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The Just Checking In Podcast

The Just Checking In Podcast by VENT

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!

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01:24:51

JCIP #295 - Andrew Shields - Part 1

The Just Checking In Podcast ·

2025/07/18

In episode 295 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Andrew Shields. Andrew Shields is a journalist, communications and events management professional and published author who has worked in the world of sports media for over 40 years. Andrew graduated from the University of Warwick with a BA in American and English Literature and began climbing the ladder in sports journalism in the mid-1980s. He got his first break as Editorial Assistant on Scouting Magazine, the official magazine

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01:30:10

JCIP #294 - Natasha Moore

The Just Checking In Podcast ·

2025/07/11

In episode 294 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Natasha Moore.Natasha is communications professional, consultant and the Co-Founder of Moore Squared Communications. She started it with her sister, Charlotte Moore, who is an ex-investment analyst and is now an established and respected pensions journalist. Natasha spent the most recent decade working in corporate communications in asset management, while Charlotte has built a freelance journalist career over the last 20 years

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01:54:13

JCIP #293 - Elliot Bewick

The Just Checking In Podcast ·

2025/07/04

In episode 293 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Elliot Bewick.Elliot is a producer, presenter and the host of The Next Generation Podcast, which bills itself as ‘a home for Gen Z to be exposed to different viewpoints, learn lessons from the past & search their way to a meaningful and fulfilled life’. Elliot got his start in media production when he was just 15 years old, through a chance encounter with the hosts of the Triggernometry podcast, Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster,

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01:01:01

JCIP #292 - Kyt Lyn Walken

The Just Checking In Podcast ·

2025/06/27

In episode 292 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Kyt Lyn Walken. Kyt is a qualified man-tracker and the Founder of her own tracking business, The Way of Tracking. Kyt’s father was obsessed with western television and movies and he introduced her to man tracking skills from the age of around 5/6 years old. In 2012/2013 she got into survival skills professionally and found a school to learn how to do it. She underwent three courses in Arizona in the United States, then moved to

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01:09:14

JCIP #291 - Leigh Edwards

The Just Checking In Podcast ·

2025/06/20

In episode 291 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Leigh Edwards.Leigh Edwards works as a QA Analyst for a housing association and helps lead on the community work that men's mental health charity Mandem Meet Up (MMU) carries out in Wolverhampton. Leigh was raised by a single mum in a difficult neighbourhood of Wolverhampton, but achieved the grades to study at university. He dropped out in his second year but views it as the best decision he’s ever made. Leigh’s mental health

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01:16:40

JCIP #290 - Angela Allen

The Just Checking In Podcast ·

2025/06/13

In episode 290 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Angela Allen.Angela is the Founder of ‘Bags for Strife’, a charity which supports people bereaved by suicide, set up by people bereaved by suicide. When Angela’s 23-year-old daughter Katrina died by suicide on 8th November 2019, she reached out to friends and loved ones and asked them what the overriding emotions they felt when they learned of her death. Time and again four emotions were named: blame, anger, guilt and

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01:14:43

JCIP #289 - Dean Corney - Part 2

The Just Checking In Podcast ·

2025/06/06

In episode 289 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked back in with Dean Corney.Dean Corney is a firefighter and the Co-Founder of Walk & Talk 999, a men's walk and talk organisation in the UK for any man in the emergency services to walk and talk about their mental health, if they want to, and be met with empathy, trust and understanding. We first checked in with Dean in March 2023, in JCIP #203 where we discussed the origins of the organisation, some of its highlights since it was formed and

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00:53:35

Mind On The Game - Rory Crawford

The Just Checking In Podcast ·

2025/05/30

In this episode of Mind On The Game, we checked in with Rory Crawford. Rory is the current owner of Combat Fight Series and coaches out of Crawford K1 Thai Boxing Gym. Previously, Rory was a professional Thai Boxing champion, holding titles at Area, English, British and European levels respectively. Rory played sport from a young age, playing football from the ages of 5 to 16/17 and in-between trying his hand at karate and boxing. However, at 18 years old, he was in danger of going down the

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01:37:49

JCIP #288 - Gar Lock - Part 4

The Just Checking In Podcast ·

2025/05/23

In episode 288 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked back in, for the fourth time, with Gar Lock. Gar Lock is an Irish farmer and one of the biggest characters we've had on the podcast. In our chats over the last two years, we have discussed a whole range of interesting subjects, as well as his fascinating life journey. In our first check-in, in JCIP #196 we discussed his chequered family history, serving prison time, his journey to redemption and helping ex-prisoners turn his life around

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01:08:52

JCIP #287 - Sam Gravestock

The Just Checking In Podcast ·

2025/05/16

In episode 287 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Sam Gravestock. Sam is the Founder of The Forest Path, which bills itself as a therapeutic wilderness guide. Through The Forest Path, Sam offers programmes to help his clients reengage with nature and improve their mental health as a result. This includes things like Intuitive Coaching and Campfire Counsel, a Men’s Guided Therapeutic Wilderness Retreat, Fellowship by the Fire and Nature Connection Walks. The inspiration for

