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Silver Linings PlaybackSilver Linings Playback 246 – The Crush (ft. Sophie Strauss)
AUDIO VERSION:
Joel Murphy and Andy McIntyre watch maligned movies and find their silver linings. For February, in honor of Valentine’s Day, they are watching “bad romance” films.
Joel and Andy are joined this week by stylist Sophie Strauss. Together, they dive into the 1993 Lolita wannabe, The Crush; starring Alicia Silverstone in her debut film role.
The Crush (1993) Directed by: Alan Shapiro Written by: Alan Shapiro Starring: Alicia Silverstone, Cary Elwes, Jennifer Rubin, Kurtwood Smith, Amber Benson
Theme Song: “Bankin’” by Bronson Scott
Silver Linings Playback recently launched a Patreon, wh...
2025-02-1750 minHoboTrashcanSilver Linings Playback 246 – The Crush (ft. Sophie Strauss)
AUDIO VERSION:
Joel Murphy and Andy McIntyre watch maligned movies and find their silver linings. For February, in honor of Valentine’s Day, they are watching “bad romance” films.
Joel and Andy are joined this week by stylist Sophie Strauss. Together, they dive into the 1993 Lolita wannabe, The Crush; starring Alicia Silverstone in her debut film role.
The Crush (1993) Directed by: Alan Shapiro Written by: Alan Shapiro Starring: Alicia Silverstone, Cary Elwes, Jennifer Rubin, Kurtwood Smith, Amber Benson
Theme Song: “Bankin’” by Bronson Scott
Silver Linings Playback recently launched a Patreon, wh...
2025-02-1750 min
Chompin’ with Sophie and JessEpisode 54 - Sarah Hatheway - The Last UnicornOn this podcast, we believe in unicorns and we champion guests like Sarah Hatheway who share in that belief. We talk to Sarah about being a child of Sammamish, James Bond, Jane Austen, Little Women, Betsy Tacy, Specificity in Halloween, Audrey Hepburn, Redheads in Media, Edith Head, Sofia Coppola, Cary Elwes, Cheese and Bread, Grease 2 and the majesty of The Last Unicorn. Follow Sarah @sarah_hath, read whatever she writes, and believe in Unicorns.
2024-11-041h 25
Seize the DayCreating Change with Back Up's CEO, Abigail LockTopics covered in the show:Back Up's mission and values including embracing challengeThe importance of mindset to help us overcome thingsKindness - how to be more aware of others around youAbigail's drive to achieve change including her experience as a child carer and a Superintendent in the Met PoliceThe importance and power of communitySelf-care tips and toolsLINKSBack Up Trust WebsiteBack Up Trust in LinkedInSophie Elwes Podcast - A life Less Ordinary
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2024-07-2545 min
A Life Less Ordinary with Sophie ElwesA Life Less Ordinary Host Finale! Sophie Elwes - Surviving despite the odds, carving your own destiny and being grateful for all of the thingsFor this epsiode Sophie is interviewed by her good friend Sarah Orr (who appeared in series two of A Life Less Ordinary with Sophie Elwes). Sophie tells her story from when she sustained her spinal cord injury back in 2011 after falling from a roof terrace. They discuss the aftermath, from spending nearly six weeks in an induced coma with 40% chance of survival, to going to Stoke Mandeville spinal injuries unit to be rehabiltated and learn how to live independently again. Sophie talks about the challenges found in the outside world after leaving hospital and about the life-changing e...
2023-08-1457 min
A Life Less Ordinary with Sophie ElwesJambo Truong - Witnessing his sister’s death at a young age, growing up queer and Asian in South Wales and and why trauma is your trajectoryJambo Truong is a practitioner of integrative medicine with a specialism in complimentary medicine and therapies who has impressive credentials and a vast knowledge and repertoire of different practices. Growing up in South Wales and feeling like an outsider as being from an ethnic minority, as well as being queer, he faced a lot of bullying and had to learn to defend himself. Witnessing his sister passing away from an asthma attack at a young age set him on a path to wanting to help others, as well as introducing him to meditation.As a...
2023-08-071h 06
A Life Less Ordinary with Sophie ElwesSophie Dear - How speaking to her inner child transformed her life, how to set boundaries and realise your self-worthSophie Dear is a yoga teacher and self-worth coach who struggled with insomnia and undiagnosed anxiety since the age of 15. She appeared to have a thriving career in the TV industry but it wasn't until reaching a point of burnout that she had a conversation with a doctor who encouraged her to question her self-critic by interacting with her 'inner child' that led her on a path of healing and learning which would eventually lead to her helping countless others with their own self-worth. Now living in Bali, Sophie tells her story of how she go...
