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The Daisy Chain

The Daisy Chain

By: Daisy Ogle
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Summary

You are not as lost as you think.


The Daisy Chain is a weekly podcast for anyone figuring out life without a conventional map - whether you've lost a parent young, never had someone to turn to, or simply find yourself navigating careers, relationships and identity without a safety net.


Every Thursday at 3pm, host Daisy sits down with remarkable people across generations to pass down four pearls of wisdom - the kind that only comes from having really lived. Honest, warm, sofa-side conversation. Not hustle hacks or highlight reels. Just the quiet reassurance that somebody has already been where you are, and knows the way through.


Because nobody has it all figured out. But some people have already been through what you're facing. And knowing that eases everything.


Welcome to the chain.

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Episodes
  • Stop waiting for permission to make your art — Colette Woods on creative courage, finding your artistic identity and slow living | The Daisy Chain

    Stop waiting for permission to make your art — Colette Woods on creative courage, finding your artistic identity and slow living | The Daisy Chain
    May 14 2026
    Most of us have had someone tell us - a parent, a teacher, someone who should have known better - that the thing we love most isn't a real thing. Not a real career. Not a direction worth following. That moment doesn't leave you quickly. The question it plants - am I allowed to trust this? - can follow you for a very long time.Colette Woods is a painter and ceramicist living and working in Bruton, Somerset, whose art has been described as whimsical, instinctive and luminous. She spent decades working her way back to what she always knew she wanted - through family discouragement, through the practical realities of building a life. Last year, she was so seriously ill she couldn't lift her head from the pillow. She's only recently started working again. And she has never been clearer about what matters.Daisy and Colette talk about what happens when you spend your twenties following other people's maps, and what it takes to eventually trust your own instincts over the noise. They explore the art of saying no without explanation, and why Colette's morning ritual - an Italian percolator on the stove, the sound of the bubbling, the smell, a mug she made for herself, toast with marmalade is as close to meditation as anything she knows. Colette also shares her recent rediscovery of John Singer Sargent, whose paintings of fabric she finds so extraordinary that she looks at the cloth long before she ever reaches the face.This one is for anyone who was told their passion wasn't practical, and has spent years quietly wondering if they were right. Colette has been there. And she has something to pass down.Every Thursday at 3pm. 🌼In this episode we discuss:Being told your creative ambitions aren't a real careerWhat it means to finally trust your gut over other people's adviceThe power of saying no without explanationLife after serious illness and what it strips awayProtecting your creative process from commercial pressureCreating beauty and ritual in the everydayFinding your artistic identity later in lifeWhy emotions in art aren't a weakness - they're the energySocial media noise and why it's a lieHow to start making art again when you've been away from itFollow The Daisy Chain:Follow The Daisy Chain on InstagramThe Daisy Chain's TikTokKnow an amazing guest? Contact us at thedaisychainpod@gmail.comEnjoyed this episode?Subscribe on Spotify, Apple or wherever you get your podcasts.Leave a 5🌟 review — to help more people discover our pearls of wisdom.What found us - Links & MentionsDaisy:The Prado Museum, MadridColette:John Singer Sargent - artist Hieronymus Bosch Three Colours Blue (dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski)Manon des Sources - French film The Other Bennet Sister - TV series La Bohème, Puccini - operaÉdith PiafGrace Jones - La Vie en Rose Guest: Colette Woods Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    43 mins
  • Grief doesn't get easier, it just gets easier to carry - Ruby Jenkins on losing a mother young, life after loss and finding your way forward | The Daisy Chain

