knowing a bit about our birth chart can really help us understand ourselves and each other. We discuss sun signs (aka star signs), rising signs, moon signs, what the planets do and what it means when Jupiter is ‘in our 10th house’, for example. Along the way we discuss where astronomy meets astrology and how any of this could be true.

Our word of the week is ‘meraki’. To do something with meraki is to do a task with love and attention, leaving an essence of you behind.

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This week, we meet Alex Kent from Isle of Wight Mushrooms to discuss mushrooms as medicine (not the magic kind – that will be a later conversation!) We touch on how astounding the mycelium network is, how these mushrooms look like the body parts they help, why they’ve not gone mainstream until now and how best to consume them.

See full show notes at flockandhive.com/podcast/ep-7-mushrooms-as-medicine-and-the-mycelium-network