Here's the good news: Most crime is not Organised - or done as a result of a cold rational decision. Most people are inside for other reasons - reasons that can be treated or worked with. In other words there's hope - but you have to look and think differently to hold it.

These podcasts don't get made unless Tom Haigh of Sound Post Production www.tomhaigh.com and interviewer Tony Maguire www.boxkik.com decide to roll out of bed. Fortunately for me I still seem to be giving them reason to do so. Chapeau, gentlemen.

It's all too easy to focus on the dark side when delving into criminal justice.
There is dark and there is also Hope - and that hope can start today with each of us.
Andy doesn't have a manifesto but if he did the first early draft version would be six lines: These are those six.

These podcasts don't get made unless Tom Haigh of Sound Post Production www.tomhaigh.com and interviewer Tony Maguire www.boxkik.com decide to roll out of bed. Fortunately for me I still seem to be giving them reason to do so. Chapeau, gentlemen.

Covid may be officially over but the legacy is lingering way longer in the prison system than in society at large. As Andy gets ready to start new NHS-funded work with elderly, disabled and vulnerable men he talks about how to hold on to Hope amidst the despair, and breaking the strangle-hold of the culture and practice of 'Learned Helplessness' - an insidious and unexpected consequence of the lockdown years.

These podcasts don't get made unless Tom Haigh of Sound Post Production www.tomhaigh.com and interviewer Tony Maguire www.boxkik.com decide to roll out of bed. Fortunately for me I still seem to be giving them reason to do so. Chapeau, gentlemen.

Andy lands his first contracted work as our prison system tries to get to grips with the cost of covid for staff and men inside counted in terms of mental, physical and emotional health and function. 
10 years on from his first contact with our criminal justice system Andy talks about 'stickability' and earning the right to be invited in to do the work. 
He gives an insight to his work during covid supporting prison governors online that kept him in the game and the governors sane at their most challenging time in role.
He also speaks about his first contacts post-Covid with the men he worked with pre-lockdown and lifts the lid on what life inside was really like.

These podcasts don't get made unless Tom Haigh of Sound Post Production www.tomhaigh.com and interviewer Tony Maguire www.boxkik.com decide to roll out of bed. Fortunately for me I still seem to be giving them reason to do so. Chapeau, gentlemen.

Nothing Star Wars here: Andy talks about the what and why of the formation of his not-profit Run For Your Life in 2017, his hopes that he had and continues to have and how these compare to the reality of this type of work. He ends the 'cast talking movingly about the emotional impact of the work and how he is learning to deal with it.

These podcasts don't get made unless Tom Haigh of Sound Post Production www.tomhaigh.com and interviewer Tony Maguire www.boxkik.com decide to roll out of bed. Fortunately for me I still seem to be giving them reason to do so. Chapeau, gentlemen.

After nearly 10 years involving many false starts and progressive toe-dipping, Andy finally secures his first contracted work in a prison.
Then the Covid pandemic hit, prisons went into lockdown and all work stops.
Here Andy talks about what it took earn the right to be invited inside and what happened when programs of his design met reality for the first time.

These podcasts don't get made unless Tom Haigh of Sound Post Production www.tomhaigh.com and interviewer Tony Maguire www.boxkik.com decide to roll out of bed. Fortunately for me I still seem to be giving them reason to do so. Chapeau, gentlemen.

What does it take for one man with no history of prison or prison service to earn the right to work with people on the inside of the bars? What does that feel like - and why should you care anyway?
Andy Mouncey Founder of Run For Your Life CIC www.runforyourlife.org.uk talks candidly and from the heart.

Episode 1
Andy's first time inside is a visceral memory even today. Here he reflects on that and on other first contacts and then brings you right up to date with his most recent first: The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020-21.

These podcasts don't get made unless Tom Haigh of Sound Post Production www.tomhaigh.com and interviewer Tony Maguire www.boxkik.com decide to roll out of bed. Fortunately for me I still seem to be giving them reason to do so. Chapeau, gentlemen.