The Anchor Of The Week

For  the average coffee drinker, your daily cup is nothing more than an  at-home brew in the morning or a stop at your local cafe to grab a  latte. But have you ever wondered what is happening “behind the bar”, so  to speak? There’s a whole, complex industry which most of us don’t  think twice about. From the reality of starting a new business in a  competitive indust...

We’re back on the streets of London to ask the people all about control!  Is control a positive or negative thing? What happens when you’re out  of control? Does it all come down to a thirst for power? Come with us as  we see control from others point of view in today’s episode!  .  . Follow The Anchor of the Week on Instagram / TikTok: @theanchoroftheweek Watch this episo...

Welcome to the first episode of our new series on CONTROL. As humans, we have a complicated relationship with control. Why is it something we all want to have but hate when it is exercised on us? How does it permeate our decisions even when we think it doesn’t? Join us for this introduction episode, featuring our friend Jetson Woodley, as we ask these questions and more and examine what control lo...

Communism: a political and economic ideology with some very strong connotations. But as more and more people - especially young people - are getting fed up with the current western system of capitalism (aka the rich get richer and the poor get poorer), the idea of extreme equality through communism and socialism is starting to gain popularity. But today we’re here to ask…what’s even the difference...

Over the past weeks, we’ve been diving into what happens when we go  against the mainstream in society. But what happens when it all hits a  little too close to home? That is what happened to our friend, Sami  Borg, as he went from being raised a committed Muslim, to agnostic and  eventually to a born again Christian - much to his family’s dismay. Join  us for this persona...

The mainstream: hipsters defy it and your average teenager longs to flow with it. But what really is it, and why is it even a thing? As we continue or series “ON THE FRINGE” about people that are living outside of society’s norm, we’re taking a step back to examine the mainstream so we have a fuller picture of why someone might want to go against it. From social experiments to Instagram polls, we’...

We’re coming at you with a bonus episode from our World Wide Web series, and it’s a  conversation that needs to be had. With human trafficking being one of the biggest illegal trade business in the world (with a whopping 40.3 million people enslaved by it right now) it’s easy to keep this issue at arms length, thinking it only happens to to other people in far away places. But what if we told...

If you’ve ever ventured down to Camden Town, chances are you’ve seen zombiepunk. Spending his days on the bridge with his “Help a Punk Get Drunk” sign, he has become the unofficial face of Camden, representing what remains of the neighbourhood’s punk roots. In all aspects, he lives a life outside of the mainstream. But behind the loud exterior is a person: someone with a story and experiences that...

Every day, the majority of us wake up and go about our lives without giving much thought to what is considered “normal”. Chances are we have been born into a social system and have been following the mainstream (at least in part) ever since. And let’s be real, we usually judge people that are living outside of that “norm”, don’t we? In this new series, ON THE FRINGE, we are determined to challenge...

We’re BACK from our holiday break, and gosh, we’re starting this year with a GREAT conversation that we can’t wait to share with you! Body image is a common struggle for all humans, regardless of what the struggle might look like from person to person. But we can all admit that, at least once while scrolling through our social media feeds, we’ve seen a post that’s caused us to think negatively abo...

Misinformation is quite the the buzzword these days. We’ve talked about it in previous episodes, but our World Wide Web series wouldn’t be complete without diving into it deeper. In our age of social media activism and “woke-ness”, it seems like we’re all online policing what us true or not. But have you ever thought about if YOU’RE sharing misinformation without knowing? This leads us to wonder…i...

Have you ever been suspicious that your phone is listening to you, or wonder why EVERY SINGLE website has a popup asking you to agree to accept cookies? It’s all a part of navigating the uncharted territories of how our personal data is being handled online. Our digital footprints exist, yet most of us don’t give it a second thought. But with all of our personal details floating around for anyone...

