What happens when you remove the most popular social lubricant and fully meet yourself in your thirties?

In this episode, I’m joined by Emily Syphas, founder of Sober & Social and one of the UK’s leading voices on sober curiosity, hangover-free living and rethinking alcohol in your 30s.

Emily shares her personal journey from heavy drinking in hospitality, to years of full sobriety, to finding a hangover-free relationship with alcohol.

Together, we explore what actually changes when you question the social rules we’ve inherited around drinking, and what clarity replaces the blur.

We get into:

🧠 Sobriety as a journey, not a destination

🧠 Whether hangover-free living is a 30s cheat code

🧠 How alcohol, anxiety and confidence interact

🧠 The clarity that comes to dating and friendships without alcohol

This episode isn’t about quitting drinking. It’s about outgrowing versions of yourself that relied on numbing, distraction or validation and stepping into what comes next.

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What if trying to be our best, healthiest, most beautiful selves is actually… stressing us out?

In this episode, I’m joined by Emilie Lavinia, Fitness and Wellbeing Editor at The Independent, to make sense of the ever-expanding world of health, wellbeing and beauty in our thirties.

This is not yet another podcast episode with a list of everything you need to be doing — it's Emilie's stripped-back, honest perspective shaped by years inside the beauty industry.

We get into:

✨ How to spot products with actual research behind them

✨ Why women are ageing under a microscope while men get to call their facelifts “biohacking”

✨ The difference between doing wellness and feeling well

✨ Why going back to basics might be the best wellness glow-up you have

If you’ve ever felt like beauty and wellness is a treadmill where you can't keep up, this episode is your reset.

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What if the arguments you’re avoiding/repeating/stuck in… are the exact ones that could make your life better?

In this week’s Weirdly Personal, I’m getting into the fights we should be having in our thirties — and the ones we can finally stop wasting energy on.

After spending way too much time arguing with men on the internet (productive? questionable), I realised just how much of our energy goes into the wrong conflicts - and how powerful the right arguments can be.

Arguments aren’t about winning; they’re about understanding, clarity and connection.

In this episode, I break down:

✨ The five arguments you never need to have again

✨ The fights that actually improve your life - values, alignment, accountability and equality

✨ How to spot the real issue underneath a conflict

✨ How to argue in a way that brings you closer, not further apart

If you’ve ever replayed a conversation 47 times, avoided a necessary conflict, or found yourself knee-deep in a pointless debate, this one will shift how you think about arguing in your thirties.

Listen, reflect, and maybe send this to someone you’ve been avoiding a conversation with.

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