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- Periods, Pregnancy & Policy: Why Women’s Health Is Everyone’s BusinessOur guest on this episode is a leading voice in women’s health. Professor Dame Lesley Regan is Head of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust at St Mary's Hospital, London. She remains only the second woman, and the first in 64 years, to be elected the President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Professor Regan joins us to share her experiences and insights on the importance of open communication around periods and women’s health, gained from her decades of experience in this area, both in the UK and with the WHO in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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44 min - Young Women's Guide to LifeThis week on the podcast, we talk to Clinical Psychologist Dr Tara Porter. Dr Porter has been working with young people for 25 years. Her clients have primarily been the girls and adolescents she has treated through the NHS Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), and she joins us on Raise Her Up to share with us the insights and experiences which she has documented in her recently published book, You Don’t Understand Me: A Young Woman’s Guide To Life. Covering friendships, family, experimentation, conflict, feminism, self-image and much more – this is an episode for parents and daughters alike.
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28 min - Menopause education and empowerment
Our guest this week is Kate Muir, producer of the Channel 4 documentary Davina McCall: Sex, Myths and the Menopause, which has been viewed over 2.5 million times. Last autumn Kate was part of a #MakeMenopauseMatter rally in Parliament Square supporting the Menopause Bill to demand free prescriptions for HRT in England. Her book Everything You Need to Know About the Menopause (but were too afraid to ask) came out in January.
Kate joins us to explain about why we should all be talking about menopause, as well as giving us an insight into her follow-up documentary on menopause at work. A must-listen for the whole family: mums, dads, daughters and sons. Davina McCall: Sex, Mind & The Menopause will air on Channel 4 at 9pm on Monday 2nd May.
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36 min - Fixing Fast Fashion
Members of Gen Z care about sustainability, equality and being the generation that makes a difference. Yet ‘fast fashion’, one of the most polluting industries, and is also one of the most popular of teenage interests. How do we persuade our young people to resist it? Writer and sustainable fashion expert Lauren Bravo has an idea: make fast fashion uncool.
In this episode Lauren presents her extensive research and persuasive arguments to show that fast fashion damages the environment, has its most negative impact on the predominantly young women who work in its sweatshops and doesn’t even look that great. She re-frames the ‘quick fix of a new trend’ as an old-fashioned habit and one which is easier than we think to kick.
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27 min - *Mothers Day Special* Motherhood and reinventionFor our Mother’s Day Special, we welcome Katie Kirby: award-winning blogger, cartoonist, writer and role model for harried mums everywhere. Katie’s blog, Hurrah For Gin, which she confesses to having started on a whim, very quickly found a large and loyal following of parents who identified with Katie’s honest yet warm observations of motherhood, as depicted in her unique and very funny cartoons. Katie has since published two Hurrah For Gin books, has well over 700k followers across her social media channels, and has recently published her first two children’s books. The Catastrophic Friendship Fails of Lottie Brooks is the second in the series which follows an 11 year old girl as she starts secondary school and encounters the challenges that go with it, from the trauma of bra-shopping, to the daily mortification of putting up with younger siblings
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27 min - When The World Feels Like A Scary Place
As Foundation Professor of Psychology at Arizona State University and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Psychology, child psychologist Professor Abi Gewirtz is well-placed to understand the anxiety and uncertainty our young people have been through in the past two years. Professor Gewirtz’s book When The World Feels Like A Scary Place came out last year and has become the go-to for many parents who want to know how to chat to their children and reassure them. As events unfold in Ukraine, and the world seems to get no less frightening even as Covid retreats, we welcome South Hampstead GDST Alumna Professor Gewirtz to this episode of Raise Her Up to share her wisdom with us.
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34 min - Girls, Power and Change
This fortnight’s Raise Her Up features business leader and GDST alumna Debbie Wosskow, a successful entrepreneur since the age of 16, when she won a school Young Enterprise competition. She went on to launch and then sell her online home exchange business Love Home Swap, which she set up having seen the Hollywood blockbuster, The Holiday. In 2017, she co-founded Allbright with her business partner Anna Jones, a global women’s networking platform to allow working women across the world to connect, create, and collaborate at all stages of their careers.
Debbie will also feature as a panellist in our GDST event in partnership with the Women of the World festival in March 2022, on the theme of Girls, Power & Change: should we teach disruption or how to play the game?
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34 min - How to be an anti-racism ally
This episode we are joined by singer, writer, activist, and educator Grace Barrett on how to be an anti-racism ally.
Grace Barrett, co-founder of the award-winning Self-Esteem Team, founded her new anti-racism education programme, I Am Ally, after acknowledging the inescapable correlation between her complex mental health issues, and racism.
As a mixed race girl growing up in a stable and comfortable family, she now acknowledges she had been in denial about the racist trauma she experienced. She had, simultaneously, felt she had no reason to complain because of her relative privilege and a reluctance to identify as a victim of something. In her late 20s, following plenty of therapy, Grace realised that by denying the presence and impact of racism she was holding herself (and potentially others) back.
Grace joins us on Raise Her Up to discuss the subtle, and the less subtle ways, in which racism can manifest itself, and how young people of colour can empower themselves and others by naming and addressing the discrimination they have experienced. We also look into the ways in which white people can work to redefine the concept of allyship and how we can all create systemic change through using our own individual areas of influence.
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34 min - Conversations on Love
Natasha Lunn is a journalist and features director at Red Magazine. She is also creator and author of Conversations on Love, an email newsletter with over 11,000 subscribers, which was turned into a book published last summer, quickly becoming a Sunday Times bestseller. In this episode she shares what she has learnt about love from talking to psychologists, writers, academics, actors and more, including Susie Orbach, Greg Wise, Esther Perel and Candice Carty-Williams, amongst others. This will be an episode for parents, lovers, friends, children and anyone else interested in and grappling with love.
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28 min - Empowered: living your life with passion and purposeThis week on Raise Her Up: youtube, education activist and visionary Vee Kativhu on being empowered, overcoming adversity and living life with passion and purpose. We are grateful to Vee for sharing her story, including her experiences as a victim of racism. It can be hard for people to talk about the racism they’ve suffered, and we’re grateful to have the opportunity to learn from her. Although Vee did not attend a GDST school, we can all learn from testimonies such as the one she shares with us in this episode.
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About Raise Her Up
From the publisher's feed
Welcome to Raise Her Up, the Girls’ Day School Trust new podcast.
With 25 schools, 19,000 students, and the largest women’s alumnae network of its kind, the GDST are experts in…
girls’ education and everything that goes with it.
Each fortnight on Raise Her Up, the GDST’s Cathy Walker interviews experts for practical advice on the most significant subjects affecting girls in the modern world as they grow into empowered women.
Covering topics from wellbeing to womanhood, communication to creativity, self-image to sexism, as well as mental health, careers, and relationships to name just a few, Raise Her Up from the GDST gives you the tools to help your girls flourish.
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