#99 Wildflowers

Hubbub.co.uk are on a mission to help small shops compete with big supermarkets by delivering food and drink from London’s best independent’s right to your doorstep. Founded by Marisa Leaf this rather special pod of ours is the first of a...

Becoming a milliner is tough enough quite frankly as you heard from Kate Underdown in Passion Pod #8 and not just because most people have no idea what one is! Little gear shift for Kate of late though has led her to become a co-founder of The Fold...

Rowing across the Atlantic for 54 days straight, in a seven metre long boat (having never been in one before!), over Christmas Day, through a hurricane and dealing with broken oar and a tanker nearly navigating in to you…and they enjoyed it?! The...

Comedy and flowers. Not a combo you’d usually put together is it really. Well, not unless you’d met Luke Keen in which case it’s a match made in heaven. After taking up gardening to sooth the noise that making comedy (or to be honest,...

Painting for a living is what led Gemma Compton to the wall we found her decorating for this year’s Upfest. Not a bad place to making your mark really is it?! After graduating with a First in her degree right at the time of the economic crash a...

Becoming a camerawoman is a tough enough gig to break in to but it didn’t seem quite enough for Holly Bantleman. She was so affected by a visit to a community in Kenya, one boy that she met in particular, that at 21 years old she decided to raise...

Glow in the dark, glittery, magnetic – Cressida Bullock  founder of Fun Science makes slime for a living. She also sets children’s hands on fire (safely, obvs), hand makes toothpaste and those experiments are just for starters. Scientific...

A whole 100 of these little beauties?!#100 life-true tales from such adventurous, hugely brave and massively inspiring folk – what an absolute honour....

Two thirds of Wildflowers – Kit and Siddy – are from a mega musical family. Brought up a jazz musician and an actress they all had to play an instrument as kids. Didn’t matter which one but having one in hand was a must. On the other...

If you’re feeling stuck in a rank old work/life/romance rut then this Passion Pod has your name all over it. Writer/performer Max Dickins found himself in exactly that place and so, to shake things up a bit he decided to sign up for a new...