Beauty Full Lives

Aug 01 2024 88 ep. 42 mins 269

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Journalist Madeleine Spencer is joined by a guest to reflect on the challenges and triumphs they've faced throughout their lives, and to touch on the beauty memories and rituals - if any - that have played a role or had resonance.
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Joseph Harwood

Aug 01 2024 47 mins

In this episode, Madeleine is joined by Joseph Harwood, a British model and artist, who talks about their childhood growing up in a church with a Grandad who was a preacher, about how they parlayed success on Myspace into modelling for McQueen, and about turning the inevitable disappointments that pepper every career into something better.There's also a fair bit of love for sentime

Emma Willis

Jul 25 2024 33 mins

In this episode, Madeleine is joined by the broadcaster Emma Willis, who takes me through her beauty journey from her childhood, where her heroes were Sandy from Grease and Kylie Minogue, both of whom she says appealed because they have that girl next door thing about them, through her years of smoky eyes while working at MTV, all the way to today, where she’s more focussed on he

Bay Garnett

Jul 18 2024 39 mins

In this episode, Madeleine is joined by the stylist Bay Garnett, the celebrated stylist who pioneered second hand clothing and made thrifting part of mainstream culture again.We talk about that, and many other things from the skinny culture that still prevails in fashion, why some fashion people are a bit snobby about make-up, the Charlotte Tilbury mascara tip she live, and her vie

Ella Ward

Jul 11 2024 62 mins

In this episode, Madeleine Spencer is joined by the writer Ella Ward, who, in Ella's words "has worked in advertising for 22 years. This means she has a proclivity for profanity and doesn’t respect punctuation. In 2018 she was hit with the cancer stick, which apart from being rather frightening also encouraged a foray into oversharing on Instagram, and then – magically – writ

Elle Macpherson

Jul 04 2024 26 mins

In this episode, Madeleine Spencer is joined by the Australian model, actress, and businesswoman Elle Macpherson.During the episode, Elle discusses how her wellness pillars keep her looking and feeling her best at 60, and which habits, supplements, and mindsets serve her particularly well - and why she feels so strongly about WelleCo.This episode is powered by Happy Mammoth’s Hor

Amanda Knox

Jun 27 2024 64 mins

In this episode, Madeleine Spencer is joined by the exonerate, journalist, public speaker, podcast host, and author Amanda Knox.Between 2007 and 2015 she spent nearly four years in an Italian prison and eight years on trial for murder and every single one of those years was splashed across the front pages of newspapers worldwide - often accompanied by the nickname “foxy knoxy”,

Alicia Silverstone

Dec 20 2023 34 mins

In this episode, actress and activist Alicia Silverstone talks about how she came to be a household name, some of her experiences with expectations and the attitudes of the time in which she found fame, why she'd much rather be on a sofa or with her dogs than grooming herself, and how she plans to approach the signs of advancing age.The website Alicia mentions in the episode is myk

Giselle La Pompe-Moore

Dec 13 2023 79 mins

Author, artist, and slow-living advocate Giselle La Pompe-Moore believes that everything you need to be content lies within, and that there are no barriers to spirituality - you just have to take a moment to take it in (which, incidentally is the name of her book, Take It In). She joins me in this episode to discuss how she entered through the frenzy of modern life and found that d

Lisa Eldridge

Dec 06 2023 55 mins

In this episode, the make-up artist, author, and YouTuber, Lisa Eldridge, talks about her life story, how she parlayed a passion for make-up into a hugely successful career, the eras she finds most inspiring, and which products from her bestselling range she' match up to some of her A-List clients...This episode is powered by Amly Botanicals. For 22% off your order, use the code BE

Tova Leigh

Aug 16 2022 34 mins

I first met Tova Leigh at the launch of her first book, Fucked at 40, which as the title suggests is a rather no holds barred look at some of the things Tova had experienced in her then 40 years.I liked how forthright, fun, and funny she was, and put her on my wish list of guests to come on the podcast. The pandemic slightly thwarted our efforts to have a chat, so in the end, we re