Brian Alabaster is a sculptor who works across the country. He was commissioned by Hereford County Council to create the life - sized sculpture of the Hereford Bull to go in the town centre. But he started out studying agriculture and working in chicken factories. 

This podcast unearths his story of how he created such unique lifestyle business.

From competing as a triathlete for Team GB through to running her own PR agency, Sue Anstiss has a passion for sport. Actually, she has a passion for women in sport. In this podcast we discuss what needs to happen to make sport more gender equal and the progress made so far. Sue talks about her podcast, her book, and how she is on a mission to raise the awareness of women in sport. Her dedication and determination make this podcast an inspiring and fascinating listen.

Even as a teenager, Michelle Owen was always prepared to challenge stereotypes. Her love of football has always been with her and when she was forced to play netball at school, she did 'keepy-uppies' with the ball until she got sent to the corner. 

After a spell as breakfast DJ, she's now doing the job she loves - reporting on football on Sky Sports and Radio 5 Live. 

In this podcast, there is a recurring theme of overcoming adversity from suceeding in a male dominated career through to fighting the debilitating illness, Hyperemesis Gravidarm, during pregnancy. 

We're sure you'll find this podcast with Michelle Owen an inspiration.

Dr Hazel Harrison is a clinical psychologist who studies the brain. In this fascinating podcast you can listen to Hazel talking about how we can get the most out of our life. 

We also explore how lockdown has affected different people and what there can be done to help us learn how to carry on after a global pandemic.

Imagine racing across the world for around 54 days and then being a few seconds short of winning £20,000? 

Jen Lambra-Stokes was part of the BBC Race Across the World series with her husband Rob. In this podcast, she talks about her amazing experience of travelling across South America with a TV film crew in tow to catch some of the most amazing adventures of your life.

I loved watching the programme and I loved chatting to Jen in this podcast. She has an amazing sense of fun and a brand new perspective on life. 

This is a Talking Teenage Life episode that is not to be missed!!

Colin Tapscott is someone I have known almost all my life and is a close friend of my family. I wanted to interview him for this podcast because he is a natural leader.

Having left college, Colin pursued a career in teaching and became a headteacher before he was 30. He has followed a successful career as a headteacher with establishing his own training business called Everyday Leader and he has his own book on leadership being published this year. In this podcast, we not only explore Colin's professional career, but we find out about his teenage years and how his faith has influenced the choices and decisions he has made.

It was great to talk to Colin as he is easy to listen to and a really inspirational guy. I hope you enjoy our conversation too!

BBC Look East presenter, Amelia Reynolds, talks to us about her career in journalism. We also learn about her life as a teenager, gap year travelling the world and family life in Norfolk. This is a fascinating insight into the media world and this interview was carried out just before Amelia interviewed Sir Kier Starmer, the new Labour party leader. 

Due to the lockdown in England, this is the first Talking Teenage Life podcast to be recorded on Zoom.

This is the first episode of series 2 in Talking Teenage Life. 

From relocating from the country of her birth, to setting up her own Dance School business, Sandra Hartley has a fascinating story to tell. Sandra talks about her time working in a circus and her passion of dance. She also explains the joy she gets from teaching 3 year olds to skip, through to helping her more advanced students pursue a career in dance. We think this is an insightful podcast to begin our new series.

In this podcast, the last of our first series, we interview Bridget McIntyre. From struggling at school to leading a large blue chip organisation to now having forming a social enterprise business, Bridget has a wealth of leadership experience. 

We're inspired by her "can do" attitude and Bridget provides some valuable advice on how to believe in yourself and to build self confidence. 

Our second series will be back in September when we will have more great conversations with another 10 inspiring guests.

In a recent RE lesson, we all got the chance to imagine the questions we would want to ask a Christian. There were some great questions; what is heaven like? / if you pray for something will it happen? / what's your favourite parable? / should you forgive everybody?

In this podcast, we put youth worker, Matt Levett, on the spot and get him to give his best responses to those questions

Matt is a larger than life character who only became a Christian because he fancied a girl who went to Church but has gone on to lead projects helping street kids in Guatemala for over 25 years.

In this podcast Matt and I really do try to understand what's important in life and what isn't. And he tells some great stories too!