Here at I’m Absolutely Fine we have gathered the finest beauty minds for a Beauty 101. Nadine Baggott brought us her Skincare SOS kit: she decodes the ingredients to look out for and keeps budget front of mind. Sali Hughes, who has launched her wildly successful skincare range with Revolution (Emilie is a devotee of her Daily Exfoliant), opened up her make-up bag, uncovering treasure, and Annabel rifled through her bathroom to share her summer sensations…NOTE: These are highlights not new recordings…

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Summer is here. Maybe you are leaping into August with the enthusiasm of a newborn deer or maybe you feel as if you are about to be culled and mounted on the living room wall. We are veering wildly from wanting to scamper and scurry the streets, eating snacks and generally channelling rat girl energy; and spending so long in the bath that we turn ourselves into broths. Either way we will not be replying to emails in a hurry: Sorry for the delayed response but….I’m Absolutely Fine podcast is taking a break (having a break-down). However we will be sending out some greatest hits to keep you company. See you in September….

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Our guest this week is Anna Richardson - host of Channel 4’s Naked Attraction and the recently-launched podcast It Can’t Just Be Me: a sex and relationships podcast where she answers all kinds of problems about anything from ‘Can you be friend with an ex?’ to ‘how do I cope partner’s depression?’. Anna has seen more naked people than anyone else we know, so we ask her about the dynamics of attraction and what she’s learned about bodies from looking at so many of them. She’s also making a documentary about Ozempic, the so-called skinny drug so we dive into that…is it a horror story or a fairy tale? Have a listen...

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Just slipping into your feed to let you know that the week is nearly over, and there’s only one more week to go before you have to get through the next week. Oh God. This week we talk about JULY WEIRDNESS. July is the waiting room of summer, and waiting rooms are weird: you don’t know your life is about to change for the good or for the bad. As a result we find ourselves thinking the same thing over and over… ‘Disappointed, but not surprised’. And we have also discovered a good catch-all for when you don’t feel like explaining yourself…. Because, sometimes, it’s just none of their business.

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Welcome to a Podcast From The Edge - I’m Absolutely Fine but…mini! Five-ish minutes, broadcast live from The Edge…The Brink… The Overwhelm…The Vortex - that slips into your feed every Friday. Not ‘That Friday Feeling' but, rather, all the fucking feelings. Just to let you know that the week is nearly over, and there’s only one more week to go before you have to get through the next week. Oh God. Here we go: This week we’ve chewed over some of the DANGEROUS ACTIVITIES FOR MIDULTS. Like... looking in the mirror - you never know what you may find. Which leads us on to this week’s burning question: Is a cheek hair worse than a chin hair? Discuss…

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Our guest this week is novelist and all-round treasure Daisy Buchanan - who is no stranger to this podcast because now and again we ask her to come on and tell us what we need to be reading. She hosts the literary You’re Booked podcast and has just written another great novel - Limelight - which is about women and bodies and bodies and shame and sex and bodies and how we take up space in the world. We talk about how we are trained to look at ourselves and why things like sex and photographs are so complicated because sometimes we are not sure who we are doing it for...Plus brilliant book recommendations to help you get through Summer...

BUCHANAN'S BOOKS:

Lucy Vine's Seven Exes

Hema Sukumar's Minor Disturbances at Grand Life Apartments

Balli Kaur Jaswal’s Now You See Us

Lauren Bravo’s Preloved 

And Limelight by the lady herself…from all good independent bookshops

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Welcome to a Podcast From The Edge - I’m Absolutely Fine but…mini! Five-ish minutes, broadcast live from The Edge…The Brink… The Overwhelm…The Vortex - that slips into your feed every Friday. Not ‘That Friday Feeling' but, rather, all the fucking feelings. Just to let you know that the week is nearly over, and there’s only one more week to go before you have to get through the next week. Oh God. Here we go: All the ways we’ve been undignified this week - revolving door panic, dribble (both ways), torch incontinence and why, if you see a cross-looking woman carrying a fan through the streets with the plug dragging behind her…it’s probably Annabel. 

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We used to get on planes as though they were buses but, these days, that feels a bit more complicated, expensive and wrong. So what do you do if you long for adventure? Pine for discovery? But you feel grounded - and not in the good way? Well, we have our friend Melinda Stevens on the podcast this week – she’s about as expert as travel experts get. She edited Conde Nast Traveller UK and US for years and she’s just launched Loupe - a new initiative entirely designed to give us a new way to look at the UK. Perhaps there really is a whole world on our doorstep: new openings, rich regions, hotels, shops, villages, oh my. Anything interesting happening on this sceptred isle? She’s in the loop. 

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LINKS TO ADVENTURE...

Bard

Rhug

The Green Cafe in Ludlow

Bayley & Sage

Settle 

Unyolked

Cowley Manor Experimental

Aynhoe House 

Hungerford Bookshop

Angela Knight Lingerie 

Wylding 

The Fife Arms 

Florence Knight at Sessions Arts Club

Boath House

Three Horseshoes in Batcombe

Tillingham in Rye

Pollyanna Johnson

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Envy, Gluttony, Anger, Greed, Sloth, Pride, Lust… Elise Loehnen has written On Our Best Behaviour: What Happens When We Stop Trying To Be Good? It’s about the way women have been caged by the patriarchy, by fake morality, by the seven deadly sins and by our feeling that if we are obedient enough, we will be protected. It is a fascinating, overwhelming read and she’s our sensational guest this week. Is it an uncomfortable truth that the more we try to be to the world, the less we can be there for ourselves? Are we denying ourselves a full existence? Buckle up, guys...

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