Life Begins

Your very own Life Begins mini advent calendar: one

It’s the final episode of the Life Begins Christmas Countdown. Which means one thing – it’s Christmas! It may not be the Christmas we know and love but Grace and Shell bring the festive cheer and take you through the countdown to number one, where they ask each other to name their number one Christmas song. In a test of their friendship they also try to guess each other’s favourite. Will they guess correctly?

At the end of a very challenging year, it’s likely to be a very different Christmas for many people. However you spend it, we wish you all the best for Christmas time and for the year ahead.

Listen to the episode through your favourite podcast app or watch the video at: https://youtu.be/_ymQFra1XFo

A huge festive thank you to the lovely Ange, who edited this episode and made all of these remotely-recorded episodes possible. And for the podcast theme tune we cannot ever get out of our heads, Rob Glover, ‘thank you for the music’.

Co-hosted and produced by Grace and Shell.

Life Begins is a podcast about the many new beginnings that life brings. Join Grace and Shell as they discuss their Life Begins moments with each other and their guests.

Your very own Life Begins mini advent calendar: two

In this episode Grace and Shell discuss doubt and certainty, including self-doubt and self-assurance, the language we use to reflect how confident we are feeling, and what we can learn about doubt and certainty from different generations or across different periods of our own lives. As this week’s theme is the number two, Grace and Shell each share two of their family traditions at Christmas.

Listen to the episode through your favourite podcast app or watch the video at: https://youtu.be/klKWy0VUcKA 

If you want to know more about women unintentionally holding themselves back from applying for certain jobs due to doubting their abilities (and what can we can all learn from this – men too), read ‘Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead’ by Sheryl Sandberg

Co-hosted and produced by Grace and Shell.

This episode was made possible with the kind help of Ange and her editing talents.

Music by Rob Glover.

Life Begins is a podcast about the many new beginnings that life brings. Join Grace and Shell as they discuss their Life Begins moments with each other and their guests.

Your very own Life Begins mini advent calendar: three

During a year when planning for the future has been more challenging than usual, Grace and Shell discuss the power of dreaming big. On the theme of three, they each share three goals for the coming year.

Listen to the episode through your favourite podcast app or watch the video at: https://youtu.be/vqC4XZpGQQo

Two vision board videos we liked:

Whitney White on creating a digital vision board: https://youtu.be/el95Q0HHNEs

Terri Savelle Foy on why you need a vision with goals: https://youtu.be/Iz5RvBY6BJU

We’re very grateful to the lovely Ange, for keeping us going with her editing wizzardry.

Co-hosted and produced by Grace and Shell.

Music by Rob Glover.

Life Begins is a podcast about the many new beginnings that life brings. Join Grace and Shell as they discuss their Life Begins moments with each other and their guests.

Your very own Life Begins mini advent calendar: four

This week Grace and Shell discuss how life doesn’t always work out the way you expected but sometimes when you ‘pivot’ and embrace a different direction, things can work out even better than you could have imagined. As a nod to week four of the Life Begins countdown to Christmas, Grace and Shell each share four pieces of advice they have been given in life. (With perhaps some nuggets of wisdom more helpful than others!)

Listen to the episode through your favourite podcast app or watch the video at: https://youtu.be/j4NMbHYrG0o

Someone who has embraced a ‘pivot’ this year - check out @kevonstage

Another big thank you to friend-of-the-podcast, Ange for all her help with editing.

Co-hosted and produced by Grace and Shell.

Music by Rob Glover.

Life Begins is a podcast about the many new beginnings that life brings. Join Grace and Shell as they discuss their Life Begins moments with each other and their guests.

Your very own Life Begins mini advent calendar: five

Grace and Shell are excited to be back for this five-part mini-series, counting you down to Christmas 2020. In this episode Grace and Shell check in with each other since series two and discuss feelings of existential crisis. In-keeping with the episode theme of number five, they reveal five things they have learned during this unusual year.

Listen to the episode through your favourite podcast app or watch the video at: https://youtu.be/YvITX0IoVNQ

We loved this video by Evelyn From The Internets: How to be creative when you’re feeling existential: https://youtu.be/6Psq9Uujt3E

Shell’s drawings can be found @shellisofficial

A huge thank you to our superstar friend-of-the-podcast, Ange, for editing this episode.

