In her podcast, Namaste Motherf**kers, she shares the microphone with guests to find out what makes them tick, and what makes them laugh. We asked her some questions about her podcast life…

For people who might not have listened yet, what is your podcast elevator pitch!

Namaste Motherf**kers is the only podcast where the worlds of work, comedy and wellbeing collide; the podcast where the life-changing stuff happens. With the help of a different celebrity guest or expert each week we get to the stories you’ve never heard before – uncovering not your normal life lessons, but some big ones nonetheless. Each episode culminates with our guest identifying three things: their own Namaste Mother**king life-changing moment, their favourite joke, and the life advice they most want our listeners to hear.

Tell us about that name – Why Namaste Motherf**kers?

The name sums up the spirit of what I most love about the combination of my career and life to date – wellbeing, emotional intelligence and self-development combined with humour, fun and irreverence.

Why do you love podcasts?

Having worked in television throughout my adult life I’ve found watching TV a bit of a bus man’s (bus person’s!) holiday so I’ve always loved listening to the spoken word to relax. Until the advent of podcasts it was always the radio, but nowadays it’s audiobooks and podcasts too. It’s rare I don’t have something on in the background during the day and it’s the audio equivalent of people watching. I’m nosy and I can’t get enough of what other people are saying, doing and thinking!

Which podcaster makes you laugh the most?

If there’s one thing they don’t need it’s any more publicity but I really love Parenting Hell; Rob Beckett in particular is a genius. I’m also a big fan of WUYN with Seann Walsh and Paul McCaffrey. Paul is outstanding, onstage and on the podcast. And I love Desert Island Discs which I always listen back to on BBC Sounds.

For listeners of your podcast, what can they expect from your stand-up?

My comedy is, as it says on the tin, purely for laughs – no life lessons required and obviously no-one to interview! It’s observational, intelligent, and feminist and I tell stories about subjects no one else is covering on the circuit. I’m also a big believer in punchlines needing to come thick and fast so there are lots of actual jokes. But don’t take my word for it – come and see for me live!

What exciting things will 2023 bring for Namaste Motherf**kers?

We have some fabulous guests coming up including: Deborah Meaden, Kirsty Wark, Mariella Frostrup, Richard Coles and Philippa Perry. It’s our 100th episode in March which we’ll be marking with a star-studded compilation of our most famous and popular guests’ life-changing moments – big names, telling the stories of their wow moments. We have some live shows planned for later in the year and there’s even a Namaste Motherf**king book in the works! It’s fair to say that 2023 will be our biggest year yet.

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Who are you and what’s your podcast about?

Our podcast is called Square Hole and it is a podcast about neurodiversity, employment and the creative industry. Talking around diagnosis and awareness, fitting into the work place, how to start looking for jobs, how to interview well. And then we move into audiences and interpretation and the creative process. So we take you on a bit of a journey, through the whole leaving university, finding out your diagnosis, straight through to getting working, keeping work, and developing and growing in the work place and straight through the creative process and audience interpretation.

Lorna from Square Hole

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

We came together to do the podcast, but initially it wasn’t a podcast in our first idea. Jhinuk Sarkar, my collaborator, is an illustrator and educator and had worked in disability within arts and within universities, as a Disabilities Officer. And I’m a Photographer and Art Director and I approached Jhinuk to potentially work on a photographic story along with illustrations to build a picture, a sort of visual narrative of what it means to be neurodiverse. And we discussed what that would look like and we wanted to write an article afterwards, but after our first meeting we ended up talking about developing a podcast. So it went from one idea to another, which is always very exciting.

The initial idea still stands that we wanted to make a visual narrative of the content, however we found out that making a podcast is quite hard work, so most of the budget and time has gone into actually making the podcast itself. And hopefully we will get more funding so that we can make our visual interpretations and iterations of the content.

You dropped all the episodes in the series in one go – why did you decide to do it that way?

Because we didn’t really know the best way to do it, I think. We had prepared everything and so we thought we would just release everything. The podcast isn’t really in a linear way. There is a sort-of order, but true to neurodivergent pathways it can be tackled in any way, so we wanted people to approach it in any way they felt they wanted to.

Did you take inspiration from any particular podcasts?

We did take some inspiration from other podcasts, and one in particular is my favourite, Seen On Radio, which I think is a very inspiring podcast. I really, really enjoy that.

Who’s your dream guest for the podcast?

I have to say, I think everyone we already have has been our dream guests. All of our interviewees surpassed our expectations tremendously, they were incredibly generous, incredibly informative, just so inspiring listening to their stories. Jhinuk and I couldn’t have wished for better people to be involved, they were astounding.

Jhinuk from Square Hole

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

Making a podcast is a really big deal and there’s a lot of things you don’t think of! Yeah it was a much, much bigger job than we had anticipated, so that’s the big thing we learnt I think.

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

You can find the podcast on all platforms. We’re on Instagram @sqhole sharing more information about ourselves and our guests, and the next stages of the project will be through that.

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