Mads World

Hellooo, and welcome to Season 10 of Mads World! You're about to listen to Healing from Within: Self Love and Resilience with Ayesha Perry-Iqbal!

This week I am joined by women's advocate, model, and influencer, Ayesha Perry-Iqbal! Ayesha was the first Pakistani plus model in the US, and has grown an Instagram following of over 700,000 people, inspired by her mission to encourage women to embrace their bodies at any size, color or shape. The platform Ayesha has built has allowed her to delve into the topics she's passionate about, including body issues, current affairs and domestic violence. As a survivor of and advocate for domestic violence, she wants to raise awareness and help make positive change for all women.

In this episode, we discuss Ayesha's journey as an online creator, her feminism advocacy, her work in the domestic violence space, gender equality when it comes to dating, body image, self-love and so much more.

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Hellooo, and welcome to Season 10 of Mads World! You're about to listen to Finding Confidence with Bec Putna!

This week I am joined by athlete and content creator, Bec Putna! Bec is currently training for her first half ironman triathlon and is documenting the process on her Instagram and TikTok to show what it’s really like to balance working out, career and the rest of life. She loves reading at the beach, podcast walks and her cat, Sorbet. In this episode, we discuss Bec’s personal journey towards finding self-confidence, feminism and equality in sport, being the only woman in a male-dominated degree or profession, the importance of hobbies as an adult, using exercise to be social and meet like-minded people, and so much more. Buy one of Bec's Quieten The Head Noise here, $5 from every purchase is donated to Beyond Blue.

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Hellooo, and welcome to Season 10 of Mads World! You're about to listen to Hyperfocus & Heartbreaks: ADHD and Dating with ADHD Coach Charlotte Forbes!

This week I am joined by ADHD Coach and content creator, Charlotte Forbes! Like many others, Charlotte discovered she had ADHD via learning about it from TikTok following the pandemic. She now coaches people to help them better understand themselves and creates content to entertain and educate people about ADHD on ADHDClub.co.uk and on socials. In this episode we discuss the importance of self-compassion, obviously Charlotte's funniest dating stories, her journey to becoming an ADHD Coach. how ADHD typically impacts relationships and dating experiences, her best tips and advice on dating someone with ADHD, and so much more.

Useful Links, Podcasts and Books:

• ADDitude Magazine
• Is it my ADHD?
• ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Podcast
• ADHD Experts
• ADHD Chatter
• ADHD 2.0: New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction - from Childhood through Adulthood 
• Women with Attention Deficit Disorder: Embrace Your Differences and Transform Your Life
• ADHD an A-Z: Figuring it Out Step by Step
• Understanding ADHD in Girls and Women

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Music: The.Jones.Project_93

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Hellooo, and welcome to Season 10 of Mads World! You're about to listen to The Internet's Boyfriend: Modern Masculinity (and just being really silly) with Oliver Mills!

This week I am joined by TikTok creator, podcast host and comedian and Oliver Mills. Oliver has taken social media by storm over the last 10 months and amassed almost a million followers with his energetic and charismatic content combining dance, music, comedy and engaging storytelling. His podcast, An Attempt At Existence, is available on Spotify and it’s a bloody banger so please go and check it out after this. This is probably the silliest podcast ep I’ve ever recorded but it’s so much fun and I was genuinely pissing myself trying to edit this. In this episode, we talk about the most unhinged messages Oliver has received in his rise to fame, our favourite pop culture moments, chaotic virginity stories, Oliver’s fave things about his TikTok community, and our thoughts on the modern ideals of masculinity and stereotypes men are faced with when it comes to being a man in 2023.

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Hellooo, and welcome to Season 10 of Mads World! You're about to listen to Behind The Swipe: Dating App Moderation with The Bureau of Investigative Journalism's Niamh McIntyre!

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This week I am joined by Big Tech reporter at The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ), Niamh McIntyre! In her work with TBIJ, she investigates powerful technology companies and has published stories on TikTok's overworked and traumatized content moderators, organized crime gangs running crypto scams, and Amazon’s sprawling surveillance systems. Before joining TBIJ, she was a data journalist at the Guardian for four years. Her most recent article for Wired explores the dating app content moderators who are struggling to keep platforms safe for users, due to the challenges faced on dating apps such as Bumble, Grindr, and Hinge. The piece sheds light on the psychological toll of their work, with moderators exposed to explicit and harmful content, including instances of harassment, violence, and other illegal activity. The job involves making rapid decisions on flagged content, often leading to emotional distress and trauma for the moderators. In this episode, we discuss her investigation including the working conditions of moderators in the online dating industry, the challenges they face, how handling sensitive content is approached, mental health, improving working conditions for moderators, and future developments on the horizon.

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Hellooo, and welcome to Season 10 of Mads World! You're about to listen to Porn This Way: Redefining Modern Erotica with AURORE Founder Carly Pifer!

