The Stew Simpson Show

FOREST GAYTE PRIDE CIC IS A GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY PROJECT BASED IN THE EAST LONDON NEIGHBOURHOOD OF NEWHAM. SINCE OUR INCEPTION IN 2017, FOREST GAYTE PRIDE HAS GROWN FROM A SINGLE MARKET STALL AND A QUEER NIGHT IN A LOCAL PUB TO AN ORGANISED COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY. AS A COMMITTEE, WE WORK ALONGSIDE ALLIES AND VOLUNTEERS WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY ON EVENTS AND FUNCTIONS TO PROMOTE AND ENGAGE IN EDUCA...

To celebrate Pride month we kick off on June 1st 2024 by talking to Alice (She/Her) and John (He/Him) all about Hexham Pride, which will be taking place in Hexham (Northumberland UK) on Sunday June 16th. Hexham Pride is a grass roots Pride festival celebrating the LGBTQIA+ community in and around Hexham. There will be live music, a parade, dancing and so much more. Find out all about by listening...

Adult Content - Puppy Play In this week's episode we explore and aim to demystify the world of adult Puppy Play. A relatively modern off shoot of the BDSM (bondage, discipline (or domination), sadism , and masochism) scene. Since the mid 1990's people have been dressing up as Puppy Dogs and exploring a world of consensual, adult role-play made popular in the gay leather community, where people dre...

Theo Dussek - (Pirate Troubadour) tells us all about his forthcoming album 'Written in the River' to be released in April 2024. Theo is a folk singer and songwriter from the rural heart of Hertfordshire, we met at a gig in London at the Aces and Eights in Tuffnel Park and I was really impressed with his band 'Jack of hearts' In this episode we delve into the process of writing this album, his obse...

I catch up with my friend of long standing Marc Block and we talk about their involvement in what I feel is one of the most beautiful and possibly life changing festivals in all of the UK. A grass roots festival full of beautiful people from all walks of life. We also talked about Marc's own journey on his own journey of discovery towards finding out how he/she/they identity. For more information...

Welcome to season 4 of the Stew Simpson Show, this season it's all about the LGBTQIA+ community and we start the season by chatting with fellow artist, gay man (He/him) and also ADHDer, the similarities don't just end there, you have to listen to find out all about Toc (aka Tony O'Connell) and his amazing journey through art, being gay and emerging from the Catholic church and how that influences...

This episode is from an interview I did with Dan Jarvis from his youtube channel https://youtube.com/@Caminohacks?si=azhchw4CDhVGfZze Camino Hacks and Tipswe talked about dealing with the Camino while having some sort of Neurodivergence in particular me and my ADHD.We hope this might help someone out there who also is wanting to do the Camino but is concerned about the other challenges faced by ha...

A chance encounter in the chicken shed at Chickenstock festival over a downward facing dog led me to chat with a nice chap. Drawn in by his Santiago De Compestella t-shirt I hastened to ask 'Peregrino?' to which the answer was, look at this tatoo. I may have embelished slightly but sometimes chance encounters happen for a reason. David had great vibes and I had to ask him to tell me all about the...

In today's episode we catch up with the youngest pilgrim I met on my journey and one of my favourite pilgrims. Martha is an integral part of my Camino family, at only 20 years of age Martha decides to walk the Camino De Frances over northern spain. We met in Orisson very close to the beginning of the journey and we also finished our journey together over 500 miles later in Finesterre (aka Fisterre...

Zsofi Majorosi is part of my Camino Family and I haven't seen her since we parted ways in Santiago De Compostela. We caught up with what she's been doing since she went home to Hungary, reminded me all about the lovely Donkey we met and told me of her special skill about being able to sleep almost anywhere. www.behance.com/majorosi Zsofi is a freelance Designer and her work is incredibly beautiful...

In this weeks episode we meet Colm for the first time and hopefully not the last because he was an utter delight to have on the show. Colm is a believer that everyone can do the Camino and he due to time restrictions at home, he decides to do one section for 5 - 10 days depending on how much time he can be away and then picks it up at a later date. It's a beautiful and different way of walking the...

