Oh hi there, and welcome to Ioway with Gemina Jamel, a podcast that is designed to end your relationship with shame and self-hate.

Now, I am hoping that you're well. I'm currently a bit disorientated, because I'm in bloody Germany, and I've never lived in Germany before,

and I'm living here on my own in Berlin for the next couple of months. It's fucking amazing here, and the people are great, and the food is great,

and I'm way in over my head surrounded by ridiculously talented people as I come to face, maybe one of my top five fears, which is singing and dancing on television, which I know nobody asked for.

But I got a part somehow in the new series, Bumper in Berlin, which is a pitch perfect as part of the pitch perfect franchise.

And there are characters from the original who are in it, and we're following their story, and I am now adding to that, and I'm singing and I'm gonna be dancing on the TV.

So, I have no idea how that's gonna pan out for anyone, because these are not things that I'm known for, and know how have I done.

I mean, as far as a kid, really. And I'm not a kid now, but I do tell you constantly to run at fear, and I tell you about how I run at fear, and how I, you know, I always run at failure, and I don't consider failure to be anything other than noble, because you tried when success wasn't guaranteed.

You cannot say, I do not walk the fucking walk, because here I am, once again, risking global humiliation, permanent global humiliation in pursuit of adventure and finding out what my own boundaries are.

I just think that we have this terrible tendency to specifically with people who have been socialised as women, to curb not just their appetite, but even their ability to discover what they may be capable of.

And unfortunately, you know, it's a bit risky, but one of the ways to find out what your capable of is to just fucking try, even if you have no idea what you're fucking doing.

So I am here to find out if I can sing and dance without globally humiliating myself, and even if I do, even if I'm shit, and if it's shit, I've done my best.

And I've done something really brave, and I'm having an adventure and a life experience, and I'm learning stuff and making friends.

So it will have been fucking worth it. I feel really lucky to be here. I love this place. I love all the people involved. All of the people involved are just fucking amazing, and I can't really tell you much more beyond that.

Just know that as I am here currently, shitting my pants with fear, I'm still really glad that I'm not sitting at home wondering what if I'm not sitting there protecting my ego, because I'm afraid to fuck up in front of other people.

I'm out here, balls to the wall, just doing what I can to keep my head above water, and just enjoying the imposter syndrome of it all. Anyway, another person who takes massive risks in their career, and who is just open to the periphery and the magic of life, and all of the unexpected adventures that come your way, is Lacey Mosey, who is my guest this week on this podcast.

You may know her as the scam goddess. She has one of the best podcasts in the world, and it's about scams and scammers and Lacey loves a fucking scammer. She loves them.

As long as, you know, as long as they're not like actually doing something evil and intentionally harmful, she loves someone who just gets away with a good scam, and she's such a funny and interesting and cool woman with such a great story.

And this podcast was kind of a different side to her than one would normally hear on the scam goddess because she was just so honest with me and upfront and deeply personal and extremely inspiring and talks a lot about her experiences in this industry as a young woman in particular as a dark skinned black woman.

She talks about how important it is to be your authentic self and takes us through that relationship with her. We talk about her relationship with her body and how she's trying to love herself again like she did when she was little.

We talk about her relationship to her own skin color and the colorism that she has faced because of that skin color.

She's someone I think a lot of you will really like. I really like her. And so I'm thrilled to introduce you to the wonderful Lacey Mosley.

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