Making Friends with Chantel Nash

This week marks the end of Series 1 of Making Friends and Chantel is closing the series with an epic guest, the wonderfully cool Zeze Millz! Zeze is a broadcaster, radio presenter, cultural commentator and host of the Zeze Millz show. Not to mention the coolest girl about town. Will Chantel get an invite to hang out in the not too distant future? Only time will tell... Today they talk about what happens when your bestie moves to the other side of the planet, how you know when its time to call it quits on a friendship, the beauty of retail friendships and we get a sneak peak into Zeze's friendship roladex (spoiler alert its EPIC! But you knew that already) Enjoy Making Friends will be back with Series 2 .. watch this space :) Don't be a stranger! EMAIL:  makingfriendspodcast@gmail.com Please leave a rating and a review wherever you're listening. Making Friends is available everywhere, every Wednesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week Chantel is joined by fellow new comedian and agent of chaos, Pravanya Pillay! Pravanya has featured on BBC Three's ‘Asian Network Comedy', Comedy Central's ‘Rhod Gilbert's Growing Pains' and is a 2023 Chortle Award Best Newcomer Nominee. Today Chantel and Pravanya chat about friends that stand by you through your moody 'Churchill' years, befriending your grandparents and Pravanya's true life's passion...the 1997 general election result coverage. (available on iplayer) It's a wild and wonderful episode! Enjoy Don't be a stranger! EMAIL:  makingfriendspodcast@gmail.com Please leave a rating and a review wherever you're listening. Making Friends is available everywhere, every Wednesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week Chantel is joined by comedian, writer, actor, former model and coolest woman in the world Michelle De Swarte! Chantel and Michelle talk about being friends with Josephine Baker (hypothetically), the art of a South London roast (not the edible kind), living in the US and her brand new series Spent. All episodes available NOW on BBC iplayer. Enjoy x Don't be a stranger! EMAIL:  makingfriendspodcast@gmail.com Please leave a rating and a review wherever you're listening. Making Friends is available everywhere, every Wednesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week Chantel is joined by writer, actor, director, pole instructor, social commentator, tarot master and general baby girl Kelechi Okafor! Today we have a first for the podcast, a LIVE tarot reading for Chantel, what will the cards reveal?.. Spoiler alert, she's not honest enough. They also talk about Kelechi's children's book Strong Like Me and her debut collection of stories Edge of Here. Centring black womanhood in a range of alternate and sometimes unsettling realities. There's also loads of laughing and general black lady joy in todays episode! Enjoy. Don't be a stranger! EMAIL:  makingfriendspodcast@gmail.com Please leave a rating and a review wherever you're listening. Making Friends is available everywhere, every Wednesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week Chantel is joined by comedian, writer and certified Wrestle-head (this is the technical term, we discuss it at length) We talk about her own chocolate based girl crew, get an answer to the question can you ever be friends with your mum and discuss what happens when you feel like your friends are moving into difference phases of life. You can also catch Sikisa each week as host of the Wrestle Club podcast! Don't be a stranger! EMAIL:  makingfriendspodcast@gmail.com Please leave a rating and a review wherever you're listening. Making Friends is available everywhere, every Wednesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week Chantel is joined by peoples princess and certified national treasure Rosie Jones! Rosie is a stand up comedian, presenter and author! Today they talk about the wonders of spreadsheets in friendships and if you can really be friends with your Mum? They also talk about Rosie's new (guide) book Moving on Up, which is all about how to make friends, beat bullies and generally smash being a pre teen! Don't be a stranger! EMAIL:  makingfriendspodcast@gmail.com Please leave a rating and a review wherever you're listening. Making Friends is available everywhere, every Wednesday. Enjoy x Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week Chantel is joined by comedian, writer and all round powerhouse Esther Manito. Chantel fails to keep her cool (once again) when she explains how Esther's journey into comedy inspired her to take the plunge and an awkward tale of whole sale cocktail tinnies really makes the pitch to be friends an up hill battle this week. There's also an unnecessarily long deep dive on the wonders of teletext! It's a scenic route around the topic of friendship this week but its a good listen! Enjoy. Don't be a stranger, get in touch and tell me all about your friendship wins, fails, advice or women YOU would like to be friends with: EMAIL:  makingfriendspodcast@gmail.com Please leave a rating and a review wherever you're listening. Making Friends is available everywhere, every Wednesday. Enjoy x Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week Chantel is joined by award winning comedian, writer and actor, Laura Smyth! Laura has been blazing a trail in comedy and on social media with her down to earth (and hilarious) brand of storytelling. Laura speaks to Chantel in the midst of her sell out tour show "Living my best life" and right off the back of her award winning Radio 4 special '" I don't know what to say". They talk about the joys of pressure free friendships in your 40s, the pain of losing a good friends and we get and answer to the age old question.. 