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What I’ve learnt after a decade of podcasting
I can't believe 2024 marks the 10th year of publishing The Fertility Podcast and rather than getting too sentimental here, I thought I'd share what I've learnt here: 1. Don't be afraid to change podcast hosts, during the last decade, I've gone from Libsy to Acast back...
The F Word at Work Live from Fertility Matters at Work
For the last four years, I have been at the helm of a community interest company, called Fertility Matters at Work which is on a mission to ensure fertility is recognised in the workplace. Put simpley make the workplace fertility friendly. we're trying to change the...
Self help audiobooks
I've been keen to record audiobooks. Knowing I'm not a character voice artists, I'd reached out to an agency recording self help books however in order to get past the first stage I had to record the driest of scripts which from memory was about dermatitis. I didn't...
How you share the world of Embryology in a podcast
In the time that I have been talking about fertility for The Fertility Podcast I have been fortunate to learn more and more about the world of Embryology and the passion that embryologists have about their work. I've been fortunate to interview a number of them and...
The Art of Story Telling
Years ago I wanted to make a podcast called The Wonder Years - Extraordinary tales of Ordinary People... I had the logo made but that was as far as I got. Podcasting was in its infancy in the UK, we're talking about a decade ago.. so I parked that idea and then...
Do you remember how you felt on your A Level results day?
Do you remember how you felt when you got your A Level results? Today’s such an important day for so many, and it’s sad to see that there is a potential shortage of places available according to the papers I’ve been reading this morning. I remember my A-Level results...
Retained work as a voiceover
Ahhh the golden ticket. A job that keeps coming.. it's what you dream of as a voiceover and I've just finished working on the latest series of History 101 for Netflix (If you hear an American VO you need to switch you default language to British ) We started working...
Learning voiceover as a kid
Imagine if you'd started doing the thing you love doing, as a kid. Maybe you did, if you're a musician who started playing as a kid and made a career out of it, or maybe you always loved animals and work with them now, or you always built stuff and are working an...
“A voiceover you say? Well I have a voice so I’ll do it!”
I just asked a client about a quote he had asked me to send, to see whether he'd heard back about the job. He had and the client he was dealing with had said they were going to do the voiceover internally. I had another conversation recently with a company that had...
Why using a voiceover to explain something can make such a difference
Do we need a voiceover? Here's why using one can help.. you see, you might not always think of using a voiceover to explain something, but there is a reason why the explainer videos exist. Yep to explain the thing you want to sell. Sometimes it can be such an...
How stories of design and sustainability form a podcast
I was introduced to Hattrick thanks to Sean Sankey one of the briliant lecturers I had the pleasure of learning from as part of Manchester's Greater Connected course which was impacted by the pandemic like so many things were, yet interesting opportunities still came...
Mindfulness – do you really know what it means?
What does Mindfulness mean? Well, I thought I did, and then having just completed a fascinating e-learning piece about Mindfulness in the workplace, I now have a better idea. “Mindfulness is paying attention on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgementally.”...
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