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"If you tell your Story 'out loud' then you're much more likely to LIVE it out loud" and that's what this show is for: To help you to tell your Story - 'get it out there' - and reach a large global audience as you do so. It's the Storytelling Show in which I invite movers, makers, shakers, mavericks, influencers and also personal heroes into a 'Clearing' (or 'serious happy place') of my Guest's choosing, to all share with us their stories of 'Distinction & Genius'. Think "Desert Island Discs" but in a 'Clearing' and with Stories rather than Music. Cutting through the noise of other podcasts, this is the storytelling show with the squirrels & the tree, from "MojoCoach", Facilitator & Motivational Comedian Chris Grimes. With some lovely juicy Storytelling metaphors to enjoy along the way: A Clearing, a Tree, a lovely juicy Storytelling exercise called '5-4-3-2-1', some Alchemy, some Gold, a couple of random Squirrels, a cheeky bit of Shakespeare, a Golden Baton and a Cake! So it's all to play for! "Being in 'The Good listening To Show' is like having a 'Day Spa' for your Brain!" So - let's cut through the noise and get listening! Show website: https://www.thegoodlisteningtoshow.com See also www.secondcurve.uk + www.instantwit.co.uk + www.chrisgrimes.uk Twitter/Instagram @thatchrisgrimes
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Send us a text "Your Life & Times With Me Chris Grimes!" continues! With Alastair Fothergill OBE: CEO & Founder of Silverback Films. The Film Company (& Alastair as the Producer) behind many of the most seminal Films about Planet Earth that you will ever see - and with none other than Sir David Attenborough as his oftentimes Narrator. With a crucial message also to share about the forthcoming COP 26 - the Global Environmental Conference - happening in Glasgow in November:...
Send us a text Ohhhh yes! Ladies n' Genminminmin (er min...) it's Doctor Phil Hammond Day on UK Health Radio! Hurrah! "The Good Listening To: Your Life & Times With Me Chris Grimes!" continues! With all round versatility and prolific pants Dr Phil Hammond - who also - spookily enough has news of a New Book! "Dr Hammond's Covid Casebook" published in 'real time' over 18 months (now collected in 1 Volume) as columnist "MD" in "Private Eye" Magazine. Complete too with some 'rather sple...
Send us a text Ohhhhh yes! Ladies n' Genminmin (er min...) Welcome to a particularly exciting Episode (in 2 Parts!) of "The Good Listening To Show: Your Life & Times With Me Chris Grimes!" Please welcome to "The Clearing" the incomparable Phelim McDermott from Improbable Theatre: Director, Pioneeing Improviser, Theatre Maker & Conversation Starter. With a Flotation Tank as his "Clearing" to assist in his 'going deep' whenever a creative endeavour requires, this is a rich an...
Send us a text Welcome to Episode 11 of "The Good Listening To Show" on UK Health Radio: "Your Life & Times With Me Chris Grimes!" continues! Please welcome “Motivational Pants” (!) himself: Alex Moyle to the Good Listening To Clearing! "Welcome to Optimistic Moyle Island - with Catch Phrase City as the Capital!" And Alex also asks the vey important question: "If a fire-fly's bum's on fire - and it does a wee - is there a cold spot?" As our joyful banta together will explain...
Send us a text Welcome to Episode 10 of "The Good Listening To Show" on UK Health Radio: "Your Life & Times With Me Chris Grimes!" continues! Please welcome "The Cave Man" himself - Dick Willis! In this wonderful conversation we talk about his life-long passion for all things subterranean and a love of Caving - and he describes himself as 'blundering through life but generally coming up smelling of roses!' And unsurprisingly his "Clearing" is the entrance to a particular t...
Send us a text Welcome to Episode 5 of "The Good Listening To Show" on UK Health Radio: "Your Life & Times With Me Chris Grimes!" Please welcome to the "GLT Clearing" for her "Damn Good Listening To!" the inimitable Actress, Voiceover - fellow INSTANT WITTER - awesome Doodler and all round happy & optimistic pants Ms Peta Maurice! Also the 1st Episode of a Podcast & Radio Programme in History EVER to involve "Storytelling in a Doodlepad Cartoon-Scape!" Peta is a veritabl...
