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Making things better and making better things
by Mark Shayler's podcast from the Woodshed.
Podcast of Mark Shayler at Ape. Works with businesses to do things better and do better things. Founder of innovation and sustainability company, Ape. Founding partner of the Do Lectures and Green Lab. Author of Do Disrupt: Change the Status Quo or Become it.
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A green Mayor for a green region.
Frank Adlington-Stringer is standing for Mayor of the East Midlands. I hope he gets it. He has a suite of great ideas that will boost the economy as well as the ecology. This is a heart-warming conversation about Frank, his upbringing and his vision. We touch on grandparents, favourite smells…
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Now That's What We Call Music.The best tracks of 2023 by Mark and Pete
2023 was a decent year for music. In our annual ramble about what we did and dint like we pulled out our favourite 11 tracks each (I know, neither of us are sure how that happened). Have a listen to our re-cap of last year. If you want to listen to the full playlist it is here:...
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Helena Price Hambrecht: change and chapters
Helena is an incredibly successful photographer, the co-founder of a drinks company, a business mentor and one of the kindest humans i've ever met. Her child smelled of dirt and hard work. Making the most of what she has is the raspberry ripple that runs through the ice cream of her life. This is…
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Kerri Kelly: Get off the mat and change something, maybe everything.
I met Kerri in the warm Californian sun and it was an instant connection. We've been friends ever since and we have both grown in that time. This is a joyous and love-filled conversation about her journey, leaving people behind (sometimes when they are taken away) and the need to heal and repair...
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Rusty Egan: Music for misfits.
Rusty Egan is one of the most influential DJs ever. He chose the music that went on to shape and define the movement that became the New Romantics. It was music for misfits. Inspired by the German band Kraftwerk, Bowie and American bands like Devo, Rusty chose the soundtrack to the post-punk...
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What would the world be like without artists?
Jess was a much bigger influence on my life than she realised. One of a group of art students that i met when i moved to London for my placement year in 1990. Jess is an artists that works with geometry and nature. Sustainability runs through her like "Blackpool" through a stick of rock. This is…
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Putting the Pop into Art, and Art into Pop
Malcom Garrett is a design legend. This is a wonderful and rich conversation about his work for bands including The Buzzcocks and Duran Duran. But more than that it is a conversation about the very nature of design and creativity. There is much in here that made me think but this line "you can't…
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Sometimes you need a leader: A conversation with Creative Conscience's Chrissy Levett.
Chrissy is extraordinary. A firebrand and a passionate campaigner for the power of creativity in solving the world's environmental problems. To me creativity is simply imagining a world that hasn't arrived yet, and you wouldn't imagine a worse one would you? Chrissy is on a mission to bring the...
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From Dirty Sanchez to mushrooms (not that kind).
Matt Pritchard is a diamond. One of life's good guys. He's a professional stuntman, skateboarder, one of the founders of Dirty Sanchez, and author of two vegan cookbooks. His story is as beautiful as it is gnarled. We cover running, growing-up, picking-up rubbish on his morning walks, getting up...
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Mark & Pete's Most Played
Another in my occasional chats with my mate Pete Davies about music. In this one we each pulled together a playlist of the songs we think we play the most (not measured at all) and why. It was fascinating. Particularly the reasons why. We agreed on Stone Roses 'Fools Gold', who wouldn't? I have a...
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How to strike oil, olive oil. A conversation with co-founder of Two Fields Will Rolph
Will and his brother Harry are accidental olive farmers and purposeful entrepreneurs. They bought two fields with 200 olive trees in and now sell the finest olive oil I have ever tasted. But more than that. They are part of a community now. Their feet and hearts deeply embedded in the soil of...
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Real Hackney Dave: How chaos breeds creativity and the gift or respawning.
