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Antidoters Podcast

The opposite of a doomsayer; positive inspirers; curious thinkers-out-loud who don’t self-censor; those who trigger curiosity, surprise and challenge perceptions; ideas-catalysts for positive change. antidoters.substack.com

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4:46

Building a More Soul Society

Antidoters Podcast ·

2025/08/22

Hey! It’s been a while. Sorry. I’ve been hustling, business-developing, Zoom-ing, moutain walking; web-designing, product-testing, conference-speaking, making 100s of packed-lunches; business-planning, ad-testing, trade-marking, veruca-treating; podcast-appearing, pitching, AI-training, picking up socks; you get the idea…As a result ScrollAware is gathering exciting momentum and appears to have hit a serious nerve, with *big* brands and 🤞some high profile ambassador conversations in play. But

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13:28

Less Scroll, More Soul... in 5,4,3,2...

Antidoters Podcast ·

2025/06/11

I’m so excited. It’s been less ‘Eureka’ and more a fog slowly clearing through the end of a telescope but after months of reading, writing and processing, my thinking has crystallised into a next professional chapter I can’t wait to write. One that hones in on the problems I care most about and draws on all my experience to date.Let’s start with a thought experiment: a short utopia in an age of dystopia. It’s 2035, and the Analogue Renaissance is thriving.It all began in 2025, when a

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9:18

The Idle Way: Flirting with Anti-Consumerism

Antidoters Podcast ·

2025/03/14

Something in me is shifting. It struck me as I walked out of security last month at the departures terminal and into the walkway that snakes through duty free. Every sense was immediately assaulted. Glossy images of A-listers, neon lights, huge point-of-sale booze-deals and an overwhelming scent of perfume. Three children tugged me in the directions of giant M&Ms, tech accessories and overpriced body-sprays respectively, whilst my own eyes were involuntarily drawn to the rows of sunglasses and

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12:01

Why Pubs Matter More than Ever

Antidoters Podcast ·

2025/02/14

Today, I’m delighted to be sharing my first guest post from a great friend of mine, Adam Nicoll. Adam is truly an ‘old soul’, and someone I hugely enjoy for his irreverent sense of humour and salty language. He pulls no punches, debatewise, has a penchant for spraying robust opinions on radio phone-ins and along with our better halves, we frequently put the world to rights over drinks. Indeed the name of our 4-way whatsapp group remains ‘Nelson’ after our gammon fury some years back at the

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11:11

Where Have all the Compassionate Neighbours Gone?

Antidoters Podcast ·

2025/01/24

Hello Strangers! Sorry for the radio silence. I’ve spent a lovely last month taking my own advice and prioritising family, plus reading to restock my mind-pantry. Because the truth is, I’d run out of spleen-venting material and feared I was repeating myself. (Perhaps it might help all our content-overwhelm if people stopped posting for the sake of it. Two ears, one mouth etc).And what a last month it’s been with so many explosive global news events in all my fields of fascination/ concern: a

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8:48

A Ponder on the Lost Art of Pondering

Antidoters Podcast ·

2024/12/06

I sat in a group team event last week, listening to a presentation about the trajectory of one of the most exciting technology companies in the world. Twenty minutes…. that was all it took before the fidgeting started, before hands (including my own), reached instinctively to check a device and you could feel the attention in the room wavering.This was not an indictment on the content or delivery - which were both brilliant - but on a modern culture where brains have been reprogrammed to

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14:50

Cheating on my Readers

Antidoters Podcast ·

2024/11/01

A reading of my recent blog post on 'After Babel' - Jonathn Haidt's team's publication sharing resaerch and data around his book 'The Anxious Generation'.Entitled: A Mission for Businesses and Entrepreneurs: Help Bring Back ChildhoodWhen entrepreneurs hear about problems, they see opportunities. This is what I love about the entrepreneurial sectors I’ve spent my career in—the optimism, energy, problem-solving, and value-creation that abound. At the other end of the business spectrum, corporations

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6:49

Shhhhhhh. In Defence of ‘Quiet’

Antidoters Podcast ·

2024/09/13

I’ve been chewing on the word ‘quiet’ recently… a simple, unassuming word. Somewhat onomatopoeic and almost apologetic. It’s like a full stop. Even when uttering it, it slips gently from the sides of the mouth and silence follows (a sullen one if used as a directive). It’s certainly not a sexy word, indeed, it seems used more as a negative these days. Is it shutting down dissension? Perhaps describing something unambitious or boring? And yet quiet is one of the most powerful things in the

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4:42

What I can’t see, I can’t over-parent

Antidoters Podcast ·

2024/08/30

Kirstie Allsopp - apparently the worst mother in Britain right now (for allowing her 15 year old to go interrailing), has come out swinging. And good for her. I’m team-Allsopp. As readers will know, I’ve long been convinced that giving kids independence as early as possible is the key to building resilience, responsibility and creativity. Yes, there are risks - but, in my opinion (and increasing numbers of others’), many more to over-parenting and childhoods spent more online than off. Having

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8:15

The Case for Bringing Back Child Labour

Antidoters Podcast ·

2024/08/02

Ok, clickbait title aside, not *that* type of child labour… (although outrage-fuelling journos do your worst, it’ll all help with readers, just as it did with my TedX views). I recently came across the Harvard Grant Study findings, running since 1938, the longest longitudinal study in history. Among such fun discoveries as the fact that ‘ageing liberals have more sex’ with ‘conservative men ceasing sexual activity around the age of 68’, the most interesting finding was that it identified two key

