Who are you and what’s your podcast about?

Hi there I’m Kate!

Everyday Positivity is a short daily podcast that reminds you to be kind to yourself, and gives you ways to take on the world with a positive mindset. You might get a nugget of advice, or a story from my ridiculous life that will help. More often than not I pick up great morsels of wisdom from talking to people day to day and I think “I HAVE to share that with the community”.

My key message is that positivity is not about pasting a smile over the cracks of life, it’s about knowing you can cope with the cracks of life…. It’s just that sometimes you need reminding that you have 100% got this. And that is why Everyday Positivity exists.

What was the first podcast you ever listened to?

The moment I “got into” podcasting was with the audio drama We’re Alive from 2009.

The story starts in LA as a “virus” starts spreading across the city. It evolves into a full blown zombie apocalypse. The story is told by “Michael” and the people he meets, via the diaries he encourages them to keep. The narrative is the diaries, and it was beautifully crafted.

It was the first time I had heard something that I could see in my mind’s eye as a movie. It also felt that you had found this gang of underground actors that were making a name for themselves. They felt like my own special discovery. At the time they were sponsored by a company that put fish tanks in office vestibules. It was a proud moment when the advertising voice said “with Audible…”, I thought “they’ve made it”.

Why did you decide to start podcasting in the first place?

At the beginning of 2017 I went through a bout of depression. I had suffered before, but I could always boil it down to some sort of reason – loss of a job, change in life situation, postnatal depression. This time I couldn’t understand it. So as part of my healing, I deployed some self care. I started with a new trainer at the gym and got in with a group of amazing women (they had a Whatsapp group called “PMA Ladies”). In both cases they were vocal with their praise and positivity – it made me feel so much better, and I healed.

This podcast was born out of that. I felt that if I needed reminding every day to be positive, feel good and be kind to myself, there would be others too. All I wanted to do was remind people to be kind to themselves. You can do so much more when you are not beating yourself up – what a waste of time it turns out to be.

Which podcasts do you take inspiration from?

I love podcasts like The Hidden Brain, Work Life with Adam Grant and Dolly Parton’s America. Podcasts that are sort of documentaries but actually well curated, and designed interviews. There is a neat podcast called Lobster Brain (my podcasting company Purposeful Podcasts produces this), their guests are very wise, and I enjoy hearing Scott Thomas interview some really wise Millenials in Learning As I Go (which we also produce).

Who’s your dream guest for the podcast?

Easy. The listeners and I decided last year that Dolly Parton is the Patron Saint of Everyday Positivity. Every time you see her interviewed she is so REAL, and draws her positivity from accepting things as they are and rolling with them. If I could bottle that for the world, I would.

Which episode would you say is the perfect introduction to your podcast?

Always today’s!

Where can the Pod Bible readers find out more about you?

Find out more at patreon.com/everydaypositivity or follow us on Instagram @officialeverydaypositivity

Listen to Everyday Positivity on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and other popular podcast apps >>

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Yoto Daily is a kids’ podcast that delivers a morsel of audio goodness every single day. It’s hosted by Jake Harris, a father and former primary school teacher whose sing-song voice reveals mind-boggling facts, cracks rib-tickling jokes and leads kids through games, drawalongs and other activities.

Now well beyond its 1,000th episode, Yoto Daily has until recently been available exclusively on Yoto – a screen-free audio platform that kids control. Yoto’s award-winning audio players, Yoto Player and Yoto Mini, let kids explore stories, music, educational activities and even meditation using physical cards. Kids around the world have enjoyed Yoto Daily by pressing a button on the audio players, which are also packed with free radio stations, audiobooks and sleep sounds like white noise. And as the podcast’s listenership has grown, Yoto has made it available more widely.

Each Yoto Daily episode is different, but they follow a familiar routine. On Mondays, they kickstart the week with Word of the Day—unpicking a little avenue of language with interactive activities. On Wednesdays, kids travel the world—exploring countries suggested by listeners through Five Fabulous Facts. At the end of the week, Jake hosts Friyay Jokes, showcasing kids around the world telling weird and wonderful jokes (try not to laugh). In-between these regular episodes, there’s a rotating roster of interactive games; Cheese or Chocolate, Alphabetter, Magic Ten, Draw-Along, and good old family quizzes. Each episode also features a handful of birthday shout-outs to kids around the world.

For the moment, Yoto Daily only publishes its Saturday and Sunday episodes to all major streaming platforms. But you can listen to the entire archive of episodes in the Yoto App, which is free to download for iOS and Android. There are other audio titles for kids aged 0-12+ in the app too, so it’s definitely worth exploring if you’re looking for ways to entertain your kids. Yoto Daily’s bite-sized episodes are perfect for families who want to kick-start their mornings with positivity and wonder, and for parents looking for a wholesome way to keep kids engaged. Discover the podcast wherever you listen – you can thank us later!

Listen to Yoto Daily on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and other popular podcast apps. Find out more about Yoto at uk.yotoplay.com.