Wow, I loved this chat. It was like sitting down with a mate from school. A self-proclaimed "useless kid" who sat under the table and drew. Dave died at 14. Properly died. Left for dead by the ambulance drivers until his Mum suggested they try and "get him going again". And boy did he get going.…
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Mira Manek: Prajna and Soul
Mira Manek is a cook, an author and a wellness consultant. In an earlier life she was a journalist but following a series of trips overseas was able to see herself more clearly. She returned to the UK and changed what she did. She wrote two beautiful books 'Saffron Soul' (a cookbook) and 'Prajna:...
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Sara Cohen: Getting wetter makes you better.
Meet my friend Sara. Designer and company builder. Sara started as a marketeer in London before legging it off to Australia. We talk about mid-90s London, changing career, her love of the freedom water brings, what it feels like to submerge yourself in a city after being a dive master, and…
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The Best Tracks Of 2021. Mark Shayler And Peter Davies
It's now become a tradition. Pete Davies and I sit down at the end of each year and discuss our favourite new music. This was a great conversation. Pete's choices were all chill and soulful, mine were a little angrier and shoutier. Take a listen to the chat and a snippet of the music. Don't worry...
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From market trader to business leader.
Wayne Hemingway started-off selling clothes. He and partner Gerardine sold all their clothes on Camden Market in order to make ends-meet. They had started something bigger than them. Their stall grew and grew and became a shop then a company then a worldwide brand. Now they run Hemingway Design...
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Charlie Gladstone: Building a team - how to get the best from everyone.
Charlie Gladstone has built many teams, many teams that have built great businesses. In-fact I'd say that Charlie is the best team-builder I know. It's people that make a business, not a business plan. Charlie has just written a great and concise book on how to build teams. In this podcast we…
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RTBC x Blender: Low Girl
The idea was a simple one - delve deeper in to the minds of the people and their processes behind the music. We asked each artist to select one of their own tracks to go under the microscope. Our third and final colab podcast with the Reasons To Be Cheerful crew features Sarah Cosgrove from Low...
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Lee Vernon - Psych rocker: Moving minds and feet.
Back in March 2021, we pulled together a line up of three artists to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the Morning Communion hosted by the Reasons To Be Cheerful Crew and now we're making these available via three special colab podcasts. The idea was a simple one - delve deeper in to the…
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ENNE - Nakisha Esnard: Blender x RTBC - The people behind the music.
This is the first of three collaborations with Blenders. We talk to musicians about the music they may, why they make it and how. The first is with the marvellous ENNE. ENNÈ [N] is a Soul Singer & song creator with mixed cultural influences that blends sounds of Reggae, Soul, Jazz, Funk and...
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The Best Tracks Of 2020 With Peter Davies
2020 was a year to remember. but what were you listening to? What were your stand-out tracks? My mate Pete Davies and I belatedly sat down and discussed out favourite tracks of last year. Then I belatedly sent to to my good friend Mark Cotton to clean up. So, four months into 2021 I present to…
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A legend in his lunchtime. Tony Mulgrew making dinners that make a difference.
Tony is a professional school chef with a passion for quality local British produce in schools. This started in Northern Ireland through the necessity to shop frugally. Short on money but rich in love Tony was sent to get a bone for the dog, they didn't have a dog. Tony took the lessons learnt…
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Kiss The Ground with Finian Makepeace
Finian Makepeace had a dream. It was more of a nightmare and it changed what he did. Finian spent the next seven year developing a film, an education program and a campaign to change the way that we farm. He started Kiss the Ground with his friend Ryland Engelhart and they have produced one of…
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Mark and Pete's Christmas Playlist
Pete Davies and I sat down over Zoom to discuss our Christmas playlists. Here is our discussion with short snippets of the songs we discussed. We have a PRS licence for music in podcasts. You can listen to the podcast on Spotify here:...
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Ashtin Berry: activism and alcohol.
Ashtin Berry is incredibly articulate. With her words and with flavours. She's a bartender, one of the best. but more than that, an entrepreneur, a campaigner, and a leader. This is an unbelievably powerful conversation. We talk about flavours in the deep South, her family, the Great Migration,...
