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A podcast about break-ups, love, pop culture, and emotional renewal, hosted by Isabella Shields and Adam Benmakhlouf, with agony aunt questions and recommendations to help cope with heartbreak.

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A podcast about break-ups, love, pop culture, and emotional renewal, hosted by Isabella Shields and Adam Benmakhlouf, with agony aunt questions and recommendations to help cope with heartbreak.

    Episode 44: Brief Encounter + Lost in Translation with Demi Rodriguez

    Episode 44: Brief Encounter + Lost in Translation with Demi Rodriguez

    Welcome to ‘Breaking Up’ - a podcast about break-ups, love, and pop culture. I’m your host, Isabella Shields and this week I’m joined by Demi Rodriguez!




    Demi is the digital marketing coordinator at Anime Limited, the UK‘s largest independent anime distributor. She’s been working in film marketing for the past five years, with her previous home being Park Circus Films, who bring Hollywood classics back to the big screen.




    Today we’re talking about Noel Coward’s classic of British cinema Brief Encounter (1945) and Sofia Coppola’s critically acclaimed recent classic Lost in Translation (2003). !SPOILERS AHEAD! So watch the films and come back to hear us talking about them.




    You can catch Demi on instagram @demileerod.




    If you‘d like to send in an agony aunt questions, any recommendations, or any sponsorship offers, please contact  breakinguppodcast@gmail.com or you can follow us @breakinguppodcast and can dm us questions there.

    • 1 hr 25 min
    Episode 43: Toxic Masculinity in Relationships/Incel Feelings with Eden Dodd

    Episode 43: Toxic Masculinity in Relationships/Incel Feelings with Eden Dodd

    Welcome to ‘Breaking Up’ - a podcast about break-ups, love, and pop culture. I’m your host, Isabella Shields and this week I’m joined by the artist Eden Dodd (@edengrantdodd)to discuss toxic and fragile masculinity and how that reverberates in relationships. 




    We answer questions about:

    - A bisexual boyfriend who keeps making misogynistic and homophobic jokes

    - How to feel and communicate loneliness and difficult feelings as a man without seeming like an incel

    - Whether or not it's a red flag that his favourite film is Fight Club. 




    CONTENT WARNING: Mental health conditions/Suicide/Incels/Violence

    Today’s show centres on toxic masculinity and incels. I and every guest I’ve had on the podcast condemn the mentality and behaviour of incels and we have from very early on in production. Nothing in this episode is intended to excuse or make reasonable the violent actions of hate-filled men. We discuss misogyny, suicide, and mental health problems so if these discussions might upset you in any way I would give this episode a miss. My condolences to all the families and people affected by violence committed by male perpetrators, and to those affected by the horrific attack committed by incel Jake Davidson in Plymouth, which took the lives of six people. This episode was recorded a month ago and I hadn’t anticipated that the context for its release would be so upsetting. 




    Eden and I hope that this episode is respectful and that it’s obvious that we are criticising and denouncing the cultural conditions that lead people to these groups and communities. 




    Eden’s work centres on the redetermination of masculinity & Welsh identity, mental health and catharsis from trauma, escapism and mythology and that’s why we’re talking all about fragile and toxic masculinity. 




    If you'd like to send in an agony aunt questions, any recommendations, or any sponsorship offers, please contact  breakinguppodcast@gmail.com or you can follow us @breakinguppodcast and can dm us questions there.

    • 1 hr 4 min
    Episode 42: Sacred Personal Objects with Rush Johnstone

    Episode 42: Sacred Personal Objects with Rush Johnstone

    Welcome to ‘Breaking Up’ - a podcast about break-ups, love, and pop culture. I’m your host, Isabella Shields and this week I’m joined by artist and web designer Rush Johnstone to chat all about relationships.
     
    In this episode artist and web designer Rush Johnstone and I are chatting about:
    • telling your partner you don’t want to use your vibrator with them
    • dating someone you work with and the awkwardness and anxiety that comes with that
    • ways to create intimacy with a partner who doesn’t have the same libido as you
     
    This episode was sponsored by @wore - use the discount code breakingup30 for 30% off your purchases!
     
    You can catch Rush on instagram @ruth.wtf and on their website at https://ruth.wtf/.
     
    If you'd like to send in an agony aunt questions, any recommendations, or any sponsorship offers, please contact  breakinguppodcast@gmail.com or you can follow us @breakinguppodcast and can dm us questions here 💚

    • 1 hr 9 min
    Episode 41: Dating and Being Intersex with Matthew Rimmer

    Episode 41: Dating and Being Intersex with Matthew Rimmer

    Welcome to ‘Breaking Up’ - a podcast about break-ups, love, and pop culture. I’m your host, Isabella Shields and this week I’m joined by the lovely Matthew Rimmer. Matthew’s an incredible artist who recently exhibited at 16 Nicholson Street and who’s here with me today to talk all about relationships and about being intersex.
     
    After we’ve spoken about Matt’s experience with intersexuality we answer some agony aunt questions about: 
     
    Introducing the exes you’re still friends with to your new partner
    How to tackle your partner having a friendship you find weird and unpleasant for your partner
    Being a tall girl in high school and feeling like you have no dating options
    You can catch Matt on instagram at https://www.instagram.com/matthewrimmer_/
    and on his website at https://www.matthewrimmer.net/
     
    If you'd like to send in an agony aunt questions, any recommendations, or any sponsorship offers, please contact  breakinguppodcast@gmail.com or you can follow us @breakinguppodcast and can dm us questions there

    • 1 hr 37 min
    Episode 40: Cher's Break-Up Films (Mermaids + The Witches of Eastwick)

    Episode 40: Cher's Break-Up Films (Mermaids + The Witches of Eastwick)

    Welcome to ‘Breaking Up’ - a podcast about break-ups, love, and pop culture. I’m your host, Isabella Shields, and in this episode I’m rejoined by Debbie Young! You can hear all about Debbie and the amazing things she’s doing in our Achilles Heel episode but today we’re all about Cher! 
     
    We’re discussing the films Mermaids (Dir. Richard Benjamin; 1990) and The Witches of Eastwick (Dir. George Miller; 1987) so watch the films and come back to hear us talking about them!
     
    Links to Debbie’s websites here:
    http://www.debbieyoung.space/
     
    https://www.studiomama.co.uk/
     
    Links to Debbie’s socials here:
    https://www.instagram.com/debbieyoungart/?hl=en
     
    https://www.instagram.com/debbies_breath/?hl=en
     
    https://www.instagram.com/studiomamaishome/?hl=en
     
    If you'd like to send in an agony aunt questions, any recommendations, or any sponsorship offers, please contact  breakinguppodcast@gmail.com or you can follow us @breakinguppodcast and can dm us questions there

    • 56 min
    Episode 39: Performing Heartbreak with Tamara MacArthur

    Episode 39: Performing Heartbreak with Tamara MacArthur

    Welcome to ‘Breaking Up’ - a podcast about break-ups, love, and pop culture hosted by Isabella Shields. 
    In today’s release the gorgeous Tamara MacArthur and I are talking about performing heartbreak. Tamara is a visual artist whose works explore yearning, futility and the boundaries of intimacy. In this episode we’re answering questions from people who are struggling through heartbrokenness by telling them what’s worked for us and by appropriating anti-terror slogans as relationship advice

    • 1 hr 9 min

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