2023-07-311h 01
A Life Less Ordinary with Sophie ElwesRaquel Siganporia - Becoming a wheelchair user at age 11, top tips to assert yourself, and what she wishes people knew about sex and disabilityRaquel Siganporia is the Director of Business Development and Senior Solicitor at Aspire Law and she sustained a spinal cord injury following surgery to correct the curvature of her spine, or scoliosis, which went wrong when she was aged 11. She tells me about the immediate aftermath of such a life-changing event and about what it was like starting secondary school in the '90s as a person with a disability. She shares how she learned to use her disability as an advantage which served her well into adulthood.We talk about working with a disability, t...
2023-07-241h 05
A Life Less Ordinary with Sophie ElwesAdam Wilder - Authentic intimacy, honouring ourselves and why playfulness is sacred.Adam is the founder of Togetherness which is a social enterprise whose purpose is to make meaningful connection more accessible in our culture. Having been a people pleaser and studied it in depth, Adam has a great understanding of his own behaviour patterns and we unpick what it means and why awareness is key to working through feeling the need to please others and putting their needs before one's own.We chat about intimacy and vulnerability and how we can show up more authentically in our lives and in our relationships and he shares how...
2023-07-1749 min
A Life Less Ordinary with Sophie ElwesLauren Murrell - Getting a cancer diagnosis in her early twenties, manifestation and why main character energy worksWhilst in her last year of law school, in her early twenties, Lauren Murrell was diagnosed with an aggressive form of blood cancer (myeloid leukaemia) with only 20% chance of survival. Whilst she was in hospital her sister Sarah developed some natural skincare formulations to restore and repair her sister's sensitive fragile skin. After a life-saving stem cell transplant from Sarah, the sisters decided to bring Sarah’s original formulas to life with the launch of By Sarah; a range of natural, effective and B Corp certified skincare designed for people that are struggling with stressed and sensitive ski...
2023-07-1044 min
A Life Less Ordinary with Sophie ElwesMelanie Woods - Becoming paralysed after being hit by a car, finding fun in the darkest of situations and competing at the Paralympics before she expected.Melanie Woods is a former PE teacher and GB Paralympic athlete who sustained a spinal cord injury after being hit by a car whilst riding her bike. She tells me about her experience of rehabilitation, learning how to become independent and managing to walk with crutches whilst in rehab. She shares how she found ways to cope with her new situation and her journey into wheelchair racing. She talks about going skiing in Colorado with the charity, Back Up a year after breaking her back and how it was so eye-opening for her. She talks about embracing failure and r...
2023-07-0348 min
Live Well AnywayFor the Love of AudiobooksSHOW NOTES
In this episode MacKenzie chats with her friend, Cara Willett, about their mutual love of audiobooks! MacKenzie give an exhaustive list of recommendations to keep you listening for years to come!
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Beside Still Waters- Tricia Goyer, Narrated by MacKenzie
Beyond the Gray Mountains- Tricia Goyer, Narrated by MacKenzie
Born a Crime- Trevor Noah
A Very Punchable Face- Colin Jost
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of the Princess Bride- Cary Elwes
Managing Expectations- Minnie...
2023-06-291h 15
A Life Less Ordinary with Sophie ElwesCarlos Cervantes - Discovering meditation, cultivating creativity and becoming symptom free from bipolar disorderThis was such a special conversation with Carlos Cervantes who talks about his experiences in his late teens and early 20s of suffering from severe depression, 'overdoing it' on drink and drugs, dropping out of university having had a mental breakdown, feeling suicidal and receiving a diagnosis of Bipolar Type One Disorder. He came across a teacher of meditation and started on his journey of practicing Transcendental Meditation. He now teaches it and shares with me the profound effect it's had on every part of his life. After practicing it for a period of time he found himself symptom-free...
2023-06-2653 min
Disabled and ProudE16: Accepting Adaption is the Key to Success with Sophie ElwesThis week on Disabled and Proud Brooke Millhouse is joined by international para-athlete Sophie Elwes. Sophie has a spinal cord injury after a fall from a balcony, but she did not let this stop her from living a life filled with excitement and adventure. After adjusting to life with her spinal cord injury she went on to represent Great Britain in adaptive skiing and waterskiing, and overcame many physical and mental hurdles along the way. Sophie speaks on her experience being a disabled athlete and how her disability has made her pu...
