Delia Burgess

Growing Up with Delia Burgess

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Prisoners, prime ministers, ex KGB spies and baristas. Unedited conversations with humans. Read the Growing Up newsletter at deliaburgess.blog

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Delia Burgess

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Society

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Latest episode

Oct 10, 2025

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Episodes

Ep. 67 - Neil Ganju: how to argue, the media, construction & ESG 29.08.2023

Guys I’m stranded in an airport trying to get back into the UK after all the air traffic control kerfuffles. Don’t have my laptop but Neil and I recorded this ep back in March and it was sitting in my drafts so pls enjoy xx

Ep. 66 - Caroline Silvestre: a conversation with my therapist 22.08.2023

We discuss CBT, IFS (parts therapy), hypnosis, Jungian psychology etc... Caroline Silvestre BSc, MSc, GMBPsS is based in Mayfair and works with Parts therapy (IFS informed) and Eugene Gendlin's Focussing. She also provides evidence-based Cognitive-Behavioural Hypnotherapy. caroline.silvestre@pm.me mayfairhypnotherapy.co.uk Resources: If you need to speak to somebody urgently, there are people...

Ep. 65 - Juvenal Vitalis: navigating life as a young Tanzanian 15.08.2023

Juvenal Vitalis lives in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania and works for the African School of Storytelling. He is the host of 'The Unapologetic Human' podcast, where he explores culture, technology, philosophy, and beyond. The Unapologetic Human is a space for raw, honest conversations about our doubts, experiences, and values. @theunapologetichuman_podcast

Ep. 64 - Jono Pang: living in Caymans, New York, Amsterdam & meeting his wife couchsurfing 08.08.2023

Jono Pang works in private equity fund accounting and lives in Amsterdam.

Ep. 63 - Danielle Hatton: codependency & calling off a wedding 01.08.2023

Danielle is a Breathwork Teacher and Women’s Codependency Coach. She supports women in gaining clarity in their life and discovering their deep desires through self-acceptance and approval. Her mission is to give women permission to be, do, and create whatever it is that they truly desire - to know that their uniqueness is their power and that their desire is their direction. @daniellehattonn bio....

Ep. 62 - Alex Waddell, PhD: behavioural science hacks to live healthier 25.07.2023

Alex is a behavioural scientist and digital health researcher at Action Lab, Monash University with a passion for health, wellbeing, behavioural science and implementation. Alex is passionate about utilising behavioural science, policy, and programmes to achieve health outcomes.

Ep. 61 - Jazz Singh: ex-offender on why former prisoners make great employees 18.07.2023

Jazz Singh was born in East London. He had a successful career in the City as a wealth manager before losing everything to drug addiction, ultimately ending up behind bars, spending three years in prison. Jazz was released last April (2022) and emerged from prison with newfound clarity and purpose. His mission is to rehabilitate society's perception of prisoner leavers and seeks to ensure his...

Ep. 60 - Julia Scott: a therapist on personal transformation and healing your wounded parts 11.07.2023

Julia Scott's mission is to help individuals live beyond their current narrative and embrace a fully expressed story aligned with their authentic purpose and potential. Julia has facilitated hundreds of individuals, couples and groups through her transformative work⁠; guiding them inward to witness, release and transform their limiting beliefs, sabotaging patterns, stuck emotions and wounded 'part...

Ep. 59 - Keith Hawton: Oxford psychiatrist on preventing suicide 04.07.2023

Keith Hawton is a Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Centre for Suicide Research, University of Oxford. He practised as a consultant psychiatrist for over 30 years. Professor Hawton has been researching the causes, treatment, prevention and outcome of suicidal behaviour for over 40 years. He has published more than 500 papers and chapters and 15 books and is the recipient of numerous awar...

Ep. 58 - Susan Anderson: recovery from heartbreak and loss 27.06.2023

Susan Anderson is a practicing psychotherapist, founder of the Abandonment Recovery Program and author of 'The Journey from Abandonment to Healing: Surviving Through and Recovering from the Five Stages That Accompany the Loss of Love.' Susan has over 30 years of clinical experience and research helping victims of abandonment trauma heal heartache, grief and shame and overcome patterns of s...

Ep. 57 - Toby Young: on being cancelled 20.06.2023

Toby Young is a British social commentator. He is the founder and director of the Free Speech Union, an associate editor of The Spectator, and creator of the Daily Sceptic. He is the author of 'How to Lose Friends and Alienate People', a memoir about his time at Vanity Fair in New York, which became a bestseller and was adapted into a Hollywood film. Toby co-founded the West London Free Sc...

Ep. 56 - Kristy McSweeney: TV, politics and online sexual threats 13.06.2023

Kristy McSweeney works in media and political strategy. She is the founder of the PR Counsel and regularly appears on Sky News. Kristy ran as the Liberal Party candidate for Swan in Western Australia at the 2022 federal election.