This week I am joined by writer and creator of digital platform AURORE, Carly Pifer! With a history of exploring taboo topics, including sex and sobriety, abortion, abusive relationships, and of course, real erotica, Carly has also helmed digital content and creative for several more vanilla interests including work with Perrier, burrow and even Blake Lively. With her writing and marketing experience combined, Carly has created an accessible digital magazine for the new dawn of sex-positivity—AURORE. Aurore is an online curation of confessional erotic stories written by amateur writers about their personal experiences. Users can submit their own spicy content based on their intimate, emotional, and raw stories and also subscribe for access to hundreds of inspirational, educational, and real erotica written by and for women and the LGBTQI+ community. In this episode, we discuss what inspired Carly to create Aurore, the challenges that come with curating so many submissions, her most memorable examples of submissions that didn't meet the quality standard, the key issues writers face when submitting sexy stories, her advice to aspiring writers and more!

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Hellooo, and welcome to Season 10 of Mads World! You're about to listen to I'm Bi, Actually: Navigating Bisexuality & Sex Education with Cassie Rattray!

This week I am joined by two-time award-winning sex-positive, queer, neuro-divergent content creator, Cassie Rattray! Cassie co-hosts the podcast, From Tops to Bottoms, with her best friend, where they talk about sex, queer life, and feminism. Cassie is an accredited sex educator who prides herself on her honest, inclusive, consent-focused RSE. She is a feminist activist who admittedly spends a lot of her time being angry at the world. Aside from the rage, Cassie is heavily involved in her local kink scene, is a big Liverpool fan, and loves a thriller novel! In this episode, we discuss defining bisexuality, coming to terms with bisexuality, Cassie’s experiences dating as a bisexual person, navigating sexuality in everyday life, how we can make sex ed more inclusive, myths and tropes in the media about bisexual people and so much more!

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Hellooo, and welcome to Season 10 of Mads World! You're about to listen to A Voice for Choice: Abortion & Reproductive Rights with Comedian Lilly Burton!

This week I am joined by performer, writer, and creative: Lilly Burton! An Executive Committee Member for Abortion Rights UK, Lilly is aiming her slingshot at no-go social constructs with song, comedy storytelling, and of course, she loves to throw in some dance moves too. We caught up just as Lilly was hot off the heels of her debut show at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival “All Aboard! At Termination Station”, a comedy cabaret about her personal experiences of abortion.

In this episode, we chat about Lilly’s comedy journey, finding balance in creating a comedy show centred around abortion, how she hopes the show will contribute to the wider conversation of reproductive rights, backlash she's received as a result of her show, her personal challenges when creating a show around such a sensitive subject, and so much more!

Trigger warning for this episode, there is in-depth discussion about abortion, reproductive rights and sexual assault.

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Hellooo, and welcome to Season 10 of Mads World! You're about to listen to When Love Gets Lit: Writing Romantic Comedy Fiction with Sophie Gravia!

This week I am joined by best-selling author, Sophie Gravia. Sophie grew up in a town just outside Glasgow and has always had a love for the English language. At a young age, she found herself writing funny stories or poems to friends and family for special occasions, and after high school, she undertook a performing arts diploma, flourishing in her creative writing class. Sophie now works full-time as a nurse in a busy city hospital.

In 2020, Sophie started writing again as a distraction from the ongoing pandemic, cheered on by fans of her hilarious blog: Sex in the Glasgow City.

Sophie is now the author of three best-selling novels. Her first book ‘A Glasgow Kiss’ quickly became an overnight sensation as it topped the number one spot on Amazon, and her second sequel novel ‘What Happens in Dubai’ shot straight to number one in the charts. Sophie’s third book ‘Meet Me in Milan’ was released in August this year!

In this episode, we discuss Sophie's journey as a writer, how she finds the inspiration to write romantic comedy fiction, what she loves about the genre, her writing process, creating authentic characters, and approaching deeper themes without overshadowing the core of her stories.

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Helloooo, and welcome to Season 9 of Mads World! You're about to listen to Beyond Stereotypes: Being Queer & Working Class with @SophGalustian aka TikTok Lesbian!

This week I am joined by writer, actor comedian, and author Soph Galustian. Hailing from Manchester, Soph says she specializes in being gay and working class, whilst also being working class and gay. She has written and starred in her own comedy on BBC Three called Peck Eds, appeared as a series regular alongside Simon Bird in Everyone Else Burns, and her debut book, No Worries If Not, has just been released coming in at No.1 in Lesbian Poetry!

Soph started posting TikTok's less than 6 months ago and she has already amassed over 130k followers, and has gone viral many times for her stereotypical impression of a TikTok lesbian, which is why I've asked her on the podcast!

In this episode, we discuss the funniest comments on Soph's videos, opportunities she's encountered through her growth on TikTok, misconceptions, and stereotypes, how being queer and working class has defined her, the role models she had growing up, and how she hopes to impact people's lives within the gay working-class community.

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