Send us a text Welcome to Episode 4 of "The Good Listening To Show" on UK Health Radio! And a special 'Brand Strand' Episode of the programme, wherby I wrap an Episode of the Show around a particular Company or individual, to help amplify their Company or Personal Brand. And please welcome to The GLT "Clearing": Hannah “I practice gratitude on the daily!” Fitt: Hannah Fitt is the Founder & MD of the S.A.F.E Foundation - and from the Charity "Keep A Child Alive". Hannah Fitt is a...
Send us a text Welcome to "The Good Listening To Show" on UK Health Radio! And a special 'Brand Strand' Episode of the programme, wherby I wrap an Episode of the Show around a particular Company or individual, to help amplify their Company or Personal Brand. And please welcome to The GLT "Clearing": Lorraine Williams, MD of The Thyroid Trust! Talking all things Thyroid - and the fact that you're not alone with Thyroid Disease, thanks to the wonderful work of "The Thyroid Trust" So y...
Send us a text Welcome to The Good Listening To Show on UK Health Radio! The Good Listening To Podcast now has its own weekly Show on UK Health Radio! And in Episode 1 please welcome to the GLT Clearing: The wise and wonderful Dave Stewart from Fresh Air Leadership! Talking all things health & wellbeing derived from time wisely spent in the Great Outdoors! I also have the great pleasure of working closely alongside Dave, as his Lead Coach and proverbial "Sherpa with a Flipchart!" on m...
Send us a text Welcome to Episode 5 of "The Good Listening To Show" on UK Health Radio: "Your Life & Times With Me Chris Grimes!" Please welcome to the "GLT Clearing" for her "Damn Good Listening To!" the delightful and supremely experienced Resilience Coach and ex Hospice CEO, Cate Russell! Get in! "Your Life & Times With Me Chris Grimes!" is my Weekly Show version of "The Good Listening To Podcast" on UK Health Radio, with a potential audience reach of 1.2 Million! It's the...
Send us a text Welcome to an exciting new departure to "The Good Listening To Podcast"! A new GLT series strand called "Legacy: Life Reflections", inspired by William Shakespeare's "All the World's Stage". It's the opportunity to join me in the "GLT Clearing" to share your story - and reflect on your "Life's-Lessons-Learned" along your way. And also share what you'd like your legacy to be: How would you most like to be remembered? So to that end - please welcome to the GLT Clea...
Send us a text Welcome to another exciting "Brand Strand" Episode of "The Good Listening To Podcast" with me Chris Grimes! "Brand Strand" is where I wrap an Episode of the Podcast - with its strong storytelling construct - around a particular individual or Company - to amplify their Company or Personal Brand. And so to that end, please welcome to the "GLT Clearing" today: Master Networker & Aussie LinkedIn "Inspiration Sensation" (and all round Positive Motivational Force of Energy to b...
Send us a text Ladies n' Genmin welcome to another very exciting episode of "The Good Listening To Podcast" with me Chris Grimes! Welcome to a very special "Brand Strand" Episode of "The Good Listening To Podcast" - with me Chris Grimes - whereby I wrap an Episode of the Podcast (with its strong Storytelling construct) around a particular Company or Individual to amplify their Company (or Personal) Brand: And to that end, please welcome to the "GLT Clearing" the warm, GENEROUS, incredibly i...
Send us a text Ladies n' Genmin welcome to another very exciting episode of "The Good Listening To Podcast" with me Chris Grimes! One of the special "Brand Strand" Episodes, whereby I wrap an Episode around a particular Company or individual to amplify their Company (or Personal) Brand: Who are you? What's your story? And what do you do? And to that end, please welcome to the "GLT Clearing": Emma Brown, Fashion Designer & Founder of Denim Star UK - Womens Ethical Socks! How impor...
