Women Together with Radio Maria England

WOMEN TOGETHER - Child and Parent connection - Isabel Squirrell

To visit Isabel's new website - click - www.childandparent.org

WOMEN TOGETHER - 2022-12-28 - Gale and Pavlina

Women Together: Series 3 - Episode 8 - Guest Jacqueline Clovis

Women Together: Series 3 - Episode 7 - Guest Charlotte

Charlotte is a carer for Tilly's Home Care

Women Together: Guest Elizabeth Peck

Author, Elizabeth Peck, will be joining the team of Women Together to discuss her book, “Why Does Mummy’s Tummy Hurt“.  Broadcast LIVE on Wednesday, September 28th from 8:30 – 9:30pm – listeners will be invited to call 01223 375564 to share their experiences with speaking to their children about some of the “bigger issues” life throws their way. 

About the Book:  You’re a mother with a young child, who always wants to come with you everywhere, including to the bathroom. Every month you have the stress of making the child wait outside, confused and upset, while you now also upset and stressed out deal with sanitary products and all the rest. If only you had a child-friendly book to explain all this to your little one, so that they didn’t feel abandoned, scared, or confused, and you could have some privacy! Why Does Mummy’s Tummy Hurt? explains periods in a warm, child-centred and age-appropriate way, to help mums in exactly this situation.

About the Author: Elizabeth has grown in her love of writing since the birth of her daughter in 2015. Her inspiration is her desire to communicate both everyday and profound truths to her daughter, in ways that are at once accurate and beautiful. Exploring ideas from the menstrual cycle to the meaning of beauty itself, Elizabeth s writing allows children to consider concepts that help to shape how they understand the world.  She teaches at St. Mary’s School in Cambridge.

Women Together - Season 3 - Episode 5 - Picture Book for Refugee Children

Women Together - Season 3 - Episode 4 - Regenerative Farming

On this month’s Women Together, Genevieve will be speaking with Holly, Director of Regenerative Farming and County Coordinator for Gleaning Cornwall.  We may be familiar with “gleaning” from the Old Testament story of Ruth and Naomi, but does gleaning have a place in our modern world today?

Gleaning, a term dating back to the bible was a right of the poor up to the late 18th century, under common law. It is the act of collecting leftover crops from farmers’ fields after they have been commercially harvested or on fields where it is not economically profitable to harvest.  The practice has a rich history and is deeply connected to feeding those that did not have access to their own land (and therefore could not grow food for themselves). As the UK moves further away from knowing where its food is grown, gleaning brings people back to the land.  Listen in to hear how Gleaning Cornwall is helping.

Women Together - Season 3 - Episode 3 - Christian Journalism

Join us this Wednesday, May 25th, for the monthly programme, Women Together.  Jo Siedlecka, editor of Independent Catholic News, will be the guest.  She’ll share with us what has been our experience as a Catholic Woman journalist.

A bit about Jo:

I’ve been a reporter now for over 30 years and love my job. After training at the London College of Communication, my first job was four years on a local London paper. From there I began freelancing – for the London Evening Standard, BBC and other outlets. The main subjects I like to cover have always been people, human rights and the environment. This naturally brought me to reporting on Church issues (and brought me back to my faith after a long absence). I met Mother Teresa, Catholic charities working with the homeless, and missionaries working overseas. I soon began writing for the Catholic press and did a stint at the Bishops’ Conference Catholic Media Office.

In 2000, Tertio Millennio Adveniente, called for lay people to play a more active role in the work of the Church. I thought about this and wondered what I could do. I realised there wasn’t a daily UK-based Catholic news service – so together with some friends I set up ICN.  I try to follow the advice of the patron saint of journalists St Francis de Sales who said: “You can attract more flies with a spoonful of sugar than a bucket of vinegar.”

Women Together - Season 3 - Episode 1

Guest:  Laura O'Conner - @reginasanctorum on Instagram.  Paschal Candles

Women Together – Season 3 - Episode 1 – They are back!

Genevieve, Helena, Gail, Sandy, Janice and Di welcome Tito to the presenting group.  They will  present for  the third season of Women Together on Radio Maria England.  Once again, we have an exciting series hearing from all sorts of women with all sorts of experiences covering all sorts of subjects from social opportunities for people with and without learning disabilities, life on the edge, alcoholism, breast cancer and outdoor fitness as well as many others!

