Reading the work in the voice it was written.

You’re Not F*cking Fine

Society EN ↓ 4 episodes

This is where the writing gets read out loud. Most people who need this content won’t say they need it. They’ll find it at 11pm, quietly, when no one’s watching. Every episode I take a piece from the Substack, a chapter, an essay, a framework - and I do two things: I read it in the voice it was written in, and then I tell you what was actually going on when I wrote it. Why that piece. Why that order. What I was trying to name that I couldn’t quite get to on the page. It’s not a commentary podcast. It’s not an interview show. It’s what happens when the person who wrote the thing is also the per...

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Reading the work in the voice it was written.

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Teachers: The UK education sector. 15.06.2026 14:37

Teachers being too exhausted to leave isn’t an achievement. Somewhere this week, a headteacher will look at their staffing data and feel relief. Nobody’s handed in their notice. The timetable is covered. They’ll call it stability. It isn’t stability. It’s paralysis. England has among the worst teacher attrition rates of any developed nation. Nearly a third leave within their first five years. The...

ADHD - I hit every branch on the way up. 08.06.2026 16:21

This episode is about the road I walked for forty years before anyone gave me a name for it. ADHD. Diagnosed at forty-five, sitting across from a doctor of psychology, watching my whole life reorganise itself around a word nobody handed me when it would have changed everything. I called it hitting every branch on the way up. The hard way. The messy way. The dramatic way. Public, and humiliating, a...

The podcast for people who look like they’re coping. 08.06.2026 0:44

This is You’re Not Fucking Fine. The podcast for people who look like they’re coping. The people who get shit done. The people everyone relies on. The people carrying far more than anybody realises. Every week, we take apart the things we don’t talk about. The invisible load. The stories we tell ourselves to keep going. The patterns running underneath the version of us we hand to everyone else. Be...

Episode 1: You hate AI. Good. That makes you the control group. (Spoken Essay) 06.06.2026 26:29

You hate AI. Good. That makes you the control group. This is the full spoken essay on why resistance to AI isn't a considered position, it's a measurable foraging behaviour, and why the neurodivergent brain felt the shift first. It starts with the death of my dog, Ripley, and the moment a thing becomes irreversible. The drug is in the bloodstream and from there, there is only the ride. I had the s...