Show Us Your Bits Alice Cripps and Josie Lloyd

We’re foodies this week with the co-founder of Bill’s restaurant, Tania Webb. With decades of experience in the restaurant business, she’s lived and worked worldwide, being responsible for creating some amazing restaurant concepts. But back in her home town of Lewes, she spotted the opportunity when her brother-in-law Bill had a veg shop and fate, the big Lewes flood, conspired to make them set up a restaurant together.  The rest is history, with Bill’s becoming a High Street favourite nationwide. In recent years Tania has set up another Brighton institution, Marmalade with which she's carried on her love of nourishing, fresh and healthy home-cooked food. Tania shows us the Rolex she bought for herself when she made it in Hong Kong and the sparkly ring she's never taken off which connects her to her Mum. Down to earth and inspiring, Tania is proof that following your passion and hard work gets results.
https://www.cafemarmalade.co.uk/

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We’re all about wellbeing this week, as Josie returns from a retreat in Spain. We talk to very special guest @nicolaelliottneom founder of @neomwellbeing 
She talks us through her journey from working in glossy magazines to realising her ambition to be an entrepreneur. When she started suffering from anxiety and realised she wasn’t taking care of herself, she started blending essential oils to help her and her friends.  
Starting out with a business selling four candles she’s grown Neom into a multi-national global empire and the biggest wellbeing platform in the UK. As well launching her new book ‘Four Ways To Wellbeing’, Nicola is passionate about getting the right work-life balance, especially for women, and encourages budding entrepreneurs with her Instagram Live interviews. She says her secret is to do less and to be more sloth. 
She shows us her Cartier love bangles and the ‘biting jewel’ she inherited from her grandmother - still with the bite marks in!  
Visit her Neom stores or go online at www.neomwellbeing.com


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We’re being luvvies this week and talking theatrics as Alice embraces a dozen shows in one weekend at the Brighton festival. Our guest is Theatre Director of the iconic Theatre Royal in Brighton.  Sophie talks us through her fascinating job and the huge restoration project the theatre is undergoing, as well as some of the fascinating history including the inside scoop on the resident ghosts. Taking after her eccentric grandmother, Christiana, who worked in the theatre, Sophie started working as an usher selling ice creams at the age of seventeen and has never left the theatre.  She tells us the stories behind her grandmother’s jewellery and how she’s learnt that if you work very hard and are very nice to people, it’s amazing what you can achieve.
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Alice and Josie are springing into summer with jumpsuits and fake Chanel. They are joined by glamorous guest, Josephine Pembroke who shares her incredible journey from being the naughtiest girl at school to getting chucked out of drama school to setting up her girl band Pussies Galore and taking Soho by storm in the early 90’s. After a stint working in radio, she set up Radio Gorgeous in 2009 which has become the longest running female podcast in Britain. During lockdown, newly single, Josephine re- invented again and says she’s now in the best season of her life. She tells us about her new one-woman show, ‘Dinner Darlings Dinner’ which she’s performing at the Brighton Festival. Along with the most bling diamond costume ring, Josephine show us her granny’s gold wedding ring, which she uses to help her make life decisions. Funny and inspiring, Josephine says if you want anything in life you have to rely on yourself. 
http://lanterntheatrebrighton.co.uk/dinner-darlings-dinner/


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Kicking off Season Four, Alice and Josie are delighted to interview former editor-in-Chief of Elle, Sunday Times Style and Cosmopolitan and co-host of the phenomenally successful podcast, Postcards From Midlife, Lorraine Candy. In her latest book, 'What’s Wrong With Me’ from Unravelling to Reinvention, A Midlife Memoir, Lorraine tackles everything from empty nest, career reinvention, sex, marriage, brain fog, burnout, perimenopause and menopause. With advice from experts, celebrities and personal stories, Lorraine is a torch-bearer for this liberating and transformational new stage of life. Funny, inspirational and full of tips, Lorraine shares her own challenges, how she combats stress and has learnt to embrace change. Currently undergoing a process of shedding, Lorraine says she’s not sentimental and isn’t a hoarder of jewellery or keepsakes, but she shares the touching stories behind the three items she’d save in a fire, including an ashtray she had to buy from Tiffany’s for Donatella Versace. So if you need some advice and inspiration about your own reinvention, then do listen in.
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Our guest, journalist, radio and TV presenter Daisy McAndrew is a Royal Commentator for NBC the big American network, so her work is cut out with their obsession with our royal family. Daisy shares some of her stories from her fascinating career, including what it was like to report on the late Queen’s death. But politics is her first love she shares how, at the age of 13 she wanted to be a spy and that led to her working in the Houses of Parliament at 19, then her career took her to the BBC and ITV. Now, a broadcaster of over 20 years, Daisy has interviewed nearly every prime minister and has her own politics show on Talk TV.  
She describes what it’s like to be on screen and the harsh public scrutiny that comes with that, but how she’s got more confident as she’s got older with her fashion choices. A committed shopaholic, Daisy says her wardrobe, jewellery and accessories collection is embarrassingly large, but that she’s a ‘more is more’ kind of girl.  However, she’s very practical and buys and sells everything on eBay and Vinted.  
Having been the victim of several burglaries, she buys costume jewellery and, following in the footsteps of her father, believes that antiques are the way forward. She tells us the story of her treasured antique diamond  ring that her friends clubbed together to buy her for her fiftieth. She also shows us the round pendant with pearls and rubies gifted from her mum to her dad. Her every day jewellery includes three rings, she never takes off, including her wedding ring, a ring from her late cousin,Janey, plus a gift from her daughter, a gold and silver ring with an amethyst.  
She showed us her many perspex colour-co-ordinated jewellery boxes full of drawers filled with necklaces, rings and earrings in every colour.  With so much choice at her fingertips, Daisy loves a bold statement necklace for her TV show, which she says often raises a few eyebrows and cause a problem with the sound engineer who has to get the microphone just below her chin. 
Savvy, funny, down-to-earth and full of common-sense advice, Daisy shares her fashion top tips as well as her life hacks to find confidence in what you do, and to stop caring what others think. You can find Daisy on Vinted @DMCA1234 Insta @daisymac1 and on X @daisymcandrew.

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