Show Us Your Bits

We're getting loved up this week, as Josie and Alice share their wedding proposal stories - the first and second times! We have Dream Transition Mentor, Laura Cruise as our special guest. Josie and Laura met at the Postcards From Midlife Live event and hit it off straight away. She tells us about her mentoring business helping women to pursue and realise their dreams. She talks about what holds people back, our fears and how to make things happen when life gets in the way. She's written a brilliant book, packed with advice called 'Dream It and Do It: Six Steps Into Your Own Dream Life and Business'. Forthright and funny, Laura also shares her own inspiring proposal story.

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Alice and Josie have a rummage through Alice's jewellery box for inspiration for Alice's new collection focussed on lucky charms. Special guest - the brilliantly named Henny Swan - talks about her accessibility consultancy and the work she does to ensure websites and apps work for disabled people. She reveals how her decision to be bold resulted in her fabulously romantic marriage to a lost love. Plus, how an eccentric uncle, whose famous catchphrase 'Consider Yourself Kissed', became a CYK inscription on pieces of jewellery for her whole family during lockdown.

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Alice and Josie chat about the joy of community and singing in their local choir together. They discuss why they’re definitely dog people (after mates of Alice’s came to stay for the weekend with their cat) and how walking the dog is a good way to meet people. Special guest, Lindsey Clay talks candidly about finding herself single in Brighton in her forties and why she set up Connected Brighton, www.connectedbrighton.com, a peer-to-peer social network which empowers people to live a better life. In an age where we’re more digitally connected than ever, but more physically disconnected, she’s passionate about helping to stop people feeling lonely. She hosts safe, inclusive dinners and boujie bespoke events in Brighton and her business is going from strength to strength. All about authenticity, Lindsay shares her lovely home-made motivational cards and jewellery with hidden personal messages.

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Josie and Alice talk about going from shabby to shiny, decorating and colour conundrums. They are joined by fashionista, ex-agent,TV publicist and serial manuscript writer, Melanie Cantor who chats about her life as an author and her latest book 'The Fuck It List'. Irreverent, chatty and with a uniquely flamboyant style, Melanie talks about her love of dressing up and her Punk Pensioner instagram feed. She shows us her Fuck It earrings and the candlesticks her Grandfather stuffed with stones to up their weight. Melanie firmly believes in being bold and saying 'fuck it' to age and other people's expectations. Truly an inspiration.

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What would happen if you found a bit of history in your attic. In this episode of Show Us Your Bits, Josie and Alice talk to Joanna Osbourne and her link to Lady Di.

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Maximalists Alice and Josie discuss their love of charity shops and talk to wonder-woman, photo-journalist and story teller Hazel Thompson. As well as tales from her hair-raising twelve-year passion-project to uncover sex trafficking in India, Hazel and Alice talk about their charity mission to help the women in war-torn Kosovo with the incredible charity Women for Women International which led to the ‘Share A Hug’ necklace.

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Jangly bangles with messages, including Richard Curtis’s love tokens for his wife and Josie’s ‘Mumma bear’ message from her kids (not that they like being called kids anymore). Brighton jeweller and gold specialist Rebekah Ann tells the story behind her self-engagement ring, plus the joy of sea-swimming, finding beauty in imperfection, and the Japanese art of Wabi Sabi and Kintsugi.

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Magpies Josie and Alice discuss being superstitious, lucky knickers and their adventures in Vegas. Elder Goth Jane Wilkes talks about taking up running aged 49 and being the inspiration for a character in Josie’s novel. She discusses her life-long attraction to the macabre and spooky and her fame as a YouTuber for her makeup tutorials. She talks Alice and Josie through her impressive rings, tattoos and unique style, her belief in never being too old to try something new and her love of wild flowers.

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What not to do when you lose a diamond in a swimming pool, the mistaken symbol on Alice’s signet ring (turns out she’s not posh after all) and a glimpse behind the scenes at the museum, with Met Gala queen Rory Kotin, society calligrapher to the stars. Rory who has spent nearly forty years perfecting the art of writing name cards, place holders and the fancy menus for royalty and A-listers alike, brings the bling with her rings. She also tells the moving story of the friendship behind some of the keepsakes in her jewellery box.

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Special guest, the novelist Julia Crouch a.k.a. ‘The Queen of Domestic Noir’ chats to Alice and Josie about plotting her tense, twisty books and reveals the story behind her sybils made by the legendary jeweller Dianna Porter. Plus, Josie and Alice discover their mutual love of Scrabble and Alice divulges the ins and outs of hand stamping and the naughtiest message someone put on a pair of cufflinks. 

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