'is it okay for a friend to f***** your brother! It's all to play for! Will Laura want to be friends with Chantel? Don't be a stranger, get in touch and tell me all about your friendship wins, fails, advice or women YOU would like to be friends with: EMAIL:  makingfriendspodcast@gmail.com Please leave a rating and a review wherever you're listening. Making Friends is available everywhere, every Wednesday. Enjoy x Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week Chantel is joined by comedian, actor, presenter, writer and general multi-hyphenated queen Thanyia Moore! They laugh (alot) and talk about the importance of honesty in friendship at all costs, even if it means telling your friend their wig isn't wigging the way it should be. This one is a side splitter that comes with a volume warning! Black lady joy in full effect. Will Chantel be able to convince Thanyia to be her friend? Don't be a stranger, get in touch and tell me all about your friendship wins, fails, advice or women YOU would like to be friends with: EMAIL:  makingfriendspodcast@gmail.com Please leave a rating and a review wherever you're listening. Making Friends is available everywhere, every Wednesday. Enjoy x Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week Chantel is joined by the exceptionally funny Suzi Ruffell! Suzi is a stand up comedian (aren't they all) and today Chantel and Suzi bond over their shared love of tap dance, musical theatre, Tom Allen, parenting and the joy of finding a new tribes of friends in adulthood, that you didn't realise you needed. Don't be a stranger, get in touch and tell me all about your friendship wins, fails, advice or women YOU would like to be friends with: EMAIL:  makingfriendspodcast@gmail.com Please leave a rating and a review wherever you're listening. Making Friends is available everywhere, every Wednesday. Enjoy x Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week Chantel is joined by comedic royalty in the form of Susie Mccabe! Susie is an award winning comedian, living in Glasgow with her wife and canine lodgers. Today Chantel and Susie shoot the breeze about how important it is to have friends from all walks of life, stay grounded and try not to be a c***. It's a great chat with so many pearls of wisdom your head will spin. Susie will be hitting the Edinburgh Fringe this summer with her new show Merchant of Menace which is sure to be belter of a show. Full details can be found on susiemccabe.com. Don't be a stranger, get in touch and tell me all about your friendship wins, fails, advice or women YOU would like to be friends with:  EMAIL:  makingfriendspodcast@gmail.com  Please leave a rating and a review wherever you're listening.  Making Friends is available everywhere, every Wednesday.   Enjoy x  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's a BIG week at Making Friends HQ Chantel is joined by the peoples favourite news reader and Loose Woman the amazing Charlene White! Charlene and Chantel talk about wild nights out on the town, making friends as a new parent, being your truest self and her debut book 'No Place Like Home'. Available from 26th June 2024. Giggles abound, you have been warned! Enjoy. Don't be a stranger, get in touch and tell me all about your friendship wins, fails, advice or women YOU would like to be friends with:  EMAIL:  makingfriendspodcast@gmail.com  Please leave a rating and a review wherever you're listening.  Making Friends is available everywhere, every Wednesday.   Enjoy x  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week Chantel is joined by dancer, fitness guru and MAGICIAN Sonia Benito! They chat about making friends in new countries, language barriers and there's the touching tale of how Sonia got into magic, (think Dead Poets Society but with doves). Chantel also embarrasses herself royally...who knew f****** your friends was so straight forward? Don't be a stranger, get in touch and tell me all about your friendship wins, fails, advice or women YOU would like to be friends with.  EMAIL:  makingfriendspodcast@gmail.com Please leave rating and a review wherever you're listening. Making Friends is available everywhere you get your podcasts, every Wednesday. Enjoy x  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week Chantel is joined up stand up comedian Kemah Bob. Kemah is (and has) one of the most unique voices in comedy, featuring on; QI,Comedy Central Live, the Stand Up Sketch Show and loads more, as well as hosting the Femmes of Colour Comedy club, where Chantel and Kemah first met. Today they talk about growing up in the US, putting marbles in your friendship jar and starting the best band in the universe. Think Bette Midler meets Steely Dan. Don't be a stranger, get in touch and tell me all about your friendship wins, fails, advice or women YOU would like to be friends with:  EMAIL:  makingfriendspodcast@gmail.com  Please leave a rating and a review wherever you're listening.  Making Friends is available everywhere, every Wednesday.   Enjoy x  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week Chantel is joined by stand up comedian, actor, writer and presenter Kyrah Gray. Kyrah has featured on Mo Gilligan's - Black British Takeover Tour, BBC 1Xtra's comedy gala and has supported some of the biggest names in UK comedy including; Tom Davis, Romesh Ranganathan and Judi Love. She's smart, funny and UBER cool. Today they chat about those 'cousin' friendships, learning to communicate properly and why university dance teams were THE place to be in the 2010's.  Don't be a stranger, get in touch and tell me all about your friendship wins, fails, advice or women YOU would like to be friends with:  EMAIL:  makingfriendspodcast@gmail.com  Please leave a rating and a review wherever you're listening.  Making Friends is available everywhere, every Wednesday.   