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Rosie Nixon is the Creative Brand Ambassador, and former Editor-in-Chief of Hello magazine – a global juggernaut of a publication which attracts over 41 million readers worldwide. She is also the author of three novels (one of which, The Stylist, is being adapted for the screen) and a best-selling collection of essays about Kindness.
In our conversation today, Rosie reveals what life is really like as editor of one of the biggest magazines in the world, and how working at London Zoo, being editor of Barbie magazine, and putting her hand up in a meeting and volunteering to ‘bag a millionaire in 24 hours in Cannes’ all helped on her journalistic quest!
She also shares her unique perspective on Imposter Syndrome – and how growing up as the child of teachers, with no foothold in the shiny upper echelons of publishing, gave her the freedom to feel that she “shouldn’t really be here” so she had nothing to lose.
There aren’t many in this world who make it to the top of their career by keeping their feet on the ground and kindness to others their top priority, but Rosie Nixon has managed it. Let our conversation today inspire you to “give it a go”, whatever your ‘it’ may be.
Instagram: @rosiejnixon
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Mika Simmons is an actress, writer, director and host of The Happy Vagina Podcast, covering women’s physical and mental health, in particular sexual health issues. It started as a means to raise awareness of gynaecological health, following her mother’s early death from ovarian cancer, and has since become a global sensation, with A list guests such as Goop founder Gwyneth Paltrow and Dirty Dancing actress Jennifer Grey joining Mika to share their thoughts on eliminating shame around sex and intimacy.
Mika joined Andrea to talk about her early life as a child of activists, the damage that woke culture is doing to freedom of speech in the activist space, the power of perspective, and how the one life lesson we can all learn is to loosen our tight grip on what we want, to allow what is meant to be…
Instagram: @missmikasimmons
Podcast: The Happy Vagina
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Rebecca Humphries is an actress and writer, known for playing a love-struck PA in Ten Percent, the British version of the French series Call My Agent, and Carol Thatcher in the Netflix series The Crown, alongside Gillian Anderson who played her formidable mother, and former British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher.
However, in 2018 Rebecca became a global sensation not because of her undeniable acting talent, but as the woman who got cheated on by her comedian boyfriend, who got caught snogging his Strictly Come Dancing partner. Her tweeted response to what happened and her refusal to become a victim of the story went on to become the stuff of legend, and led to her writing a Sunday Times best-selling book about toxic relationships and how to survive them, called ‘Why Did You Stay?’ - because it’s the most common question asked of victims of any abusive relationship.
In today’s conversation Rebecca shares her insights on recognising toxic behaviour and her understanding of why we are drawn to people who treat us so badly. You’ll hear her tools for coping with rejection – both personally and professionally, and how recognising that our job is simply what we do, not who we are was a game changer for her.
Smart, funny and insightful - an hour in Rebecca’s company is an hour very well spent… enjoy!
Instagram: @beckshumps
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Kelle Bryan has worked in the entertainment industry for over two decades – something that her 11 year-old self would be pretty pleased with, as she decided at that young age that entertainment – acting, singing, dancing and presenting - was the career she wanted to be known for.
Kelle grew up in London, an only child of working-class parents with a strong work ethic and positive, but realistic mindset that they ingrained in their daughter. Kelle learned she had to ‘think differently’ from a young age, through experiencing repeated racism, classism and bullying. She gained a scholarship to attend the prestigious Italia Conti Stage School in Central London, where the trajectory of her life changed forever. She bonded with and became best friends with a young Louise Nurding (who went on to become Louise Redknapp), a South London girl also attending stage school on a scholarship. One night out clubbing in London, the girls were approached by a record producer who said he was putting a girl band together. The two teenagers went on to become part of Eternal, one of Britain’s most successful R&B bands. Their debut album became the first album by a girl group in the UK to sell over a million copies. They went on to sell over ten million records, embarking on four world tours and even singing for Pope John Paul II.
Since leaving the band, Kelle has gone to have a successful career as a singer, a West End star, an actress in television and film, and launched her own talent agency Advocate, where she nurtures and represents actors and actresses from stage and screen.
