The Just Checking In Podcast

In episode 386 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Conner Derelioglu. Conner is a sales professional working in the healthcare industry but is also an author. He published his first children’s book ‘Kili and Nakoa’ in February 2024. The story centres on Nakoa, an old man whom a young man called Kili meets while surfing one morning. The message of the book is ‘Embrace the chop’, which teaches readers that even the roughest waves can be ridden with help from others. We came acros...

In episode 385 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Dr Jennifer Weber. Jennifer, like friend of the pod Carolyn Gorman also currently works as a Fellow at The Manhattan Institute. The Manhattan Institute is a non-profit, non-partisan think tank whose scholars and journalists are dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in America and its great cities. They cover a range of policy issues including policing and public safety, housing,...

In episode 384 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Georgie Mumford. Georgie is a freelance journalist and commentator who has previously worked for Spiked magazine. We came across her through her appearance on friend of the pod Elliot Bewick’s The Next Generation podcast. Georgie had aspirations to be a fiction writer and even spent a few years in a performing arts school. When she was 16, the UK voted to leave the European Union in 2016. She wasn’t informed on the ...

In episode 383 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Sam Maclean. Sam is a firefighter by day but also the Founder and host of The Lonely Chapter Podcast (TLCP). TLCP bills itself as “a podcast for people doing okay on the surface, but still figuring life out.” Sam started the podcast in May 2024 because of his love for listening to podcasts but increasingly, as he was listening to them, he “wanted to be in the room and ask the next question”. Since launching it...

In episode 382 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Ian Goodship. Ian is the CEO of an organisation called Man Time. Based in Stone in Staffordshire, Man Time provides a weekly safe space for men to talk, connect and support each other. The organisation was founded in 2022, and Ian was initially a service user, before taking over the organisation in 2023/24. In this episode we first discuss Ian’s mental health journey, and his 30 year career in the Ambulance Se...