Curious Chats & Kind Acts

This episode I chat with Ruby whose extraordinary story of resilience will leave you moved and inspired. Ruby shares her personal story of sikhism,  and having to escape an oppressive upbringing, when she fell in love and then fell pregnant. She talks about dealing with various racial tensions with acceptance and grace.  We share our ‘love’ of Long Covid and how she has had to learn to accept kind...

Now we have an absolutely fascinating episode for you today, and maybe the bravest person I’ve interviewed so far, so get yourselves comfortable to have a listen to Kayley. We discuss conspiracy theories, choosing naracists for boyfriends (9 of them). Her journey with spirituality, beliefs about energy and how this has helped her see the best in people, and she still does! I hope you enjoy! Oh and...

This week I'm talking to Adam who is a Personal Trainer. We discuss how being a Muslim has impacted his dating life, because he has to marry a women of God.  We discuss his faith’s outlook on kindness, and how this has taught him to be a better person. And yes, Adam and I do pretend to get married in this episode…. at Mecca bingo… obviously to help our wonderful listener to get a better unders...

Today I talk to Teresa with all of her positive energy, about her fascinating journey of overcoming anorexia using meditation. Being a single parent of 4 young children, and her spiritual journey of connecting with her higher self, yes Teresa does a great job of explaining some pretty deep subjects. So settle in and be prepared to have your brain challenged in a very good way!

Sonia the host shares her story today.  We have had lots of feedback about people wanting to know more about her, so here she is. She chats about why she and her wife started a kindness charity, her faith, falling in love with a women, and risking her life savings on a derelict chapel she wanted to convert to a community space and cafe. Thanks to Vic at Mic Media for interviewing her and doing a g...

We cover lots of topics in this one! We chat about mental health and autism, difficult childhood and homelessness. What gender is… or isn't using a lovely analogy of Italian desserts! 

Krystle, is the co-owner of Honey Suckle Florist in Hoole. We discuss her upbringing as a Jehovah’s Witness and how leaving the faith affected her relationships. We also chat about the power words have and the wonderful impacts of random acts of kindness. Hope you enjoy!

In today's episode, I'm interviewing Anthony. We will be discussing his struggles with mental health, gambling and his relationships. He also speaks about a social enterprise called The Wilderness Tribe and for more info, on that have a listen to the episode we did with Tom (Episode #4). Trigger warnings: We do talk about suicide and gambling, so just to give you a heads up. I hope you enj...

I've known Joe for years, we met when we worked in prisons together setting up mentoring and employment support projects, and the friendship has continued. Joe recently spent time in hospital with sepsis, and nearly died, we talk about Joe living his best life with a disability, and more recently needing support from carers and how that has impacted his life. We chat about the impact being in...

Mark grew up in Rhyl but he now lives in the middle of nowhere and when I visited I had to go via several farms on the way to his home. Mark lost his leg when he was 10, from a car accident. This led him to swimming therapy where he received the biggest act of kindness of his life, access to a swimming coach. And from this, he went on to win Paralympic medals. We discuss his brushes with royalty a...

In this episode, I speak to Shirley. Shirley’s done something pretty remarkable in her community. She started a cycling group to help people get on their bikes and get fit. Including me! Oh and she’s done all this whilst surviving cancer…twice. She’s a pretty amazing person, and you’ll hear this from just 1 second into our conversation. We talk about how she started her group, how it changed peopl...

I know Tom through work, I have always admired how he has always been so open and vulnerable, and I wanted to chat with him to find out why. We talk about his mental health, and how his journey has led him to start up the wilderness tribe.  A social enterprise that gives people, mainly men a positive experience in nature to improve their well being.  And quite bizarrely, he convinces me that breat...

In this episode, I speak to Cathy, Cathy is a retired social worker, with a fascinating life!  We hear her  journey that saw her living in a caravan in the middle of field for 10 years, which included homelessness, teenage pregnancy, adultery, bigamy… there’s a lot to unpack. Then we hear what it was like living without running water, whilst trying to rear pigs who like to wallow in water! We chat...

Alex is at uni, and is going to be a paramedic. I’ve known Alex since he was very tiny. But back then, Alex was a girl. So in this absolutely fascinating conversation, we go on that trans journey with Alex and visit stuff like hormones, body dysmorphia, misgendering, top surgery and things you don’t even think about when you think of changing genders, like adjusting the way that you sit! So bearin...

In this episode, I speak to Louise, I know Louise through work. Lou facilitated some amazing Action Learning sets for me when I worked for Macmillan. Lou is a really kind person, and I wanted to explore that with her, we talk about how she tries to radiate a positive energy and how she follows the energy.  We discuss shyness and how her clubbing days brought her out of her shell, unkindness in the...

Exciting new podcast coming soon... The ‘Curious Chats and Kind Acts’ podcast is a series of open and authentic conversations with people, who are all a bit different.