Come As You Are with Helen Duff
Helen Duff
"Bold subversive and very funny" (The Scotsman) comedian Helen Duff delves deep with brilliantly open, hilariously insightful folk from across the experience spectrum. While the first two seasons explored different experiences of orgasm and sex, the third season is all about care - who and what we care about, how and why we show care, and what we can do to recognise and value care more widely. From CEO's to top comedians off the telly, we discuss cleaning, cancer, mental illness, memes, sex work, sharing recipes and much, much more.
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Carmen Ali AKA April Fiasco
Come As You Are with Helen Duff
09/13/22 • 50 min
Carmen Ali AKA April Fiasco is a multidisciplinary performer and writer, co-artistic director of Sexquisite Events and co-organiser & dancer at Cybertease. She reveals why stand up can feel so much more exposing than sex work; how she's started bringing the funny to burlesque; creating spaces for sex workers to explore their creativity on stage; the overwhelm of group sex and how orgasming late taught her to respect her own boundaries better. The Guardian article Helen mentions can be found here: ‘Why did this young man have such a hold on me?’ How dating someone half my age rebooted my sex life" The website Helen and Carmen both shout out can be found here: OMG Yes! Carmen Ali and the sex worker collectives she is a part of can be found on: Instagram @harlotgoddess And her website carmenali.com Support the podcast with a one off donation on https://ko-fi.com/helenduff or to get access to all sorts of extra audio / video content become a regular subscriber on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/HelenDuff Intro / Outro music by Luisa Gerstein of Deep Throat Choir; musical interludes written and performed by Helen Duff, arranged by Torch & Compass; edited by Helen Duff; produced by Helen Duff. Follow the podcast on: Instagram: @comeasyouarepod Twitter: @ComeAsYouArePo2 Facebook: @ComeAsYouArePod Find Helen Duff www.helenduff.com Instagram: @DuffMarvel Twitter: @DuffMarvel Facebook: @helenduffcomedy This podcast would not have been possible without the support and advice of Sam Sapin, Ben Target, Alice Freedman, Hayley Stirling, Catherine Brinkworth, Kate Watson, Lorna Rose Treen and Daisy Grant.
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Becky Young of Anti Diet Riot Club
Come As You Are with Helen Duff
07/28/22 • 36 min
Becky Young is the Founder & Co-director of Anti Diet Riot Club CIC, a rebel community fighting body shame, fat phobia and diet culture. On a mission to help people accept their bodies and find freedom from diets ADRC hosts talks, educational and creative workshops, and creates safe spaces for people to share and learn from each other. From meeting with Sadiq Khan to hosting a body-positive festival in London and launching an online membership platform, they tackle the growing body image problem in the UK from an individual and collective level. As well as a social entrepreneur, Becky is an organiser for EarthPercent, a climate charity as well as having over 10 years of experience as an event producer and promoter. Having studied History & Politics at Oxford University, Becky is passionate about political movements, feminism, sex positivity, play and social justice; topics which inform a lot of her work. In this episode we discuss rediscovering your desires, pleasures and dreams; beating the algorithm to cultivate genuine community online; fighting for body justice whilst taking care of your own needs; the pressures the pandemic put on coupling with couples and the cross over between orgasms that come too quick and instant coffee. You can find Becky being kind, creative and kick ass on: Instagram: @antidietriotclub Twitter: @antidietriot Support the podcast with a one off donation on https://ko-fi.com/helenduff or to get access to all sorts of extra audio / video content become a regular subscriber on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/HelenDuff Intro / Outro music by Luisa Gerstein of Deep Throat Choir; musical interludes written and performed by Helen Duff, arranged by Torch & Compass; edited by Helen Duff; produced by Helen Duff. Follow the podcast on: Instagram: @comeasyouarepod Twitter: @ComeAsYouArePo2 Facebook: @ComeAsYouArePod Find Helen Duff www.helenduff.com Instagram: @DuffMarvel Twitter: @DuffMarvel Facebook: @helenduffcomedy This podcast would not have been possible without the support and advice of Sam Sapin, Ben Target, Alice Freedman, Hayley Stirling, Catherine Brinkworth and Kate Watson.
