Perspectives

We don’t always look deeper, but privilege can look entirely different from the inside than it does from the outside. And often we neglect to realise our own privileges. In our latest episode of Perspectives we explore the uncomfortable and often contradictory realities of advantage, power, and class. Joined by counsellor Karen Macmillan and writer/researcher Selin Tavlan , this conversation looks...

In a world that often forgets to listen, being curious is the key to connection. Curiosity means that we look beyond the surface , pushing past fast-paced assumptions to truly understand one another. In our latest episode of the Perspectives podcast, we dive deep into an essential yet frequently overlooked asset for personal and societal growth: curiosity . In today’s fast-paced environment, we no...

What is play, really? If you ask most people, they’ll picture a child on a playground, building blocks, or kicking a ball. But in our latest Learning Through Play podcast episode, we sat down with play therapist Dr. Kate Renshaw and researcher Dr. Will Zoppollini to challenge that narrow definition. Play isn’t just an activity. It’s a mindset. Right now, we are living through a global play deficit...

Empathy is something that sits at the very heart of the work we do around listening and being heard, but let's be honest, it’s not always present. In a world driven by busyness, digital noise, and constant polarisation, deep listening can get forgotten. In this episode, we explored what empathy actually is, reminding ourselves that perhaps the exact definition matters less than simply being fully...

In a fast and ever-changing world, what are the skills that our children really need, and how can we help support them more? Let’s be honest: much of traditional schooling still feels stuck in a time warp. We are training children to pass tests, memorise facts, and check boxes in a system built for a completely different era. But the real world they are walking into demands something entirely diff...

I know, I know—it feels a little early to be talking about getting Back to School while summer is still here! But the academic new year is already quietly appearing on the not too distant horizon. Looming ahead is the new term with those eventually darker mornings, shorter evenings, heavy backpacks, school uniforms, and that long-term pile of expectations on both kids and parents. In this week’s e...

We came into this conversation knowing that safeguarding matters. We came out of it understanding that this is a conversation we need to be having and revisiting to make sure we are doing it well. Because good intentions are not enough on their own and because the conversations that protect children can be the ones hardest to start. Dr Catherine Knibbs created the term Cybertrauma . For fifteen ye...

For a while now we have been sitting with a feeling we couldn’t quite shake. We have had so many rich conversations on this podcast with experts, researchers, authors, practitioners, all talking about young people. And those conversations are so valuable. But somewhere along the way we started to wonder whether, in doing that, we were missing something essential. Whether the people we most needed...

We recorded this episode on youth mental health in response to what we are picking up in our community. We knew it would be an important conversation and it was. We came out of it feeling genuinely hopeful and that is not always the case with this subject. Rachel Kelly author of The Gift of Teenagers: Connect More, Worry Less , opened up about her own mental health journey in a way that took real...

In this episode we chatted with Catherine Carr, author of Who’s The Favourite? The Loving, Messy Realities of Sibling Relationships , and Dalton Conley, Professor of Sociology at Princeton, whose research into the genetics of family life has produced findings we weren’t expecting. Here is the one that has stayed with us most. Children shape their parents just as much as parents shape their childre...

We’ve just finished recording our Youth Engagement episode, and it has left me truly hopeful. We spend a lot of time worrying about whether young people are engaged. We spend considerably less time asking whether we are. This podcast is all about how we can co-design along side each other. Our guests were Abbee McLatchie, Deputy CEO of the National Youth Agency in England, and Paul Stepczak, a com...

I’ll be honest, this episode has been sitting on our agenda for ages. Jennie and I have explored a lot of subjects on our podcast. Sleep. Identity. Discovery. Shyness. Motivation. Digital Balance. Third Spaces etc. But listening, really sitting down and dedicating a whole episode to listening, has been well overdue. Because in many ways, it’s the thread running through everything we do at The Info...

In our latest Perspectives podcast we consider the wonderful tween! This episode is close to our hearts because supporting tweens and young people sits right at the centre of what we do. It’s why we founded Tween Talk, our dedicated third space for this age group. We kept seeing the same thing: tweens slipping through the cracks. Not quite children, not yet teenagers — and somehow, that in-between...

