Too Young for This, Too Old for That

Founder of Little Voices and host of the top 3% 'School Run' podcast, Jane James joins Anji and Annie to talk career pivots, podcasting with her teenage daughter, and why arts education matters. A conversation about finding your voice, staying curious, and the cheerleaders every young person needs.This week we are joined by Jane James, founder of the award-winning performing arts company Little Voices, which has reached more than 80,000 young people across the UK, and host of the top 3% School Run podcast.Jane shares how a "happy accident" turned a music degree and a thwarted performing dream into a national business, why "follow your heart" is still advice worth giving, and what it was like to co-host a podcast with her teenage daughter Liv, who found her own voice at the microphone.We talk career pivots, the cheerleaders every young person needs, having deeper conversations side by side rather than face to face, and why arts education belongs at the heart of every school, not the margins.Plus: staying curious, the art of really listening, and one small Uber journey that reminded Angie why talking to strangers changes everything.Follow Jane James and the School Run podcast - link below - and don't forget to subscribe, share and tell us what you'd like to hear next.

Anji can make friends with a lamppost. Annie rehearses her coffee order in her head before she says it out loud. So what actually happened to the lost art of talking to strangers?This week we're unpacking everything the gap between 24 and 54 has quietly taken from us - good old-fashioned conversation, being bored, delayed gratification, and the freedom of a night out that isn't filmed from four angles. Anji remembers staring out a car window for three hours and taping films off the telly. Annie's navigating burner-phone trends, "send me your location," and the very real fear of ending up in someone's flattering-but-incriminating party video.Plus: atelic activities (the Aristotle-approved reason to put your phone down), a tribute to Francis the Arsenal fan who rescued Anji off the Tube floor, and a quick-fire round that proves nobody under 30 knows a single phone number by heart.Two women, thirty years apart, asking the same question: is life actually better now - or just louder?🎧 Homework this week: talk to one stranger a day, and give yourself five minutes of doing absolutely nothing.Thank you to our sponsor Mike Roberts at Making Digital Real for editing every episode (and hearing more of us than most people who actually know us).Too young, too old, or somewhere in between - you'll fit right here.

This week, we’re joined by the brilliant Dr. Paul Elgey, one of London’s leading aesthetic doctors, for an honest conversation about ageing, confidence and the ever-growing world of cosmetic treatments.From anti-wrinkle injections and fillers to the rise of “preventative” treatments in your twenties, we unpack what these procedures actually involve, who they’re for, and how to separate fact from fiction.We also discuss:• Are we ageing differently than previous generations?• Where’s the line between restoring and changing your appearance?• The social media effect on beauty standards.• The biggest myths about aesthetic medicine.• The treatments Paul thinks are genuinely worth considering—and the ones he believes people should think twice about.Whether you’re simply curious, considering treatment yourself, or wondering why conversations around ageing have changed so dramatically, this episode is packed with expert insight, thoughtful discussion and plenty of laughs along the way.As always, we’d love to hear your thoughts. Follow, rate and review the podcast, and let us know what topic you’d like us to tackle next.

And they are back with a long episode!Money, money, money - and why nobody taught us how to handle it. Anji (ex-banker, now self-employed) and Annie (24, hustling across acting and content) get into the conversation we're all supposedly not meant to have: salaries, savings, pensions, charging your worth, and why financial literacy should be on the curriculum. Expect credit card roulette stories, a £142 blouse confession, a pizza oven that wouldn't fit, and a proper look at what "enough" actually means. Plus: Deborah Meaden's investing webinar, generosity as the most attractive trait, and gift-giving Grinch energy.

M&S is one of our favourite intergenerational shops - so why can't we agree what size we are anymore? Annie picked up the same top in an 8, a 12 and finally a 14. Anji can't squeeze into a "14" at all. This week we get into vanity sizing, why inconsistent sizing does your head in, the catwalk that ruffled feathers, and why a national institution really needs to just serve a woman's body. We still love you, M&S. But sort it out.Too young, too old, or somewhere in between?Have you had any M&S sizing thoughts?