2022-08-0347 min
A Life Less Ordinary with Sophie ElwesBonus episode! Dr Clair Pollard - A psychologist's guide to helping others, breaking her back in Namibia and thinking about the stories we tell ourselvesWorking in the NHS for 27 years, Dr Clair Pollard is a Clinical Psychologist and Acting Director for a large psychology mental health trust in South London and a Cognitive Behavioural Therapist. She also sustained a spinal cord injury during her training at the age of 25 which left her paraplegic and a wheelchair user. Undeterred by this, it was her determination and focus on her training that enabled her to come to terms with her acquired disability. She talks about the 'mental health tsunami' we are facing in the UK at the moment, particularly for young people but adds that t...
2022-08-0141 min
A Life Less Ordinary with Sophie ElwesLGBTQ+ pride month bonus episode! Rosie Wilby - post-traumatic growth after a breakup, reinvestigating monogamy and sex party etiquetteRosie Wilby is an award-winning comedian, author and podcaster who has appeared a number of times on BBC Radio 4 programmes including Woman's Hour, Saturday Live and Four Thought. Her first book Is Monogamy Dead? was longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize and followed a trilogy of solo shows investigating the psychology of love and relationships. Her new book The Breakup Monologues is based on her acclaimed podcast of the same name and it explores the science of heartbreak and the unexpected joy that can come from breakups.In this conversation Rosie talks about growing up and...
2022-06-3050 min
A Life Less Ordinary with Sophie ElwesBonus episode! Alexandra Adams - Getting gaslit by medical staff, running out of resilience and blowing up on TikTokAlexandra Adams was the first guest on this podcast, and the inspiration behind starting A Life Less Ordinary. She's also a medical student who is deaf-blind. In 2020 she went into hospital with symptoms of an undiagnosed chronic illness and was there for 17 months during which time she massively deteriorated and experienced some shocking mistreatment at the hands of medical staff and some hugely traumatic experiences, including having covid in hospital in the midst of the pandemic. Alexandra shares these experiences as well as that of finding her community online of others with chronic illnesses.She tells me o...
2022-06-0652 min
A Life Less Ordinary with Sophie ElwesGrace Spence Green - Radical acceptance, internalised ableism and how to ‘take up space’Grace Spence Green is a junior doctor and a wheelchair user. Growing up, she had her heart set on becoming a doctor from the age of eight and was a keen competitive climber. In an extraordinary incident in 2018, while she studying at medical school, a man jumped from a height and fell on her, causing her to break her back and sustain a spinal cord injury, becoming a wheelchair user. Choosing not to dwell on the incident, or indeed the man (who has since served time for GBH), Grace returned to medical school and has since started working as...
2022-03-1451 min
A Life Less Ordinary with Sophie ElwesMark Berry - Why training is for everyone, questioning limitations placed upon us and the gift of realising your self-worthThis week I had the pleasure of interviewing Mark Berry who is my friend and personal trainer. We’ve known each other for years and every time I have a session with him, we end up deep in conversation and he is a real fountain of wisdom and life advice, as well as a great trainer.Growing up on a council estate in Wandsworth, Mark has always been committed to helping others (alongside his love of sport, mainly football). He started back in the 1990s doing care work in a residential care home. Along the way he’s pi...
2022-03-0744 min
A Life Less Ordinary with Sophie ElwesGail Muller - Coping with chronic pain, hiking the Appalachian Trail and the power of surrenderGail Muller is an adventurer, educator and author. Growing up in Cornwall, she was sporty and outdoorsy, but at 14 was told she’d need to use a wheelchair by the age of 40 due to muscular-skeletal issues. She has an extraordinary story of her journey of experiencing chronic pain for 15 years, and dedicating much of that time to finding a solution, which she later did, for the most part.At 41 she embarked on one of the toughest treks in the world - over 2200 miles in the USA - The Appalachian Trial. She wrote a book about it called Un...
