Wriinkle Podcast

We’re wrinkle, a community of like-minded people who work together, build on ideas and make stuff happen, all to lead a more fulfilled lifestyle. 

Thanks for joining us for episode 18 of the podcast.

This week we’re speaking to Alex Manzi of Dreamers Disease. He’s a podcaster, public speaker and Social Media Producer for BBC Radio 1 Xtra. Just when we were starting out we come across Alex and Dreamers Disease, and have since linked up on a few occasions and have shared plenty of ideas.

Alex is a great example of someone who’s just gone out there and done it. We went through loads in this episode including:

• Leaving school not knowing what he wanted to do

If you don’t already, check out Alex on Instagram and Twitter (@iamalexmanzi/@the_dreamersdisease) and give his podcast a listen if you aren’t already tuning in – it’s boss!!

As always we love your feedback – we’ve had some great comments and messages recently and we love discussing the subjects we cover in the podcasts. Keep the messages coming on on Instagram and Twitter – and if you don’t follow us yet, just search wriinkle.

Also reach out to us at [email protected] to find out more about our project.

Thanks for listening – you can also watch on Youtube, if you’re not already.

Nice one!

Anton

Thanks for listening!

We're Wriinkle - a community of like-minded people who work together, build on ideas and make stuff happen - all to lead a more fulfilled lifestyle. 

In this one we're discussing meditation and how we’ve been trying to get into it recently.   

I’m prone to drowning myself in anxiety from time to time, I’ll also find myself struggling to ‘live in the moment’ – like even when I’m having the best time, I’ll think about the future and just get stressed for no reason. 

I also find myself worrying and feeling proper sad about things that haven’t even happened – things like how I’m going to deal with losing the people I’m close to.

And I know meditation is the solution – but I’m finding it so hard to get to grips with.

I have a conversation with Joe about how his approach to meditation has been formed and what his understanding is of it all.

We talk about Dr Joe Dispenza's book "Becoming Supernatural" - here's a link:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Becoming-Supernatural-Common-People-Uncommon-ebook/dp/B0746RN3G7

Let us know if you're trying to get into it, or if you are already. How's it going? Any tips?

We love hearing from you and getting into discussions when you get in touch - reach through on our Instagram or [email protected]

Enjoy :)

Anton

Thanks for listening!

We're talking about sleep in this Wriinkle Short episode and we were inspired to make this for two reasons.

Firstly, I really struggle to sleep a lot of the time and even more often than that I don't seem to get quality sleep. There is also a narrative that exists surrounding highly prevalent, 'successful' people which pushes the idea that hard work and success comes from relentless work, late nights and ridiculous early starts.

The other reason we were inspired to do this podcast is a Neuroscientist/sleep expert Matthew Walker - his book "Why We Sleep" and appearance on JRE has brought the subject of sleep into the mainstream recently. He goes into detail on exactly what goes on when we sleep, what constitutes a 'quality sleep' and why it's so important to sleep properly. 

This is so healthy and hopefully off the back of information from people like Matthew Walker we can start to be more responsible about giving ourselves the opportunity to get the sleep we need and reduce the stigma around 'working tirelessly'.

Like with all of our Shorts - we're simply bending you on to interesting subjects and so we'd fully recommend looking into this subject for yourself. 

Here's the book:

http://amzn.eu/8eDx6Bj

Here's Matthew on The Joe Rogan Experience:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwaWilO_Pig

Reach out as always, we love hearing from you and getting stuck into subjects like this - let us know what you think about this episode and share your experiences with getting good sleep (or not).

Nice one!

Anton

Thanks for joining us for episode 17!

This week we’re speaking to Scotty Stacks – he’s one third of The Manor. They’re a group that fuse elements of hip hop, grime, indie to deliver tunes that Scotty says “celebrate normal life”. The thing that seems to have set them apart maybe above anything else though is the cult following that they’ve built up. They recently sold out the O2 Forum Kentish Town – a couple of us went along and the vibe that they created was undeniable. It wouldn’t be a stretch to say that The Manor is responsible for a kind of subculture of it’s own  

 It was clear from speaking to Scotty that The Manor’s approach to creating music and culture is reflected in his own life. Focused, always taking opportunities to learn, ambitious yet there are no pretentions with Scotty – he opens up about his thoughts on subjects like:

• growing up at odds with the education system

Leave us your feedback about this one – we’ve had some great comments and messages recently and we love discussing the subjects we cover in the podcasts.

Contact us on Instagram and Twitter – just search wriinkle.

Also reach out at [email protected]

Thanks for listening – you can also watch on Youtube, if you’re not already.

Nice one!

Anton

In this Wriinkle Short we’re talking about the benefits of exercise on your brain and your mind – so all the good stuff you’ll experience outside of the physical benefits of being fit and feeling more self-confident etc.

We all know this stuff and we know exercising makes us feel better – it’s always “I’m glad I did that” afterwards, especially after building it up in your head and even dreading it before hand.

So if we know it’s good, then we do a lot of us still struggle to motivate ourselves to get active. Well we thought that if we look into what’s exactly going on in our brain when we exercise then it might help us to take action.

