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We’re ‘Championing the Chat’ for greater positivity and better mental health & wellbeing. The award-winning PodBarber podcast is part of the current movement to get people to talk. It was founded and is run by Mick Phipps and Howie Fiddy, who have gained much training and experience through the likes of Samaritans, MHFA, and Lions Collective. We’ve remastered our collective skills to create an inspiring show that helps uncover the power of conversation as the bedrock for healing within. The world of health and beauty is at the forefront of this movement. As a barber of some 20+ years, Mickey brings the therapy and positivity he provides around his chair into the studio to showcase how we can support society simply by talking and listening. With each podcast meticulously created by seasoned radio producer Howie, we provide a unique listening experience that will get under your skin. Guests from every walk of life share their stories; their tribulations and their triumphs, peppered with deep and insightful reflections and observations from our host, not to mention a few laughs and smiles along the way. Here at The PodBarber HQ, when we’re trying to describe the potency of this new form of reality entertainment, all we say is: Just Listen! You’ll be glad you did.
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The hair and beauty world has a huge role to play in overall health and wellbeing: looking good starts with feeling good. Enter Abi Farrow, the CEO of award-winning aesthetics clinic and training academy, Enhance Me.Abi knows the power and importance of recovery. She lost her mother at 2 years old; she was caught up in crime and imprisoned whilst living abroad; she suffered through the darkness of mental health challenges & trauma from her sibling's drug addiction, It finally caught up with her and she decided to totally transform herself.Now she’s worked her way to the top, listen to Abi’s ‘zero to hero’ journey and deeply breathe in the immense determination of this remarkable young lady.Follow Abi and Enhance Me:InstagramFacebookWebTake a sneaky listen to some PodBarber highlights.Support the showJoin the PodBarber family:PatreonConnect with Mick:Instagram
Dr. Albert Ulrich Gerhard is a beekeeper, tending to the insect integral to the survival of every living being. He currently runs about 30 hives in his apiary, pulling around one and a half tons of honey every season.Born in Germany in the late 60s and being UK based since the 90s, Uli’s PhD in organic chemistry fed into his childhood love of bees, and he now makes time to educate and teach children in his local schools about bees.Often referred to as the crazy German because he shuns the use of protective clothing, Uli has a rather unconventional style of beekeeping, but what he doesn’t know about bees isn’t worth knowing.This is a fascinating podcast - it's the bee's knees...Follow Uli:LinkedInWebTake a sneaky listen to some PodBarber highlights.Support the showJoin the PodBarber family:PatreonConnect with Mick:Instagram
Russell Bohringer is the founder of SIAH Lifestyle Coaching. As well as incorporating a wide spectrum of therapies such as breathwork, yoga and meditation, the 1-to-1 service helps to implement life-transforming daily habits.Acknowledging his addictive personality, and previously suffering with great anxiety, Russ learned exactly how to re-focus that energy, helping to melt away his mental agonies. He’s now able to share those intentions with his clients, shifting mindsets and enabling them to hugely improve the mind, body and soul.Russ has an incredible energy which is, in itself, addictive. Get hooked on the man with the plan.Join the PodBarber family:PatreonConnect with Russ:Instagram: https://www.nathansimmondscoaching.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nathan.p.simmondsTake a sneaky listen to some PodBarber highlights.Support the showJoin the PodBarber family:PatreonConnect with Mick:Instagram
Jasmine Virdi is a freelance writer in ecology, ethnobotany and psychoactive substances. She promotes responsible education on the healing power of plants, coupled with modern psychotherapy and counselling. Jazz’s work is celebrated through her inclusion in the 40 under 40 outstanding BIPOC leaders in drug policy. The scientific community is increasingly qualifying the effectiveness of psychedelics to aid the recovery from mental illness, addiction, and trauma; and Jazz is at the forefront of this movement. Tune your ear and your mind to this podcast conversation recognising indigenous cultures and these ancient technologies.Follow Jazz:InstagramLinkedInTake a sneaky listen to some PodBarber highlights.Support the showJoin the PodBarber family:PatreonConnect with Mick:Instagram