2022-02-281h 09
A Life Less Ordinary with Sophie ElwesKalim Smith - The healing power of plants, how serious injury brought out the adventurer in him and why listening to his gut paid offBased partly in Carlsbad, CA and in Keauhou, Hawaii, Kalim Smith and I met a few years back at a ski race in New Hampshire, after which we discovered we had a mutual friend/relative and since then we’ve enjoyed some great times in both London and California, with some wonderful conversations.After becoming paralysed in 2011 he recognised the healing power of plants and now spends much of his time growing gourds to make traditional rhythm instruments in both San Diego and Hawaii. He’s made them for some of Hawaii’s most prominent musicians, teachers and da...
2022-02-211h 02
A Life Less Ordinary with Sophie ElwesJames Dashwood - Addiction, coping mechanisms and the quest for connectionHead of Wellbeing at leading employee wellbeing platform, Better Space, James Dashwood is a father, a husband, and a recovering alcoholic. Sober for seven years he has been on a journey of introspection where he’s learned so much about himself, about addiction and about what it means to be content.He shares his story about growing up and how he recognises that he used external things to soothe internal pain. James is remarkably candid in reflecting about how he sees himself, his desire to control others, and to connect, for which he recognises he use...
2022-02-1459 min
A Life Less Ordinary with Sophie ElwesAndrew Cotton - The power of breathwork, breaking his back surfing a 75ft wave, and using his mindset to overcome fearAndrew Cotton is a big wave surfer and Red Bull athlete. Growing up in North Devon, he started at 7 and it became his life. He left school and worked in a local surfboard factory until the age of 25 to fund his surf trips. At this point he figured it wasn’t going to sustain him financially so he re-trained as a plumber but this made it clear to him that his real passion lay in big wave surfing. So, with a friend he set about creating online content which, combined with his talent, led him to picking up some sp...
2022-02-0738 min
A Life Less Ordinary with Sophie ElwesCathy Reay - Empowering her kids to find their own way, self acceptance and choosing the spaces to exist inCathy Reay is a writer, editor, disability consultant and influencer. She is also a single mother of two and her Instagram account provides a great insight into life as a mum with dwarfism, disability justice, sex and dating, as well as some great skincare tips.Cathy tells me about what it was like for her growing up in north Norfolk and how moving to London helped her find out who she was. We talk about celebrating our weirdness. She talks about her experiences of becoming a mother, about medical ableism and how she did not f...
2022-01-311h 04
A Life Less Ordinary with Sophie ElwesGregory David Roberts - Spirituality, finding solace in solitary confinement and life in an Indian slumGregory David Roberts is the author of best selling novel, Shantaram and sequel, Mountain Shadow. Selling over 6 million copies, it is partly based on Gregory's own life experience of escaping prison in Australia and being on the run, during which time he lived in a slum in India. After ten years as a fugitive, Gregory was re-captured in Germany and spent time in both solitary confinement and maximum security before being released over seven years later. After five years on parole, Gregory finished writing Shantaram, got it published and sold the movie rights.After withdrawing from society...
2022-01-241h 04
Então é NatalEp. 78 - Um Castelo Para o Natal (coração vassalo de escocês, etc)No episódio de hoje, Ju e Mari falam sobre Um Castelo Para o Natal, o filme responsável por resgatar o amor, curar nossos corações, eliminar o capitalismo, tirar o presidente, reestabelecer a consciência feudal entre nossos corações e escoceses. Nesse filme acompanhamos Sophie Brown (Brooke Shields), uma escritora de sucesso que decide viajar para a Escócia para visitar um belo castelo antigo que já foi morada de seu falecido pai. Ao saber que ele está a venda, tentando manter a memória na família, ela decidirá compra-lo. No entanto, para conseguir o castelo...
2021-12-2029 min
Então é NatalEntão é Natal – Ep. 78 – Um Castelo Para o Natal (coração vassalo de escocês, etc)No episódio de hoje, Ju e Mari falam sobre Um Castelo Para o Natal, o filme responsável por resgatar o amor, curar nossos corações, eliminar o capitalismo, tirar o presidente, reestabelecer a consciência feudal entre nossos corações e escoceses. Nesse filme acompanhamos Sophie Brown (Brooke Shields), uma escritora de sucesso que decide viajar para a Escócia para visitar um belo castelo antigo que já foi morada de seu falecido pai. Ao saber que ele está a venda, tentando manter a memória na família, ela decidirá compra-lo. No entanto, para conseguir o castelo, ela precisará...
