Brave New Girls - Well Beings, Well Planet

Lou Hamilton

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Brave New Girls podcast is an Audio Archive Art Project with pioneering, creative & entrepreneurial women at the head of the curve, who are inspiring us on the airwaves, to work towards the health & wellbeing of ourselves and the planet. Brave New Girls podcast ranks in top 2.5% globally, and No 7 in the "45 Best UK Women's Podcasts to Listen to, in 2024", with Host Lou Hamilton, artist, author & wellbeing coach.
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Designing your life & environment in a sustainable way, with Dee Gibson

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05/02/22 • 33 min

My guest this week is Dee Gibson, a London based, residential interior designer with nearly 20 years of experience working with private, residential clients and focusing on whole house refurbishments and extensions. In 2018, Dee opened Kalukanda House, a boutique hotel in Sri Lanka which she designed and built. But life wasn’t always how she designed it to be.

Dee started out doing engineering followed by accountancy, but it wasn't where her heart was, and after the accountancy firm she worked for (a top 5 global practice over 100 years old) went under, and friend died, she decided to do a life makeover.
She retrained in Interior design and found what she was looking for. This is what she was meant to be doing. She built her practice and developed her style. She kept this message at the centre of her work “ How can I make people happy, add value and leave a positive impact?”

She thinks about a space differently, sources ethically, the longevity of a scheme, and how it can benefit communities. She joined the BIID sustainability committee in order to help drive thinking and build sustainable policies, & business contributes to a charity in Sri Lanka empowering abused women and girls through safe housing and education.
It is in her homeland of Sri Lanka that she also built another dream: Kalukanda House, a boutique hotel that reflected her values of design and ecological responsibility. They encourage conscious travellers with an adventurous spirit, creatives who are looking for rest and inspiration and anybody looking for a place to entirely unhook and enjoy time feeling empowered in nature.
Hip Hotel Member - also featured in top 5 "slow travel destinations" for 2020. Finalist in the "Best New Business" category of the UK wide Best Women in Business Awards 2019.
They have have hosted retreats, writers crafting TV shows, entrepreneurs launching businesses and families enjoying time together amongst others.
And back in UK she has co-founded Hera Leadership with programmes for working women to action career change with a focus on mind, body & business.

Thanks so much Dee for helping us to understand how we too can be more creative in the way we design our lives and the environment we build around us. Thanks

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A New Era with Downton Abbey TV Drama & Film Producer Liz Trubridge

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04/25/22 • 33 min

This week’s guest is Liz Trubridge, producer of Downton Abbey, the most successful British Drama export of all time & Winner of a Primetime Emmy, a Bafta, a Golden Globe & the Producers Guild of America Award. Downton Abbey the movie hit the No 1 spot in both UK & US on it’s opening weekend; more recently followed by the movie release of 'Downtown Abbey: A New Era'

During the pandemic the film industry was hugely disrupted - and yet Liz and her team managed to make this latest movie under all the covid restrictions without losing a single day.

Liz grew up passionate about stories, and make believe plays, and envisioned a future where she might somehow live making those scripts come to life.

After leaving University she went into TV- as a young women in a predominantly male world, but managed to find strong female mentors and guides.

Nevertheless as she worked her way through the ranks there were inevitably challenges to face and slowly she found ways to help herself, mentally, spiritually & emotionally, to overcome whatever faced her with equilibrium and understanding.

After she collaborated with Julian Fellows on her first feature From Time to Time, she was given the opportunity to produce what was to become 6 ward-winning series of Downton Abbey and now two movies.
Her drive through it all has been to create very human and relatable stories, and it is no wonder then that Downton Abbey has had such phenomenal success with huge popularity across the world.

Downton Abbey - A New Era arrives on the silver screen as a timely and much needed up-lifting experience after two years of a global pandemic.

And now Liz is producing a film about the Lockerbie plane bombing; a heart breaking tale of Jim Swire's loss of his daughter in the disaster, and his consequent search for the truth, but ultimately with love at the heart of the film.

In the meantime thank you so much Liz for bringing us a slice of another era that reminds us of our humanity, and need for community, love and connection, no matter what period of time or social strata we are born into, or which side our bread is buttered.

Thanks also for showing us that trusting in our life’s purpose and taking action in that direction will lead us to where we are meant to be.

