00:04Hi I'm Yinka Bokini and today I'm having a diet coat break with model and entrepreneur Felicity
00:09Hayward. We're talking all things lifestyle and wellness including stress management,
00:14body confidence and self-love. Are you ready to begin? Yes babe! Okay so you started Self Love
00:20Brings Beauty and it's a space for people to feel comfortable regardless of age, colour, creed,
00:26sexual orientation, size, it's for everyone, it's all inclusive. What inspired you to begin?
00:33I wanted a place that everyone felt comfortable, you know being a curvier girl like people think
00:40there's only my size that has confidence issues and like we all know that like we're friends we
00:47have a big group of friends and like everyone is very different. That doesn't mean that anyone's
00:52confidence is higher or lower because of their size. Yeah I think one of the things
00:57there that I think is is very inspirational about Self Love Brings Beauty is the fact that it is for
01:04everyone. So when you are doing the campaigns what makes it very special is that I don't feel like
01:10you're diverse for diversity's sake it's more like finding the right people. And you can see that like
01:15in the campaigns you can see that everyone wants to be there. That each individual person has their own
01:21story and their own uniqueness. Yeah and like it makes them them. Who is your inspiration? I don't
01:28think I've ever asked you this before. My Nan. Oh I know that. Sybil. Yeah your Nana. My Nan. I've
01:32got a tattoo on
01:33my this side. Yeah I've got S and G, Sybil and Jeff. She's amazing she actually she would wear this
01:40suit
01:41but her favourite colour is green. Ever since I was younger all I remember my Nan and my Grandad. My
01:47Grandad
01:47won't go down the shop without a three-piece suit on. Yes sir. He's 91. I love that. He's 91
01:53and my Nan she used to
01:54make all her kids clothes. Yeah. But she always used to make them really really bright and colourful.
01:58She's always been inspiration because she's kind of come from nothing and made herself into this kind of
02:06glamorous but humble woman. Yeah yeah yeah no I hear you. But yeah it is Stress Awareness Month so
02:12how do you deal with stress? Do you have like a top tip like a stress busting? I think it's
02:19important
02:20to like whatever feelings that you have that you're stressed to get them out. I'm not necessarily saying
02:24put them on social media or put them even maybe just writing them in your notes. I used to teach
02:29autistic children I don't even know if I told you that. Yeah yeah yeah. And before I was a model
02:34and we had this kind of idea that when they when the autistic kids would get really really stressed
02:39out and frustrated about one thing I'd take them outside and we'd go what's wrong and they'd be like
02:44I didn't want the blue pencil or I didn't want the red pencil I didn't want I wanted to play
02:49it this
02:49side and we would get that thought and we'd put it in our hands and pretend it was a ball
02:53and we would
02:53throw it. Yeah. That kind of idea of taking that stress out whether it is writing something down
02:59or yeah I guess it's like internalizing is never healthy yeah and also don't be scared to reach
03:07out for help but like as somebody who who works you know eight days out of seven yeah how do
03:13you
03:14sort of manage or like manage to find the time to indulge in the self-care? I recently really got
03:20into crystals yeah and for me kind of self-love and self-care is really a mindset and it's really
03:28something that you have to kind of find yourself I've got all these crystals that I have around
03:33my bed at night and for me it's that five or ten minutes of maybe just like some meditation or
03:37just
03:38you need to have some time to yourself where you're away from your phone away from your computer
03:43yeah I guess like self-care is more than like shoving a face mask on it is and like sitting
03:47in
03:48in your bathroom it's more about taking care of like you know the actual you yeah you know the essence
03:54of
03:54yourself it's just it really is it about taking time for yourself so yeah I do want to thank you
03:59for having a diet coke break with me and um yeah one last question you've already answered it but I
04:05want to ask you again so one last question is there a motto I can't possibly think what it might
04:10be
04:10but is there a motto that you have when it comes to loving yourself self-love brings beauty baby
04:20that's not cheesy at all with the eyebrows did I do an eyebrow you didn't you didn't feel that no
04:27you were like self-love brings beauty baby thank you Felicity thank you Tommy
