This episode Zoe chats with Jacky Power aka the Therapeutic Poet, an addictions psychologist, poet, creator and host of the Therapeutic Poet Podcast.After years working with clients to impact, understand, and evolve through their addictions and traumas, she found another medium to express her thoughts, ideas and observation of human life and behaviour, and her own life challenges in poetry and art form that use these carefully chosen words sentences and phrases to analogize, summarise, and play on circumstances, conditions and occurrences. Jacky has not only juggled her private work, creativity and motherhood, and her life challenges; she has performed two woman's woman shows titled Stop Bus Stop the World I Want to Get Off including an epic performance at Edinburgh Festival and a finalist on the IAN Book Awards. Her mission to give us all permission to feel has led her on a journey of writing, creating, performing and ultimately facing her own fears.Topics:AddictionMotherhoodCreativityImposter syndrome FamilySelf worthMental healthInstagram:@The_theraputic_poetFor more about Zoe and the Fuck It Button revolution follow @fuckitbuttonrevolutionProduced by Pod People Productions

This episode Zoe speaks to Peter Maclver, aka PMac, who is a motivated, passionate, and dedicated personal trainer. Growing up in London in the heady heights of Camden, Peter found his passion for fitness and motivation, focusing on health, optimum living, and striving to master the art of trusting the process. 16 years on Peter focuses his energy on inspiring and motivating women, to embrace and understand their bodies and how they can achieve maximum energy, fitness and drive, and to learn, grow, and evolve their routines, regimes and nutrition utilising the lessons he has mastered on his own journey.The pair go deep, discussing grief, motivation, dreams, expectations, control and external validation.Topics:Motivation DriveGriefSelf love Self worthMental healthFitnessHealthExpectationsPurposeFamilyInstagram: @pmacfitnessFor more about Zoe and the Fuck It Button revolution follow @fuckitbuttonrevolutionProduced by Pod People Productions

Leave Featherstone aka Luinluland is a self-love advocate who is embracing midlife, menopause and growing old with attitude, fuckitude, and a big dose of irony. UK born Lu moved to America - Portland to be precise, with her then husband and son to begin new adventures and a lifestyle change. After many happy years and challenges, Lu returned to the UK in 2022 following an epic voyage in a 1984 converted bus across America on a self love tour of joy. With a now grown up son and ex husband she is on a mission to use her creativity, learnings, and passion to inspire, empower, and enable women everywhere, enabling them to take ownership of their own power, femininity, sexuality and strength, and celebrate their own personal journey in anyway that brings them joy. The pair chat midlife, creativity, motherhood, loss, finding your power and thinking outside the box.Topics:GriefMental healthLoneliness Self loveSelf worthBody imageHealthAddiction StrengthMotherhoodTravelLu on Instagram: @luinlulandFor more about Zoe and the Fuck It Button revolution follow @fuckitbuttonrevolutionProduced by Pod People Productions

This episode Zoe talks with fellow dopamine neurodivergent, Sherrie Scott, aka Forever Betty, who is a high energy creative with a passion for colour. After battling the system through education searching for her purpose and direction, Sherrie decided to take her destiny into her own hands. Constant constantly, consciously or unconsciously, mainstream education felt too structured and restrictive and didn't embrace different thinking. Sherrie continued to fight a personal story line of distraction and label of rebellion fueled by a collection of 'Nos" And why's Sherrie used this to petrol to drive her own opportunities and exploding sales for Bieber and creating her own position at Vivienne Westwood?With a diagnosis of autism and ADHD two years ago, Sherrie is now using her new understanding to educate herself and others in acceptance and embracing her love of colour and finding joy in her uniqueness and individuality.With two colourful, creative and excitable diverse thinkers the conversation had the potential to go off on many tangents. The pair spoke about different thinking, opportunities, perception, energy, joy and late neurodivergent diagnosis.Topics:Mental healthSelf worthSelf loveNeurodivergentCreativityFreelanceOpportunities Self esteemAutism Perception Instagram:@foreveryoursbettyFor more about Zoe and the Fuck It Button revolution follow @fuckitbuttonrevolutionProduced by Pod People Productions

