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The Emma Guns Show
by Emma Gunavardhana
If you're in the mood for a deep and meaningful then this is the podcast for you. Every week, broadcaster and journalist Emma Gunavardhana has an intimate conversation with her guest about the risks they've taken, struggles they've had to overcome, successes they are proud of and much more before they tell us about a time when they were wrong, and what they learned from it. Watch clips from the show on Youtube The Emma Guns Show Follow Emma on Instagram @emmaguns Join the podcast's Facebook group The Emma Guns Show | The Forum Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='http
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Ateh Jewel: Taking risks, having it all and RuPaul.
Ateh Jewel (@atehjewel) is my guest in this episode of The Beauty Podcast and she tells me about her fabulous website Jewel Tones Beauty while we do a little bit of over-heating in her car. In this conversation we talk about life, love, why taking the harder road is the most rewarding path, and a...
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Is Being Negative Helpful?
Something rather strange happened online for me the other day. I spoke negatively about a beauty product. I didn’t name the brand just showed the product and said how displeasing it was to see medical professionals recommending it when they should know better. I thought I was about to come in for…
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Maxine Laceby | The Truth about Collagen and what it can do you for.
The question I think I'm asked most when it comes to beauty these days is, 'should I be taking collagen?' It sells a good story, doesn't it? Take this daily supplement and all that collagen and youthfulness we're told starts to deteriorate after we hit 30, will be topped up and wrinkles, jowls…
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Michelle Heaton: More than meets the eye...
Michelle Heaton (@wonderwomanshel / www.michelleheatonfitness.com) is a pop princess, TV presenter, reality TV star and actress, and there's a chance you think you have the measure of her. I wouldn't be so sure... In this podcast Michelle and I talk about health, fitness, motivation and how to…
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Simplifying Skincare Once and For All.
I my latest Superdrug Beauty Column, I share why the best skincare routine is one that hinges on the 'Core Four'. Four proven active ingredients that protect, hydrate, restore and regenerate your skin and provide the foundation for a truly epic, fool-proof routine. Would you strip your routine…
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Marc Elrick: Tanning, The Law of Attraction and the Number 23 Bus
Marc Elrick from Tan Luxe (@tan_luxe) is my guest in this episode of The Beauty Podcast and boy do we have a giggle. It's hard not to when you have someone like Marc in the room - he's positive, energetic and extremely creative, which makes him a joy to be around. Marc is the CEO and Founder of…
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Ampika Pickston: Entrepreneur, Buddhist, Housewife.
Ampika Pickston is probably best known as part of the cast of The Real Housewives of Cheshire on ITVBe, where she navigates the glitzy world of fast cars, designer handbags and footballers' wives... When I found out she was launching her own range of haircare, Ampika Lox, I jumped at the chance…
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The Problem with Steven Bartlett and The Best High St Beauty Buys Right Now
I've written about my thoughts on Steven Bartlett's life-ruining alcohol consumption here and my Superdrug column can be found here. Hey! Why not share your thoughts and insights to make your listening experience even better. Complete this listener survey to tell me what you want to hear:...
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Lee Pycroft | How to Build Emotional Resilience.
Lee Pycroft (@leepycroft) is a celebrity makeup artist, brand ambassador and business owner. She has been responsible for beautifying some of the world's most famous A-list talent for the red carpet, has made natural-born-supermodels look even more heavenly in front of the camera and is…
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My Thoughts on The Devil Wears Prada 2
Have you seen it? Did we need to see it? Miranda Priestly is back but should she have told the town car to 'Go!' instead of making a soft return? Also in this episode, details of my beauty column in Superdrug. Read my beauty column here: https://www.superdrug.com/emma-guns-may Ad info: Paid...
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Terri White | How to Create your Dream Career.
In this episode I’m joined by the fabulous Terri White, editor of Empire magazine and fellow beauty enthusiastic. One of my reasons for inviting Terri onto the show - other than her utter coolness - was because she wrote a feature for Red Magazine last year where she talked about her love of...
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Nadine Baggott | Top tips for spotting the BS in Beauty.
If you want an honest answer about pretty much anything to do with beauty then speak to Nadine Baggott. She has an encyclopaedic beauty knowledge and I've never asked her a questions she hasn't known the answer to. You'll see what I mean when you listen to the show... We cover a lot of ground in...
