There's a particular weight to the moment you realise you've been distracting yourself from your own head — filling every gap with plans and people and things to do, just to avoid sitting in the quiet with yourself. If that sounds familiar, this conversation was made for you.

Jonnie Godfrey has known Daisy for twenty years. She's a psychotherapist, a coach, and a mother who raised two remarkable children largely on her own - but what makes her worth listening to isn't her credentials. It's that she grew up without her father, went to boarding school at nine, spent nine months travelling solo across Africa before anyone thought that was remarkable, and learned - slowly, imperfectly - that every truly awful thing in her life eventually gave her something back.

In this conversation, Jonnie and Daisy talk about what it really means to grow up without a parent, how anxious attachment shapes the way we love and the way we run, and the strange relief that comes from accepting that it's actually your job to get things wrong. They talk about boredom, stillness, the gift inside loss, and why the best piece of wisdom Jonnie ever received was the quietest: be still, and know there is peace within you.

Jonnie is the kind of person you want to have known for twenty years. The Daisy Chain is lucky to have her in the chain.

Every Thursday at 3pm. 🌼

In this episode we discuss:

• Growing up without a parent
• Boarding school and feeling set apart
• Anxious attachment and how it shapes the way we love
• What distraction is really hiding
• The gift inside heartbreak and loss
• Parenting without a map
• Why it's our job to get it wrong
• Finding stillness
• Intergenerational wisdom

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What found us- Links & Mentions

Daisy:

• Tomorrow, Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
• Sky above Clouds IV by Georgia O'Keefe

Jonnie:

•  Continuum Concept by Dr. Jean Leadoff
• The Family Bed by Tine Thevenin
• The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

Guest: Jonnie Godfrey

The Daisy Chain is a weekly podcast where every week, someone who's already been where you are passes down four pearls of wisdom to those of us still finding our way.

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There's a version of confidence that looks like having it all together from the outside, and then there's what it actually feels like on the inside. If you've ever walked into a room certain that today is the day it all comes unstuck - this one is for you.

Doulla Croft has known Daisy since the day she was born. She built a career spanning decades at some of the world's biggest companies, managed high-performing teams, smashed targets - and spent most of it quietly convinced she was faking it. What makes her story worth hearing isn't the career. It's everything that had to happen before it, and everything she chose to walk away from after.

In this conversation, Doulla talks honestly about growing up feeling different, the cultural expectations placed on her as a young girl, and the moment during her first marriage with two children under five - that she turned her car around and signed up for A-levels at night school. She talks about imposter syndrome that never fully went away, the trap of tying your identity to your work, and why financial independence matters more than any job title. And she talks about what two rounds of cancer quietly clarified: what was actually worth fighting for, and what wasn't.

Doulla is one of those people who has genuinely earned her perspective - and she passes it down here without a single piece of advice that doesn't come from having really lived it.

Every Thursday at 3pm 🌼

In this episode we talk about:

• Imposter syndrome and how to build confidence from evidence rather than feeling
• Growing up under cultural expectations as a first generation British woman
• How to separate your identity from your career
• Finding your purpose after corporate life
• Financial independence for women and why it matters in every relationship
• Overcoming a difficult first marriage and starting over in your twenties
• Discovering you're dyslexic as an adult and what that changes
• Work life balance and the trap of tying your self worth to your job title
• Getting braver with age and giving less of a damn
• What a cancer diagnosis teaches you about what actually matters
• Intergenerational wisdom and passing down what you know

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• Side Hustle Productions

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Links & Mentions:

• Warning by Jenny Joseph
• Why Am I Afraid To Tell You Who I Am? by John Powell
• Sentimental Value
• I'm Still Standing by Elton John
• The Traitors

Guest: Doulla Croft

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There's a podcast for the glowy skin, perfect morning, collagen-in-the-coffee version of you. This isn't it.

The Daisy Chain was born out of two of the most defining moments of host Daisy's life - losing her mum at 14 and finding herself lost in a spiral of self-improvement content in the run up to her wedding. Both times she was looking for the same thing: not more information, not another how-to, but the honest wisdom of someone who had already been through it. Someone who could sit with her and say - I've been there, and here's what I know.

In this first solo episode, Daisy introduces herself and the show. She talks about navigating adulthood without a conventional map, the grief of growing up without her mother, and why the women around her - her aunties, her neighbours, her teachers - became the mentors and guides she didn't know she was looking for. She also talks honestly about the overwhelming noise of self-improvement culture, why it made her feel worse not better, and what she is craving underneath all of it.

This is your 3pm podcast. The one for when the spiral starts and you need something real. Not more noise - just an honest conversation that reminds you that feeling lost is not a failure and you are not doing this alone.

If you've ever felt like everyone else has it figured out except you - this one's for you.

Every Thursday. 🌼

The Daisy Chain is a weekly podcast — intergenerational conversations where remarkable people who've already lived through what you might be facing pass down four pearls of wisdom to those of us still figuring it out. Every Thursday at 3pm.

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Adulthood is overwhelming. There's so much noise telling you how your life should look, and very little space to

put your hand up and say, honestly, this is a lot.

The Daisy Chain is that space. A weekly podcast for anyone figuring out life without a conventional support

network - whether you've lost a parent young, never had someone to turn to, or simply find yourself navigating

careers, relationships and identity without a map.

Every Thursday, host Daisy sits down with remarkable people across generations to pass on four pearls of everyday

wisdom - the kind that only comes from having really lived.

You are not as lost as you think. And you are not doing this alone. Welcome to the chain. 🌼

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