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9:45

The Mystery of the Disappearing ‘English’

Antidoters Podcast ·

2024/07/19

It’s been a bad week to be English after we came so near, yet so bloody far… again… in yet another major football tournament. Whilst a fair-weather fan, I felt the depths of disappointment around me amidst a 1000-strong sea of red and white at a family festival as faces dropped and the tears flowed amongst the under 10s. Football apparently wasn’t, and isn’t anytime soon ‘coming home’. England supporters get a bad press and often rightly so when seen barrelling out of pubs, chucking lager and

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9:01

The Ick of Sharing Your ‘Life Lessons’

Antidoters Podcast ·

2024/06/21

It’s been a while since I’ve shared ‘my story’ (thank God). I used to do this a lot in my ‘Female Entrepreneur’ days to rooms of early-career women or invincible first-time founders. Years before ‘35 things I learnt by 35’ became popular clickbait, I had curated an entertaining monologue of anecdotes and life-lessons from across my career - something for everyone… (so thought my flattered ego). Since retreating from London with a young family, I’ve gotten better at saying no, plus have had fewer

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9:29

Too old to be young, too young to be old

Antidoters Podcast ·

2024/06/14

Been pondering age this week as I watched the stoic, moving interviews with D-day heroes and then observed Joe Biden, staggering, confused and slurring in recent public appearances. Contrasting these with the coverage of young, ‘passionate’ activists disrupting campuses or destroying works of art or with all the young faces we see around us daily- eyes down in digital worlds and the generational differences today can seem starker than ever. Yet another line of polarisation. With the exception of

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8:41

Hitler or Taylor Swift for your inspirational pick-up?

Antidoters Podcast ·

2024/06/07

This week I saw someone edit a Linkedin post because of feedback that the person they were quoting was a ‘troll’ (irrespective of the evidence within the quote); I observed three people sharing a Piers Morgan soundbite with the careful caveat ‘it’s rare I agree with this guy but…’ ; I saw someone else I respect get chastised for liking an X/ tweet from a persona-non-grata; … and I had a long, (depressing) conversation with my 10 year old about why it’s wrong for children to chant ‘Furry!’ as a

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9:05

Magic Cures with Seismic Ramifications

Antidoters Podcast ·

2024/05/31

Hands up if you’d be up for a quick drug to fix the biggest problem in your life. 🙋Unless you live under a rock, you will have heard that this is now available for one of the most sizeable (sorry) facing Western populations: Fat. And the ramifications could stretch much, much further than waistlines.Thanks for reading Antidoters! Please subscribe for free to receive new posts and share to support my work.Obesity has become the biggest cause of preventable death in the West. In the US it

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8:01

Rory-Sutherlanding the Kids & Smartphones Problem

Antidoters Podcast ·

2024/05/24

Entrepreneurs are optimists by nature and masters at turning problems into solutions. Many of the best harness counter-intuitive thinking that plays on human emotion rather than rationality - as best articulated by the Prince of behavioural interpretation (who may or may not appreciate being verbed). So how can we harness his antidoter ways of thinking to solve the teen smartphone problem? (or get him in a room with Jonathan Haidt for a brainstorm - I’ll make the tea and take notes).My career has

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8:45

Battling a ‘Bounce-Head’ Week

Antidoters Podcast ·

2024/05/17

This week I’ve been overwhelmed by ‘bounce head’. My term for something every working mother will understand: the feeling of holding more to-dos and conflicting emotions in your head at any one time than it’s possible to get down on a list; that sees your focus bounce back and forth constantly, within seconds from the most mundane lifemin to the most important family, friend or working-life priorities.Sometimes known as ‘the mother’s mental load’, here’s mine this week in no particular order but

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9:47

What do we want? An End to Violent Activism! When do...

Antidoters Podcast ·

2024/05/10

Activism is in-vogue. So much so, ‘Activist’ appears to now be a job-title according to LinkedIn and it’s perhaps no surprise given that rage has replaced sex as the hottest marketing tool (Scott Galloway is great on this here). Maybe it never left, and arguably, we have much progress to thank it for. The right to protest is a fundamental democratic right that most of us in the West believe in wholeheartedly. It can be hugely inspiring to observe and no doubt participate in crowds thronging

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9:33

Love Stories and Voices from Beyond the Grave

Antidoters Podcast ·

2024/05/03

How does one market the certainty of death to people? It’s tricky if not impossible given we all prefer (need?) to believe we’re invincible. And yet the Death Industry is the most market-robust of all, patiently residing in the shadows of the internet awaiting a google-prompt at our hour of greatest, heart-breaking need: undertakers, coffin-makers, florists, wake-providers and head-stone carvers. It serves a never-ending stream of customers via calm, soothing websites suffused with love-affirming

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8:41

Born ‘Special’: Why We’re All Narcissists Now...

Antidoters Podcast ·

2024/04/26

The self-belief industry (along with the exclamation mark) is off-the-charts thriving. These days everything is all about soundbite self-empowerment. You-affirming slogans scream from posters on every wall, note-pad and card shop-shelf, t-shirt fronts, instagram grids and out of every music-speaker. Riffing further on the themes of last week, is it any wonder that there’s been such a decline in mental health in a society that constantly encourages us to look inwards, at ourselves, at how everything

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