Proverbs with Daisy Maskell
Proverbs is a podcast all about tackling some of life’s most challenging conversations. Hosted by broadcast journalist Daisy Maskell, each episode offers up a new Existential Crisis Question, answered by an expert as Daisy, her guest and listeners try to make sense of the ever changing world around us.
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June 30, 2025 • 18 mins
Daisy is back on the mic for a new episode of Proverbs, putting you at the heart of the conversation.
This week, she responds to listener dilemmas about evolving relationships — from childhood friendships that feel like they’re drifting apart, to navigating mixed signals at work after handing in a resignation, and the challenge of feeling like the “odd one out” when returning home from university.
Daisy offers advice on embracing...
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June 23, 2025 • 19 mins
Daisy is jumping on the mic for another episode of Proverbs which puts you at the centre of the conversation.
Responding to a listener-submitted dilemma, Daisy addresses the challenge of bringing a child into today's world, and particularly this generation's awareness of global challenges.
Daisy also responds to a story about compatibility and horoscopes in dating.
Concluding the episode, she reflects on a personal shift at age...
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June 9, 2025 • 17 mins
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June 2, 2025 • 18 mins
Daisy is answering your questions on this weeks episode of Proverbs with Daisy Maskell.
Is your boyfriends Mum your ally... or will he always be her perfect angel? And, where have all of the new pop stars gone?
Daisy explores who takes whose side when a relationship goes askew, the state of pop culture and she revisits her conversation with Dr Jonny as a listener asks for her take on why there is such an increase in cosmetic surg...
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May 26, 2025 • 21 mins
Our next guest on this season of Proverbs with Daisy Maskell is one of the country's most experienced clinical negiligence lawyers, who has become an industry leader in cosmetic surgery gone wrong, in both the UK and abroad.
Chrissie Wolfe has represented victims with a wide range of injuries - from brain to spinal, and even fatal injuries. She has developed a niche in cases involving cosmetic surgery and she has experience in the...
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May 19, 2025 • 22 mins
Daisy is back in the hot seat to answer your questions in this new solo episode of Proverbs with Daisy Maskell.
From the intricacies and public speculation surrounding the high profile Diddy trial to the role of AI in the justice system, Daisy is diving deep.
She also explores the use of therapy for mental health, sharing personal insights, and answers a listener question on the motivations behind participating in reality TV show...
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May 12, 2025 • 24 mins
Our next guest on this season of Proverbs with Daisy Maskell is a leading aesthetics doctor who has grown a loyal audience of over 100K followers on social media.
Dr Johnny Betteridge started his career as an NHS doctor, with a background in emergency medicine, intensive care and anaesthetics. In 2022, he decided to shift his focus and opened JB Aesthetics, which has become a leading London clinic.
On this weeks episode, Daisy an...
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May 5, 2025 • 21 mins
We have another solo episode of Proverbs with Daisy Maskell, and this week Daisy is not afraid to navigate some controversial topics sent in by listeners.
What would you do if you thought your friend was a kleptomaniac? Do you just sit in the embarrassment… or doing something about it? Plus, now that the world thinks serial killers are hot, do you think society has grown an acceptance towards crime?
All these questions and so mu...
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April 28, 2025 • 30 mins
Our next guest on this season of Proverbs with Daisy Maskell is sex journalist and acclaimed author (her new book Sluts is out now!), Beth Ashley.
Beth is an investigative journalist who specialises in sex, relationships and social class. Her work ranges from light-hearted features on Gen Z dating culture to deep investigations into inequality, and has appeared in The Guardian, Vice, The Independent, Cosmo and more.
On this w...
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April 21, 2025 • 19 mins
It's the first solo episode of this season of Proverbs with Daisy Maskell, and Daisy is sitting down with your questions and dilemmas to give you her raw and honest opinions.
In response to two listener submitted messages this week, Daisy talks about how to navigate feelings that the future is truly hopeless with the state of the world. She also talks about the power and importance of communication and how it can truly change yo...
