Harriet Minter Presents: Badass Women’s Hour

Stuck on how to keep your kids learning and entertained now the schools are closed, or just want some hope for the future look no further!

Harriet speaks to people from all over the country about their feelings surrounding the current Covid-19 situation in the UK. Harriet and her guests (not in the studio for obvious reasons) will be offering much-needed advice, solace and a reminder that as a nation we are all in this together.

Carina White of Dope Black Mum’s is talking to Harriet about why is racism stopping black people from swimming and the myth that’s causing this. And also they discuss how she and her daughter are dealing with the school closure and the anxiety around the risk to an elderly family member. Also talking about being at home with the kids is author Katherine May who has now been thrown back into the homeschooling schedule, she tells Harriet how she will be coping this time round. And Anita Cleare child development expert is walking parents and carers through how they can keep their children entertained and still educated during the school closure.

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Harriet Minter

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Having tummy troubles but too embarrassed to talk about it? Meet the lady who is banashing the shame around all things loo-related.

Lottie Drynan is living with IBS and her well known instagram account Tummy Diaries has been avnodcating and sharing information on IBS. She started her instagram to share how she was navigating the early days of her diagnosis and how it changed her day to day to from toilet trips to the food she was eating including the ins and outs her “low fod map” diet.

Harriet and Carrie also open up about their own issues with IBS and IBD. 

Lottie talks about how she dealt with understanding how to adjust her life and mind set to ease her symptoms. Says her openness online also helped her close friends and family to be more open to the topic and not feel shame.

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Harriet Minter

Natalie Campbell

Emma Sexton

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Can the coronavirus outbreak create community, and lots of babies? The Badass ladies find out.

Harriet and her special co-hosts this week, Carrie Grant and Sarah Mulindwa talk to Vic Goddard headmaster of Passmores Academy who is working to help children who receive free school meals during the coronavirus school ban. Hear what Vic is doing to make sure that if schools do close due to the Coronavirus families who nee this support still receive it despite their children not being in school. 

The ladies talk about the impact that coronavirus will have on different areas of our community and what the government’s advice thus far means for them, as well as what can we do as a community to help those of us who need it most, people who may feel lonely whilst self isolating and those who may experienced elevated levels of anxiety.

And joining them in the studio is Dr Karen Gurney aka The Sex Doctor.

Karen is a clinical psychologist that specialises in sex, she is helping people with their sexual problems and dissatisfaction with their sex life, she describes herself as “a personal trainer for you sex life” - pretty self explanatory.

Karen shares that over half of women and just under half of men are concerned about their sex life and admits there is no normal when it comes to sex, and as a society we can have a particular idea of what sex should be, but Karen clarifies that sex comes in all different shapes, sizes and positions. 

Harriet, Carrie and Sarah hear about the truth of our desire, and how our desire for sex and our partners actually works and why it may fade after a year or two. But don’t fear Karen also explains how to get it back.

And finally, how can sex help us fight the new virus by raising our immune system or will isolation just create lots of babies

Karen's book is out now, click here for more info.

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Harriet Minter

Carrie Grant

Sarah Mulindwa

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The Badass Woman's Hour line up is changing forever, hear as the ladies get nostalgic and share some highlights for the last time.

A faithful listener of four years, Emma's Mum jumps on the phone to wish everyone well on their next ventures after their final show and share some love!

Sophie Walker former of the Women's Equality party and now, author! Friend of the show Sophie tells Harriet, Emma and Nat about the journey of writing her book "5 Rules for Rebellion" which is out now. The ladies talk how to handle the world and all of the things that may feel overwhelming in the current state of society, being an activist and learning to pick yourself up and dust yourself off and rejoin the march.

And Harriet, Emma and Natalie get reflective, looking back at some highlights from the past four years of the show. However this is not the end of Badass Womens Hour, Harriet will be taking the lead and will be joined by guest hosts next week!

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Harriet Minter

Natalie Campbell

Emma Sexton

If you want to get in touch you can find us on all the socials under this name: @badasswomenshr

And for more about the podcast head here: https://www.badasswomenshour.com

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This will be one of two final instalments of Badass Womans Hour as we know it! Emma and Natalie are moving onto new adventures and Harriet will be going it solo from now on. So here's a whole hour and half of badass chat!

On this final Badass Womans Hour show with the original line up of wonderful ladies, they're talking the eradication of tampon tax, falling, water and sisterhood!

The first guests are Laura and Nicky, two inspiring woman both living with terminal cancer who have started a support group for women fighting cancer, secondary sisters. They share what this means for day to day life and why they were inspired to create this support network.

So Natalie is off to a new job, she will be the new CEO of Belu Water, however before she leaves the show she invited the current CEO into the studio Karen Lynch, explains how the company is looking at the environmental impact of our water use and how they can change and create positive disruption in the industry.

Amy Peake is the founder of Loving Humanity who provide women and girls in war zones with access sanitary products, she shares the tales that made her want to help these women and her journey to becoming an activist.

