Tea Time with Ali Monjack

🚀✨ Welcome to 2025 and the revival of my Tea Time Podcast! ✨☕ This year, I’ve decided to breathe new life into the podcast that means so much to me. As someone fortunate enough to work in PR and communications, I’m constantly inspired by the incredible people I meet and collaborate with. 💡🌟 That’s why I’m thrilled to share Tea Time with you—a space for meaningful conversations with inspirati...

Introducing my next guest, Simon Crisp, the visionary behind Green Machine Computers, where landfill clearance meets innovation. In this upcoming episode, Simon joins me to share his journey of founding the company and pioneering a sustainable business model. we delve into how he's revolutionizing the tech landscape by recycling PCs, repurposing them for charitable and nonprofit causes, all wh...

My first guest on my new series of Tea Time with Ali Monjack is Tymofii Lysenko who is 15 years old and from Cherhiniv Ukraine. He left his war-torn home country a year ago with his father. lost his brother on the front line and his mother is still there fighting for their country. His story is one of courage and determination for a Ukrainian future. Tymo talks about his mental health, how war has...

It's been a while....! My next guest on the Tea Time sofa is Trent Burton Director/ filmmaker and part of the Cosmic Shambles Network. His latest documentary film was released this week Rapid motion through space. An incomplete history of speed. Why are we fascinated by speed? Trent gives an overview of what was investigated. Let's find out more.

Leading from the heart is what my next guest Hema Vyas teaches as an Omnipreneurial Psychologist. She is a thought leader who guides the path for commercial success, leadership, wellbeing and positive impact. Hema is a renowned speaker on heart wisdom, human consciousness, spirituality, health, energy medicine and the science of Ayurveda. Let’s find out more…

Do more, be the impact is what my next guest talks about in her own podcast Impactful Billionaires. Nyasha Gwatidzo has returned to chat with me on the Tea Time sofa about the two Great British Business and Community Awards that she won at the Hilton Hotel Reading on Thursday 7th April. I have worked with Nyasha who is a pioneer and know how dedicated she is as a social entrepreneur to transform t...

My next guests are actors Jake Ferretti and Serena Manteghi who have been on tour with The award-winning Original Theatre Company production of The Hound of the Baskervilles. The whole production has been a great challenge for both of them as they play several characters in the performance and the main characters Sherlock Holmes played by Jake and Sir Henry Baskerville by Serena. They talk about t...

The Social Housing Round Table is the creation of my next guest Matt Baird. He has ten years experience of recruiting in this sector and understands first-hand the issues that surround tenants, providers and the homeless. His aim is to collaborate with as many organisations involved in affordable housing across the UK so that a change can be made to help everyone in need of a home.  Let’s fin...

Tax if for good or evil that is what my next guest is talking about! John Richardson is an expat lawyer and advocates for US Citizens who have to pay taxes abroad. He co-founded the group S.E.A.T to stop extraterritorial American taxation and has lobbied the Senate and is one of the leading voices on Expat Law.  Some people want to try and help deprived children or people with mental health i...

My next guest Tony Redondo is not just stargazing into the cosmos he started his own business after years as a broker. He set up The Cosmos Currency Exchange at the start of the pandemic with a whole heap of uncertainty that lay ahead and carved out a successful business based on his extraordinary way of providing the human touch when making transactions across the globe. He has a great sense of h...

FFS Forgiven Forgotten Sooo Is what my next guest says in the face of domestic and mental abuse. Gi Dhanoa who is an ambassador for Aanchal Women's Aid talks about her new book drawing from her own experience of abuse and what she can do to help children understand. We chat about social media playing a huge part in young people’s lives and what is often perceived as acceptable is actually not. Let...

Sexual innuendos were part of one of the roles that my next guest on the Tea Time sofa Julie Kirk Thomas played in The Benny Hill Show. Known as the Benny Defender on Twitter after her appearance on Good Morning Britain we chat about sexual content on TV because Benny is back on That's TV Christmas. We also chat about Julie’s career, her parts in Beadle’s About and Indiana Jones. so Let’s find out...

