The Just Checking In Podcast

In episode 289 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked back in with Dean Corney. Dean Corney is a firefighter and the Co-Founder of Walk & Talk 999, a men's walk and talk organisation in the UK for any man in the emergency services to walk and talk about their mental health, if they want to, and be met with empathy, trust and understanding. We first checked in with Dean in March 2023,...

In this episode of Mind On The Game, we checked in with Rory Crawford. Rory is the current owner of Combat Fight Series and coaches out of Crawford K1 Thai Boxing Gym. Previously, Rory was a professional Thai Boxing champion, holding titles at Area, English, British and European levels respectively. Rory played sport from a young age, playing football from the ages of 5 to 16/17 and in-between try...

In episode 288 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked back in, for the fourth time, with Gar Lock. Gar Lock is an Irish farmer and one of the biggest characters we've had on the podcast. In our chats over the last two years, we have discussed a whole range of interesting subjects, as well as his fascinating life journey. In our first check-in, in JCIP #196 we discussed his chequered famil...

In episode 287 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Sam Gravestock. Sam is the Founder of The Forest Path, which bills itself as a therapeutic wilderness guide. Through The Forest Path, Sam offers programmes to help his clients reengage with nature and improve their mental health as a result. This includes things like Intuitive Coaching and Campfire Counsel, a Men’s Guided Therapeuti...

In episode 286 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Matthew Ayres. Matt works in recruitment and is the current partner of great friend of the pod and Just Checking In Live (JCIL) #6 headliner Jade Morgan Kelly. We met Matt at JCIL #6, and he told us he wanted to share his story on the podcast. Matt grew up in Exeter, in Devon, and when he was around 16/17 years old, he was told by h...

In episode 285 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked back in with Brady Frost and Tom Bradshaw. Brady Frost and Tom Bradshaw are both Huddersfield Town fans and previously co-hosted a series on the Huddersfield Town podcast ‘And He Takes That Chance’ called The Warm Up, where they previewed upcoming games. After doing that for a few years, they wanted to try something new and different but st...

In episode 284 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked back in with Daniel John. Daniel is the Founder of the mental health platform ‘You, Me & Anxiety’, which he founded in February 2018 to try and tackle the stigma around anxiety, provide him with a channel to voice his own experiences of anxiety and amplify the voices of others. We first checked in with him in JCIP #60, where we discusse...

In episode 283 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Jason Reeves. Jason is the Founder of Embers Woodcraft, a charity which offers bushcraft experiences, workshops and a range of other activities that bring people together and focus on the natural environment’s power to improve their mental health. Jason began his career in the military, joining the Parachute Regiment at the age of 1...

In episode 282 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Holly Brencher. Holly is a journalist and currently works as an AI Expansion Reporter at Newsquest. We came across Holly through a very personal article she wrote on Newsquest about the death of her brother Billy, who tragically took his own life 6th November 2024.The article was called a ‘Tribute to Welling's Billy Payne - lov...

In this episode of Mind On The Game we checked back in with Aaron Bowes. Aaron plays as the First XV fly-half in the Ashford Rugby Club's Men's team. He is also an old friend of VENT Founder Freddie Cocker. We first checked back in with Aaron way back when in December 2020, where we discussed how he got into rugby, the life skills it gave him including self-confidence and his friendship...

In episode 281 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Tom Toolan. Tom Toolan is a father and the Founder of the 'Find Rhian' campaign, a campaign he started to find his daughter Rhian who was abducted by her mother in 2018, taken out of the UK and to her home country of Poland against a court order. Rhian was just six years old at the time. Rhian's abduction is a Crimina...

In episode 280 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Luke Loughlin, and his sister Lindsay Loughlin. We first checked in with Luke in JCIP #244 where we discussed the story of men's mental health platform Men United, whom he was previously a co-founder of. We also discussed his own personal story of being diagnosed with ADHD and a learning difficulty, sexual abuse by a female per...

