Experience Good Coffee Podcast

Jo Enright is very funny. We wanted to know the person behind the TV characters and what inspired Jo to get into the comedy circuit.

Jo speaks honestly about her route into comedy via a childhood passion in acting and the moment a tutor introduced her to stand up and some of the most iconic stand up comedians who used comedy not only to make but to communicate a message.

This fascinating chat with Jo shows us how she juggles TV work with The Job Lot, After Life and Phoenix Nights, with the Stand up circuit. How she is inspiring her son to find his voice and we discuss the serious mental health benefits of knitting.

“I was surprised I would enjoy performing stand up Comedy and I was surprised someone would pay me for it” Jo Enright

Jo discusses how she loves to find a script with a new character that she can portray on TV, but also her love of writing her own material and her voice in the stand up arena.

Catch Jo on tour this Autumn including at the Constitutional in Farsley (Leeds) on Sat 1 Oct 2022 @theconstitutionalfarsley on Insta.

Follow Jo at https://www.joenright.com

“I believe you don’t need a stage to impact others, you can start right now impacting the lives of others”

Nick & Linda are joined by Tim Schurrer in this Podcast where he discusses his new book ‘The Secret Society of Success’ and gives us the tools to redefine what success looks like in our life.

It’s a game changer.

There’s a message getting a lot of airtime these days. It says to be successful, you have to step into the spotlight, climb the ladder, become the boss, or chase whatever version of success that’s been dangled in front of you.

But what if there’s another way? What if fame, money, and power aren’t all that we should be chasing?

In The Secret Society of Success, Tim Schurrer invites you to reevaluate your definition of success and learn a new, freer way to go about achieving it.

Simon Thomas, TV Presenter (Blue Peter & Sky Sports), has been through quite a journey in his life, from dealing with anxiety and panic attacks whilst working, and then losing his first wife very suddenly to a rare blood cancer.

“We went from [my wife’s] diagnosis at the start of the week to dying on the Friday” TV Presenter, Simon Thomas talks openly about how he and his son got through losing his first wife to acute myeloid leukaemia; a rare form of blood cancer. Navigating grief, and finding hope.

Simon made a big impact on our lives through his book; ‘Love, Interrupted’, his social media video blogs in the midst of some of the hardest times of his life, and his ‘Life, Interrupted’ Podcasts.

We wanted to discuss with Simon, what inspired him to share his struggles and story so early on, which has been such a lifeline to so many following his open and honest story.

Its a privilege to hear Simon talk honestly about his journey again and what motivates him each day to find hope, recovery and happiness.

If you want to hear more, tune into Simon’s Podcast “Life, Interrupted”. And you can buy his book ‘Love, interrupted; navigating grief, finding hope’ at all good bookshops.

Wetherspoons, Bastille, La La Land and Ubermilk. It can only be the experience good coffee podcast is back.

Today we chat to Theoneste Ndagijimana from Rwanda about his life, and how he connected us to the incredible coffee from Twongerekawa Coko Washing Station.

Also Phil Schluter - a guru in the coffee world, and a joy to have join us to tell this story of the challenges and realities of commerciality alongside social impact vision.

Nick and Linda, co-founders of CLO Coffee host.

Dan from Incredible Edible joins us for today’s episode to tell us how this game-changing community project began in Leeds. Nick and Linda also chat about new BBC drama ‘Us’.

Lockdown has put serious pressures on all of our lives. There is no escaping how personal it is. We caught up with Annah, the Manager of the NOTDEC children’s support services in the coffee growing community. How is lockdown and flooding effecting the most vulnerable children in her community?

We have been fundraising to give 70 food parcels to support 76 vulnerable Orphan children living with extended family. And we’re DELIGHTED to say we hit our target over the weekend!!! Thank you for giving £3920.

We’re keeping the fundraising open and all money donated will go straight to the families as they get back on their feet after lockdown and recover from the flooding.

If you prefer you can watch the interview here.

Head Roaster Linda takes us through the Roasting process on a Probate coffee roaster & demonstrates a different method for a longer Aeropress drink.

Continuing the lockdown series, Nick and Linda chat about lockdown life with running a coffee business, whilst also home-schooling 4 kids in four different key-stages. Getting to the end of week 7 and its starting to settle down, although never quite feels normal.

Highlights from the week are the boiler breaking, and then fixing itself just in time for the boiler man arriving, and potty training (again) with the 3 year old.

Linda demonstrates the coffee roasting process in our highlights from the 11am Facebook Live during Lockdown. Showing us how she roasts the Ethiopian Yirgacheffe on the Probat coffee roaster.

Finally we demonstrate how to brew an Aeropress coffee with a slightly different method which produces a longer drink.

You can also view this podcast as a video on the CLO YouTube channel.

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18th March 2020 was a very strange day in the UK - Lockdown was starting. Nick & Linda Castle had made the decision to close their CLO cafes, after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that all ‘unnecessary’ interaction should be avoided. It felt the right thing to close up shop immediately. Then began the 11am Facebook Live (and soon Instagram) to bring the cafe antics to your home.

Like many cafes, up and down the country, CLO has lots of elderly and people who may live alone, or not see many others, and the cafe was their friendship circle. This played heavy on our minds during the business team meeting where the decision was made to close the cafes, Vicki suggested we continue doing our cafe community online, so Linda immediately started a Facebook group “CLO at home, your not on your own”.

We’ve picked out the highlights from 6 days a week of 11am ‘coffee time’ live! From coffee brewing demonstrations, to coffee cocktails, to building rocket launchers, to home schooling its all here. Good days and bad days during this very strange season we’re all going through.

This week’s highlights: brewing a good cafetiere, first days of lockdown, starting homeschool and reflections 6 weeks in.

This is the first Podcast you can also watch - find us on our YouTube channel ‘CLO Coffee’.

We catch up on the Corona Virus situation after closing our CLO cafes last week, and then chat with UK Storybrand consultant and CLO Coffee CMO, Dale Connelly. Bad experiences of customer service and cafes. How to enjoy good coffee at home, and create a moment.

Nick & Linda Castle have been home-schooling their 4 kids for the past 3 days, and discuss the decision to close their CLO cafes last week. In this podcast, they chat about the situation for them living in the north of the UK. And then switch focus to a lighter-hearted chat with Storybrand consultant Dale Connelly about coffee experiences.