Happy Place

Charlotte Church

17 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Are you conscious of the importance of connecting with nature? Does it help you better connect with yourself? That’s certainly the case for Charlott...

Melissa Urban

10 Apr 2023

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Setting boundaries might feel uncomfortable and sound callous, but best-selling author Melissa Urban believes setting boundaries is one of the kindest...

How To Fail x Happy Place

03 Apr 2023

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In this special episode, Fearne chats to fellow podcaster and great friend Elizabeth Day about the episodes of both Happy Place and How To Fail that h...

Sir Bradley Wiggins

27 Mar 2023

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Are you conscious of fear and shame driving your behaviour? Cyclist Bradley Wiggins feels those emotions have dictated a lot of his decision making ac...

Spencer Matthews

20 Mar 2023

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Spencer Matthews was 10 years old when his older brother Michael became the youngest Brit to reach the summit of Everest in 1999. On his descent, he e...

All On The Board

13 Mar 2023

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PTSD, social anxiety, insomnia, panic attacks, and imposter syndrome are just some of the things Ian Redpath and Jeremy Chopra have experienced betwee...

Katherine May

06 Mar 2023

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How often do you cultivate quiet moments that are just for you? Best-selling author Katherine May believes being alone doesn’t necessarily mean feel...

Taylor Jenkins Reid

27 Feb 2023

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For author Taylor Jenkins Reid, fame is a brilliant lens through which to examine societal expectations of women. The female celebrities in her glamou...

Gabor Maté

20 Feb 2023

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Women are often made to look after the emotional needs of their families, while simultaneously denying their own. Gabor Maté – who has decades of e...

Jay Shetty

13 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We need to be intentional about finding, and keeping, love in our lives. #1 Sunday Times bestselling author, award-winning podcast host of&n...

Shania Twain

06 Feb 2023

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Music can change your state of mind. Shania Twain, the best selling female artist in country music history, has been using songwriting as therapy as s...

Joanna Lumley and Stephen Barlow

30 Jan 2023

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Does music have the power to emotionally transport you? It certainly does for actress Joanna Lumley and composer Stephen Barlow. Married for nearly 40...

Emily Atack

23 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How does sexual harassment – both online and in real life – affect a person’s sense of self worth? This is one of the many questions actor and c...

Dr Julie

16 Jan 2023

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It’s important to let the down days happen, to acknowledge them as part of the human experience rather than trying to fight them. Clinical psycholog...

Raynor Winn

09 Jan 2023

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The human spirit is capable of enduring more than we might think. That’s something long distance walker and writer Raynor Winn discovered when she a...

Jambo Truong

02 Jan 2023

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There’s great power in physical touch. Jambo Truong believes that self-touch is the greatest path to self-love, and holding others is where we’ll ...

Yung Pueblo

26 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Meditation is chaos – it’s ok if you can’t completely quiet your mind. In fact, meditator, poet, and New York Times best-selling author Yung Pue...

Adam Lambert

19 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Do you ever feel like you’re in your own way? Like the only obstacle stopping you achieving success is your own lack of self-belief? This is somethi...

Bear Grylls

12 Dec 2022

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When was the last time you impressed yourself by doing something you didn’t think you could? Bear Grylls reckons putting ourselves in slightly uncom...

Kelsey Parker

05 Dec 2022

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Kelsey’s husband, The Wanted’s Tom Parker, publicly announced in October 2020 that he had been diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour. He died ...

200th episode special

28 Nov 2022

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This is the 200th episode of Happy Place! To celebrate, Fearne replays some of her favourite moments from the show, revealing behind the scenes a...

Tim Minchin

21 Nov 2022

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Do you ever feel held back by shame or judgement? Not just from others but perhaps from yourself too? Do you default to self-deprecation? In this chat...

Emily Ratajkowski

14 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Model, NY Times best-selling author of My Body, and host of new podcast “High Low with EmRata,” Emily Ratajkowski has spent a lot of time thinking...

Dawn O'Porter

07 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Stereotypes – the cat lady, the mother, the wife – can make us feel we need to play a part to fit the role others have cast us as. Broadcaster and...

Roman Kemp

31 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Are you ok? It’s a question that’s often worth repeating with the people we love. Capital Breakfast Show host Roman Kemp lost his best friend and ...

