The Just Checking In Podcast

In this episode of Behind The Mic we checked in with Gavin who's lead singer in UK disco band, Zkeletonz. We talk about Gavin's music journey, from organising school concerts for charity to taking it more seriously at university, having big record labels sniffing around them and then starting Zkeletonz purely for fun after a period where Gavin fell out of love with music. We discuss the...

In episode 140 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Jasmine Roebuck. Jasmine is the sister of previous JCIP guest and Vent Champion Charlie Roebuck. Jasmine is an events professional but after a negative experience of workplace bullying, she stepped away from events completely to go back to university to complete a Bachelors Degree in Business Management. Jasmine has already written...

In episode 139 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Ashley Belle. Ashley is a bodybuilder, member of the U.S military and trans woman. Ashley served 19 years in the military and left active service in 2016. She’s since re-joined in a non-active role. Ashley made the decision to transition in her mid-40s and began experiencing Gender Dysphoria (GD) when she was around 6/7 years old. A...

In episode 138 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with NJada. NJada is a male based in the U.S who transitioned when he was 19 years old. He spent two years living as a trans woman before he detransitioned six years ago. He is 28 at time of recording. Whilst presenting as female, he was on hormone replacement therapy (HRT), specifically oestrogen and a testosterone blocker for a year an...

In episode 137 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Rory Cellan-Jones. Rory is a journalist and worked for the BBC for forty years. Rory is the BBC’s former Technology Correspondent and the author of two books; ‘Dot. Bomb: The Rise and Fall of Dot Com Britain’ and his most recent book ‘Always On: Hope And Fear in the Smartphone Era’. In this episode we discuss the link between social...

In episode 136 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with sports journalist Charlie Eccleshare. Charlie is the Tottenham Hotspur Correspondent for The Athletic UK. He also co-hosts the Spurs podcast ‘View From The Lane’ and appears regularly on the Totally Football Show podcast and Football Clichés podcast respectively. In this episode we discuss Charlie’s journey into sports journalism an...

In episode 135 of The Just Checking In Podcast, our Founder Freddie Cocker decided to sit down with his friend and previous JCIP guest Lloyd Taylor to reflect on the three years since their last interview. In this episode, they discuss Freddie's self-harm recovery journey, healing from sexual abuse through EMDR therapy and exiting what he describes as a 'trauma state' for the last 2...

In episode 134 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Jennifer Lahl. Jennifer is the Founder and President of The Centre for Bioethics and Culture Network. Jennifer couples her 25 years of experience as a paediatric critical care nurse, a hospital administrator and a senior-level nursing manager with a deep passion to speak for those who have no voice. In this episode we cover the topi...

In episode 133 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Michael from Silenced by Stigma. Silenced by Stigma supports male survivors of sexual and domestic abuse by advocating for awareness of sexual violence, providing critically needed resources for victims and their loved ones and offering prevention and training programs to allied organisations. Silenced by Stigma offers voice to the...

In episode 132 of The Just Checking In Podcast, we checked in with male detransitioner TullipR.Tullip is based in the UK and contacted us after our JCIP with Limpidă to share his story. Tullip started life as a very gender non-conforming child but struggled with being small and effeminate. He said he had a lot of internalised homophobia after coming to the realisation he was gay. Tullip suffered f...

In episode 131 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with journalist Charlie Peters. Charlie is currently a columnist for Mail+ and has written for the likes of Spiked, The Telegraph and the American Conservative. In this episode we discuss a GB News panel discussion he did with author Nina Power about masculinity and the themes he discussed, free speech and cancel culture through a mental...

In episode 130 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with twin brothers Connor Smart & Lewis Smart. Connor is an old friend and former work colleague of our Founder Freddie Cocker. Connor Lewis are originally from Plymouth. Connor is quite anti-social media and decided to move away from London to start a new life in Lincoln free of as much technological distractions as possible. Lewis...

