The Just Checking In Podcast

In episode 367 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked back in with friends of the pod Dean Corney and Jason Reeves.  Dean is a firefighter in the London Fire Brigade who has worked in the service for over 20 years.  Dean is also the Co-Founder of Walk & Talk 999, a men's walking group in the UK for any man in the emergency services to walk and talk about their mental health, if they w...

In episode 366 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked back in with Jamie Dennis.  Jamie Dennis is the Founder and CEO of Mandem Meet Up, a grassroots charity which promotes, corrects and improves the conversation around men’s mental health and wellbeing. They provide an open, inclusive community for all men, integrating a range of social, holistic and more ‘traditional’ forms of clinical suppo...

In this episode of Behind The Decks we checked back in for a third time with Australian DJ and producer, Jafunk.  Lachy was the very first special guest on Behind The Decks when we launched the series all the way back in June 2020!  Lachy then came back on again in May 2023 , and three years later he has joined the esteemed group of guests who have checked in for a hat trick of appearances! Since...

In episode 365 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked back in with academic Dr Emily Setty. Emily is currently Associate Professor in Criminology at the University of Surrey. Emily has a particular focus on young people’s online and offline sexual behaviours and the evolving challenges of digital sexual cultures. We first checked in with Emily in JCIP #210 in November 2023. In that podcast we...

In episode 364 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Dr Sophie King-Hill. Sophie is currently Associate Professor at the Health Services Management Centre at the University of Birmingham and has worked in academia since 2013.  She published her latest book, ‘Reframing Masculinity for Young Men and Boys’ in 2025, and her areas of academic expertise are in masculinity and young men and...

In episode 363 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Simon Whitmore. Simon is part of an organisation called Spoke To A Bloke .  Spoke To A Bloke is a men’s mental health charity, which was founded in Australia by three men called Scott, Paul and Matt after their friend Nick Dunn tragically took his own life in 2021. Before he did, he would organise an annual 25k men's mental hea...

In episode 362 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Mick Rowe. Mick is the Founder of Suicide Sucks C.I.C, a mental health organisation centred around suicide prevention, which aims to provide a safe space to talk about suicide, grief and mental health.  Through Suicide Sucks, Mick published her first documentary as a filmmaker about her brother’s death from suicide in 1996, who was...

In episode 361 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Jenny Tomei.  Jenny is the Founder and CEO of JenUp C.I.C.  JenUp is a social enterprise specialising in training teachers on how to spot the early signs of an eating disorder. It also provides workshops for students on eating disorder awareness and body image. Jenny has lived experience of eating disorders herself, when she develop...

In episode 360 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Tom Maberly. Tom is now a decade into managing his own business, &Friends, a content studio servicing global clients with content strategy, creative, production and delivery.  He is also CEO of a second business, Cavalry, a Contingent workforce management system, servicing marketing, creative and production agencies, and inhouse...

In episode 359 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Kenny Bartonshaw.  Kenny is the Founder and Director of Headspace FC C.I.C.  Headspace FC is a weekly football group for adults (18+) who want to stay active, meet people, and take a break from the daily grind. Their mantra is: Play. Connect. Support. Based in Stoke-On-Trent in Staffordshire, Headspace FC began as a kickabout in Apr...

In episode 358 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Martyn James.  Martyn is a freelance journalist, broadcaster, presenter and consumer rights expert.  He has over two decades of experience working for the UK’s leading newspapers and broadcasters and at time of recording has done over 14,000 TV and radio appearances, conducting 15-20 a week. His weekly newspaper columns feature in T...

In this episode of Behind The Mic we checked in with Tyler Shea.  Tyler is a singer/songwriter, currently based in Cornwall and is a mutual friend of friend of the pod Lily Ward. After writing his first album at the age of 14/15 years old, Tyler took the leap to become an artist in 2019 with his Tyler Shea project.  Since then, he has released his debut EP, ‘Still Not Over You’ in 2025 and is look...

