The Just Checking In Podcast
The Just Checking In Podcast is another step in VENT’s mission to give people a voice, change the conversation around mental health and provide an outlet where everyone, but especially men and boys, can express themselves.Each pod we check in with a special guest. We have a natter and a chat about all things mental health as well as anything and everything else they're passionate about. If it helps that person with their mental health, we'll discuss it!
Episodes
436 episodes
JCIP #333 - Scott Johnson - Part 2
In episode 333 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked back in with Scott Johnson. Scott is the Founder and CEO of the Proper Blokes Club (PBC) C.I.C, a community organisation which provides walk and talk groups for men across Lo...
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JCIP #332 - TheTinMen - Part 2
In episode 332 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked back in with George from TheTinMen.We first checked in with George in January 2024 in JCIP #223, where we covered a whole range of issues he covers on the platform, including: mal...
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JCIP #331 - Colm Brett - Part 2
In episode 331 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked back in with Colm Brett. Colm is now the Founder and CEO of Arctic Event Solutions, which provides towable refrigerated trailers for hire to the live events space, including ...
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JCIP #330 - Ben Sixsmith - Part 2
In episode 330 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked back in with journalist Ben Sixsmith. Ben currently works as Online Editor and podcast critic for The Critic magazine, and also has a Substack called The Zone. We first checked in with Ben ...
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JCIP #329 - Richard Campion
In episode 329 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Richard Campion. Richard is a Devon-based professional photographer, who specialises in wildlife photography. We came across his work through great friend of the pod and all-round l...
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JCIP #328 - Declan Burley
In episode 328 of The Just Checking In Podcast, we checked in with Declan Burley. Declan is a filmmaker, conservationist and wildlife camera operator. We came across Declan through his role in the incredible series on Apple TV, ‘The Wild Ones’, wh...
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JCIP #327 - Tanyka Davson
In episode 327 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Tanyka Davson.Tanyka Davson is a Public Affairs professional and the Co-Founder of Cubbi, a platform built to support new and expecting parents with exclusive discounts from brands ...
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JCIP #326 - Nick Davis - Part 2
In episode 326 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked back in with Nick Davis.Nick is a musician, actor and mental health advocate for addiction recovery. We first checked in with Nick all the way back in JCIP #51!In Nick’s Part 1, we discusse...
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JCIP #325 - Immy Harrison
In episode 325 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with academic Immy Harrison. Immy is currently a PHD student and researcher into singlehood at the University of Swansea’s Evolutionary Psychology department, where she studies under the...
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JCIP #324 - Dan Ascough
In episode 324 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Dan Ascough.Dan works a firefighter for the London Fire Brigade. As part of his role, he is also chair of the employee support group on Neurodiversity, and runs the London section o...
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JCIP #323 - Darren Lawrence
In episode 323 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Darren Lawrence.Darren is a qualified life coach and the Founder of Front Foot Coaching.In Darren’s words, 'Front Foot Coaching is about helping you to get onto the front foot’.Darr...
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JCIP #322 - AuDHD & Total Clarity
In episode 322 of The Just Checking In Podcast our Founder Freddie Cocker speaks about his diagnosis of ADHD in August 2025. Following on from his autism diagnosis in 2024, he now holds a dual diagnosis of AuDHD.In this episode he reflects on hav...
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JCIP #321 - Meg Skinner
In episode 321 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Meg Skinner. Meg is a communications professional and currently works as Deputy Director of Communications at Barts Health NHS Trust, where our Founder Freddie worked in her team fr...
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JCIP #320 - Jordain Dawkins
In episode 320 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Jordain Dawkins.JD, as he is known to his friends, is the co-founder and co-host of the ‘You Good Bro?’ Podcast, which he started with his childhood friend and journalist, Jahmal.Th...
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JCIP #319 - Caroline Roodhouse
In episode 319 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Caroline Roodhouse. Caroline is an Internal Communications professional, mother, mental health advocate and Founder of Daddy Blackbird Communications.Caroline was brought into the w...
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Behind The Decks - DJ Flame Jade
In this episode of Behind The Decks we checked in with Drum & Bass DJ and producer, DJ Flame Jade. Flame got into D&B when she was going to squat parties underage because she was too young to go to club nights and raves. From there, she began to l...
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JCIP #318 - Eric Frydman - Part 2
In episode 318 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked back in with Canadian lawyer Eric Frydman.We first checked in with Eric in January 2024 in JCIP #222, which formed part of two episodes we did covering the Israel-Palestine conflict, with E...
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JCIP #317 - Russell Payne - Part 2
In episode 317 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked back in with Russell Payne. Russ is the Founder of The Talking Tradesman (TTT) podcast and also a qualified painter and decorator. Since he started the podcast in November 2023, TTT aims t...
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JCIP #316 - Brian Kapuku - Part 2
In episode 316 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked back in with Brian Kapuku.Brian Kapuku is the man behind ‘Read with Kapz’, a book review social media platform he runs, which has amassed over 33,000 followers on TikTok and over 41,000 fol...
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JCIP #315 - George Mycock - Part 2
In episode 315 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked back in with George Mycock. George is the Founder of MyoMinds, a platform which aims to bring awareness of a form of BDD called Muscle Dysmorphia (MD), demystify mental health for exerciser...
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JCIP #314 - Loti Diangana-Nambombe
In episode 314 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Loti Diangana-Nambombe.Loti works as Charity Lead for the Make Life Kind Foundation (MILK).He also works as Relationship Manager for MILK’s education programme, MILK Unbottled.MILK ...
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JCIP #313 - Andy Hayward - Part 2
In episode 313 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked back in with journalist Andy Hayward. We first checked in with Andy in February 2024 in JCIP #229, where we discussed a documentary he produced and directed about Putin’s Russia called ‘War...
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JCIP #312 - Neil Peters
In episode 312 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Neil Peters. Neil is the Founder of Nuthatch Consultants, a suicide prevention and consultancy which works with public health, charities and business to reduce suicide and improve m...
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