Amanda de Cadenet
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.6 • 15.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2022
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Who gets to decide who and what you are? Amanda de Cadenet quit the fame she’d found on British TV after being hounded by the press. She was seen through the eyes of others – journalists, photographers, and viewers – so she chose to reclaim her image by becoming a photographer herself, and reclaimed her voice by starting her own chat shows.
In this chat with Fearne, Amanda talks about speaking up when you can’t hear the conversations you and others like you need in order to feel understood and supported. They also explore how ego can get in the way of allowing ourselves to learn and grow.
Amanda hosts VS Voices, an interview podcast for Victoria’s Secret. Season two kicks off in June. Alongside her ongoing show The Conversation, she’s launching a new series called The Conversation: About The Men, which will be available in August.
Amanda has also developed an online community called the Conversation Community: https://www.amandadecadenet.com/community
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Fern Cotton and this is Happy Place, the show that's all about embracing the |
| 0:06.7 | gorgeous messiness of real life. Today I'm chatting to Amanda Decadney. |
| 0:12.8 | Intellectually I could write a book about my pathology. I understood it all intellectually, |
| 0:18.0 | but it was still in my body and there was a disconnect between my physical triggers and my |
| 0:24.5 | intellectual understanding. It was like I understand it all but that's not stopping me having this |
| 0:28.0 | visceral response to this situation. I've known Amanda for God. I don't know how many years. |
| 0:33.2 | Do you know what? The first time I met Amanda I just accosted her outside the BBC. I think she was |
| 0:38.0 | walking into an interview and I just sort of went, hello Amanda Decadney, I'm Fern and I love you |
| 0:41.8 | very much, very quickly. But we've since chatted a lot mainly on direct message on Instagram, |
| 0:49.5 | but I absolutely adore her. Honestly, she is the most phenomenal force. Like me, she was on |
| 0:57.5 | British TV as a teenager, first co-hosting the word and then on the Big Breakfast. But as you're |
| 1:04.2 | here, a lot about in a moment, Amanda was completely abused by the tabloids. She had a horrible |
| 1:10.5 | experience of being in the public eye which led her to want to quit fame. She moved to LA, |
| 1:15.6 | pursued a photography career and now hosts a number of different shows on her own terms. I cannot |
| 1:22.3 | tell you how much this woman has inspired me. One of those is the conversation which is an incredible |
| 1:29.9 | interview series. My God, I have watched every episode of this show with some of the world's most |
| 1:35.6 | influential women talking about everything from body image and relationships to human rights |
| 1:41.0 | and politics, which to be fair are also the things Amanda and I touch on in this chat. She is |
| 1:46.4 | just the most wonderful champion of women. This episode of Happy Place is brought to you by |
| 1:52.9 | Dyson and their special edition of Vincoblue and Rose Hair Care Technology. Available this |
| 1:59.8 | gifting season. I style my hair like the changing of the wind every day I wake up with a different |
| 2:06.4 | idea as to how I want it to look. Sometimes I really like wavy curls and other times I want a |
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