Hello and

welcome to another episode of IWay with Jimmy Lijamil, 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 galvanizing and energizing

episode and I think I've done just that because I have truly the most

galvanizing and energizing women 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 in my whole career and to be

honest before I really found my voice she used 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 MILF, 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 parts of being a parent and

co-parenting and the sledgehammer that children can take to your relationship.

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