In episode 129 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Katherine aka Default Friend. Katherine has a Substack called Default Wisdom where she writes about sex and dating, internet history and has an advice column for people who need their burning dilemmas answered. She is also the host of the ‘The Computer Room’ podcast. In this episode we discuss how she came to adopt the name Default...

In episode 128 of The Just Checking In Podcast, we checked in with Limpidă. Limpidă is a male detransitioner from the U.S.A whose pseudonym means 'pure' or or 'clarity' in Romanian. Detransitioned males are some of, if not THE most stigmatised men on the planet. The very few that have gone public with their stories go by pseudonyms like Limpidă to protect their identity. L as w...

In episode 127 of The Just Checking In Podcast, we checked in with Tom Bradshaw. Tom is an illustrator and designer currently based in Folkestone. Tom moved to Folkestone after finishing his undergrad degree at Loughborough University. In this episode we discuss his journey of illustration from hobby to career, a dark moment of exclusion he experienced at a football camp and the grief he experienc...

In episode 126 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with journalist Alice Porter. Alice currently works as the London reporter for GB News. Just before the Covid-19 pandemic began, she was a reporter on the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire programme and found herself out of work as BBC budget cuts forced the programme off-air. As the pandemic took hold in the UK, she began job hunting and took r...

In this episode of Behind The Decks, we checked in with indie electronic and nu-disco production duo, Betablock3r. They began by making remixes for a host of successful artists including Ellie Goulding, RAC and Selena Gomez. They released their debut EP Monolith in 2018 and have put out a number of singles which have charted on Hype Machine and featured on tastemaker playlists for Spotify and Appl...

In episode 125 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with David Hartrick. Dave is a journalist, writer and the other half of the presenting duo behind the Huddersfield Town podcast ‘Ooh To Be A’, with us having already checked in with Steven Chicken. Dave is also the author of 'Silver Linings: Bobby Robson's England'. In this episode we discuss the book through a mental heal...

In episode 124 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Sergiy Slipchenko. Sergiy currently works as a political reporter for the Kyiv Independent and previously worked for the Kyiv Post when he was living in Ukraine before the war began. In this episode we discuss his route into journalism, the mental health impact of writing about the war in Ukraine against Russia on a daily basis and...

In episode 123 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Jayme. Jayme is a writer, commentator, disability advocate for cerebral palsy and transsexual man. In this episode we discuss the difficulties that living with cerebral palsy has presented him throughout his life, the process of transition for him and why he’s found it difficult to get the medical support he needs despite jumping th...

In episode 122 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Buck Angel. Buck is a transsexual man, commentator, advocate and adult filmmaker who has been discussing his transition journey openly for many years. Buck transitioned in 1992 when he was 28 years old and he is affectionately known within the community as 'Tranpa'. Buck has spoken out on the conflict going on within the t...

In episode 121 of The Just Checking In Podcast, we checked in with Paula Wright. Paula Wright is a graduate student in evolutionary psychology, a writer, actress and comic. Her Substack is called Dangerous Ideas and her journey into academia began when she founded a Facebook forum called Darwinian Gender Studies. This brought many academics, thinkers and writers to its discussion threads including...

In episode 120 of The Just Checking In Podcast, we checked in with Davelle Heath. Davelle Heath is a PHD candidate at Lancaster University. His PHD study aims to explore and understand the lived experiences of Black American men that have been sexually assaulted by women via the ‘made-to-penetrate’ tactic as an adult. In this episode we discuss Davelle’s journey into academia and the reasons he wa...

In episode 119 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Helena. Helena is a detransitioned woman from the USA.Helena talks online about her journey from transition to detransition. Helena's mental health difficulties started before her gender dysphoria and her trans identity developed from trauma associated with family issues and an eating disorder. Helena lived with bulimia and sta...

In episode 118 we checked in with academic Sophie Marsh. Sophie is an Associate Lecturer in Criminology & Law. She did a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Criminology and Law at the University of the West of England and graduated with First Class Honours in the summer of 2019.She is currently doing her PhD on the attrition of rape and the effects of rape myth acceptance and is also the founder...