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SIM Ep 154 Chops 54: body image with Natasha Devon Sep 23, 2018

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In this week's Chops Uno, Jen and Hannah chat with the properly awesome Natasha Devon, campaigner, Mental Health Collective member and author of A Beginner's Guide To Being Mental, An A-Z From Anxiety to Zero Fucks Given. Topics covered include the rise in self-harm among children, particularly young girls, the perils of social media, and how we can all learn to feel better about ourselves. They also talk about Natasha's excellent Where's Your Head At campaign, which aims to make workplaces more savvy about mental health issues. You can find more info on that here: http://www.wheresyourheadat.org/.

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SIM Ep 153 Pod 50: live at the London Podcast Festival Sep 19, 2018

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This week we've got a podcast with a difference as we bring you a podzine-gigcast hybrid, hosted by all three of the team. There's a bit of Bush Telegraph, a bit of interview-type chat, a fair few tangents and a whole lot of fun.

Recorded live at the London Podcast Festival on September 15, our frankly tremendous guests are Imriel Morgan, host of WannaBe Podcast and CEO of the ShoutOut Network, Chidera Eggerue, blogger, author, founder of #saggyboobsmatter and more commonly known as The Slumflower, and Angela Barnes, award-winning comedian, co-host of Newsjacker and Cold War bunker nerd.

Also, Jen celebrates a birthday, Mick gets tennis wrong and Hannah does an accent.

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SIM Ep 152 Chops 52: Hoarding Sep 16, 2018

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It's Sunday Chops time again and this week we're putting you in the capable hands of journalist Hazel Davis. In August, the WHO reclassified hoarding as a mental disorder and, as the child of a hoarder, Hazel shares with us an honest account of her experiences and talks to psychotherapist Rachel Morris about how to help a hoarder and how to help yourself if you've grown up with one..

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SIM Ep 151 Pod 49: Diaries, dystopia and delightful schemes Sep 12, 2018

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New Wednesday, new podcast (let's make that a saying, eh?) and this week we've got loads of goodness for you. Mickey goes to Glasgow Women's Library to find out more about this valuable resource for women's history. And does a quiz from a Jackie annual. Natch. Hannah meets playwright Dawn King to chat about the West End debut of her award winner Foxfinder, as well as writing dystopia and the barriers for women in theatre. Author Stella Duffy drops by to inspire us to start our own Fun Palace (she's very persuasive) and Jen meets GB wheelchair basketball star Sophie Paterson to talk wheelchair basketball and charity Path To Success which is helping to support women in disability sport. What are you waiting for?

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SIM Ep 150, Chops 51: Self-love with The Slumflower Sep 09, 2018

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In this week's second helping of Chops, Jen meets up with blogger, speaker and author Chidera Eggerue, aka The Slumflower, to talk about her new books What A Time to Be Alone and Scribble Yourself Feminist, why you should never seek approval for being you, how Nigerian women are killing it in UK popular culture right now, and of course, why #SaggyBoobsMatter. You can catch Chidera as part of our lineup for the #LondonPodcastFestival at 2pm on September 15, alongside Imriel Morgan and Angela Barnes.

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SIM Ep 149, Chops 50: The real women of Holloway Prison Sep 09, 2018

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It's Sunday Chops time again and this week we have two servings for you. Loosen your belts. In this episode, Mickey and Hannah go to the Echoes of Holloway Prison exhibition to meet journalist and author Caitlin Davies to talk about her new book Bad Girls: A History of Rebels and Renegades. We chat about some of the many women who found themselves in one of the country's most famous prisons - from the Suffragettes and the Greenham Common activists to refugees and unfaithful wives, and ask what we can learn about how society judges women from the way it treats its prisoners. Tuck in.

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SIM Ep 148, Pod 48: Mothers, Spacers, Singers & Headers Sep 05, 2018

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The team are back with an absolute corker for you this week. First up, we chat to author Hannah Begbie about her new book Mother, and caring for a child with cystic fibrosis. Jen gets double sportsy as she gets on her bike to catch up with tour guide Sophie Campbell and Jess Chu, head of diversity and inclusion at Santander, to talk about the Santander Cycle's Tour de Force, and also has a natter with Charlie Clifford and Amber Stobbs from Charlton Athletic's women's team about the start of the new FA Women's Championship. Finally, in a Standard Issue first, we have some live music (get us!) from the wonderfully-named She Street Band as we talk, and indeed sing, Bruce Springsteen.There's dancing, crowdfunding and surprising comedy sets in the Bush Telegraph, and Hannah does Disney's Treasure Planet. Give your ears the treatment they deserve!

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SIM Ep 147 Chops 49: Diversify! with June Sarpong Sep 02, 2018

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In this Chops, Mickey and Jen meet the utterly charming June Sarpong; that's right, that excellent bird off of the telly from the golden age of youth TV. Also, broadcaster, campaigner and now author, as she's penned not one but two books: Diversify and The Power of Women. She tells us about both, about making society a better place, about how women are bloody smashing, and about how Vernon Kaye's accent baffled Hollywood stars on a weekly basis. Also contains some sort of Hollyoaks wormhole.

It's a double helping of Chops this week, so make sure you check out Jen and Hannah's excellent chat with THAT Gina Miller. We guarantee you'll have a girl crush by about five minutes in.

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SIM Ep 146 Chops 48: Rising up with Gina Miller Sep 02, 2018

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It's a double portion of Chops for you this weekend, you lucky so-and-sos, so keep your ears peeled for our other offering, by way of a chat betwixt Mick, Jen and the legend that is June Sarpong, about her bookDiversify. In this particular Chops, Jen and Hannah had a natter with THAT Gina Miller about her new book Rise: Life Lessons in Speaking Out, Standing Tall and Leading the Way. They also talked about being a woman in the public eye, standing strong in the face of microaggressions and, of course, the B word.

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SIM Episode 145: Gig 32: Gibson, Houston, McAlpine and Millican Aug 29, 2018

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It's gigcast time again. Two in a month? We are spoiling you. This week, we have a recording of an In Conversation event held in Sale in June, with top guests Sian Gibson, Cherylee Houston and Jennie McAlpine. They spoke to our Hannah and the boss, Sarah Millican, about smelling weather (yeah, that's a thing), meeting Take That and how, if your knickers fall down you should just keep walking. You're welcome!

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