2021-12-2029 min
Então é NatalEntão é Natal – Ep. 78 – Um Castelo Para o Natal (coração vassalo de escocês, etc)No episódio de hoje, Ju e Mari falam sobre Um Castelo Para o Natal, o filme responsável por resgatar o amor, curar nossos corações, eliminar o capitalismo, tirar o presidente, reestabelecer a consciência feudal entre nossos corações e escoceses.
Nesse filme acompanhamos Sophie Brown (Brooke Shields), uma escritora de sucesso que decide viajar para a Escócia para visitar um belo castelo antigo que já foi morada de seu falecido pai. Ao saber que ele está a venda, tentando manter a memória na família, ela decidirá compra-lo. No entanto, para conseguir o castelo, ela precisará...
2021-12-2029 minSeize the DayA Life Less Ordinary with Sophie ElwesSophie OnlineInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/sophieelwes/A Life Less Ordinary Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-life-less-ordinary-with-sophie-elwes/id1514110779 SUPPORT ME and ‘Buy Me a Coffee’ over at Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/seizethedayNatalie OnlineTwitter: https://twitter.com/natmillersnellInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/nmscoaching/Please come and join me at my free Facebook group, Dare to Be You!Click here to download my free Self-Belief and Confidence GuideGAP membership: https://nmscoaching.co.uk/gap-memb...
2021-12-0249 min
Unstressable with Alice LawEpisode 40 - Sophie Elwes on the party that left her paralysed from the chest down & how we can always find something to be thankful forIn this episode Alice is joined by Sophie Elwes. Sophie is a mentor for the spinal injuries charity, backuptrust.org.uk, a para-athlete waterskiing & wake-boarding for Great Britain and host of her podcast - A Life Less Ordinary with Sophie Elwes.
In 2011, at age 22, Sophie fell 8 meters while at a party and was given a 40% chance of survival. She was left paralysed from the chest down and dependent on a wheelchair.
Despite this adversity, she went on to spend several years alpine skiing as a member of the British Disabled Ski Team and then decided...
2021-09-1759 min
A Life Less Ordinary with Sophie ElwesMo Gawdat - Engineering happiness, losing his beloved son Ali, and how to take control of your thoughtsMo Gawdat is the former Chief Business Officer at Google X (aka the Moonshoot Factory) and before that had a successful career as a stock-trader and tech executive in Dubai. Despite having professional, personal and material success he was miserable, and no amount of new Rolls Royces could make him happy in a sustained way. He decided to use his engineer's mind and research skills to come up with equation to engineer and maintain happiness. He wrote a book about it called Solve for Happy which became an international bestseller. In 2014 this equation was put to the...
2021-04-121h 03
A Life Less Ordinary with Sophie ElwesSarah Orr - Breaking her neck at 16, backpacking across Australia as a wheelchair user and gaining perspective through working in developing countriesAfter breaking her neck at the age of 16 in a car crash whilst on holiday in the Highlands, Sarah’s life took a course that was far from ordinary. We speak about her rehab in the spinal unit, where, thanks to some ‘tough love’ from her physio she learned to become completely independent, despite being tetraplegic. She tells me about the early days of adjustment following her injury, how difficult it was going back to school as a wheelchair user, especially having been recently selected to play hockey for Scotland prior to her injury. We speak about the cha...
2021-04-0558 min
Slo Mo: A Podcast with Mo GawdatSophie Elwes - A Life Less Ordinary and Grateful for It AllToday’s guest is one of my new friends and heroes, Sophie Elwes. Sophie reached out to invite me on her podcast, but after reading about her, I wanted her on mine first.In 2011, at age 22, Sophie fell 8 meters while at a party and was given a 40% chance of survival. She was left paralyzed from the chest down and dependent on a wheelchair.Despite that, she spent several years alpine skiing as a member of the British Disabled Ski Team and then decided to finish that chapter to come back to Lond...
2021-03-3141 min
Decades of Horror | Horror News RadioTOP 8 MUST-SEE HORROR MOVIES for APRIL 2021 - Gruesome Guide I am your host Doc Rotten and this is the GRUESOME GUIDE to Horror Movies for Month 2021. Back with me again are the scariest, goriest, bloodiest co-hosts on the 'Net. Joining Doc is Vanessa, Podcasting Rock Star & International Cosplay Queen. TRAIN TO BUSAN PRESENTS: PENINSULA - 04/01/2021 Synopsis: A zombie virus has in the last 4 years spread to all of South Korea. 4 Koreans in HK sail thru the blockade to Incheon for USD20,000,000 on a truck. Director: Sang-ho Yeon Writer: Sang-ho Yeon, Ryu Yong-jae Cast: Dong-won Gang...