Each 4th Wednesday of the month, beginning the 30th of March, the women will present, LIVE, from 8:30pm – 9:30pm, sharing an interview with an expert or with someone that shares their testimony to listeners. Then, the phone lines will be open for the Radio Maria England community to call in and share their experiences or ask their questions!  You can call in at 01223 375564 or you can also text or What’s App a message to: 07502 385 010.

Women Together – Season 2 - Episode 13 – Barb Szyszkiewicz

Helena and Genevieve talk a little football and A LOT about prayer.  Helena interviews author, blogger and secular Franciscan, Barb Szyszkiewicz about her book, The Handy Little Guide to Prayer 

Women Together – Episode 12 – Breast Cancer UK

For their Live show on Thursday, July 1st, the presenters talk about breast cancer and discussions that can be discussed amongst prayer groups about awareness on reducing everyone’s risk.  Genevieve interviews Thalie Martini, CEO of Breast Cancer UK.

Thalie has over 18 years’ experience working in senior roles in the public and third sectors in the UK and Australia. Before joining Breast Cancer UK, Thalie was CEO of Magpie Dance, the UK’s leading dance charity for people with learning disabilities.  Thalie has run a number of high profile programmes including a national programme to transform care practice in schools for children with medical conditions at Diabetes UK; a major transformation project at the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences in Sydney; numerous statewide public health prevention programmes for New South Wales State government including a ground-breaking magistrates drug diversion initiative.  Thalie is passionate about prevention and social empowerment. Having lost her mother to Breast Cancer in 2007, Thalie is committed to making breast cancer prevention a policy and public health priority.

Breast Cancer UK’s mission is to prevent breast cancer through education, scientific research, collaboration and policy change.   Their website, www.breastcanceruk.org.uk, says that over 54,000 women and 390 men a year in the UK are diagnosed with breast cancer. Yet a quarter of these cases are preventable through lifestyle changes. That means over 13,000 cases of breast cancer could be prevented, saving millions of lives, avoiding unnecessary suffering and reducing the cost to the NHS by over £1.5 billion a year. It is raising awareness of these preventable factors which drives Breast Cancer UK. They believe their work can have significant impact in helping women reduce their risk of developing breast cancer.

Breast Cancer UK has now launched our Breast Cancer UK Prevention Hub which is full of tips and advice on action they can take to reduce their risk of developing breast cancer. It is free, accessible and personalised and will give people the opportunity to develop their own personal prevention plan.  To access this new service, click this link:  Breast Cancer UK | Prevention Hub (breastcancerprevention.org.uk)

Women Together, Season 2 - 11

Sandy Hobson shares her testimony.  The presenters talk about following the Holy spirit and how God loves you in your brokenness.

Women Together, Season 2 - 10

Georgie Delaney – The Great Outdoor Gym Company

Georgie Delaney, Co-Founder of The Great Outdoor Gym Company (TGO) joins the Women Together presenters to share the story behind the creation of The Great Outdoor Gym Company, how a revival in her faith and Christian fellowship helped her grow as a better wife, family member and team player.  Just recently, Georgie has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for her services to international trade and exports.  She is  writing a book,  Heal, Care Move that shares her experience with faith.

We would love to hear from you and your experience with Fitness, how faith has helped yourself and your fitness and if your Christian community has helped you re-centre your focus and support you to become the fullest person you are in Christ.  Please email Info@RadioMariaEngland.uk and one of the Women Together team will respond and hopefully we can share your story on an upcoming episode!

Women Together - Episode 9 - Guest, Elaine Cooper 

What is a Christian Education? How can education contribute to human flourishing? Elaine Cooper helped found The Heritage School in Cambridge, and talks about the inspirational work of Victorian educationalist Charlotte Mason. For more information on The Heritage School, please check out their website:  www.heritageschool.org.uk/about-heritage/history-of-heritage-school-cambridge

Women Together, with guest Kristina Cooper

Genevieve and Diane are pleased to welcome Kristina Cooper back to Season 2 of Women Together.  This time, she is in the "Guest Seat" sharing with us her book, The Little Witch Who Wanted to Be Good.  Just now learning about Kristina?  Well, she shared with us a little more about herself as well as more about her book.