Donna Lancaster

24 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We don’t just feel grief after a bereavement, we can feel it as a result of many different types of loss: loss of health, loss of a childhood, loss ...

Richard E. Grant

17 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

When others share their grief, it gives us permission to feel it ourselves. That’s what Richard E Grant has learnt over the last year as he’s shar...

Gabby Logan

10 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It’s been an incredible few months for sport, and broadcaster Gabby Logan has been at the heart of it, reporting as the Lionesses made history. In t...

Craig David

03 Oct 2022

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Unrelenting positivity isn’t always healthy. Over a career spanning decades, best-selling artist Craig David has learnt that sometimes it’s best t...

Sam Ryder

26 Sep 2022

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Nerves and excitement are very closely related, but following a stratospheric rise to fame thanks to Eurovision, Sam Ryder makes a point to choose to ...

Rylan

16 Sep 2022

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How good are you at being alone, both with your thoughts, and physically in public places? Rylan says that last year was the first time he really had ...

Olivia Harrison

15 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How do you personally express love? Author, philanthropist, and award winning producer Olivia Harrison has a lifetime of memories with late husband Ge...

Matt Willis

14 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Addiction has dictated much of Matt Willis’ life, but the musician and actor has since learnt how to take responsibility for his actions and reactio...

Dr Rangan Chatterjee

13 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Our body’s stress response is cleverly designed to keep us safe, but the trouble now is that it’s being triggered by every day life – emails, ca...

DJ Fat Tony

07 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

DJ Fat Tony has spent time actively learning what love is after being in abusive relationships and being an addict. Having done trauma therapy, he’s...

Tom Walker

06 Sep 2022

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What happens when busy people stop being busy? Like everyone else, singer songwriter Tom Walker was forced to pause during the pandemic, and he’s cl...

Steven Bartlett

05 Sep 2022

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Fail fast. That’s the advice entrepreneur Steven Bartlett has for those who ultimately want to be successful, because the biggest risk isn’t faili...

Jordan Stephens

08 Aug 2022

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Time, money, and attention turned out to be a difficult combination for Jordan Stephens to cope with at the height of his Rizzle Kicks fame. In this c...

Melanie Woods

01 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This episode of Happy Place is made in partnership with The National Lottery.We’re in the midst of The Commonwealth Games, and thanks to N...

Sonia Choquette

25 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Your spirit is fully equipped to take care of you. Your brain and your body might struggle but spiritual teacher and intuitive guide Sonia Choquette i...

Samantha Renke

18 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Constantly being subjected to micro-aggressions can feel like death by a thousand paper cuts; Samantha Renke is an actor, broadcaster, writer, and dis...

Mya-Rose Craig

11 Jul 2022

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Patience is a bit of a lost art, but it’s something that ‘Birdgirl’ Mya-Rose Craig is well practiced in. Mya-Rose is an ornithologist, an enviro...

Dame Kelly Holmes

04 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Olympian Dame Kelly Holmes recently announced publicly that she is gay. Although she’s acknowledged this truth privately for a number of decades, it...

Owen O'Kane

27 Jun 2022

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If you tend to doubt yourself, do you know why? Psychotherapist, best-selling author, and former NHS lead for Mental Health Owen O’Kane has spent a ...

Emma Barnett

20 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Do you have open conversations at work when you’re in pain emotionally or physically? After going through numerous rounds of IVF, as well as having ...

Sara Cox

13 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Broadcaster and author Sara Cox joins Fearne for a special live episode of Happy Place at The Podcast Show in Islington. A brilliant storyteller, Sara...

Denise van Outen

06 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Heartbreak is a universal feeling, but everyone copes with it differently. Presenter, actor and singer Denise Van Outen tends to throw herself into wo...

Bonnie Wright

30 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We can all feel paralysed by the guilt that we might not be doing enough to combat climate change, but actor, director, and environmental activist Bon...

Prince's Trust Awards Special

26 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Fearne is a Goodwill Ambassador for Mental Health and Wellbeing for The Prince’s Trust, a brilliant charity that helps people who have faced disadva...

Amanda de Cadenet

23 May 2022

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Who gets to decide who and what you are? Amanda de Cadenet quit the fame she’d found on British TV after being hounded by the press. She was seen th...

