PinkSofaConversations

📽🙃🧠💪😉🤓 👉 https://youtu.be/6CgjS5umZ1o check out the interview with @laurenmeleart on porn and mental health

It is fair to say that Matt did introduce me to The Tunnel collective, through this group of people I met some really important and extraordinary individuals that I consider family today. As mentioned in the Pink Sofa Conversation with Matt, I remember getting into Bow Arts Studios in Shadwell and seeing his room being an absolute mess. A good mess. But a mess. Bottles of wine, canvases all over, brushes and paint. A lot of paint. Matthew Tudor tends to sit in a corner on an old chair and before taking the brush he enters into the zone - full concentration - in which he seems to connect with his subconsciousness. Mindfulness? Could be! “If I wasn’t an artist, I would be a delinquent” he says. Not sure I agree with that, as I do not think he has the bad in him, but I see him as one of the few bohemian artist in this current time - at least around me- , now it seems its always about the process and the idea, not for him. He is a painter and a proud one. He looks up to Caravaggio, who wouldn’t, Francis Bacon, who wouldn’t, but his intense and in-depth research takes him in a journey. 10 layers of paint that tell a story, a very methodical process that he has develops in the past decade, a process that allows him not to think but to do. Be in the moment, embrace art as his purpose in life and why not, give the rest of artist the hope that there are still real romantic artists out there defending the title with pride.  @MathewTudor

"With the current COVID-19 situation, if your physical events and meetings are taking a hit, this is the time to communicate well and future proof your work. Cancellations, working from home, uncertainty will cause online fatigue very soon. It’ll be critical to communicate well and more visually since all our communication is going into webinars, online conferences and calls. What a great opportunity to bring stories to life with digital imagery for your online/webinar event, social content, client brief, next pitch, presentation deck, website, internal comms, strategy roadmap or event. We can plug into your event via video conference or audio and in real time capture key points of any conversation and screen share the outputs. "   Natalia Talkowska is the founder of digital visual storytelling company Natalka Design based in London.   https://www.natalkadesign.com/home https://www.facebook.com/natalkadesign/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/nataliata... https://www.instagram.com/natalkadesign/

Rafuuska is strong, powerful, energetic but petite and loving. She represents femininity in a very relevant way – to me she does at least. There is no filter in her statements, she is fun, brings in humour in her discipline as an artist she is here to shake preconceived ideas. She  talks about topics such as post porn – yeah I know, porn again – and identity.  She described to me off camera how her latest trip to Brazil to the Amazon opened a door to her understanding of herself. She felt home, she found her gang and connected with the tribe – all looked like her or she looked like them – and something almost impossible to describe clicked.  Rafaella is currently part of two art collectives that enable to perform in Madrid and Berlin. We leave you a quote from her latest piece “We Can Do It Moaning”.   We Can Do It Moaning - "We moan because it moves us, and we keep moving just because we moan. We have created a piece that is simultaneously a post-porn clowning performance, a performative act and a symphony - and this is how we make politics!"   https://www.instagram.com/rafuuska/ https://www.instagram.com/aba.naia/

I met Sara Pathirane in the streets of Torino, Italy, now closed and in panic for the #Covid19. Back then we were going to university - 8 years ago- we both were in the same painting class. Since then, we have travelled to Sri Lanka, Jordan and visited each other multiple times, she is a real friend to me. Sara thinks of art as a process, a script in which she adds layers of narration. Suddenly the bridge between her paintings and her videos is clear. It all makes sense.  She was the first Scandinavian person I have ever met, and I remember being absolutely impressed by her silences… silence. So powerful, such a small petite lady being so powerful standing there looking you straight in the eyes – not saying a word. I still find this the greatest superpowers she has. Nature, space, motherhood, identity, immigration – big topics, current topics, explored in a very biographical way by Sara with a Sri Lankan heritage, young mother and snow lover.   http://www.sarapathirane.com/  Instagram @sarapathirane

Dr. Sarah Campbell, entrepreneur and founder of Play Well for Life, tells us how music and creative arts have proven to be healing specially for kids and people suffering from dementia. She sees a strong potential is music to overcome grieve and stressful times. So one of the take-aways from this crisis is that artistic expressions such as music can help us built resilience because as she says “everyone knows that people use music to regulate their emotions”.   https://www.playwellforlife.com/

Ethel Tambudzai, co-founder and CEO from Sonaaar, shares at Pink Sofa Conversations how she felt it was crucial to amplify positive stories. She speaks about identity, what is next for Sonaaar post COVID19 and how she is building a community to last.  

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We spoke to Tim, the Mindful Baker, to discover how baking can help us in our journey to find the true meaning of life. Meditation, mindfulness, investing time in the things we love and learning to love ourselves are some of the lessons we get from Tim. To make sourdough from scratch takes many hours, hence why he started exploring meditation and life-coaching combining it with the culinary mastery.   He is available on Airbnb as one of the top London experiences, you can reserve you slot in this link:  https://www.airbnb.co.uk/experiences/... Beyond that as he says " I want to help others" he therefor just kicked off a YouTube channel with some real interesting video content to help us in this exciting journey https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXK6... Hungry for more? Follow him on Instagram and check the website!   https://www.instagram.com/tim_themind... https://www.themindfulbaker.com/

Ann-Marie is a fearless Fempreneur, coach , CEO & Founder of A Lighter Side To Life. She explains how we can make the most of this current time and push our business into success. Check out the conversation and get some tips from a real pro.   Her energy is contagious and inspiring, as she wants to give back, she is offering free consultations for the Pink Sofa Conversations listeners. DM her on Instagram and use the secret word #PinkSofa! She will give you a free slot to become a bad-ass fempreneur today!  https://alightersidetolife.lpages.co/... https://www.facebook.com/ann.m.smith.16 https://alightersidetolife.com/