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We caught up with Hana Walker-Brown from Broccoli Productions to discuss their podcast Anthems, and specifically the new series Anthems Pride which is being released daily throughout June!

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In July, Rob won Best Daily Podcast at the British Podcast Awards and the judges were effusive in their praise: “Dripping in charm, the deadpan delivery elevates this daily podcast to one which should surely be regarded as a must-listen. In a subset of daily podcasts that, when faced with an ever-distorting world force themselves into a position of either editorialising and at worst polemicising, this creator opts-out and is here to create and to entertain – and there can be no virtue more universal than that.”

As 2021 approaches and the project comes closer to completion, I caught up with Rob to ask how he’s found the process of releasing a daily podcast during such a challenging year…

Rob! The finish line is in sight! How are you feeling?

I think that’s one of the elements of this year I’ve struggled with most, not knowing how to feel. Normally I have a bit of structure to doing gigs and writing for Edinburgh and writing a new show to preview from January but with all that wiped away there is definitely a side of me that has become comfortably numb.  How are we supposed to feel at the moment? Optimistic? I can’t do that with the people we have in charge at the moment.  I was watching some watchalong videos of the Pink Floyd song Comfortably Numb and the woman at the end said “what is making you feel comfortably numb?” And I thought “yep this was definitely filmed before 2020.”  How am I feeling about the podcast? I haven’t looked back yet as I’m just finishing the last episodes but when I’ve got them done I think I will feel proud of it. That’s been the best thing about working on the podcast this year, it has enabled me to feel something, I have had to mine for feelings that aren’t worry or despair but I have found them and I’m thankful to the podcast for that.

Producing a podcast for every day of the year is quite the achievement, did you ever come close to missing a day or wishing you’d gone weekly instead?

Ben and Naomi from Plosive Productions have been great at producing it and it has felt like quite a smooth process really.  They have done a lot of work on it and that has been really good. I’ve had to be quite disciplined with getting them done which has meant forcing myself to work when I didn’t want to.  Those times were the most rewarding for me, sitting down and thinking “I haven’t got anything to write” and then getting a bit lost in the writing in a good way. That’s been a big lesson for me. Just start writing and put the hours in and something good might happen or it might not but it’s definitely not going to if you’re not doing it and you’re just playing on the computer getting baths in Red Dead Redemption 2.

Podcasts have provided a wonderful form of escapism in 2020 and many people cite your show as the perfect antidote to the 24 hours news cycle and endless references to ‘the virus’. Has the routine of producing a daily podcast helped you to navigate such a crazy year? 

It’s definitely been a difficult/almost impossible year to navigate for a lot of people and doing the podcast has given me a bit of direction for sure. A lot of direction I would say. Maybe I’ll never know how much it really has helped me through the year. It’s probably been absolutely massive for me to be honest.  Making it has been a constant source of refuge and I am pleased it has been a part of my life. Would you say that spending more time at home this year has made the whole process easier, or did lack of inspiration become an issue? I need to be in life to be able to write about it.  Normally when doing shows or travelling around ideas form when walking, seeing signs or overhearing glimpses of conversations.  I will never know the ideas I might have had this year if I had been out in the world, but I’m going to make up for it soon I hope.  I’ve tried to be quite strict with what we’ve put out as episodes. There hasn’t been any we’ve put out where I’ve thought “this is awful but you’ve got to put it out.”  They all have some sort of thought in that has meant something to me. If something means something to me I want to see if it means anything to anyone else too. That’s the whole point I think, because if someone says they like one of the thoughts it makes me feel less isolated. Connection is absolutely everything and it got taken away for a lot of people this year.

Are there any episodes you’re particularly proud of that may not have existed if it wasn’t for the year we’ve had?

I wrote a short piece concerning the death of George Floyd in June. As many people were, I was really struck over the head by that murder and wanted to try to say something/anything to express my dismay at that.  The brutality humanity expresses sometimes just makes me realise as a species we are maybe not as smart as we think we are.  Seeing our teeth and other animals having teeth, we are not that far removed, it’s a reminder that people can behave savagely much like our not too distant relatives in chimpanzees and apes.  You know sometimes you see a nature documentary and it’s all nice in the jungle and then all of a sudden the animals are ripping each other apart?  I wish we were better and I hope one day we can be but it’s going to take a few more million years of evolution I think. We are a long, long way away from being the finished article.

You won Best Daily Podcast at this year’s British Podcast Awards, what advice would you give to anyone considering creating a daily show?

Make sure you have somewhere quiet to record it.

Finally, what’s on the horizon for you in 2021? Could we see you return with a new, less demanding podcast?

I think there will be a monthly best of the Rob Auton Daily Podcast maybe half hour episodes for people to listen to if they like? Ben is that correct? Can you answer here in italics? YEP ROB, THAT’S THE PLAN. Other than that I’m going to be doing some shows hopefully and have been working on something else but will talk about that in the new year.

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