Women in Focus podcast

Women in Focus

British Naturism

Join our host Helen Berriman for Women in Focus, a podcast dedicated to celebrating and empowering women through naturism. Each episode features a variety of women sharing their stories - the challenges, benefits, and realities of living clothes-free. Whether you're an experienced naturist, curious newcomer, or interested in body acceptance, feminism or wellbeing, you'll find perspectives that will both educate and inspire.

37 Episoder

Helen talks to Alice de Wet
7.11.2026
35:38
Alice de Wet is president of the New Zealand Naturist Federation. She discusses welcoming more women into naturism, especially mothers with children. With the Wellington festival ahead, she and Helen also compare notes on camping and comfort.
Helen talks to Kim Lariviere-Baldelli
3.10.2026
34:18
Helen talks to Kim Lariviere-Baldelli about finding acceptance in a naturist community, living with illness and scars, rebuilding her relationship with her body after anorexia, and also what makes naturist parks the safest places for families.
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Helen talks to Ronnie Belfitt
5.9.2026
47:27
Helen talks to Ronnie Belfitt, a lifelong naturist, about growing up with nudity as the norm, wristband consent systems, and why a woman speaking openly about naturism lands differently to a man doing the same.
Helen talks to Dr Victoria Bateman
1.8.2026
1:07:08
Helen talks to Dr Victoria Bateman, the Cambridge economist known for using her own naked body in art and protest, about breaking free of "the cult of female modesty" and why women's economic freedom depends on freedom over their own bodies.
Helen talks to Michelle Perry
4.7.2026
53:12
Helen talks to Michelle Perry about a menopausal "enough is enough" moment in her mid-fifties that led her to naturism, and how a shared sense of vulnerability among naturist women, and the Everybody festival, changed everything for her.
Helen talks to 'Captain' Amy Guerrier
6.6.2026
33:50
Helen talks to Amy Guerrier - aka Bare Bum Boaty - hula hoop artist, mindset coach, and canal boater, about discovering naturism through playfulness, body kindness, and her very serious yet silly plans for a naked cruise aboard her boat.
Helen talks to Steph Durbin
2.5.2026
37:05
Steph Durbin is BN's new Director without Portfolio. In this episode she discusses grief and purpose, liberation, and what it means to go from a naturism newbie to local and national leadership roles in just three years. Short answer: joy.
Helen talks to Sarah Mexico Christenson
4.4.2026
42:48
Helen talks to Sarah Mexico Christenson, Florida nudist and social media creator, about leaving corporate life to normalise nudity online, overcoming the body shame inflicted by purity culture, and why a naked cruise beats any other kind.
Helen talks to Maja Penko
7.3.2026
42:07
Helen talks to Maja Penko, Slovenian naturist and former federation president, about growing up free from body shame, fighting for nipple equality, and the simple power of accepting what you see in the mirror.
Helen talks to Prof. Annebella Pollen - part 2
7.2.2026
49:46
Part two: Professor Annebella Pollen reveals how women shaped naturism from the 1920s as pioneers, photographers and feminist thinkers; the same debates about participation and body diversity recur across a century of naturist history.

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