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01:25:45

JCIP #286 - Matthew Ayres

The Just Checking In Podcast ·

2025/05/09

In episode 286 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Matthew Ayres. Matt works in recruitment and is the current partner of great friend of the pod and Just Checking In Live (JCIL) #6 headliner Jade Morgan Kelly. We met Matt at JCIL #6, and he told us he wanted to share his story on the podcast. Matt grew up in Exeter, in Devon, and when he was around 16/17 years old, he was told by his mum that his dad, the man he had thought was his dad for his entire life up to that point, was

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01:30:59

JCIP #285 - Brady Frost & Tom Bradshaw

The Just Checking In Podcast ·

2025/05/02

In episode 285 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked back in with Brady Frost and Tom Bradshaw.Brady Frost and Tom Bradshaw are both Huddersfield Town fans and previously co-hosted a series on the Huddersfield Town podcast ‘And He Takes That Chance’ called The Warm Up, where they previewed upcoming games. After doing that for a few years, they wanted to try something new and different but stay within the Huddersfield Town podcast space. They set up a new podcast called ‘Still Smiling’,

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01:28:21

JCIP #284 - Daniel John - Part 2

The Just Checking In Podcast ·

2025/04/25

In episode 284 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked back in with Daniel John. Daniel is the Founder of the mental health platform ‘You, Me & Anxiety’, which he founded in February 2018 to try and tackle the stigma around anxiety, provide him with a channel to voice his own experiences of anxiety and amplify the voices of others. We first checked in with him in JCIP #60, where we discussed the origins of the platform, the skills it gave him and his experience of anxiety, panic attacks,

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01:25:54

JCIP #283 - Jason Reeves

The Just Checking In Podcast ·

2025/04/18

In episode 283 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Jason Reeves. Jason is the Founder of Embers Woodcraft, a charity which offers bushcraft experiences, workshops and a range of other activities that bring people together and focus on the natural environment’s power to improve their mental health. Jason began his career in the military, joining the Parachute Regiment at the age of 19, serving in Northern Ireland during The Troubles in 2Para. He then left the Paras and worked

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01:28:28

JCIP #282 - Holly Brencher

The Just Checking In Podcast ·

2025/04/11

In episode 282 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Holly Brencher.Holly is a journalist and currently works as an AI Expansion Reporter at Newsquest. We came across Holly through a very personal article she wrote on Newsquest about the death of her brother Billy, who tragically took his own life 6th November 2024. The article was called a ‘Tribute to Welling's Billy Payne - love, struggle and advocacy’. In this episode we discuss how Holly got into journalism, through a chance

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01:04:17

Mind On The Game - Aaron Bowes - Part 2

The Just Checking In Podcast ·

2025/04/09

In this episode of Mind On The Game we checked back in with Aaron Bowes. Aaron plays as the First XV fly-half in the Ashford Rugby Club's Men's team. He is also an old friend of VENT Founder Freddie Cocker. We first checked back in with Aaron way back when in December 2020, where we discussed how he got into rugby, the life skills it gave him including self-confidence and his friendship with Freddie, when they first met whilst studying at Sussex University together. We also discussed some

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01:32:19

JCIP #281 - Tom Toolan

The Just Checking In Podcast ·

2025/04/04

In episode 281 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Tom Toolan. Tom Toolan is a father and the Founder of the 'Find Rhian' campaign, a campaign he started to find his daughter Rhian who was abducted by her mother in 2018, taken out of the UK and to her home country of Poland against a court order. Rhian was just six years old at the time. Rhian's abduction is a Criminal Offence under the 1984 Child Abduction Act and is currently wanted by Suffolk Police for the abduction. Despite

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01:24:24

JCIP #280 - Luke Loughlin & Lindsay Loughlin

The Just Checking In Podcast ·

2025/03/28

In episode 280 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Luke Loughlin, and his sister Lindsay Loughlin. We first checked in with Luke in JCIP #244 where we discussed the story of men's mental health platform Men United, whom he was previously a co-founder of. We also discussed his own personal story of being diagnosed with ADHD and a learning difficulty, sexual abuse by a female perpetrator, addiction and suicidality. We then discussed his journey of recovery, using faith as a vehicle

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00:43:03

JCIP #279 - Leah Morris

The Just Checking In Podcast ·

2025/03/21

In episode 279 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Leah Morris.Leah currently works as a Centre Manager at the Liverpool branch of James’ Place UK, a charity who are doing lifesaving work for men's mental health. Leah was diagnosed with Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD) in her early 20s after experiencing some workplace bullying in a previous role prior to joining James’ Place UK. Prior to that, she had experienced panic attacks as a teenager whilst studying for her GCSEs but

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01:05:26

JCIP #278 - Evan Grant

The Just Checking In Podcast ·

2025/03/14

In episode 278 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Evan Grant.Evan Grant is a mental health campaigner and the Co-Founder, alongside his wife Carol and son Alastair of the Cameron Grant Memorial Trust. The Trust was set up in memory of his son Cameron, who tragically took his own life in 2014, when he was just 21 years old. Cameron’s death devastated Evan’s family and they set up the Trust shortly after Cameron’s death to try and change the conversation around mental health. Wee

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