Remember when friendship just… happened?

This week, we’re getting weirdly personal about the friendship gap — that strange, silent drift that happens as life scatters us into different jobs, cities, and stages. Suddenly, maintaining friendships feels like a full-time job.

From friendship “breakups” that still sting years later to the awkward reality of trying to make new friends as a grown adult, we’re diving into why staying close feels harder than ever — and what we can actually do about it.

We’ll unpack:

💬 Why friendship peaks at 25 (and what happens after)

🌿 The emotional cost of connection and why “inconvenience is the price of community”

🧩 How to repair old friendships, and make new ones that actually last

💞 Why your friends might just be the greatest loves of your life

If your WhatsApp feels quieter these days, or you’ve ever wondered “is it just me?” - this one’s for you.

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What happens when your body breaks down before your mind admits you’re burnt out?



This week I’m joined by David Vioque — a recovering investment banker who had every marker of success on paper, but inside was facing what he calls “spiritual burnout.”

When his health started to collapse — caffeine stopped working, exercise gave immediate exhaustion — he did what most of us only dream of: he walked away.

David trekked the Camino de Santiago, sat in silence with monks in Nepal, and built a toolkit for reconnection and purpose.

Now, he’s the co-founder of Unbound, a reimagined health space in Shoreditch that blends testing, conversation, and community into something radically more human for preventative health & longevity.

In this episode we get into:

✨ What it really means to face spiritual burnout

✨ Why silence and solitude can be medicine for clarity

✨ How to find balance in “the extreme middle” of health

✨ Follow David at @david.vioque and Unbound at @living.unbound

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Could your sex life be the quiet revolution that reshapes how you see yourself in your thirties?

This week I’m joined by Emma-Louise Boynton - journalist, founder of Sex Talks, and unflinching voice on intimacy, body image, and the stories we’re told about desire.

After years of struggling with her relationship to her body, Emma-Louise's experience in sex therapy at 28 reshaped how she thought about intimacy altogether and inspired her mission to take conversations about pleasure from taboo and awkward to enlightening and essential.

We get into:

✨ Why so many millennials are having less sex than generations before us

✨ The body insecurities and cultural scripts that follow us into our thirties

✨ How curiosity, not performance, is the most radical path to confidence

This chat is a reminder that sex isn’t something you “figure out” in your twenties and forget, it keeps evolving, just like the rest of us.

If you’re craving more intimacy but aren’t sure where to start, whether with yourself or someone else, this one's for you.

✨ Follow Emma-Louise at @emmalouiseboynton

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