Patrick James Wells and Georgia Wilson Waterworth are the creative duo behind a natural supplement company, ENITY. Their individual life experiences - between them battling drug and alcohol addiction, anorexia, depression and ADD – place them perfectly for their new roles.After years of therapy, Patrick and Georgia found sobriety and fell in love, but unexpectedly had to move to the UK from South Africa due to the Covid pandemic. And start all over again.They’re now devoting their immense, combined energies into helping others to optimise their wellbeing utilising ENITY, their rapidly expanding supplements company.This incredibly resilient couple is turning surviving into thriving.Follow ENITY and Patrick and Georgia:Facebook: enitylabInstagram: enitylabWeb: enitylab.comTake a sneaky listen to some PodBarber highlights.Support the showJoin the PodBarber family:PatreonConnect with Mick:Instagram
Ben Sillett is a lawn care technician by day and a passionate Old-school House DJ by night. Sounds like a happy life, right? Maybe, but Ben’s childhood parental losses, leading to drug problems and anxiety and depression, paint a different picture. Listen to Ben’s courageous story of how he has coped with his trauma, grief and turmoil through counselling and ‘talking therapy’, and how his love of music helped him rediscover his swagger.Ben Sillett a.k.a. Wizzy B is on the mic. and he’s got a lot to tell you…Take a sneaky listen to some PodBarber highlights.Support the showJoin the PodBarber family:PatreonConnect with Mick:Instagram
Frankie Witmer wants to talk ‘porn’. She was raised in 1960s Switzerland, has travelled the world a few times, worked in many professions and learned several languages.Frankie founded a language school for adults and children and now works as a transition coach. She believes that we can all help to guide our future generations towards living with no need for mental and emotional healing.To that end, Frankie identifies the need to tackle one of the most dangerous and destructive dependencies in the world: porn addiction. She has undertaken lengthy studies, concluding that the effects of this addiction go beyond destroying relationships and marriages; the world’s population figures are also at stake…Porn addiction help:Web: Recovery.org.ukFrankie's life work:Web: Jardin33Take a sneaky listen to some PodBarber highlights.Support the showJoin the PodBarber family:PatreonConnect with Mick:Instagram
Seb Walker is on a mission to change lives through the sport of rowing.Discovering a passion at university for ‘the ultimate team sport’ helped him to grow in self-confidence; the physical and mental discipline, and the camaraderie cemented his obsession with the world of rowing.In 2021, after many years working within government for the MOD, HM Customs, as well as helping implement Tony Blair’s defence review, Seb and two friends established the East Anglia Youth Rowing Club. The organisation provides children from all backgrounds the opportunity to row and to experience the life-changing benefits of being involved with the sport.Seb and the youth rowing club:Facebook: eastangliayouthrowingInstagram: eastangliayouthrowingLinkedIn: east-anglia-youth-rowingTake a sneaky listen to some PodBarber highlights.Support the showJoin the PodBarber family:PatreonConnect with Mick:Instagram
Throughout childhood, Annika Fox suffered the debilitating symptoms of a rare condition, with bouts of fatigue, physical and neuro pain, migraines, insomnia and recurrent injuries. It was finally diagnosed in her mid-30s as Hypermobile Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, or EDS.With no known cure for her condition, Annie dispensed with the increasing number of pharma drugs she’d been taking and sought alternative support from plant-based medicines, particularly essential oils.This podcast is a story is of one woman experiencing invisible pain, yet developing resiliently to found ‘Essentially Annie’, and she is now on a quest with doTERRA oil products to help people with chronic health conditions thrive rather than simply survive.Essentially Annie:Facebook: annieessentiallyInstagram: annieessentiallyTake a sneaky listen to some PodBarber highlights.Support the showJoin the PodBarber family:PatreonConnect with Mick:Instagram