Kelle’s biggest challenge however has been with her health. In 1998 she became ill with the autoimmune disease Lupus, from which she has had a number of relapses – the most serious being in 2014 when it affected her brain. Following a seizure, Kelle had to learn to walk and talk again, and still suffers mentally with occasional short term memory loss.
The living embodiment of resilience and faith in God and herself, Kelle joined Andrea remotely from her home to record this interview after testing positive for and being laid up with Covid 19.
Website: kellebryan.co.uk
Instagram: @kelle.bryan
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Emma Gunavardhana is an award-winning journalist, podcaster and public speaker. Her podcast, The Emma Guns Show, is in the Top 10 Self-Improvement shows on Apple Podcasts, with over 15 million global downloads. Emma joins me today to speak, as she always does, from the heart and pass on her learnings and insights in the hope that they can help others. We discuss the impact of growing up as she calls it, “the fat kid of the fittest man in the village”, and how being bullied about her weight at school, then reminded of it at home led to a never-ending spiral of not feeling good enough. It drove her to want to be amongst the shiny and beautiful people of the world, hoping that somehow their success would rub off on her.
Emma spent ten years working for OK magazine in its heyday, rubbing shoulders with A-list celebrities, attending glamorous parties, weddings and photo shoots, and commanding respect as a Beauty Editor. But it wasn’t until she decided to pivot and strike out on her own, that Emma realised all the glitter in the world can’t make you feel golden if you don’t believe in yourself.
In today’s candid and open conversation, Emma discusses the challenge of losing and gaining the same 40 pounds, the effect her fear of rejection and abandonment has had on both her professional and personal life, and how finally building the mental muscle to let go of her people pleasing ways has set her free.
Emma Guns is one of the smartest, warmest and most articulate women I’ve ever had the pleasure to spend time with, and I know that you are going to love our conversation today.
Emma's Website
Instagram: @emmaguns
Facebook: The Emma Guns Show
Podcast: The Emma Guns Show
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*TRIGGER WARNING: This podcast contains detailed discussion of female genital mutilation and abuse, which some listeners may find upsetting.
Hibo Wardere is mother, a wife and a fantastic raconteur. Her mission in life is to empower women to understand that they have a choice when it comes to their bodies and what happens to it; a topic that has become increasingly important in the past few years for a multitude of reasons.
Hibo’s driving force is deeply and painfully personal, because at the age of just six, she became a victim of Female Genital Mutilation, a traumatising experience which went on to shape the rest of her life. After fleeing Somalia as a teenager when civil war broke out in her country, Hibo made her way to what she calls “the glorious UK”, where she has lived and worked ever since, campaigning and helping to educate police, social workers, healthcare professionals, teachers and children about the practice of FGM, which affects around 200 million girls around the world.
Our conversation today is an emotional one, which some listeners may find upsetting, as Hibo describes in detail what happened to her that day. She also explains how she flips her pain around, and turns it into strength. She talks with warmth and love about the moment her life changed for ever – when she became a mother, and made a promise to her first-born that no harm would ever befall them.
Hibo Wardere is an exceptional human being. Let her story inspire you to find strength and bravery when you feel you have none.
Instagram: @HiboWardere
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Welcome to a very special edition of the This Girl Is On Fire podcast, which was recorded live over Facebook to celebrate International Women’s Day 2023.
The This Girl Is On Fire podcast is where I bring you conversations with women who have one thing in common - they are on fire! And today I have turned that around, to talk about being a woman from my unique perspective – as our unique perspective on life is all we can offer the world.
You will hear how I got to where I am in life, how thinking differently about my circumstances helped me - whether that was to overcome hardship, discover my calling or achieve success. You will also hear what my greatest life lesson has been, what gets me out of bed in the morning when motivation is low, and my unique answers to the three questions I ask myself every single day… So let’s get going!
If you heard something today that made you think “I know exactly who could do with hearing this…” then pass it on! It all really helps us to help women everywhere to become girls on fire. Tell me what you enjoyed, and what your biggest takeaway was – I love hearing from you! You can reach me on Instagram or Facebook – just look for Andrea McLean, This Girl Is On Fire.
