Samantha Renke

Happy Place

Fearne Cotton

Society & Culture, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Personal Journals

4.6 • 15.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Constantly being subjected to micro-aggressions can feel like death by a thousand paper cuts; Samantha Renke is an actor, broadcaster, writer, and disability rights campaigner who has the confidence to call out ableism.

In this chat, Fearne and Samantha explore where her innate sense of self-worth comes from, how we can all learn to become more confident, and how we can’t talk about an individual’s mental health without also talking about politics and systemic issues. They also cover risk-taking, cats, and nipple hair...

Samantha’s book, You Are The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread, is published by Happy Place Books, part of Ebury, and is out on July 21st.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Happy Place. I'm Fern Cotton and this is the show that
0:05.8	inspires curiosity, thoughtfulness and empathy. Today I'm catching up with
0:11.6	Samantha Rink. It looked different like there's no way of saying I look different
0:15.7	and people can stare and glare and they do and I remember bursting into tears in
0:21.2	the car park. Just absolutely exhausted and just fed up and frustrated because
0:27.2	still deep down inside I was like I'm wonderful I am wonderful but why why
0:32.2	can't the world see that? And annoying because I thought what do you see
0:36.2	when you look at me? Because I genuinely love myself but you keep telling me
0:41.4	time and time again that I shouldn't. Actress, broadcaster, writer and disability
0:46.9	rights campaigner Samantha Rink is one of the people I've gotten to know online
0:51.6	over the pandemic so finally getting to meet her in person at a central London
0:56.4	studio was just the best day ever. Samantha has an incredible innate sense of
1:02.8	core confidence but the rest of the world has done its best over the years to
1:07.4	knock that, treating her differently because of her disability. However she's
1:12.0	also in her own words, gobi, her experiences have made her gorgeously loud
1:17.2	in speaking up about ableism as well as giving others the confidence to raise
1:22.0	their voices. Another thing you'll notice about Samantha is that she is an
1:26.5	absolute source pot. The cheeky laugh on this woman is infectious she's got the
1:32.2	best laugh in the world. I'll be completely honest I'm not entirely sure when we
1:36.2	started recording today's chat that is the beauty of this show. These
1:40.5	conversations are very much ongoing so you'll join us as we just happen to be
1:45.5	discussing nipple hair. This episode of Happy Place is brought to you by
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