Same Sh*t, Different Brain

In the eighth podcast episode of Same Shit Different Brain’s third series, Rebecca talks to Leticia Fonseca.Leticia is a personal finance mentor and she helps people, particularly women, to have a healthier relationship with money. She is the founder of Master Your Finances and a self-proclaimed ‘infectiously positive powerhouse’. Leticia talks about the close relationship between money and how we treat ourselves, after personally discovering the positive financial impact of getting to know a...

In the seventh podcast episode of Same Shit Different Brain’s third series, Rebecca talks to trans speaker and activist, George Evans.George became an in-demand speaker after his Pride Month 2022 LinkedIn post, proudly declaring his trans identity, got millions of views. He’s since become a celebrated public speaker, LinkedIn Top Voice and regularly travels around to share his story with different businesses and audiences, educating them on diversity and inclusion for the transgender communit...

In the sixth podcast episode of Same Shit Different Brain’s third series, Rebecca talks to producer for the creative and tech industries, Emma Jackson. You may have seen Emma landing a plane with Kevin Bacon in an EE ad. As she likes to put it, she only gets out of bed for world firsts. She racked up millions of views for content produced for Cut Youtube channel, and using entertainment to show diverse role models is a particular joy of hers. She’s proudly and loudly neurodivergent, and ...

In the fifth episode of series 3, Rebecca talks to the brilliant Pete Barnes, founder of the Northern Pride Sports Collective, the Manchester-based LGBTQ+ badminton team Northern Cocks, and a board games community too. I met Pete when he appeared on the panel of SSDB’s first live event last year, which was all about How to Make Friends and Find Communities as an Adult.We talked about social anxiety, the power of communities, reinventing yourself through university and travelling the world, an...

In the fourth podcast episode of Same Shit Different Brain’s third series, Rebecca talks to Kashi Chellen, community and events executive at The Happiness Index. The Happiness Index is an employee engagement & happiness platform, helping organisations measure the key employee engagement AND happiness drivers to power their people strategy. 🧠👥They discuss destigmatising therapy, the importance of mindfulness, accessibility and inequality in digital wellness, how crucial it is to learn emot...

This time, Rebecca speaks to Ellie Austin-Williams, founder of This Girl Talks Money.In her own words, Ellie is ‘Breaking the money taboo & putting financial wellbeing on the agenda’. She started TGTM because she was ‘bored of the same old financial tips written by middle aged white men in suits’, and wanted to ‘open the conversation up around earning, spending, saving and managing money.’Alongside building a community of 30,000 financially empowered women, Ellie has worked with brands fr...

The second podcast episode of Same Shit Different Brain’s third series, Rebecca talks to Amy Proudfoot, founder and director of Sober Social.Sober Social’s mission is to revolutionise socialising within communities and make socialising inclusive to everyone. This is an open and honest chat between two sober girls about navigating life without alcohol, whether you’re going sober, doing Dry January or are just curious about the benefits of a rest from drinking.Amy spoke about her own journey to...

Rebecca speaks to Stef Sword-Williams, founder and author of F*ck Being Humble, the incredible platform and career bible helping people be unapologetically proud of their achievements and overcome the fear of self-promotion. In Stef’s own words, “‘F*ck Being Humble’ is a mindset to adopt to make sure you never miss out on an opportunity because you were too modest”. Stef saw a lack of representation in the creative industries during her advertising career and decided she didn’t wan...

This week, Rebecca speaks to Phil Cookson, director of Creative Resource and Founder of the School of Thought.Phil spoke about the passing of his wife in 2019, before then losing his mum a few months later. He talked about how he found the process of grief, including navigating loneliness in lockdown, managing anniversaries, honing in on his own coping methods and helping his dad to come to terms with loss too.Phil made a children’s book about his wife to gift to his young niece, who was born...

This week, Rebecca speaks to Chloe Higgins, an author and writing coach. She runs her online business Write with Chloe from Thailand, where she recently moved to from her home of Australia. A big reason for this was her love of Muay Tai, with this form of exercise serving as an important coping tool for her mental health. Chloe spoke about losing two sisters in a car accident when she was 17, which led to a two-month stay in a psychiatric ward, undergoing treatment for trauma. There, she...