
Almost Grown…Up
Podcast
Welcome to Almost Grown…Up a podcast about embracing life’s mess, living creatively, and finding your flow. If you’re ready to explore what it means to grow up on your own terms, you’re in the right place.
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Latest Episodes
Episode 31: Would You Rather
This week we go Meta AF as Lucie questions how we ask better questions of ourselves. Covering her recent discovery with asking better quality questions, what she has learnt and a few suggested questions to road test yourself.
Episode 30: On Values and Veganism
This week Lucie is joined by Kelly McGrath (@kellymcGrath.co) to talk about living by values. Uncovering her journey into veganism, how she deals with people disagreeing with her beliefs and what to do to become more conscious about your choices.
Episode 29: Conscious choices, activism and what cracks you open
This week Lucie chats to Natasa Leoni a photographer and activist based in Brighton in the UK. Delving further into rebellious responsibility, they talk about making conscious choices, the power of having conversation and what cracks you open to make changes and live by your values.
Episode 28: Sailing to the Edge; How discomfort helps you grow
This week is Part Two of Lucie's conversation with Yoga Teach, Author, Speaker and Change Consultant Betsy Reed on the topic of discomfort. This week they delve into finding your edge, and serving when you sail over it.
Episode 27: Discomfort and finding your edge
This week is a masterclass in handling discomfort. Growning up can be hard and uncomfortable and just coming out of lockdown after COVID-19 we are painfully aware of how uncomfortable life can get sometimes.
This week Lucie interviews Betsy Reed a speaker, author and leader on social and environmental issues. Betsy is also a Yoga and Mindfulness teacher and as they discuss in this episode somewhat of a 'professional discomforter'.
Episode 26: Rebelliously responsible
This week Lucie shares a kick start to a new movement - Rebelliously responsibility. How do we stand up for the things we believe in? How do we get started with making change in the areas of our life and the larger world that we want to change. Join the Almost Grown...Up summer reading challenge to start to get to grips with the things that you care about and how you can make positive change.
Episode 25: Why we need to grow the f*ck up... and other reasons to embrace adulting
Half pep talk, half call to action, this weeks episode delves into why it's time we all decided to grow up and do something about the world we see. Tough truths, lots of love and a little bit of discomfort. Just another week in the blanket fort.
Episode 24: A Pep Talk on Making it Happen
This week Lucie goes rogue and shares a pep talk on how to make things happen. This about getting that project off the ground, doing the creative thing, and making it happen. Going in search of the grown 'uping' that is hidden in creative work. Tired of not doing the thing, or starting the thing and then going for a nap or eating a cookie, this is the antidote!
Episode 23: Connection, Mastery and What Creativity Demands
What do you do when you live in existential crisis? Well, quite simply you take strangers out for coffee and ask them what they think the meaning of life is. This week Lucie is back with another coffee on the meaning of life. Chatting to Nia, a London based Musician, they delve into the power of creativity to provide purpose, how it builds connection, mastery and the role it plays in life.
Episode 22: A Newbies Guide to Existential Crisis
Ok, this is not a drill people. Seriously growing up just got a whole lot more pressing and a whole lot more difficult. In this episode Lucie dives into Existential Crisis and how we can all give ourselves a little bit of a break and get through the discomfort of losing our meaning momentarily. Blanket forts are included.
Episode 21: What do you mean?
This week Lucie delves into the world of questions and how what we ask can shape the answers we get. And gives suggestions on how you can embrace your inner toddler to start to ask the questions that just might change the way you see yourself and and the world. #butwhy?
Episode 20: Growing Pains
This week Lucie explores the idea of growing pains and the challenge that comes with growing up and transitions.
Episode 19: The Push and Pull, Forty Two and The Meaning of Life
This week is another Coffee on the Meaning of Life. In this episode Lucie sits down the Madeleine to talk about purpose, meaning and the role it plays in our own lives as well as our collective purpose. Covering everything on making decisions that defines and the meaning in endings it will leave you thoughtful about what you are becoming and how we can grow up a little better day by day.
Episode 18: How can I Save the World; Musings on Responsibility and a Heroes Complex
This week Lucie is back with a bitesize talk on ways to change the world and how to deal with the overwhelm that comes from wanting to take responsibility for the wider world and make a difference. She shares 4 top tips to help you make a difference and take responsibility for your little part of the world today.
Episode 17: Life is Your Wall, Climb it How You Like
Happy New Year! In this short episode Lucie shares some of the best wisdom from her 50 coffees on the meaning of life and a little bit of inspiration for growing up in the year ahead.
Episode 16: Part Two -Ten Things I Learnt About Growing Up in the Last Decade
Lucie is back for Part Two of ten things she learnt this decade about growing up. In this episode we touch on kindness, the importance of play, building your community and the heavy hitter of learning (well trying to learn) patience.
She also talks about the time of how we can countdown to the new decade with some kindness and possibility.