Howie and Pals

Howie Birch
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Life chat. For regular people, by regular people 🙌 If reading’s your thing, check out the blog here: blogsanddogs.org

  1. 05/06/2024

    #27. Juan Piña - Anxiety, Anger and Joy… Division

    Juan Piña, everybody! As ever, we have a nice and weird conversation.   We chat about alllll my favourite things like dark and intrusive thoughts, overcompensating, lying, and how we want the world to see us vs how we actually feel about ourselves.

    58 min

  2. 03/24/2024

    #26. Johnny Brock - From the Top of the Charts to the Pits of Despair

    Today we’re joined by Johnny Brock, the former bass player of Avalanche City and muuuch more impressively, a former colleague of mine! In this episode we chat about the highs of topping the music charts, to the lows that can happen when it’s suddenly taken away. This includes some of the mental and physical tolls that can take, some of the unseen costs, some of the learns, and touching on the transition back to a comparatively regular life after. Search Johnny Brock on Spotify to check out his work/tuuuunes!

    59 min

  3. 03/23/2024

    #25. Blog 56 - Luck, Stuck and Two Smoking Barrels

    A reflection on the role of luck in life…

    10 min

  4. 02/07/2024

    #24. Blog 54 - The Art of Being Too Scared to do Anything

    Being too scared to do anything. The fear of failure. Story of my life. And with the help of One Direction, the Hungry Caterpillar, Cato the Stoic, and a couple of Gym Bros, we have a look at that particular fear today. Some of the ups, some of the downs, and whether it’s actually the fear of failure at all…

    8 min

  5. 01/28/2024

    #23. Rosie Blezard - Honeymoons, Hogwarts Gamekeepers, and How to Smash an Ultra Marathon

    Rosie Blezard, ladies & gentlemen! In this wiiiide ranging chat we discuss, amongst other things, honeymoon highlights, Harry Potter, body image, wellness hacks, life outlooks, some of the mental transitions as you go from your 20s to your 30s, aaaaand generally just being all round tragic millennials 😇

    1 hr

  6. 01/22/2024

    #22. Blog 53 - Envy their ass, or Pity their ass?

    To state the obvious, jealousy doesn’t tend to be one of the better emotions.   Having said that, I don’t think it’s allllll bad. And here we dive into this particular emotion, looking at some of the ups, some of the downs, and some of the people we may be jealous of… .

    8 min

  7. 01/15/2024

    #21. Blog 52 - The Good Thing About Being Shit At Stuff

    Something I actually know something about! As a novice in pretty much everything in life, I find a reminder about the benefits of being shit at something to always be fairly useful. As such, with it being NYR season (a time of year where we typically at least think about doing new things), it felt like a potentially apt time to pull this one together.

    7 min

  8. 01/09/2024

    #20. Brian Welsh - Strava, Scottish Football, and Starting a Business

    Welshy’s here! At the Wyre Stadium at Firhill - the home of the mighty Partick Thistle - Welshy and I chat about a range of topics. Firstly, starting a business (@BrianWelshPR on LinkedIn for all your PR needs), Running (@helensburghrunner for Welshy’s running Insta), and the Euros coming up this summer (come on!). Finally, to become part owner of Partick Thistle and generally check out what they’re all about, head over to thejagsfoundation.co.uk

    54 min
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Life chat. For regular people, by regular people 🙌 If reading’s your thing, check out the blog here: blogsanddogs.org

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  • Creator
    Howie Birch
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2024
  • Episodes
    27
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Howie Birch
  • Show Website
    Howie and Pals