That's Not My Age has gained a global following for it's honest, in-depth interviews with extraordinary women of style and substance. Now we're letting you listen in to the conversations with a new podcast series. With special guests, we'll chat honestly about getting older, changing careers, finding success and why we wear what we wear. Expect lively conversations, inspiring stories and practical advice for midlife and beyond. The series is hosted by acclaimed fashion editor, author and founder of That’s Not My Age, Alyson Walsh, who strongly believes that it’s not about age, it’s about style. • Producer and sound engineer: Linda Ara-Tebaldi • Host: Alyson Walsh • Artwork: Ayumi Takahashi • Music: David Schweitzer • Digital assistant: Helen Johnson
That's Not My Age
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That's Not My Age has gained a global following for it's honest, in-depth interviews with extraordinary women of style and substance. Now we're letting you listen in to the conversations with a new podcast series. With special guests, we'll chat honestly about getting older, changing careers, finding success and why we wear what we wear. Expect lively conversations, inspiring stories and practical advice for midlife and beyond. The series is hosted by acclaimed fashion editor, author and founder of That’s Not My Age, Alyson Walsh, who strongly believes that it’s not about age, it’s about style. • Producer and sound engineer: Linda Ara-Tebaldi • Host: Alyson Walsh • Artwork: Ayumi Takahashi • Music: David Schweitzer • Digital assistant: Helen Johnson
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March 21, 2024
Lyn Slater (AKA the Accidental Icon) on How To Be Old
<p>Lyn Slater and I have met several times over the years, in New York - and she attended both my book launches with her partner Calvin. The former professor, writer, activist and 'reformed cultural influencer' is an impressive woman. A social worker for 45 years, she has a PhD in Social Welfare. While lecturing at university, 61-year-old Lyn started her fashion blog <em>Accidental Icon</em> and subsequently became a massive social media star. Now she's published her first book <a href='https://uk.bookshop.org/a/5101/9781399715256'><em>How To Be Old: Lessons in living boldly from the Accidental Icon</em></a><em>. </em>Part manifesto, part memoir. It's brilliant and - no longer accidental - Lyn has gone viral, again.</p><p>Each chapter covers a year in her sixties, and throughout Lyn discusses her experience as an influencer and offers sage advice on remaining visible and rethinking the ageing process. In <em>How To Be Old</em>, Lyn explains how she eventually loses herself in the maelstrom of social media and marketing, forgets her values and ends up burnt out. Eventually rejecting the online world in order to regain control.</p><p>The book ends with Lyn settled upstate in Peekskill with Calvin, close to her daughter and two grandchildren. After all the madness of the ' influencer years' and the drain of social media, she is enjoying a quieter life and writing from her garden shed (built by Calvin for her 70th birthday), everything feels calmer and more authentic. It definitely leaves you wanting more...<br/><br/>Lyn is very wise and I loved chatting about age, style and reinvention. Hope you enjoy the episode.<br/><br/><b>Producer and audio engineer:</b> Nick at <a href='https://thesmallgreenstudio.com/'>The Small Green Studio.</a></p><p><b>Host:</b> Alyson Walsh</p><p><b>Guest:</b> Lyn Slater</p><p><b>Music:</b> David Schweitzer</p><p><b>Artwork:</b> Ayumi Takahashi</p><p><b>Coordinator: </b>Helen Johnson</p>
May 4, 2023
MP and women's rights campaigner Stella Creasy
<p>Concerned about social justice from an early age, <a href='https://members.parliament.uk/member/4088/contact'>Stella Creasy</a> rallied friends to protest about animal cruelty in her teens. Before making her way to Westminster via Walthamstow Council, London (where she's lived since 1998), Stella was employed as a youth and a charity worker. 'Politics seemed like a productive place to make change happen,' the 46-year-old tells me, 'In my head I'm still that 15 year-old burnished with injustice at the world and excitement about what can be achieved.' Highlighting the importance of 'bloody hard work', being in the room, and not giving up even when you feel unheard, her energy and determination is impressive. After 13 years in opposition, Brexit, the Covid pandemic and a fair amount of political mayhem, she is still incredibly focused and driven.