Loose Lips

Our guest is Sam Airey: @samairey

Singer/Songwriter Sam Airey has built a loyal following in many countries over the years and can also be found DJin regularly at @oportobarleeds

In this chat we cover:

+ How his cats responding to him been home so much

+ His creative process and not putting pressure on setting a time aside not to force it

+ Embracing imperfections which can make a project feel more alive and authentic emotion and how to tap into that

+ Being drawn to songwriting and raised in a hugely musical household

+ The reasons why Leeds appealed and drew him in

+ Which other countries his music is proving popular in

+ How he gets booked for festivals and gigs and to make the most out of the momentum of releases

+ Running his own Record Label

+ Varying and mixing up the settings to make memorable gig experiences

+ How to find a balance in representing your sound and evolving it without alienating your fanbase

+ His DJin style and if the music though different genres inspire and influence his music

+ If he is going to be doing any Live Stream performances through his socials

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Our guest is Cam Hurley: @camma_chameleon

We then head back Stateside to link up with Cam - ex-Leeds resident and all round Emperor who is now relocated n settled in Boston forming his latest band @_rudeofficial

In this chat we cover:

+ Cycling and its benefits for getting around Boston

+ Adjusting to American life and its harsh winters

+ Doing city tours as a Pedicab rider

+ Tackling triggers facing his inner-shadows addressing his lifestyle and well-being

+ Seeking out and looking to locate his Dad out there

+ The history of Boston and its huge significance on American culture and monumental moments in their yesteryear

+ The impact of venues closing and housing areas being priced up

+ Other regions of The States he’s been too

+ How to view this current situation and what positive can come out of it

+ His lust to travel around America on the road

+ Working various Festivals

+ His own personal journey into his solo project

+ His new band project with Rude (@_rudeofficial) and their approach to the creative process

+ Universal synchronicities and him delving into more Spirituality and its positive effects n impact on him

+ His dream to spend some time in India

+ A strong lust for Life and wanderlust

+ If he sees himself returning to settle in England

+ The biggest difference between Americans and the English

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Our guest is Paul ‘Prince’ Gillian: @paulgillian

A true Legend of the Leeds bar scene Prince will be filling us all in on how life in Australia is treating him as well as discussing the wonder years of Call Lane

In this chat we cover:

+ How he came to move to Oz n adapting to the Aussie lifestyle

+ How the current situation is over there and looking to take the positives for when lockdown is lifted

+ How he became to be in Leeds and then get himself involved in the bar scene

+ Working his way up from glass collector to General Manager at Neon Cactus

+ Reminiscing of life on Call Lane in its hay’zy days

+ A daft tale of when he worked at Topshop and ‘borrowed’ some shoes

+ Him and his better half Alison planning travelling driving around Oz and them kitting their 4x4 to be a mobile home

+ Looking to volunteer at sites where bushfires badly damaged

+ The impact of the bushfires and the swiftness of the worldwide response in aid relief

+ Wanting to venture into the remote Northern Territory and immerse themselves in Aboriginal culture

+ The living van-home culture

+ The next steps to Permanent Residency

+ Biggest thing he misses about Leeds

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Our guest is Toyan ‘Chino’ Greaves: @chinovv

Our first chat of the day we head Qatar to chat with DJ, Promoter & Brand Creative Toyan to find out more about the nightlife scene of the country set to host the World Cup in 2022

In this chat we cover:

+ How Qatar have gone about their lockdown

+ The Law of Attraction

+ His reasons for leaving England and what he was looking for his fresh start out

+ Looking to leave the music behind but how it still found him out there

+ Playing for PSG at their football stadium tour and the opportunity to play in a more diverse crowd

+ His style of music he plays

+ People been given the chance to re-invent themselves when they move out to Qatar

+ How his involvement with the boat parties began

+ How welcoming the country is and how it compares too Dubai

+ The wide range of nationalities within the Ex-Pat communities

+ The contrasts of Life between Qatar and England and how it changes your outlook on Life

+ The music scene out there and nurturing the House scene to grow

+ Wise words his Dad shared with him

+ The levels of the clubs out there

+ His time at Uni in Manchester and the talent that he was surrounded and involved with

+ Being around Manchester as the entire city was poppin’

+ His time working for Enterprise and then getting head-hunted by Mercedes Benz

+ How he keeps all his projects bubblin along and finding a balance across them all

+ The Love he has for where he works at @EvoSportsQatar and how to share a sports stars personality when converting them into a brand

+ Putting yourself out-there and pushing through the uncomfortableness and remaining authentic so your tribe follow you

