The Good Listening To Show: Stories of Distinction & Genius

Send us Fan Mail A reunion here in "The Good Listening To" Clearing, 34 years later after we both 'hacked our ways into the thickets of life', having trained together as actors at The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School! "So Richard, what's it like to Fight Direct and keep correcting Robert DeNiro? How was it working with Brad Pitt on the set of "Troy"? And how d...

Send us Fan Mail Please welcome the "Queen of Valuable Content" Sonja Nisson, recorded as a special LinkedIn LIVE 'Brand Strand' Episode of the Podcast.  'Brand Strand' is where I wrap an episode of the podcast - with its strong and established Storytelling construct - around a particular company or individual, to help amplify their company or personal brand. In a nut...

Send us Fan Mail Comedy Double Act Beauties Howard Coggins & Stu McLouglin from "Living Spit" Musical Theatre Company, here to "dissect their frog" on their wonderful anarchic comedy method and madness! The warmth between the 2 is palpable and their comedy magic together a work of collective comedy genius. Howard & Stu work with a creative crack team of 5 to generate th...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Clearing: Actor, Director and one the original founding members (alongside his brother Mark) of "The Medieval Players" Carl Heap! "Finding the method in Medieval Theatres"  The Guardian "The Medieval Players" were a pioneering British touring theatre company in the 1980's & 90's renowned and lauded for restoring a deliciou...

Send us Fan Mail Ohhhh yes! Ladies n' Genminminmin please welcome Actor, Director, fellow Instant Witter, ex-Banker and dropper of the occasionally delicious 'F' Bomb (!) the very entertaining and wonderfully enigmatic Craig Edwards. As an ex-Banker not so much "Cashier Number 3 please" but "F Bomb Number 12 pleeeeeease!" Chortle! So Craig: How would you most lik...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to "The Clearing" Darren O'Conor: Learning Designer, healthy sceptic and co-founder of Passe-Partout Leadership Consulting & Coaching to talk about all things Leadership & Wellbeing. If you Google Darren O'Conor you come up with a Lightweight Thai Boxer. Erm, this Darren is the other one! “In Business Is It Time To Ask Yourself: ‘Where Did I Go...

Send us Fan Mail Hooray for Hollywood! Ladies n' Genminminmin (er, min...) please welcome the warm, generous and wise L.A based Talent & Brand Manager and occasional humming-bird whisperer, Seamus Lyte! UK Agent and close friend - back in the day - to none other than Princess Leia herself, Carrie Fisher!  And Agent today to the likes of Ross King, Christopher Biggins & Tyler West to n...

Send us Fan Mail Ladies n' Genminminminmin (er, min...) look who I've gawn' n' snagged in my Zoom Hole for special Episode 100 of the Podcast! Please welcome to "The Good Listening To" Clearing - Dave Cornthwaite, life-adventurer, explorer, film maker and creator/leader of the "YesTribe!" a community that like to "SayYesMore!" "After realising...

Send us Fan Mail Naxos Creative courses are all about taking time to reconnect with yourself.  "Creativity courses for everyone!" So Ladies n' Genminminminmin (er, min...) please welcome Ros Hickson & Neil Johnson, the husband and wife team behind "Naxos Creative", as they tell us all about their combined vision to curate "confidence building courses, culture and...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to a special 'Brand Strand' Episode of "The Good Listening To: The Story Behind Your Story Show!" In the Clearing: Kingsley Neill, part-man-part-Viking, full-on-majestic-bearded-beauty-and-all-round-awesome-pants-of-an-executive-coach! Here to explore with us all things Fulcrum Coaching and the "pivotal moments" in our lives that lead us to si...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever had your entrails spread about the audience of a threshing circle in Ibiza whilst being sacrificed (and disembowelled with a ruddy great sickle) as a Sun God by the Moon? And whilst wearing a pointy helmet?  Well Author Ben Dunwell has! "And we had this rather lovely thing where I had this fake tummy that was stuffed with red ribbons and when they cut it open, t...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Clearing: Founder of Leadership Training Company Passe-Partout Alex Taskin - to tell us the ‘story behind the story’ of being Passe-Partout! Join me and Founder Alex Taskin as she tells us how and why her Leadership, Coaching & Training Company Passe-Partout (.com) so enjoys analogising their founding story to the epic adventure story of “Around The World in 80...

Send us Fan Mail Ladies n Genminminmin (er, min...) please welcome to 'The Clearing' the Award Winning Curative Wonder-Pants that IS Anna Farthing!  Award Winning Producer, Creator & Curator extraordinaire of all things Cultural & Heritage on a truly Epic Scale: If there's a Cultural or Creative Pie in the offing - particularly in the City of Bristol - Anna Farthing's n...

