Episodes

  • Trusting Your Gut - with Justine Rouch

    Trusting Your Gut - with Justine Rouch
    Nov 8 2024
    Our guest this week is entrepreneur Justine Rouch, who has worked for some of the world’s most recognised and luxurious brands. With a love of fashion and sports, Justine has traveled all over the world, but found she was always in need of a bag to put her gym kit in, or her wet swimming costume after a swim. With a break between jobs for her and her husband, Mike, in 2016, they decided to set up a business making the sports bag Justine knew was missing. But tragically, five days later, Mike died. With her world turned upside-down, she threw herself into the business, focussing on something happy and with potential, as she navigated her grief. In 2019 she launched ‘her baby’ La Pochette and talks through the journey of bringing her eco-friendly, sustainable sports bag to market. She says she’s not afraid of making a fool of herself and says that resilience is key to her success, along with leaning into her fear and trusting her gut instinct. Justine shows us her treasured charm bracelet of her late mother’s, and tells the gorgeous story of her silver jigsaw proposal puzzle and the ring she designed to celebrate her own success. Do check out the fabulous bags at www.lapochette.co and look out for them at boutique gyms in London and five star luxury hotels across the world.

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    39 mins
  • A Celebration of Costume Jewellery - with Sophie Adler McKean

    A Celebration of Costume Jewellery - with Sophie Adler McKean
    Nov 1 2024
    It’s all about costumes this week as Josie heads to New York and is getting a costume together for The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Talking of costume jewellery, their guest this week is Sophie Adler Mckean who tells us the story of her great aunt Mimi, who came to the UK via Greece as a refugee escaping Austria before the war. Mimi’s father set up a factory making the metal parts of bailey bridges, which later became a factory making parts for jewellery called Jewelcraft. When it was taken over by Corocraft, Mimi became the head jewellery designer, relocating the factory to Crawley. Mimi was often in the press and was called ‘One of London’s most glamorous business women.’ Sophie shows us lots of Mimi’s incredible necklaces, earrings and brooches and talks about how her family donated some of the spectacular pieces to the V&A. Do look at the pictures on our Instagram page. Inheriting Mimi’s creative and entrepreneurial streak, Sophie is a performer as well as having a wonderful catering business. Find out more at www.superdoux.com

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    28 mins
  • The 'Miss Beeton's Murder Agency' Special

    The 'Miss Beeton's Murder Agency' Special
    Oct 25 2024
    Hot on the back of the book launch, Josie and Alice chat about Josie’s new cosy crime novel, ‘Miss Beeton’s Murder Agency’ which is published this week. Along the way, they talk about their love of Rivals on the TV and Alice’s crush on the original Rupert Campbell-Black and plan their Rivals party. Josie talks about her inspiration for the book - her mother’s copy of Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management and what she discovered about the iconic and progressive Victorian writer Isabella Beeton. Josie is delighted with the personalised gold spinner necklace that Alice made to accompany Miss Beeton. Do enter the competition which we'll post on the @showusyourbits instagram page to win one and a signed copy of the book. https://linktr.ee/missbeeton

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    33 mins
  • You’re never too old to try something new - with Freya North

    You’re never too old to try something new - with Freya North
    Oct 18 2024
    Join us for an inspiring and uplifting chat with our guest, best-selling author Freya North to kick off the new season. After taking her son to University, Freya was reminded of her own experience of leaving home for the first time and wrote her sixteenth novel, ‘The Unfinished Business of Edie Browne’. She describes it as a love letter to youth and also a love letter to a time and a place. Set in Manchester in the late 80’s in the golden age of clubbing, Freya talks candidly about that time and how it inspired her to write her moving tale about friendship. After back surgery in 2016, Freya took up cycling and talks about the joy of discovering a new hobby and the very special community that has come into her life as a result. A country girl at heart, she shows us the little silver horse that her father gave her as a child. Not a jewellery wearer as she now lives on a farm, she shows us her very special tanzanite ring - the rarest gem stone in the world and how she came to design it. She also describes how things have come a full circle and how her vintage watch has recently started working again. As well as her hugely successful Instagram chats with other authors, #wednesdaywriters, Freya is also raising money for the Book Trust with The Book Lovers Journal - which she has created as the perfect gift for anyone who loves books. freyanorth.com

