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The Fashion Episode - with Claire Ginzler.

Alice and Josie have dressed up to record this week’s episode with fashion guru Claire Ginzler, stylist to the stars.  As a teen, Claire loved The Clothes Show and went to the London College of Fashion before falling into fashion buying, which is how she got into bra fitting. She now makes videos called Tips For Tits which empowers women to get the right fitting bra. Amongst others, Claire styles Bake-off star, Prue Leith and says as we get older, like Prue, we all need colour for our skin tone and need to experiment with print. Working with the movement Ageism Is Never In Style, Claire aims to give older women body confidence and says how important it is to love your body as it is right now, not as it might be or how it was.  Effortlessly stylish herself, Claire’s jewellery is all spiritually connected to her - from her serpents snake ring which she never takes off, her Hackney Chain Ring from Louise Wade and her big G’ ring. She’s also starting her own trend by dressing up her every day jeans and T-shirt look with her late mother’s layered pearls. With all the noise and social media we’re all bombarded with, Claire’s top tip is to trust your instinct and your inner voice. And always dress up. Even if it’s just to go to the shops.

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Following Miley Cyrus's performance of Flowers at The Grammy's, Alice and Josie are talking about female empowerment this Valentine's day, and all things self-love. Ahead of the guest on Friday's podcast, fashion stylist Claire Ginzler, they discuss their own fashion faux pas - including Alice's pink pvc trousers and Josie's inappropriate funeral dress with a thigh-length slit. Join them for a natter and if you have any stories you'd like to share, please do get in contact on Instagram or Facebook @showusyourbits podcast.

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This week, Alice and Josie discuss the social embarrassment of unexpected visitors popping in and finding crumbs on the surfaces, plates in the sink and pants on the floor.

Our special guest is podcast royalty and veteran journalist, Marianne Jones. She candidly talks about moving ‘kicking and screaming’ from London to Sevenoaks which she describes as a ‘Gilet, with a fun lining kind of a place'. She found herself bonding over a designer coatigan with mid-fluencer Kat Farmer. When Marianne interviewed Kat about her book, ‘Get Changed’ their chemistry was instant, and the number one podcast ‘Been There, Done That, Got The Podcast’ was born.

Before the podcast Marianne says she was busy having a burnout, having been an journalist since the age of seventeen, moving from local papers, to features editor at Marie Claire, then editor at More magazine, (which Alice fondly remembers for position of the fortnight). Eventually she was an editor at the Daily Mirror and then went on to launched Grazia in the UK and Stella Magazine for the Telegraph. But over the years, Marianne has seen huge changes in journalism and was brave enough to pivot into an exciting new career. She is a champion of the midlife demographic and how women shouldn’t just be defined by their hormones and the menopause. ‘We’re the very desirable filling in the sandwich,' she says and brands need to wake up.

Marianne adores jewellery and she describes her love of Tiffany. She touchingly tells us how her husband surprised her on her wedding day with a Tiffany heart ring and necklace.  She talks bout Joe, her eldest son and how he discovered jewellery design through YouTube and has pursued a career, working in the oldest jewellery quarter in Birmingham. He designed what will undoubtedly be a precious family heirloom - a beautiful gold maltese cross for Marianne’s Maltese mother, for her eightieth birthday, sourcing gold and a ruby from Malta.  

Warm, funny and wise, Marianne says that your love affair has to be with your work. She talks about how important it is to find your thing, and to not be afraid of getting there by unconventional routes. She's proof that unexpected joys come when you carry on being curious and learn something new, even if it’s scary. 

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Alice and Josie catch up on the week and natter about falling off the wagon, getting bitten by a dog and being glad to see the back of January. Along the way, they discuss the pressure put on their kids around knowing what they want to do in life, and their own personal joy when it comes to winging it and learning on the job. They also get excited about their upcoming interview with podcast royalty, Marianne Jones, from Been There, Done That, Got The Podcast. 

