Time Disables Everybody: Changing Perspectives with Zoe Simmons

Helloooo, and welcome to Season 8 of Mads World! You're about to listen to Reels to Real Life: Practising Modern Feminism with @FGRLSCLUB Founder Chloe Laws! This week I am joined by journalist and poet from London, Chloe Laws. Chloe is the founder of FGRLS CLUB, a platform fighting misogyny. She has written for the likes of GLAMOUR, Vogue, Cosmo, Dazed, The Metro and many more.  In this episode, we chat about how she started the feminist platform, how she faces criticism and trolls online, social media's influence on modern feminism, female friendships and the patriarchy, and much more. Click here to find Mads World social media, submit questions to the website, or buy me a coffee. Cover Art: Veredien Music: The.Jones.Project_93

4 Huhti 202335min

Helloooo, and welcome to Season 8 of Mads World! You're about to listen to No Dietary Requirements: Fatphobia & Thin Privilege with Kitty Underhill! This week I’m lucky enough to be joined by model, speaker and body acceptance coach, Kitty Underhill. Kitty uses her platform to help people unpack the negativity they've learnt about bodies, debunk beauty myths and challenge the societal status quo about bodies. She is also the creator of the #TotallyTubular campaign, a campaign which aims to raise awareness and fight the stigma about tubular breast syndrome (TBS). In this episode, we chat about the effects of diet culture, fatphobia, thin privilege, self-acceptance vs self-love and much more!  This episode is sponsored by The Oh Collective - who is on a mission to inspire people to embrace sexual wellness as part of our overall well-being. We all have our share of good and bad sex, The Oh Collective is here to make it even better! I’m so excited to partner with them as they share the same values as Mads World and align well with everything you guys love the most. I'm obsessed with their newly launched massage oil candle, you can burn for 10 minutes and then use the oil for a massage to help relax and enhance sensation. Make sure you check them out at the link in the episode description, they’ve got everything from sex toys and intimate care products, to weekly educational content, to events across the UK and Europe for you to check out! You can also use the code 'maddylove', for a free all natural lube when you buy one item, and 10% off when you sign up! Check out The Oh Collective website HERE and their Instagram HERE. Click here to find Mads World social media, submit questions to the website, or buy me a coffee. Cover Art: Veredien Music: The.Jones.Project_93

28 Maalis 202345min

Helloooo, and welcome to Season 8 of Mads World! You're about to listen to Single Sounds: The First Matchmaking Podcast with Katie Mc! Katie is the host and creator of the very first matchmaking podcast, Single Sounds. Katie interviews single Londoners and the listeners can write in to date her guests; a new dating method that hopes to put personality first and make the dating process more enjoyable! Since starting in February 2022, Katie has set up many first dates and earlier this year announced her first official couple who met through the podcast process. In this episode, we chat about our funniest dating failures, the problem with dating apps, dating fatigue and much more.    Click here to find Mads World social media, submit questions to the website, or buy me a coffee.   Cover Art: Veredien Music: The.Jones.Project_93

21 Maalis 202344min

Helloooo, and welcome to Season 8 of Mads World! You're about to listen to Role Modelling: Pageantry & Feminism with Ms Great Britain, Charlotte Clemie! This week I am joined by regining Ms Great Britain, Charlotte Clemie. Recently crowned as Ms Great Britain, Charlotte spoke proudly as a finalist about her platform, 'Raising Great Brit-men'.  Having 3 sons, Charlotte wants to encourage other mums to educate their sons and raise a future generation of feminist men. Charlotte was raised in Northern Ireland by two feminist mothers and now embraces being a part of an industry that supports women to talk about their passions.  Charlotte is a 'girls girl'. In her twenties she was successfully cast as the official real life Barbie for the toy company Mattel. She worked as Barbie for 5 years and travelled across the UK at various events. Charlotte dreamed of one day having a daughter to pass down her Barbie memorabilia but it wasn't to be. Charlotte is now the proud mother of 3 young boys. It was after having her third son that she realised she had a greater power to make a difference to women. And so her platform 'Raising Great Brit-men' was born.  Charlotte is a proud feminist, and although some might say that's somewhat contradictory as a 'pageant queen', you don't have to speak to Charlotte for long to understand why she does what she does. In this episode we talk all about feminism in pageantry, what Charlotte loves most about pageants, where her journey with feminism began and how we can encourage young people and the next generation to become future feminist leaders.     Click here to find Mads World social media, submit questions to the website, or buy me a coffee.   Cover Art: Veredien Music: The.Jones.Project_93