John Dowd is the philosophical father behind his family's food truck venture, Boho kitchen, the menu drawing on the family travels around the Mediterranean.Prior to starting this ‘later-life’ business, John was a teacher and then a highly respected head teacher, a career that enabled him to apply his ethics and moral principles to profoundly impact thousands of young people.John strongly believes in equality, refusing to tolerate discrimination of any kind, and in this podcast he eloquently communicates this and other life philosophies which will really get under your attention. He offers food for the belly, and food for thought.Join the PodBarber family:PatreonConnect with Mick:InstagramBoho Kitchen:Facebook: Boho KitchenTake a sneaky listen to some PodBarber highlights.Support the showJoin the PodBarber family:PatreonConnect with Mick:Instagram
Luke Chadwick’s four seasons playing midfield for Manchester United alongside David Beckham and Ryan Giggs helped him gain great respect for his skills as a footballer. And his experience being under the wing of manager Sir Alex Ferguson taught him the human skills he uses in his current job.Luke’s enthusiasm for helping steer young people towards better mental health eventually brought him to take up the role of Director at The Football Fun Factory, an ever-growing franchise created to provide incredible childhood football experiences for boys and girls of all ages and ability levels.Listen to Luke’s heart-warming story of his own childhood passion for The Beautiful Game, his rise to fame, and the mental health struggles that ensued. He’s a seriously lovely man with a great heart for doing good in the world.Join the PodBarber family:PatreonConnect with Mick:InstagramTake a sneaky listen to some PodBarber highlights.Support the showJoin the PodBarber family:PatreonConnect with Mick:Instagram
Parenting: arguably, the hardest job in the world.Enter Sarah Ockwell-Smith, author of over a dozen parenting guidebooks, empowering parents to nurture their children’s life journeys. After studying psychology, working in pharmaceutical research and development, and then retraining as an antenatal teacher, Sarah turned to writing, drawing on her life experiences to offer us valuable assistance in raising our kids.Join Sarah on this fantastic episode as she shares with us her wisdom and knowledge, offering much-needed encouragement towards better parenting, including through being kind to ourselves.Join the PodBarber family:PatreonConnect with Mick:InstagramTake a sneaky listen to some PodBarber highlights.Support the showJoin the PodBarber family:PatreonConnect with Mick:Instagram
How are you?When you sit down in your barber’s chair, chances are they’ll ask you just that.National Barber Mental Health Awareness Day on May 19th was created to encourage us to return the question, to check in with our barbers as they so often check in on us. Barbers work intimately with multiple people every day, dealing with different energies and personalities. It’s not uncommon for a customer to unload their personal struggles onto their barber, and that can be a heavy burden to carry, especially if the barber is having a bad day themselves.In this episode, our very own Mick Phipps a.k.a. The PodBarber, talks to producer Howie about the mental health side of barbering. Their chat underlines the pressures a barber can be under and how National Barber Mental Health Awareness Day highlights the need for a barber to talk about their issue, too. It’s a fascinating podcast which details the life and psyche of barbers around the world.Join the PodBarber family:PatreonConnect with Mick:InstagramTake a sneaky listen to some PodBarber highlights.Support the showJoin the PodBarber family:PatreonConnect with Mick:Instagram
Damian Scannell spent his youth involved with drink, crime and a difficult family life. Then, along came a saviour who gave him the chance to use his fantastic soccer skills to eventually rack up over 100 appearances as a professional footballer.Damian is now commonly known as ‘Superdad Damo’, an online coach solely focussed on improving the lives of dads - currently a thousand-strong army of these men supporting each other to reach their goals.Damo raises huge amounts of money for underprivileged kids in London and he inspires men everywhere to better themselves physically and emotionally.Join the PodBarber family:PatreonConnect with Damo:YouTubeInstagramTake a sneaky listen to some PodBarber highlights.Support the showJoin the PodBarber family:PatreonConnect with Mick:Instagram
