Let's Be Blunt: Making Kitchens Safer and Communities Stronger

About this episode

Simone Roche MBE discusses kitchen safety and community empowerment with Leanne Lucas, founder of Let's Be Blunt CIC.

In this episode, Simone Roche MBE sits down with Leanne Lucas, Founder of Let's Be Blunt CIC for a powerful conversation about authenticity, purpose and turning lived experience into meaningful change. Leanne shares her journey from the classroom to founding Let’s Be Blunt CIC—a campaign with a simple but transformative idea: redesign everyday kitchen knives to help prevent lethal harm, without changing how we cook or live our daily lives. This is a conversation rooted in empathy, evidence, a...

People in this episode

Host: Simone Roche MBE

Guest: Leanne Lucas

Topics covered

• kitchen safety
• community empowerment
• authenticity
• lived experience
• social change

Keywords

• kitchen knives
• safety
• community
• authenticity
• social impact

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Let's Be Blunt CIC

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