And now to take a quick moment to introduce you to one of our charity partners here on Honestly,

the wonderful Little Village, who's founder Sophia Parker I get to speak to on next week's episode on child poverty.

Little Village is like a food bank, but for clothes, toys and equipment for babies and children up to the age of five.

Shockingly, 95,000 children in this age group are living in absolute poverty,

a situation that has sadly been exacerbated as a result of COVID-related unemployment and hardship.

Though things are going to be tighter for everyone this year,

if you were able to spread some Christmas spirit, Little Village has set up a voucher appeal

so children don't have to miss out on Christmas.

Head to little villagehq.org forward slash Christmas.

Hi, I'm Clemy Telford and it's time to get open and get honest.

Each week, I interview a guest about a topic that we as a society often shy away from.

From sex lives to salaries, life and death, religion and real bodies, no subject is off the table.

Welcome to Honestly, the podcast.

You might know our guest today as a professional basketball player, or maybe you watch him on Love Island.

Ovis Soko joins me today to talk about the power of living authentically.

His warm and wise character made this episode an absolute joy to record.

We discussed how to preserve yourself in a world full of comparison, but also how important

it is to trust your own journey.

We had a few technical issues with this one insofar as Ovi was sitting on the wrong link for

a while, and he's a very busy man, and we only had him for a window of time, and by the time

we got him over onto the right link, we didn't

have as long as we would have liked. But because he is such a brilliant guest, I feel that even

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