+ If he is set for when the World Cup ‘22 arrives and how so

+ The extra levels Qatar are set to reach when hosting the World Cup ‘22

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Our guest is Stephanie Hirst: @stephanie.hirst

Our final chat of the day sees me chattin to Yorkshire royalty and an all round Legend who has been responsible for putting smiles on faces across the county for many years and more recently has branched out more as a Public Speaker about issues dear to her Heart and also onto TV featuring on shows such as ‘Lorraine’ and ‘Jeremy Vine on 5’

In this chat we cover:

+ Cats

+ Her wanting to run her own radio station

+ Her appreciation of TV but her Love and passion for radio

+ The joy of radio being the theatre of the mind

+ Reminiscing of the glory days of Galaxy and Hirsty’s Daily Dose

+ Today’s competition radio has to face and music been disposable in its consumption

+ Her relationship with JoJo n Danny and working out what made them all tick to get the best out of each other

+ The interesting history of how radio pre-planned playlists became the norm

+ The science behind why you tend to hear the same songs at certain times of the day

+ Coming up with content and the Breakfast Show being one of the biggest feature eaters

+ Turning down Reality TV opportunities

+ How ‘The Old Woman’ feature originally came about, why it had to be taken off air and how it was brought back to great acclaim and success

+ How she is occupying herself during lockdown creatively with livestreams

+ The booze supply in her fridge

+ How they all record their vocals in isolation to be able to feature all three’s conversation on their podcast ‘Well This is Weird’

+ Whats in the future of radio and on the horizon

+ Predicting the end of FM frequency

+ The overnight radio show initiation at Radio Aire

+ The role of a radio presenter and if they are still vitally important in the future of radio

+ Applauding Chris Moyles and how he’s evolved

+ The art of storytelling as a radio presenter and if its a dying artform

+ The one of her favourite pub stories

+ The difference between fast-tracked presenting and story-based

+ How to bring student radio DJs through rather than going for personalities with no experience just for the sake of gaining their following rather than ability

+ Homogenisation of radio and culling local voices which limits the amount of shows that detracts from opportunities from unearthing new presenter talent

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Our guest is Chris Jack: @chr1sjack

We then jump to South Africa to catch up with Chris who is an avid sneaker collector of the rarest and hardest finds which he documents on his review show @sneakerstories.tv

In this chat we cover:

+ His previous position as a DJ and current status with that

+ Potentially merging his two Loves of music and trainers

+ Excitement at fresh Pioneer equipment design concepts by Virgil Abloh

+ Yeezy revolutionising the Adidas world

+ Kanye bringing through creative visionaries and how they’ve all gone on to be successful within the fashion world

+ The importance of learning about the history of specific kicks and its story if you are to be a serious collector

+ What he looks for in a trainer and what he looks for when capturing a story

+ The role of bringing in fellow content contributors

+ Sharing his knowledge as a trainer consultant and also the concept being born out of wanting to bestow SA with localised information of the world of sneakers

+ His growth and popularity growing in Europe and the US

+ Managing the difficulty of sharing enough information to help people without giving away his essential secrets and contacts

+ How to combat and protect yourself from fake sellers

+ The community amongst sneaker-heads

+ The situation of women’s trainers releases in SA

+ His favourite fashion designer & trainer collaborations

+ Funny story about acquiring a rare sneaker from South Korea

+ The time he met Pharrell Williams

+ If he wears his trainers and how he rotates them to avoid them wearing out

+ His favourite trainer model

+ Sharing his Birthday with Air Max Day

+ The issue with brands re-commissioning trainers and its adverse affect of the value of its collectability

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Our first chat of the day we head across the Atlantic to Buffalo to catch up with Nick who is a keen film enthusiast and co-founder and host of @cinecismfilm podcast

In this chat we cover:

+ The felt unity and empathy in society towards one another’s current situation

+ His passion for films and the magic of VHS

+ The impact going to watch Aladdin at the age of 5

+ How his Love for Pokemon unwittingly lead him to discovering the world of film critics

+ His first R-Rated movie

+ Going to study film production in LA

+ Michael Bay as a guest speaker

+ How him breaking films down became more his main Love and focus

+ The angle a film critic should come from when reviewing

+ The birth of his podcast ‘Cinecism’

+ Experiencing Toronto Film Festival and immersing himself into the film critic culture

+ His process in how he details key notes of a film without it taking him out of the zone of it

+ Adapting ‘Cinecism’ during lockdown while the cinemas/theatres are closed

+ The magic of watching films live in public and the struggle of cinemas/theatres against streaming and ideas on how they are to adapt to survive and remain relative

