Love Songs With Danny Painter

Our award winning lifestyle chef - Izelle Hoffman, is giving us all the permission we need to love ourselves, our bodies, and celebrate the December holidays with cake for breakfast! Carrot Cake, that is! Well, not in the general sense! Izelle is sharing her Mindful Eating Carrot Cake Breakfast Biscuit recipe with us! And this one is sure to be a hit! In this week's recipe, you can have your cake and eat it - any time of day!

After spending the last 12-ish months re-evaluating and resetting, Deon Dee is back and stronger than ever! Ready to tackle what life has to throw at him and launching a new single - I caught up with the musician and producer over a Zoom where he got very candid about his life and his struggles with mental illness, saying that at one point he almost stopped playing music altogether! Thankfully, for us, after a break and speaking to a therapist, Deon decided it was time to come back, on his own terms, and spoke to me about the music, the process, and his hair! Listen here:

The World of Birds came to life in 2019 when the McCarthy brothers, Conor (Producer) and Ben (Producer), linked up with Nic Preen (Songwriter) to form the band behind the launch of Preen’s solo career. However, the collaboration took them on a different path. Not long into their work together, the decision was made to merge as a band, launching The World of Birds. Almost immediately, they set out on a tour away from their home base in Cape Town, locally in South Africa and in Europe, opening for Beatenberg and A-Ha, as well as listing on the Triple J and Apple Music’s Today at Apple playlist. I got to chat to lead singer Nic Preen about the band, lockdown, and everything in between!

With the last stretch of 2020 ahead of us, it may feel like we have accomplished none of the goals we set ourselves in the beginning of the year. Jason Bernic, however, believes that there is still more than enough time to smash at least all of them! But how? Well, he is an executive coach after all, and so he has some tools in his toolkit that he shares with us on a podcast this week! Tools that can help all of us either smash or start to smash the goals we set 10 months ago as we welcomed in the bright new year! In this podcast, we catch up after a long break and start to rethink and shift perspective on the pandemic and how it affected us and the world!

Izelle Hoffman is our 'Mindful Eating' food fairy godmother! Each week she shares one of her best anti-inflammatory, immune boosting, and all round good for us recipes! This week its a vibrant red for her chosen ingredient! The pimento pepper! Used in her famous chicken meatballs, this recipe is great for picnics, quick snacks, and even making a healthy sub sandwich! Even better - if you make some 'plain' ones they're the perfect treat for your furry friend!

Jo Biden is President and that means his South African daughter-in-law will be allowed to visit the White House whenever she wants to! Melissa Cohen-Biden is a South African-born, LA-based filmmaker who stole the heart of Jo Biden's son, Hunter, a week after meeting! He put a ring on it in an intimate ceremony on her rooftop terrace one week after their first date and they are stronger than ever! Brent Lindeque - our Good Things Guy - has all the scoop on that and more in this week's podcast:

There is not a person on this planet that hasn't experienced trauma, some us move on and heal faster than others, but I don't think we realise how badly it can affect us! Victor Graca is an energy healer who specialises in helping humans heal from trauma that they may not even remember - that is negatively affecting there health, manifesting in ways that we wouldn't even think of! He is not coming from a space of authority, but from a space of lived experience - dealing with his own trauma and his own human emotions!

Renowned and fiery blues guitarist and singer/songwriter, Dan Patlansky, is going back to his roots for an intimate show this weekend! The Venue in Melrose Arch will be the place to be as Dan Patlansky sets foot on his first stage of 2020! Backed by a full band, Dan will be performing songs from his past, the present, and a few covers that have influenced him over the years. I got to chat to him over Zoom about the show, what to expect, and if he's nervous for this first show of the year!

The weekends are getting longer as we wind down into the last part of 2020 - and that means all the snacks, but the healthy ones! Izelle Hoffman is our 'Mindful Eating' food fairy godmother and she wants us to live our best lives - mindfully! This week she's sharing her top snacking recipes with us! This week we are talking chips and dip! But without the guilt!

He is a renowned South African plastic and reconstructive surgeon who is known for his willingness to give back. Dr Deon Weyers has been called 'the best plastic surgeon in Johannesburg' - and it's definitely true! With a career spanning years and a celebrity client list that anyone would envy, he has fast become the go-to name for anything from Botox to reconstructions after breast cancer. We spoke to him in January about his life, his love for his art - which it is, and his incredible charity work! He's back to talk about his life during lockdown and to launch his brand new venture - a blog and a Youtube channel all about plastic and reconstructive surgery!