ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Hectic and eclectic. I'm a first-year university student with an art history doctorate in my sights, a mum, an artist, a designer, a writer, and a woman who asks too many questions. IN BED WITH BEL is where philosophy, ancient wisdom, and real life collide — unfiltered and horizontal.
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English
Australia
9 episodes
since April 28, 2026
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There is now an entire industry built around creativity. Books, courses, podcasts, workshops — all of it circling the romantic idea of the creative life without ever getting to the work itself.
In this episode Bel picks up Rick Rubin's The Creative Act — a book she genuinely loves — and asks the un…
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Bel sits with the songbirds outside her window and traces a creative lineage that starts with Sappho in 600 BC and runs unbroken through to your living room right now.
The thread this episode pulls:
Sappho — ancient Greek lyrical poet from Lesbos. Played the lyre, sang, performed. Devastatingly bea…
Tonight Bel reads about Augustus and Nero for her classics tutorial and cannot hold it together. This is what happens when a mature age student with zero background in ancient Roman history encounters the Twelve Caesars cold — with full adult comprehension of the consequences, the ramifications, an…
Plato walked into a dinner party in 416 BC and accidentally wrote the best self help book ever made. It just took 2,400 years for anyone to notice.At some point in your adult life something shifts. You realise you are the most interesting, most alive, most fully yourself you have ever been, and alm…
The Original Situationship: Homer, Sappho, Plato & Rumi on Why Love Wrecks UsHave you ever loved someone so completely it felt dangerous?
Turns out you're not alone, and you never were. In this episode Bel takes you through the ancient texts that somehow, impossibly, know exactly how modern he…
In tonight's episode Bel discovers the term pretirement — and falls down a rabbit hole of thousands of women saying the same thing in the comments of a single YouTube video: we are done. What follows is an honest, unscripted late-night conversation about what it actually costs to want out, what hap…
The danger of creativity. We humans are the most dangerous being on earth… and I don’t mean in the most obvious violent sense. I’m referring to our most powerful weapon that is unlimited, unmatched and cannot be replicated by the most advanced technology on the planet. We’re all born with it in equ…
Hi, I'm Bel. Welcome to my bed.I'm a graphic designer, artist, writer, clairvoyant, and mature-age university student on the Gold Coast, Australia — currently doing my undergraduate degree with my eye on Honours and a PhD in art history. I record from bed because this is a small apartment, I have t…
I have two days to memorise 25 Renaissance artworks for a major university exam worth 45% of my grade — so let's do this together.In this video I run through the key works, artists, and movements from the Byzantine era through to the High Renaissance — including Cimabue, Duccio, Giotto, Masaccio, B…
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