Our latest Perspectives Podcast is out! We’re pulling back the curtain on the “Digital Wild West” of parenting. This isn’t a lecture on screen time, it’s a candid conversation about the challenges of life today, the stats that keep us up at night, and how we actually bridge the gap with our kids. Who Joined the Conversation? * Parven Kaur (Founder of Kids and Clicks): A cybersecurity award nominee...

Across every generation, we’re more connected than ever, through screens, networks, and constant communication and yet, in countless ways, we’re more alone. In this episode of Perspectives , we consider a question (actually one that came from one of our tweens!): What happened to the spaces where young people could just… hang out? Not structured. Not constantly supervised. Not needing to be produc...

In our latest podcast, we explore one of the defining challenges of modern life: balancing our time online and offline. At the same time, we ask a pressing question for families today, how do we raise children in a digital world that is designed to capture and compete for their attention? Yes, this is a topic that’s being talked about a lot, but it’s clear we still need to speak—and more important...

In our latest Perspectives Podcast , we bring together three remarkable women whose work explores menopause from very different but deeply complementary angles: psychology, physiology, and the workplace. Together they help us understand menopause not simply as a hormonal event, but as a profound life transition affecting identity, brain function, energy, relationships, wellbeing, and even professi...

Alongside the powerful reflections Ben shared on our chronic pain episode, he also speaks candidly about the practical tools that carried him through his darkest period. When pain, panic, insomnia, medication withdrawal, and depression collided, even forming a rational thought felt impossible to him. So during brief windows of clarity, he began recording and writing down his thoughts, not just to...

In our recent Perspectives Podcast episode on chronic pain, we touched on a question: When you’re living with constant pain, is it better to hold onto hope — or to lean into acceptance ? After we finished recording, Ben Taylor shared an additional video clip going deeper into this exact tension. It felt worth sharing on its own. How do we hold hope without denying reality? How do we accept reality...

We thought it would feel overwhelmingly heavy. And yes, it was deep, sad, and incredibly moving. But what surprised us most was the power that surfaced alongside the pain. Both of our guests — Breanna Tory , who began living with chronic pain in her teens, and Ben Taylor , who experienced it from age 21, faced the challenge of identity, independence, and body image being disrupted by a body that b...

Ageism is subtle, woven into assumptions about slowing down, about “not being that age anymore,” about what older or younger people can or can’t do. Often, it even shapes how we see ourselves. In this episode of Perspectives , we are joined by Carol Bates , founder of Crawley Old Girls and Old Girls Play Too , and Kerry Hardey , physiotherapist and co-founder of T he Intergenerational Project . To...

What happens when resilience becomes a mask? When success hides exhaustion? When survival mode quietly shapes identity without us even noticing? In our latest Perspectives Podcast , we sat down with three remarkable guests — Ian Sneeth, Uchenna Eneke, and Leticia Francis, for an honest and deeply human conversation about trauma, survival, and transformation. Together we explored: * how trauma can...

In our latest podcast episode, we sat down to talk about midlife, not as a crisis, but as a moment of reckoning, reflection, and possibility. We spoke to Kenny Mammarella-D’Cruz , best-selling author and men’s wellbeing coach, and Sonya Rose , ICF-accredited coach for women in business, about the shared emotional landscape of this stage of life, even when it shows up differently for men and women....

In this episode of Perspectives , we invited a mixed-gender panel to explore respect, safety, and gender equality through the lens of education, parenting, and creating safe spaces for honest dialogue. We dive deep into how schools and communities can foster environments where children and young people feel safe to question, reflect, and grow beyond rigid gender norms. At the same time, we recogni...

This week’s episode… whew. Neurodiversity is a conversation we’ve wanted to have for a long time. We knew it wouldn’t be an easy one, but our incredible panel were tremendously generous in sharing their own lived experiences, challenges, and perspectives. It’s emotional, illuminating, and — by far — the largest panel we’ve hosted to date. (Spoiler: this will not be the last episode on this subject...