Author Claire Nelson shares her incredible story of a fall that changed her life, after an adventures trip to escape London, which resulted in a physical injury that turned her life upside down, her book "Things I Learned From Falling" is out now.

And the final guest is Christy Lefteri the author of Bee Keeper of Aleppo she shares with the ladies the stories from the time she spent in a women's and children's centre in Athens, and how her own family history played a part in her humanitarian work and writing.

For information on all your hosts you can click on their names:

Harriet Minter

Natalie Campbell

Emma Sexton

If you want to get in touch you can find us on all the socials under this name: @badasswomenshr

And for more about the podcast head here: https://www.badasswomenshour.com

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What is the key to having a very happy vagina? Find out in this weeks extra bits.

This week the Badass ladies welcome back friend of the show, Mika Simmons.

Mika founded The Lady Garden after she lost her mother to ovarian cancer, she describes her mother as a trailblazer and a strong feminist, so it saddened her to think that her mother didn't know the symptoms of a gynaecological cancer. The Lady Garden is a foundation aiming to change the way we talk about female health, to educate women and men on types of cancer that are harder to diagnose and Mika says "Even though women’s health has improved a lot the symptoms are not often spoken about".

And the ladies talk all things Happy Vaginas, Mika is the host of The Happy Vagina podcast where she and her array of guests talk about

championing women’s bodies, our esteem around our bodies, sex and of course, vaginas!

For information on all your hosts you can click on their names:

Harriet Minter

Natalie Campbell

Emma Sexton

If you want to get in touch you can find us on all the socials under this name: @badasswomenshr

And for more about the podcast head here: https://www.badasswomenshour.com

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This weeks guest is the Incredible Alexandra Adams who is the UK's first deaf blind medical student, she shares her experience of medical school and the reaction she has had from fellow students and colleagues.

Hear Alex's story of what inspired her to want to be a doctor, and the journey that she has been on with her own medical issues that have given her a wealth of life experience and wisdom on life and death, Alex is truly inspiring.

As mental health awareness becomes ever more ingrained into our society a recent study shows that people living with mental health issues such as schizophrenia are experiencing increased discrimination.

Jo Loughran from the campaign Time to Change is in the studio to explain why, and what needs to be done to share the acceptance of all mental health issues, not just depression and anxiety.

Time to change is aiming to change the way we think about mental health, as Jo explains this has to start with the media and their depiction of the types of mental health that are commonly discussed.

For more info visit the Time To Change website:https://www.time-to-change.org.uk/

For information on all your hosts you can click on their names:

Harriet Minter

Natalie Campbell

Emma Sexton

If you want to get in touch you can find us on all the socials under this name: @badasswomenshr

And for more about the podcast head here: https://www.badasswomenshour.com

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It's all about sex this week, staying safe and having badass sex obviously!

In the studio this week is Sarah Mulindwa, Nurse and host of "Sex Clinic" on E4

The ladies talk about how the generations views and openness about sex differs, and the growth of sex education resources now, meaning teenagers are far more well informed, and telling children about their bodies early in a way they can understand and feel comfortable.

Sarah explains some of the issues she deals with on Sex-clinic, STI's and giving advice and reassurance. Sex clinic is on E4 10pm Sunday nights.

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Meet two women who are changing the way that things are done... in two completely different sectors.

Margret Heffernan is a businesswomen and author with some interesting views to share.

Margret's new book "Unchartered" is looking at how accurate finical forecasting is, and how leadership can be changed to better business large and small.

When we see large companies release their “10 year plan” Margret says that a lot of this is propaganda “Just trying to eat our minds” hear why!

Margret, Harriet, Emma and Amanda analyse what factors really made a leader successful and how historically we have based leadership skills on male norms. The ladies discuss how we can make leadership more feminine and how this would change things?

Sairish Hussain Is a Phd student and first time author, she has written the first multi generational fiction about a Muslim family, "Family Tree" she has had brilliant success with the novel which she started to write during her Masters qualification.

Sairish explains to Harriet, Emma and Amanda why more Muslim writers need to be published and the issues that writers of colour experience, and offers some wonderful advice to encourage other young writers.

For information on all your hosts you can click on their names:

Harriet Minter

Natalie Campbell

Emma Sexton

If you want to get in touch you can find us on all the socials under this name: @badasswomenshr

And for more about the podcast head here: https://www.badasswomenshour.com

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Valentines Day, marketing overload or day of genuine love and appreciation?

Harriet, Emma and Natalie are joined by Charly Lester, founder of Lumen dating app, she's sharing her views of Valentines Day, what we should all really be doing on the day of love.

And the ladies Discus the idea of cuffing season? And talk about how are dating apps helping and hindering our love lives and possibly making us more socially awkward in the dating world. And is "Galentines Day" a lovely way to celebrate with your friends or another way marketing is tricking us into keep on spending regardless of our relationship status?

For information on all your hosts you can click on their names:

Harriet Minter

Natalie Campbell

Emma Sexton

If you want to get in touch you can find us on all the socials under this name: @badasswomenshr

And for more about the podcast head here: https://www.badasswomenshour.com

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