Love Songs With Danny Painter

Brent Lindeque is our resident 'Good Things Guy' and he always bring us the most heartwarming news from across the country! This week, he and I take a break from playing with our new toys (that we pre-ordered and paid for) to bring you some of the best news from around the country! From a local cinema group rewriting the rules to Netflix celebrating mothers, Brent Lindeque has it all! Listen here:

Celine Bocks is not a hairstylist, but a healer. For decades of South Africa’s history, natural hair was stigmatised and treated as inferior. People of colour are still impacted by this today. “Growing up with kinky hair was a difficult journey because people are just looking down at you,” Bocks says. Now, she’s fighting back with the most powerful weapon – love. Bocks started the Citrusdal Natural Hair Beauties group with her sister to instil dignity and worth in her community. Through this initiative, Bocks offers workshops where girls are taught how to nurture their hair. “The best hair is healthy hair,” she says. Untangling harmful perceptions, Bocks is sending lies about cultural identity down the drain and helping youth embrace themselves.

He's one of the most well known and loved voices in the music world, having spent over 20 years on stages and in studios gifting us with music! And this year, the journey continues! Albert Frost is still here and still working on music for you and I in 2021! Having spent lockdown like the rest of us - he is ready to get back onto stages and into studios to get us all up and jamming again! I spoke to him via Zoom to chat about his new single, 'I'm Still Here', and to finally get an answer to a question I have been searching for - for 35 years! Does he answer it? Find out here:

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!