Best Why Is Amy In The Bath Podcasts (2025)

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From Beauty Exec to Founder: Amy Liu on Tower 28’s Global Success 40:25

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Welcome to Season 3 of The Silly Little Girls Club 🚀 This week on The Silly Little Girls Club, Samantha sits down with Amy Liu, founder of Tower 28 Beauty, the cult clean beauty brand built for sensitive skin. After years in the beauty industry — and struggling with chronic eczema — Amy created Tower 28 to prove that sensitive skin deserves fun, in…

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We’re Back: Business Chaos, Gin Tears & Vet Bills That Cost More Than the Maldives 26:51

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Welcome to Season 2 of Out of Office, the unfiltered spin-off of The Silly Little Girls Club where work life gets messy and the gin is stronger than the WiFi. We’re back—blotchy, borderline feral, and more out of office than ever. In this chaotic but cathartic catch-up, Samantha and Hollie reunite to debrief on everything from mental breakdowns on …

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Workplace Dilemmas, Crystal Curses & Bed Frame Red Flags 29:31

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Welcome back to Out of Office! Season 2, Episode 2 is an unfiltered, feral delight — featuring real listener dilemmas, even realer oversharing, and a few life lessons snuck in between cocktails. This week, Samantha and Hollie take on the problems filling your inbox and your brain—from cursed crystals and ChatGPT shame to sleeping with the enemy (ak…

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Wellness but Make It Unhinged: We Got Ice-Bathed, Towel-Wafted & Emotionally Recharged at Arc 17:10

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Welcome to one of our most unhinged but healing episodes of Out of Office yet — the wellness edition no one asked for but everyone absolutely needed. In this episode, Samantha and Hollie head to ARC, the next-gen wellness space founded by Silly Little Girls Club guest Alanna Kit. The goal? Try contrast therapy, slow down, and finally relax. The res…

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How Rosie Fortescue Went From Reality Star to Serial Entrepreneur 39:57

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Welcome back to The Silly Little Girls Club — where the glow-up is mental, emotional, entrepreneurial, and sometimes, very sparkly. This week’s guest? Rosie Fortescue. You may know her from the OG days of Made in Chelsea, but reality TV was just the prologue. Rosie is now the powerhouse behind not one, but two thriving brands — Rosie Fortescue Jewe…

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Mikai McDermott on Beauty Standards, Burnout & Building a Real-Life Community 46:24

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Welcome back to The Silly Little Girls Club, where we turn big conversations into power moves—one unapologetic woman at a time. This week, I’m joined by Mikai McDermott—beauty theorist, content creator, founder of The Linen Service, and the sharpest voice redefining what it means to work, create, and show up online with purpose. Once a top-tier hai…

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From Barrister to Birkins: How Hanushka Toni Built a Luxury Resale Empire 37:13

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🎙️ Episode Introduction What do you do when you realise the career you’ve worked your whole life for… isn’t your dream? For Hanushka Toni, the answer was simple: leave law and build a luxury resale empire instead. This episode of The Silly Little Girls Club is a true movie script moment—from being a high-flying solicitor to launching Sellier London…

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What It's Really Like Writing for Vogue, Refinery29 & Grazia – with Humeara Mohamed 55:58

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From writing poems about bees in Year One to writing for Vogue, Refinery29, and Dazed—journalist and copywriter Humeara Mohamed has one hell of a story. In this raw, warm, and wildly funny episode of The Silly Little Girls Club, she opens up about what it really took to break into the fashion and beauty media industry—from unpaid internships to lau…

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Healing Starts with Discomfort: Alanna Kit on ARC & Human Potential 47:11

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What do ice baths, neuroscience, and ancient rituals have in common? According to Alanna Kit—everything. In this episode of The Silly Little Girls Club, Samantha Cusick sits down with Alanna Kit, neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and founder of ARK—London’s cutting-edge wellness sanctuary that merges science, spirituality, and ritual into one transform…

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Trans, Talented & Tired of Explaining – Bel Priestley on Reclaiming Her Narrative 48:10

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In this powerful and timely episode, Samantha sits down with actress, advocate, and internet icon Bel Priestley—best known for her role as Naomi in Netflix’s Heartstopper—to talk about life, identity, and what it really means to step into your power as a trans woman in the UK right now. As the UK High Court ruling on trans women in single-sex space…

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The Viral Haircare Queen: How Anisa Sojka Became a Beauty Powerhouse 43:07

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Have you ever posted something online just for fun—only to have it completely change your life? That’s exactly what happened to Anisa Sojka, today’s guest on The Silly Little Girls Club. You might know her for her flawless, Rapunzel-worthy hair, but what you might not know is how she took a single social media post and turned it into a multi-brand …