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Lindsey Bliss Birth Doula
Come As You Are with Helen Duff
07/19/22 • 44 min
Lindsey Bliss (she/they) is a seasoned birth companion, a childbirth educator, author ofThe Doula’s Guide to Empowering Your Birth and mother of seven. Lindsey is considered to be a multiples expert after giving birth to two consecutive sets of twins. Lindsey has been practicing as a birth worker since 2009 and has supported first time parents, multiparas, single parents, LGBTQAI+ families, twin births, medicated and non-medicated vaginal births, cesarean births, and VBACs. In this episode we discover how to find the pleasure in birth, the ways in which repressed trauma can show up during and after, why Lindsey found herself laughing as her second set of twins were born, bodily autonomy, what we desperately need to change about the systems surrounding bringing babies into the world, and whether it's really possible - and appropriate - to orgasm in the process. You can find Lindsey giving radical care on Instagram @doulabliss - with a bunch of links in her stories - "contributions" section - to ways you can support birth workers across the USA. Support the podcast with a one off donation on https://ko-fi.com/helenduff or to get access to all sorts of extra audio / video content become a regular subscriber on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/HelenDuff Intro / Outro music by Luisa Gerstein of Deep Throat Choir; musical interludes written and performed by Helen Duff, arranged by Torch & Compass; edited by Helen Duff; produced by Helen Duff. Follow the podcast on: Instagram: @comeasyouarepod Twitter: @ComeAsYouArePo2 Facebook: @ComeAsYouArePod Find Helen Duff www.helenduff.com Instagram: @DuffMarvel Twitter: @DuffMarvel Facebook: @helenduffcomedy This podcast would not have been possible without the support and advice of Sam Sapin, Ben Target, Alice Freedman, Hayley Stirling, Catherine Brinkworth and Kate Watson.
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Karen Hobbs
Come As You Are with Helen Duff
01/26/21 • 42 min
Karen Hobbs is a comedian, writer, actress and ambassador for the cervical cancer charity Eve Appeal, raising awareness of a potentially terminal disease that she was diagnosed with at 24 and from which she has subsequently made a full recovery. In this episode, we talk Class-A c*nt ex-boyfriends, rediscovering sex after major surgery, shredding the shame of speaking openly about cervical cancer, and orgasming like there's a tsunami on the horizon that only you and your vagina can control. Karen is currently busy being a larger than life legend on the following platforms: Twitter - @karen_hobbs Instagram - @karen_hobbs Facebook - @KarenSusanHobbs Support the podcast with a one off donation on https://ko-fi.com/helenduff or to get access to all sorts of extra audio / video content become a regular subscriber on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/HelenDuff Intro / Outro music by Luisa Gerstein of Deep Throat Choir; musical interludes by Helen Duff, arranged by Paddy Gervers; edited by Daisy Grant; produced by Helen Duff, Lorna Treen and Daisy Grant. Follow the podcast on Instagram: Instagram: @comeasyouarepod Twitter: @ComeAsYouArePo2 Facebook: @ComeAsYouArePod Find Helen Duff www.helenduff.com Instagram: @DuffMarvel Twitter: @DuffMarvel Facebook: @helenduffcomedy This podcast would not have been possible without the support and advice of Sam Sapin, Ben Target, Alice Freedman, Hayley Stirling, Catherine Brinkworth and Kate Watson.
