The podcast celebrating people who have many places to call home. We discuss what home means to different people and how it impacts culture, identity and finding your community wherever you are in the world.
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Amy Meadows
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society & culture · society & culture · society & culture
12. On taking root, crossing thresholds, and following the call home.
In this episode I speak to Rev Gail Love-Schock, Prosperity teacher, Interfaith Minister, Wise Woman and dear friend. We reflect on finding home, and unpacking the boxes in the mansion of ourselves. We discuss the call to Scotland, and the joy of community building through cupts of tea, rambles and loch swims.
3 Aug 2021
11. On rebuilding yourself, finding space to breathe, and instagrammable sunsets.
In this episode I speak to Ashleigh Li, designer, colour fanatic and all round breath of fresh air. Ashleigh’s life changed completely when she had the opportunity to live under the palm trees in Los Angeles for a year, and we talk about how it shaped her business and her personal growth.
Ashleigh is the founder of Pink Palms, a wedding design studio based in London. Needing an outlet for her interior design training and love of colour, Pink Palms was created after realising that modern, design - led couples weren't able to create a wedding that felt like a reflection of them, with it's mission to modernise the wedding industry at its core. Ashleigh now also runs Bungalow, an online membership for couples to plan & design their weddings with expert help and teaches other event professionals how to intuitively design for their clients through a range of digital courses.
Keep the conversation going:
Ashleigh
Website: www.pinkpalms.co.uk (http://www.pinkpalms.co.uk/)
Instagram: @pinkpalmsevents
Amy
Website: www.amymeadows.co
Instagram: @amymeadowsuk
14 Jul 2021
10. On home comforts, winters in Goa and cheese and pickle sandwiches.
In this episode I speak to Maddy Shine, SEO & Visibility Queen, some-time digital nomad and all-around glitterball of a human.
Maddy Shine is a coach who helps ambitious female entrepreneurs get more sales by increasing visibility. Work, and the pursuit of love, have taken her all over the world and we discuss how much her connection to place has changed over the years, and how the thought of a cheese and pickle sandwich eventually brought her home.
7 Aug 2020
09. On life on the hill, cross-generational friendships and the joy of a Whatsapp voice note.
Series 2, episode 3 is with queen of the ‘gram and queen of The Hill, Lucy Sheridan. If you haven’t come across Lucy before, you are in for a TREAT.
7 Aug 2020
08. On embracing change, learning Arabic and life as a digital nomad.
Skye has spent time working all over the world living the ‘digi-nomad’ dream, and explains how it has impacted her feelings around where ‘home’ is.
7 Aug 2020
07. On becoming bolder, NYC and joy activism.
We’re baaaaaaaack! The first episode of season 2 of Is This Seat Taken?! is with the incredible Somalia Seaton.
22 May 2020
06. On interpretation, bi-lingual dreams and the 'where are you from?' question.
Vasiliki Prestidge is a linguist, translator, and interpreter. She is originally from Cyprus, growing up in Cyprus and Greece, and now living in London and running a hugely successful business, Greek to Me Translations. Her clients vary from embassies to corporate businesses, to nursing homes, to couples wanting to get married in Greece.
We discuss being tri-cultural, the human element of interpreting, and how a comment from her uncle (and a cheese and pickle sandwich in a car park) started her love affair with England.
Continue the conversation:
Vasiliki |
Instagram | @greektometranslations
Vasiliki’s Website | here
Amy |
Instagram | @amymeadowsuk
Amy Meadows | Website
Track: Soulful — Waimis [Audio Library Release] Music provided by Audio Library Plus Watch: https://youtu.be/SZrFx8J1MFE Free Download / Stream: https://alplus.io/soulful
Magical editing and creative by Holly Jones at Directing Waves.
15 May 2020
05. On creative chaos, intimacy direction and renaissance flirting.
Amanda Cutting is a global theatre and intimacy director. She is based in Calgary, Alberta, but spends more time on planes than anyone I have ever met before.
We met in a chance encounter when she came to visit a hotel in rural Hertfordshire where I used to run an open-air Shakespeare festival. She ended up directing a show there the following year, and our working relationship and friendship blossomed from there.
During our conversation we talk about Amanda’s methods of settling in a new place, how to create relationships beyond language barriers, and the growth of the Intimacy Directing movement across the globe following the Times Up movement.
8 May 2020
04. On big career moves, global relocation and being vulnerable online.
Meghan is the queen of making Big Moves, both geographically and in terms of her career. As a designer. researcher and strategist her talents have taken her all over the world. Her ability to create community both online and in her new locations means that she has resilience and addictive energy that is contagious.
We talk about her relocation from the UK, to LA, to Detroit, how she 'lands' in her new homes, and what it was like going from room-jumping in Airbnbs to having a place of her own.
Meghan |
Instagram | @meghanpreiss_
Amy |
Instagram | @amymeadowsuk
Track: Soulful — Waimis [Audio Library Release] Music provided by Audio Library Plus Watch: https://youtu.be/SZrFx8J1MFE Free Download / Stream: https://alplus.io/soulful Magical editing and creative by Holly Jones at Directing Waves.
30 Apr 2020
03. On relationships, resilience and the legacy of a career in motorsport.
Ella Barrington is a tour-de-force of enthusiasm mixed with frightening competence. In this episode, we talk about her journey from a little girl in dungarees at the side of the track, to an extraordinary woman (still in dungarees) running a lean, mean business and looking back on a career in engineering.
We talk about the relationships that were created while on her tours of the world, and whether they have endured now that she is out of the circuit.
Keep the conversation going:
Ella |
Instagram | @corseconcierge
Corse Concierge | Website
Amy |
Instagram | @amymeadowsevents
Amy Meadows | Website
Track: Soulful — Waimis [Audio Library Release] Music provided by Audio Library Plus Watch: https://youtu.be/SZrFx8J1MFE Free Download / Stream: https://alplus.io/soulful
Magical editing and creative by Holly Jones at Directing Waves.
30 Apr 2020
02. On routine, gratitude, and how covid-19 brought "home" into focus.
Alya is an incredible advocate of people who have multiple cultures and identities. By writing her book, The Greater Freedom, she has opened up a platform to facilitate conversations with people of middle eastern heritage to share their stories.
We talk about challenging her notion of what home is by travelling to LA, and how hot-footing it back to the UK in light of the covid-19 pandemic brought home into sharp perspective.
Keep the conversation going:
Alya |
Instagram | @alyamooro
The Greater Freedom | Website
The Greater Conversation | Join
Amy |
Instagram | @amymeadowsevents
Amy Meadows | Website
Track: Soulful — Waimis [Audio Library Release] Music provided by Audio Library Plus Watch: https://youtu.be/SZrFx8J1MFE Free Download / Stream: https://alplus.io/soulful
Magical editing and creative by Holly Jones at Directing Waves.
30 Apr 2020
01. On being multi-local, multi-lingual and multi-faceted.
I sit down with Adeola, Editor in Chief of Distinguished Diva. We discuss how her adventures around Greece, the UK, the US and Europe has made her 'multi-local'.
She has lived a huge life for someone so young, with careers including professional running, modelling, dancing, yoga, healing, fashion editorial and now running Distinguished Diva.
Adeola is an incredible soul, and her lockdown aesthetic is couture yoga queen - my kind of woman!
Keep the conversation going:
Adeola |
Instagram | @adeola.naomi
Distinguished Diva | http://www.distinguisheddiva.com/
Amy |
Instagram | @amymeadowsevents
Amy Meadows | https://amymeadows.co/
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