How to have Extraordinary Relationships

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Annalisa Barbieri is a British journalist, columnist, and podcaster best known for her long-running Guardian Saturday magazine advice column, where she offers thoughtful, compassionate responses to readers’ personal dilemmas. Known for her warmth, wit, and insight, Barbieri’s writing explores the complexities of family life, relationships, and emotional wellbeing with honesty and humanity.
Alongside her advice work, she was for many years the Observer’s “Chocolate Correspondent,” writing engagingly about the craft, ethics, and culture of chocolate. She also hosts the podcast Conversations with Annalisa Barbieri, in which she interviews psychologists, therapists, and subject experts on topics ranging from communication and boundaries to grief and resilience.
Annalisa is widely admired for her ability to combine empathy with clarity, helping readers and listeners make sense of life’s emotional puzzles. More of her work can be found on her website, annalisabarbieri.com
, and on her podcast platforms.
How she likes children
Time “Ins” rather then “Time Outs”
How she discarded the aspects of her own parenting to create her own
How she has a completely rehashed version of parenting
Why women take the blame for a lot of things in the past
How it’s never too late to say sorry. And how healing it can be.
APPROPRIATE behaviour not obedience
Why restricting social media access was one of the best things she did for her kids
Why its necessary to be careful how to talk to children if we want them to know and trust themselves.
What her children have taught her.
You can see more in..
 Guardian Column- Weekend Supplement
And also from wherever you get your podcasts - search “Conversations with Annalisa Barbieri”
 
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Viv Groskop is an award-winning writer, broadcaster and stand-up comedian, best known for blending sharp wit with smart cultural insight. She is the author of the bestselling books How to Own the Room and Lift As You Climb, which explore confidence, communication and female leadership through the lens of performance and storytelling.
A familiar voice on BBC Radio 4 and a regular contributor to major publications, Viv brings comedy, feminism and fearless honesty together in a way that makes big ideas feel brilliantly human. Whether she’s on stage, on air or on the page, she champions women finding their voice and owning it unapologetically.
Key points of the episode:
Her definition of an extraordinary relationship.
How there are so many varieties of public speaking, and the many things people benefit from and relate to it.
How even the most confident people have their "moments"
How "ego" gets in the way.
How Michelle Obama was the inspiration and momentum for her first book!
Michelle Obamas fascinating journey.
Why Viv decided to become a stand up comedian....
The craft of stand up comedy.
The art of not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less!
Her experience of interviewing Hilary Clinton.
The genius definition of "Happy High Status"
Her own measures of success.
How to use her teachings from a perspective of self nourishment.
Can connection be achieved in a different language?

See her on Instagram here: www.instagram.com/vivgroskop
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Lucy Sewill is a British portrait and editorial photographer whose work bridges celebrity portraiture, equine imagery, and deeply personal visual storytelling. 
  
 Early Life & Health Struggles
Lucy was born prematurely, spending early life in an incubator. 

At age 12, she suffered a serious heart infection and a stroke, which caused months of hospitalization and required her to re-learn how to walk. 

Over the years she experienced repeated health challenges that remained unexplained until later in life. 
Photography Career
Sewill’s artistic voice is rooted in honest, relational portraiture—she aims to reveal something true about her subjects. 

 She is particularly known for one-on-one informal portraits of public figures (actors, musicians, broadcasters, politicians) as well as deeply felt projects pairing people with animals.
 
 Her images have been exhibited internationally and she has work in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery (UK).She has also published several books, including Horses & Humans.

Another of her interests has been photographing the relationship between people and their pets, such as her Dogs & Their Humans work.
 
In more recent years, she launched Visible Women, an exhibition and project highlighting representation of women in acting and the entertainment industry. 
She also contributes to mentoring, judging, and portfolio reviews for emerging photographers. 
 
 
Health & Personal Life
After years of medical uncertainty, Lucy eventually self-diagnosed (via noticing parallels between her own symptoms and those of a horse she was riding) that she had Cushing’s disease. 

She underwent pituitary surgery but ended up developing Addison’s disease, requiring lifelong hormone treatment. 
  
Lucy lives in rural England with her family, her horses, and other animals.
Horses are a continuing passion and a recurring subject in her work, often serving as a metaphorical or emotional anchor in her visual storytelling.
 
Key points of the episode: 
How she was photographing famous people and realised only 10 per cent were women and there were only two women out of 30 in British musicians project.
How, then she is fighting inequality and invisibility,
The relationship she has with her photographic subjects, and why she gravitates towards famous people.
How imposter syndrome helped her!
Her ongoing health struggles and how her GP described her as "The unluckiest person he knew"
How synchroniscitally, she found out she had Cushings disease...
...and how animals healed her.
Want to learn more? www.lucysewill.com
Insta: https://www.instagram.com/lucysewill
 
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Sophie Ziegler is the founder and creative force behind The OTTO Connection, a real-world social community designed to reconnect single people through relaxed, fun, low-pressure events and friendships. After finding traditional dating scenes uninspiring, Sophie launched OTTO in 2022 to build a welcoming space where being single feels vibrant and where people can expand their lives alongside like-minded friends rather than swiping through apps. Today, OTTO thrives as a growing community that champions genuine connection, shared experiences, and joyful socialising beyond the digital dating treadmill. 
The Otto project, and why it was set up.
Why being single can be a good thing!
Later life love. What is it?
The 80 year olds that fell in love!
The odd pressure to be part of a couple.
Why accomodating the baggage is difficult.
How we can be sideswiped by our hurt young feelings.
Drawing for freedom. What is it?
Can we make a decicion to love?
Self love and self validation.
http://www.theottoconnection.com

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A subject that has caught the imagination of the nation.
Fat Jabs!
A special episode with Sarah Vine and Lucy Cavendish, with role reversal - Sarah interviewing Lucy!
A fascinating, relatable and insightful conversation.
Hello and welcome to the podcast where we talk honestly about weight loss, body image, and everything that comes with it, emotionally, socially, and psychologically.

Two brilliant voices: journalist and author Lucy Cavendish, and columnist and commentator Sarah Vine.

Together, we’ll be exploring the realities behind the headlines, from the rise of weight loss injections to the lifelong mental load of being overweight, and what it really means to change your body in a world that never stops having an opinion.

This is a conversation about more than pounds and calories. It’s about confidence, shame, freedom, identity… and the complicated journey of feeling at home in yourself.

Let’s begin.

Key points of the episode:
The wrongness of fat shaming, including fat shaming of people on jabs.
Lucy's theory on when her weight problem started.
How people are put on the pill for virtually every reason, and it's connection to weight loss.
How modern fashion does not cater for women with shapes.
"The only thing you can control"
How the root of the problem can have started at a really early age.
The revelation from her Dr that led her to the fat jabs.
The transformations experienced by both of them.
An important message from Lucy about this subject.
Possible reasons from an evolutionary point of view.
How society has changed, but we haven't.
How our bodys hormones are very strong drugs.
How partly it was an identity shift for Lucy.
Lucy's "Sliding Doors" wonderings, if I had found this earlier, would my life have been better?
How being overweight can be a kind of "suit of armour"
How Lucy's world changed when her doctor recommended Mounjaro.
The Webinar Lucy is doing on this - ATTEND HERE
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