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Jodie Mitchell
Come As You Are with Helen Duff
01/19/21 • 39 min
Jodie Mitchell is a comedian, podcaster and drag king, performing as John Travulva with Pecs Drag Kings, founding member of the omni-hilarious queer comedy collective LOL Word Comedy, and one half of the podcast Secret Dinosaur Cult with Sofie Hagen. In this episode, we talk masc shame, internalised butchphobia, homophobia, fatphobia and - on the flip side - consensual, joyful, egalitarian sex. In this quietly-captivating exploration of identity, role play and self expression, Jodie reveals how performing as a drag king to a fanbase of "incredible screaming queers who crave the non-cis-male dick" helped them to take up space, celebrate their masculinity, and fully embrace their sexuality. They are currently busy being a ‘blindingly obvious comedic talent’ (The Skinny) on the following platforms: Twitter - @JodieMitchell_ Instagram - @JodieMitchetc Facebook - @JodieMitchellComedy Support the podcast with a one off donation on https://ko-fi.com/helenduff or to get access to all sorts of extra audio / video content become a regular subscriber on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/HelenDuff Intro / Outro music by Luisa Gerstein of Deep Throat Choir; musical interludes by Helen Duff, arranged by Paddy Gervers; edited by Daisy Grant; produced by Helen Duff, Lorna Treen and Daisy Grant. Follow the podcast on Instagram: Instagram: @comeasyouarepod Twitter: @ComeAsYouArePo2 Facebook: @ComeAsYouArePod Find Helen Duff www.helenduff.com Instagram: @DuffMarvel Twitter: @DuffMarvel Facebook: @helenduffcomedy This podcast would not have been possible without the support and advice of Sam Sapin, Ben Target, Alice Freedman, Hayley Stirling, Catherine Brinkworth and Kate Watson.
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Come As You Are Trailer
Come As You Are with Helen Duff
01/04/21 • 1 min
A teaser trailer for podcast Come As You Are, the new podcast all about orgasms with comedian Helen Duff. First episode drops January 12th 2021. Can you guess who our mystery guests (for now) might be?
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Fern Riddell
Come As You Are with Helen Duff
07/12/22 • 70 min
Dr Fern Riddell is a cultural historian specialising in sex, suffrage and culture in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. She appears regularly on TV and radio and hosts the history podcast Not What You Thought You Knew, where she explores how history has made us who we are today. She was also the Historical Consultant on the BAFTA award winning BBC drama Ripper Street and as an on screen expert has appeared in documentaries for the BBC, ITV, C4, C5 and Sky Arts. In this episode we dive deep into Fern's new book, Sex: Lessons from History, in which she takes us on an illuminating journey to discover the sexual lives of our ancestors. From flirtation to masturbation and everything in between, we talk James Joyce's love letters, Victorian taboos, and when and why the female orgasm stopped being a top sexual priority. You can find Fern being curious, informative and erudite on: Instagram: @FernRiddell and Twitter @FernRiddell Support the podcast with a one off donation on https://ko-fi.com/helenduff or to get access to all sorts of extra audio / video content become a regular subscriber on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/HelenDuff Intro / Outro music by Luisa Gerstein of Deep Throat Choir; musical interludes written and performed by Helen Duff, arranged by Torch & Compass; edited by Daisy Grant; produced by Helen Duff and Daisy Grant. Follow the podcast on Instagram: Instagram: @comeasyouarepod Twitter: @ComeAsYouArePo2 Facebook: @ComeAsYouArePod Find Helen Duff www.helenduff.com Instagram: @DuffMarvel Twitter: @DuffMarvel Facebook: @helenduffcomedy This podcast would not have been possible without the support and advice of Sam Sapin, Ben Target, Alice Freedman, Hayley Stirling, Catherine Brinkworth and Kate Watson.
