50 episodes
Good Influence Gemma Styles
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5.0 • 192 Ratings
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Welcome to Good Influence with Gemma Styles!
In each informative episode we meet a different guest, who’ll help us pay attention to something we should know about, but maybe don’t.
Through relaxed, honest and relatable conversations, we learn together what these good influence guests have to teach us on topics from mental health to media representation, confidence to climate.
To ask your own questions in future episodes follow @gemmastyles and @goodinfluencegs
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Laura Adlington on Body Confidence
This week on Good Influence we're talking about body confidence and fatphobia; confidence vs neutrality, the impact of the media that we grow up with and the importance of seeing ourselves reflected on screen.
Laura Adlington is a podcaster hosting Self-love podcast, Go Love Yourself alongside cohost and friend Lauren Smith.
Laura reached the finals of the Great British Bake Off in 2020 and ever since has used her platform to discuss plus size, representation, discrimination, fashion and body image.
If you want to learn more, here's where to find Laura and her recommendations:
Instagram: @laura.adlington
Website: lauraadlington.com
Podcast: Go Love Yourself
Something to read: Sofie Hagen - Happy Fat
Something to watch: The Handmaid's Tale
Something to listen to: Maintenance Phase Podcast
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Liz Plank on Feminism and Fertility
This week on Good Influence we're talking about feminism and fertility, the social secrecy around fertility, how to balance assumptions with information on the positive impact of choice for everyone.
Liz Plank is an author, journalist, filmmaker and podcaster with a master's degree in gender. Liz wrote bestselling book 'For The Love of Men' about the role of masculinity and how the patriarchy causes harm. She recently released a series called 'Race to 35' for Dax Shepard's 'Armchair Expert' podcast, in which she and co-host Monica Padman documented the experience of freezing their eggs as they both turned 35.
If you want to learn more, here's where to find Liz and her recommendations:
Instagram: @feministabulous
Twitter: @feministabulous
Website: elizabethplank.com
Something to read: For The Love Of Men - Liz Plank / Bell Hooks - The Will to Change / On Freedom- Maggie Nelson
Something to watch: 'Minding the Gap' Documentary
Something to listen to: Race To 35
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Sophia Li on Web3 and the Climate
This week on Good Influence we're talking about Web3 and the Climate; the role of storytelling in bringing climate conversations to new audiences and technologies, the importance of new systems for people around the world, and what Web3 actually means.
Sophia Li is an award winning journalist, film director and environmental advocate. She hosts Meta's climate focussed podcast 'Climate Talks', is a co-founder of Steward, a Web3 collective working for people on the planet, as well as being an official United Nations human rights champion.
If you want to learn more, here's where to find Sophia and her recommendations:
Instagram: @sophfei
Website: sophfei.com
Something to read: A New Earth - Eckhart Tolle
Something to watch: Nature
Something to listen to: 'How to Save a Planet' podcast
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Dr Sam Akbar on Stress and Resilience
This week on Good Influence we're talking about stress and resilience; the difference between stress and anxiety, managing stresses that we can't get rid of and how we adapt and recover after particularly tough times
Dr. Sam Akbar is a clinical psychologist, trauma specialist, and author of her book 'Stressilient: How to Beat Stress and Build Resilience.' She also founded newsletter The Mindful Minute, providing busy women with quick and practical tools to help them manage their stress and feel happier.
If you want to learn more, here's where to find Sam and her recommendations:
Instagram: @drsam_akbar
Twitter: @drsam_akbar
Book: Stressilient
Something to read: Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
Something to watch: Ferris Beuller's Day Off
Something to listen to: 'We Can Do Hard Things' Podcast
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Bay Garnett on Secondhand Shopping
This week on Good Influence we're talking about secondhand shopping; the rising popularity of pre-owned clothing, how the language used to describe it affects our habits, and the importance of bringing together fashion and sustainable practices.
Bay Garnett is known in the fashion industry as the Queen of Thrift. She's a fashion stylist, author and creative director, a pioneer in bringing vintage and second-hand pieces to high end fashion shoots. Bay has worked as a fashion editor in publications including British Vogue and The Evening Standard and is now also the senior independent fashion advisor for Oxfam, a vocal supporter of sustainability.
If you want to learn more, here's where to find Bay and her recommendations:
Instagram: @baygarnett
Website: baygarnett.com
Podcast: 'This Old Thing'
Something to read: 'In Cold Blood' - Truman Capote
Something to watch: John Hughes Movies
Something to listen to: The Rolling Stones, Bach, 'As It Was' by Harry Styles, Elvis, 'Grasslands' by Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen, John Denver
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Rain Dove on Gender and Activism
This week on Good Influence we're talking about Gender and Activism; experiencing the world outside of binary norms, how much society needs to know about gender, and how to have kind, productive conversations about identity.
Rain Dove is a model, actor and activist, known for subverting expectations of gender in clothing, Rain has modelled alternately as male and female in shoots, while personally choosing to use no particular pronouns.
If you want to learn more, here's where to find Rain and their recommendations:
Instagram: @raindovemodel
Twitter: @raindovemodel
Something to read: Yourself
Something to watch: 'People are Awesome: Fast Workers edition' on YouTube
Something to listen to: Remi Wolf music
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Customer Reviews
The Learning for Yourself Podcast…
This podcast circles around topics in a way that can be relevant to me as well as people around me, my job, my city and the world. As someone who is in teaching - I often wonder who I’m learning things for - me or to regurgitate for others/my students. I am happy to report that this type of learning is for me and feels geared toward me. Thank you, thank you, Gemma…you rock, don’t ever change.
Delightful
I love this podcast. The host, Gemma, amazing, and so are her guests. I strongly recommend.
Like a deep breath
This podcast has quickly become my favourite. It feels like sitting having tea with good friends who are extremely knowledgeable and kind hearted. In the chaos of life taking a few moments during the week to listen to Gemma interview different people feels like a deep breath of fresh air. I have learned so much from her guests about doing life in a positive and influential way!