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We’re getting into women’s empowerment this week. Alice discusses her second viewing of the Barbie film (involved a party, obvs!) and we talk to our guest, Jess Rad founder of @thewomen_hood which was born out of a desire to connect women through the unspoken challenges of womanhood. Jess describes how she accidentally set up a WhatsApp group to connect women in her local area which, from humble beginnings, has become a huge business resource in Brighton with women finding each other jobs, getting business and connecting in the most positive of ways.  Her mission is to bring women together to share their stories about everything from miscarriage to menopause to mental health, to confidence, sex and money. She built a business of live events called Unspoken Women which she took online during Covid and is now a Podcast. Jess shows us her lovely jewellery that reminds her of her family including the David Morris ring her Dad gave her for her twenty-first which he gave so that she could sell it for a plane ticket home when she went travelling. A keen Otillo Swim Run enthusiast, Jess is intrepid, brave and totally inspiring, Jess made us feel like we can all rule the world. 

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This week we bring you the magic of poetry, with our inspirational guest David Attree who is a spoken word performer, as well as a broadcaster, charity fundraiser, long distance cyclist and a paralympi-parent supporting his daughter, Fabs, a GB wheelchair racer On the show, he describes his transformation following serious heart surgery and a stroke and brings along his special keepsake - a Fisher Space Pen. Carrying it everywhere he goes, David tells the touching story of how he came to own it in 2010 and how, since then, he’s been inspired to write and perform poetry. He tells us about the poetry takeaway - a takeaway snack van with three poets inside who cook up poems on the spot. Becoming a poetry chef has given him some extraordinary insights into people's deepest feelings. We were lucky enough to put him on the spot and he kindly recited his poem, 'Appetite' which was on BBC Upload. Giving himself the challenge of writing a poem inspired by the first word he heard on the radio, this thoughtful mediation on creativity will particularly appeal to anyone who has ever experienced writer’s block. David can be heard on The week in words on Allison Fern's BBC Radio show.

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Scandal, duplicity and secrets with our special guest New Yorker, Donna Freed who is a journalist and writer living in London and the founder of Radio Gorgeous, the longest running all-female podcast. On today’s episode, she tells us the story of discovering she was adopted when she was six years old, but was never able to discuss it with her family. When her adoptive mother died in 2009 Donna set out to track down her birth mother. What she discovered was truly shocking - that she was the daughter of a pair of infamous con artists, at the heart of one of the biggest true crime stories to grip the USA in the 1960s. Donna has recently written a memoir, 'Duplicity' which the New York Times described as reading like a thriller. Donna says her jewellery is like tattoos for her, each piece having an origin story and a special place in her heart. She opens her bold and fabulous jewellery box to show us her bits - each ring bearing a special memory of her fascinating family. Funny, irreverent and wise, Donna’s attitude of 'just going for it' is truly inspiring.

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Alice and Josie are back with a January catch up after Christmas and New Year. Alice shares her 'show us your bits' moment after a skiing mishap, whilst Josie discusses losing her grasp on tech and feeling exposed, having accidentally wiped her entire laptop. But excited to be back in their podcasting seats, they are excited about the season ahead which is full of fascinating guests ready to open their jewellery boxes and share the stories behind their precious keepsakes. 

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This week, Alice is over-exuberant at an auction and comes home with a giant giraffe. Josie discusses the art of hanging pictures and the perilous Poundland frames on her stairs. Our guest is our friend and phenomenal artist, Natasha Kissell, who tells us about her journey from being an unpopular student at the Royal Academy to earning her place as a YBA, when Charles Saatchi bought her entire final show. She now exhibits her unique landscape paintings in galleries all over Europe. And, as if that wasn’t enough, along with her teaching and musical life, she also paints spectacular murals. Natasha has a fabulously unconventional and bold sense of style and in her jewellery box, she shows us the huge Alexander McQueen skull ring she received to celebrate the birth of her daughter, Lux. She also shows us her late mother’s jewellery from South Africa and how these statement pieces, with big painted beads and beaten metals, give her a precious link to her past and her mother’s glamorous swimming pool parties in the 1970s. 

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This week Alice and Josie are entranced by exotic places and having been marvelling at David Attenborough's Planet Earth III. Alice shares her amazing holiday-of-a-lifetime story about swimming with Whales in Tonga, and they both have a laugh at their misadventures when getting out of the water... never a good look! Someone who has travelling to exotic places down to a fine art, is lifestyle writer Sara Darling, who shares her globetrotting tales and her tips on rotating bikinis. She show us her 'guardian angel' constellation necklace by Chupi and how a cheeky smile has helped her be bold in almost every situation. 

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