2021-03-2924 min
A Life Less Ordinary with Sophie ElwesMarsha de Cordova MP - Growing up partially sighted, stepping up and becoming an MP to create change and being a voice for the voicelessMarsha de Cordova is the Labour MP for Battersea since 2017 and is currently the Shadow Secretary of State for Women and Equalities. She was born with nystagmus and is registered blind. We speak about her upbringing, with five siblings, where her mum fought for her to remain in mainstream education, she says if she hadn't, she wouldn't be where she is today. Marsha entered politics because she's passionate about fair and equal rights and wanted to be a 'voice for the voiceless' - particularly campaigning for disability rights. We speak about how Covid has...
2021-03-2943 min
A Life Less Ordinary with Sophie ElwesJonny Benjamin MBE - Managing mental illness, self-compassion and the art of listeningJonny Benjamin MBE is an awarding winning mental health campaigner, writer, film producer, public speaker and vlogger. At the age of 20 he was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, which is a combination of schizophrenia and bipolar. Having been affected by mental illness from a young age, Jonny is passionate about improving mental health for young people, and has started up a charity Beyond. The charity held the first-ever mental health and wellbeing festival for primary and secondary schools during Children’s Mental Health Week in February this year.Jonny tells me his story about how mental illness has af...
2021-03-2256 min
A Life Less Ordinary with Sophie ElwesMillie Gooch: Hangover anxiety, creating Sober Girl Society and why sober dating is superior to drunk datingMillie Gooch is the founder of Sober Girl Society, an online community which destigmatises sobriety, and brings women together who want to connect and have fun, without the booze. Millie quit drinking in 2018 after experiencing one too many blackouts and the terrible accompanying ‘hanxiety’, leading her to read Catherine Gray’s The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober, which kick-started her sober journey. We both talk about our relationship with alcohol, the scary situations its landed us in, and the contradiction of how many of us are so mindful about our health, yet ignore the fact that alcohol is a toxic su...
2021-03-1550 min
A Life Less Ordinary with Sophie ElwesMegan Hine - How routine saved her life, recovering from Lyme disease and how to find your inner resilience in these challenging timesMegan Hine is a survival consultant, producer, adventurer and television presenter. She is also the author of Mind of a Survivor.During her career she has survived a snakebite, Lyme disease, being shot at and hunted by a lion, amongst many other things.An Ambassador for Scouting UK, Megan is passionate about enabling children and young people to experience the wealth of benefits that being in the outdoors and in the wilderness can bring.We talk about how we are not equipped with the skills to cope with the stresses of modern day...
2021-03-081h 02
A Life Less Ordinary with Sophie ElwesKaren Darke MBE - Training her brain to become a Paralympic champion, climbing El Capitan as a paraplegic and learning to enjoy the processKaren Darke tells me about being injured aged 21 in a mountain climbing accident and how she overcame her fear of heights following this accident to eventually climb El Capitan, as a paraplegic using just her arms. She shares with me her story from first riding a handcycle to becoming a Paralympic champion in Rio in 2016, helped, along with a lot of training, motivation and hard work, by an understanding of how to train her brain and reframe negative thoughts in order to manifest a positive outcome. She tells me about her trip when she cross-country skied across t...
2021-03-0148 min
A Life Less Ordinary with Sophie ElwesSiena Castellon - Being ruthlessly bullied, not fitting in with neurotypical norms and being awesome and autisticSiena Castellon is an 18-year-old advocate, author, mentor and Young Leader for the UN Sustainable Development Goals. She is autistic, has dyslexia, dyspraxia and ADHD. After being eventually diagnosed with autism she wrote The Spectrum Girl's Survival Guide: How to Grow Up Awesome and Autistic, which is a fantastic guide for neurodiverse girls navigating a neurotypical world.We discuss the stigma around autism in girls; how, because she was undiagnosed and consequently misunderstood by teachers and pupils alike, she was ruthlessly bullied throughout her school life and was failed by a mainstream education system that did not...
2021-02-2258 min
Total Movie RecallTMR 058 – The Princess Bride This week on Total Movie Recall, we take a hard pivot from all the toxic masculinity of weeks past and Steve shows his gentle, romantic side. Somehow, Ryan makes this about his sad sack heartache but in the end, everybody calms down and moves on with a nice mutton, lettuce, and tomato sandwich. The Princess Bride (1987) d. Rob Reiner w. William Goldman Starring: Cary Elwes Mandy Patinkin Robin Wright Chris Sarandon Christopher Guest Wallace Shawn André the Giant Fred Savage P...