Send us a text Ladies n' Genmin welcome to another exciting episode of "The Good Listening To" Podcast with me Chris Grimes! A special "Brand Strand" Episode, whereby I wrap an Episode around a particular Company (or Individual) to amplify their Company (or Personal) Brand. And to that end, please welcome to the GLT "Clearing" today: Eloise Leeson, linguist and owner of Olim Comms: Here to help businesses - in Eloise's own words - "close the gap between what they t...
Send us a text "Hi-Diddly-Dee An Actor's Life For Me!" Please welcome Actor, Creative & all round 'prolific pants' Stewart Wright atop a bus on the way to Kathmandu in the halcyon days of being 19 for his 'Clearing', as we talk the combined passions of life, family, rugby and acting. Recorded also as a Facebook LIVE: https://www.facebook.com/730074635/videos/1030198231024253/ Actor Stewart Wright, soon to be seen as “Devina Delish, the Cross Dressing Plumber” in “Midsomer Murders” ...
Send us a text Please welcome Bristol Broadcasting legend, new talent champion and curator of the "Upload Festival" Adam Crowther to The Good Listening To Podcast: The Story Behind Your Story Show! Adam Crowther presents BBC Upload 7-10pm every weekday on BBC Radio Bristol - which he’s presented since October 2018. He has worked as a broadcaster and presenter across live events and radio as well as live streams and videos for BBC iPlayer. Adam has spent most of his presenting care...
Send us a text Welcome to the Clearing for a special "Leadership Reflections" Episode, the wonderful 6’ 5 Scottish man-mountain of entrepreneurial flair & generosity and a truly 'Great Scot': Russell Dalgleish 😊 Chair & Co-Founder of the Scottish Business Network. Russell's lifelong, blazing 🔥 passion is helping other people to succeed in business and in his high-achieving career he’s helped thousands of them. Could YOU be next? Russell Dalglish is a Scottish seria...
Send us a text Comedy Double Act Beauties Howard Coggins & Stu McLouglin from "Living Spit" Musical Theatre Company, here to "dissect their frog" on their wonderful anarchic comedy method and madness! The warmth between the 2 is palpable and their comedy magic together a work of collective comedy genius. Howard & Stu work with a creative crack team of 5 to generate their magic together and are based in Clevedon at their home venue (which is also delightfully their "Clearing") w...
Send us a text Welcome to the Clearing: Actor, Director and one the original founding members (alongside his brother Mark) of "The Medieval Players" Carl Heap! "Finding the method in Medieval Theatres" The Guardian "The Medieval Players" were a pioneering British touring theatre company in the 1980's & 90's renowned and lauded for restoring a delicious vocabulary and experience of Medieval performance for us all, by re-introducing us to a different kind of Actor: An ensemble that ...
Send us a text Hooray for Hollywood! Ladies n' Genminminmin (er, min...) please welcome the warm, generous and wise L.A based Talent & Brand Manager and occasional humming-bird whisperer, Seamus Lyte! UK Agent and close friend - back in the day - to none other than Princess Leia herself, Carrie Fisher! And Agent today to the likes of Ross King, Christopher Biggins & Tyler West to name but three. In this delightful episode, Seamus Lyte also tells bravely of how ‘trusting his hi...
Send us a text Please welcome Mike Dilke - Back & Ergonomic Products Expert & host of "The Relaxback Show" on UK Health Radio. As we share a relaxed bit of back-chat (see what we're doing here?!) about all things healthy back! Do you have back pain? Or would you like to know more about how to avoid it in the first place? If so, then "sit back - relax - and enjoy the show!" as Mike Dilke and I “blow a bit of reciprocal smoke” at each other to share audiences from our re...
Send us a text Ladies n' Genminminmin (er, min...) please welcome Tom Seals to The Clearing! For The Story Behind The Story Of ‘The Man Behind the Keys’ Of Boogie-Woogie-Wonder Pants & Jazz Musician Sensation - The Real Deal Tom Seals! To quote his own Hero Jools Holland: "Fantastic feel, fantastic voice, the wonderful Tom Seals!" He has also been described as being "A master of the piano and with vocals to pierce your soul - a Boogie-boogie-Genuis!" I was very recently introduc...