Send us Fan Mail Please welcome Mike Dilke - Back & Ergonomic Products Expert & host of "The Relaxback Show" on UK Health Radio. As we share a relaxed bit of back-chat (see what we're doing here?!) about all things healthy back! Do you have back pain? Or would you like to know more about how to avoid it in the first place?  If so, then "sit back - relax - and enjoy the...

Send us Fan Mail Ladies n' Genminminmin (er, min...) please welcome Tom Seals to The Clearing! For The Story Behind The Story Of  ‘The Man Behind the Keys’ Of Boogie-Woogie-Wonder Pants & Jazz Musician Sensation - The Real Deal Tom Seals! To quote his own Hero Jools Holland: "Fantastic feel, fantastic voice, the wonderful Tom Seals!" He has also been described as being "A m...

Send us Fan Mail Ladies n' Genminminmin (er, min...) please welcome to "The Clearing" for her "damn good listening to!" the wonderful Actress, Stand-Up Comedienne & Performance Poet Angie Belcher! Angie Belcher is an award-winning stand-up comedian and a popular performance poet. She also teaches comedy and recites deliberately poor political poetry through a young mal...

Send us Fan Mail Ohhhhh yes! Ladies n' Genminminminmin (er, min...) please welcome to The Good Listening To Podcast "Clearing" for her 'damn good listening to' Presenter & Broadcasting legend Janey Lee Grace! With the sea-scapes of St Ives for her 'serious happy place' or "Clearing", Janey is an occasional Mermaid (that can't swim!) and constan...

Send us Fan Mail Ladies n Genminminminmin (er min...) welcome BACK - for a second pass through the Good Listening To "Clearing" - this time with even better sound - the warm, wonderful and absolute comic genius that is "Tweedy The Clown" from Gifford's Circus!  A special interview complete with "Keef - the Pet Rescue Iron!" for company! Ohhhhh yes! Alan Tweedy Di...

Send us Fan Mail Ladies n' Genminminminmin (er, min...) welcome to a very exciting Episode indeed! Yes, it's  'roll out the Red Carpet' time here in "The Good Listening To Show" Clearing as we warmly welcome Scottish TV Presenter & Broadcasting legend Ross King (MBE). Ross King is nothing short of a Broadcasting legend with 4 News Emmys, 2 Sony Awards, 1 Golden Mi...

Send us Fan Mail In The Clearing: Life-Changer, Warrioress, LinkedIn Trailblazer, Confidence & Career Success Coach, Roller Skater, Wild Swimmer & Awesome Pants Angie McQuillin! "Brand Strand" is where I wrap an episode of the Podcast around a particular individual or company to help amplify their Company or Pesonal Brand: "Who are you? What's your story and what do you...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to a special "Good Books" series strand Episode of "The Good Listening To" with Madeleine Black - The Courage Cultivator ! "The Good Listening To" is the Storytelling Podcast Series & Show that sets out to discover "The Story Behind The Story Of You!" (If you've written a Book we set out to uncover the "story behind the...

Send us Fan Mail Ladies n' Genmininminmin (er min...) please welcome to The Good Listening To  "Clearing" the warm and wonderful Environmental Economist and fellow Podcaster -  host of his own podcast "Serendipity Soup", Matt Georges! With The Monty Python "Fish Slapping Dance" Quay for his Clearing at Teddington Lock in London: The location for the seminal dance...

Send us Fan Mail Please welcome to "The Clearing" for a lovely-jubbly double episode of The Good Listening To Podcast, Natural Storyteller, Creative ‘Puck-Like’ Sprite, Wellbeing and Resilience Blogger and all round HappyPants Anneliese Paul! MORE ABOUT ANNELIESE: As  a Creative Project Co-ordinator and Well-being Coach, Anniliese Paul exudes joie de vivre.  At 16 she said she wanted to...

Send us Fan Mail Tune in next week for more stories of 'Distinction & Genius' from The Good Listening To Show 'Clearing'.  If you would like to be my Guest too then you can find out HOW via the different 'series strands' at 'The Good Listening To Show' website. Show Website: https://www.thegoodlisteningtoshow.com You can email  me about the Show: chris@s...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to a very  exciting episode of "The Good Listening To: Your Life & Times With Me Chris Grimes!" Podcast! The adventure continues with Liverpool Poet Roger McGough, who's enigmatic dulcet Scouse tones and wonderful words of Poetry have been ringing around my head as long as I can remember! Outright winner of a Bonny Baby Award, Roger McGough was told earl...