This episode, Zoe chats with Rob Yates. As an enthusiastic community member, a sustainable activist, and social injustice warrior, Rob Yates has integrated supporting and helping others into his daily life.Since moving to Thanet in 2017, Rob has fought to improve the quality of life for his neighbours, equality within the community and justice for all residents. He has challenged himself with solving life problems for all the living Margate and surrounding areas. From local councilor to deputy mayor, from CO founding charities to working in renewable energy, Rob has truly become the poster boy for clean, ethical and sustainable living.As an all round team player, Rob has not been shy to get his hands dirty and fight the good fight, whether beach cleaning with Rise and clean or sporting heels and sequins for Margate pride. Rob Yates is surely Margate⁩'s man of the people, the Thanet fixer, or is he?This is no political campaign, Zoe and Rob get deep on some big topics. This is an open and honest conversation about life, education, politics, men's mental health, grief, health and surviving in a post pandemic world.Topics:Men's mental healthGriefEducationSustainability Green energyDeprivation Community HealthPolitics FamilyRob on Instagram: @RobyatesinthanetFor more about Zoe and the Fuck It Button revolution follow @fuckitbuttonrevolutionProduced by Pod People Productions

In this episode Zoe chats with Naomi Gale, a vaginologist, guide, speaker, podcaster and former classroom teacher. After years of childhood trauma, Naomi hid from the world, protecting herself and escaping both her feelings and body. She has taken an epic journey to discover a way to regain confidence and to empower herself and others working through trauma and transitioning into a space of peace and inner oneness. Naomi has become a heart centred mentor guide and content creator that is using her journey to drive a path of confidence and peace, educating and enabling others.This is an in depth chat about some heavy topics, a deep dive (excuse the pun!) Into understanding how our bodies are so connected to our emotions and how we hold on to so much in areas that we may not have been aware. Topics:TraumaChildhoodMotherhoodEducationFemininity SexInstagram: @thisnaomigaleFor more about Zoe and the Fuck It Button revolution follow @fuckitbuttonrevolutionProduced by Pod People Productions

In this episode Zoe chats with Jemima Sara, an expressive and provocative multidisciplinary artist. She discovered a way to communicate her feelings, frustrations and struggles, using art as a medium and outlet to heal from trauma, stress and past events, in a way that became both therapeutic and joyful all in one.Jemima Sara unleashed a tool that gave her the power to tackle challenging topics in a nonverbal way that has helped others to connect and share experiences.Her work has been showcased in many galleries, exhibitions and stores including Wolf & Badger, Anthropology, Miller Harris, Samsung and the design Festival.Drawing on her own experience in body positivity, eating disorders, insecurities, health, trauma and much more, Jemima Sara invites her audience to such subjects with a lightness and visually investigative eye. To express, learn and be inspired.The pair go deep, and tackle many heavy topics with sensitivity, understanding, experience and an irreverence that keeps life's learnings in perspective.Topics:Body dysmorphia Mental healthSelf confidence Self worthFamilyArtCreativityEarly traumaInstagram:@jemimasaraFor more about Zoe and the Fuck It Button revolution follow @fuckitbuttonrevolutionProduced by Pod People Productions

In this episode Zoe chats with the fabulous James Joseph Harty, aka Dame Jame. He/she found escape in entertaining others, and a need to bring joy, and laughter that has driven a desire to perform from a young age. James discovered his alter ego Dame Jame after battling with a traumatic coming out and a connection to his true self, as a form of self expression and a need to entertain. Dame Jame has shared the stage with many of the UK's biggest queens, including many of the well known faces from Rupaul's drag race. James is a kind soul, a giving friend and a generous and joyous performer, as well as a successful drag queen. The pair discuss grief, insecurities, creativity, coming out and letting go of the inner saboteur.Topics:Grief Self loveAnxietyBullyingLGBTQInsecurities Self worthCreativityEntertainment Instagram:@dame_jameFor more about Zoe and the Fuck It Button revolution follow @fuckitbuttonrevolutionProduced by Pod People Productions

In this episode Zoe chats with Grace Woodward. Grace has been noted as one of the UK's biggest super stylists. Grace has had an epic career in the fashion industry. Styling X Factor's iconic series that launched the career of the likes of One Direction. She was a judge on Britain's and Ireland's Next Top Model and has dressed a multitude of stars. But after battling her own inner voice around body image, within an industry that triggers the strongest of human insecurities, Grace found her purpose and journey to self worth in having an impact on how women feel and their bodies. Supporting women and finding power in her voice and message through imagery with her latest series, 'Body of work'.As fellow stylists in the same era Zoe and Grace share similar tales of an industry that has not always been the kindest. The two discuss eating disorders, hope, motherhood, body image, and finding inner peace.Topics:Eating disorders Body dysmorphiaMental healthGriefMotherhoodFeminine energyStylingBody acceptance Self loveAgeingEntertainment worldBullyingMediaInstagram:@gracewoodward@bodyofworkprocessFor more about Zoe and the Fuck It Button revolution follow @fuckitbuttonrevolutionProduced by Pod People Productions