You can find out more about Liz’s work thr

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Combating taboo subjects in women's health with founder Lina Chan

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07/18/22 • 31 min

This week’s guest is Lina Chan. She had a stillbirth, a miscarriage & trouble conceiving. The impact it had on her physically and emotionally was tremendous, so she founded Parla, a Femtech Start-Up platform & community by women for women that changes the conversation around fertility. Parla was recently acquired by Holland & Barrett.

Born and raised in Brazil, by Chinese Immigrant parents Lina learned about resilience, hard work and optimism by watching how they thrived through their hardship. She loved to travel, exploring new cultures, being outdoors & active. She got her education and worked hard through her career.
Then came her baby loss when she was 6 months pregnant. It was devastating, not least because there was no where to turn to, no one she could find to talk to who understood her pain. No community, no women's heath care support.
Lina's experience informed her next moves. She would create a platform that would provide the support, expertise, and community that she had found missing.

Her mission was to build a better health and wellbeing journey for women around the world. Her company Parla was born.

So much of women's health is shrouded in taboo which means women systematically have poorer health and wellbeing outcomes. There is so much we can do to close this gap and it is Lina's determination to do just that.
Now with two daughters she is even more motivated to created a better future for women and their healthcare. She wants them to grow up in a world that they don't have to be ashamed about their periods, infertility, miscarriage or menopause.

She sees courage as believing that you can do hard things! Trusting yourself and reducing the self-critical voice that can be ever present. Knowing that even if things don't go your way, you'll learn from it, you'll become stronger and more resilient!

Thank you so much Lina for sharing your journey of infertility & loss, and for making other women feel less alone, and helping them to see that from difficult situations you can find strength and purpose.

And thanks too for showing us that when we are empowered to have access to care & understanding of our bodies we can demand the help we need & we can create a world where there is better healthcare for women, at every stage of life.

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Rewriting your story helps you to adapt to life events, with broadcaster Nicki Bannerman

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02/10/21 • 43 min

This week's guest is Nicki Bannerman, who grew into her second career in radio broadcast journalism from the glitzy globe-trotting world of marketing & PR in music, film & TV. With a life long passion for radio, she rewrote the story of her life into one in which she gets to use the power of audio to create a platform for positively impacting the lives of others.
Host & artist Lou Hamilton and Nicki discuss her passion for radio and podcasts and how her purpose has evolved to interviewing people whose stories help inspire us in our health and well-being. Of course this comes from her own experience of life-threatening health issues.
In this way this Woman of Courage brings us her Story from the Edge.
You can find out more about Nicki on https://nickibannermanradio.co.uk/ and www.fem-foundry.com

and you can follow her brand on Instagram @nicki_bannerman & listen to her podcast Influential Women

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Thanks to Podstar - the Podcast PR Agency for producing, & sourcing guests for the series https://podstarpr.com
Music is licensed from Melody Loops

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Your stress, sleep, & hormones may be benefited by this herbal remedy, with Rachel Mason

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02/15/22 • 33 min

This week’s guest is Rachel Mason, founder of Our Remedy- an award-winning CBD oil brand with a focus on sustainability and natural self-care, established after finding out she’d never conceive naturally due to cancer cells on her ovaries. Struggling to find a CBD oil targeted specifically at female health issues she decided to create one herself.

Having gone from a Vaping brand with 30 shops to starting a new brand with CBD, and ready to open a shop, the pandemic struck and Rachel had to adapt and learn about digital marketing and online sales overnight.
CBD had come into her life, after having IVF and getting pregnant with her son and later wanting to conceive again only to find she had a tumour on her ovaries which turned out to be Stage 3 cancer. She would have to have a hysterectomy and the intervention would induce menopause. And she was only 30 at the time.
Having to deal with so much in such a short space of time, at such a young age, it was no wonder she was stressed, anxious and finding it hard to sleep. When she turned to CBD it was the answer to her prayers and she eventually got through her health crisis.

But her experience made her want to help other women with their female health issues, and her environmentally responsible and sustainable company Our Remedy was born.

Thanks so much Rachel for bringing your focus to a wellness product for women that addresses our health issues in an eco-friendly and natural way. And thanks for showing us that where there is a will there is a way, and that when we are confronted by health issues often we can help ourselves, and others in the process.