2021-02-161h 23
A Life Less Ordinary with Sophie ElwesCharley Boorman - Surviving two major motorcycle accidents, seeing dyslexia as a gift and his bromance with Ewan McGregorActor, writer and TV presenter Charley Boorman has travelled all over the world by motorbike, often alongside best friend Ewan McGregor. He has had two huge motorbike accidents which left him with serious injuries which have left long term damage but he refuses to be defined by his injuries. In the Apple TV+ show Long Way Up they travel up from Ushuaia in Argentina through South and Central America to Los Angeles on electric motorcycles – a feat which hasn’t been done before and definitely proved to be more of a challenge than they expected. We talk about the unpr...
2021-02-1555 min
Adaptdefy#44 Sophie Elwes - Paraplegic Athlete, Mentor & Podcast HostSophie Elwes is an international para athlete, peer mentor, adventurer and media producer. Given a 40% chance of surviving after a huge fall from a balcony, Sophie has built a life filled with excitement, adventure, service and love. In this episode we dive deep into self identity and what it took to pack up and leave the support of her family to travel the world. We discuss how she came to represent Great Britain in adaptive skiing and waterskiing, how she shaped her career, and how she overcame all the physical and mental hurdles along the way. Check it out...
2020-07-1651 min
A Life Less Ordinary with Sophie Elwes#10 David Smith MBE – Finding life’s purpose, winning gold at London 2012 and how he built resilience to enable him to learn to walk again four times.Two-time world champion and gold medal-winning Paralympian David Smith MBE was born with a club foot and has had a rare tumour in his neck which left him fighting for his life after several major surgeries and having to learn how to walk again four times. We speak about how learning and competing in karate as a youngster taught him a set of values which would lead him to competing at multiple sports for Great Britain as both an able-bodied and para-athlete. His experiences have taught him his true values and he has been able to build extraordinary amounts...
2020-07-131h 12
A Life Less Ordinary with Sophie Elwes#9 Brett Moran – Drug dealer to healer, getting comfortable with your discomfort and taming your ‘monkey mind.’A former drug dealer, crack addict and young offender, Brett Moran's life changed when he stumbled across a book on meditation whilst on a drug deal in a prison library. He has since become a published author, life coach and yoga and meditation instructor and his daily meditations on his Instagram account have helped countless people deal with life’s challenges. Sophie and Brett discuss their shared experiences of adversity and how they recognise it to be a blessing instead of a curse. They discuss the ‘victim complex,’ coping with depression and anxiety by ‘getting comfortable in your discomfort’ and Brett...
2020-07-0638 min
A Life Less Ordinary with Sophie Elwes#8 Sophie Morgan - Mentorship, dealing with ableism and changing the worldSophie Morgan is a TV presenter, award-winning disability advocate, artist and entrepreneur who became paralysed at the age of 18 in a car accident. Since then Sophie has carved out an impressive career as a TV presenter covering a range of topics, as well as presenting Channel 4's coverage of the Paralympic Games for both London and Rio. Sophie is passionate about creating change for people with disabilities and campaigns to enable this; she supports multiple charities, is an ambassador for various companies, amongst many other things. Sophie talks about the importance of mentorship and role models, overcoming her disability...
2020-06-2942 min
A Life Less Ordinary with Sophie Elwes#7 Paula Akpan – Micro-aggressions, Harry Potter & accidentally ‘coming out’Paula Akpan is a freelance journalist and co-founder of Black Girl Festival. She is also co-founder of The ‘I’m Tired’ Project – a campaign which aims to highlight the significance of micro-aggressions and stereotypes faced by people in everyday life. Paula writes about a range of subjects with a particular interest in blackness and queerness. She shares her thoughts on the apparent ‘discovery of racism’ by white people on social media in relation to recent events, we talk about what we are both ‘tired of’ and Paula tells Sophie how it felt to be dressed by her mum for Cosmopolitan mag
2020-06-2248 min
A Life Less Ordinary with Sophie Elwes#6 Alana Nichols - Making history at the Paralympic Games, coping with grief and the spiritual element of surfingAlana Nichols is a five-time Paralympian and six-time medalist who has competed in three different sports - wheelchair basketball, alpine skiing and para-canoeing. She is the first US female Paralympian to win gold medals in both summer and winter games. Coming from a para-ski racing background, Alana is one of Sophie’s biggest role-models and a total inspiration for her. She is president of the Women’s Sports Association which advocates for equality for women in sport. Having finished Paralympic sport Alana has found the stoke in adaptive surfing, again, with incredible success. Sophie and Alana talk about being a mu...