Click subscribe so you never miss an episode, and so you can hear more great content, just like today. I’ll see you next time.
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*Trigger warning: This conversation discusses domestic violence and baby loss, which may be uncomfortable for some listeners.
Malin Andersson is known to millions as the sassy TV personality and mental health activist, who speaks openly about her experiences with body image, domestic abuse, baby loss and grief.
In our powerful conversation today, Malin talks with quiet openness and honesty about all of these life experiences, from the perspective of someone who is still living them in her present. Life is not a curated Instagram post; healing is not instant or permanent, it takes time and effort, and we don’t always get it right, because why would we? We are humans, having a human experience, and that is all. Today this podcast is a little different from normal, as it takes a deep dive into the power of spirituality, and the widening of our perspective on things that happen to us in life versus things that happen for us.
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What kind of LOVER are you?
Whether you’ve been with the same person your whole life; whether you’ve had many relationships that just never seem to work; or whether you’re resolutely single, it takes a strong person to look inwards when it comes to their loving and think: What could I do differently?
In this special Valentine’s Day podcast, Andrea delves into the psychology of what makes us tick when it comes to our loving behaviour, both as a giver and a receiver. Have we ever stopped to think what we want from our lover, and have we ever asked them how they like to receive love from us?
Real, honest and jam packed with content, this is the most important podcast you will ever hear when it comes to making you the best lover you can possibly be.
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Carrie Green is an award-winning entrepreneur, founder of the Female Entrepreneur Association and author of the international bestselling book She Means Business. She’s also, as she puts it, a lover of praline, rom-coms and a healthy dose of woo. Think Sarah Blakely of Spanx fame, but British. Recently featured in Forbes, her TEDx talk has had over 8 million views to date and Carrie was also named as one of 27 business leaders changing the world by Inc. magazine.
Carrie started her personal growth journey while she was still in primary school thanks to her dad, who didn’t see why age should be a barrier for learning self-belief, goal-setting and how to manifest the future of your dreams. This mindset helped when Carrie was placed in the lowest set of every class in secondary school, by teachers who believed she had learning difficulties. What they, and she, hadn’t realised, was that she just hadn’t found what lit a fire inside her - that wasn’t to come until much later, when after creating a successful online business working from home, she felt lonely and overlooked at networking events, where businessmen would ignore and isolate her, thinking she was too young and inexperienced to take seriously. “Where is my tribe?” she thought, and decided to create one - which went on to become the internationally successful membership supporting women in business around the world.
Funny, warm, relatable and remarkable, I think you’re going to love this conversation with Carrie. Enjoy!
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Olivia Conlon is an extraordinary young woman. She started her journey as an entrepreneur at the age of 13 when she felt she was paying too much money to Claire’s Accessories for fake nails, so she found a way to buy them wholesale, and began selling them herself on Ebay! By 16 she had her own business in property staging; helping estate agents set dress their properties so they would sell faster and for more money.
After being bullied at school, despite teachers telling her she was wrong not to go to keep going with her education after her GCSE’s, so she could one day work for a good company, Olivia dropped out. Instead, she created her own great company and by 19 she had made her first million.
Olivia has always walked to the beat of her own drum. Now aged 23 and living in Marbella, Spain, Olivia splits her time between running her property staging business and coaching entrepreneurs, showing by example and experience that the things many of us see in ourselves as problems can in fact be turned into a unique advantage because that’s what makes us who we are. And her most powerful message? Don’t ever be put off by someone telling you that you are too big for your boots…
A mixture of conversation and personal growth masterclass, there is something for everyone in the next hour. Enjoy!
To see more of Olivia check her out on Instagram @oliviaconlon
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Saira Khan first came to our attention as the runner up on the first ever series of The Apprentice in 2005, and ended up working for Lord Alan Sugar, who is quoted as saying Saira is “A role model for all the women in the world”. A businesswoman, author, columnist and broadcaster, she has been consistently on our screens for the past 16 years.
