Hellooooo! Welcome to Season 7, Episode 7 of Mads World! Cartoon Swoons: Weird Childhood Crushes with Pip Ako!

This week I am joined by my good friend Philippa, who you may remember from some of my previous eps about The Ick, and your Most Embarrasing Story submissions.She’s so much fun and and we love a listener submissions episode, so this in this ep we talk all about our own weirdest childhood crushes alongside all of your responses. You all submitted your most cursed crushes for me and Pip to dissect and your answers were SO funny. Hope you enjoy.

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Hellooooo! Welcome to Season 7, Episode 6 of Mads World! Notes on Heartbreak: The Beauty, Pain and Messiness of Love with Annie Lord!

This week I am joined by author and Vogue columnist, Annie Lord! Annie has written for a number of publications including Vice, The Sunday Times, The Independent and she now has a dating column in Vogue.

Annie joins me in this episode to speak all about her brilliant new book, Notes on Heartbreak, which I adored and chewed through cover to cover. The book is a fierce, honest and raw love story told in reverse, beginning with a devastating and unexpected break-up.

As Annie goes through the rollercoaster of a broken heart, her beautiful memoir revisits the past, from the moment she first fell in love, the esoteric jokes and deep tangle of lives in a long-term relationship, to the months that saw the gradual breakdown of a five year long bond. I have to say, I cried a few times reading it (happy and sad tears).

A stunning exploration of love and heartbreak, the book is so much more than a one about one singular break-up. It is an unflinchingly honest and candidly written story of the simultaneous joy and pain of being in love. If you’ve been through a break-up, this ones for you, a book about the best and worst of love: the euphoric and the painful, the beautiful and the messy.

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Hellooooo! Welcome to Season 7, Episode 5 of Mads World: Schrodinger's Douchebag with Aileen Barratt aka @tindertranslators!

This episode of Mads World is sponsored by Kinkystreet. They’re new to town, promoting empowerment, body positivity, inclusivity and those who just want to have fun! Discover your kink with them at kinkystreet.co.uk, and use the code MadsWorld20 for 20% off your order.

Aileen is a writer, digital marketer and the brains behind @TinderTranslators, an Instagram account that has amassed over 77k followers. Tinder Translation is all about decoding the subtext of Tinder bios and highlighting red flags. There is loads of innuendo and so many phrases used over and over dating apps, so much of what is said masks an alterior meaning.

People send Aileen bios, which can be boring, dreadful, funny or arrogant and she translates them into what they really say about the person writing them. So much of what men write on dating apps is laced with misogyny, and it's her mission to unmask it.

She has recently released a book, called Tinder Translator, an A-Z of Modern Misogyny. It’s a hilarious and eye opening feminist commentary on dating apps, shining a light on the blatant misogyny encountered during every swipe session. Scrolling through profile after profile, you'll see the same stock phrases: 'No drama', 'Must be able to hold a conversation' or my personal fave, 'Must have banter'. But what do they actually mean? There’s the funny and the not so funny, the blatant and the not so blatant, and scrolling through is depressing and enraging in equal measure.

In this episode, we chat about everything Aileen has learned through her own years on dating apps, in addition to the experiences of thousands of her followers on Instagram, we dissect some of the stock phrases used on Tinder bios and hopefully leave you feeling a bit more empowered to push back on shitty behaviour or at least see the funny side.

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Hellooooo! Welcome to Season 7, Episode 4 of Mads World: The Cost of Loving, 2023 Dating Trends with Alix Fox!

This episode of Mads World is sponsored by Kinkystreet. They’re new to town, promoting empowerment, body positivity, inclusivity and those who just want to have fun! Discover your kink with them at kinkystreet.co.uk, and use the code MadsWorld20 for 20% off your order.

This week, I am joined by Alix Fox: multi award-winning writer & broadcaster with over 16 years’ experience specialising in sex and relationships. Alix has been a script consultant on hit Netflix series Sex Education since its inception, she’s the resident ‘Foxhole Shagony Aunt’ on The Modern Mann podcast, and has previously presented on BBC Radio 1’s Unexpected Fluids, Audible’s KINK!, Channel 4’s The Sex Clinic and The Guardian’s Close Encounters. Named Best Sexual Wellbeing Ambassador 2020 in the ETO Awards, she’s currently writing her first book, The Missing Kink.

Starting out as an editor on Bizarre magazine, her writing can be found everywhere from Vogue to Time Out to Stylist to Fabulous. Alix is a proud face of HIV Testing Week, and regularly collaborates with charities including Brook and Bloody Good Period.

In this episode, we chat all about the results of Plenty of Fish’s annual dating survey from a poll of 1,000 UK singles. Whether it’s economic, cultural, political or nonsensical TikTok trends, many different factors influence the way we meet, connect and date each other. As a result, it’s become an annual tradition for OG dating app, Plenty of Fish, to analyse the trends that look set to influence the dating landscape in the year ahead, & give them snappy names to make them easier to constructively discuss & dissect.

Up next, we chat about the key trends identified, revealing the freshest dating behaviours and buzzwords you’ll be navigating into 2023 and beyond.

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Hellooooo! Welcome to Season 7, Episode 3 of Mads World: Beige Flags, a deep dive with TikTok's CEO of Beige Flags Caitlin MacPhail.