Send us a text Ladies n Genminminminmin (er min...) welcome BACK - for a second pass through the Good Listening To "Clearing" - this time with even better sound - the warm, wonderful and absolute comic genius that is "Tweedy The Clown" from Gifford's Circus! A special interview complete with "Keef - the Pet Rescue Iron!" for company! Ohhhhh yes! Alan Tweedy Digweed aka "Tweedy the Clown" is a true comic genuis in the Stan Laurel 'Vaudevillian' styley. Me and my extended Fam-Squ...
Send us a text Ladies n' Genminminminmin (er, min...) welcome to a very exciting Episode indeed! Yes, it's 'roll out the Red Carpet' time here in "The Good Listening To Show" Clearing as we warmly welcome Scottish TV Presenter & Broadcasting legend Ross King (MBE). Ross King is nothing short of a Broadcasting legend with 4 News Emmys, 2 Sony Awards, 1 Golden Mic - a Cycling Proficiency Test Certificate - a 25M Breastroke Certificate - a Duke of Edinburgh Award - and an Alan P...
Send us a text In The Clearing: Life-Changer, Warrioress, LinkedIn Trailblazer, Confidence & Career Success Coach, Roller Skater, Wild Swimmer & Awesome Pants Angie McQuillin! "Brand Strand" is where I wrap an episode of the Podcast around a particular individual or company to help amplify their Company or Pesonal Brand: "Who are you? What's your story and what do you do?" Former people-pleaser and dedicated dog- lover, Angie McQuillin spent many superficially successfu...
Send us a text Welcome to another very exciting Episode of "The Good Listening To" Podcast with me Chris Grimes! Please welcome to the "GLT Clearing" one of my very favorite people: The adorable, the lovely - the energetic power house - the vivacious - the eccentric - the truly barking and bananas - the roller-coaster that IS: Actress Kim Hicks! Kim Hicks is 7th Generation Actress, Bristolian - "One Woman Show" specialist - and a very, very natural raconteur... "Once the Ge...
Send us a text Welcome to another exciting - and indeed very special Episode - of "The Good Listening To" Podcast with me Chris Grimes! Please welcome to the "GLT Clearing" today: Writer, Performance Coach & "Somatic Worker" (get her!) the wise and wonderful Genevieve Grant-Thompson! A wonderful and rich conversation indeed, speaking to one of my very own wonderful and wise Mentors: Genevieve is a wise soul & spirit indeed - and someone that I hold in very high regard. She also...
Send us a text Welcome to another episode of "The Good Listening To" Podcast with me Chris Grimes! And in the "GLT Clearing" today: Actress, Facilitator & Coach - Wendy Bagger (or as I like to call her "Bendy Wagger"!) speaking to me from her home in the Rocky Mountains! In her "Clearing", she describes it beautifully as being the "crescendo moment - just at the end of a joyful and gutteral laugh with good friends - where you wish it would never stop!" She also shares a delicious...
Send us a text Welcome to another episode of "The Good Listening To Podcast" - with me Chris Grimes! And please welcome to the "GLT Clearing" Actor, Director & Journeyman - across time and space - Mr Stuart Cox! A perfect Shakesperian casting shoe-in (!) for a whole gallery of "iconic melancholics": Jacques, King Lear, Feste, The Fool - plus in other works: Doctor Who, Wallace & Gromit, Last of the Summer Wine, Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid & The Magnificent Seven. "All...
Send us a text Ladies & Gentlemen please welcome to a particularly exciting Episode of "The Good Listening To Podcast" with me Chris Grimes! And please welcome to the "GLT Clearing" one of my very favourite people on the planet, Katie Elliott Armitage! Katie is a well renowned Seamstress and all round lovely person - who reminds me of an "Expat Judy Dench!", so I loved her as soon as I met her! (Plus she also has a Ping Pong Table - so she's the person with very fine taste that just kee...
Send us a text Welcome to another Episode of "The Good Listening To Podcast" with me Chris Grimes! And please welcome to the GLT "Clearing" today - the lovely comic mind and comic brilliance of Jon Monie: An award-winning Actor, Writer, and Presenter. He is also a regular fellow improviser with Instant Wit - and (as he says on his website) an occasional table! Jon Monie is a very funny man indeed! If you'd like to Watch/Listen to Jon's interview on Vimeo it's here: https://vimeo.com...
