Andy Tomsa is our guest this week who we are so excited to chat to.

Andy is a 27 y old- volunteer at YMCA Romania and he was born in a fairly small town in the NW of Romania and Volunteered for the YMCA locally and nationally for over 10 years.

He currently volunteers at the border with YMCA Romania- helping in the refugee crisis- documenting and supporting the team right at the grassroots. We learned so much from his experience of supporting Ukrainians at the frontline borders. He also spoke about the importance of connection which really stood out to us!

We hope you enjoy, agree with our favourite Easter Eggs and finally, learn!

Jess Mally is a London based antiracism educator, writer, speaker, podcast host, creative and events producer, consultant and more. We were so delighted to welcome her to the Sustainable Sleepover Club and learn from her. In this hopeful and empowering conversation, we learned about the importance of each of our antiracism work individually and collectively, community, constantly learning and growing, imagination and much more. We also explored 2 concepts that Jess explained to us, the Beloved Community and the Healthy Human. In this episode, we highlight her incredible work which includes a wonderful podcast, blog, courses and much more which we urge you to look into! Each and every one of you actually ARE society and we hope this episode can be an introduction or even just a part of your constant journey towards dismantling white supremacy and racism! As always, we hope you both learn and enjoy!

We learned so much about Fionnuala’s journey through college, a career in media, veganism, climate justice education and of course, sustainable fashion. Her positive energy was so inspiring and she reminded each of us (& hopefully you too) of the power & influence we all have!

In the Sleepover section, (as well as sharing our passionate thoughts on pancakes…) we broke down the idea that sustainable living has to be for thin white younger women, expensive and minimalistic because sustainability looks different for EVERYONE! We spoke about including everyone in a greener society from preschoolers to the older generation. Personal changes can act as a catalyst, a way of entering into climate activism and we touched on how both individual and wider societal change are needed. Finally, Gabby shared with us some Irish for Seachtaine an Gaeilge. Go raibh Maith agat!

On this episode with talk to 18 year old Anjelica Foley about all things activism, Mental-health, Education, Equality, Climate Justice as well as her involvement with organisations such as Fridays for Future, SpunOut, ISSU, NYCI and everything in between.

TW: Sexual Violence

Gina Martin is a campaigner, speaker and a writer who is an ambassador for UN Women UK and Beyond Equality having changed the law in April 2019.

She has also published a book, ‘Be The Change’, her TED Talk is entitled ‘They told me to change my clothes. I changed the law instead’, is the writer of the newsletter ‘The Good Chat’ and also does much more writing, interviews, speaking and behind the scenes work!

We learned so much from this interview with Gina, especially about aiming to prevent sexual violence in society and we talked about the root causes and structures surrounding this issue. We hope you learn from all of our perspectives along with Gina’s incredible insights!

For this episode, we decided to do something very special. Instead of a guest, we recorded a book club chat where we each picked 2 books to discuss and recommend. If that isn’t exciting enough, we have a huge announcement for you to listen to at the beginning of this episode. We also talk about our favourite childhood books and being the week it was, Angela Davis’ birthday and Holocaust Remembrance Day. We hope you enjoy, learn and message us with your favourite books!

This episode was recorded on Friday the 21st of January and we had another fabulous guest, Saoirse Exton who began her work as a climate activist at the age of 13, when she founded the local branch of the Fridays for Future movement in her city. Saoirse is a member of the C40 Global Youth and Mayors' Forum, is currently serving her second term as Equality Officer of the Irish Second-Level Students' Union and has so many valuable insights we get to dive into in this episode!

We spoke about the importance of the Irish language, the land and our history but also why most of us don’t like the subject, about the upcoming Leaving Cert, our favourite Sustainable Sleepover Club memory as we approach one year of the podcast and much more!

Welcome back to the Sustainable Sleepover Club, what a great episode to begin 2022! We spoke to Emma Kelly who is a social care worker and fat activist. We were so thankful to her for sharing her knowledge, experiences and honesty; as you can tell from the sleepover section, we learned so much! Before you listen, we just want you to be aware that none of us are experts and any definitions given are simplified, personal versions. So, for this year, let’s focus on listening to our bodies and finding appreciation for everything we already are. We hope you enjoy and learn as always!

Our first Sustainable Sleepover Club Christmas Catch Up we talk about COP26, our first Live podcast, chocolates and New Years resolutions.