Enjoy x  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's week 2 and Chantel is joined by stand up comedian Samira Banks. Samira won the prestigious So You Think You're Funny comedy competition in 2022 and first met Chantel under highly unusual circumstances. Involving; supermodels, a case of mistaken identity and THE Naomi Harris. Today they chat about ancestral rivalries, growing up in Germany and why we've been sending nudes to the wrong people. Samira's deadpan wit and dry comedy style are going to take her straight to the top, so Chantel better get her friendship bid in fast!  Don't be a stranger, get in touch and tell me all about your friendship wins, fails, advice or women YOU would like to be friends with:  EMAIL:  makingfriendspodcast@gmail.com  Please leave a rating and a review wherever you're listening.  Making Friends is available everywhere, every Wednesday.   Enjoy x  A 'Keep It Light Media' Production Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's launch week so you get two episodes for the price of one! Chantel is joined by radio presenter and comedian Leah Davis. Leah can be heard on Capital Xtra every week and as host of the Capital XTRA Book Club.  Chantel first met Leah on the open mic comedy circuit and wanted to be friends with her immediately! Chatting about growing up in the 'burbs, her need for drama free friendships and Chantel's questionable music taste there are giggles aplenty in this bonus week 1 episode.  Don't be a stranger, get in touch and tell me all about your friendship wins, fails, advice or women YOU would like to be friends with:  EMAIL:  makingfriendspodcast@gmail.com  Please leave a rating and a review wherever you're listening.  Making Friends is available everywhere you get your podcasts, every Wednesday.   SYNOPSIS: Chantel Nash is looking for friends, specifically, the female variety. As an adult, making new friends is HARD and the pressures of everyday life makes keeping up with the few friends you DO have, near impossible! One day you look around and think.. do I even have friends anymore? So, Chantel is on the hunt for the creme de la creme of friends. She's thinking big, she's thinking aspirational, she's mostly thinking Michelle Obama but she'll take every amazing woman she can get. This new podcast sees comedian, mum, partner, daughter and croc-lover Chantel Nash speed-date various women that she would love to be friends with from the worlds of entertainment, science, music, art and beyond to find out what makes their friendships tick and hopefully form the perfect girl crew. A 'Keep It Light Media' Production Sales and general sponsorship enquiries: HELLO@KEEPITLIGHTMEDIA.COM Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to Episode 1 of Making Friends, the podcast which see's comedian, croc lover and mother of two Chantel Nash sit down with women she wants to be friends with to chat about the trials, tribulations and jubilations of friendship in adulthood.  This weeks debut guest is Carla Monroe, Carla is a double platinum selling singer songwriter who burst onto the dance music scene in 2017 with her top 10 smash hit 17 featuring MK. She also happens to be Chantel's sister and first ever friend, thus making her the perfect first guest!  Don't be a stranger, get in touch and tell me all about your friendship wins, fails, advice or women YOU would like to be friends with.  EMAIL:  makingfriendspodcast@gmail.com  Please leave rating and a review wherever you're listening.  Making Friends is available everywhere you get your podcasts, every Wednesday.  SYNOPSIS: Chantel Nash is looking for friends, specifically, the female variety. As an adult, making new friends is HARD and the pressures of everyday life makes keeping up with the few friends you DO have, near impossible! One day you look around and think.. do I even have friends anymore? So, Chantel is on the hunt for the creme de la creme of friends. She's thinking big, she's thinking aspirational, she's mostly thinking Michelle Obama but she'll take every amazing woman she can get. This new podcast sees comedian, mum, partner, daughter and croc-lover Chantel Nash speed-date various women that she would love to be friends with from the worlds of entertainment, science, music, art and beyond to find out what makes their friendships tick and hopefully form the perfect girl crew. A 'Keep It Light Media' Production Sales and general sponsorship enquiries: HELLO@KEEPITLIGHTMEDIA.COM Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Chantel Nash is looking for friends, specifically, the female variety. As an adult, making new friends is HARD and the pressures of everyday life makes keeping up with the few friends you DO have, near impossible! One day you look around and think.. do I even have friends anymore? So, Chantel is on the hunt for the creme de la creme of friends. She's thinking big, she's thinking aspirational, she's mostly thinking Michelle Obama but she'll take every amazing woman she can get. This new podcast sees comedian, mum, partner, daughter and croc-lover Chantel Nash speed-date various women that she would love to be friends with from the worlds of entertainment, science, music, art and beyond to find out what makes their friendships tick and hopefully form the perfect girl crew. SALES AND GENERAL ENQUIRIES: Hello@keepitlightmedia.com Chantel Nash is a comedian and mum of two who started performing stand-up comedy half way through 2022. Her effortless charm is winning over audiences one postcode at a time, and she has won regional heats and reached the finals of both the So You Think You're Funny and BBC New Act competitions. Chantel will also be appearing on Comedy Central Live this series and made her first audio debut on Mo Gilligan's Spotlight on Audible. Last autumn she joined the tour of Mo Gilligan and Friends - the Black British Take Over at the Eventim Apollo in London Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices