If Anne Can

If Anne Can

A Midlife Wanderer Comes Home

Welcome to If Anne Can, a podcast where a midlife woman searches for the answer to the age-old question of what it means to live a meaningful life and create a…

Building Courage: Angela Bentley; Ice Warrior

Why are people evangelical about the Wim Hof practice of breath work and embracing ice cold water?  

Please tune in to hear Angela Bentley, certified Wim H…

This is the last of my conversations recorded over the Kinder Mass Trespass ninetieth anniversary weekend in the High Peaks of Derbyshire in Hayfield village hall.

Ninety years ago, members of the you…

Kinder Mass Trespass: Celebrating John Anderson, one of the trespassers jailed for his action.

In this episode of Our Community, I'm in the village of Hayfield in the high peaks of Derbyshire on the n…

In this episode of Our Community, I’m in the village of Hayfield in the high peaks of Derbyshire on the ninetieth anniversary weekend of the historic Kinder Mass Trespass. 

The physical and mental con…

This conversation was recorded more than a year ago, before my relocation from Singapore to Manchester, UK.  As I plunged into a new life, I struggled to find my way and felt unable to publish any po…

Many of us labour in commercial jobs but nurture the hope in our hearts that one day we can begin to write.   

This wonderful Our Community episode features three writers who have ‘fixed their words a…

Today’s Our Community conversation is about a trail running group called Lewy’s Loop whose members meet once a week in the Rain Forest of Bukit Timah Singapore to run a tough cross country circuit. 

A…

In this episode, Alex Loh leads the conversation and I contemplate what it means to leave the country that has been my home for the last eleven years and repatriate to Manchester; a city I last lived…

‘This is real film making’

Saint Jack was filmed in 1978 and is the only American film to be entirely shot on location in Singapore,  capturing a ‘glowing, squirming, rhythmic blend’ of a life that wa…

OC32: Celebrating the Joy of a Writers’ Group! 

To celebrate International Women’s Day you are invited to listen to some beautiful and evocative readings from members of the American Women’s Associati…

The Power of Your Outer Circle  

There is no doubt your inner circle of family and close friends is important but have you considered the power of your outer circle? Those people who you may not see s…

In this podcast, I celebrate my community by re-sharing an episode which was recorded at the dawn of 2020. In it @Melinda and @Alka and I share stories about starting new things; taking joy in the su…

Today’s show is part of our regular writer’s series where I talk to writers about their community, practise and what it is about their particular story that makes them write in the first place. 

Liz C…

OC28: Community: Building on the Experiences of 2020 with Diana Wu David 

Diana Wu David is a strategist, innovator, entrepreneur and the author of Future Proof Reinventing Work in the Age of Accelera…

Born at the dawn of the 21th Century in the year of the Dragon, Lydia Chen and Vihan Chandiramani are two of Singapore’s top students. This year they expected to start their university life in London…

OC26: Paying Attention and living Life on Your Own Terms 

Today I’m talking to Jess Duff, lawyer, writer, editor and publisher. 

Jess arrived in Singapore from London six years ago with three children …

Finding Purpose in Business  

This is the first podcast I ever recorded. 

Gib Bulloch consults, writes and speaks on a range of topics relating to the role of business in society. His first book: “The …

My guest today is Lara Quie and Lara has earned a special place in many people’s lives as a trusted advisor, mentor and executive coach to ultra-successful lawyers, leaders and founders.   

Lara’s dar…

My guests today are Kym Sng and Souhair Wahba; two exceptional young women who are channelling their zest for creating content into the heart of their community.

Kym and Souhair are young Singaporeans…