In this episode Zoe chats with the fabulous, Olivia Squier, a dynamic and passionate writer, actor and recording artist, trained at leading drama school LAMDA.Olivia met with challenges along her journey to a creative career that questioned her drive and mindset.After a successful career on stage, screen and writing, Olivia began exploring her own need to empower an audience.Following Motherhood, and propelled by her own journey and relationship with her body, Olivia invites her audience to further understand and question the relationship their own bodies, in her latest works titled, "FLESH".This conversation flows around shared experiences in Motherhood, body image, creativity, womanhood and the superpowers and curse of being a strong, independent female.Topics:Body imageBody confidence Self loveCreativityBody positivity Mental healthMotherhoodEntrepreneurship FamilyWellbeing RelationshipsInstagram:@OliviasukisquierFor more about Zoe and the Fuck It Button revolution follow @fuckitbuttonrevolutionProduced by Pod People Productions

In this episode, Zoe chats to Stuart Saint, aka the Cookie Man, about pushing his fuck it button. From deciding to go into the Arts, to becoming HIV positive and later battling cancer to upping sticks and moving to Margate where he turned his hobby - baking - into his business. Stuart has pushed his Fuck It Button many times. Stuart Saint is a fearless creative, a performer, an inspiring educator, an endless warrior and extraordinary baking pied piper, guiding us all to edible self love.Stuart has battled illness, misfortune; he has fought his way to positivity and joy in his latest incarnation he is putting his entrepreneurial skills to the ultimate test as the Cookie Man.Stuart shares his personal evolution of self development, his health journey through cancer, HIV, his career development from cabaret performer, producer, creative to cookie creator and his relocation from London to Margate.Stuart's candid tale of rebuilding his health, confidence and career with lots of laughs, joy and heart ache. A tale of strength, positivity and challenge.Topics covered :Entrepreneurship ConfidenceSelf worthSelf loveSelf confidence DepressionChangeRelocation FamilyLGBTQCancerHIVFollow Stuart on Instagram on @stuartsaint and @wherescookiemanFor more about Zoe and the Fuck It Button revolution follow @fuckitbuttonrevolutionProduced by Pod People Productions

In this official start of the series, host Zoe Lem describes what the Fuck Button is and when she pushed hers.Join the revolution, fuck it!Welcome, this is a safe space to listen, learn, grow, laugh, cry. We are all on a journey, a voyage, a discovery, it never ends! Continually learning, growing.This is not a serious self help series, more sharing stories, connecting humans that are all fumbling around seeking answers, inspiration.The well being world can be a serious space, that can intimate, woo, court your time, your attention. This podcast takes a pragmatic and irrelevant look at how a collection of humans battled their challenges and when they pressed their fuck it button and said yes to living.Intention + action = fuck it button (impact)The fuck it button says no to fear, shame, judgement, over thinking. What has/will make you press your fuck it button? There are two fuck it buttons, the conscious fuck it button, and the unconscious fuck it button, the wreckless button, and the mindful button.This episode summaries the two buttons and their impact.I found my fuck it button young, at 14yrs when my 8 year old brother died of cancer, I decided to say fuck it, life is short.This episode is an explanation, an overview of what the fuck it button is, and my story. How I have used my challenges to learn, grow, to press my fuck it button to live.Topics:GriefADHDDepressionBankruptcy MotherhoodEating disorders Mental healthConfidenceTherapy Empowerment Instagram:@fuckitbuttonrevolution@zoelem1For more about Zoe and the Fuck It Button revolution follow @fuckitbuttonrevolution and @zoelem1Produced by Pod People Productions

In this inaugural episode Zoe talks to Rosie Taylor, aka Rosie Pole, about pushing her Fuck It Button leaving her career as a teacher to work full time in pole.Rosie Taylor is a passionate and dedicated pole dancing instructor. Before making the life changing decision to live her passion full time, Rosie worked as a primary school teacher, inspiring those much younger in subjects that did not give her the joy and confidence she found in pole.Rosie discovered pole after suffering from a horrific back accident that changed her life forever. Seeing how she could empower herself as well as heal from physical trauma, she decided she wanted to share her love of pole and give others that confidence and change the lives of others too.Rosie shares her journey from classroom to fitness studio, from a hospital bed to dancefloor, and how she build her confidence through the struggles of bullying and her mental health.Topics:HealthEntrepreneurship FitnessMental healthBullyingConfidence Female empowerment Independence ChangeRelocation Back injuryInstagram:@rosie_polefitnessFor more about Zoe and the Fuck It Button revolution follow @fuckitbuttonrevolutionProduced by Pod People Productions

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