My next guest on the Tea Time sofa is Olivier Award-winning playwright and screenwriter Morgan Lloyd Matthew. She is well-known for Emilia her play that was commissioned by The Globe and has now been optioned as a film. Her latest play ‘The Long Trick’s Over’ has been created in collaboration with the New Woseley theatre and is scheduled to tour the East of England in Spring 2022. The play looks a...

My next guest on the Tea Time sofa is guernsey based thrive coach Korrine Le Page. She is the co-founder of Social Enterprise success running conferences every year to help social entrepreneurs connect. Korinne became a coach after she overcame the fear of public speaking and over the years has worked with people to find their why and empower them to be the best version of themselves. Through her...

My next guest on the Tea Time sofa is Frazer Flintham playwright and screenwriter. His latest play is based on the book Penlee: The Loss of a Lifeboat by Michael Sagar-Fenton which is being performed on the 18th of December. It is an Original Theatre Company production and promises to capture the bravery of the RNLI volunteers on Solomon Browne who went out to rescue Union Star on that fateful nig...

Are you on the right path? UK’s Leading holistic health advisor Janice Naiken is my next guest on the Tea Time sofa and talks about what led her to a career in Naturopathy. A global speaker on health Janice shares how she was set on her path of intelligent health and how we should all be listening to our bodies. Let’s find out more….

Sophie Harker is part of This is Engineering Day on 3 November 2021, a day created by the Royal Academy of Engineering to celebrate the role of engineers and engineering in improving sustainability. The Day is delivered in partnership withEngineeringUK who lead on Tomorrow's Engineers Week (8-12 November), which will highlight to young people that engineering is an exciting career that improves th...

Being interested might not make you a scientist but it certainly leads you to discover more about the universe! My next guest is Robin Ince who has released his latest book this month ‘The Importance of Being Interested’. The foreword is written by Professor Brian Cox his partner on BBC Radio 4 show 'The Infinite Monkey Cage'.💥🐵 And he is currently on tour in independent bookshops across the UK....

Cat on a hot tin roof' is the work of my next guests on the tea time sofa BAFTA-nominated actress Siena Kelly and Oliver Johnstone who play Maggie and Brick Pollit and are currently touring the country! The production is a collaboration between The Curve Leicester the Liverpool everyman and playhouse and the English Touring Theatre. Siena is well known for her part in Adult Material and Oliver has...

A barrel of laughs describes my next guest Kev Orkian, comedian, entrepreneur and owner of Jongleurs the best place to watch all the latest comedy! This week The comedy club is back live across several venues in London and the master of comedy Kev is flying in top form. Having acquired Jongleurs just before the pandemic he is raring to put the laugh back in everyone’s belly and has developed a kid...

My next guest actress Nicole Evans is Going The Distance in the world premiere of a digital production of a new comedy by Henry Filloux-Bennett and Yasmeen Khan from 4th - 17th October. Nicole has a starring role in a star-studded cast along with Stephen Fry as narrator and other household names such as Matthew Kelly, Shobna Gulati and Sarah Hadland. Nicole has had roles in Captain America, Teddy...

If you hear the steel pans in Reading you always know that my next guest Mary Genis is behind them. Founder and Artistic Director of CultureMix Arts  Mary is well known for her musical entertainment & education in the African Caribbean arts! She knows how to get the carnival started! Mary founded CultureMix Arts in the late 80’s which is a steel pan specialist organisation with award...

The Interrogation is a clever audio production about being misunderstood and is the creation of my next guest artist Charlene Salter and Director Patrick Collier. Both are from Access All Areas a company that makes disruptive theatre and performance by learning disabled and autistic artists. The Interrogation is in response to the treatment that Charlene herself has received as someone with a lear...

The System is a new Psychological thriller play written and performed by my next guests Emily Head and Directed by Guy Unsworth.  The production is being live-streamed next week 27th August and is an Original Theatre Company production who are pioneers in the new hybrid artform of film and theatre.  Emily and Guy met whilst working on a theatre production in 2019 and the chemistry betwee...

Exciting news, the first returning guest on the Tea Time sofa is none other than award-winning director Dwight Steven-Boniecki who has won 15 awards for Searching for Skylab! Because of the success of Searching for Skylab the award-winning documentary on NASA's first International Space Station Dwight and team are holding a watch party on the 28th August so people from all across the world can see...