You can find out more about Rachel’s work on www.ourremedy.co.uk and follow Rachel on Instagram on @itsourremedy

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Finding your true you with author of 'Purpose' Jessica Huie MBE

Brave New Girls - Well Beings, Well Planet

04/18/22 • 37 min

This week’s guest is Jessica Huie MBE, author of bestseller, Purpose, one of the top ten business books according to The Independent. From single mum to jet-setting journalist & publicist to the stars to labelled one of Britain’s Most Inspiring Entrepreneurs by the Evening Standard, she found her purpose, helping others to find theirs by stripping back to meet themselves.

The pandemic catalysed a move to Jamaica with her 9 yr old son & that leap of faith inspired 5 further chapters of Jessica's latest book Purpose.

After growing up in dysfunctional childhood, Jessica became a teen mum living in a hostel on benefits having left home at 17 with 4 GCSEs. But work & achievement became her driver and she created a glittering career in PR followed by a successful business in multi-cultural occasion cards.

However it was when her father was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2016 that she became present for the first time and experienced what she came to understand to be a spiritual awakening.

Having found her own sense of self, she realised it was her destiny to help others to find their purpose too. And The Purpose Academy and The Purpose Retreat were born.

Her vision for the future is one where we are brave enough to live lives which are the truest expression of who we are. Once we do that, all of our social problems will take care of themselves.

She believes we must be willing to feel our feelings. That’s the starting place for living our purpose.

Thanks so much Jessica for sharing how you dared to live your best life which went from outward success to inner understanding, and embracing a fundamentally holistic purpose-driven life moving forwards.

Thanks also for showing us how to find the courage to look beneath the surface and find out what we really want to be and do with our lives.

You can find out more about Jessica’s work on https://www.jessicahuie.com/ and follow her on Instagram @jessica_huie_

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Having the vision, imagination & innovation to save the planet with Nikki Mattei

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05/09/22 • 30 min

This week’s guest is Nikki Mattei, a sustainability strategist, who for the last 20 years has tried to live an ethical life & is now committed to empowering others to make decisions about how to have a lower negative impact on the planet and people. She helps trailblazing CEO’s take on the greatest challenge of their careers & steer their businesses into a sustainable future.

Nikki was a confident, happy, curious, independent child who went on to have lots of adventures and experiments in various jobs.

But after getting food poisoning she contracted Crohn's Disease & had miscarriage. It was the catalyst for her to leave corporate and change lifestyle in order to manage her disease.

One day a Breast Cancer UK leaflet arrived in her Riverford veggie box. It was all about hormone disrupting chemicals and breast cancer risk. She became a breast cancer educator, and then ethical marketing freelancer.
In lead-up to Cop26 decided that wanted to help businesses outside the ethical arena, and focussing more on sustainability. She is passionate about empowering others to make decisions about how to have a lower impact on the planet and people.

She believes the human race has the vision and imagination to create the solutions we need to save the planet and create a fairer more equitable society.

Thanks so much Nikki for your commitment to helping those get on the sustainability train, so that we each in our own ways can have a positive impact on the planet.

Thanks also for showing us that when we live by our values we can go against the mainstream and stand up for what we believe in, and make the world a better place.

You can find out more about Nikki’s work on

My website: https://nikkimattei.com/ Her holiday rental in Italy: https://www.villa-in-the-vineyard.com/ And follow her on linkedin @nikkimattei

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Up-level your health with Dr Lauren Kelley-Chew

Brave New Girls - Well Beings, Well Planet

10/10/22 • 40 min

This week’s guest is Dr Lauren Kelley-Chew, Head of Clinical Product at Levels -an organisation founded to increase awareness around the epidemic levels of metabolic dysfunction & give individuals the tools & knowledge to make tangible lifestyle changes. Lauren’s mission is to solve the metabolic health crisis & make good health accessible to everyone.
Metabolic dysfunction is the single largest health crisis facing the world

Over 120M Americans have prediabetes or diabetes and 9 or the 10 leading causes of death in the US are caused or worsened by metabolic dysfunction. Insulin resistance and metabolic dysfunction don’t just underlie diabetes.
There is virtually no symptom or disease that is not touched by insulin resistance, and it’s estimated that 88% of the country might have it.
Growing up Lauren undertook a career in finance (healthcare private equity) and then earned a scholarship to go to medical school. Seeing the way medicine is taught and practiced during her clinical training in medical school — she believed the entire system is broken and most of the way medicine is practiced doesn't make sense.
At the same time her own health was plummeting
She became very passionate about improving people's health and changing the U.S. healthcare system and got into Health Tech.