Born of Pakistani immigrant parents in Nottingham, Saira was raised in a strict Muslim household, but was destined to follow a path far removed from her traditional upbringing. As she admits during our conversation today, she always felt she had something to prove – whether that was to her strict father, or to the rest of the world – that being a girl did not mean she wasn’t capable of achieving great things, of living life her own way, and of speaking up for those who don’t have a voice.
In the next hour you’ll hear how Saira has had to fight for every single precious thing in her life – including her livelihood, her marriage to a man outside of her family’s faith, and her children. Her son Zac was born through IVF and her daughter Amara was adopted from an orphanage in Kashmir after being abandoned from birth. Nothing has come easily, but that hasn’t stopped her reaching out for what she wants and finding a way, with her trademark passion and humour, to get it.
This conversation is a life lesson in perseverance, knowing your worth, setting out your stall and staying true to yourself – you may even want to take notes! I loved every second of it and I hope you do too…
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Helen Thorn is a comedian, writer and one half of the comedy duo Scummy Mummies with her friend Ellie Gibson. For the past eight years, she has talked about the ridiculous highs and hilarious lows of motherhood, usually while dressed in a gold catsuit.
In our conversation today, Helen talks with her usual warmth and humour about not just parenting, but marriage, and about the reasons why she, and many other women, hold onto the idea marriage so tightly. How society tells us that marriage is the ultimate goal and that anyone whose marriage ends is an object of pity or judgement. As a vicar's daughter, growing up in busy, happy household in Melbourne, Australia, Helen understandably had her own ideas on what her own experience of marriage would be. That belief was blown apart just days before the world went into lockdown in March 2020 when she discovered her husband had been having an affair, and they made the decision to separate.
Helen also explores the healing powers of friendship, the joy of taking control of your own life and 'being the boss of everything' what it is like to venture into the world of dating again for the first time in over 20 years.
This is a warm, funny, heart-breaking conversation about discovering that there is much more to life than putting up with a crap husband...
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Building any business from scratch takes a certain kind of entrepreneurial spirit, but building a BANK?
This takes something more than having a brilliant idea and the dogged persistence to see it come to light. Anne Boden MBE has that something more, because that's exactly what she did. In her mid-fifties, after 30 years of working in the banking industry, she saw what most of her contemporaries didn't; that traditional banking needed to radically change the way it operated.
With the idea of making money management a simple experience by taking everything a customer needs out of stuffy, outdated facilities and putting it into the palm of their hand, Anne set out to change the way our money is managed. In her journey to do this, Anne has overcome every kind of hurdle; including backstabbing colleagues in an industry stuck in its ways.
So who is the woman who has led this revolution?
She is Anne Boden, the first woman to form a UK bank.
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Amanda Byram is one of these friendly beautiful women that seems to have it all figured out. After starting her working life as a model, she then made the progression to TV, moving with apparent seamless ease to huge jobs fronting The Big Breakfast and Total Wipeout in the UK, and Paradise Hotel in America.
In our chat today Amada talks about growing up with mixed heritage parents in Dublin, how she manifested her dream life of working and living in Hollywood, only to give it all up and return to the UK in search of love. We talk about how the bravest thing she ever did was calling off her wedding at the eleventh hour - a decision ever which led to a period of dark depression and self-loathing for not living up to societies idea of 'perfection'.
Now happily married to the love of her life, living by the sea and focusing on her fitness and wellbeing business, Amanda is genuinely one of the funniest, most grounded, beautiful on the inside and out women I've ever met, and someone we can all learn from. To be honest, we couldn't STOP talking, which is why this conversation wins the record for the longest ever - it's well over an hour long!
Oh, and by the way, the film Amanda couldn't remember the name of? It's called 'Imitation of Life' which came out in 1959 starring Lana Turner.
This will all make sense when you listen to our conversation...
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You will know Camilla Sacre-Dallerup as the beautiful Scandinavian dancer from the hugely successful TV show Strictly Come Dancing.
Camilla is the epitome of grace and strength - not just on the dance floor but in life - as you will hear.
