Hello, Podoltais. Welcome back to what is technically season 9 of adulting, but I

ended up a week off in between, you might have noticed, it wasn't episode last week, it's because it was the end of the season,

but because we're not down and because the world's a bit topsy-tavier, I thought I'd try and get back as quickly as I can

and start up with a new season, which is where we're at today, and there has been a change in format. So this season,

I'm simply asking my guests, what three things do they wish they were taught in school? They're going to send them over to me prior to the

interview and then we're going to discuss them and the reason for this was I thought it might allow for a bit more silliness and seriousness within one episode and also it gives the guest a bit more power as to what we talk about and how we talk about it, etc.

So I think it's going to be a really nice fun change up and I hope you enjoy it. The first episode is with Maxine Williams. Maxine has just

been around 18 years old, she's still in school and the reason I invite her on is because she slid into my DMs in response to my episode with Haley Norman and choice

feminism and we ended up having a really interesting conversation and as we heard in the podcast, we, some of our discussion made me decide that I'd love to speak to

the podcast and I'm so glad that I did. It's a really interesting informative conversation. I think that all too often we make assumptions about Gen Z and about the way things have changed

and we're not necessarily actually that clued up on how everything is for people of that generation and what it's really like in school. So I love this episode and I hope that you do too.

As always, please do rate review and subscribe. Bye.

Hello and welcome to Ardleton. Today I'm joined by Maxine Williams. Hi. How are you? I'm OK. How are you?

I'm good. Thank you. We just spoke briefly before we both got a bit of a headache but will power on through. I'm really excited to be talking to you.

But for people who don't know who you are, I know you're nervous about this question. Can you tell us about Maxine and what it is that you're doing in the minute in your life?

So I'm currently in sick form in my last year, so I'm in year 13. Just 10 to 18.

And I am studying A Levels at the moment and I'm applying to university for PPE. So that's like what I want to sort of go into in the future. I've recently become like self-prechained activist on social media. So that's what I'm sort of doing at the moment and so yeah.

So you're here on my podcast first episode of this new season because you DM me about another episode that I done and we ended up chatting and I thought you're very interesting. You're really clever.

And you said something to me like I just feel like I'm never going to be heard, especially because you're a black woman and so much of mainstream media and conversations dominated by voices like mine.

And so why didn't you come on the podcast and it's perfect because this season I'm asking everyone what's three things that you wished that you've been taught in school and you literally are still in school.

You're my youngest guest I've ever had on I think. I was about to say I feel it's such an honor to be asking to you next exciting because I think that we don't always have these conversations between generations and and I'm interested to hear what it's like.

And I kind of hypothesized about what I think school is like, but I don't actually know anymore, so last school nine eight, nine years ago.

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