There Are Other Ways: Conversations About Living Life a Little Differently

In this week's episode I'm chatting with my friend Cait Flanders, who is the author of one of my favourite books this year, The Year of Less. We had such an interesting (and, full disclosure, rather long) discussion all about consumerism and our relationship with it. We chatted about being labelled a "shopaholic", trying to fit yourself in who you were, not who you are, and our sometimes mindless consumption of social media.

In this week's episode I'm chatting with photographer, blogger and podcaster Olivia Bossert, on how and why she built her fashion photography business in Cornwall, not London. We also chat about ambition isn't limited to those living in big cities, how people really don't think of you as much as you think they do, and our changing attitudes to money.

This week I'm chatting to slow living blogger, Maddy Lawson. Maddy walked away from academic achievement and a "proper job" to work in a homeware store, and, then, more recently moved to Hampshire to live and work with her husband on a shepherd's hut site. I find her story so interesting, and we had such a great chat about what actually makes us happy, coming up with our own definitions of success, and the joy of slowing down.

In this week's episode I'm chatting with minimalist lifestyle blogger, Jessica Rose Williams. We had such an interesting conversation about all aspects of minimalism, including why she first got into it, her capsule wardrobe, being enough just as you are, and saying no to things that don't serve you.

In this week's episode I'm chatting to the founder of the minimalist jewellery and lifestyle brand Lines & Current, Rebekah Johanson. We had such an interesting conversation about how she came up with the concept for the brand, how she designs and develops the pieces, and why being a socially minded company is so important to her. We also chatted about raising vegetarian children, and her and her family's upcoming epic road trip this summer up the west coast of America!

In this week's episode I'm chatting with Elle Croft, a social media manager, blogger and published author. I really enjoyed finding out more about her story, about how not going to university propelled her to look for other ways to prove herself, how blogging helped her to write her debut novel, The Guilty Wife, and what the process of writing and having a novel published was actually like.

I'm very excited about this week's episode as it's the first time I'm chatting to a fellow copywriter! Kayla Hollatz is a super successful copywriter and ghostwriter living in Minneapolis in the US. We had such a great conversation about shifting goals and ambitions, the negative impacts of hustling on your health and well being, and the value of copywriting.

This week I'm chatting to Victoria Jones, who a year ago this month launched a Kickstarter campaign for SAYA Designs, a company which takes root wood, salvaged from plantations across Indonesia, and turns it into something beautiful and purposeful: handcrafted hairpins. SAYA is a circular economy company, and we had such an interesting conversation about both the rewards and challenges of this, the movement towards slow, ethical fashion, and how launching a business is rather like giving birth!

This week I'm chatting to the comparison coach, Lucy Sheridan. Lucy helps people from all over the world go from "compare and despair" to #comparison free. We chatted about why so many of us suffer from comparison, how comparison keeps people from living life a little differently, and how dreams and goals can sometimes have a sell-by date.

This week's episode is a really lovely conversation with my friend Nicola Moss. Nicola is a coach and mentor who helps busy people slow down, and reconnect with what matters. We talked about embracing your own natural rhythm, why quick fixes are never the answer, and how spending time in nature isn't a luxury, it's a necessity.