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Emily Chiswell

How do you make a career out of hula hooping? What book inspires a Grammy award-winning DJ? Where do you start if you want to set up a snowboard school? What’s it actually like to sell alcoh...

Episodes

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#106 The Fold Line

Becoming a milliner is tough enough quite frankly as you heard from Kate Underdown in Passion Pod #8 and not just because most people have n...

Aug 22, 2016

#105 The Tempest Two

Rowing across the Atlantic for 54 days straight, in a seven metre long boat (having never been in one before!), over Christmas Day, through...

Aug 15, 2016

#104 Luke Keen

Comedy and flowers. Not a combo you’d usually put together is it really. Well, not unless you’d met Luke Keen in which case it&#...

Aug 8, 2016

#103 Gemma Compton

Painting for a living is what led Gemma Compton to the wall we found her decorating for this year’s Upfest. Not a bad place to making...

Aug 1, 2016

#102 Raise the Roof

Becoming a camerawoman is a tough enough gig to break in to but it didn’t seem quite enough for Holly Bantleman. She was so affected b...

Jul 25, 2016

#101 Fun Science

Glow in the dark, glittery, magnetic – Cressida Bullock founder of Fun Science makes slime for a living. She also sets children’...

Jul 18, 2016

#100

A whole 100 of these little beauties?!#100 life-true tales from such adventurous, hugely brave and massively inspiring folk – what an...

Jul 11, 2016

#99 Wildflowers

Two thirds of Wildflowers – Kit and Siddy – are from a mega musical family. Brought up a jazz musician and an actress they all h...

Jul 4, 2016

#98 Max Dickins

If you’re feeling stuck in a rank old work/life/romance rut then this Passion Pod has your name all over it. Writer/performer Max Dick...

Jun 27, 2016

#97 Babbasa

Founded by Poku (who previously worked in property P.S. and had absolutely no experience in youth engagement at all!) Babbasa supports young...

Jun 20, 2016

#96 Jake Meyer

Jake Meyer really struggles to pin point exactly what it is that he does, which is often a good sign in our book. He settled on Adventurer&#...

Jun 13, 2016

#95 Jennifer Hamley

Jennifer Hamley is a bag designer. Think handbag come work bag and one that we actually want to use rather than horrible, ugly looking desig...

Jun 6, 2016

#94 The Jolly Hog

From playing professional rugby for Harlequins and Bristol, to making sausages for a living. Yes, that is a real career path and Olly Kohn i...

May 30, 2016

#93 Aduna

After spending three years working for a big Ad agency in London feeling rather un-scintillated about chucking all of his energy and creativ...

May 23, 2016

#92 Bridget Arsenault

Bridget Arsenault is donning three main job hats at the moment. She’s always known that she wanted to be a journalist and has spent mo...

May 16, 2016

#91 Clever Tykes

Jodie founded her own Social Media company JC Social Media at 22 and is also the co-founder of Clever Tykes – a series of children&#82...

May 9, 2016

#90 Steffy White

Being an actress is a Passion Pod in itself really but making the move from doing that as your job to becoming a yoga teacher…surely t...

May 2, 2016

#89 Blogosphere

So, here’s one for you. Blogosphere Magazine is the first print publication entirely by bloggers for bloggers and the blogging communi...

Apr 25, 2016

#88 The Cool Graduate

The Cool Graduate is a platform of inspiration for graduates to get a different clutch of ideas about their futures. Hello and yes please! F...

Apr 18, 2016