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How to Work Smarter, Not Harder – Emily Austen’s Success Secrets 1:02:20

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🎙️ How to Work Smarter, Not Harder – Emily Austen’s Success Secrets Ever feel like you're running on a treadmill of hustle culture, sprinting toward success but never quite getting there? We’ve all been there—rewarding ourselves for late nights, glorifying burnout, and measuring our worth by how busy we are. But what if I told you that working hard…

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BONUS Eat Pray Tubs 31:27

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In which we consider the late-20th-Century romcoms of such as Nora Ephron and Nancy Meyers, a world of dead husbands, new loves, appealing French gynecologists, and of course eating sundaes by the side of the bathtub. From there we’ll get into how Julie & Julia is really a manifesto for the rise of the self-obsessed influencer class … and how it wo…

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Bonus An Interview with David Magee 25:51

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Hey Tub Gang! If you tuned in to Episode 2, you got a taste of our interview with David Magee, the screenwriter for the 2008 film Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, aka Amy's first bathtub performance. Here's our longer chat with David. He explains, among other things, how to write a scene in which kids are pulled into a magical realm through the bath…

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7: Episode 7: Happiness Is a Warm Tub 53:46

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Our investigation culminates with us settling once more into the bathtub, which has the best view of the end of the world. We finally talk to an actress who’s done a tub scene: Autumn Reeser, whose experience in a time-loop movie woke her up to the time loop she was living in her real life. Then, a quick shower over a sea of fog and we’re ready at …

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Sephora x The Silly Little Girls Club: Behind the Beauty Counter: Is Inclusivity in Beauty Just a Trend? 42:17

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Podcast Episode Summary/Intro: Sephora x The Silly Little Girls Club – Redefining Beauty, One Conversation at a Time Welcome back to The Silly Little Girls Club! Today, we’re coming to you live from Sephora, where we’re diving deep into the beauty industry’s most important conversation—true inclusivity. This episode is all about breaking down barri…

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6: Episode 6: The 2025 Oscars Are All Wet 54:39

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The whole reason we put out Why Is Amy in the Bath? now is that we thought Amy Adams might get her Oscar at long last — for Nightbitch. We suspected this year would be important. (We were right.) And, at long last, we now know how the 2025 Academy Awards turned out. But so does everybody, so who cares, right? Ah, but we’re the only ones who know wh…

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5: Episode 5: Irish Spring for the Drowning Girl 49:23

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In which Gabby reveals that her own bathing saga is much, much older than this one investigative series. In which Brandon embraces the mystical power of Holistic Journalism. In which the both of them try to figure out why this is the Century of Bathing by looking into wellness, and Goop, and home improvement shows. In which a chance meeting on a ro…

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4: Episode 4: Heartbreak Feels Good in a Place Like This 41:49

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In which Gabby & Brandon find themselves embroiled in an imitation game. Following Amy Adams’ career through the Century of Tubs, we find ourselves face to face with the bathing scenes of the modern traumatized woman of the psychological thriller, and one of the authors responsible for rejuvenating the genre: Gillian Flynn, she of Gone Girl and Sha…

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3: Episode 3: Into the Shabby Heart of Prestige 44:56

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We wanted a mission. And for our sins, they sent us to Hollywood. In this episode, Gabby & Brandon finally confront the very nature of prestige by taking a tour of duty to the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and by tackling the bathing data for every single film nominated for a Best Actress Oscar. Will Brandon’s “Prestige Bathtub Theory” (PBT) hold? How do…

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2: Episode 2: One Hundred Years of Wet Hollywood 43:06

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In which we discover a secret history of cinema, a history that created American pop culture one terrifying shower and screwball bathtub scene at a time. One in which the hot tub plays a major role in the war on drugs and the battle of the sexes, and in which sci-fi visions imagine bathtubs of the future as places for healing, transformation, and g…

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1: Episode 1: Why IS Amy in the Bath? 36:57

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It began, like so many stupid journeys, with a stupid question: Why does the actor Amy Adams do so many bathing scenes? From the beginning, we suspected a conspiracy — Is Amy, who has never won an Oscar, doing all these bathtub scenes because they offer the opportunity for the kind of dramatic acting that earns the biggest, goldenest prizes? So in …

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Introducing: Why Is Amy In The Bath? 3:43

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In 2021, two journalists started an investigation to answer what seemed like a simple question: Why does the actor Amy Adams do so many bathing scenes? From the beginning, we suspected a conspiracy — Is Amy, who has never won an Oscar, doing all these bathtub scenes because they offer the opportunity for the kind of dramatic acting that earns the b…

