What’s your podcast about?

The Capsule #inconversation was created to provide a space for honest chats, expert advice and real insight around all aspects of women’s wellbeing and mental health with weekly special guests. It’s mainly based on my own journey; I started the podcast as I was finding out all this incredible information creating my own well-being toolkit and I just really wanted to share it. I wanted to share vital information and inspiration with other women.

What was the first podcast you ever listened to?

It was the Hot Mess Mums Club, which I loved. And since then we’ve had the girls on the podcast talking about motherhood, mood swings and muddling through. A lot of our audience are Mums and it’s important to talk about the real life aspects of mother-hood, the highs and the lows.

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

It was off the back of our first live Capsule event, we noticed that the audience were shy asking questions in such a public environment. After the live Q&A we had some suggestions from our audience about starting a Capsule Podcast. We realised a podcast would give us the opportunity to provide people with really important information and support from the comfort of their own homes and would be a place where we could get fantastic women to share their inspirational stories or expert advice.

Which podcasts do you take inspiration from?

The podcasts that I love listening to are Anna Mathur’s, The Therapy Edit. Anna has such a soothing voice but the topics she tackles are so raw. I listen to, The Calmer You podcast, with Chloe Brotheridge. Both of these have been guests on the Capsule but I was listening to them before. I found so much in those podcasts. I like How to Fail with Elizabeth Day, she is fantastic and I loved her book Failosophy.
I also love Happy Place, Fearne’s podcast. I think she’s really trail blazing the way on tackling anxiety and talking about those things that are really difficult to talk about. Seeing Fearne in the public eye admitting her struggles with anxiety really opened the floodgates for people to come forward and start addressing these things themselves.

Who’s your dream guest for the podcast?

I adore Joanna Lumley, if I had Joanna Lumley I would actually cry or Joan Collins. There’s too many. I’m so inspired by women that have lived and breathed it, who have paved the way and been trail blazers.

What’s the biggest lesson you’ve learnt so far as a podcaster?

As a podcaster, it’s really important that you have a deeper understanding of your guests so that you ask the right questions. You want the conversation to be as free flowing and natural as possible with minimal editing that way the listener gets to be part of a much more organic and engaging chat.

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

That’s really hard, it depends. If you want something that’s more life stories then I think the Shirley Ballas episode was fantastic for that. If you want something that is more expert-led then Poppy Jamie’s was such a great episode about wellness. Nicola Elliott, Shirley Ballas and Poppy Jamie were great episodes for different reasons. They’d be good ones to start with.

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

You can listen to us from all the platforms you usually get your podcasts. You can also check out the Capsule website thecapsule.co.uk or you can follow us on socials. On Instagram, the podcast is @officialcapsule on Twitter and Instagram.  I’m @natjanderson on Instagram and on Twitter it’s @andersonnatalie.

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Pod Bible: Who are you and what’s your podcast about?
Amelia Rope: I’m Amelia Rope, ex chocolate creator (Amelia Rope Chocolate) and now podcaster. Hope & Patience, named after my 2 grannies but also two vital qualities we seem to constantly need in life, is a podcast where I and a guest (either a founder or wellbeing expert) chat about the challenges of running a business, the mindset required and importantly how we need to take care of ourselves along the way. Being a chocolate lover we also break open chocolate on each show, too! They are released fortnightly and thankfully all up to early May recorded pre-Corona. The episodes are around 40-45 minutes long.
Given our current world we now find ourselves propelled into, I am launching an offshoot podcast called Tales of Hope & Patience. This will go beyond business and is for absolutely everyone to be a guest. Everybody who has a story of when they had to hold onto Hope and had to have bucket loads of Patience can be a guest. And I want to share these with the listeners: to inspire, bring a giggle, perhaps shed a tear. Any topic (apart from non-explicit!) The episodes will be 15-20 minutes and released every other week.

PB: What’s the first podcast you ever listened to?
AR: How To Fail with Elizabeth Day interviewing Pandora Sykes. I tuned in after hearing about her book. I loved her honesty, articulation and chat. From there I found Adam Buxton – if you haven’t listened to him, his voice purrs!

PB: Why did you decide to start podcasting in the first place?
AR: As with my chocolate business, Amelia Rope Chocolate, I kind of fell into podcasting. I knew I was evolving from my business which I had run for nearly 13 years and last summer started exploring podcasts and youtube channels. I have always enjoyed being interviewed (papers, mags, blogs, tv, radio, et al) and am fascinated by people, their stories, what makes them tick, and how they handle life. As a Founder and working very much on my own I always wanted to hear what others did when challenged, their mindset and also importantly, how they looked after their wellbeing. I also compromised my mental and physical health at times when I really needed it to be well. So much so that my immune system crashed and I ended up with a diagnosis of Sjogren’s Syndrome (barely able to walk, kneel or stand for long and more alongside). Guests are either founders or wellbeing experts and we share chat, the odd giggle and chocolate, of course!

PB: Which podcasts do you take inspiration from?
AR: Tough one – I love George the Poet and Viv Groskrup’s How to Own the Room, as well the two mentioned above. I am pretty new to the podcast world so still finding my way with who to listen to, and tend to dip in and dip out.  

PB: Who’s your dream guest for the podcast?
AR: Oooh – Arianna Huffington. Such an incredible inspiration to so many.

PB: What’s the biggest lesson you’ve learnt so far as a podcaster?
AR: To be as relaxed as possible and to work from a set format. (My amazing producer disciplined me with a format and I can now see why!) As I am used to sitting in the guest seat and being interviewed it’s a massive learning curve with creating interesting questions, avoiding going off-piste with chat.  I try to listen to previous episodes regularly to see where I need to up my game!

PB: Which episode would you say is the perfect introduction to your podcast?
AR: Ooh, tough one as I have so enjoyed them all.  My first podcast with the superb Rohan Blacker, who is an amazing raconteur; he has so many chapters in his life that we ran out of time! All have amazing gems – so any episode is a good way to dip in.  

PB: Where can the Pod Bible readers find out more about you?
AR: Join me @hopeandpat (insta, FB and Twitter) and @amelia_rope (insta), @ameliarope (twitter) as well as the website www.hopeandpatience.co.uk.

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