Inside Your Head Special Announcement

Hi, this is Henry your host and I've produced this as a special announcement today because I've had to make a very difficult decision about the podcast. And the decision is that for the time being, I'm going to have to cut back the podcast from being fortnightly to just monthly. It takes me at least two or three days every episode to plan, record, edit, release, and then publicize the show as well as the time taken to try and persuade guests to come on the show in the first place!

I've done 10 episodes so far, plus all the Relaxation on the Beach episodes separately, with no financial backing whatsoever, other than a handful of very kind souls who made donations via the Ko-Fi page. But the fact is, and it should come as no surprise, with bills to pay and audience figures still too low to attract advertisers or sponsors, it's time for a reality check. And I need to focus on my paying careers, which include, interestingly, another podcast! Naturally, I'm really sad about this because my own life experience in the last couple of years has made me really passionate about mental health, psychology, neuroscience, and the whole self-help thing.

And my mission is to want to educate and inform those who can benefit from what I've learned and from the knowledge of my amazing guests. But the fact of the matter is that unless the podcast can pay its way – even covering its costs would be a good start – I'm just going to have to treat it as a passion project, a personal passion project that I do for the love of it.

Not for the money, until, or unless it manages to attract sponsorship of some kind. And whilst I'm well-known in some circles which is why I'm able to do another podcast using the Patreon gig, in this sphere, I'm a complete outsider. Nobody knows me. Why would they, I'm a guy with a history degree who's decided to start talking about psychology!

So anyway, thanks to everyone who has been listening to the shows, including you, obviously, if you're hearing this and hopefully benefiting from them or at least finding them interesting. And I want to send out special thanks to those of you who adhere to the social media motto, to like is lovely, but to share is divine, your support is truly appreciated.

Anyway, this isn't the last time you're going to hear from me, as I say, I'm going to be doing the show monthly from now on, but there won't be the regular kind of Friday fortnightly slot happening. And I, you know, if you've got any thoughts about this and the opinions about this, please do leave comments, do get in touch.

I'm on Twitter, on @insideyourhead0 and I've got a Facebook page, and obviously you can email me at henry@inside-your-head.com with hyphens.com and I'd love to hear from you. And of course, if you're someone who would like to sponsor the show or advertise on the show to help fund it, that would be absolutely fantastic.

If you're someone who would like to be a guest on the show, by all means, please do get in touch because one of the things I've discovered is that because I'm not terribly well-known in this, you know, the kind of mental health, psychology, psychiatry sphere, knocking on people's doors and saying, "please come on my show" is really, really hard work because naturally they tend to go," "Yeah. And who are you? And yeah, if you don't have an audience of many thousands of people, which as yetI don't, cause I'm just starting, it's really hard to be taken seriously. But anyway, thanks for listening to this little special announcement.

And for those of you who have been loyal supporters of the 10 episodes I've done so far I hope you're not too disappointed. And if the opportunity arises and if it looks like it could pay for itself, of course, I'd love to get back on a fortnightly schedule. In fact, my ambition is I'd love to be on a weekly schedule, but there we are, reality calls.

Thanks for listening everyone. And until next time, be well.