Hi everyone, welcome to this week's episode of Lesbian Supper Club.

I'm very happy today because the sun is shining again in London

and I have on a guest today who I've been wanting to get onto the podcast for a really long time

because I think this person is an incredible advocate and representation of the LGBT

community does so much incredible work for the community and is a beautiful voice for the

community and not only that someone who I feel a really strong uh safeness towards actually and thinks a really beautiful person because

char who I'm about to introduce actually was someone who was there for me probably more than

you actually even realized during one of the darkest times of my life and it's really funny that you

sometimes gravitate towards people who you know we we've met a few times in person but we're

probably more acquaintances than anything can I speak a lot about the beautiful friends that I have around

me but actually during this moment in my life you were someone who really gave me a lot

of hope and reinstilled a lot of positivity and kind of a lot of strength to keep walking through

a dark time. And that was something that I will actually never forget. I could probably name on one hand people who really impacted me during that time.

And I don't think would have, I would have made it through quite in the way I did without some people and you were definitely one of them.

So I'm so happy that today you get to share that light that I experienced with a kind of wider audience. So,

cha, please introduce yourself. I can't introduce myself now. I feel like,

I feel like that warrants like a hug or something. Like, oh, knee squeeze. Just a little

high five. Oh, well, are you okay now?

Yeah, I'm good now. I'm good. I think days can always go from one to the other. And I think that's part of the human experience is that some days you wake up and you're like, I wake up with a spring in my step. And other days you wake up and you feel flat and you don't always have a reason for that. But I think if I think about back to the person that I was two years ago versus the person I am now,

I don't recognize her and for good reason, but I'm also so grateful for that period in my life

because actually despite it being hell at the time it has genuinely

shaped me into who I am now and I feel so much more connected and understanding of the person that I

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