Hello! This week I spoke to the the comedian, actor, writer and all round beautiful man, Rob Delaney. You can watch Rob’s stand up special Jackie here https://800pgr.lnk.to/robTW and if by some miracle you don’t already follow him on social media he is on Twitter at @robdelaney and on Instagram at @robdelaney https://www.instagram.com/robdelaney/?hl=en.

I was also overjoyed to interview Dr Kate Lister, the author of A Curious History of Sex and the woman behind the brilliant Whores of Yore. Kate and I dug into the history of the libido and much more besides.

You can follow Kate on Twitter at @k8_lister https://twitter.com/k8_lister on Instagram at @mskatelister https://www.instagram.com/mskatelister/?hl=en and follow Whores of Yore at @WhoresofYore https://twitter.com/WhoresofYore.

Hello! This week I spoke to the author and award-winning journalist Saima Mir. Saima has written the most incredible first novel, The Khan, which is out on the first of April. Buy it here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-khan/saima-mir/9780861541416

She has also written brilliantly about her life, past relationships, faith and family. She has three sons - three! Which is a feat of human endurance I can barely quantify.

I was thrilled to interview Saima all about maternal rage, why we are so scared of women talking about their anger and our own misconceptions about motherhood in our twenties.

You can follow her at @SaimaMir [https://twitter.com/SaimaMir] on Twitter and @ben_raf_remy [https://www.instagram.com/ben_raf_remy/?hl=en] on Instagram.

I was also very lucky to talk to interview clinical psychologist and writer Dr Emma Svanberg a.k.a The Mumologist to find out what happens in our brains when we inevitably feel rage

You can follow Emma on Twitter at @themumologist https://twitter.com/Mumologist, on Instagram at mumologist https://www.instagram.com/mumologist/ and visit her website at https://mumologist.com/ where you can find her workshop "Why It's Important we can be Hated as parents" in the courses and workshops section.

Hello! This week I spoke to the author, podcaster and journalist Pandora Sykes. 

I was thrilled to interview Pandora all about the flattened female identity of motherhood; how we generalise, lump together and dismiss mothers into one homogenous group and how that impacts everyone either thinking about having a baby or who has become a parent. 

Pandora's book, How Do We Know That We’re Doing It Right is already a bestseller and will be out in paperback in May 2021. As well as being an author and journalist, Pandora was the co-host of the phenomenal podcast The High Low, presents podcast The Missing and has her own podcast, Doing It Right.

You

can follow her at @PINsykes [https://twitter.com/PINsykes]

on Twitter and @pandorasykes [https://www.instagram.com/pandorasykes/?hl=en]

on Instagram.

I was also lucky to talk to Sarah McCullen, Director of Impact and Engagement and the National Childbirth Trust. Sarah and I discussed post-natal mental health, identity and what we can do to hold on to our sense of who we are, while growing another person.

You

can follow NCT on Twitter at @NCTcharity [https://twitter.com/NCTcharity] and visit their website at https://www.nct.org.uk/

This week I had a lovely time talking to the writer, screenwriter, editor, broadcaster and all-round force for good, Nikesh Shukla. Nikesh edited the best-selling essay collection The Good Immigrant, has since co-founded The Good Journal and The Good Literary Agency and is the host of the Brown Baby podcast. He has also written a beautiful book - part memoir, part manifesto - also called Brown Baby all about fatherhood, race, grief and the world as we know it (and want to change it). Nikesh talked to me all about being a dad, work, race and stress-eating crisps.

Follow Nikesh on Twitter at @NikeshShulka https://twitter.com/nikeshshukla; on Instagram at  @nikeshshuklawriter https://www.instagram.com/nikeshshuklawriter/?hl=en. Subscribe to the Brown Baby podcast https://play.acast.com/s/brown-baby or visit his website http://www.nikesh-shukla.com/

I also had the pleasure of talking to the psychotherapist and life coach Dan Little about how so many of our Panic Years decisions become intertwined with our attitudes to work, career and success. As well as how to navigate this crunch time without getting completely crunched.

Follow Dan Little at Trenpa Therapy:  https://trenpatherapycentre.co.uk/find-a-therapist/dan-little-psychotherapist-life-coach/

This week I had the huge pleasure of speaking to the comedian, writer, author and broadcaster Sara Pascoe. We talked weddings: why we hate them, why people keep having them, how to cope when you're at them and why Sara got married without even having one. I

have been a fan and admirer of Sara for years. God she’s good. Her books Animal and Sex, Power, Money genuinely changed the way I think about the world, while her recent sitcom Out of Her Mind, is probably my favourite tv comedy from the last decade. Watch

it. Immediately.

Follow Sara on Twitter at @sarapascoe https://twitter.com/sarapascoe?lang=en and watch Out of Her Mind on iPlayer https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p08tjqzd

I also was thrilled to speak to the clinical psychologist Dr Emma Hepburn. As well as working in the NHS, Emma is the author of the best selling A

Toolkit for Modern Life: 53 Ways to Look After Your Mind and is known to millions for her doodles as ThePsychologyMum [https://twitter.com/emmaneuropsych?lang=en]

on Instagram.

Her free ebook How to stay calm in a global pandemic is here:

https://www.hachette.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/How-to-Stay-Calm-in-a-Global-Pandemic-Free-ebook.pdf

Her book is available on amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Toolkit-Modern-Life-Ways-After/dp/1529410223 or on Hive https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Dr-Emma-Hepburn/A-Toolkit-for-Modern-Life--53-Ways-to-Look-After-Your-Mind/25320103

This week I spoke to the brilliant writer, broadcaster and author, Daisy Buchanan from her home in Margate. We discussed everything from Daisy's decision to be child free to the emotional intensity of supermarkets, love, guilt, pride, family and her apparently insatiable appetite for lamb.

As well as a funny, honest and open woman, Daisy is also an incredibly thoughtful and analytical writer whose work I have been enjoying for years.

Her latest novel Insatiable: A love story for hungry girls, is published by Little Brown and is out now.

Follow Daisy at @NotRollerGirl https://twitter.com/NotRollergirl on Twitter and @TheDaisyBee https://www.instagram.com/thedaisybee/?hl=en on Instagram.

I also had the pleasure of speaking to Simone Bose; a Relationship Counsellor at Relate who is also in private practice, about how best to talk to the people you love about whether or not you want to have a baby. Relate (relate.org.uk) provides relationship counselling to couples, families and individuals. They are currently working online – by webcam, Webchat and on the phone. Via relatehub they are also offering FREE 30 minute WebChats with Relationships and Wellbeing Advisors to anyone aged 18+ who is living in England and affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Find out more at relate.org.uk/relatehub and follow Simone at @simoneboseuk https://twitter.com/simoneboseuk on Twitter.

This is the podcast for anyone who feels out of synch. Journalist and Author Nell Frizzell talks to some of her favourite people about The Panic Years - the period between carelessness and matching crockery, between your friends passing out on the dancefloor and those same people becoming

parents; The time when we all start wondering when did everything got so serious? It talks about the big stuff, in a way that will make you feel better.

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