Minnie Driver

16 May 2022

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What do you feel the meaning of life is? Purpose? Happiness? Does it matter if we’re not sure? In this chat, Fearne and actor Minnie Driver explore ...

Jonny Wilkinson

09 May 2022

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Rugby player Jonny Wilkinson was once driven by a quest for perfection, and an obsession with becoming the best player in the world. Now though, he’...

Hanson

02 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It’s been thirty years since brothers Isaac, Taylor, and Zac Hanson started making music together, but despite growing up under the spotlight they’...

Giselle La Pompe-Moore

25 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve been encouraged to suppress our intuition, to look to others for answers instead of trusting that we already have the answers within ourselves...

Emma Gannon

18 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

You might feel aware that the internet makes you feel strangely disconnected from others, but writer and podcaster Emma Gannon feels it makes us disco...

Will Young

11 Apr 2022

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If you’re a high achiever, do you ever wonder if you sometimes use success to mask pain? Performer Will Young recognises this is something he did fo...

Dr Rangan Chatterjee

04 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Does being happy make us healthier, not only mentally, but physically too? Dr Rangan Chatterjee explains the very real effect chronic mental stress ca...

Ruth Wilson

28 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Actor Ruth Wilson feels she can’t help but bring the essence of herself to all the characters she plays. She’s learnt that in both her professiona...

Happy Place – Mother’s Day Special

27 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Why can it feel more difficult to talk about mental health with the people you’re related to? In this Mother’s Day special of Happy Place, Fearne ...

Clover Stroud

21 Mar 2022

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Death is often viewed as something dark and muted, but after the death of her beloved sister, author Clover Stroud began to see the world in vivid col...

Sophie Morgan

14 Mar 2022

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At 18 years old, Sophie Morgan was in a car crash, and was instantly paralysed from the chest down. Eighteen years on, she is now one of the only TV p...

Tuppence Middleton

07 Mar 2022

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Are you an introvert or an extrovert? Actress Tuppence Middleton is very clear that as an introvert, she is overwhelmed by being around other people a...

Gabby Bernstein

28 Feb 2022

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Do you ever stop and ask what’s driving your behavioural patterns? New York Times bestselling author and self-confessed spiritual junkie Gabby Berns...

Björn Natthiko Lindeblad

21 Feb 2022

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For 17 years Björn Natthiko Lindeblad lived in Thailand’s jungle as a forest monk. He learnt how calm can encourage clarity of thought, that he pre...

Johnny Marr

14 Feb 2022

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There’s bravery in wanting to connect with people in a truly authentic way. Musician Johnny Marr has found that across his career the songs people r...

Julia Cameron

07 Feb 2022

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What would you try if you didn’t have to do it perfectly? Best-selling author, and the ‘High Priestess of creativity’ Julia Cameron feels perfec...

Dr Pippa Grange

31 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It’s often the case that fear is running the show. Dr Pippa Grange says it’s not always obvious that you’re afraid – you might be more familia...

The Happy Pear

24 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Do you find fitness and keeping your body healthy fun? Twins Dave and Steve Flynn – perhaps better known as The Happy Pear – love keeping fit in a...

Bigger Than Us - Happy Place exclusive

19 Jan 2022

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Audiobook exclusive: Bigger Than Us.Calm anxiety through connection. Find happiness through purpose. Feel comfort in the universal. Think bigger to un...

Freya North

17 Jan 2022

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It’s important to take time to figure out how to trust your own opinions of yourself rather than believing other peoples’ opinions of you. This is...

Tara Brach

10 Jan 2022

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You shouldn’t always believe your thoughts. Psychotherapist and meditation teacher Tara Brach feels freedom comes from understanding that you are no...

Tom Daley

03 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Are you conscious of where the pressures you feel are coming from? Are they external or internal? Diver Tom Daley has been meditating on these differe...

Best of the year on Happy Place

31 Dec 2021

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In this special episode, Fearne is joined by Jake Humphrey and Damian Hughes from The High Performance Podcast. They all share their favourite moments...

Matt Edmondson

27 Dec 2021

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Reflecting on experiences from childhood can help us understand who we are today. Radio 1 presenter Matt Edmondson has been learning music production ...

Andy Cato

20 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Treating our soil differently could have a knock on effect on our physical and mental health, as well as the health of the environment. As one&nb...

Jamie Oliver

13 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

There’s never going to be anything comfortable about facilitating change, but if we deeply care about a cause we should do it nonetheless. As well a...