In this weeks episode I meet someone completely new. Wendy and I have never met in real life but we have a Camino angel in common. The wonderful Dan Jarvis (see previous episodes and check out his youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/@Caminohacks he's great. Dan put me in touch with Wendy and she told me all about her experience on The Camino Portugese, it sounds a bit different to life on the...

I met Tessa Gooch at the (Free) wine fountain which featured in the film The Way, I didn't say anything at first because I just loved the energy coming from her, but I didn't know that she would be one of the pilgrims who would keep popping up into my journey time and time again. The Camino provides what you need, I think I must have needed Tessa, she was there at some very pivotal moments on my j...

aka Blooming on the Camino. Patrick Blooming is a singer-songwriter based in Melbourne Australia. We met on the Camino and we shared some fun times together. He was great musical talent and a jolly nice chap at the same time. We caught up after a couple of months away from the way and we talk about his next musical project which is based on his very own personal journey on the Camino de Santiago....

We turn the tables on Stew and we ask Dan (Stew's first Camino Angel) all about his journey on the Camino De Santiago while taking the route of Camino De Frances. Over the next season we will be interviewing members of my Camino family, but today I talk about a few of them here. The ups, the downs, the highs and lows. Dan interviews very well, I might be out of a job, or perhaps found a future col...

This is the first episode of season 3 of the Stew Simpson Show. Season 3 will be entirely dedicated to my trip on the Camino De Santiago. Dan Jarvis is an actor,a friend and inspiration - we met on the set of a film early 2022 and he reignited a spark in me to walk the Camino De Santiago, a 500 mile pilgrimage across Spain, I will be taking the route known as the Camino De Frances. He has recently...

I met Wenke at Turtle sweat lodge https://turtlelodgehealing.co.uk/ and I was instantly intrigued by her and what she does. Wenke is a Health and Life coach who practices, Budwig Diet, Reiki, EFT Matrix Reimprinting and Shamanism. Her life started in rural East Germany and her spiritual journey led her to here and now. This is my chat with Wenke, she is a beautiful spirit, with amazing strength an...

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This is my first ever field recording of a podcast. In this episode I travelled to Leiscester to Turtle Lodge Healing with my friend Franz Hutcheson. We went with open hearts and minds not knowing what to expect for our first ever sweat lodge experience. A sweat lodge is a low profile hut, typically dome-shaped or oblong, and made with natural materials. The structure is the lodge , and the ceremo...

The call of the Camino grows strong. In a previous episode of the Stew Simpson Show we talked to my first member of my Camino family (Dan) and he has reignited the passion in me to follow the way. Now that I have decided that I will be doing the Camino I need some advice, when should I go? What should I bring? What should I leave? Will I get lost? Bradley has written about his trip to the end of t...

Have you ever wondered what Reiki is??? In this episode of the stew Simpson Show we talk to Reiki practitioner Val Widdowson after my session on the the Reiki table. I have a problem with my foot and need it to be looked at before I consider walking the Camino De Santiago - Did the Reiki session work????? Listen to find out if it helped me and also to find out what excatly is Reiki anyway????? For...

We revisit with one of this seasons firsts guests Leena Anne Soulsar, and due to a previous episode with Dan Jarvis where we chatted about the Camino De Santiago I've been led to contemplating a potential life changing journey, but I'm apprehensive about this. Then as serendipity where to have it, I was wondering who could I chat to this week and Leena popped up on my time line asking for people t...

Sam and I have known each other for a few years now as we were label buddies on Fellside Records. As well as being an incredibly talented accordion player Sam Pirt is also a Psychic Medium. In todays episode we look into what it is to be a Medium, where it all comes from and is it possible for you to do it to? We chat about sceptics, questions such as do mediums hear voices? Do you see people from...

In this episode we chat to Shokti aka Mark Whiting. Shokti is an Awakener and Explorer of Spirit and Consciousness since 1995. We talked about transformation and awakening through adversity, in Shokti's journey this was through their HIV diagnosis and AIDS related illnesses. Confronted with the possibility of death at the age of 30 they experienced a complete dissolution of everything they believe...

In this weeks episode we talk to Ian Docker,the man who introduced me to Transcendental Meditation (or TM) A practice which has been super helpful with depression, ADHD, mild tourettes and generally just feeling a bit better about life in general. it really is great stuff. He tells us about some of the science behind it, where it comes from, where you can learn the technique and the possibilities...