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This week, I am joined by Caitlin MacPhail, TikTok’s CEO of Beige Flags. As Caitlin describes on her TikTok which has amassaed over 330k likes, there are a lot of dating app red flags doing the rounds, but she’s coined the term, Beige Flags: signs you’re very fucking boring. Join our chat to hear about our favourite beige flags on dating apps and in real life, and Caito reviews my Hinge profile which was bloody terrifying.

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Hellooooo! Welcome to Season 7, Episode 2 of Mads World: Ickspert Opinion! The Little Book of Ick with Anna Burtt & Kitty Winks.

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In this episode I am joined by the wonderful Kitty Winks and Anna Burtt to talk all about their new book The Little Book of Ick. Kitty Winks is one of Instagram's sassiest book bloggers, known for her brutally honest opinions and refusal to conform to the norm. Like many respectable Gen Zs, Kitty now works at a tech start-up after having previously worked as a bookseller and museum guide. Anna Burtt has worked in publishing for almost a decade and is currently Head of Events at a global writing consultancy. She is the host of The Brighton Book Club on Radio Reverb and has run a successful writing group for the last four years. she's recently finished her first novel, which is set in Yorkshire and explores grief, sexuality, intergenerational friendships and drag.

We all know The Ick. You've been dating someone for a while and you notice something about them that turns your stomach. It might be something weird or unremarkable, it might even be something you do yourself. Whatever it is, once you've got the ick there's no going back from it and, for better or worse, it's onto the next swipe.

The Little Book of Ick is a celebration of the dating phenomenon that plagues millions. Split into chapters that chart all the stages of finding love, this book is a collection of 500 hilarious icks: some you'll have already encountered, all ready for you to use when you need to get over someone.

Up next we chat about our favourite Ick’s, hopefully providing reassurance that it’s fine to be fussy, and how leaning into the ick might even soothe your heartbreak one day.

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Hellooooo! Welcome to Season 7 of Mads World, kicking off with Episode 1: Diaries of a Broken Vagina, Female Sexual Dysfunction with Fran Bushe!

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Fran Bushe is an award-winning comedian, writer and performer who has had sold-out runs at ​Soho Theatre​ and The Roundhouse. She's written features for The Guardian, Cosmopolitan, Metro and been a guest on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour. 

I invited Fran to chat on the pod about her book: My Broken Vagina. The book follows her funny, moving, and sometimes awkward quest to fix her sex life. It mirrors the story of millions of women everywhere - with half of all women having felt pain during sex.

During Fran's journey towards a better relationship with her genitals, doctors advised her to have a glass of wine to loosen up, and male friends suggested she simply hadn't 'tried' the right penis yet. Unsurprisingly, neither worked.

After a visit to Sex Camp and many attempts to fix her 'broken' vagina, Fran decided to share her own hilarious, excruciating, and sometimes upsetting experiences. With the help of her 16 year old self's diary, expert advice, candid and enlightening interviews with others about sex, and some self-care exercises, Fran sets about trying to make herself, and other people, feel like they're not being gaslit by their own vaginas.

In this episode, we chat about female sexual dysfunction and the variations, vaginismus, self-esteem and mental health, staying present and much more!

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Say hello to the Season 6 Finale of Mads World! Block, Delete, Move On: Trolls, Holes and Gender Roles with La La La, Let Me Explain.

For the season finale, I am over the moon to be joined by anonymous relationship expert, author and voice of reason: La La La, Let Me Explain. Layla is a single mother of 1, and her blog has blown up over the last 5 years. Consisting of experiences with dating, relationships, and situationships with fuckboys, the blog aims to educate and empower other women, helping them to live a fuckboy free life.

Layla has qualifications in Psychology, Counselling, Sexual Health, and Sociology and she has spent her career working in the public and voluntary sector helping people to work through, or leave, fucked up relationships, to change negative patterns of behaviour, and to develop self-love and good self-esteem.

Her Instagram page which has amassed over 215,000 followers, has become a supportive community of women sharing their stories and realising they aren't alone. The embarrassing and humiliating feelings that women experience following terrible situations with men have allowed people who she inspires to bond over their stories.

We chat about online trolling, how her work as a social worker has shaped her recent career, the pros and cons of anonymity, and her thoughts on the rise of reality TV celebrities, mental health, and dating shows.

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Welcome to Season 6, Episode 9 of Mads World: Swipe Left, Swipe Right! A Tinder Bio Game with Lousie Jane.

I am so excited for this episode because after 18 months of begging, I am finally joined by my Aussie bestie Louise, to play a game of Swipe Left, Swipe Right:. This is something we invented to help contextualise the best and worst and worst of dating app bios, to help people out there make better choices on their dating apps.

Louise and I met 17 years ago which is wild to me, we grew up together and have travelled all over the world together. She actually sounds a lot like me in this episode so apologies if you find it hard to tell us apart at times. I bloody love this woman and this episode is one of my all time faves, I was in tears trying to edit this.

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Welcome to Season 6, Episode 8 of Mads World: Reality Check!

This is a really special episode for you guys! My guest this week is Florence Barkway, YouTube sensation of Come Curious, podcast host of Fucks Given, and her latest release, Love High. I recently appeared on Love High as a guest, so whilst I'm on holiday, I thought I would treat you all to this episode, where Florence interviews me about my thoughts on dating TV shows and our relationships with them, when I first fell in love, and my thoughts on true love.

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