#72 The Joy of Awe, Comparison and 2am Crosswords with Gemma Styles
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4.8 • 542 Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
We told you we wouldn't be gone for long, didn't we! This week is a *very* special bonus episode with none other than podcaster, activist, mental health ambassador and writer Gemma Styles. With today being publication day of her debut book, Why Am I Like This? We pulled Gemma into our virtual living room and made sure we covered everything from coping with comparison and the spotlight effect, managing authenticity online, setting boundaries and why being a human is actually pretty hard (and joyful, and weird and wonderful- naturally, but CRIKEY it's tricky sometimes).
In a turn of events, we also enter what can only be described as our Stressful TV Era, Charlotte is caught off guard by the funeral in Four Weddings (...and a Funeral) and we discuss the best frozen sweet pastry out there (nope, t's not a croissant) and being new to Gru (we'll let you decide if that's cool or not)! If you’d like to make some unstressful TV suggestions (all about balance)- you can email us at thefringeofit@gmail.com. We’re also over @thefingeofit and @charlottejacklin and @livpurvis and will see you very soon!
Gemma's brilliant book is available from today, and you can pick it up here! https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/why-am-i-like-this-gemma-styles/7665116
(also, this is brilliant Lucy we mentioned! https://www.instagram.com/lucysheridan/?hl=en)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the fringe of it. Special bonus episode. We are back for a very special |
| 0:14.1 | bonus episode this week with wonderful Gemma styles. You might have heard of Dear Gemma |
| 0:19.5 | before with her modest 10 million Instagram followers, but in case you haven't, Gemma styles. You might have heard of Dear Gemma before with her modest 10 million Instagram |
| 0:21.6 | followers, but in case you haven't, Gemma is a fellow podcaster of award-winning podcast |
| 0:27.1 | good influence where Gemma and her guests cover everything from mental health, sustainability |
| 0:32.1 | and feminism. Gemma is also an ambassador for MQ Mental Health Research and on top of that is a truly brilliant |
| 0:39.1 | writer with her first book, Why Am I Like This Out Today? We are so excited to chat with Gemma |
| 0:46.3 | because she truly feels like that wise friend who although is in the same boat as you has a real |
| 0:51.3 | calmness and reasoning to her. The kind of person who if you're in the |
| 0:55.0 | middle of an epic wobble could go, mate, I get it, what do you need? And then do the absolute |
| 1:00.2 | right thing. Her book showcases this logic and compassion in spades and has a real approachable |
| 1:05.9 | and clear understanding of our cognitive functioning, which really demystifies the truly overwhelming things going on inside of our heads. |
| 1:12.6 | In her own words at the end of the book, Gemma says, |
| 1:14.6 | I have found it hugely helpful to learn more about the processes that shape my thinking and reactions |
| 1:19.6 | to get an objective idea of what's going on up there and why. |
| 1:22.6 | I absolutely bloody loved it, Gemma. |
| 1:25.6 | I am someone who also finds comfort in evidence-based research to help explain things. I cannot get my head around. And I just thought it was brilliant. So well done, and we are so excited to have you. Thank you so much. I feel like I may actually cry just from that intro. I didn't know I was a special bonus episode, and that might be the nicest paragraph that anybody's ever said |
| 1:45.4 | about me ever so thank you so much for having me I could have gone on we could have gone on |
| 1:49.3 | don't all cry I loved the book it was oh there was just so much about it like the research but |
| 1:56.6 | then your personal experiences and then my personal experiences and we both were underlining |
| 2:02.3 | things and sending each other pictures and I feel like I had to stop underlining things |
| 2:06.0 | because at what point does it become highlighting versus just underlining every word? |
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