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April 14, 2025 • 34 mins
Welcome to a new season of Proverbs with Daisy Maskell. This season we are tackling some of life's most challenging conversations, with expert guests.
Our first guest of the season is author, education, academic and scientist Professor Joyce Harper. Joyce is an Professor of Reproductive Science at University College London, Institute for Women’s Health. Her most recent book, Your Fertile Years, explores women's health from puber...
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March 10, 2025 • 24 mins
When Anthony Razzano was 12 years old he found himself engulfed in a fire. Over 87% of his body was burnt, he was read his last rights three times and underwent numerous surgeries and blood transfusions. Life, as he knew it, was over.
Anthony's story is one of adaptation and fighting against the odds. Having been so close to death, today he stands as a licensed sports agent for the NFL as well as a certified accountant.
Daisy Maske...
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February 24, 2025 • 24 mins
Elizabeth Tucker is an expert in urban legends/supernatural folklore. She has been featured by VICE, The Atlantic and more and works as a Distinguished Professor at Binghamton University, State University of New York with a special interest in folklore and supernatural.
Daisy Maskell is joined by Elizabeth Tucker for a Q&A exploring everything from ghost sightings to sleep paralysis, our relationship with the supernatural and more....
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February 17, 2025 • 30 mins
When Ava Glass walked into the newsroom at a local US newspaper, she didn't realise how her life was about to change forever. She unknowingly entered a career that started investigating crimes for the media, and then took her to London where she became a civil servant working alongside the UK's most skilled spies.
Today, Ava is an esteemed author of the "Alias Emma" series, the third book from which - "The Traitor" is out September...
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August 14, 2023 • 40 mins
This week we're revisiting Daisy's interview with Tabby Chapman from April 2022.
Tabby Chapman is a survivor of the NXIVM cult, an American cult that has been exposed as engaging in trafficking, forced labour and racketeering. The cult advertised itself as a self-help development service whilst recruiting women for a secret society called "DOS" in which women were abused. In early 2018, NXIVM's founder, Keith Raniere, and his assoc...
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August 7, 2023 • 20 mins
This week we're revisiting Daisy's interview with Gabby Garcia from February 2022.
Gabby Garcia was born a conjoined twin; at 8 months old went under highly risky surgery to separate her from her twin, Kayla. 13 years later, the mesh that was used to separate them caused complications - resulting in Kayla's death, just one day after Gabby had been cleared to leave hospital herself.
Gabby now dedicates her time to sharing and educat...
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July 31, 2023 • 28 mins
This week we're revisiting Daisy's interview with Encina Revera from April 2022.
Encina Severa has lived with dissociative identity disorder (known as 'DID') for her entire life, with eleven alter personalities that were formed as a coping mechanism in response to childhood trauma.
DID (previously known as multiple personality disorder) is a complex medical disorder where a person presents multiple distinct personalities, which can...
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July 24, 2023 • 23 mins
On Boxing Day 2004, Ani Naqvi was woken up by a loud bang. As she sought to discover the root of this noise, she soon found herself underwater as water filled her hut and she became, in her own words, "like a grain of rice in a washing machine". It was what would become known as the Indian Ocean Tsunami - the most powerful earthquake every recorded in Asia, with a magnitude of 9.1-9.3. An estimated 227,898 in 14 countries died due ...
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July 17, 2023 • 35 mins
When Stephen Gillen was dropped in the middle of Belfast at the height of The Troubles, he didn't yet know just how the war surrounding him would impact the rest of his life. What came next was a life in and out of prison, first being sentenced aged just 14 years. He spent 20 years in Category A prisons for serious crime, surrounded by some of the country's most notorious criminals, including Charles Bronson.
At the turn of the mil...
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July 10, 2023 • 38 mins
For more than 25 years, Matson Browning has been infiltrating, documenting and disrupting white supremacy movements from the inside as an undercover investigator in Arizona. Together with his wife Tawni, they adopted fake IDs and ideologies, ultimately successfully securing the arrest of key members of the KKK, skinheads, border militias, Proud Boys and other White Power groups.
It's a story that blends the professional with the pe...
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