If You're Happy, Do You Know It?

Please open your ear canals and welcome James Wichall (Jimmy Two Ears/Jimothy) to the podcast arena. This week we discuss Happiness on an entirely new and more macro level as James ponders the idea that we could all try a 'do-over' with society's structure as a whole and this could lead to being a happier culture. James puts forward that the ideals of communism are far more attractive than what has been put into practice and the two chaps talk about how loneliness can seriously impact one's life. James also tells us of his dreams of buying a yacht and the intricacies of Quantum computing. ENJOY!

Find James on Instagram: @jimmytwoears

Join Al and friendly friend-colleague Emma "13" Baker in the podcast arena. Al and Emma discuss how taking pride in one's work, finding work that brings a great deal of passion can give you a real sense of happiness, day to day, even when it's stressful! Emma extols the virtues of seeing the world and discovering other cultures.
Find Emma on instagram: @emmabee123

Joyful, honest, pragmatic Steve Dunne sits down in the arena for a decaf cappuccino and a wonderful chat about all things happiness.
Steve muses on the idea of happiness being fundamentally undefinable whilst also recognising it as potentially a three-stage process and wonders if it's possible to achieve all three.
Steve talks about his past, his future as a new father and how he's found himself comfortable with living pretty neatly in the present... mostly!

You can find Steve on twitter: @stevedunnemusic
Steve also co-hosts the much better podcast @teenagemixtape which can be found everywhere one would find podcasts.

Actor, Model and super duper person in general Ava Grace joins us for a chat about happiness and how she has found her journey to her own sense of happiness through a difficult past. Al and Ava fly wildly around different topics but always, hopefully with a smile somewhere in the mix.
Find Ava on instragram: @avagraceofficial
Find Ava on twitter: @samanthavagrace

Sound Recordist and Camera Rental guru Paul Hellard talks to Al about things that make him UNHAPPY and how he takes this on board and takes a logical and pragmatic approach to solve unhappiness, with the aim to replace it with the inevitable opposite. Paul discusses frankly that his face and voice make people assume that he's unhappy, but this mostly is not the case.

Paul remains enigmatic online, but his incredible camera rental company can be found here: www.shoothd.com

Come on down and devote your ears to the glorious wisdom and gentle warmth of Kash Khan. Kash tells us about how, early on in her adult life, she was bold enough to see the career path she had chosen and dedicated herself to was making her profoundly unhappy and decided to change this, and only very rarely looks back...

Al's dear friend Ben joins him in the arena for an incredibly out of date discussion about Brexit, their old school and their hatred of both.
Al pushes Ben to hopefully realise that his own outlook on life is, at least seemingly, a pretty healthy one and pretty conducive to his happiness. They reminisce, they laud praise upon one another and Ben opens up about his experiences as a gay teenager in an environment that was not in any way suited to being one, and how ultimately, this gave him strength of character.
Ben is an Actor and Events Manager, amongst other things.
Find Ben on Instagram: @bensansum
Find Ben on Twitter: @SansumB

This week, the wondrous wonder that is Harriet joins us for an arena-based chat that centres on cats, love for them and Harriet's active quest to be more present and live less in her worrisome head and more in the moment.
Harriet and Al discuss the tendency for those that think of themselves as "Artists" to shy away from becoming more consistently happy in an attempt to remain 'creative'. Harriet decries this idea as a bad one and advocates working on one's mental health as a way to becoming happier folk.

Al rambles on and on about his stupid coat.

You can find Harriet on twitter: @harrietkemsley
You can find Harriet on instagram too: @harrietkemsley

One of Al's long-time super-pals, Edwin, joins us in the podcast arena to discuss his take on what makes happiness real. Edwin talks about the ease with which he made the decision to move 3000 miles away and start a fresh chapter and what this has meant to him over the years. Ed opens up about the importance of a fairly reliable structure to his life and how this relates strongly to his own sense of calm, well-being and of course, his happiness.

You can listen to more of Ed's wonderful vox on his incredible podcast: Seven Days to Play - http://www.sevendaystoplay.com

Ed can be found on instagram: @edvanbeinum
Ed can be found on twitter: @edvanbeinum

This week's guest is the excellent Rhiannon Handy who discusses openly a time in her recent past where she felt she had lost grip on who she thought was as a person. Al obsesses over how people could NOT like the musical Hamilton and Rhiannon tells us about the delights of learning Aerial Hoop. Enjoy!

Find Rhiannon on instagram: @handyrhi
Find Rhiannon on twitter: @handyrhi