In episode 357 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Miles Spencer.  Miles is a business leader and entrepreneur with over 30 years’ experience in the industry.  He has started, built, and led three unique companies and ‘exited’ from them, which means a founder, owner, or investor has sold their stake in a company, effectively cashing out their investment. Today, he is the Co-Founder...

In episode 356 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with David Maywald.  Born and raised in Australia where he resides today, David has worked in finance for over two decades as an investment professional, holding roles of Research Analyst and is a top-quartile Portfolio Manager. He currently works as a governance specialist and holds a portfolio of board roles across the fields of health...

In episode 355 of The Just Checking In Podcast our Founder Freddie flew solo to remember a very special woman who sadly died last year. We interviewed a woman called Claire Johnson on JCIP #66 all the way back in October 2021, where we discussed her incredible life, from dating the lead singer of 1970s rock band Deep Purple, to working in the Police service during the Yorkshire Moor murders, to th...

In episode 354 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Adam The Sartorial Gardener.  Adam runs an Instagram account where, as the title suggests, he documents his life tending and working on his garden whilst looking very dapper and elegant at the same time.  Adam also posts on the account to cherish the memory of his wife Evanne, who tragically died of brain cancer on April 29th 2025. ...

In episode 353 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked back in with academic, author and commentator Dr Ashley Frawley. Ashley currently works as Senior Editor at Compact Magazine, as well as holding roles of sociologist and Visiting Researcher in the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies at the University of Kent, as well as Visiting Research Fellow at the MCC Brussels in Belgium. We first chec...

In episode 352 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Tom Festa.  We came across Tom through friend of the pod Mark Ferris as Tom was fundraising for Mark’s stepson Callum and his treatment for brain cancer through his ‘Race Around The World’ journey. Initially starting it as a personal journey for himself, Tom came across Callum’s GoFundMe page.  He didn’t know Callum or his family bu...

In episode 351 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Stephen Hall. Stephen is a qualified therapist and a Member of the National Counselling & Psychotherapy Society, providing walk and talk as well as online therapy for his clients.  Based in Cumbria, Stephen is also the Founder of Stand Tall Empower C.I.C, a social enterprise which organises events and activities outside in natur...

In episode 350 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with academic Dr James Nuzzo.  James is an Exercise Scientist and Men's Health Researcher.  He also runs his own SubStack called 'The Nuzzo Letter' . In this episode we discuss his academic journey and how he got to where he is today, his academic cancellation from Edith Cowan University (ECU) in Australia, how it impacted...

In episode 349 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Jessica Nguyen.  Jess is an entrepreneur and the Founder of Oh Tuesdays! Microbakery.  Based in Bristol, Oh Tuesdays was launched in August 2025 after Jess sat in a café on her way home from work and had a very expensive cookie and thought she could create one just as delicious but at a much more competitive cost!  We came across Je...

In this episode of our Reel Stories series, we checked in with Jude Vause-Walsh.  Jude is a voiceover actor and coach. Jude’s career started out after she completed her university degree, where she began carving out an acting career.  She landed some roles in small films and TV work and then she saw an advert looking for traffic and travel radio presenters. She applied and became a radio presenter...

In episode 348 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Nick Isles.  Nick is the Director of the Centre for Policy Research on Men and Boys (CPMRB). The Centre was established in May 2025 and is a research organisation and charity dedicated to understanding and addressing issues that uniquely affect men and boys in the UK. Their vision is a world where men and boys of all backgrounds can...

In episode 347 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Karen Sykes.  Karen is the Co-Founder of the Yorkshire branch of suicide grief awareness charity, Speak Their Name.  Karen co-founded the Yorkshire Speak Their Name Community Interest Company alongside a woman called Anna Scott. Both of them connected as they have both lost family members to suicide.  SInce its inception, the Yorksh...

In episode 346 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with academic Sophie Temple. Sophie is currently Doctoral Researcher in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences at Loughborough University, specialising in eating disorders, disordered eating and body image pathology during the menopausal transition. She is also part-time Research Fellow in the School of Education, Department o...