Send us a text Ladies & Gentlemen welcome to another particularly exciting episode of "The Good Listening To" Podcast with me Chris Grimes! And please welcome to the GLT Clearing today Jo "Bradders" Bradshaw: Explorer, Expedition Leader, Public Speaker and all round 'life trailblazer'. In her own words: "My name is Jo. I’m an adventurer, expedition leader, outdoor instructor and public speaker. Currently one mountain away from climbing the highest peak on each of the 7 con...
Send us a text Welcome to another Episode of "The Good Listening To Podcast" with me Chris Grimes! And please welcome to the GLT "Clearing" today, the very lovely Paul Hill , Voice Teacher and Actor who I also have the great pleasure of working alongside at Working Voices too! And I also credit Paul here, for being very largely responsible for the "Genesis of the idea" of this, my Podcast: As it was a 'flash of inspiration' that came to me whilst listening to him (on a Zoom Trai...
Send us a text Welcome to another exciting episode of "The Good Listening To" Podcast with me Chris Grimes! Please welcome to the GLT "Clearing" today: Katie Elliott, Wellbeing & Mental Health Coach, Speaker, Podcaster & Facilitator extraordinaire! Katie is also a mental health "survivor", which adds extreme depth to her work. She's a very talented multi-instrumentalist Musician too! Katie also used to play keyboards as one of the musicians in my Comedy Impr...
Send us a text Ladies n' Genmin welcome to another exciting episode of "The Good Listening To" Podcast with me Chris Grimes! And today, I'm delighted to welcome to The "GLT Clearing", Dame Eric Potts! Eric is wonderful Actor - a very funny man indeed - a warm and generous friend - a great singer - and a true Pantomime Dame of Distinction! Just Google him and you will see! Eric and I trained together at The Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. As testament to his wonderful warmth and gen...
Send us a text Ladies n' Genmin welcome to another exciting episode of "The Good Listening To Podcast" with me Chris Grimes! And please welcome to the "GLT Clearing" Lizzie Hodgson: Double TedX Speaker and Impact of Tech on Society Thought Leader. One of Lizzie's 2 Ted Talks is the unmissable and extremely compelling: "Do Not Miss Your Escalator Moment", all about "windows of opportunity" and how "out of adversity comes great creativity..." A story of falling, failing and picking your...
Send us a text Ladies and Genmin' welcome to another Episode of "The Good Listening To Podcast" with me Chris Grimes! A special "Legacy: Life Reflections" Episode. And please welcome to the GLT Clearing - where you always come to get a "damned good listening to!" - ex-Ad Man/Mad-Man!" and all round thoroughly decent human being, my very good friend Reg Starkey! A wonderfully rich conversation with reflections a-plenty on a colourful and creative life, both long-lived and wise! Born in Bar...
Send us a text Welcome to another Episode of "The Good Listening To Podcast - with me Chris Grimes!" And today, please welcome to GLT Clearing: "Squashy Old Bagpuss" himself - my old Acting Teacher from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Mr John Hartoch! John is the ex "Head of Acting Courses" at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. John Hartoch was one of my illustrious gallery of Acting Teachers (among the likes of the great Nat Brenner - Peter O'Toole's mentor - and Rudi She...
Send us a text Ladies n' Genmin, absolutely delighted to welcome to the "GLT Clearing", the wise and wonderful Nick Fordham, currently based in Hong Kong! Nick Fordham has been described as being "the most highly saught-after soft-skills trainer in Asia" - or as I like to call him "the most saught after man in Asia in soft trainers!" Chortle! Nick is a friend, facilitator, coach and a very wise man. And as I knew all along - he'd be well worth "giving a damn good listening to" ...
Send us a text Gifted musician, James Oram, welcomes us into his Clearing to serenade us with the alchemy and gold that pours from his psyche. Not only is James a talented musician in his own right, but is an expert in inspiring confidence in children, allowing them to communicate and discover themselves through the art of music. James has also recently published a brand new single! it's called "Time", and if you're a fan of piano melodies that ooze emotion, I'd highly recommend having a li...