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The SPF Episode with Abi Cleeve
Joining me in this episode is Abi Cleeve the MD of Ultrasun UK. On the topic of sun care she is, quite simply, an oracle and if you've ever felt bamboozled by the meaning of UVA or UVB, wondered what on earth 'broad spectrum' means and whether SPF 20 means you can spend 20 minutes in the sun or...
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Helen Thorn | How to Not be Broken by Life.
Helen Thorn is a Sunday Times Best-Selling author and comedian who joins me on the show to talk about her new book How to Face Big Change and Come Back Stronger. It's a brilliant and gentle guide, with the help of 50 incredible women, to navigating the crappy things that happy in life without...
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This is NOT goodbye.
This isn’t goodbye, but it is the end of a chapter. In this episode, I’m sharing why I’m pressing pause on new episodes (although there will be some surprise mid-week pop-ups) and taking a step back to rethink the podcast and what I want it to become. I’ll be revisiting and republishing past...
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The Manosphere and Looksmaxxing
This weekend was all about the Manosphere after I watched Louis Theroux's documentary Inside the Manosphere and read Jack Burke's piece in The Times on Looksmaxxing. Both of these phenomena focus on male-dominated online spaces that veer to the far right with extreme misogynistic and…
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This is What's Wrong with the Beauty Industry...
If you subscribe to my Substack (I love you!) then you would have seen my column about how wellness messaging on products has, in my opinion, gone too far. We are all entitled to create a spa-like experience in our own home but it's my belief that brands latching the benefits of their products…
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Hormone Havoc: Cutting Through the Noise Around Women’s Health with Dr Amy Shah
A little white ago I stepped away from conversations about hormones, perimenopause and menopause on this podcast. Not because women’s health stopped being important, for from it! It was because the conversation became louder, more crowded and, for many women, more confusing than helpful....
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The Art of the Small Shift
Sometimes you just have to be honest with yourself and, when it comes to my latest efforts regarding my diet and training, I have to accept the fact that a seven week plateau is probably a sign that I've found myself doing 'just enough' instead of 'what's required to make change'. That doesn't…
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Ploughing on and how to stay sane in a mad world.
I'm still persevering with this new nutrition and training plan but I'm not going to lie, it's not easy. Not to sound like a brat, but without any feedback (read: scale results) it's difficult to believe it's working so, six weeks in, I'm still leaning heavily into hope. I hope this works, I hope...
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The Bit That Makes People Quit
In the previous episode, I talked about how my new approach to diet and exercise - working smarter, not harder - had been a challenge because things got worse before they got better. Many listeners wrote to me asking me to delve a little deeper into this uncomfortable phases so, in this episode,...
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Why Change Feels Worse Before It Feels Better (Hopefully)
Right, we're in the hardest part of any change-making - the bit where it gets worse before it, hopefully, gets better. Changing my diet and fitness regime at the same time has meant learning lots of new lessons, perhaps more importantly, unlearning a lot of what I thought be true, and holding on...
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The Cost of Always Being 'On' and why doing less feels wrong.
Do you immediately assume that doing less equates to being lazy? More than that, do you feel that if you aren't constantly 'on' that the world will assume you aren't a motivated, successful, go-getter? Over the last few weeks, I've been a guinea-pig in my own 'what's the worst that can happen if…
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10 Things To Do Instead of Doing More
Have you been sold a lie? What if doing more is actually a fast track to achieving less? You know how it goes, you find more time in your schedule, you've become competent at a certain amount of work and so your instinct is to fill the time gap, add more to your workload and generally max…
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I Can't Go On Like This
It's not that I've been going wrong, as such, but after eight months of effort towards body recomposition, I've had to acknowledge that something wasn't working. I'm not mad or upset because, ultimately, I've maintained my 50lb weight loss. However, if you've set your sights on a goal and after...
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My Boss Told Me I need an 'Attitude Adjustment'.