Ep. 55 - Carolina Wikstrom: finance to Human Design, divorce, motherhood and finding herself again 06.06.2023

Carolina Wikstrom is a Human Design Guide helping business owners connect with their unique gifts, talents, and purpose so they can maximise their reach, impact, and revenue. Carolina is Colombian, lives in London, has two children and spent many years working in finance in New York and Canada before she made the pivot into Human Design. insta: @iamcarolinawikstrom

Ep. 54 - Daniel H: a British-Iranian's passion for women’s rights in Iran 30.05.2023

Dan H was born in Manchester to Iranian parents. He lives and works in London.

Ep. 53 - Leo van Veenendaal: abuse, addiction and Iboga 23.05.2023

Leo van Veenendaal is the author of 'The Iboga Experience: Stories, experiences and advice from the sacred & secret plant that saves, heals, and transforms lives' Leo is a Peru-based environmental engineer originally from Australia. For much of his adult life he suffered from IBS and treatment resistant depression & anxiety. At a point of desperation Leo began working with indigeno...

Ep. 52 - John Anderson AC: the importance of proper dialogue 16.05.2023

John Anderson is a sixth-generation farmer and grazier from New South Wales who served as Leader of the National Party and Deputy Prime Minister of Australia for 6 years under John Howard. John is the host of Conversations with John Anderson which has had 57 million YouTube views and features conversation with some of the world's foremost thought leaders to examine in detail the social, cultur...

Ep. 51 - Jack Harber: brain injury at 21, losing his dad, unemployment, overcoming victimhood and running ultras 09.05.2023

Jack Harber grew up in Nairobi, Kenya. He lives and works in London. instagram: @jackrussellharber

Ep. 50 - Delia Burgess: growing up, banking, breakups, depression etc 02.05.2023

Bryan Kam interviews me... terrifying! Now I know how all my guests feel. (Also will get speech lessons asap for you guys...) Also for anyone following that closely... I completely messed up the years. 2021 = 2019 and 2022 = 2020... Resources: If you need to speak to somebody urgently, there are people who will listen and help. Shout:⁠ Text 'SHOUT' to 85258 (UK)⁠ Samaritans (Free call serv...

Ep. 49 - Jack Barsky: ex KGB spy 25.04.2023

Jack Barsky was born Albrecht Dittrich in East Germany, 1949. Whilst at uni he joined the KGB and was sent to the US as a spy from 1978 to 1988. He was eventually exposed after the Cold War. After his story became public Jack published 'Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy'

Ep. 48 - Doug Grant: tennis and the Himalayas 17.04.2023

Doug Grant works with the national tennis teams of Nepal and Bhutan, and promotes tennis in schools and villages throughout the Himalayas. tennistrekking.com During the late seventies, two tennis professionals started a stringing business to help them earn extra cash for playing tennis overseas. Wayne Davies left the business and went on to become world champion of real (royal) tennis.  Doug Grant...

Ep. 47 - Olivia Langdon: a London based artist & living with bipolar 10.04.2023

"I have come to the realisation that in fact I might be just ordinary" Olivia Langdon is an Australian artist based in London, commenting on the seemingly ordinary life through text based works. olivialangdon.com "Dear Olivia, here is a script you are expected to follow Take one tablet in the morning and two at night This will make you normal and you will be able to do what everyone...

Ep. 46 - Laura Proudfoot: living on a superyacht, starting first business at 22 & moving to Nicaragua 04.04.2023

Laura Proudfoot is the Head of Housekeeping on a 112m superyacht (and was my flatmate for 5 mins). (1:42:30 is when we start talking the superyacht) Content warning - Laura talks about self-harm in the episode. If you need to speak to somebody urgently, there are people who will listen and help: Shout:  Text 'SHOUT' to 85258 (UK) Samaritans (Free call service) : 116 123 (UK) Outside the UK...

Ep. 45 - Tony Abbott: run-ins with Putin 27.03.2023

The Hon Tony Abbott AC served as Prime Minister of Australia from 2013 to 2015.

Ep. 44 - Marc Cohen: Jewish atheism 20.03.2023

Marc Cohen is the Managing Director of a PR agency in London, where he lives and works. Moving between London, Israel and Manchester, Marc grew up in a traditional orthodox Jewish family (but is now an atheist… which in his opinion, makes him even more Jewish.). Marc is father to identical twin girls and claims to be mostly very grown up, responsible and respectable, except for when he is not.

Ep. 43 - Nic Brown: CEO of batyr, promoting honest conversations about mental health 12.03.2023

Nic Brown is the CEO of batyr and sits on the board of Suicide Prevention Australia.  batyr is a preventative mental health organisation, created to empower current and future generations of young people to be mentally healthy, aiming to prevent youth suicide. batyr provides unique and engaging programs designed to reduce the stigma surrounding mental health and empower young people to reach...

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