Manup! UK Men's mental health podcast Andy Richardson and Tommy Danquah

Andy and Tommy do a catch up podcast and talk about their latest mental health regimes and about Tommy's balls after his vasectomy!

Andy and Tommy return for another chat with John Stacey about overcoming the mental pitfalls of being a dad and the pressure of being a new dad. They also celebrate the podcast's 4th birthday with a song!

Andy and Tommy speak to the head of Mental Health First Aid England Simon Blake OBE about how to cope at work and elsewhere in these chaotic times.

To find out more about Mental Health First Aid courses look here:

https://mhfaengland.org/mhfa-centre/news/MHFA-England-launches-new-Mental-Health-First-Aid-course/

And here's a link to the My Whole Self MOT Simon mentioned.

https://mhfaengland.org/my-whole-self/resources/

Andy and Tommy catch up on a summer of business, Tommy talks about being a new father again and dog therapy and Andy talks about turning 50 amongst other things.

Andy and Tommy chat to tv presenter and record breaking swimmer Ayo Akinwolere about mental health and finding a happy place when your life has been a whirlwind from childhood.

Andy and Tommy talk to David Parkin about his current shows his works, bi-polar disorder, his 4 months being sectioned and all sorts of stuff in this lively and fruity episode!

David is an author, theatre maker, musician and installation artist. His work is fiercely biographical, weird and wonderful, sublime and speculative, from his (award nominated) children’s book and musical ‘The Nose That Nobody Picked’ to ‘David Parkin’s Delusions of Grandeur’, an installation looking at the four months he spent under section, suffering from a bipolar manic episode.