14 Maalis 202325min

Helloooo, and welcome to Season 8 of Mads World! You're about to listen to Ways of Womanhood: Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome with Ally Hensley! This week I am joined by author, speaker, ghost-writer, content creator and stigma shaker of the best kind, Ally Hensley. As a teenager, Ally Hensley discovered that she had been born with a rare condition, Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome (MRKH), resulting in the absence of a womb and a vagina. Discovering her infertility just months after her sweet sixteen, Ally had a job to do: create a vagina from scratch. What followed, was a life of destruction, abuse and, as she says, a societal head-tilt asking, “do you look like Barbie down there?” After recently writing her debut memoir about sexual hang-ups, bad date blunders, and relearning what school never taught her, she decided to smoke out the shame, by telling her story to the world. Now, Ally is on a mission to debunk the myths around what it means to be a woman. In this episode, we discuss what MRKH is, the options presented to those with the syndrome, the feelings that one might experience after diagnosis, MRKH and fertility, the importance of options and what it can mean to be a woman.    Click here to find Mads World social media, submit questions to the website, or buy me a coffee.   Cover Art: Veredien Music: The.Jones.Project_93

7 Maalis 202340min

Helloooo, and welcome to Season 8 of Mads World! You're about to listen to The Queen of Breakups: Love-Affair Friendships, Political Lesbianism & The Joy of Heartbreak  Rosie Wilby! This week I am joined by award-winning comedian, podcaster, speaker and journalist, Rosie Wilby. Rosie regularly appears on radio and TV commentating on sexuality, dating and love and was dubbed ‘the Queen of Breakups’ by BBC Radio 4 following the success of her podcast and book: The Breakup Monologues. She has extensively explored heartbreak in her podcast, in her hugely successful comedy shows, and in her first book, Is Monogamy Dead? Which was shortlisted for the Diva Literary Awards and longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize. She has written for publications including The Guardian, Sunday Times, and New Statesman, and has performed at major festivals including Glastonbury and Latitude.   In 2011, Rosie was dumped via email. Obsessing about breakups ever since, she embarked on a personal quest to investigate, understand and conquer the psychology of heartbreak. Part memoir, part investigation, The Breakup Monologues takes on the big questions about our life-changing separations in the modern age of ghosting, breadcrumbing and conscious uncoupling. In Rosie’s trademark immersive, investigative form, the self-styled ‘lesbian Louis Theroux’ puts her own relationship under the microscope in a ‘sex lab’ and explores how a split parallels the effects of withdrawing from a drug, why friendship breakups can feel like the worst endings of all, how polyamory changes the conversation about commitment, how breakups can sometimes be empowering and lead to exciting new life journeys... and how ultimately they can even help us to stay together.   In this episode we discuss the joy of breakups and embracing life after a breakup, love-affair friendships and friendship breakups, political lesbians and queerbaiting, and much more.    Click here to find Mads World social media, submit questions to the website, or buy me a coffee.   Cover Art: Veredien Music: The.Jones.Project_93

28 Helmi 202338min

Helloooo, and welcome to Season 8 of Mads World! You're about to listen to Worst Behaviour: Bad Dating Advice with comedian Alex Haddow! This week I am joined by London based comedian, Alexandra Haddow. Alex gigs all over the UK and she is taking her debut show, Not My Finest Hour, up to the Edinburgh Fringe this year. She is also the founder of Indie Amnesty, an indie, Britpop and rock'n'roll club night that puts on nights in London, Margate and soon to be Glasgow! You can find her on Instagram @alexandrahaddow and on Twitter @missahaddow.In this episode, we discuss some of our funniest date stories, Alex's most embarassing moments, alongside the worst dating advice we've ever heard combined with your submissions!Click here to find Mads World social media, submit questions to the website, or buy me a coffee.Cover Art: VeredienMusic: The.Jones.Project_93 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

21 Helmi 202348min

Hellooooo! Welcome to the season finale of Mads World Season 7! Redefining Relationships: Consensual Non-Monogamy with Logan Ury! This week I am joined by Logan Ury, behavioural scientist turned dating coach. She is Hinge’s translator, turning academic insights from behavioural and relationship science into practical, accessible advice for daters. After studying psychology at Harvard, Ury ran Google’s behavioural science team, the Irrational Lab. She’s the author of bestselling book, How To Not Die Alone: The Surprising Science That Will Help You Find Love. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, TIME, The Washington Post, GQ, Glamour, and Vice. We are in a new era of dating where the word “relationship” is being redefined, and in this episode Logan and I discuss all things consensual non-monogamy. While most daters want monogamous relationships, new data from Hinge has revealed that 15% of LGBTQIA+ and Gen Z daters are exploring various relationship types, or more specifically, non-monogamy. We discuss what motivates people to be non-monogamous, meeting like minded people, what monogamous couples can learn from non-monogamous ones, how to approach feelings of jealousy and more.  Submit your dating questions through madsworld.mp3, and my guests and I will answer them on the show! You will remain anonymous. All names within stories have been changed unless explicitly said so within the show. Click here to support the show for the price of a coffee. Cover Art: Veredien Music: The.Jones.Project_93

6 Joulu 202233min