2020-06-1543 min
A Life Less Ordinary with Sophie Elwes#5 Ashley Belal Chin – Seeking fame, Tupac Shakur and finding inner peaceThe talented Ashley Belal Chin rose to fame in 1999 BBC film Storm Damage and has enjoyed success as an actor, screen-writer, rapper and spoken word poet. Having thought happiness was found in success and material possessions he realised, after converting to Islam in 2002, where it was really to be found. We speak about his upbringing on a council estate in London where he spent his youth mixed up in gang culture, how he won his first acting role and how he found peace in his faith. Ashley shares some profound thoughts about inner peace, and how many of us...
2020-06-0848 min
A Life Less Ordinary with Sophie Elwes#4 George Robinson - Authentic representation in the media, learning about yourself and lockdown activitiesSophie speaks to Netflix’s Sex Education star George Robinson about his rugby accident in 2015 when he broke his neck and finds out about his journey to appearing in one of Netflix’s biggest hits of 2020. They chat about Tiger King, self-image, representation of disability in the media and the audition process. George gives his words of wisdom about how important it is to learn about yourself and how he’s managed to rise to such heights despite experiencing such trauma.
2020-06-0139 min
A Life Less Ordinary with Sophie Elwes#1 Alexandra Adams: Defying expectations, showcasing diversity and reaching for the starsSophie talks to the multi-talented Alexandra Adams. Alexandra is an athlete, a photographer, a cook, an artist, a writer, poet, TED talk speaker and medical student. She’s also deafblind and suffers from a Mitochondrial condition. Sophie and Alexandra first met on a training camp in Austria with British Parasnowsport in 2016 and that was the start of a friendship which led to many interesting conversations about their experiences of living with a disability and their shared commitment to breaking barriers and changing people’s perceptions about disability. Sophie asks Alexandra about growing up deafblind, how she persevered and succeeded to g...
2020-05-2549 min
A Life Less Ordinary with Sophie Elwes#2 Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson: Using creativity to overcome challenges, dealing with discrimination, and winning the London Marathon six timesSophie has a conversation with cross-bench peer and eight time gold winning Paralympic medallist, Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson DBE DL. Tanni sits in the House of Lords where she advocates for disability rights, welfare and disability sport. She first went to the Paralympic Games in 1988 and to four more Games after that, winning 11 Paralympic medals, eight gold medals, breaking three world records in wheelchair racing and, on top of that, won the London Marathon six times. Tanni talks about growing up in the 1970s in Wales with Spina Bifida, how her parents refused to allow her to be discriminated against...
2020-05-2551 min
A Life Less Ordinary with Sophie Elwes#3 Ben West: The 'S' word, meeting the Prime Minister, and how talking to yourself can helpSophie talks to Ben West who is an award-winning mental health campaigner who lost his brother Sam to suicide in 2018. Realising there was no formal training for teachers about mental health, Ben created a petition for teachers to receive mandatory Mental Health First Aid training. Sophie and Ben discuss the stigma around the ‘S’ word, how people opened up to him after his brother’s death and he recognised the need to create a community where people can talk openly about mental health which led him to start WalktoTalk and the #SaveOurStudents campaign. Ben talks about meeting the Prime Minist...
2020-05-2530 min
A Life Less Ordinary with Sophie ElwesA Life Less Ordinary TrailerHosted by Sophie Elwes, who knows a thing or two about overcoming difficulties, after sustaining a spinal cord injury in 2011. Each episode Sophie will interview an extraordinary guest who has faced and overcome enormous challenges and adversity and is achieving incredible things in spite of what they've had to deal with. She'll be finding out their story, about their greatest struggles and triumphs, and asking them what advice they would share with other people dealing with challenges of their own.
2020-05-1901 min
Radio 1's Life Hacks - Adapt the WorldLiving With Paralysis with Sophie ElwesSophie Elwes was paralysed from the hips down after she fell from a balcony. She shares her story with Katie Thistleton and Dr Radha.
2019-11-2628 min