Grazia Life Advice

This is our last Grazia Life Advice for a while as we take a summer break - click SUBSCRIBE to make sure you know as soon as we're back. We're closing the first season with a brilliant episode featuring the smart and very funny Gina Martin, who earlier this year successfully campaigned to make upskirting a sexual offence. Gina's new book Be The Change is an activism how-to guide for anyone who wants to change the world and doesn't know where to start (isn't that all of us?). While we're taking a break, use the hashtag #grazialifeadvice to let us know what you think of Gina's episode and the other 53 available on iTunes, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts - from Dolly Alderton to the Queer Eye boys to Bella Mackie. See you soon!

This weekend, the FIFA Women's World Cup kicks off - with Scotland qualifying for the first time ever, England in with a good chance of taking the trophy, and the BBC broadcasting it all at times you're actually available (a perk of it being held in France). To mark this very exciting summer for women's sport, Hattie sat down with legendary presenter Gabby Logan, who shared the wisdom she's learnt over a career spanning 23 years. Gabby was chatty, smart and inspiring, and spilled the beans on how she tunes out social-media criticism, goes running with Alex Scott, and maintains her startling breakfast habits.

'You travel a lot darling - you should have a sailor in every port.' These are the wise words of Felicity Hayward's nan, one of the key inspirations behind her advice this week. Felicity is the model and presenter who embraced body paint for Channel 4's Naked Beach and has worked for the likes of Boohoo, ASOS and L'Oreal. She's also the founder of the #selflovebringsbeauty movement, which you can check out at selflovebringsbeauty.com. This week, she's here with Hattie to talk lipstick, body confidence and why she believes modelling should never be your Plan A.

We all know Nadiya Hussain as Bake-Off winner, recipe writer and national treasure - but what few people knew until recently is that panic attacks have dogged her since childhood. Nadiya sat down with Hattie to mark her BBC documentary 'Nadiya: Anxiety and Me', and opened up about her disorder, what her faith means to her, and how she's managed 14 years of marriage without a single argument.

A journalist, mental-health writer, body-confidence champion and force to be reckoned with, Bryony Gordon has published four books including You Got This, a new life manual for teenagers. Her bullsh*t-free, empathetic approach to mental health is exactly what encouraged Prince Harry himself to open up to her in an award-winning episode of her own podcast. She's here at Grazia to talk about loving yourself as you are (even if that means embracing open pores and/or a few regrettable life choices), plus the heart-warming magic of guinea pigs.

When a debut novel is picked up by Reese Witherspoon for her book club, and optioned by 20th Century Fox with Reese attached to produce, you know it's worth a look. That's what happened to Something In The Water, a can't-put-it-down thriller written by this week's guest, Catherine Steadman (you need this for your beach holiday). Not only is Catherine now a bestselling novelist, but she's an actress too - you may remember her as Mabel Lane Fox in Downton Abbey, and she's also in the forthcoming supernatural drama The Rook. She's a great positive thinker, and she's here to share the wisdom she lives by.

The lovely and super-smart June Sarpong - broadcaster, campaigner and author - joins Hattie this week to share insight and advice from her book Diversify, now out in paperback. June draws on powerful research to highlight the challenges that so many people face - whether because of skin colour, social class, gender, disability or sexuality - and gives practical tips on how we can all unpick our own prejudices and step outside our social comfort zones.

Meet Sofie Hagen: comedian, fat activist and author of the new book, Happy Fat. She's here to tell us that many of our negative beliefs about fatness come from advertisers with an ulterior motive: to make money out of our desire to change ourselves. She speaks passionately about how she came to accept her own body (and how we can all do the same) and shares her heartfelt, bull***t-free advice on self-care.

Bee Wilson, food writer and author of new book The Way We Eat Now, joins us on this week's episode with advice on tweaking your eating habits to make them more varied, more satisfying and more nourishing. Bee has a smart, empathetic approach to food, delving into what eating really means to us and how dramatically it's changed in just a few decades - from the days when our grandparents would sit down for meat and two veg, to our current system of snacking, 'eating clean' and 'being naughty'. We're in a whole new world of food and the advertising that goes with it, and Bee is here to help us make sense of it.

The utterly charming Elizabeth Day, presenter of the How to Fail podcast and author of a new book by the same name, joins Hattie on Grazia Life Advice this week. We tend to hear a lot of talk about achievements and #goals these days, but what Elizabeth thinks are important are the things we mess up along the way - and how much those failures can teach us about who we are. She shared some very honest tales of her own 'mistakes', plus advice on how to turn your weaknesses into strengths.

This week, we're joined by Love Island 2018's breakout star Dani Dyer. She was famous on the show for being a wise-beyond-her-years agony aunt - doling out comforting hugs and tough love (depending on what was deserved...) to all the islanders. There's plenty of this wisdom in her new book, What Would Dani Do?, and unsurprisingly she's the perfect guest for Grazia Life Advice too.

Katharine Hamnett, fashion designer and queen of the slogan T-shirts (she coined the legendary 'Choose Life'), joins us on the podcast this week. An activist at heart, Katharine is passionate about politics, the environment and much more - she was the first designer to prioritise sustainability, way back in the 1980s. She's also a funny, sweary, self-deprecating guest with ingenious advice on keeping zen, being true to yourself and making a killer apple crumble.

Lynn Enright, author of Vagina: A Reeducation, joins us on Grazia Life Advice this week - so expect plenty of revelations about women's health, plus some fascinating discussion of the clitoris thrown in for good measure. Lynn is a journalist whose book brings together research not only into women's bodies, but also into how our pain, pleasure and safety has been neglected by sex education and healthcare. She's also a very funny guest, whose advice spans everything from tackling awkward conversations with your GP to preparing yourself for a carefree and happy old age.

Cariad Lloyd, host of the award-winning Griefcast, joins us this week. Cariad is not only a very successful podcaster but an actress (most recently seen on This Time with Alan Partridge) and improv comedy performer - you can catch her in Austentatious, an improvised comedy inspired by Jane Austen (it's hilarious) at London's Fortune Theatre. She popped by to share advice on everything from bereavement to pyjamas, and was thoughtful, warm and very very funny.

She was a Hollywood actress, and the punk starlet who dated Marilyn Manson and wore a fishnet dress to the MTV Video Music Awards; then Rose McGowan became one of the first and most prominent voices against Harvey Weinstein in 2017. Now she's an activist and a woman on a mission. Rose's memoir and motivational book Brave is out in paperback and she joined Grazia Life Advice to talk about why she's fighting back against 'the cult of Hollywood', and share her advice on how we can all be braver.