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Lucy Meggeson is a podcast producer and host, who previously worked as a programme-maker at BBC Radio 2. At the start of 2022, she launched the 'Spinsterhood Reimagined' podcast, which explores and celebrates single life, whilst challenging the
Christine Erikson is an international executive and entrepreneur. She recently founded the New Legacy Institute, which aims to campaign for change around the social and policy inequalities faced by the collective community of those who do not h
Mel Brown is a talent success manager, a trained celebrant and host of her own podcast, Mel’s Monday Musing. She describes herself as childfree by choice but can see children in her future. As a woman in her mid-thirties who is open to parentho
Vikas Shah is a hugely successful entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. His book and blog, ‘Thought Economics’, has seen him interview some of the world’s leading thinkers. As someone who is childfree, Vikas has thought long and hard about
Kathryn Stanczyszyn is a British journalist and radio presenter who has felt ambivalent and confused about parenthood for decades. Always hoping that one day she would wake up and feel differently, during the pandemic Kathryn decided to embark
Emma Duval is on a personal mission to reveal and document the lives of childfree and childless women in history. Raised in France and now living in the US, Emma felt a lack of positive role models growing up. From a Gallo-Roman physician and a
Kat Brown is a journalist, commentator and social media editor. In 2022 she successfully crowdfunded, 'No One Talks About This Stuff', a new book which will see 25 writers share their experiences of infertility, childlessness, baby loss and alm
Michelle Ackerley is a TV and radio presenter who is championing more honest conversations about women’s health. Michelle recently shared her experience of living with endometriosis and the impact it can have on fertility. In this chat, she tal
Erin Spurling is on a mission to change the conversation for and about women who are embracing a childfree lifestyle, whether that’s by choice or circumstance. Erin is a writer and music journalist, who set up Curiously Childfree as a platform
Jody Day is the Founder of Gateway Women, a global friendship, support and advocacy network. Described as the Beyonce of childlessness, Jody’s Ted Talk “The Lost tribe of childless women” has been viewed almost 170,000 times. Her book “Living t
This International Women’s Day we have the wonderful Stella Duffy as a guest. Stella is an acclaimed author and playwright, with 17 novels to her name. She's also a yoga teacher, breast cancer survivor, trainee existential pyschotherapist and a
Leyla Okhai is the founder of Diverse Minds, a company that works to help create a positively productive workplace, with an emphasis on mental health. Leyla is childfree by choice and through her work she has seen how a flawed system can pit mo
Zoe Noble is the founder of We are Childfree, a community that lifts up the voices of women and gender diverse people who have decided not to have children. Zoe always knew she didn’t want kids, but it was only in her thirties that she felt she
Katherine Baldwin is a love and relationship coach and mid-life mentor who once described herself as childless by ambivalence. In this chat, she shares how childhood experiences of watching her own mother fuelled her ambivalence towards parenth
Bea Grist is a life and wellness coach, who is actively sparking conversations around living a life without children. Bea is childfree by choice – but getting to that place has taken over a decade of questioning and turbulence. In this chat Bea
From social pressures and challenging the patriarchy to the grief of infertility, Yvonne John is an author and activist for childless women. She wrote her book, Dreaming of a Life Unlived, out of anger for those who were not being heard or list
Welcome to the brand new 1in5 Podcast, a space to explore all sides of leading a life without children – whether it’s by choice or by circumstance. Hosted by Geeta Pendse, in this first series, we’ll be exploring a whole range of subjects from
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