It's inevitable isn't it, that this episode had to be about the dreaded C word, the COVID-19. But it's not all doom and gloom, Vogue has had a PT session to bulk up her vagina...

Brave Pants with Vogue and the Viking

The C word

Please meet the multiple award winning Joy Foster, the founder of TechPixies. Joy, a previous Olympic hopeful tells us about how she stalked her husband in to marriage (not quite but it makes a good story), became an accidental entrepreneur in Switzerland and is now on a mission to become the number one online tech course provider for women, worldwide...

Award winning TechPixies' Joy Foster on Sparkle, Star Jars and Fairy Festivals

The Viking, as a foreigner in the UK, is incensed by the pressure children are put under in order to get into schools at such young ages. Who is the private vs state school system actually benefitting? Amongst this seemingly serious discussion is also some less serious chat, of course. Feel the heat! 

Crazy school stress

Due to broken body parts, half term and general shoddiness, we do not have an interview this week. You are however served with our dulcet tones once more. We are pretty frickin' excited about our Bank Job.  May we also ask for your requests; events, guests etc. What do you think we should do?

The Bank Job

This week it's all about the rage. We are both raging about rude "dietary requirements" and vagina smelling candles. The usual coffee morning chat really. Thank goodness for our "E" rating. 

FCK, WNK, BLOCKS - Reverse imposter syndrome

Helen Carpenter Waters is an award winning Multi discipline Fitness and Dance professional. She has a long list of professional dance and choreography credits in TV, Film, Pop video, including being a Hills Angel on Benny Hill's famous TV show. She is "passionate about working in an industry she doesn't feel she belongs in" and about making choreographed dance available to everyone. We also talk about porn, body dysmorphia and gut health. There's something for everyone!    Dance Your Butt Off: http://dybo.co.uk

Dance Your Butt Off - From Hills Angels and body dysmorphia to minge watch and gut health

We're on the road! Recorded from Vogue's "Party Vehicle", this week we talk about the Viking's parental leave and the need for us all to take some time out from the world to recharge and get back into the game a bit fresher. 

Parental leave - taking some time for self care

Lucy Standing, business psychologist and founder of Brave Starts is this week's podcast guest. She is on a mission to get people, both employers and employees to understand that, just as much as you wouldn't buy a house without viewing it, or get married without living together first, you probably shouldn't dive in to a job you don't really know anything about before trying it out. Cue job shadowing. She talks a lot of sense....

Lucy Standing as if you're standing up

It's been a birthday-tastic weekend for both Vogue and the Viking.  There is talk about uninvited guests and general birthday etiquette.  Vogue has spent some of the weekend dressed up as a Roman Gladiator, whist the Viking has been bowling at carnage central. 

Birthday and birthday etiquette

In hindsight Sarah knew something wasn't quite right as early as her teens, but being super sporty and on the road to becoming a true tennis star she put it to one side. She was finally diagnosed with Early Onset Parkinson's disease in her thirties, after the birth of her first child. A few years down the line and with successful treatment she received another massive blow. Cancer. Relentlessly she soldiers on, body popping, cycling, setting up networks for people in similar situations and running for charity. You may call her Sarah, or Superwoman for short. Early Onset Parkinson's  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V86Lre0hyQ How Parkinson's affects the family https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWs_k11cR3k      

Parkinson's in your teens followed by yet another massive blow - Sarah Webb aka Superwoman

In this episode Vogue and the Viking talk about their "funny turns" over the Christmas period. They also have a slight rant about fads and why January quite frankly is hard enough without unrealistic goals and resolutions. Just take a chill pill man!!

New year new you bollocks!

Dr Emma Ross works for the English Institute of Sports and is smashing all sorts of glass ceilings whilst trying to inform sporting elite women and those working with those women, about the impact of hormones during a woman's menstrual cycle. Remarkably interesting work which highlights just how far we have yet to go. 

Dr Emma Ross about the impact of the menstrual cycle on elite athletes

This week Vogue and the Viking have slightly lost the plot. Vogue is an emotional wreck due to her daughter's hockey match and although we are not sure what the Viking's issues are we suspect it has something to do with her nomination as Shedhead at her school's PTA. The Scummy Mummies are referred to frequently in this episode, but without any spoilers.  Vogue is suffering from body illusion due to her "fun fair mirrors" and the Viking has apparently grown since she was age and size eight.  Questions? 

Has everyone lost the plot?

All is not well in the V&V household this week. Viking's car has been broken into and her laptop stolen, and Vogue is feeling less than sparkly. But we do have a happy, new intro jingle though so it's not all doom and gloom!

Trauma Tuesday

Vicki Anstey was a fairly ordinary office worker before she turned her determination on, but boy when she did she turned it up loud and clear. Vicki decided she wasn't happy with the life she was leading and decided to do something about it. She joined the Lotte Berk method - "Exercise that doesn't feel like exercise" and went, literally, from strength to strength. Vicki set up her own BarreWorks studio, went on to do rather well in the TV series SAS - Who Dares Wins and is now training to row the Pacific Ocean as well as practicing for her first TEDx Talk. I mean if that's not a story worth listening to I don't know what is. It's inspiring is what it is!  www.barreworks.co.uk www.thebusinessoffitness.co.uk www.vickianstey.co.uk https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/34358 www.dreamdaredo.org.uk 

From ballet to the SAS - Vicki Anstey straps her Brave Pants on

Brave Pants with Vogue and the Viking is a chat show with and for women, or indeed any man looking to understand women better. We have a good old natter with some pretty fabulous women about their Brave Pants moments. No subject is taboo, be prepared to laugh at and with us. Come on and join the Brave Pants revolution!

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Brave Pants with Vogue and the Viking

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