Today’s episode is about to get a bit rowdy! We invited four of our good friends - Peri, Sami, Alec and Josiah - to sit down with us to form a panel of people with all sorts of different experiences with social media, the internet and technology. And let us tell you, there is no shortage of opinions in this group! We touch on so many different topics that affect us all every day, regardless of wha...

Have you ever been scrolling on Instagram and found yourself lingering on a sponsored post that promises to fix all of the problems you didn’t know you had? Ads are not a new concept, but with the rise of digital marketing and social media, the advertising game has gotten a lot more sly. In fact, with the amount of content we are consuming on a daily basis, do we even realize when and how we are b...

The metaverse. What was once a sci-fi film plot is now a near reality thanks to Meta’s (The Company Formerly known as Facebook Inc) announcement on how they’re bringing the metaverse - think virtual reality as a way of life instead of just a video game - to our everyday lives. Even if you might not fully understand it (as we sure don’t), we need to have this conversation because it affects us all....

Once again, we’re hitting the streets and asking YOU what you think! Today’s topic: all things social media. We know what the experts say, we know what Big Tech thinks, but what about the rest of us? Today we’re stopping people on the streets of Camden Town to hear they’re best and worst experiences with social media, how they see social media affecting our future and more!   Thanks for...

Today we’re trolling the trolls. Yeah, you heard right. We found some trolls (aka those haters that leave offensive comments whilst hiding behind their screens) in the Instagram comment sections of public figures and asked them two questions: why they felt the need to comment these things and what they were hoping it would accomplish. A perfect follow-up to last week’s discussion on mental health...

Welcome to our new series on the WORLD WIDE WEB! We’re peeling back the layers of the internet and technology to find out what really is happening online, how it affects us and what we can do about it.   This week we’re kicking off with a widely debated topic: DOES SOCIAL MEDIA HARM YOUR MENTAL HEALTH? Chances are you’ve heard about the Facebook Files, aka leaked internal documents revea...

We are BACK, and we’re kicking off a new season of the show with our most controversial conversation yet. We sat down with Louise, the founder of Save Our Rights UK, who has thirteen charges against her, four open court cases, and leads protests of up to 1 million people in London  - all because she’s fighting for freedom against unnecessary government control. As we talk, we discover that he...

In the final week of our series on Rejection, we’re going where few are brave enough to go; today we’re talking daddy issues. That’s right, we’re going THERE. We’re joined in studio by Martha Smith, worship leader at Hope + Anchor Community Church, as she shares with us her story of her relationship with her father and the rejection she battled with as a result of it. Regardless of what kind of fa...

We’re back on the streets asking YOU about rejection! From friend groups to academics to romantic relationships and more, we heard some really profound thoughts on how people have experienced rejection and how to overcome it. We love having these conversations with our community, and hope your inspired to do the same!

We’re taking it to the people for this week’s installment of our rejection series! We went out to the streets of Camden to ask our community what rejection is to them, how they’ve experienced it and how they’ve moved past it. As always, we were encouraged and challenged by the depth of the answers that we received and hope that it inspires you to be vulnerable and have these conversations with peo...

 Welcome to the second week of our series on REJECTION! If last week was our overview on the topic, this week we’re digging deeper as we ask ourselves - why do we take rejection so personally? Are we supposed to? Are we not? Who and what are people actually rejecting? Even if we know that our worth is not in what people think of us, their rejection still stings. So how do we move on through t...

Today we’re kicking off a new series based of perhaps everyone’s LEAST favourite feeling: rejection. Rejection is an unavoidable part of life, yet it still stings every time. In today’s introduction episode, we cover many aspects of rejection, from why we try to avoid it, if it’s good for us, and even how it leads us to rebel and push people away. Come and take a seat with us as we have an honest...

We’re back on the streets to hear the voice of the people! We’re once again asking the question “what does freedom mean to you?”, and this time we’re at Trafalgar Square for the Worldwide Freedom Rally. Just like last week’s episode, it was a time where we got to hear perspectives from different people from different walks of life. It’s always our goal to step out and have conversations to hear po...