Rather than being a victim of the healthcare system, she decided to try to change it and to help people gain power over their own health rather than relying on the broken system; she founded a digital health startup focused on digestive disease.
She then went on to work for Levels who have built their technology to help people close the loop on their dietary and lifestyle choices with real-time data. They are looking to establish themselves as the thought leaders in metabolic health and pioneers of "biosensors" (consumer wearables that track deeper and more meaningful metrics).
Thanks so much Dr Lauren for sharing how Levels is helping people track their own health so that they can hold themselves accountable to the changes they want to make.

You can find out more about Dr Lauren’s work www.

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She grows cities- how to nurture nature in a concrete jungle, with Jamie Hwang

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03/06/23 • 38 min

My guest this week is Jamie Hwang, city planner for Los Angeles City Council and creator of Urban Farmers’ Almanac which is a free, community-sourced digital resource guide for gardening, sustainable living, and supporting urban farms & independent makers in LA who also believe in circular, local economies, building communities, and food justice.
Her passion for urban planning made her realize how precious our environment is. And while in LA, they need to build more housing quickly to address homelessness as the most urgent humanitarian crisis, she believes they can also simultaneously address climate change as well.
For her, true courage is trying ideas out even when you know you may fail. It's hard to begin a journey not knowing if you'll succeed, and it's even hard to start if you know you're likely to fail. But when you take a leap, you learn new things, and those lessons add up to successes in the long run. The trick is to realize you never really "finish" learning.
Jamie shows us that wherever we live we have the opportunity to take sustainable living into our hands and create places where we feel more in tune with the planet.

As a result of my conversation with Jamie, I am now transitioning my allotment to a food forest using permaculture techniques.

You can find out more about Jamie’s work at shegrowscities.com

And follow her on Instagram @shegrowscities

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Lou is the founder of Brave New Girl Media, helping you unlock your creativity, find your superpower and put your story in the spotlight to help others. BNGM enables you to showcase your vision and supercharge your impact in the world. https://bravenewgirlmedia.com
Music by Melody Loop

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The Future of Food with Sentient Ventures Co-Founder, Alexandra Clark

Brave New Girls - Well Beings, Well Planet

09/05/22 • 43 min

This week’s guest is Alexandra Clark, venture investor & co-founder of Sentient Ventures which was recently launched as new £30m investment vehicle today designed to spur growth in firms developing meat-free animal alternative products. The fund taps into firms fuelling the shift to net zero and removing animals from every stage of the supply chain.

The Pandemic has simply brought front and centre the dire state of the planet and our food system and supply change and made change more pertinent but also easier to communicate. On a personal level, Alexandra had just moved back in with her mum to have a baby before lockdown so it turned out to be a very special and bonding experience on many levels.

Alexandra's mother is from a large farming family so that shaped her upbringing. She had never liked meat as an infant, and her mum says she would spit it out, and at around five she fully understood it was dead animals and never ate it again.

When she left home she travelled a lot, and loved India and its holy towns where it’s illegal to eat meat. That blew her mind. She wanted to understand the world and all the wonderful and diverse cultures we share this planet with. She settled in Brussels and lived there for 11 years.

Becoming a single mother, she needed to be closer to family so quit her job, and her life in Brussels, and moved back to the UK to have a baby just before lockdown.

She had been working in policy in Brussels to encourage a shift to a more plant-based diet, but when she moved back to the UK she got involved in start-ups and Venture Capital and co-founded Sentient Ventures to fund companies developing superior foods to enable more people to stop eating animals without having to give up the enjoyment of animal products.
The fund helps companies' ability to scale, and have access to retail channels, with alternatives to animal products. The co-benefits of eating fewer animal products impact health and sustainability is on both an individual and societal level.
Animal agriculture drives climate change, biodiversity loss and species extinction, the spread of foodborne and zoonotic diseases, and contributes to the prevalence of non-communicable diseases that are the leading cause of illness and early death in the developed world.

Thanks so much Alexandra for investing

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Brave New Girls - Well Beings, Well Planet currently has 227 episodes available.

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The podcast is about Courage, Health & Fitness, Marketing, Alternative Health, Entrepreneurship, Storytelling, Podcast Guest, Podcasts, Health, Business, Wellbeing and Authors.

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The episode title 'Designing your life & environment in a sustainable way, with Dee Gibson' is the most popular.

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The average episode length on Brave New Girls - Well Beings, Well Planet is 39 minutes.

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