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Battles with Malin Andersson

Danae Mercer

Season 1, Ep. 7

This episode is a chat with Danae Mercer. For those of you who don’t know Danae is a freelance health and travel journalist, media consultant, content creator, public speaker, and self love activist. Her writing focuses on health and travel and previously she worked as Editor-in-Chief of Women’s Health Middle East and Men’s Health Middle East. 


TW/CW: This episode contains references throughout to eating disorders. If you’ve been affected by this issue in the past then please listen on with caution or skip this episode and listen to one of our other episodes.


Support can be found at:

Beat: https://www.beateatingdisorders.org.uk/


This is a podcast all about journeys, and overcoming adversity. Every battle we face makes us stronger, and this series hears from the people who prove that. 


Join Malin Andersson as she speaks to everyone from actors and entertainers, to motivational speakers, life-coaches, and beyond. From those in the limelight, to those with extraordinary stories that haven’t been heard. We’ll hear about battles they have overcome and battles they are still fighting, discovering how we get through them, and celebrating how they can make us who we are today.


You can follow Malin on Instagram and Twitter.


This is a Studio71 production. 


Producer - Jack Claramunt 

Assistant Producer - Winnie Simon

Exec Producer - Tom Payne & Jody Smith

Production Support - Phie McKenzie

Artwork photography: Roxanne Bergman // IG @roxpixphotography


Studio71 is a Red Arrow Studios Company.

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