You Can’t Ask That: The Trans Experience Unifltered with Lana McBackwards

Hellooooo! Welcome to Season 7, Episode 9 of Mads World! Behind the Scenes: Running a Dating App with Inner Circle's CEO, Masha Kodden, and resident dating expert, Crystal Cansdale! Through discussing dating apps every week on the podcast, I always wonder what it’s like behind the scenes of working at one. So this week I am joined by dating app Inner Circle's CEO, Masha Kodden, and their resident dating expert, Crystal Cansdale to learn all about it. Masha’s role as CEO is to lead the Inner Circle to success by setting daring strategies and growing market expansion. Before Inner Circle she has worked as a tech leader and in online businesses for over 20 years in both B2C and B2B marketing backgrounds. We are also joined by Crystal, Head of Communications for Inner Circle, and their resident dating expert. Her many, many years on the dating side of dating apps, combined with her career in online dating gives her a huge insight into the modern dating world and how singles can navigate it. Inner Circle calls themselves a high-quality dating app. Created from the belief that quality is better than quantity, the app dares singles to date better. 5 million career-driven singles - from all walks of life - across 66 cities in 29 countries, make up the Inner Circle community. The team behind the app screens each profile on safety, effort and mindset so members only see rich profiles from people they’d actually want to go on a date with. Members are then encouraged to meet through the app, at unique Inner Circle events and in real life. Couples get together every 6.6 seconds through Inner Circle and 116,000 couples have met someone through the app. In this episode we discuss what it takes to run a dating app and the challenges, what motivated the creation, the best stories they have had from users and what we expect moving into 2023. You can also expect some of our funniest dating stories, as per usual.  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

29 Nov 202232min

Hellooooo! Welcome to Season 7, Episode 8 of Mads World! Masslighting: Toxic Masculinity and Internalised Misogyny with Dr Jessica Taylor!This week I am joined by British author, feminist campaigner and psychologist Dr Jessica Taylor. Jess is the founder of VictimFocus, which she describes as "a company designed to challenge and change the victim blaming practices in social care, policing, mental health and support services all over the world”.In 2019, Jess completed her PhD in forensic psychology from the University of Birmingham with a thesis titled ‘Logically, I know I’m not to blame but I still feel to blame’: exploring and measuring victim blaming and self-blame of women who have been subjected to sexual violence. She was later recognized for her "contribution to the psychology of victim blaming of women, her work in mental health and her contribution to feminism" by the Royal Society of Arts.In 2020, Jess self-published her thesis as a book titled Why Women are Blamed for Everything. Based on three years of doctoral research and 10 years of practice with women and girls, the book focuses on the reasons why society and individual psychology blames women for male violence committed against them.This year, Jess published her second book, Sexy But Psycho: Uncovering the Labelling of Women and Girls through Constable. She described it as ”mixture of academic research, history, psychology and real-life stories of women and girls who have been told that they are mentally ill, instead of being listened to”. The book focuses on how mental illness has historically been used to discredit women, focusing especially on the 2000s and Britney Spears.In this episode, we talk about the effects of buzzwords like toxic and gaslighting, what terms like toxic masculinity and machismo actually mean and how this affects men and women independently, and unpacking internalized misogyny.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 explicity said so within the show.Click here to support the show for the price of a coffee.Cover Art: VeredienMusic: The.Jones.Project_93 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

22 Nov 202247min

Hellooooo! Welcome to Season 7, Episode 7 of Mads World! Cartoon Swoons: Weird Childhood Crushes with Pip Ako! This week I am joined by my good friend Philippa, who you may remember from some of my previous eps about The Ick, and your Most Embarrasing Story submissions.She’s so much fun and and we love a listener submissions episode, so this in this ep we talk all about our own weirdest childhood crushes alongside all of your responses. You all submitted your most cursed crushes for me and Pip to dissect and your answers were SO funny. Hope you enjoy. 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

15 Nov 202237min

Hellooooo! Welcome to Season 7, Episode 6 of Mads World! Notes on Heartbreak: The Beauty, Pain and Messiness of Love with Annie Lord! This week I am joined by author and Vogue columnist, Annie Lord! Annie has written for a number of publications including Vice, The Sunday Times, The Independent and she now has a dating column in Vogue. Annie joins me in this episode to speak all about her brilliant new book, Notes on Heartbreak, which I adored and chewed through cover to cover. The book is a fierce, honest and raw love story told in reverse, beginning with a devastating and unexpected break-up. As Annie goes through the rollercoaster of a broken heart, her beautiful memoir revisits the past, from the moment she first fell in love, the esoteric jokes and deep tangle of lives in a long-term relationship, to the months that saw the gradual breakdown of a five year long bond. I have to say, I cried a few times reading it (happy and sad tears). A stunning exploration of love and heartbreak, the book is so much more than a one about one singular break-up. It is an unflinchingly honest and candidly written story of the simultaneous joy and pain of being in love. If you’ve been through a break-up, this ones for you, a book about the best and worst of love: the euphoric and the painful, the beautiful and the messy. 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

