Hello and welcome to Under the Skin from Loomery Media. This week I spoke with

Aleif Shefak. Alef is an author and academic who's published 17 books

she's an activist on women's rights, minority rights, freedom of speech. She also

writes and speaks about range of issues including global

and cultural politics, the future of Europe, Turkey and the Middle East, democracy and pluralism.

In 2017, she was chosen by Politico among the 12 people that will give you a much needed lift of the heart and

by Jove my heart's sword to speak with her.

Thanks for all your comments on last week's podcast with Scarlet, Scarlet Curtis I mean, Alexander, Alexander Wildsart said,

just listen to this podcast with Scarlet Curtis, found it amazing that Scarlet wasn't a

receiving mass of bitterness at her medical

injustice. Did you ever get any apologies by the way? Well you can ask

our yourself. What Russell said about it being her path to understanding a bigger

picture really resonated, inspiring as all these

podcasts are so far. Newfound love affair with Ross Kemp after last week and I

want Brennay and Karamo to adopt me. Well get in in line, baby.

Collective truths.

There is a light about her.

She's going to do amazing things.

Oh, that's really nice.

What a lovely comment.

A down.

I listened to this yesterday. I was intrigued by the talk about crystals. I've also been feeling the urge to buy crystals. We all get it dear. But I don't know if it's spiritual or if it's something else capitalism is found to sell people who are looking for deeper meaning rather than acquiring more commodities.

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