JCIP #293 - Elliot Bewick

In episode 293 of The Just Checking In Podcast we checked in with Elliot Bewick.Elliot is a producer, presenter and the host of The Next Generation Podcast, which bills itself as ‘a home for Gen Z to be exposed to different viewpoints, learn lessons from the past & search their way to a meaningful and fulfilled life’.Elliot got his start in media production when he was just 15 years old, through a chance encounter with the hosts of the Triggernometry podcast, Konstantin Kisin and Francis Foster, as his dad was a fan of the show and dragged him to one of their live shows.At that show, he met Triggernometry's producer and pitched himself to him. After shooting his shot, he didn’t hear anything for three months, before receiving a response back and Elliot was offered an unpaid internship opportunity to work on the show.From there, he started by working on the vlogs they made during their trips to America to record episodes with American celebrity guests, before becoming a fully-fledged staff member and eventually, producer of the whole show at just 18 years old. He worked as their producer for a year, before making another brave decision to leave the show as they wanted him to work on it full-time and he wanted to start his own podcast.He started the Next Generation Podcast in September 2024, which he describes as his ‘eureka moment’ and it has gone from strength to strength ever since.In this episode, we chart that journey from 15-year-old school kid to producer of a mega-podcast in just three years, how he’s developed his skills in front of the camera as well as behind it, and some of the issues he covers on Next Gen.We also discuss ‘therapy culture’, his hopes for his generation, especially men and male suicide.For Elliot’s mental health journey, we discuss the absence of suffering he had in his childhood, coming from a comfortable, middle-class background and his contemplations about whether he needed a level of suffering back then to give him extra drive, finding purpose and gratitude.We finish by discussing his recent move to Dubai in the UAE and why he made that choice, his decision not to go to university and his future as he enters his early 20s.As always, #itsokaytoventYou can listen to the Next Generation Podcast on streaming platforms below: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@elliotbewickSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6I1i0604kZ7XIALmUZzZGlYou can follow Elliot on social media below: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elliotbewick/Support Us:Patreon: www.patreon.com/venthelpukPayPal: paypal.me/freddiec1994?country.x=GB&locale.x=en_GBMerchandise: www.redbubble.com/people/VentUK/shopMusic: @patawawa - Strange: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d70wfeJSEvkSupport Us:PatreonPayPalMerchandise