Syreeta Challinger Transcript

Hello, I’m Syreeta Challinger, and welcome to Leaven - the podcast for conversations on hope, love, life and everything in between.

Hello and welcome to Leaven, this is a space to permeate or transform something for the better. A series of conversations with people who have been through something formative and navigated a mad old path yet done so with courage, holding onto hope.

Through these conversations, on love, life, loss and adventure, I wish for listeners to have a space of support and inspiration that no matter what you are going through, that there is a way through.

By the end of an episode to be left feeling a little bit better, as sharing our story has been cathartic which originally started a d we continue to do so by our Instagram a d brand platform ‘Moments Of Sense And Style’ or MOSS for short.


By sharing our hearts, our positive outlooks, we help others, we connect to people, bring people together. It’s honest, raw, it’s real. It all stemmed from when I could not find anyone or anything who could offer me hope or  who had been through something similar when I was in my darkest hour.

There are many layers to our story, but ultimately break it down, we all bleed red, we all suffer loss and heartaches, we are all just same same, just different ways of being, getting through, ways of living, a human being. I recognise that folk come to our platform for our story and my voice seeking words of wisdom and insight as we know full way in life and being human is not linear. Sometimes joyful, sometimes messy other times dark and bloody painful yet we believe it is all beautiful and worthy of being talked about - the good and the bad, the bad and the good - and we wish to share different voices and experience. This is how Leaven came to be. Each episode is an insightful and moving conversation with something to take away from each episode. Here we have someone else who has made it through - whether it be trauma, grief, loss, massive change, divorce or cancer - one of the many things that we will cover. We hope it will lift and help others through what they are going through too.