The Just Checking In Podcast

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  • 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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  • JCIP #285 - Brady Frost & Tom Bradshaw

    JCIP #285 - Brady Frost & Tom Bradshaw
    May 2 2025
    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’, where they interview Town fans, former players and others and aim to remind Town fans you why they love the club. Our Founder Freddie Cocker was a guest on their first series and they have already interviewed a range of illustrious guests, local celebs in the Town fanbase and iconic former players. We first interviewed Brady on this podcast way back when in JCIP #43, and we first interviewed Tom in JCIP #127. We wanted to bring both back on to discuss the new podcast, what they want to achieve with it, some of their favourite episodes and the role it plays in the Huddersfield Town content creator space. We also have a check in with each of their respective, continued mental health journeys. For Brady, we discuss his experience of redundancy, which he went through during the Covid-19 pandemic period. We also discuss him getting engaged, buying a house and his decision to cut down drinking. We finish by discussing a wonderful article he wrote on journalist Daniel Gray’s website ‘When Saturday Comes’ about a half-and-half scarf and how it became a family tradition for him going to watch Town games. For Tom, we discuss the continued positive role his local Sunday league football team has on his mental health, and his three dogs, which he describes as a ‘life changer’. As always, #itsokaytovent You can subscribe and listen to the Still Smiling podcast on streaming platforms below: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/still-smiling-a-huddersfield-town-podcast/id1756086683 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3HLWlANnokQ6zXsJEDtE5K You can follow them on social media below: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stillsmilingpod/ You can listen to Part of Brady & Tom's journeys below: JCIP #43 - Brady Frost: https://soundcloud.com/venthelpuk/jcip-43-brady-frost JCIP #127 - Tom Bradshaw: https://soundcloud.com/venthelpuk/jcip-127-tom-bradshaw Support Us: Patreon: www.patreon.com/venthelpuk GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/help-vent-supp…ir-mental-health Merchandise: www.redbubble.com/people/VentUK/shop Music: @patawawa - Strange: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d70wfeJSEvk
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    1 h y 31 m
  • JCIP #284 - Daniel John - Part 2

    JCIP #284 - Daniel John - Part 2
    Apr 25 2025
    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, childhood bullying, his religious upbringing and much more. Since we first checked in, Dan decided to take a break from the platform for his own mental health. He was experiencing difficulties in his work and career, which was causing him significant distress. He went on holiday to Lisbon in Portugal for a week with a friend in November 2022 and had a life epiphany. He then took the decision to leave the job he was in and go travelling for three months. However, whilst he was travelling, he started to experience strange symptoms, including exhaustion and chronic pain, which he’d never experienced before. He tried toughing it out but in the end it got too much for him and he made the decision to come home and sort it out. After not receiving the best advice from his GP, he decided to go privately and was told the issue may be caused by bacterial overgrowth in his gut, where his immune system was weaker because of the workplace stress. After a period where he thought it was getting better, at the end of that year, the pain and fatigue came back and Dan began to believe the symptoms were psychological. One day he saw a book in his mum’s house called ‘The Mind Body Prescription’ by John E. Sarno. He read it and after reading it once, his symptoms went down by roughly 30%. Now, whenever he feels these symptoms flare up again, he re-reads the book and uses it as a literal mental and physical tool to help his mental health. He went back out travelling again, enjoyed it and has now returned to the UK where he is back in a stable place with his career. In this episode, we discuss: why he’s starting the platform back up again and his goals for this next chapter, what has changed and stayed the same in the mental health conversation since we first checked in, and the types of voices he wants to amplify on the platform going forward. We then discuss that continued mental health journey, the emotional build-up which may have been at the heart of that distress and pain and the relationship between physical health and mental health. And finally, for the first time, we discuss Dan's relationship with his father, which may explain the origins of some of the experiences we discuss and why he’s reacted the way he has in these periods of his life. As always, #itsokaytovent You can find out more about You, Me & Anxiety here: https://medium.com/you-me-anxiety You can follow the platform on social media below: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/youmeandanxiety_/ You can listen to Part 1 of Dan's journey here: https://soundcloud.com/venthelpuk/jcip-60-daniel-john Support Us: Patreon: www.patreon.com/venthelpuk GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/help-vent-supp…ir-mental-health Merchandise: www.redbubble.com/people/VentUK/shop Music: @patawawa - Strange: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d70wfeJSEvk
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    1 h y 28 m
  • JCIP #283 - Jason Reeves

    JCIP #283 - Jason Reeves
    Apr 18 2025
    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 offshore on an oil rig for a year, before joining the Fire Brigade as a firefighter. He served in Kent Fire Brigade for 28 years at various stations in the county, and he will be retiring from the Fire Service in May 2025. Jason set up Embers in March 2024 and made it a C.I.C in September 2024. They currently put on one workshop a month and exclusively cater to helping male and female current and ex-emergency service personnel, as well as serving and non-serving military personnel. For Jason’s mental health journey, his passion for mental health also stemmed from his own mental health difficulties as well as his family’s. At the end of 2023, Jason found something in the back of his brain, which he feared was a brain tumour but thankfully turned out to be a benign cyst. However, between discovering it and the eventual reality, the cyst caused him to experience late-stage epilepsy. Thankfully there were no seizures, but he did experience tingling sensations in parts of his body which he could not explain at the time. After doctors believed he was having a stroke, they did a brain scan and found a cyst the size of a 50p piece. In addition, in 2023 his eldest daughter experienced her own mental health difficulties, which included self-harm, and it caused Jason immense stress and difficulty managing her mental health towards recovery. In this episode we chart Jason’s career across the armed forces and fire brigade, how it led to his work with Embers now, his passion for men’s mental health and utilising the power of nature, the outdoors and walking and talking to help men. We then discuss how the cyst impacted his physical and mental health, his relationship with his daughter during her mental health difficulties and after she recovered, his plans for retirement and his plans for taking Embers to the next level in the years to come. As always, #itsokaytovent You can find out more about Embers Woodcraft here: https://emberswoodcraft.co.uk/ You can follow them on social media below: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/emberswoodcraft/ Support Us: Patreon: www.patreon.com/venthelpuk GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/help-vent-supp…ir-mental-health Merchandise: www.redbubble.com/people/VentUK/shop Music: @patawawa - Strange: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d70wfeJSEvk TRIGGER WARNING: this podcast contains descriptions of self-harm, which some listeners may find distressing or upsetting, so please listen with caution.
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    1 h y 26 m
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