The Eat Nourish Love Podcast

In this episode of Eat Nourish Love, Caroline Cary is joined by Leslie Kenny, former international banker and Walt Disney executive turned longevity entrepreneur, and founder of Oxford Healthspan.
In her late 30s, Leslie was diagnosed with lupus, rheumatoid arthritis and later Hashimoto's thyroiditis, and told there was no cure and perhaps five years left.
Refusing to accept that, she rebuilt her health through nutrition, lifestyle and a deep dive into cellular science, went into remission within six months, and conceived naturally at 43 after being told it was impossible.
Her story will resonate with anyone who has been dismissed by the system, handed a label instead of an answer, or told it is simply too late.
About Leslie Kenny
Leslie Kenny is a longevity entrepreneur and the founder of Oxford Healthspan. A UC Berkeley graduate with a Harvard MBA, she began her career in Swiss banking before joining Walt Disney, where she was handed its then unprofitable internet division and went on to launch one of the first online matchmaking companies in China and across Asia, working directly with the Chinese government on early public health education.
After transforming her own health following an autoimmune diagnosis, she partnered with scientists affiliated with the University of Oxford to make science-led, food-derived longevity solutions more widely available.
What This Episode
traces the path from a high-stress, sedentary corporate life to the "perfect storm" that preceded her illness, and the moment a doctor advised her against another round of IVF because she had five years left. She explains the mindset that changed everything: aiming to be just 1% better each day, and throwing the kitchen sink at her own recovery.
The conversation then turns to the science Leslie built a company around: spermidine, a food-derived compound studied at Oxford for its role in autophagy, the body's cellular self-cleaning process.
She explains how it renews ageing immune cells, why fasting alone may not trigger cell renewal without it, which everyday foods contain it, and how it differs from weight-loss drugs and HRT. They also cover biological age testing, hormone balance, and the mission of the Oxford Longevity Project.
Resources and Mentions
Spermidine research at the University of Oxford, Kennedy Institute for Rheumatology.
Dr Barry Sears, The Anti-Aging ZoneGerald Epstein, Healing Visualizations
Biological age tests mentioned: GlycanAge and the Dunedin PACE test
Dr Barry Durrant-Peatfield, thyroid specialistContact Leslie Kenny
Oxford Healthspan: oxfordhealthspan.com
Instagram: @lesliesnewprime
Oxford Longevity Project: oxfordlongevityproject.com
Instagram @oxfordlongevityproject
Leslie's Three Key Takeaways:
Move. We were never designed to be sedentary, yet laptops, screens and video calls conspire to keep us still. Movement, not too much and not too little, is foundational.
Nourish. Not just good food and water in the right amounts, but social connection, a sense of purpose, volunteering, good sleep and stress reduction. All of it is nourishment.
Renew. Trigger the body's self-renewal through autophagy, and get yourself into a parasympathetic state where you feel safe enough to rest, repair and restore. Unresolved stress and trauma keep inflammation lingering, so renewal matters as much as diet and movement.
About Eat Nourish Love
Eat Nourish Love Podcast is your go-to space for wellness, self-care, and inspiring stories.
Hosted by Caroline Carey, we bring you powerful conversations with incredible guests who share insights on health, business, and personal growth.
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Caroline Carey sits down with Libbla Kelly, founder of Right to Rise and Wisdom While You Work, for a conversation about handwriting as a tool for self-awareness, emotional processing and change.Libbla makes the case that reading absorbs you but writing rewires you. Backed by neuroscience, her work uses the physical act of putting pen to paper to slow the brain down, reach past the patterns we hide behind, and process what we would rather push away. Caroline and Libbla go back many years, so this one is personal: two friends on how a notebook became non-negotiable.If you have ever rolled your eyes at "journaling", or tried and not got on with it, or even love it and want to take it a step further - this is the episode that reframes it.In this episode:00:00 Change happens when you want it01:24 Welcome to Eat Nourish Love01:45 Meet Libbla Kelly and Write to Rise03:20 From stationery monitor to a life with the pen05:19 Why handwriting, not a keyboard07:50 Memory is a muscle09:06 Reach out, but also reach in12:05 The method: Stop, Read, Listen, Feel, Write, Rise13:11 Using breathwork to prepare16:36 Sitting with the feeling20:18 Cortisol, scrolling and the quick fix23:34 Over-coping and the weight women carry28:40 Women's wellbeing in the workplace31:02 Inside the Right to Rise book library36:03 Breaking the negative thought loop36:54 When and where to journal41:43 The block, and the light behind it43:41 Three things to take away46:04 Where to find LibblaFind Libbla Kelly:www.WisdomWhileYouWork.comwww.Libbla.comEat Nourish Love is hosted by Caroline Carey. Subscribe for weekly conversations on wellness, business, self-care and personal growth.#EatNourishLove #Journaling #Handwriting #WomensWellbeing #Journaling #PersonalGrowth #CarolineCarey