In episode 279 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Leah Morris. Leah currently works as a Centre Manager at the Liverpool branch of James’ Place UK, a charity who are doing lifesaving work for men's mental health. Leah was diagnosed with Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD) in her early 20s after experiencing some workplace bullying in a previous role prior to joining James’ Plac...

In episode 278 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Evan Grant. Evan Grant is a mental health campaigner and the Co-Founder, alongside his wife Carol and son Alastair of the Cameron Grant Memorial Trust. The Trust was set up in memory of his son Cameron, who tragically took his own life in 2014, when he was just 21 years old. Cameron’s death devastated Evan’s family and they set up t...

In this episode of Behind The Mic we checked back in with Norwegian artist, Severin. We first checked in with Severin in August 2023. In Part 1 we discussed his musical identity, moving from singing and producing music in English to Norwegian, overcoming shyness he had as a child and how his artist persona was a vehicle for him to gain confidence and improve his self-esteem. Since we checked in, S...

In episode 277 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Earl John Charlton. Earl is currently employed by Northumbria University as a professional with lived experience. However, prior to that he has worked as an outreach worker and a seller for The Big Issue, one of the most important charities in the UK for giving homeless people an income, dignity and pride. Earl spent 18 years of his...

In Part 4 of James Roffey’s journey, we discuss the grief he and his family went through from his uncle’s suicide and the decisions he had to take to make ends meet after losing his entire client base in Huddersfield after the marriage breakdown. As always, #itsokaytoventYou can find out more about Ultimate Body & Mind here: www.ultimatebodyandmind.comYou can follow James on social media below...

In episode 276 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked back in with James Roffey. James is a personal trainer and semi-professional footballer. He was previously the business owner of his personal training brand ‘The Mental Health PT’ but due to personal and business reasons, has rebranded and relaunched it as ‘Ultimate Body and Mind’. James first came on the pod in JCIP #183 where he discussed...

In episode 275 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Anthony Bedward. Anthony is a qualified person-centred psychotherapist and the Founder of a2btherapy. In this episode we chart his vast professional journey, from working as a mentor in a learning provision for young people expelled from school, to applying for a 10-week course at the Sherwood Psychotherapy Training Institute based...

In episode 274 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked back in with Thomas Mackintosh. Thomas is a Scottish journalist currently working for the BBC. The reason we checked back in with him is that he fronted a fantastic documentary called ‘My Alopecia And Me’, which documents his own, personal journey with alopecia, and interviews men and women from a range of backgrounds about their journeys w...

In this episode of Reel Stories we checked in with Jeremy Ojo. Jeremy is a screenwriter, actor and producer. Jeremy fell into the industry when a friend contacted him about getting involved in making a web-series, which he subsequently wrote, produced and starred in. We met Jeremy through a mutual close friend who studied at Oxford University with him. In this episode we discuss how Jeremy broke i...

In this episode of Behind The Decks we checked in with Tom Forte. Tom is a DJ and producer and started his music journey as a producer before he got into DJing. The first instrument he ever took up was the guitar, before trying a few other instruments and then took up the saxophone from the age of 11 years old. His entry into dance music was listening to dubstep and drum & bass records, before...

In episode 273 of The Just Checking In Podcast we turned the tables as our Founder Freddie Cocker was interviewed by his best friend of 28 years and previous guest, James Lamb who came on in JCIP #50.Over the years, Freddie has been interviewed by another close friend Lloyd Taylor twice, in JCIP #10 and JCIP #135 respectively. His old friend and work colleague Connor Smart then wanted to try his h...

In episode 272 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Rose Rowkins. Rose is the Founder of Start The Conversation.uk, a suicide prevention training organisation. Rose has had a hugely varied career and has worked in the mental health space for over two decades. She started by working at Samaritans in her early 20s and progressed rapidly to become a trainer of other people to become Sam...

In this episode of Behind The Mic we checked back in for the third time with UK artist AMiR.AMiR first came on the podcast before the Behind The Mic series started, in JCIP #19. We discussed his debut album, 'All or Nothing' he released in 2019, his refusal to be pigeon-holed or stereotyped and fatherhood. In Part 2, we discussed the impact that Covid-19 had on his career both financiall...