Send us a text Please welcome to the "GLT Clearing" Ladies n' Genmin', Australian adventurers, LinkedIn explorers and super-hero husband and wife team, Stephen and Donna Fry! Stephen and Donna Fry are on an extraordinary mission and quest together, to "meet at least one new person every single day, throughout the 366 days of this year". Erm - and what a year, in particular, this has been! Stephen set out on his "Epic Quest" this year, blissfully unaware about what 2020 in particular w...
Send us a text Please welcome to the "GLT Clearing" Ladies n' Genmin, my very special guest and long-term friend, Julian P Page, Managing Director of the Livingstone Tanzania Trust. Julian co-founded the Charity in 2007, after a career changing epiphany and a realisation of a desire to step in and proactively help to bring about change, in a way that went way beyond the more familiar approach by most, of just giving money. He started a Charity that is now supporting many fantastic initi...
Send us a text Ladies n' Genmin please welcome to the GLT Clearing, Sara Hollamby: TV Presenter (of London's iconic New Year's Day Parade show with over 300 million viewers - get her!), Actress and fellow Facilitator & Coach at Working Voices. With the outdoors and nature - and Dew Pond, close to where she lives in particular - as her "Clearing", Sara tells us the comedy stories of being unexpectedly surrounded by deer one minute (just like Snow White!) and then the next being appr...
Send us a text Ladies n' Genmin - please welcome to the "Clearing" today if you will - the warm, wonderful and wise Andy Day: A story of a man who once forgot his own trousers - and then commandeered some more! (We've all done it - and indeed I was there when he did it!) Featuring the lovely stories of "the history of a family chair" and how to use an an awareness of "crocodiles and hippos" in handling our interpersonal relationships - particularly when there is conflict afoot! Hurrah...
Send us a text Ladies & Gentlemen please welcome to the Clearing the "Queen of Resilience" herself, Maria Kassova, who I have the great pleasure of working alongside at Working Voices. Maria describes herself beautifully as being a "Bulgarian Nomad": Daughter of a Bulgarian Diplomat and an Opera Singer mother - who sadly is no longer with us, but who went by the truly spectacular name of Tatiana Kolarova Kassova and who passes on her song to this day. You can find out...
Send us a text Big shot content manager, Dan Parry, delves into the Clearing with full force! Dan Parry is an incredibly talented writer, storyteller and journalist - both within TV, having worked for the BBC, and in writing having published his own book, "Moon Shot" - the inside story of Man's greatest adventure, the Moon landing. Dan is one of the very few journalists to have had an exclusive interview with Neil Armstrong on live TV. So - enjoy the ride and happy landings! Dan is c...
Send us a text Charlie Schroeder "facilitator, coach, storyteller, actor, author and radio guy" takes us through his adventurous, and quirky history - from growing up in an Amish log cabin in Lancaster, Pennsylvania - to becoming a talented author, historical re-enactor and an accomplished actor - including several appearances in acclaimed US TV series "Suits". Charlie is also an actor "Jason Bateman doppelgänger" (see Ozark series) and he also - what are the chances? - has a beautifu...
Send us a text Please welcome to the GLT Podcast "Clearing" Ladies and Gentlemen - for Episode 2 - the lovely Dave Stewart, Managing Director of "The Fresh Air Leadership" Company! Dave Stewart - the clue's in his company title - is a true breath of Fresh Air! On LinkedIn he describes himself as the creator of bespoke, no-bullshit thinking and development experiences for leaders and teams in amazing Scottish spaces. How fantastic is that?! I have the great privilege of working...
Send us a text My great friend and business partner (in Second Curve) is Tom Cassidy. I also have the great pleasure of working alongside Tom at Working Voices, which is where we first met 10 years ago this year. Tom is one of the best and most intuitive coaches and facilitators that I have ever had the pleasure of working with. He is also Head of Executive Coaching at the mighty Working Voices. Here he is being given a "Damn Good Listening To" as a taste of his own medicine (!) in th...
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