Women Together – Episode 7 – LIVE, Thursday May 27 2021 – Life Charity

This week, Women Together is very proud to have their first discussion on Radio Maria England about Pro-Life issues and how the church supports women that find themselves in troubled pregnancies.  The ladies are talking about Life Charity and discuss how the church supports people that choose #Life.   Liz Parson, the Director of Advocacy for Life Charity, speaks to Helena and shares how they train volunteers and staff to be skilled listeners to help support women that come to them for help.  She also shares how Life Charity offers support through mediations between families, housing placements, supplies for young families including nappies as well as importing the people they support through counselling.

Please do check out Life Charity website and learn more about how you, friends and your parish can help support families learn about their choices and how to support families in times of need.  Their National Hotline number is: 0808 802 5433.

The show will be LIVE on Thursday, May 27 at 11am.  If you would like to call and share your story with the presenters, please call, text or what’s app this number:   07502 385 010.  We’ll connect you to the presenters on the day.

Women Together - Season 2, Episode 6

Diane Redmond talks to Jane Burton, who worked and helped create Emmaus UK.  She shared the story of how Emmaus began and how it took saying Yes several times and letting God guide her to help cerate the amazing charity that Emmaus is today.  The presenters talk about how the church can help the homeless as well.  

Women Together - Season 2, Episode 5

Developing spiritual health.  The lockdown may have revealed our spiritual poverty for many of us, as we struggled to come to terms with the isolation and uncertainty of our new lives.  Certainly, to weather the storms of life, we need a robust spirituality.  But how do we develop this?  Margaret Mary McFadyen, well-known to Radio Maria England for her guided meditations, discusses what developing a deeper relationship with God, which guides and sustains us, is – and isn’t!  She also offers workable ways to connect with the divine in every-day life!  Listen on! Do you feel that that you’d like to develop your spirituality, but you don’t know how?  Or, have you found something in particular really useful as a means of encountering God?  Or, do you think introspection is navel-gazing?!  Whatever your views, Women Together would love to hear from you.

Women Together - Season 2, Episode 4

On the brink – a journey through lockdown, alcoholism and healing. The pandemic affected us all in many different ways, but for one woman, the close of her business brought her to rock bottom and alcohol abuse to the brink of suicide. Hear Katie’s amazing testimony of how this catalyst led her to seek help and rediscover the Christian faith of her childhood, and experience wellbeing in mind, body and soul. Have you ever had to watch someone you love go on a mission to self-destruct? How can we support those who need our faith, love and patience during these difficult seasons?

Women Together, Season 2 - Episode 1

Genevieve, Helena, Gail, Sandy and Janice return with Di Redmond for a new season of Women Together on Radio Maria England!  Once again, we have an exciting series hearing from all sorts of women with all sorts of experiences covering all sorts of subjects from social opportunities for people with and without learning disabilities, life on the edge, alcoholism, breast cancer and outdoor fitness as well as many others!

Each Thursday, beginning the 15th of April, the women will present, LIVE, from 11am – 12pm, sharing an interview with an expert or with someone that shares their testimony to listeners. Then, the phone lines will be open for the Radio Maria England community to call in and share their experiences or ask their questions! The number to call will be 02037 818 423. You can also text or What’s App a message to: 07502 385 010.

The show will be LIVE Thursdays at 11am and then rebroadcast Friday at 9pm, Saturdays at 7:30am, Sundays at 5pm and Wednesdays at 2am
Women Together (WT) hopes to empower women to live in the fullness of who they are in Christ. Saint Irenaeus said, ‘The Glory of God is man fully alive’, and Christ Himself said, ‘I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.’ So, let’s face life, as women, with all the trials and tribulations it brings, together!

The show will be LIVE Thursdays at 11am and then rebroadcast Friday at 9pm, Saturdays at 7:30am, Sundays at 5pm and Wednesdays at 2am

Episode 1: Periods

Yes, we’re talking about those kind of periods!  The monthly menstrual cycle.  Don’t recoil, because periods can tell us quite a lot about our health, as revealed by our wonderful dietician Dalia Maori .  If you’re suffering from a whole host of unsavoury period symptoms, then there may be changes to your diet and lifestyle that can have a profound effect on your physical, mental and emotional wellbeing.  Listen on!