8 Nov 202244min

Hellooooo! Welcome to Season 7, Episode 5 of Mads World: Schrodinger's Douchebag with Aileen Barratt aka @tindertranslators! This episode of Mads World is sponsored by Kinkystreet. They’re new to town, promoting empowerment, body positivity, inclusivity and those who just want to have fun! Discover your kink with them at kinkystreet.co.uk, and use the code MadsWorld20 for 20% off your order. Aileen is a writer, digital marketer and the brains behind @TinderTranslators, an Instagram account that has amassed over 77k followers. Tinder Translation is all about decoding the subtext of Tinder bios and highlighting red flags. There is loads of innuendo and so many phrases used over and over dating apps, so much of what is said masks an alterior meaning. People send Aileen bios, which can be boring, dreadful, funny or arrogant and she translates them into what they really say about the person writing them. So much of what men write on dating apps is laced with misogyny, and it's her mission to unmask it. She has recently released a book, called Tinder Translator, an A-Z of Modern Misogyny. It’s a hilarious and eye opening feminist commentary on dating apps, shining a light on the blatant misogyny encountered during every swipe session. Scrolling through profile after profile, you'll see the same stock phrases: 'No drama', 'Must be able to hold a conversation' or my personal fave, 'Must have banter'. But what do they actually mean? There’s the funny and the not so funny, the blatant and the not so blatant, and scrolling through is depressing and enraging in equal measure. In this episode, we chat about everything Aileen has learned through her own years on dating apps, in addition to the experiences of thousands of her followers on Instagram, we dissect some of the stock phrases used on Tinder bios and hopefully leave you feeling a bit more empowered to push back on shitty behaviour or at least see the funny side.   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

1 Nov 202247min

Hellooooo! Welcome to Season 7, Episode 4 of Mads World: The Cost of Loving, 2023 Dating Trends with Alix Fox! This episode of Mads World is sponsored by Kinkystreet. They’re new to town, promoting empowerment, body positivity, inclusivity and those who just want to have fun! Discover your kink with them at kinkystreet.co.uk, and use the code MadsWorld20 for 20% off your order. This week, I am joined by Alix Fox: multi award-winning writer & broadcaster with over 16 years’ experience specialising in sex and relationships. Alix has been a script consultant on hit Netflix series Sex Education since its inception, she’s the resident ‘Foxhole Shagony Aunt’ on The Modern Mann podcast, and has previously presented on BBC Radio 1’s Unexpected Fluids, Audible’s KINK!, Channel 4’s The Sex Clinic and The Guardian’s Close Encounters. Named Best Sexual Wellbeing Ambassador 2020 in the ETO Awards, she’s currently writing her first book, The Missing Kink. Starting out as an editor on Bizarre magazine, her writing can be found everywhere from Vogue to Time Out to Stylist to Fabulous. Alix is a proud face of HIV Testing Week, and regularly collaborates with charities including Brook and Bloody Good Period. In this episode, we chat all about the results of Plenty of Fish’s annual dating survey from a poll of 1,000 UK singles. Whether it’s economic, cultural, political or nonsensical TikTok trends, many different factors influence the way we meet, connect and date each other. As a result, it’s become an annual tradition for OG dating app, Plenty of Fish, to analyse the trends that look set to influence the dating landscape in the year ahead, & give them snappy names to make them easier to constructively discuss & dissect. Up next, we chat about the key trends identified, revealing the freshest dating behaviours and buzzwords you’ll be navigating into 2023 and beyond. 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

25 Okt 202254min

Hellooooo! Welcome to Season 7, Episode 3 of Mads World: Beige Flags, a deep dive with TikTok's CEO of Beige Flags Caitlin MacPhail.This episode of Mads World is sponsored by Kinkystreet. They’re new to town, promoting empowerment, body positivity, inclusivity and those who just want to have fun! Discover your kink with them at kinkystreet.co.uk, and use the code MadsWorld20 for 20% off your order.This week, I am joined by Caitlin MacPhail, TikTok’s CEO of Beige Flags. As Caitlin describes on her TikTok which has amassaed over 330k likes, there are a lot of dating app red flags doing the rounds, but she’s coined the term, Beige Flags: signs you’re very fucking boring. Join our chat to hear about our favourite beige flags on dating apps and in real life, and Caito reviews my Hinge profile which was bloody terrifying.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 explicity said so within the show.Click here to support the show for the price of a coffee.Cover Art: VeredienMusic: The.Jones.Project_93 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

18 Okt 202236min

Hellooooo! Welcome to Season 7, Episode 2 of Mads World: Ickspert Opinion! The Little Book of Ick with Anna Burtt & Kitty Winks. This episode of Mads World is sponsored by Beducated. CLICK HERE: http://beducate.me/pd2240-mads to check them out for a 24-hour free trial and use the code MADS for 40% off their yearly subscription. In this episode I am joined by the wonderful Kitty Winks and Anna Burtt to talk all about their new book The Little Book of Ick. Kitty Winks is one of Instagram's sassiest book bloggers, known for her brutally honest opinions and refusal to conform to the norm. Like many respectable Gen Zs, Kitty now works at a tech start-up after having previously worked as a bookseller and museum guide. Anna Burtt has worked in publishing for almost a decade and is currently Head of Events at a global writing consultancy. She is the host of The Brighton Book Club on Radio Reverb and has run a successful writing group for the last four years. she's recently finished her first novel, which is set in Yorkshire and explores grief, sexuality, intergenerational friendships and drag. We all know The Ick. You've been dating someone for a while and you notice something about them that turns your stomach. It might be something weird or unremarkable, it might even be something you do yourself. Whatever it is, once you've got the ick there's no going back from it and, for better or worse, it's onto the next swipe. The Little Book of Ick is a celebration of the dating phenomenon that plagues millions. Split into chapters that chart all the stages of finding love, this book is a collection of 500 hilarious icks: some you'll have already encountered, all ready for you to use when you need to get over someone. Up next we chat about our favourite Ick’s, hopefully providing reassurance that it’s fine to be fussy, and how leaning into the ick might even soothe your heartbreak one day. 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

11 Okt 202242min