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Olga Koch
Come As You Are with Helen Duff
08/02/22 • 47 min
Olga Koch is a comedic force to be reckoned with - since debuting to a Best Newcomer nomination for her show "Fight" at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2018, she's appeared on Mock the Week (BBC Two), QI (BBC Two), Frankie Boyle's New World Order (BBC Two), Late Night Mash (Dave), Richard Osman's House of Games (BBC Two), Guessable (Comedy Central), Question Team (Dave) all over BBC Radio 4 with her own specials, and is currently co-presenting the "Obsessed with... Everything I Know About Love" podcast for BBC Sounds with Sophie Duker. On this episode we discuss being a self confessed "pick me girl" whilst studying computer programming; Olga's obsession with the internet from an early age; why dating a fellow comedian is less competitive than you might imagine; how learning about feminism and the #MeToo movement has influenced Olga's stand-up and when a new hotel room can help relight an old flame. Plus Lil Bow Wow, natch. Catch Olga on: Instagram: @kolga300 Twitter: @rocknrolga Support the podcast with a one off donation on https://ko-fi.com/helenduff or to get access to all sorts of extra audio / video content become a regular subscriber on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/HelenDuff Intro / Outro music by Luisa Gerstein of Deep Throat Choir; musical interludes written and performed by Helen Duff, arranged by Torch & Compass; edited by Helen Duff; produced by Helen Duff. Follow the podcast on: Instagram: @comeasyouarepod Twitter: @ComeAsYouArePo2 Facebook: @ComeAsYouArePod Find Helen Duff www.helenduff.com Instagram: @DuffMarvel Twitter: @DuffMarvel Facebook: @helenduffcomedy This podcast would not have been possible without the support and advice of Sam Sapin, Ben Target, Alice Freedman, Hayley Stirling, Catherine Brinkworth, Kate Watson, Lorna Rose Treen and Daisy Grant.
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Sophie Duker
Come As You Are with Helen Duff
03/23/21 • 46 min
The Edinburgh Comedy Award Nominee and bombastic black sheep who enjoys telling jokes, breaking hearts and taking names, Sophie Duker is a shooting star on the UK comedy scene. As seen on BBC2 (Mock The Week, Frankie Boyle’s New World Order), Channel 4 (8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Riot Girls), E4 (8 Out of 10 Cats), BBC Three, Channel 5 and Comedy Central. In this episode we talk about riding out online abuse, how therapy has helped Sophie stay present in her body whilst enduring a media sh*tstorm, masturbation, multiple orgasms, disassociation and the distinct differences between being in an open relationship and practicing polyamory. You can find Sophie being warm, witty and wise on Instagram: @sophiedukebox and Twitter @sophiedukebox Support the podcast with a one off donation on https://ko-fi.com/helenduff or to get access to all sorts of extra audio / video content become a regular subscriber on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/HelenDuff Intro / Outro music by Luisa Gerstein of Deep Throat Choir; musical interludes written and performed by Helen Duff, arranged by Torch & Compass; edited by Helen Duff; produced by Helen Duff, Lorna Treen and Daisy Grant. Follow the podcast on Instagram: Instagram: @comeasyouarepod Twitter: @ComeAsYouArePo2 Facebook: @ComeAsYouArePod Find Helen Duff www.helenduff.com Instagram: @DuffMarvel Twitter: @DuffMarvel Facebook: @helenduffcomedy This podcast would not have been possible without the support and advice of Sam Sapin, Ben Target, Alice Freedman, Hayley Stirling, Catherine Brinkworth and Kate Watson.
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SEASON 2 BONUS CONTENT
Come As You Are with Helen Duff
06/28/22 • 32 min
Helen dives deep with producer Daisy Grant into where she's been for the past 1.5 years and how birth and motherhood have impacted her production of the podcast. To gain early access to episodes and extra content, join our patreon at www.patreon.com/helenduff
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FAQ
How many episodes does Come As You Are with Helen Duff have?
Come As You Are with Helen Duff currently has 20 episodes available.
What topics does Come As You Are with Helen Duff cover?
The podcast is about Identity, Health & Fitness, Comedy, Podcasts and Selfcare.
What is the most popular episode on Come As You Are with Helen Duff?
The episode title 'MINI SERIES - Helen Duff: WHO CARES? Update!' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Come As You Are with Helen Duff?
The average episode length on Come As You Are with Helen Duff is 38 minutes.
How often are episodes of Come As You Are with Helen Duff released?
Episodes of Come As You Are with Helen Duff are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of Come As You Are with Helen Duff?
The first episode of Come As You Are with Helen Duff was released on Jan 4, 2021.
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