Conversations on hope, love, life and everything in-between
Welcome to Leaven Podcast. It’s a series of conversations with people who have been through something formative and navigated a mad old path, yet done so with courage, holding on to hope. We elevate what it means to be human, voices of wisdom and models of lived experience, thinking, speaking, and living life regardless of what’s shaped you.
Raechel Kelly
Raechel Kelly is the founder of The Liminality, a consultancy and community to support individuals and businesses towards a more climate conscious way of living and working. Her passion and belief in how we can all make a solid daily difference and shift from horror stories to one of love for our planet is contagious; change is indeed possible.
Rabya Lomas
Rabya Lomas is a photographer, activist, coach and podcaster who creates space for marginalised folk, influencing inclusion across social media and in the workplace.Rabya has driven the ethnicity pay gap petition, whilst supporting the community with her creative gifts always ensuring that those normally side lined or ignored are represented. Hear how Rabya has found her path and how we connected through our life experiences with mixed heritage and identities.
Gail Love-Schock
Kishen Parmar, a Designer and Founder of Design The Future, a start up lab and accelerator. Honoured to be able to support Kishen, to share his heart and experience of trauma in the death of his son. It is not an easy listen for anyone, let a lone those of us who are parents, so if you feel this may be challenging, go lightly. I implore that it should be listened to though. Kishen speaks of death and the loss of a little one, to make it more possible for people to speak of their pain and normalise death and grief.
Penny Wincer
Kishen Parmar, a Designer and Founder of Design The Future, a start up lab and accelerator. Honoured to be able to support Kishen, to share his heart and experience of trauma in the death of his son. It is not an easy listen for anyone, let a lone those of us who are parents, so if you feel this may be challenging, go lightly. I implore that it should be listened to though. Kishen speaks of death and the loss of a little one, to make it more possible for people to speak of their pain and normalise death and grief.
Ruth Ridgeway
Kishen Parmar, a Designer and Founder of Design The Future, a start up lab and accelerator. Honoured to be able to support Kishen, to share his heart and experience of trauma in the death of his son. It is not an easy listen for anyone, let a lone those of us who are parents, so if you feel this may be challenging, go lightly. I implore that it should be listened to though. Kishen speaks of death and the loss of a little one, to make it more possible for people to speak of their pain and normalise death and grief.
Kishen Parmar
Kishen Parmar, a Designer and Founder of Design The Future, a start up lab and accelerator. Honoured to be able to support Kishen, to share his heart and experience of trauma in the death of his son. It is not an easy listen for anyone, let a lone those of us who are parents, so if you feel this may be challenging, go lightly. I implore that it should be listened to though. Kishen speaks of death and the loss of a little one, to make it more possible for people to speak of their pain and normalise death and grief.
Syreeta Challinger
Like all best laid plans, things went awry for the final episodes and my original planned guests. In the absence of closure for this series, I have stepped up to fill the void. This conversation is with me, myself and I; Syreeta. A deeper insight into my world, why this podcast exists, through to what brings me joy all shaped by questions fielded by my lovely Instagram followers through Moments Of Sense & Style.
Lauren Mahon
Lauren Mahon is a broadcaster, presenter, writer, charity campaigner; a force of good. Through her award winning social enterprise, Girl VS Cancer, Lauren has paved the way for women finding themselves in the midst of trauma of diagnosis, creating a space that she lacked during her own experiences of breast cancer. Lauren shares her experiences of her treatment, how she has gone from strength to strength now on the other side.
Lucy Lucraft
Having lost her father her twenties and her sister took her own life during lockdown, Lucy speaks honestly with an inner strength and resilience that powers her. Following her instincts, constantly evolving, stems from her personal experiences of loss, grief, mental health and motherhood. We discuss Lucy's path and our shared experiences of belonging in the world as deeply feeling human.
Grace Alexander
Grace is a Clinical Psychologist, seed merchant and author, who grows and collects seeds from her cottage garden in Somerset. A multitalented soul with solid values and passion for beauty, courage and growth, Grace seamlessly combines very different worlds with aplomb. Grace's spirit and approach to life is remarkable.
Sommer Pyne
Sommer Pyne is a beautiful soul who has created a beautiful space to match, where her home is also her business. After a childhood of turbulence due to parental addiction, her drive and passion is fuelled by her desire to create a better world for herself and more importantly her daughters. Hear how Sommer has created her own sanctuary, as she shares her experiences of life, growing up with instability, then the traumatic premature arrival of her first daughter.
Mark Waters
Mark Waters is a film director and cinematographer driven by his love for the natural world. Mark's work is breathtakingly beautiful, capturing the moments of beauty and stillness in nature but ultimately the beauty of being human.
Syreeta Challinger
Creator Syreeta shares her thoughts on talking. The simple power of talking. Sharing our stories is healing. And more important than ever when emotions are being felt deeply. Whether it's pure joy or pain, we connect as humans when sharing, it’s soothing, it’s cathartic.
Sara Tasker
Sara’s work evolved from a photography project she started on Maternity leave and has flourished into a successful layered business encompassing writing, online courses and coaching that works around her health and families needs. Sara conveys her day to day, how a diagnosis late in life has shaped her world and how success in can look different to the patriarchal society's version we are surrounded by.
Annie Nicholson
Annie Nicholson, The Fandangoe Kid is a print artist, who work is large scale and found in public spaces, for all to access. Annie's work challenges taboos around complex emotions and topics, such as death, mental health, trauma, grief, love and gender constructs. It stems from her own personal trauma in the loss of her entire family.
Lizzie Jordan
A decade on from a life changing diagnosis and events, Lizzie is championing confident conversations with children, no matter how difficult or sensitive the topic. Recognising the issues faced by young people, Lizzie set up a social enterprise to provide resources, space and support to enable confident communication regardless of the topic. Hear how she made it through the toughest of times to get to this point of positivity.
Laxmi Hussain
Laxmi Hussain is a London based artist, who embodies female empowerment and the notion that creativity heals;