The Next Chapter by Ellie Barker

S11 Ep 2: From 60 Minute Makeover & A bottle of vodka a day to Sobriety Coach: Dave Wilson

If you ever watched 60 Minute Makeover with Peter Andre – you may remember a lovely carpet fitter called Dave…

Louise Ross loved reading and storytelling as a child but she had her heart set on being a lawyer. She became a barrister and while she loved helping people -she started to feel it was time to do som…

If you’re suffering from Christmas overwhelm, it’s time to
put those headphones on, maybe even go for a little fresh air and let coach and author Joanne Mallon guide you through.

In this week’s episod…

Joanne Mallon 'quite' enjoyed her job as a television producer working on shows like Vanessa, This Morning & GMTV. But she wanted to do something she loved which had a much deeper meaning so more tha…

Annie Garthwaite loved history as a child.  She went to a comp in Hartlepool where in her words, if you got 3 CSE’s your name would go on the wall.  Annie then, would never have believed that one she…

A few years ago if you’d met Michal it would have been easy to
think she was one of those women who ‘had it all.’ A huge job - Head of Global
Culture at Tik Tok, (I know!), the mother of 4 beautiful ch…

*SPECIAL EPISODE ALERT*

Every week I think my Next Chapter guests are so brave telling us openly and honestly - about the ins and outs of their Next Chapters, I decided to hand over the microphone (fo…

Fanny is a money coach – but she did not become this until
in her fifties. She did all different jobs and shows how sometimes different twists and turns may not always be what we want the time but the…

Part 2.

Reverend Clive Jennings was brought up in a council house and he says he wears his roots like a badge. Although he loved drama and wanted to be an actor, he joined the police and worked in the…

Part 1.

Reverend Clive Jennings was brought up in a council house and he says he wears his roots like a badge. Although he loved drama and wanted to be an actor, he joined the police and worked in the…

Cat, in her own words, questioned school and authority when
she was a child, but navigated her own way through this, so who better to work with young people now and help them find their own?

Cat train…

Now, most of us know Maggie from the days of Swap Shop. Millions of children tuned in every Saturday – and she helped transform weekend mornings. Noel Edmonds, Keith Chegwin, John Craven and then Mag…

This is the last conversation in this series and what a way to finish!

I loved this when I first recorded it but when I listened to it back, I learnt even more.

Andrea is even more open and honest in t…

Most of you will know Andrea as one of our favourite presenters on Daytime Television for more than 2 decades. She brightened our mornings on GMTV as the lovely weather girl and then she was Loose Wo…

The wonderful Suzi Grant has made it her mission to encourage as many women as possible to feel good no matter what our age. The ‘nutritionist with a passion for fashion’ began her career as a journa…

Nearly ten years ago colleagues Lizzie Penny and Alex Hirst
had a conversation in the pub which would change their lives forever. Alex was
suffering from burnout and Lizzie knew the way they were worki…

Susan Lewis has written - wait for it – 50 books. Not only
that, but 50 bestselling books which have been sold all around the world. But
Susan’s own story is worthy of its own novel.

I’ll let Susan te…

Now are you ready to hold on tight, put on your comfies and
get ready to be taken all around the world?

It was all due to a chance conversation with her French
teacher at school that Anna Elshafei deci…

Gabriella Braun has more than twenty years of experience working as a therapist - not in a therapy room but in work places and staff rooms. She helps bosses and their teams understand how and why we …

Jake is the first professional sports person I’ve had on the podcast and I was fascinated to learn all the ins and outs of how you go from turning a passion like rugby into a career.  

And what a care…