In this episode of Eat Nourish Love, Caroline Cary is joined by Andrew Wallas, the businessman turned spiritual teacher widely known as the Business Shaman. Andrew built and sold companies worth tens of millions before a breakdown at 28 sent him in a completely different direction.
He shares the story of the dark place that nearly ended his life, the moment of surrender that changed everything, and the work he has done on himself for the past 40 years. The conversation moves into intention versus goal setting, why alignment matters more than willpower, and the shadow as the place of greatest reward rather than something to fear. Andrew also unpacks image, narcissism and polarity, and gives three simple exercises anyone can use to start changing today.

About Andrew Wallas
Andrew Wallas is a business transformation consultant, author and teacher. After a successful career in the City, he took a master's in psychology and a degree in theology and philosophy, and went on to found the School for Business Alchemy and the Academy of Alchemy. He works with leaders, hedge fund managers and individuals on inner change as the route to outer results.

Andrew's Books
Business Alchemy
Intention
Contact Andrew Wallas
Website: andrewwallas.org
School for Business Alchemy: theschoolforbusinessalchemy.org
Andrew's Three Key Takeaways
Surrender opens the door. His turnaround came not from trying harder but from giving in completely when every other option had failed.
Intention needs alignment. Setting an intention is necessary but not enough. You have to align your thinking, emotions and daily actions with it, and that is how synchronicity starts to happen.
The shadow is where the energy is. Owning the parts of yourself you have suppressed or judge in others ("just like me") brings wholeness, and wholeness is where real change lives.

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In this episode of Eat Nourish Love, Caroline Cary is joined by author, broadcaster and coach Rosie Nixon, the award-winning former Editor-in-Chief of HELLO! magazine, who spent 16 years at the heart of celebrity publishing before walking away to rebuild her life on her own terms.
Rosie shares how burnout forced her to pause, why she now sees midlife "crisis" as an invitation to reinvent, and how she turned her own story into a coaching method helping thousands of women do the same.About Rosie Nixon
Rosie Nixon is an author, broadcaster and qualified coach.
She spent around 25 years in women's magazines, starting on teen and girls' titles, then senior roles at Grazia, Glamour, Red and New Woman, before joining HELLO!, where she rose from senior editor to Editor-in-Chief across 16 years.
She brokered world exclusives with some of the biggest names in entertainment, including Robbie Williams' wedding, building a reputation for discretion and trust.

She is the author of four novels in The Stylist series (The Stylist, Amber Green Takes Manhattan, Just Between Friends and Bad Influence), plus the non-fiction book Be Kind. Her sixth book, The Pro Method, a self-coaching framework, is published this August.

She now runs reinvention retreats for women across the UK.

What This Episode Covers
Rosie talks about her years as "the conduit of other people's stories" and the moment everything shifted when she finally shared her own.
After running on adrenaline for years, she was signed off work on the brink of burnout, a forced pause that made her realise her values had evolved faster than her job had.

She and Caroline explore why reinvention beats crisis, how the stress we ignore eventually shows up in the body, and why the messy middle is the hardest part of any transition.
Rosie explains how coaching helped her negotiate down to three days a week, then one day as editor-at-large, building her new business on the side rather than leaping without a net, proof that change doesn't have to be all or nothing.
The conversation also covers the lost camaraderie of magazine offices, the responsibility of editing for impressionable young readers in a pre-social-media age, kindness as a learned behaviour (and why we're hardest on ourselves), and Rosie's mission to make affordable, holistic coaching available to women navigating midlife.