    Grief doesn't get easier, it just gets easier to carry - Ruby Jenkins on losing a mother young, life after loss and finding your way forward | The Daisy Chain
    May 7 2026
    Grief has a way of finding you twice. Once when it happens- and again, years later, when you're standing in your twenties and you just want to pick up the phone.Ruby Jenkins is a hairdresser and entrepreneur who lost her mum suddenly at fifteen, there one day, gone the next. Daisy lost hers at fourteen, after years of watching cancer take hold. They met three years ago over a bad blow dry, two weeks before Daisy's wedding, and have been in each other's corner ever since. What they didn't know until they sat down to record this was how much they'd never said out loud.In this conversation, Ruby and Daisy talk about what grief actually feels like when the funeral is over and everyone goes home- that hollow feeling nobody prepares you for. They talk about why grief doesn't get easier with time, it just gets easier to carry, and why for both of them it hit hardest not at fifteen but in their twenties, when the little things started to sting. They talk about the embarrassment of grief that nobody mentions, what it means to stand at a crossroads after loss and choose who you become, and how losing her mum gave Ruby the biggest empathy battery she's ever had - something she'd never give back. Ruby also shares the wisdom her mum handed down that she still carries: there is always something to be glad about. You just have to find it.This one is for anyone who has ever lost someone young and wondered if the weight ever lifts. It does. You just get stronger at carrying it.Every Thursday at 3pm. 🌼In this episode we discuss:Why grief doesn't get easier, it just gets easier to carryWhat nobody tells you about losing a parent youngWhy grief hits harder in your twenties than it did at fifteenThe embarrassment of grief nobody talks aboutGrowing up without a mother and finding guidance elsewhereLife after loss, choosing who you becomeThere is always something to be glad about, even when you have to look hardHow losing a parent young shapes the person you becomeFollow The Daisy Chain:Follow The Daisy Chain on InstagramThe Daisy Chain's TikTokKnow an amazing guest? Contact us at thedaisychainpod@gmail.comEnjoyed this episode?Subscribe on Spotify, Apple or wherever you get your podcasts.Leave a 5🌼 review to help more people discover our pearls of wisdom.What found us - Links & MentionsRuby:Ray's a Laugh - Richard Billingham (photography book)Martin Parr (photographer)Hot Fuzz (film)Everything I Know About Love - Dolly Alderton (book)Vienna - Billy Joel (song)Daisy:Project Hail Mary (film)Kacey Musgraves - Oh What a World (song)About Time (film)What found me this week:Charlotte’s pick:Baz Luhrmunn- Everybody’s Free to Wear SunscreenGuest: Ruby Jenkins @byrou_ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Use anger as fuel, not fire - Natalie on creativity, letting go and finding gratitude | The Daisy Chain

    Use anger as fuel, not fire - Natalie on creativity, letting go and finding gratitude | The Daisy Chain
    Apr 30 2026

    Some of the most important things anyone ever told you about creativity, confidence and finding your way weren't said in a classroom or a therapy room. They were said in a kitchen, at a piano, in the middle of an ordinary afternoon by someone who had already figured it out the hard way.


    Natalie is an actress with decades of BBC productions, theatre and film behind her - Calendar Girls, Pride and Prejudice, The Importance of Being Earnest, and this summer Shear Madness at the Sonning Theatre. She has spent nearly thirty years teaching the STAGE method to everyone from children to corporate boardrooms, helping people find their voice when it matters most. But she also happens to have known Daisy since the day she was born - and long before any of the credentials, she was the person who sat her down at a piano and told her to just play.


    In this conversation, Natalie talks about what it really means to use anger as fuel rather than letting it consume you, and why the fire you felt at fifteen never actually goes out - it just needs you to look for it. They talk about creativity and why boredom is one of the most underrated tools you have, about letting go of what you cannot control, and about gratitude as something you practise rather than feel. Natalie shares what a hypnotherapist gave her in two words that changed everything, how watching David Bowie on Top of the Pops in 1973 cracked something open in her, and why nothing you have ever learned — even the things that didn't work out - is ever truly wasted.


    This one is for anyone who has ever felt lost, poured everything into something that didn't go to plan, or needed a reminder that feeling behind is not the same as being behind.


    Every Thursday at 3pm. 🌼


    In this episode we discuss:

    • Using anger as fuel, not fire
    • Why nothing you've ever learned is wasted
    • The two words that changed everything
    • Boredom as a creative tool
    • Letting go of what you can't control
    • Gratitude as a daily practice
    • Natalie Ogle's STAGE method and public speaking
    • Why the fire in your belly never really goes out


    Follow The Daisy Chain:

    • Follow The Daisy Chain on Instagram
    • The Daisy Chain's TikTok
    • Know an amazing guest? Contact us at thedaisychainpod@gmail.com


    Enjoyed this episode?

    • Subscribe on Spotify, Apple or wherever you get your podcasts.
    • Leave a 5🌟 review — to help more people discover our pearls of wisdom.


    What found us — Links & Mentions

    Daisy:

    • Give it a grow by Martha Swales
    • Joshua Tree by Demi Lovato & Rose Gray
    • Is This Thing On?


    What found me this week: Ella's pick:

    • The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost


    Natalie:

    • Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
    • The Rocky Horror Show
    • Suzi Quatro


    Guest: Natalie — Shear Madness at the Sonning Theatre


    The Daisy Chain is a weekly podcast where every week, someone who's already been where you are passes down four pearls of wisdom to those of us still finding our way.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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    56 mins
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