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    43 mins
  • Season 4 Finale On The Beach

    Season 4 Finale On The Beach
    Jul 26 2024

    Join us for some seaside fun as Alice and Josie wrap up Season 4 and look back on our inspirational guests and the nuggets of wisdom they’ve shared from ‘being more sloth’ to ‘never listening to the no’s’. In a series where we’ve been talking bout re-invention, we’ve heard about the ingenious ways in which our guests have used their circumstances to take a different path to success - all of them flying the flag for women. Along the way, we discuss the post exam holiday mayhem, Love Supreme festival, Alice’s jaunt to Bergerac for a wedding as well as her tips for keeping your jewellery shiny. And at the end of it all, we take a much needed plunge in the sea. Happy summer! See you for Season 5 soon.




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    24 mins
  • Making a Difference with Jo Tutchener-Sharp

    Making a Difference with Jo Tutchener-Sharp
    Jun 28 2024
    Meet Jo Tutchener, who founded her amazing company Scamp and Dude after a life-changing brain haemorrhage made her completely reassess her life. She realised that if she were to die, she hadn’t done enough to help people and vowed that if she got better, she’d do something to make a difference. Terrified of leaving her young sons when she went into brain surgery, the idea of the Superhero Sleep Buddies was born. This was quickly followed by a clothing line for kids, all with the superpower button embroidered on the sleeve so kids could press it to feel better when they were scared or had to be away. Scamp and Dude launched into Liberty along with women’s sweatshirts also with the embroidered bolt. They were so popular they sold out instantly. Now Jo’s women’s collection has sky-rocketed and she’s expanded into stores around the country. But more than just a clothing brand, Scamp and Dude has become a community with women flocking to the stores and the Scamp and Dooders Facebook page. Jo has also launched the superpower-infused printed scarfs and for every one sold, one is gifted to a woman going through chemotherapy. So far Jo has sent out over 45,000. Thoughtful and passionate about her business and family, Jo shows us her most prized possession - a small pot of solid perfume from her Mum, as well as a set of lucky charms that she was gifted when she went in for her surgery. Jo says she’s a believer in the power of positivity and that it’s never too late to make a change.

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    43 mins
  • Staying Underfeated With Bibi Lynch

    Staying Underfeated With Bibi Lynch
    Jun 21 2024
    This week, meet journalist and broadcaster, Bibi Lynch. Starting out as a performer and cabaret star, Bibi has never taken a conventional route. Realising she was better at writing than singing, she jostled herself into journalism, working in magazines, then on into TV, followed by a prolific career broadcasting and now podcasting. She’s fearlessly used her platform to shine a light on important subjects as hidden homelessness, grief, dating and being childless with humour and honesty. Now at 58, she says she’s at a stage where she’s bringing all of the strands of her career together, doing lots of live events, writing a book and working on several more podcasts. Bibi shows us her special diamond ring from her Dad, her vintage A-Z and a toy monkey that she says she cuddles all night. Find out more at bibilynch.com and @bibilynch on Insta and Twitter.

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    36 mins
  • When Life Gives You Lemons with Lemon Fuller

    When Life Gives You Lemons with Lemon Fuller
    Jun 14 2024
    Reinventing from a career in the entertainment industry in L.A. to creating the fastest growing underwear brand in the UK, Lemonade Dolls, we’re delighted to meet the inspirational Lemon Fuller. Lemon is on a mission to create comfortable, fun and stylish underwear with inclusivity and diversity at the heart of her business. She is passionate about representing as many women as possible and explains how important sustainability is to her. With no background in fashion or business, Lemon went to drama school but says that is her superpower, as she does things her own way and refuses to take no for an answer. Lemon shows us her show-stopping statement YSL ring that her friends clubbed together to buy her for her 30th birthday, a precious chain from her Mum as well as her brand new diamond engagement ring, Fizzing with energy and positivity, Lemon is a force for change and has just launched the ‘Swing It Girls’ campaign, encouraging the twenty percent of women who are undecided to vote. Find her products at www.lemonadedolls.com and on Insta @lemonadedolls

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    38 mins