Tori shares her experience dealing with amenorrhea on this week's episode. Whilst it's fairly common for women to have irregular periods, the uncertainty can be incredibly stressful which takes its toll on the body. Tori is a strong advocate for natural medicines, believing her lifestyle, mindset and habit changes catalysed a deeper recovery and journey of self-reflection that has helped her cope through health complications as well as the everyday challenges.

We grew up being told bread was bad and so was gaining weight. It's so difficult to unlearn these societal expectations and judgements around food and exercise, but even more difficult when we're young and these ideas are reinforced by our parents. This week's episode is incredibly vulnerable, where 25-year-old Sophia Liu shares accounts of a painful time in her life that has not only made her who she is, but informed her content and built a community centred around body acceptance.

I discovered Rosie on Tiktok (as @weightlosswithrosie) back in June 2020 and immediately fell in love with her positivity and body confidence. Whilst documenting her weight loss journey is the primary aim of her account, it was the self-discovery of belief and fighting that inner critic that struck me. Rosie’s self-belief has not only transformed her life, but almost 100,000 others. Fighting that inner critic isn’t easy, but my god does it pay off when we do.

I met Fran over the summer when I guest panelled some discussions for her Resilife team at Kings. What was evident then, today, and every day, is just how important talking about our mental health is. In honour of World Mental Health Day, Fran shared her insights into life as a family therapist, facilitating that conversation for other people. What's evident both here in the UK and back home in Chile, is the understanding of context in mental health. Things won't change unless policy and funding does too, which is why day's like today are so vital.

This week's guest was 23-year-old Lina Bettayeb, who six years ago was in a fatal car crash with her family, which left three quarters of her body paralysed. Unable to speak, and just weeks away from her AS Level exams, Lina's life was very suddenly redirected. One of the calmest, most optimistic people I've ever had the pleasure of speaking to, Lina and I talk through the opportunity that adversity presents for us to grow and develop a new mindset.

This week I sat down with 23-year-old artist CHINCHILLA, to talk through the importance of self-belief as we begin to adult and navigate our next steps. Stepping into the music world with ideas that weren't always championed, CHINCHILLA taught herself to produce and became her own cheerleader. Especially throughout lockdown, it can be easy to convince ourselves we're not enough, in productivity, success, social lives etc. so this episode is an important reminder that we are, and it's about time we started telling ourselves that.

Over 430,000 people in Britain suffer from a compulsive addiction to gambling. Inundated with ads on tv, our phones, and billboards, gambling poses as a fun game with everyone's favourite prize: money. After winning his first grand off a £20 bet, this week's guest Josh Lock took me through his spiral into the world of gambling, drink and drugs. Just over a year and 8 stone later, Josh has walked away from the dangerous betting that cost him more than just debt, and dominated the previous 5 years of his life.

In Episode 2 of the 'Beyond Pride' featured series, I sat down with 23-year-old graphic designer Nick Cozier, who moved to England from Barbados for university, back in 2015. As a White, queer man, Nick understands the privileged position he holds within the LGBT community, but couldn't leave Barbados fast enough, as one of the 72 countries that continue to criminalise LGBTQI+ people. Nick and I talk through the (growing) representation of queer people in popular culture, as well as the historic importance of the LGBT community standing in solidarity with the #BlackLivesMatter movement.

The first episode in our featured mini series in honour of Pride this year, I sat down with 21-year-old Charlotte Woodman, a White cis, queer woman from Muswell Hill, who has just qualified as a primary school teacher. Charlotte and I attended the same secondary school, which was incredibly homophobic and not as inclusive as it poses to be. We talk about the problematic language and culture of British secondary schools as well as Charlotte's hope for future generations of education.

This week's guest was 22-year-old Grace Williams, who suffered from a terrible anxiety during her second year of university, that not only took its toll physically, but cost her her social life. Anxiety manifests itself in many different ways, with the physical expression often overlooked. A huge part of Grace's recovery has been accepting and forgiving her past self and allowing more room for light, joy and self-love.