Hello and welcome to another episode of Iway with Jamila Jamel, a podcast against shame.

I hope you are, not even going to say well, I hope you are managing to even hold yourself together in 50 million pieces.

Well done if you got up today.

And even if you didn't, well done for opening your eyes because shit is bleak and I'm very proud of you and I want you to know that. I wanted to bring

you a galvanising and energising episode and I think I've done just that because I have truly

the most galvanising and energising woman in my industry, one of the most inspiring women,

to me at least in the world. I love her so much. She is a hugely celebrated and decorated UK singer.

She's a songwriter.

She's an actor.

She's a TV personality and a judge.

And now she's an author of a fucking brilliant book called Milf.

Her name is Paloma Faith.

And if you are not lucky enough to yet know her, I'm so pleased to be able to introduce

you to her, to her work, to her opinions, to her thoughts, to her wonderful pixie, fairy voice.

She is truly one of a kind. I've known her my whole career. And to be honest, before I really found

my voice, she's to scare the shit out of me, not in a bad way, in a sort of, I'm in love with her, I'm in awe of her, and I don't know what she's going to do or say, scary way, because she's just so authentic and is herself, the same version of herself, in every single scenario, whether it's privately in a room together

or on live television in front of 50,000 people.

She's just totally one of a kind, a totally unique talent, a totally unique voice, and a totally

unique human.

And in this episode, we discuss her book, it's called Melf, and it's largely about the existence of

not just motherhood, but life leading up to motherhood, girlhood, being a woman in industry like

ours, being a woman in this world, the truth about relationships, the truth about the difficult

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