Gregory Porter

06 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

How good are you at getting quiet and sitting with yourself? Jazz singer Gregory Porter feels that this is the place your most authentic, distinctive ...

Brené Brown

29 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It’s much more productive – and will ultimately make you happier – to strive for excellence rather than perfection. A research professor at the ...

Leona Lewis

22 Nov 2021

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Although she keeps much of her life private, Leona Lewis has recently felt a real need to speak up. In this chat with Fearne, she talks through why sh...

Jo Bowlby

15 Nov 2021

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We are not living at a natural pace. The modern world forces us to move through life incredibly quickly; Shaman Jo Bowlby helps people slow down and e...

Annie Mac

08 Nov 2021

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It’s never too late to make a change; Annie Mac has left Radio 1 after 17 years of broadcasting and is ready to embrace parts of her identity she ha...

Holly Willoughby

01 Nov 2021

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You’ve achieved the goals you set yourself for your career and personal life; what’s next? That’s the question Holly Willoughby has found hersel...

Dr Jane Goodall

25 Oct 2021

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It can at times feel like the cycle of negative news is endless, and living in fear can be debilitating, but ethologist and conservationist Dr Ja...

Bimini Bon Boulash

18 Oct 2021

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A person’s identity is not up for debate; drag queen Bimini Bon Boulash is on a mission to ensure everyone feels safe to express who they are withou...

Mel Robbins

11 Oct 2021

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How kindly do you talk to yourself? TV host, author, and speaker Mel Robbins spent a lifetime caught in a loop of negative self-talk, but she’s now ...

Jesy Nelson

06 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It’s often said that comparison is the thief of joy, and this proved to be true for Jesy Nelson. In this chat, she and Fearne talk through...

Dave Grohl

04 Oct 2021

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There’s adventure in not knowing what comes next, and having the confidence to throw yourself in anyway. Foo Fighters front man Dave Grohl has spent...

Paul Merson

27 Sep 2021

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Gambling addictions are not well understood; former footballer Paul Merson is hoping to change that by sharing his own story. In this chat with Fearne...

Miriam Margolyes

20 Sep 2021

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You are the sum of everyone who’s come before you in your family, and it can be useful to learn about your ancestors in order to understand how much...

David Harewood

13 Sep 2021

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Psychosis is very rarely talked about, even within spaces dedicated to mental health. Actor David Harewood had an episode that saw him sectioned at 23...

Joe Sugg

06 Sep 2021

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We often write ourselves a story about the type of person we are, and the things we can do with our lives, but YouTuber, actor, and singer Joe Sugg do...

Christian O'Connell

30 Aug 2021

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The concept of a mid-life crisis has become a funny cliché, and that’s what Christian O’Connell jokingly told people he was having when he left h...

Ashley Cain

27 Aug 2021

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In April 2021, Ashley Cain’s eight month old daughter Azaylia Diamond Cain passed away. At eight weeks old she had been diagnosed with an aggre...

Frankie Bridge

23 Aug 2021

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Becoming a parent will have its highs and lows for everyone, but Frankie Bridge became a mum knowing she already had existing mental health issues to ...

Natalie Imbruglia

16 Aug 2021

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Confidence fluctuates and has to be practiced daily. Natalie Imbruglia feels writing her new album has allowed her to regain confidence after finding ...

Suranne Jones

09 Aug 2021

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Many of us are guilty of refusing to stop, of continuing to distract ourselves while anxieties build beneath the surface. This is something BAFTA-winn...

earthrise - Jack Harries, Finn Harries, and Alice Aedy

26 Jul 2021

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Climate change will cause the biggest mass migration in history. Filmmakers and storytellers Jack Harries, Finn Harries, and Alice Aedy have founded c...

Caitlin Moran

19 Jul 2021

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Over the last ten years, author, journalist, and broadcaster Caitlin Moran has learnt that we have to allow feminism to evolve as both society and our...

Charly Cox

12 Jul 2021

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Nostalgia – keeping souvenirs of poignant moments – plays a big part in allowing poet and bestselling author Charly Cox to fill her life with mean...

Anne-Marie

05 Jul 2021

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You might not expect a global pop star to want to embrace being average, but Anne-Marie feels that might be one of the keys to happiness. She’s been...