Rosie's Books
The Stylist,
Amber Green Takes Manhattan,
Just Between Friends
Bad Influence
Be Kind (non-fiction)
The Pro Method (non-fiction, published this August)

Contact Rosie Nixon
Website: rosienixon.co.uk
Instagram: @rosie.nixon
LinkedIn: Rosie Nixon

Rosie's Three Key Takeaways
Pause first. A pause can be as small as one breath in and a longer breath out, enough to calm your nervous system before any decision, big or small.
Don't make knee-jerk choices.
Then reflect. Ask what actually serves you.

Your values evolve, especially through motherhood and midlife, and the discomfort you're feeling is often a signal that something needs to change, not proof that you're failing.T
hen organise. Decisions made from calm and clarity set you up for sustainable vitality. Pause, Reflect, Organise (the PRO method) is the order that makes reinvention work.

About Eat Nourish Love
Eat Nourish Love Podcast is your go-to space for wellness, self-care, and inspiring stories. Hosted by Caroline Cary, we bring you powerful conversations with incredible guests who share insights on health, business, and personal growth. Discover how belief, tenacity, and hard work can transform lives. Whether you're seeking motivation or expert advice, this podcast will uplift and empower you.

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In this episode of Eat Nourish Love, Caroline Cary is joined by broadcaster, author and sobriety coach Janey Lee Grace a familiar voice to millions from her 24 years alongside Steve Wright on BBC Radio 2.
Janey shares the story behind her own decision to quit alcohol, why she calls it "the booze elevator," and how her work today is helping thousands of women step off it before they ever hit rock bottom.
About Janey Lee Grace
Janey Lee Grace is a broadcaster, bestselling author, coach and the founder of The Sober Club.
A former backing singer on the Wham! tours and one half of Cola Boy (their 1991 hit Seven Ways to Love reached number 8 in the charts), Janey went on to spend 24 years co-hosting Steve Wright in the Afternoon on BBC Radio 2.
She is the author of the Amazon number one bestseller Imperfectly Natural Woman, her memoir
From Wham to Woo: A Life on the Mic, and Happy Healthy Sober: Ditch the Booze and Take Control of Your Life with a foreword by Denise Welch.
Her TEDx talk Sobriety Rocks. Who Knew! sparked the launch of The Sober Club in 2019. She also hosts the Alcohol Free Life podcast and the annual Platinum Awards, recognising the best in natural, sustainable and organic brands.
What This Episode Covers
Janey speaks candidly about the years she spent "stepping around the elephant in the room" writing books on natural living by day, drinking a bottle of wine by night, and waking at 3am asking herself what she was doing.
She unpacks why the conventional two-bucket view of drinkers (rock bottom vs. happy social drinker) misses the millions of "grey area" drinkers in between, and why she believes even one glass is harmful.
She and Caroline discuss the moment Janey read Clare Pooley's The Sober Diaries and knew her drinking days were over, the cultural and marketing shift that targeted women from the late 1970s onwards, and why GPs hand out antidepressants and HRT without ever asking about alcohol.
The conversation moves into self-worth, visibility for small businesses, and why so many therapists, coaches and founders trained in their craft but never actually got started and what it takes to step into the spotlight when you'd rather hide.
Janey's BooksHappy Healthy Sober: Ditch the Booze and Take Control of Your Life, foreword by Denise Welch
From Wham to Woo: A Life on the Mic, memoir
Imperfectly Natural Woman, Amazon number one bestseller

Contact Janey Lee Grace
Website: thesoberclub.com
Instagram: @janeyleegracePodcast: Alcohol Free Life

Janey's Three Key Takeaways
Ask yourself the question. Could your life be better, physically and emotionally, without alcohol? Ask your gut. If the answer is yes, quit, you will never do anything better for your health.
Become curious about self-love. Most people pour everything into others and have zero left for themselves. Self-esteem isn't a switch you flick it's a slow burn worth committing to.
When you know what you want, go after it. Don't wait until the kids leave home, or the money's there, or you feel ready. Start. The belief comes from the doing.

About Eat Nourish Love
Eat Nourish Love Podcast is your go-to space for wellness, self-care, and inspiring stories.

Hosted by Caroline Cary, we bring you powerful conversations with incredible guests who share insights on health, business, and personal growth. Discover how belief, tenacity, and hard work can transform lives. Whether you're seeking motivation or expert advice, this podcast will uplift and empower you.

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Website: www.eatnourishlove.com
Instagram: @eat.nourish.love_
YouTube: Eat Nourish Love

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