The PodBarber's Mickey Phipps brings along Anna Moorhouse from Saffron Walden County High school to talk to the BBC about the huge project that The Wellbeing Project is involved in with the school - to build a 'quiet room' for students in the pastoral hub.This episode is taken from the BBC's evening programme hosted by Rob Jelly, who shares the Wellbeing Project's passion and advocates for better mental health awareness across the region and throughout schools, offices, homes and beyond.Please read more and donate to this incredibly worthwhile project that will hopefully be a blueprint for schools nationally to implement:Go Fund MeTake a sneaky listen to some PodBarber highlights.Support the showJoin the PodBarber family:PatreonConnect with Mick:Instagram
Dr Gemma Mackman is not a conventional person, and so she was fated to a lifetime of the study of 'others' through Criminology and Sociology.Over 20 years ago, Gemma started studying the fascinating world of new age traveller communities, learning how they are often misjudged and vilified. She soon launched her own research agency and undertook a 6-year PHD exploring the tribal phenomenon of music festival-goers. Community and emotional enrichment go hand-in-hand, and Gemma enlightens us with a most fascinating insight into a world often overlooked and neglected, to the detriment of our understanding of her much-loved word: deviance.Join the PodBarber family:PatreonTake a sneaky listen to some PodBarber highlights.Support the showJoin the PodBarber family:PatreonConnect with Mick:Instagram
What’s a Rapid Change Therapist? Nathan Simmonds will explain. He’s one of those, and a leadership coach for FTSE 250 companies.His history of childhood hospitalisations, training in martial arts, ritual medicinal healings in Brazil and battling through working in the rat race, has informed his holistic approach to solving psychological issues within the modern working environment.Join this amazing, spiritual man and perhaps find your own solutions to the perceived difficulties that life throws at us.Join the PodBarber family:PatreonConnect with Nathan:Website: https://www.nathansimmondscoaching.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nathan.p.simmondsLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathansimmondstheleadershipcoach/Take a sneaky listen to some PodBarber highlights.Support the showJoin the PodBarber family:PatreonConnect with Mick:Instagram
Lee Coville’s story is one of fierce determination to achieve his childhood dream. This gentle, humble man’s only desire in life was to fight in the MMA and kickboxing ring.The path he trod took him from country to country, living rough, training hard day and night, determined to prove to the world that he could do it. First, he had to fight through the loneliness, isolation and anxiety; then the wins came.Lee is now a world champion many times over, and an inspirational example of how we can accomplish our goals with focus and commitment.Join the PodBarber family:PatreonConnect with Lee:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leecoville/Take a sneaky listen to some PodBarber highlights.Support the showJoin the PodBarber family:PatreonConnect with Mick:Instagram
New to the The Wellbeing Project by The PodBarber? Here's a little taster of what you can expect from this inspirational podcast series: snippets from some of the fantastic guests we've had on the show.And if you're already a seasoned Wellbeing Project listener, make sure to jump on our website for lots more info about who we are and what we do: www.thepodbarber.comSearch 'the podbarber' on social media and let's get connected. Subscribe and feel the positivity!Peace, love and power to your day.Mickey & HowieSupport the showJoin the PodBarber family:PatreonConnect with Mick:Instagram
We close the trio of SWCHS podcasts with Teacher of Art, Geri Jones, who combines a warm and maternal instinct with her educating skills to nurture and inspire her high school students.Art is mindfulness and can be a meditation, and it’s this philosophy that Geri uses, alongside a love of nature, inspiring our younger generation to cultivate a stronger, more positive mental health and wellbeing.Join Mick and Geri in this podcast as they chat about their passion for steering our youth towards a confident and emotionally successful future.Join the PodBarber family:www.patreon.com/thepodbarberHelp Sam build a Quiet Room by clicking here:https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-sam-build-a-quiet-room-at-swchsInsta: @b16.swchsTake a sneaky listen to some PodBarber highlights.Support the showJoin the PodBarber family:PatreonConnect with Mick:Instagram
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