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Naomi Devlin: Growing up wild.
Naomi is a self-taught chef. She is a teacher and chef at River Cottage. She grew up in a commune. She grew up in a collective. She grew strong as a result. Ity takes a village to raise a child - literally. This is a lovely conversation that travels from the edges of society to the centre and…
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Simon White. How lung cancer made me nice.
Simon talks us through his journey, from poverty trap to strategist. Simon's childhood was free-range. Climbing trees and riding bikes. He helps people up trees (metaphorically) and occasionally gets stuck up them (metaphorically and physically). Simon's life changed with a diagnosis of lung...
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Tasting Home: Marie Mitchell on soul and food.
Marie is a chef. She uses food to create soul, to bring people together, and she gave away a part of her to someone else. A kidney. This is one of the most beautiful and moving conversations I've had. It oscillates from adidas pop-up trousers, to Caribbean fruits, to dancing. Marie is one half of...
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Libby Delana: Navigating the world from your backyard.
Libby glows. She shines with possibility and hope. She is an aspiring pilot, a wannabe international DJ, and is considering midwifery.Growing-up in Connecticut it took a spell in Ireland and the smell of a horse stable as a teenager for her to become comfortable with herself. A truly remarkable...
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From tech start-up to chef: How a trip to India changed everything.
Grace has an amazing story. She left a silicon valley tech start-up to reimagine the high-street curry house. Not a fancy curry house, but the curry house remembered from her youth, but healthier. This is a charming conversation about growing-up, music, testing ideas fast and being brave. Watch...
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Mike Garry: Morrissey used to come round our house.
I first heard Mike Garry on his beautiful ode to Anthony H Wilson. You know the one - Saint Anthony. It made Number 1 in the charts. It featured Manchester's finest, it features strings, it was beautiful. At that point I didn't know Mike. I met him a year or two later at one of the best festivals...
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A chat with Alex Lawrence. Bartenders are philosophers, counsellors, friends. They also mix drinks
Alex Lawrence is a bartender, a drinks brand owner, a rebel, a funny and inspiring man, and he shines so brightly. This conversation swings from his time in a band, rebelling in private school, living in Aberdeen and being a young "trash-bag", moving to work in the World's best bar, mental health...
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Lucie Sheridan is an artist. She sees things in people that they don't see in themselves.
This is a belter of a podcast. Sadly marred by poor sound: acoustics, differential volumes of interviewer and interviewee, and some weird distortion. But the conversation is too good not to go out. Lucy is a truly great artist and one of the kindest people i've spent time with. We cover some...
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Jonathon Smales: Dirt under your nails part two
The second part of my conversation with the visionary Jonathan Smales. We pick-up as he left Greenpeace and hatched a plan to build the Earth Centre on an old coalfield in South Yorkshire. Not too far from where Jonathan grew-up.
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Jonathon Smales: You've got to have dirt under your nails. From coal to Greenpeace.
Jonathon is a leader in sustainability and always has been. One of the heavyweights of sustainability and was there from the start. We met nearly three decades ago and he continues to inspire me and everyone he has contact with. we talk music, fashion, sustainability and so much more. We travel...
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Matthew Bagwell. Always running. Towards enoughness.
I love that Gil Scott Heron track “Running”. The one that says “I always feel like running, never away because there’s no such place”. All the way through this talk with Matt of Seven feet apart that track was running through my head. This is a lovely conversation about shoes, making stuff to…
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Meet Mills. An eclectic and energetic conversation with Mills from Ustwo.
Mills set up Ustwo with his best mate. It's boomed. Mills is a beautiful man. The way he expresses himself, the way he talks, the love that shines from him is unique. This conversation oscillates from weight-loss and strength, to hyperactivity, to yoga, to dyslexia, to shame, to identity, to...
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Never turn your back on the ocean: Sophie Thomas on the power of design.
Sophie Thomas is a designer with a business brain or a business person with a designer's brain - i'm not sure which but it really doesn't matter. She pioneered thinking on circular economy and how designers are the solution to so many things. We also talked about what defines us, how school can...
