Nadège Nguyen - Actor and Broadcaster. I'm Ready For My Close-Up...

The Jerry Hyde Podcast

Nadège Nguyen is an actress and presenter of the Threads Radio Show.
I'd never met her before we met to record this episode.
A friend of a friend of friends, I'd seen an Instagram post she’d made about her struggles with mental wellbeing and was really impressed by her raw, unfiltered courage and willingness to break the societal taboos that routinely keep people silent and ashamed when they reach breaking point. What unfolded was a really energetic two hour Saturday morning conversation that could have gone on all day. I'm uploading it here in its unedited form.
A big part of the inspiration for creating this podcast was the awareness that as a therapist my reach is limited by the very essence of what I do - confidentiality. By choosing people who are willing to record and publish their stories and struggles it's my feeling that if just one listener is inspired or encouraged to speak out or make a change then it's all been worth it.
This episode with Nadège tiptoes the line between podcast and therapy session in the most intimate way, exploring her mental break-through, multi generational family trauma and our different and similar relationship patterns, and whilst the Robert Crumb and Ma Anand Sheela episodes may appeal to a broader audience, to me this one is much more profound.
Title track composed by Jerry Hyde and Nick Van Gelder, produced by Nick Van Gelder, keyboards by Kenny Dickenson, brass by Noel Langley, vocals by Sian O'Gorman.