</p><p>In this special episode, Stella joins me to talk about the realities of getting things done as a woman in politics and imagines a future where things might be different. (Please make this happen, Stella!) She shares details of the issues she's currently tackling, both in her London constituency and Westminster, including: maternity discrimination and affordable childcare, regulating the Buy Now Pay Later industry, the safeguarding of child refugees and making misogyny part of the <a href='https://www.fawcettsociety.org.uk/blog/why-making-misogyny-a-hate-crime-matters'>hate crime framework</a>. She quite obviously loves living in Walthamstow, and is incredibly proud of her local community. </p><p>Talking to Stella Creasy made me realise that I need to get involved. She is passionate about equality and human rights, and her enthusiasm for fairness and change is contagious. As it says in her social media bio ' Sitting on the sidelines is for <a href='https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Statler_and_Waldorf'>Statler and Waldorf.</a>'</p><p>We hope you enjoy this special episode. Such an inspiring conversation with an incredible woman.</p><p><b>PODCAST CREDITS</b></p><p><b>Producer and audio engineer:</b> Linda Ara-Tebaldi</p><p><b>Host:</b> Alyson Walsh</p><p><b>Guest:</b> <a href='https://working4walthamstow.co.uk/'>MP Stella Creasy</a></p><p><b>Music:</b> David Schweitzer</p><p><b>Artwork:</b> Ayumi Takahashi</p><p><b>Coordinator: </b>Helen Johnson</p><p> </p>
January 4, 2023
Senior Curator at the V&A, Dr Christine Checinska
<p>If you’re a fan of BBC2’s<em> Secrets of the Museum</em>, the series filmed behind the scenes at the V&A, then you will recognise my latest podcast guest. <a href='https://christinechecinska.com/'>Dr Christine Checinska</a> is the Senior Curator of Africa and Diaspora: Textiles and Fashion, and Lead Curator of the <em>Africa Fashion </em>exhibition<em>, </em>currently showing at the museum. ‘ We had to do the show now because the contemporary fashion scene on the continent is so inspirational, so innovative – we couldn’t wait,’ she says, ‘African creatives and African diaspora creatives are pushing boundaries and changing the shape of fashion. Now is the time to engage.’</p><p>Having started her career as a fashion designer, working for high street and designer brands, including Margaret Howell, Christine returned to study a PhD at Goldsmith’s University, in 2009. <em>Colonizin’ in Reverse! </em>examined ‘the impact of the creolised aesthetic of the Windrush Generation on English male dress’, and was very much inspired by her nattily dressed father. On completion, she moved into the art world and academia (as an associate lecturer), while continuing to act as a design consultant – eventually taking the job at the V&A in 2020.</p><p>‘I’ve spent over three decades exploring the relationship between cloth, culture and race,’ Christine says of her work, PhD studies and on-going research, ‘ the cultural exchanges that occur as a result of movement and migration, expressed by the clothes we wear, the objects we collect, the art we make and the stories we tell… But when it comes down to it, I embrace creativity for the sheer joy of it!’<br/><br/>I really enjoyed chatting to Christine about her career, we’re a similar age and have both worked in the fashion industry for decades. She admitted that in her mid-50s and quite comfortable with her freelance portfolio, she initially dithered about the V&A position, until a good friend persuaded her to take the leap. The <a href='https://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/africa-fashion'><em>Africa Fashion</em> exhibition</a> is stunning, if you haven’t seen it already it’s on until 16 April 2023 (and if you’re unable to visit the V&A read more about Africa Fashion <a href='https://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/projects/africa-fashion'>HERE).</a></p><p> </p><p><b>PODCAST CREDITS</b></p><p><b>Producer and audio engineer:</b> Linda Ara-Tebaldi</p><p><b>Host:</b> Alyson Walsh</p><p><b>Guest:</b> <a href='https://christinechecinska.com/'>Dr Christine Checinska</a></p><p><b>Music:</b> David Schweitzer</p><p><b>Artwork:</b> Ayumi Takahashi</p><p><b>Coordinator: </b>Helen Johnson</p>
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