Hello and welcome to another episode of iWay with Jameela Jameela, a podcast to end shame.

I hope you're well, I hope you're fucking ready for an episode that is full of defiance.

This is a very rebellious episode, it's not without its controversy, it might even piss people off.

But what's the fun in having a podcast if you get to hear occasionally ruffle people's feathers?

Uh, and today's guest is absolutely ideal for that because she's a provocateur,

she is an extraordinary social commentator,

she's an amazingly self-reflective human being and she's just bursting with originality.

She's going to do everything her way and I find her incredibly inspiring.

I've been following her for about five years online telling all my friends about her,

trying to get my followers to follow her because I think that we would all be better off if we

thought and felt a bit more like her. So you might know her off of Instagram as FlexMummy

and she's also got podcasts and she's a radio DJ, she has a book out, like she's just a kind of

everything, you know, she's a fashion influencer, a beauty influencer, she's just,

she's also just like a vibes influencer, right? She's someone who, when I'm losing myself a little

bit, I'll flick onto her page and then I will watch her speak with such a sense of just being

in her body and it will remind me to like, buck up and stand up straight and fight for what I

believe in and be willing to make mistakes, be willing to be fallible. Like I think we all fall

into that trap of thinking that because especially because we are women, especially women of color,

like we have this extra responsibility to be perfect, not pissing anyone off and sometimes that

does actually get to me occasionally, not as often as maybe it should, but she emanates refusing to

bend to society as well. And so in this episode, we talk about a lot of things, but we mostly focus,

I would say, on the responsibility of someone who chooses to use their platform to speak up about

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