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Hello, I'm Katie Piper, and welcome to my podcast, Katie Piper's Extraordinary People.

Each episode, I'll meet an amazing person with an incredible story who faced adversity and came through the other side to inspire others.

Welcome to this new episode of Katie Piper's Extraordinary People.

It's a special episode as we're live from the Meatless Farm in Leeds.

The Meatless Farm is a British company providing plant-based meat alternatives

that enable us to swap out red meat without sacrificing taste, texture or nutritional value.

I'm going to be talking to Wonder Woman, a multi-award winning screenwriter, director and professional blogger Vicky Pissarius, aka Honest Mum.

And later on, we'll be joined by Chris Shields from The Meatless Farm.

Here I am with Vicky Pissarius. So I am joined by Honest Mum. I guess for people

that don't know who you are, what you do, how would you introduce yourself? I'm a mum of two, first and

foremost. I think that's kind of like my biggest job of all, most challenging. So Oliver's 9 and Alexander just turned 7 and we live in Windsor but this is my home town.

But I'm an author.

I wrote my debut book, Mum Boss, and I'm a blogger, Honest Mum.com.

And that sort of was born really accidentally because I was actually TV director

and it's so empowering what you said about being put in a box. It reminded me of one of my first

jobs in the film industry. I worked for a company, very big, well-known film company and I remember

getting a meeting with an exec producer who's very old school

Hollywood and he said to me you can't be a screenwriter and a director you've got to choose

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