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Anne T Donahue is one of my favourite funny writers. She is also my email pen pal after becoming pals on Twitter. She is a columnist for MTV, writes for Buzzfeed, The Guardian, Canadian Living, Hello Giggles, Refinery29, Thought Catalog and so many more - and her newsletter "That's What She Said" is my one of my all-time favourite weekly reads. We talk about our Ghosts Of Our Teenage Past, how to become a writer and build a contact list and that moment Anne learned she No Longer Gave A Fuck when an old high school friend tried to give her some "advice". Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My pal Liv! We are slightly hyper in places, this one was so much fun to record. And she is a wise owl for her young age of 23. Olivia Purvis is a lovely online soul who is always delivering useful and aesthetically pleasing nuggets of advice and recommendations on her blog "What Olivia Did". She has recently signed to STORM models (HELLO!!) all starting from her blog which has grown into an outlet for everything from style, travel, food, beauty lifestyle and music - as well as interviews with inspiring women who she admires. Olivia has collaborated amazing brands such as Lancôme at the Bafta’s, Boden, Miss Selfridge, Kate Spade, Estee Lauder to name a few and is regularly featured in publications such as Grazia, Cosmopolitan UK, Atlas and Get The Gloss. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jessica Valenti is an awesome woman. She has been called one of the Top 100 Inspiring Women in the world by the Guardian and is a daily columnist there. She is the author of six books on feminism, most recently Sex Object: A Memoir (2016) which came out this month. She founded Feministing.com in 2004, Her writing has appeared inThe New York Times, The Washington Post, Ms. magazine, Salon = and she has won many awards for her work. We talk about feminism, writing an honest memoir and how to deal with online abuse. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Amanda De Cadenet is a photographer, actress and talk show host (and a huge inspiration to me). We talk about the incentive behind Amanda’s popular interview series TheConversation (theconversation.tv) - she’s interviewed amazing women - from Gwyneth Paltrow to Sarah Silverman to Hillary Clinton. She has recently launched the #GirlGaze project looking for the next generation female photographers. The project is backed by Amanda, the editor of Teen Vogue, Sam Taylor Johnson and so many other cool women. Through the hashtag #GirlGaze work will be selected to appear in Teen Vogue as well as the GirlGaze zine and an exhibition showing the work. We discuss sexism, online porn, how to build a career in photography and how to support young girls online. Also how to juggle a busy life and accepting that nothing is ever perfect. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Stevie Martin is a very very funny lady and my friend. She writes for women's publications such as Broadly, The Debrief, Refinery29 and others. She's also an actress and comedian (both writing and performing) and one third of the hilarious sketch group Massive Dad, represented by United Agents. We speak about creative careers, how to label yourself at work, improvisation, the competitiveness nature of the comedy and TV industry, and working in a writer's room. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sarah Powell is a ray of golden sunshine and her chirpy friendly voice will be your new best friend. She's a radio and TV presenter who hosts her own on heat radio every weekday 4-7PM, chatting and interviewing schlebs. She has appeared on This Morning on ITV with silver fox Schofe, singing, cackling and generally just entertaining the nation. She has a weekly podcast with her friend Jules called Jules and Sarah The Podcast. Check out her writing in heat magazine and online for Standard Issue. HOPE YOU ENJOY. We're a bit hyper in this one. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tyler Ford is a writer, activist and model living in NYC. In Tyler’s own words: “being Agender means not being confined by expectations or by labels”. They have written for New York Times, Rookie, the Guardian, MTV - as well as being one of Dazed’s 100 visionary talents in 2016. Tyler has also worked with Miley Cyrus on the Happy Hippie Foundation and gives constant advice and support to the LGBTQA youth community. We discuss Tyler's experiences being trans and queer, how to protect yourself online, how to make friends as an introvert and how to be the best possible version of yourself, online and offline. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

An essay went viral earlier this year: a moving story about a woman and the money she may need at any given moment to escape from a job, a sleazy colleague or an abusive partner - it was called A Story Of The Fuck Off Fund. Did you read it? You probably did. It was published on the Billfold, it got retweeted and picked up by Jezebel, Stylist, Refinery 29, the Observer and Salon - some publications even wrote Think Pieces in response, questioning it, praising it, you name it. You know something has really gone viral when old friends from school start posting it on Facebook. I’m here today with the author of this piece Paulette Perhach, a wonderful writer and thinker from Seattle. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Julia is a very cool lady in tech. She studied at the Uni of Birmingham before starting out at the Express Newspapers, before being the deputy online editor of OK magazine, then the editor Yahoo’s celebrity channel. She now heads up the media partnerships at Twitter HQ, helping magazines such as ELLE, GLAMOUR, RED magazine to use Twitter in the most interesting way.. We talk about Twitter (0bvs), emojis, tweeting from Space, online journalism and the power of social media. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is a very exciting episode for me. A bit about Cheryl: her first book Torch in 2006, her second book, the memoir Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail was published in 2012, and has been translated into more than 40 languages. It debuted at number 7 on the New York Times Best Seller list and was chosen by Oprah as her first selection for Oprah's Book Club 2.0. Reese Witherspoon plays Cheryl and Laura Dern as Cheryl's mother, Bobbi in the amazing film adaptation of WILD. The film's screenplay was written by Nick Hornby. In July 2012, Vintage Books published Strayed's third book: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar, a selection of Strayed's popular "Dear Sugar" advice column, which she wrote for the web site The Rumpus from 2010 to 2012. The book debuted on the New York Times Best Seller list at number 5. Strayed's 4th book, Brave Enough debuted in the advice and self-help category on the New York Times Best Seller list at number 10. SHE IS SO AMAZING, AM I RITE? We talk money, success, fame, finding friends online and no matter what: doing the work we love. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.