We never want to preach on the podcast, we like to put you on the path to discovering more about subjects like this by bending you on to stuff we’ve found useful.

In this one I’ll reference:

Book

Spark: How exercise will improve the performance of the brain

Author: Dr John J Ratey

Link: https://tinyurl.com/y8n5hcao

TED Talk

Wendy Suzuki: The brain changing benefits of exercise

Link: https://www.ted.com/talks/wendy_suzuki_the_brain_changing_benefits_of_exercise

Let us know what you think about this subject – what is your experience of exercising and the effects it does or doesn’t have cognitively.

As always, reach out on our Instagram or Twitter – search wriinkle

Also get us on [email protected]

Thanks for listening!

Anton

Thanks for clicking on this and welcome to episode 16 of the Wriinkle Podcast!

We’re speaking to Micaela in this one – she tells us all about how she’s changed her career path from working for a start-up in the city to launching her own upholstery business.

She runs Sharp & Simpson with her business partner Steve, who she first connected with when she attended his upholstery workshop when she was getting to grips with upholstery as a potential career.

She tells us all about the steps she took to make this huge change, how she’s finding working for herself, leveraging new technology to fill in any gaps in her skillset and also shares some tips for other people thinking about doing it too.

Check out Sharp & Simpson at:

https://www.sharpandsimpson.com/

Their Instagram is also a good place to check out their amazing work:

https://www.instagram.com/sharpandsimpson/

look out for more Wriinkle Podcasts, Wriinkle Shorts and our newest thread Wriinkle Pictures on our Youtube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmWMCFPSkNyHFcko0G6g4QQ/videos

Let us know what you think of this episode, did Micaela’s story resonate with you? If so why? We love hearing from you so keep it coming and we’ll always get around to replying to you all.

Enjoy!

Anton

P.S other ideas for episode names included:

From City to Settee

From FTSE to Footstool

From Office to Ottoman

(sorry)

We went to the Relentless Number 5 on Denmark Street to celebrate the launch of Dotty’s new record – London Livin: A Collection Of Sounds – it’s just out now on Spotify, Tidal, iTunes and wherever you get your music.

Dotty spoke to us back in episode 4 of the podcast and it was boss to catch up with him on the eve of the release and to see how he’s just continuing to grow and crack on, just like he told us when we first met him.

We managed to catch him for a few words on the night – you’ll hear a clip from when he’s just come off stage.

We always seem to come away from speaking to Dotty really mulling over some of the things he says, the way he talks even in normal conversation really resonates just in the same way his lyrics do.  

Find “London X Living: A Collection Of Sounds” on

Spotify

Tidal

iTunes

…and wherever you get your music basically

This interview (plus other footage from the night) is available on our Youtube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmWMCFPSkNyHFcko0G6g4QQ/videos

Check out our Instagram too for more content from the night.

Nice one!

Anton

Thanks for listening!

After the interest people showed in podcast #013 about chiropractic, this Wriinkle Short is all about the stuff we learned from speaking to Dr Tom and also the other thoughts it’s inspired since.

We’ve picked out a couple of clips from the podcast episode that most of you were commenting on where he tells us about micro-traumas and poor posture. We’re putting ourselves in bad body positions everyday, like when we’re bowing our heads over our phones and computers all the time. From what Dr Tom is telling us, this is directly affecting our health and in particular our brain function.

Some of you linked this to body language and the power that it seemingly holds. So this got us thinking more about body language and maybe how you can proactively use your body to affect your mind-set.

There’s a boss Ted Talk where Amy Cuddy, a social psychologist, talks about body language and the relationship between the mind and body. She goes into detail about experiments she’s been a part of where they’re proving that the way in which we hold ourselves can have a significant effect on how confident or stressed we might feel and then also even our propensity for success.

She even talks about power posing for 2 minutes before big moments like job interviews.

https://www.ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_shapes_who_you_are?language=en&utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare

Let us know what you think, keep reaching out to us on Twitter, Insta or [email protected]

Nice one!

Anton

Wriinkle Podcast #015!

Quick bit of housekeeping; Wriinkle Podcasts will be coming out every other Monday from now on but we’ll be bringing you more stuff with different types of podcasts being released in between WPs (also keep your eye on our Youtube channel). More details very soon. 

In this one we’re speaking to Ben Sharples from MiC LOWRY – they’re a vocal harmony boy band from Liverpool. Ben talks to us about the lads getting signed by a major record label before they’d had a chance to properly start making music of their own. He’s very candid about the amazing experiences they’ve had from that point to now but also about the less positive aspects of being picked up by a commercial entity at such an early stage.

Some funny stories in this about the situations they’ve found themselves in and some great insight in to the kind of stuff that goes on at the upper echelons of the entertainment industry.

Instagram: miclowry   /   ben_sharples

Twitter: @wearemiclowry

Let us know what you think – also anyone who you’d like to see us speak to

Twitter/Insta:   @wriinkle

Email:              [email protected]

Nice one!

Anton