During our conversation, Camilla talks about being born disabled, unable to walk properly, and how her mother's decision to take her to dance classes to build up the strength in her foot led to a career that would change her life forever.
We discuss how at many points in her life, Camilla could have chosen to stop, to simply give up and turn away, but she didn't - with a quiet resilience that is inspiring.
She is now living a very different life, a world away from the one you may know her from, but equally successful and ultimately more rewarding - she is now based in Los Angeles, helping men and women achieve their dreams under her coaching and healing. So how did she make this career switch?
Camilla joined me from her home in LA to tell me all...
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Lisa Bilyeu is cofounder of the billion-dollar company Quest Nutrition and cofounder and
President of Impact Theory. She is also the host of Women of Impact, a show featuring women who have overcome incredible hardship to achieve massive success. Her mission is to empower all women to become the heroes of their own lives.
These are impressive credentials, but especially so considering how this all came about. Growing up in London, her conservative Greek culture dictated that her natural course was to become a stay-at-home wife and mother. Driven to prove everybody wrong, she worked hard to earn a degree in a subject she loved - film, then headed to Los Angeles to make her filmmaking dream come true.
That was the plan... In LA, Lisa met the man of her dreams. But then she climbed
onto the hamster wheel of supporting her husband and 'keeping house,
and as she says: "When that wheel started to squeak with the sound of my dying dreams, I just drowned it out. Instead of facing my feelings, I tried to distract myself from them - for eight years!"
Today we talk about how she learned to build what she calls: Radical Confidence; learning to run towards a life that you love. Lisa went from a housewife with no prior business experience to cofounder of a billion-dollar company, and now she is a warm, positive voice in the personal development world. So, how did she do it? Lisa says: "I did it by making over my mindset. I acknowledged my doubts, my insecurities, my fear of embarrassment and my guilt for wanting more than what I already had - and let all those negative things become my fuel for creating the change I needed."
In our conversation, Lisa talks about the struggle to move from being a "good Greek daughter" to an INRCEDIBLE Greek daughter! We talk about how she taught herself to change the way she looked at things -in other words, to Think Differently about them. She shares how she went against cultural expectations, navigated family pressure, and eventually went on to become the hero of her own life.
Lisa is a pocket rocket who takes no prisoners - she doesn't have to, once you've listened to this, you'll be willingly captivated by her!
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Lorraine Kelly is a Scottish television presenter and journalist who has graced our Daytime TV screens for over three decades - not bad for someone who was told by a very snooty executive that she'd never make in TV unless she had elocution lessons, (something she thankfully never did). That advice made her go home that very same day and apply for a reporting job for the breakfast show Tam, where she was snapped up and her life changed forever.
in our conversation today, Lorraine talks about how swallowing her pride led to another turning point in her career, after getting fired from breakfast TV while still on maternity leave, only to be asked back soon after because of her popularity with sponsors and viewers. The small segment she was given on her return went on to become the most enduring show on British Daytime television.
Lorraine tells me about how being a space geek led to her being mistaken for a real-life astronaut, what it was like meeting the Queen to receive her OBE, and why appearing on Strictly will never be on the cards!
To see more of Lorraine check her out on
Instagram @lorrainekellysmith
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For many of us of a certain age, especially those in the UK, Emma Forbes is the smiling face of Saturday Morning TV - from Going Live with Philip Schofield and Sarah Green (where she got the job as the resident cook after bombarding the Editor for a full year with letters begging to be on the show), to co-hosting Live and Kicking with Andi Peters, who went on to become a lifelong friend.
In our chat today Emma talks about what it was like to step back from TV to have her first child, only to have the doors close behind her. About the post-natal depression she experienced and tried to deal with her usual 'stiff upper lip', 'just keep going' kind of attitude that so many of us can relate to.
We talk about her decision to relocate to America to be closer to her children who are going to university there, and the reality of life in lockdown New York. We also put a few myths to bed - so stand by for some home truths about Peppa Pig, lads mag FHM and never making the shortlist for Rear of The Year!
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