+ What Buffalo is like and the thriving film & art scene

+ Being classed as NY but on the border and feeling more aligned with Canada

+ The Buffalo film creative community

+ His Love for Toronto

+ Famous Buffalonians

+ Buffalo Bills and their infamous Tailgating gatherings and the cities obsession and facination with the team

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Our guest is Talisha ‘Tee Cee’ Johnson: @thisisteecee

Our final chat of the day sees me chattin to Talisha who is an author, TV Presenter & Development Researcher for the BBC as well as the founder of Not Your Average Girl Media (@teamnyag)

In this chat we cover:

+ Her setting up her mentor platform ‘Not Your Average Girl’ (@teamnyag)

+ Realising her calling and how to use that to help others be them best selves and their purpose

+ Celebrating uniqueness

+ How to nurture and know what connect to create to connect with her audience

+ If she’s looking to be considered a Role Model

+ Addressing the issue of diversity in the Television Industry

+ Her Sisterhood who help each other navigating along through the industry

+ Developing a thick skin but still maintaining an open Heart

+ Her current role for BBC Three as a Development Researcher

+ How BBC Three has had to adapt its channel and approach to reach and connect with its audience

+ How she finds inspiration for content and keeping up to speed with what people want and what they don’t know they need yet

+ Discovering fresh talent

+ Dealing with handing over her ideas but not having any involvement with the making of them

+ Having experience in both front and behind the camera

+ The joy of taking someone raw and seeing and nurturing their talent and ability

+ The importance of having a network willing to offer you the opportunities to prosper

+ Why the age of 16 seems such a significant year for her

+ Realising at 11 knowing she wanted to write a book

+ Her author inspirations and her becoming herself a published author

+ Republishing her work and having Benjamin Zephaniah acknowledge her work

+ How integral writing was for her self-expression when younger and why it still plays a massive part in her Life

+ What her published stories are about and if they can be adapted onto onscreen content

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Our guest is Kelly Herdsman: @thenaturalbalance_

We’ll be speaking with Kelly on all things nutritional based and the importance of well-being with steps of how to implement it into everyday Life no matter how busy a schedule and focusing on putting you and your health first

In this chat we cover:

+ The importance of Sunlight and how to convert the vitamin D by not wearing sunglasses

+ A breakdown of her job-title and experience within her career

+ How internal issues within the body can be affected by a completely undetected root cause which is not initially seen as a common link

+ Unhealthy patterns that play a part in been run down

+ Merging the Eastern & Western Worlds of medicine and health improving practises

+ Changing the perception of Doctors into looking to immerse the world of nutritional advice into their line of work

+ Battling against the Pharmaceutical profit agenda

+ If a patient can force the issue of getting their Doctors and Nutritionist working together

+ The freedom a Nutritionist has with responding to modern areas as apposed to the NHS who have more stringent stipulations

+ Changing the thinking of society and introducing Nutritionalist as a more common factor to fit into peoples lifestyles

+ Changing the mindset of health being viewed more as a luxury to be understood its an essential necessity

+ How not to be overwhelmed by cost or what to buy when beginning to purchase healthier food or cooking it

+ The pros n cons impact that lockdown is having on peoples dietary intake

+ How to maintain the current lifestyle changes when lockdown is lifted

+ When you wake up in the morning are you living the Life you want to be

+ Is health taken for granted

+ The conversation of mental health being more open to be discussed in society and some biological impacts that can be also be factors towards it

+ Aligning yoga and Spiritual practices with nutritional treatments

+ The importance of mixing up the fruit and veg you eat

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Our guest is Laura Bartlett: @laurabartlett0

Laura is and entrepreneur and mentor and is also the CEO of highly regarded @house_of_coco Travel & Style Magazine

In this chat we cover:

+ The importance for her of remaining in Leeds

+ The collective unity The North can have by aligning with one another

+ A mind-set shift of businesses bringing other enterprises through as a collective rather than stifling their opportunities

+ Her original magazine ‘Urban Coco’ launch taking over the Womens floor at Harvey Nicholls

+ Having her content creators living their best lives

+ Details of her experience on Dragon’s Den

+ The situations which lead to her been bankrupt

+ How out of this scenario she founded House of Coco and the reasons and allure to taking the magazine direction to the travel industry

+ Her opinion on print magazine and its longevity

+ The benefits n bonus of print magazine allowing the reader “me time”

+ House of Coco’s ethos

+ The difference between her team of content creators compared to Instagram influencers

+ Combing Instagram and online presence which doesn’t detract from the print magazine

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