Balancing Acts
A series of conversations with an array of creatives, hosted by Steve Whiteley. We talk about their journey, the struggles they’ve faced whilst progressing their career, strategies they use to unlock their creativity, how they balance their career with their personal lives, what impact this has on their mental health and lots more!
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- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 68 minutes
- Episodes
- 80
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2022
The Lovely Boys on making feel good online comedy content
Will Robbins and Ben Cohen are the Lovely Boys, an online comedy sketch duo.
Both of them are stand up comedians and together their sketches have amassed 45,000 followers on TikTok.
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Matty Hutson on buddhism and musical comedy
Matty Hutson is a musical comedian and improviser at the Free Association.
He has reached the final of Musical Comedy Awards twice. During the pandemic he used his time wisely and began making online…
Zehavah Handler on how to cure insomnia
Zehavah Handler is a registered BACP psychotherapist and trained in CBT-i practitioner sleep councillor, a programme helping people suffering from chronic insomnia. Her training incorporates existent…
Darryl Edwards on the importance of movement and play
Darryl Edwards is a movement coach and best selling author. He is the founder of the Primal Play Method and a physical activity, health and play researcher.
He regularly presents as a keynote and moti…
Henry Normal on his creative journey as a poet and co-founder of Babycow Productions
Henry Normal is a writer, poet, TV and film producer and founder of the Manchester poetry festival (now literary festival).
Co-founding Babycow Productions Ltd in 1999 with Steve Coogan, Henry exec pr…
What does the idea of balance mean to you or not? Pt.2
We're back with part 2 of the compilation of answers to the final question I ask all guests on Balancing Acts.
Featuring in order of appearance are:
1) Bel and Clare (Ep.70)
2) Ethan Lawrence (Ep.65)
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What does the idea of balance mean to you or not? Pt.1
In this weeks episode I've compiled some of my favourites answers to the question I ask every guest on Balancing Acts: What does the idea of balance mean to you or not? Featured in running order are …
Liz Earle MBE on her entrepreneurial and wellness journey
Liz Earle MBE is a champion of women’s health, media influencer, author of 36 books, TV presenter, podcast host and charity-founder.
For more than thirty years, Liz has remained a respected and award…
Remi Nicole on balancing Motherhood with her music and filmmaking career
Remi Nicole is a writer, director and performer.
A native of Holloway, North London, Remi grew up fired by a passion for story-telling, which she explored by endlessly writing music, fiction, plays an…
Ashley Gorman on going from being homeless to following his comedy dreams
Ashley is a comedian and writer from North West London.
He went from being homeless to winning the London Comedy Stores brutal King Gong competition, gigging at all the top comedy clubs up and down t…
Bel Knight & Clare Hoey on becoming a successful writing partnership
Bel Knight and Clare Hoey are a writing partnership working across TV, film and podcast projects.
They wrote and starred in their debut play It's Not Cute Anymore, which ran at Underbelly at the Edinb…
Ryan Dalton on growing his podcast and going back to nature
Ryan Dalton is the host of the nature and wildlife podcast 'Into The Wild'.
Ryan spent seven years as a comedian, performing all across London, Surrey and Berkshire, alongside the likes of Paul Foot, …
Simon London on the good, bad and ugly side of the BBC and TV industry
Simon has a well-deserved reputation as a broadcast ‘all-rounder’.
His television career started at the Daily Mirror as the paper’s youngest ever television critic. He then joined LIVE TV as a presen…
Stephen Tomlinson on using the breath to increase physical and mental performance
Stephen is one of the few people in the UK who is fully trained in the Neuromuscular Activation technique known as Be Activated.
Over the last thirteen years, he has trained in a wide range of advance…
Naomi Shragai on how our past informs our working relationships
Naomi is an author, freelance journalist, business consultant and psychotherapist.
She has written for The Times and The Guardian and since 2008 has been a regular contributor to the Financial Times, …
Ethan Lawrence on going from delivering pizzas to starring in After Life
Ethan is an actor and comedian.
He has starred in Bad Education both the TV series and feature film, starring Jack Whitehall. Ethan has also starred in Modern Horror Stories on Comedy Central and more…
Dugan O'Neal on balancing Fatherhood and filmmaking
Dugan is a writer, director and actor.
He has directed music videos for the likes of Duck Sauce, Haim and Temper Trap and lots of very funny commercials. He was a staff writer on the animated TV serie…
Oenone on balancing life as an influencer, podcaster and comedian
Oenone is an influencer, presenter, podcaster and comedian.
Her podcast Adulting has been downloaded over 3 million times. Oenone creates content about fitness, feminism, books, jewellery, politics an…
Christine Rose on her accidental path into becoming one of the most sought after TV comedy writers
Christine Rose is a TV comedy writer.
Christine has written on shows including Graham Norton, Jonathan Ross Show, Chatty Man, Have I Got News For You, 8 Out of 10 Cats, Would I Lie To You, Roast Battl…
James Farmer on how he became one of the UK's most in demand gag writers
James Farmer is a comedian and writer.
James has worked as a writer on some of the most successful UK TV shows. From pretty much all of Jimmy Carr shows, to the Last Leg, Romesh on the Ranganation and…