For the first show back, dietician Dalia Maori is the guest and she shares the importance of women taking care of themselves, looking at managing pain in a holistic way and she even shares tips on menstruation!  She is a highly qualified and experienced dietitian who approaches each client holistically. She treats the whole person: her top priority is always her patient’s long-term health – both mental and physical. Acute complaints receive treatment while she simultaneously holds her clinical focus on long term health. Her work as a dietitian is not simply a day job, but a deep and meaningful personal pursuit. She has been in private practice for twelve years and her enthusiasm for helping people feel better does not wane: when our health is optimised, our full potential can be reached. She believes it is every person’s right to live with the best health possible for them. She is determined, daily, to do her very best to help make that happen using nutrition and lifestyle medicine.  For more information or how to get in touch with her,  please check out her website at:  www.daliamaorinutrition.com. What a way to kick off the first season!  Listen in on 15 April at 11am!

Women Together, Season 2 - Episode 3

Hospitality and friendship amongst people with, and people without, learning disabilities.  Janice speaks to Reverend Debbie Ford and Lakshmi.  These two women work with Lynn’s House. Lynn’s House is a Christian-inspired charity providing a space for hospitality and friendship amongst people with, and people without, learning disabilities. They seek to value each other not for what they achieve, but for who they are. They meet regularly as friends to share meals, outings, events, birthday and other celebrations, prayer, and worship. As core friends, volunteers, residents and supporters, they develop lasting relationships, and in doing so provide a contrasting experience to the often intensely competitive academic and work settings of Cambridge. In all they do, they try to offer, and be a sign of, the transformed relationships and fullness of life that the gospels point to.

Join us Thursday, 29th of April, LIVE, from 11am – 12pm, in which the ladies share an interview with Debbie and Lakshmi. Then, the phone lines will be open for the Radio Maria England community to call in and share their experiences! The number to call will be 02037 818 423. You can also text or What’s App a message to: 07502 385 010.

Women Together (WT) hopes to empower women to live in the fullness of who they are in Christ. Saint Irenaeus said, ‘The Glory of God is man fully alive’, and Christ Himself said, ‘I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.’ So, let’s face life, as women, with all the trials and tribulations it brings, together!

Here’s a little more information about Lyn’s House: www.lynshouse.org  Lyn’s House is a transformational community of people in Cambridge. It provides a space for life-enhancing friendship amongst people with, and people without, learning disabilities. We are a Christian charity that seeks to create a community in which all are valued – not for what they achieve, but for who they are.  The Lyn’s House community meets regularly over meals, outings and other events and also online, developing lasting friendships and providing a contrasting experience to the intense academic and work settings of Cambridge.

The show will be LIVE Thursdays at 11am and then rebroadcast Friday at 9pm, Saturdays at 7:30am, Sundays at 5pm and Wednesdays at 2am

Women Together – Episode 2 

Have you ever dreamt of doing something completely radical?  A change of career, or a move abroad?  Maybe you dream of getting out of the so-called ‘rat-race’ and experiencing life at a slower pace?  Well, our guest today did just that.  Following the trauma of walking through infertility, Sarah and her partner took the decision to sell-up, buy a campervan and tour Europe for a year!  Only six months into their trip of a lifetime, they were then confronted with the reality of Covid-19 and being far from home.  What led them to make such a radical move…. And was it worth it?  Do we need more courage to live out Jesus’ calling for us to have an abundant life?  What do you think?  Is it ok to go against the grain sometimes?  How do we know what’s reckless…. And what might just be an opportunity to step out and experience God in new ways?

Join us Thursday, 22nd of April, LIVE, from 11am – 12pm, in which the ladies share an interview with Sarah. Then, the phone lines will be open for the Radio Maria England community to call in and share their experiences or ask their questions! The number to call will be 02037 818 423. You can also text or What’s App a message to: 07502 385 010.

Women Together (WT) hopes to empower women to live in the fullness of who they are in Christ. Saint Irenaeus said, ‘The Glory of God is man fully alive’, and Christ Himself said, ‘I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.’ So, let’s face life, as women, with all the trials and tribulations it brings, together!

Here’s a little more information about Sarah: Sarah has been working at TONI&GUY Cambridge for over 20 years.  Sarah loves helping to lead the team and recently achieved a diploma in Leadership & Management from Durham University Business School. Sarah is an integral part of our education team as an NVQ assessor and strongly believes in providing high standards of service through high quality training. Sarah enjoys working with all different hair types. The team at TONI&GUY Cambridge would describe Sarah as conscientious, caring and loyal.  If you’re interested in seeing Sarah at work or booking an appointment – Meet the team at TONI&GUY Cambridge (toniandguy.com)

The show will be LIVE Thursdays at 11am and then rebroadcast Friday at 9pm, Saturdays at 7:30am, Sundays at 5pm and Wednesdays at 2am