KindCast by Mayah: Recent Episodes
Mayah Riaz
Mayah Riaz speaks to guests about their social media experiences to highlight the importance of being kind on social media.
For more information or to make your pledge to play your part in making social media a kinder place for all, visit: www.socialmediakindnessday.com.
In this episode I speak to Olga Thompson, who is best known online as Big Fat Greek Mother. Olga’s Instagram is one that lifts you up as well as makes you howl with laughter. In this episode, she gives an insight of behind the laughs. Olga opens up to me about the darker aspects of social media which she sadly faced. We speak about what should happen to those who troll others online. Olga’s strong opinions are formed from the death of her niece.
Afua Hirsch is a broadcaster, journalist and an author. In this episode Afua shares her shock of receiving her first racist tweet and how she has since received thousands of racist tweets. She speaks about how she deals with this and what social media companies and the government should do about it. Afua had the opportunity to meet her troll and shares what that experience was like for her.
Mayah Riaz speaks to the amazing duo Nik and Eva Speakman. They are the world's leading life-change therapists. You may also recognise them as This Morning's resident therapists. Nik and Eva understand human behaviour. In this episode they explain why people troll. The way they go into this puts trolling into perspective. They speak from experience too as both Nik and Eva talk about their own experiences of social media.
In this episode I speak to Nicki Chapman about her experience of social media. Nicki rose to fame in the early noughties as a talent show judge on TV Pop Stars. She can now be seen presenting TV shows such as Escape to the Country, Wanted Down Under and Points of View. Nicki shares what it was like to be on the most popular Saturday night TV show of its time without social media - and whether she'd ever be a judge again now with the presence of social media. Nicki offers great advice, which we could all do with remembering - because social media isn't all bad!
Mayah is in the hot seat as she is interviewed by Karen Dwyer about her experiences on social media. Mayah opens up about her recent trolling on the back of promoting Social Media Kindness Day and how she handled that.
Mayah speaks the actress Lisa Riley about her social media experiences. Lisa speaks about how one of her tactics to freak out trolls is to follow them back and sometimes message them. Lisa talks about not needing to like everything or everyone but not attacking someone personally for what they look like.