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40 years early: Conversations with one of the original eco-warriors.
I met Jonathon 20 years ago this year. At about this time. At an incredible building in Austria where the Sound of Music was filmed. Jonathon has lead on sustainability from the beginning. From when the first roots of the "green" movement began to poke through. This shows extraordinary foresight...
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Graham Rowntree: A humble giant.
I went to school with Graham (or Wiggy as we called him). He was two years younger than me but we usually played in the same rugby team. We both played county rugby and both got trials for Leicester Tigers youth team. One of us got in and the other is me. 12 years on from those trials I played a...
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Rob Ryan: It's not where you're from, it's where you're at.
How do you know when to clap? Rob Ryan is an artist, a poet, a Northern Soul aficionado, and a totally human being. He's also one of my best mates. I loved this conversation that lists and lurches from why punk was dead before it was dead, getting late night buses to Wigan for soul all-nighters,...
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Feck Perfuction: why the thing that made you weird as a kid makes you brilliant today.
Recording this podcast was an absolute joy. James is one of my mentors, a great friend and a massive inspiration to me. I utterly loved this conversation. James is an artist, a teacher, an author, a fighter, a lover. He teaches you how to think for yourselves and how to find who you are. This...
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Sex and chat in the Chapel. Sam is a revolutionary, a pirate entrepreneur, and totally human.
A lovely and funny conversation about so many things. From the challenges of running a company single-handedly, designing sex toys, growing up a hippy, measuring up to herself, how dyslexia has shaped her and how we can create a better world. Sam is a joy to be with and this was a fab…
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How to effervesce well: How Dalston Sodas are changing the market.
Duncan runs Dalston Sodas. They make great soft drinks, they make great soft drinks with no and low added sugar. They make the best cherryade I have ever had. They are on a mission. Duncan set the business up in a nightclub in 2012 and they have gone from strength to strength. They use the best...
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Andrew Paynter: Why not quite fitting in makes for a great photographer.
Andrew Paynter is an incredible photographer. One of the best. He sees inside the subject. There are ancient peoples who fear having their photograph "taken" as they feel it steals their soul. I don't know about that but I do know that the best photographers see inside the soul. Andrew is one of...
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Soulfood is political: How food & health became a racial issue, & how fixing it will rebuild a city
Devita is one of the most powerful people i have ever met. Her parents were part of the Great Migration, the mass movement of the black population in the USA from the south to the industrial north looking for a future. The Great Migration built Detroit and Detroit built cars and music. Then…
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The rise of the outsider. How self doubt is the most effective employee retention tool
Steve Chapman is an artist. He's also many more things. This is a beautiful conversation about the value of the outsider, about art and why it matters, about how school sometimes isn't good for you. About hope. One of my favourites. So good that i'm planning a second with him soon.
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Changing how we produce food: How London's GreenLab can lead the way.
Ande Gregson is a pioneer in the way we produce food. He runs Greenlab which incubates, grows, educates, and stimulates new food organisations. Ande's journey is not linear. He got here via 3D printing and the Marathon des Sables.
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The House of Love: Repurposing purpose
Sandra Schembri is the big cheese at the House of St Barnabus in Soho, this is a Member's Club with a big old difference. Every bit of profit goes to fight homelessness, goes to help people back into work. The club is amazing. The people are more amazing. Sandra is an inspiration. She runs a…
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How cooking can define you, refine you and nourish you.
Anna Jones places vegetables at the heart of every meal. She also places cooking at her own heart. We talk about how cooking helped define her as a kid and then redefine her as an adult. We talk about vegetables. And i bravely give her advice on how to poach an egg.
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Podcast of Mark Shayler at Ape. Works with businesses to do things better and do better things. Founder of innovation and sustainability company, Ape. Founding partner of the Do Lectures and Green Lab. Author of Do Disrupt: Change the Status Quo or Become it.
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