Deep Read with Phoebe Lovatt

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• Trend Forecaster Emily Segal on Tasteslop, Normcore & Dating for Literature Lovers

  October 1, 2026 · 60 min

  Trend forecaster, writer, and artist Emily Segal joins me to talk about taste, trends, technology, and her work as Head of Brand for Readme – a new dating app for literature lovers. We also discuss how trend forecasting became a content…

• Cou Cou Intimates founder Rose Colcord on Ego, Reading in the Age of AI, and Resisting the Personal Brand

  September 17, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min

  Rose Colcord is the founder of Cou Cou Intimates, the 100% organic cotton essentials brand she's built over the past five years into a cult favourite among stylish, creative women worldwide. A former philosophy major with a particular…

• Entrepreneur and writer Trinity Mouzon Wofford on Rejecting "Wellness" Culture, Matriarchal Lineage, and Eating at Home

  July 9, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min

  My guest today is the writer and entrepreneur, Trinity Mouzon Wofford, who is the author a beautiful new cookbook titled: 'Eating at Home, The Nourishing Practice of Everyday Cooking'. We spoke about the remarkable lineage of women she…

• Salter House Founder Sandeep Salter on Independent Retail, Family Business, and Building Something That Lasts

  June 11, 2026 · 1 hr 9 min

  Find Deep Reading lists at phoebe.substack.com - Sandeep Salter is a friend who is like family to me — we met on the first day of secondary school in London and I spent a considerable chunk of my teenage years in her family home. She has…

• Creative Director Lydia Pang on Eating Bitter, the Cost of Ambition, and Writing a Book Like No-One's Reading

  May 21, 2026 · 58 min

  Lydia Pang is the co-founder of creative agencies MØRNING and EVENING, and the author of Eat Bitter: A Story About Guts, and Food — a memoir in eight recipes about fertility loss, relationship struggles, and burnout induced by over a…

• Author Stephanie Wambugu on Jealousy, Ambiguous Friendships, and Becoming an Adult in NYC

  March 26, 2026 · 60 min

  Deep Read #51 is with New York-based author Stephanie Wambugu. Her debut novel Lonely Crowds centres on the intense bond between two young women, Ruth and Maria, who meet at a Catholic girls’ school in Rhode Island and remain entangled in…

• Zakia Sewell on Finding Albion, Folk Culture, and Reclaiming Englishness from the Right

  March 12, 2026 · 56 min

  Zakia Sewell is a broadcaster, DJ and writer, and the author of a remarkable new book, Finding Albion: Myth, Folklore and the Quest for a Hidden Britain. In this conversation we talk about national identity, immigration, paganism, Notting…

• KRAUM Founder Annie Kreighbaum on Fast Beauty, Creative Integrity, and Staying Human in the age of AI

  February 26, 2026 · 59 min

  Find Deep Reading lists for each episode at phoebe.substack.com - Deep Read #49 is with Annie Kreighbaum, a creative director and beauty-world architect who helped shape Glossier in its defining era and is now building KRAUM, a brand…