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The Secret to Viral Content Creation: Chloe Swift’s Winning Formula! 50:56

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This week, I’m joined by the one and only Chloe Swift, a hairstyling expert turned social media sensation. Chloe’s story is one of hard work, passion, and breaking boundaries in the digital world. From her early days in a salon to becoming a full-time content creator, Chloe has redefined what it means to blend creativity with business savvy. 💇‍♀️ W…

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Silly Little Girls Club: Hump for Justice in Dubai! 23:55

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🎙️ Welcome back to the Silly Little Girls Club: Out of Office! 🎙️ This week, Hollie and I are taking you on a wild ride through our hilariously chaotic lives as women balancing business, travel, and a whole lot of unexpected moments. From Dubai's golden sands to camel justice campaigns and awkward family holidays, this episode has it all! 💼 What’s …

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From Wall Street to Wellness: How Rosie Built a Game-Changing Brand 45:18

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This week, I’m joined by Rosie Speight, co-founder of the game-changing wellness brand, Equi London. Rosie’s journey from the trading room floor to launching a pioneering supplement brand is nothing short of extraordinary. 💼 From thriving in the high-stakes world of finance to redefining women’s wellness, Rosie shares the highs, lows, and laugh-out…

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Real Talk on Networking: The Good, The Bad, and The Ick 28:21

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We’re back with another Out of Office episode! It’s me, Samantha, and PR Queen Hollie, talking all things work, business, and those why-does-this-always-happen-to-us moments. Grab your mug of Prosecco (because why not?) and settle in for an unfiltered, laugh-out-loud chat about the realities of life as working women. 🍸 What’s Inside This Episode? -…

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It’s Not You, It’s Your Water: How Karlee Built Hello Klean to Solve Hidden Beauty Problems! 38:05

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In this episode of The Silly Little Girls Club, we sit down with Karlee Ozener, the visionary founder of Hello Klean—a brand transforming the way we approach beauty by tackling an often-overlooked culprit: hard water. With their iconic tagline, “It’s not you, it’s your water,” Hello Klean has become a game-changer for those struggling with hair and…

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Out of Office: Prosecco, PR Fails, and the Chaos of Women in Business 24:36

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🎙️ Welcome to the Silly Little Girls Club: Out of Office! 🎙️ In this debut episode of our new "Out of Office" series, join me, Samantha, and my fabulous friend Hollie as we dive into the rollercoaster world of being women in business. This isn’t your average business chat—it’s raw, real, and oh-so-relatable. We’re spilling the tea (or Prosecco, in …

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Starting Over at 38: Mimi's Journey from Hair Salon to Million-Dollar Brand 43:41

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Mimi Kone, the powerhouse behind Mimi at Mina, takes us on an incredible journey of reinvention and resilience. Starting as a salon owner in Notting Hill, she made it her mission to provide quality services for women of color—a passion sparked by her own experiences. Imagine this: moving to London without speaking English, armed with nothing but de…

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Balancing Act: Tanya Burr on Motherhood, YouTube, and Finding Your Voice 40:38

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Get ready for a candid and inspiring chat with the incredible Tanya Burr! In this episode, Tanya takes us through her journey—from her early days as one of YouTube’s OG stars to building a thriving career as an actress, influencer, and UNHCR goodwill ambassador. She doesn’t hold back, sharing what it’s really like to juggle motherhood with a demand…

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Crying and Creating: Lisa Potter-Dixon Discusses Health, Hustle, and Happiness 48:31

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Join me, Samantha Cusick, for a heart-to-heart with the incredible Lisa Potter-Dixon—a makeup artist, author, and entrepreneur whose journey in the beauty industry is as inspiring as it is real. We dive deep into the power of authenticity, both personally and professionally, and how staying true to ourselves shapes our relationships and success. Li…

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From Dismissed to Empowered: The Silly Little Girls Club Trailer 2:48

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Hey there, and welcome to The Silly Little Girls Club! This podcast is all about real talk, resilience, and proving that no dream is “too silly” or “too big” for any woman. In this space, I’ll be sharing stories of incredible women who’ve faced challenges head-on and redefined what’s possible in the business world and beyond. It all started with a …

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Mel C gets real on Girl Power: Fame, Feminism and the true story behind the Spice Girl 47:06

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I’m SO excited to kick off The Silly Little Girls Club podcast with our very first episode featuring the one and only Mel C, aka Sporty Spice! 🎉 It’s honestly a dream to have such an iconic guest to launch this journey, and I can’t wait for you to hear what she has to say! In this episode, we dive deep into Mel’s incredible journey with the Spice G…