It's natural to get to the end of the year and assess and appraise the 12 months that have just passed. As someone who has, for a few years now, found the 'new year, new you' and the whole resolutions/manifesting/visualisation/vision board culture borderline offensive AND ONLY TARGETED AT WOMEN…
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Festive Flashback | Evy Pompouras' Feel Good Habits
Here's some twinkly goodness in the shape of my Top 10 Feel Good Habits interviews. In this episode, Evy Pompouras. This episode was originally published in May 2021. Evy Poumpouras is a speaker, mentor and former Secret Service agent who joins me on the podcast to share her feel-good habits, the...
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Festive Flashback | Lily Pebble's Feel Good Habits
Here's some twinkly goodness in the shape of my Top 10 Feel Good Habits interviews. In this episode, Lily Pebbles. This episode was originally published in August 2020. Lily Pebbles is a content creator who joins me to share her feel-good habits and how she stops a bad day from becoming a bad…
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Festive Flashback | Hannah Ferrier's Feel Good Habits
Here's some twinkly goodness in the shape of my Top 10 Feel Good Habits interviews. In this episode, Hannah Ferrier. This episode was originally published in August 2021. Hannah Ferrier is a businesswoman and star of Below Deck Me who joins me to share her feel-good habits, the strategies she…
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Festive Flashback | Alex Light's Feel Good Habits
Here's some twinkly goodness in the shape of my Top 10 Feel Good Habits interviews. In this episode, Alex Light. This episode was originally published in Nov 2020. Alex Light returns to the podcast to share her feel-good habits, the strategies she uses and recommends to make sure every day is a...
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Festive Flashback | Ruth Crilly's Feel Good Habits.
Here's some twinkly goodness in the shape of my Top 10 Feel Good Habits interviews. In this episode, Ruth Crilly. This episode was originally published in April 2021. Ruth Crilly is a writer, content creator and model who returns to the podcast to share her feel-good habits, the strategies she…
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Festive Flashback | Nadine Baggott's Feel Good Habits
Here's some twinkly goodness in the shape of my Top 10 Feel Good Habits interviews. In this episode, Nadine Baggott. Nadine Baggott joins me on the podcast to share her feel-good habits, the strategies she uses and recommends to make sure every day is a good day. As you’d expect from Nadine…
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Festive Flashback | Leanne Hainsby's Feel Good Habits
Here's some twinkly goodness in the shape of my Top 10 Feel Good Habits interviews. In this episode, Leanne Hainsby. Leanne Hainsby is a UK @peloton instructor who joins me on the podcast to share her feel-good habits, the strategies he uses and recommends to make sure every day is a good day. In...
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Festive Flashback | Lucy Pinder's Feel Good Habits.
Here's some twinkly goodness in the shape of my Top 10 Feel Good Habits interviews. In this episode, Lucy Pinder. Lucy Pinder is a model, actress and podcaster who joins me to share her feel-good habits, the strategies she uses and recommends to make sure every day is a good day. In this episode,...
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Festive Flashback | Lorna Luxe's Feel Good Habits.
Here's some twinkly goodness in the shape of my Top 10 Feel Good Habits interviews. In this episode, Lorna Luxe. This episode was originally published in July 2021. In this episode, @lornaluxe and I discuss: •The joy of staying in bed and why the narrative of getting up early somehow equals…
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Festive Flashback | Caroline Hiron's Feel Good Habits
Here's some twinkly goodness in the shape of my Top 10 Feel Good Habits interviews. First up, Caroline Hirons. This episode was originally published in March 2021. Caroline is a best-selling author, skincare expert, businesswoman and consultant who admits that while she doesn’t struggle with...
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Has Life Made You Hard-Hearted?
If you've been with me and this podcast for a while, you'll know that a lot has happened in the nearly 10 years I've been publishing the show. Back in 2016 I was a very different version of myself; bruised from broken friendships, toxic workplaces and a type of slow erosion of myself caused by a...
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Where Am I Going Wrong?
For a little while now, I've been feeling professionally frustrated. I am, as a reminder, a journalist who has specialised in health and beauty and interviewing. However, the landscapes within which I've worked for nearly 25 years have changed so drastically that it can sometimes feel as though...
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The Two Kind of Exhaustion No One Admits To.
Let's talk about the different kinds of exhaustion, from the emotional and mental fatigue that comes from life's sudden curve balls to the physical strain that can flatten your energy reserves even when everything else feels pretty steady. For me, 2024, brought a sudden, sink or swim situation…
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How I'm Approaching the Festive Season as a Former Fatty...
