Ciara's Pink Sparkle Podcast

I had a Chat with Jamie Hale. He is the artistic director at Criptic Arts! https://cripticarts.org/events/

I chatted with Frankie Seaman the pro skater about her skating career and how she got to skate as pro dancer on the ITV show Dancing on Ice alongside the Olympic skating legends Torvill and Dean and her work with various charities!

I took some time out to interview charity Mencap's new CEO Jon Sparkes about what it is like to be a CEO, I got to know about his life and his career, his hobbies and interests, We also chatted about Cornwall, our families, our work careers, his new role as Mencap CEO and we chatted about learning disability and SEND too!

listen to My conversation with sports presenter & broadcaster, podcaster and presenter and author Gabby Logan!

I had a fab and funny chat with the impressionist and comedian Rory Bremner for my podcast recently. we talked, Fame, ADHD, Learning Disability, Comedy, Our Career and there were some fab celeb impressions too!

1. we chatted about his career on the radio 2. we chatted about our favourite bands and singers and why we liked them 3. we chatted about my claim to fame being related to u2's The Edge and Gary told me he was a big fan!

I chatted with Sinead from Bwitched about wearing Denim, abut The band's new EP out now which is called Ripped Jeans. We also talked about their career and how the band re-united through the Big Reunion TV show, about me being a fan, about where they got their band name from and fame and why pop concert venues should be accessible for everyone including people with a learning disability like me!

I chat with my lovely u2 fan friends Hillary and Jenny aka The Garden Tarts. I asked them about why they started their podcast, about what their favourite all time u2 albums and songs are and we chatted a bit about what they have learnt about learning disability since having me on their podcast as a chat interview guest! https://www.thegardentarts.com/

A chat with a good friend of mine called Martin who is a DJ & he has his own show on Groove London Radio which is an online radio station. He chatted to me about his dreams and goals of becoming a radio DJ and he talked about his life as someone with a disability. We also chatted about media representation of people with a disability / learning disability and why it is important for us to be heard. He also has a fantastic message for other young people with a disability to encourage them! radio show website: https://www.groovelondon.com/

I chat with Georgina who is the founder of Purpl Discounts. Purpl Discounts is The UK’s first dedicated discount site to help with the cost of living with a disability. https://www.purpldiscounts.com/

Derrek chats with me about living his life with his disability and we talked about what life is like for people with a disability around the world and he told me about his fantastic bags business called Derrek's bags which are for sale on Etsy! https://www.etsy.com/shop/DerreksBags

Tom the editor from Able Magazine met with me for a one off podcast special episode where he interviewed me about how I started my podcast series!

Chat with Chris who is from the USA. He is also a podcaster, so we chatted everything from podcasting to how to build your podcast audience!

This episode is about this month of September which is Gynaelogical Cancer Awarness Month. I teamed up with Sara from the gynae cancer awarness charity Gracewomen who I am a voluntary ambassador for and with NHS Dr Jay Chaterjee for a joint interview to help spread awareness of the 5 gynae cancers and the importance of checking yourself, booking your smear tests, cancer screening and the early symptoms of different cancers.

I chatted with the Graphic Designer Stephen Averill about his career as a graphic designer, but also about his work career involvement with the rock band u2. he told me about how he helped come up with the name u2 for the band and about some of the u2 album covers that he designed for the band too! https://x.com/hashtag/CiarasPinkSparklePodcast?src=hashtag_click

I chatted to Kate Nash OBE the founder of PurpleSpace about her career, we chatted about an event on employment and recruitment we were both part of last year and we talked about how employers can hire people with a disability and the benefits of employing people with a disability like using reasonable adjustments!

I had a fantastic chat with fab Comedian Ria Lina for my podcast recently about her career and she talked about having autism herself. We also talked about comedy and why jokes that are made by comedians could be offensive and hurtful towards people with a learning disability like me.

I had a chat interview with Jon Lee from pop band S Club. We talked about their recent reunion & their Good Times Tour, their recent Brighton Pride gig, about LGBT awareness & about how the band paid tribute to their band mate Paul Cattermole who sadly died from an underlying heart condition. Jon is an Ambassador for the British Heart Foundation to help them raise awareness of heart issues. https://www.bhf.org.uk/what-we-do/who-we-are Jon and Jo from S Club will also be doing a gig soon at Pizza Express in Holborn! https://www.pizzaexpresslive.com/whats-on/choose-seats/jon-lee-jo-omeara/1430608

I chatted with John Byrne who is the Careers Advisor for The Stage which is a famous theatre performers newspaper which started the career of singers like the Spice Girls. We talked about our work careers, about representation of people with a learning disability within theatre and the media and chatted about our own Irish Connections!

For this episode, I chatted with Gina Patel. She recently won the Rising Star for Diversity Award and she is also the host of the Podcast Ordinary People, Honest Lives! https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ordinary-people-honest-lives/id1720058087