Role Model
Real conversations with the world’s brightest stars that will inspire you to follow your dreams, hosted by Leomie Anderson. Supermodel, spokesperson and entrepreneur, Leomie is unapologetically different and on a mission to amplify the voices of young people across the world. Her guests will share how they have learned to do life on their terms and help you to do the same. This series will showcase big names at the top of their game from film, TV, music, and fashion who have carved out a space at the cutting edge of culture. Winnie Harlow, Dascha Polanco, Jourdan Dunn, Destiny Child's Michelle Williams and more! Role Model is Somethin’ Else Production. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Episodes
April 26, 2021 • 1 min
Leomie Anderson is an international model, spokesperson and entrepreneur who does things her way. Now she’s meeting other mega-impressive women (and a few men) who have reached for the stars, on their own terms. From top models like Winnie Harlow to singing superstars like Michelle Williams from Destiny's Child, these are women who take no sh*t to get the job done. And now they’re sharing with you (and Leomie) what it takes, so you...
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May 10, 2021 • 47 mins
Role Model Winnie Harlow is not just a global supermodel but an advocate for acceptance and inclusivity with a career typified with firsts.
At four, Winnie was diagnosed with Vitiligo, a skin condition that has made her one of the most recognisable faces on the planet but this is only a fraction of what she represents. Winnie is redefining the global definition of beauty and changing the fashion landscape forever by trailblazing...
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May 17, 2021 • 47 mins
Star of Orange Is the New Black and In the Heights, Dascha Polanco reveals that her path to fame was far from easy. In this episode of Role Model, she talks about her struggles as an immigrant from the Dominican Republic, becoming a teen mom, body dysmorphia and her father’s incarceration.
With all this trauma, many would have let their dreams fall away… Not Dascha. She dug deep, and she shares with Leomie how she found the str...
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May 24, 2021 • 44 mins
Fashion ICON Jourdan Dunn has walked the runway for every top designer out there. On this episode of Role Model, she tells Leomie and you what it takes to rise to the top while raising a child, how a model apartment in New York is the filthiest flat share there is (who said fashion was glamorous?), and why it’s time the industry did more for black models and consumers.
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May 31, 2021 • 42 mins
Leomie meets one of her Role Models… and she does not disappoint! Michelle Williams from Destiny’s Child is REAL and this episode is full of REAL TALK (and therapy!).
Hear about her first crush (at church), how she survived being part of the world’s biggest selling female group, and the mental health crisis that helped her become who she was always meant to be.
Michelle Williams’s brilliant new book Checking in: How Getting Real ...
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June 7, 2021 • 43 mins
This week’s Role Model is what Leomie calls a ‘Triple Threat’ - Ryan Destiny is a Singer, a Dancer and an Actor. A girl of MANY talents who encourages you NEVER to stay in your lane and explore the gifts you were given.
Leomie and Ryan get real about walking away from America’s Got Talent, Colourism, (Gross) MEN and what it’s really like to film sex scenes …‘Arch your back’.
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June 14, 2021 • 44 mins
This week Model, Activist and Author Munroe Bergdorf will help you discover and LOVE your identity and live your TRUTH fearlessly. One of Vogue’s top 25 most Influential Women in the World in 2020 (alongside Rihanna and The Queen) Munroe and Leomie discuss her transition journey, surviving a media shitstorm and who performs better in bed, the D or the P!
After an 11-way bidding war, Munroe signed a six-figure deal to publish her f...
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June 21, 2021 • 41 mins
Nomzamo Mbatha embodies the essence of a role model. Born in a township in South Africa, she dreamt of making it big in this world from an early age. Through hard work and determination she became an accountant, but the universe had other ideas and now she is acting alongside Hollywood ICONS like Eddie Murphy in Coming 2 America. Nomzamo tells Leomie how she dealt with discrimination, why marriage is NOT for her and how she manages...
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June 28, 2021 • 39 mins
Shit doesn’t get much realer than Slick Woods…one of the most fly models to come and disrupt the game. Slick knows hardship. She tells Leomie about growing up homeless in LA, her mother’s incarceration for murder and what it was like being in labour on the catwalk!!
Despite the adversity (and a cancer diagnosis), Slick Woods is still slaying it as one of the iconic faces of Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty and Kanye West’s Yeezy.
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July 5, 2021 • 43 mins
Somali-American role model and activist Halima Aden is remarkable. On this very inspiring episode, she tells Leomie what it was like being photographed in the arms of white celebrities as a baby in Africa, why her mother smashed her homecoming crown and after a highly publicised exit, why she walked away from fashion at the peak of her career.
Halima Aden was born and raised in Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, where her family fled ...
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July 12, 2021 • 41 mins
Role Model Odell Beckham Jr is not just a superstar athlete. He’s a style sensation, a trainer fanatic and a family man.
Known to friends and fans as OBJ, he is an American football wide receiver for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL). Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Beckham was drafted by the New York Giants in 2014. In 2016, he became the fastest player in NFL history to reach both 200 career receptions...
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July 19, 2021 • 40 mins
Khloe Kardashian is a GLOBAL ICON and on this episode of Role Model, one of the world’s most famous women opens up in a beautifully real and vulnerable way. Khloe tells Leomie about how her body struggles led to the creation of her brand ‘Good American’ and why motherhood introduced her to ‘Dose & Co’.
She gives her passionate take on internet trolling and why it exists, and shares why she does not shy away from the race conversa...
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July 26, 2021 • 33 mins
Jessamyn Stanley is fierce. This author, advocate and activist had no friends growing up but credits those days for making her who she is today, a bona fide Role Model. Leomie and Jessamyn discuss body positivity and why yoga IS for fat people, cannabis and why it should be legalised and Polyamory, a great way to live and love.For more Jessamyn Stanley, check out her wellness brand ‘The Underbelly’, read her latest book ‘Yoke’ and ...
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