Co-hosted and produced by Grace and Shell.

Music by Rob Glover.

Life Begins is a podcast about the many new beginnings that life brings. Join Grace and Shell as they discuss their Life Begins moments with each other and their guests.

Life Begins...when you move to London at sixteen

In the second part of this double episode with married couple, Kwesi and Jenaé, we hear how Jenaé’s life changed when she moved to London at the age of sixteen to live with her mum. And later Jenaé also talks about how redundancy gave her the necessary push to pursue her dreams as a Singer-songwriter and Creative Director. Both of these pivotal moments tie in with the gradual change from wearing a ‘mask of confidence’ to growing in confidence from the inside.

Find out more about Jenaé and Kwesi’s music on Instagram:

@iamjenaemills

@mrkpoetry

@weareone_music

Listen to the episode through your favourite podcast app or watch the video at: https://youtu.be/JyHjeulNM0Q

Thank you once again to friend-of-the-podcast, Ange for her wonderful help with editing this episode.

Co-hosted and produced by Grace and Shell.

Music by Rob Glover.

Life Begins is a podcast about the many new beginnings that life brings. Join Grace and Shell as they discuss their Life Begins moments with each other and their guests

Life Begins...when you never say never to teaching

This is the first of a double episode with married couple, Kwesi and Jenaé, who are both talented musicians.

In this episode Kwesi (also known as Mr K) tells us how he discovered his love of teaching, which turned out to be an unexpected passion whilst pursuing his dreams as a spoken word artist. We also discuss how to keep dreams alive and to pursue them during this time of lockdown.

Find out more about Kwesi and Jenaé’s music on Instagram:

@mrkpoetry

@iamjenaemills

@weareone_music

Listen to the episode through your favourite podcast app or watch the video at: https://youtu.be/x8zuyZchO1g

Another huge thank you to friend-of-the-podcast, Ange for all her help with editing.

Co-hosted and produced by Grace and Shell.

Music by Rob Glover.

Life Begins is a podcast about the many new beginnings that life brings. Join Grace and Shell as they discuss their Life Begins moments with each other and their guests.

Life Begins...when you’re in lockdown

Grace and Shell return for another chat about life under lockdown. How did they get on with the challenges they set themselves in episode six? How are they doing in week five of the lockdown?

Listen to the episode through your favourite podcast app or watch the video at: https://youtu.be/3lR3WSFqyvo

Once again, a huge thank you to friend-of-the-podcast, Ange for all her help with editing.

Co-hosted and produced by Grace and Shell.

Music by Rob Glover.

Life Begins is a podcast about the many new beginnings that life brings. Join Grace and Shell as they discuss their Life Begins moments with each other and their guests.

Life Begins... when there is a global pandemic

Under these unusual circumstances Grace and Shell venture into recording the podcast remotely, so thank you for bearing with us whilst we navigate the technology.

Grace and Shell chat to each other about virtual social life under the lockdown and the importance of feeling our feelings.

Listen to the episode through your favourite podcast app or watch the video at: https://www.youtube.com/user/MyAfropuff

A huge thank you to friend-of-the-podcast, Ange, for her techno-skills wizardry, without whom we’d be a bit stuck on our homework.

Co-hosted and produced by Grace and Shell.

Music by Rob Glover.

Life Begins is a podcast about the many new beginnings that life brings. Join Grace and Shell as they discuss their Life Begins moments with each other and their guests.

Keep in touch with us:

Instagram: @lifebeginspodcast

Twitter: @lifebeginspod

Facebook: facebook.com/lifebeginspodcast

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Life Begins...after you are permanently excluded from school.

Lana and her mum Sheila share with us their two sides of the same story. We hear how Lana turned her life around after being permanently excluded from school as a teenager and Sheila tells us her experience of that journey from a parent's perspective.

Co-hosted and produced by Grace and Shell.

Music by Rob Glover.

Life Begins is a podcast about the many new beginnings that life brings. Join Grace and Shell as they discuss their Life Begins moments with each other and their guests

Keep in touch with us:

Instagram: @lifebeginspodcast

Twitter: @lifebeginspod

Facebook: facebook.com/lifebeginspodcast

e. [email protected]