‘Tis the season of excess and, for many years, I would fall head-first into trays of canapés, tubs of chocolates and large bowls of steaming hot Christmas pudding and custard. It's the time of year when food is everywhere and it's as though we've been given license to loosen our belts and enjoy…
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Period Pain, PMS, PCOS: Why Movement Matters More Than You Think
This week, I’m diving into a fascinating piece of research I spotted in The Week; a meta-analysis of 82 studies from University College London looking at how physical activity affects menstrual pain and PMS. The findings are striking: women who move less have a 67% higher risk of painful periods...
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Why Women Over 40 Should Consider Creatine: The Midlife Muscle and Mind Boost You Didn’t Know You Needed
Creatine isn’t just for gym bros and bodybuilders, it’s one of the most researched, safest, and most effective supplements for supporting strength, energy, and brain health. In this episode, I break down a brand-new study that found women in perimenopause and menopause who took a small daily dose...
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I Can't Stay Out of the Fridge
This week, I’m talking about food noise... That constant chatter about what, when, and how much to eat. The kind that has you circling the kitchen even when you’re not really hungry. I share how a simple early dinner (yes, an enormous salad out of a mixing bowl) completely quieted the noise in my...
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The Uniform of Success: When Ambition Becomes Aesthetic
Have you noticed that success has started to look… uniform? The slick-back bun, the gold hoops, the structured blazer, and the calm, composed tone of someone who’s perfectly 'aligned'. In this week’s episode, I look at how ambition has become an aesthetic, how this new era of women is blending...
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Wellness of Weirdness? Who gets to be 'well'?
Recently, we talked about how wellness has become performative. How it was more about looking serene than actually feeling or being it. This week, I’m taking that idea further. Because wellness isn’t just performative, I think it has become exclusive. It’s a club with an unspoken dress code, a...
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Is Worry Holding You Back?
Worry can be motivating. It can be a driving force that spurs you into motion but then worry can also bring you to a sudden and grinding halt. In this episode, I talk about what happens when worry tips from useful to paralysing, and how I’ve been learning to worry less and act more. I explore…
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Why I Walked Out of a Sound Bath | When Wellness Becomes Performance
This week, I did something I’ve never done before - I walked out of a sound bath halfway through. Then I went to a breathwork session that felt eerily like a cult. Both experiences made me realise how far modern wellness has drifted from its purpose. In this episode, I unpack why so many wellness...
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The Jet Lag Reset | The Simple Science to Resetting Your Body Clock
On my last trip to San Francisco, something unexpected happened: I didn’t get jet lag. Normally, I’d spend the first few days wide awake at 3 a.m. and desperate for a nap by lunchtime — but this time, my body adjusted almost instantly. In this episode, I share the two surprisingly simple things...
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Bullet Points | Failure isn't Fatal
Failure. We all fear it, but what if it isn’t the end? What if failure is the secret ingredient to resilience, confidence, and real personal growth? In this episode of The Emma Guns Show, I explore why failure doesn’t have to derail you and how to use setbacks as stepping stones. Whether it’s in...
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Everything you need to know about the female body with Polly Vernon.
Polly Vernon has written the most incredible book and, if you are a woman, you should probably read it. Sooner rather than later. In this episode, Polly and I discuss the female body in all its weird, wonderful and miraculous ways and how getting to know it better is a wonderful journey on which…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
If you're in the mood for a deep and meaningful then this is the podcast for you.
Every week, broadcaster and journalist Emma Gunavardhana has an intimate conversation with her guest about the risks they've taken, struggles they've had to overcome, successes they are proud of and much more before they tell us about a time when they were wrong, and what they learned from it.
Watch clips from the show on Youtube The Emma Guns Show
Follow Emma on Instagram @emmaguns
Join the podcast's Facebook group The Emma Guns Show | The Forum
Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='http
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If you're in the mood for a deep and meaningful then this is the podcast for you. Every week, broadcaster and journalist Emma Gunavardhana has an intimate conversation with her guest about the risks they've taken, struggles they've had to overcome, successes they are proud of and much more before...
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