Show Notes
In this episode Katrina is joined by adventurer, activist, author and founder of Planet Patrol, Lizzie Carr MBE, to get a new perspective on plastics.
Katrina chats to the world record breaker about how she first started to rethink our relationship with plastics and what inspired her to start her charity Planet Patrol. Plus, we find out what real world things we can do to rethink our use of plastics.
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Katrina chats to fair fashion campaigner and second-hand clothing enthusiast Venetia Lamanna. Venetia explains the intricacies of the fast fashion industry and the impact it’s having on garment workers, what she’s doing to educate and rewrite the narrative when it comes to fashion. She also shares what practical things we can do today, to truly make a difference and take a stance when it comes to how we approach our own clothes.
Katrina chats to sensual expert, influencer and entrepreneur Henika Patel about her sensual awakening journey and the techniques and ways of thinking that helped her along the way. They unravel the common misconceptions of tantra, how embracing your sensuality can have a profound effect on other areas of life and things you can do to expand and explore your own sensuality.
In this episode Katrina is joined by singer, lead vocalist of The Undertones, Chairman of the Amwell Magna Fishery, and lifelong fly fisherman - Feargal Sharkey OBE. Feargal and Katrina discuss what drove him to spearhead the campaign against the pollution of British rivers, particularly chalk streams and how his early childhood in Northern Island shaped his passion for campaigning. Plus, Feargal shares what we can do to help protect and improve our waterways and water supply for the future.
Katrina is joined by model, presenter author & autism ambassador, Christine McGuiness to chat about her pioneering new number one best selling children’s book Amazing Me, Amazing You, which shines a light on neurodiversity. Christine was recently diagnosed with autism, alongside her three young children, and shares her personal story before diagnosis and since. Thought-provoking and insightful, Christine’s experiences including how it effected her as a young girl to now as a mother, bring to life how important kindness, friendship and acceptance are.
Katrina chats to consultant, mentor, podcaster and Global sensation Africa Brooke. After publicly sharing her journey to sobriety in 2016, she then took the digital and physical world by storm. Having created a huge online community and presence, she now specialises in discussing and inspiring people in relation to the challenges of self-censorship and self-sabotage. In this episode Africa shares her own personal journey of 'self' and novel ways of how we can re-think our approach ourselves when it comes to emotinal and personal development.