12 Aug 2020
No More Watercooler - Season 2: Coming Soon
This is No More Watercooler - a podcast from Leapers about mental health and modern work.
I’m Matthew Knight, and since 2017, Leapers has been supporting the mental health of the self-employed. I’ve spoken to hundreds of people who are working differently, and benefited from listening to the experience, wisdom and curiosity of our community.Â
The many conversations I’ve had with people on very similar and radically different journeys, have all helped me to recognise I’m not the only person going through the emotional experience of self-employment, I’m not the only person worrying about what I’m worrying about, or feeling what I’m feeling, so our podcast is designed simply to do one thing - help our community hear the stories of others.
We talk to our members, our friends, and people doing it for themselves about their work and their wellbeing, in order to hear some the real stories from self-employment: the highs, the lows, and lots and lots of the in-betweens.
Our aim is simple: to show that whilst you might be working for yourself, you’re not working by yourself - you’re connected to a huge number of people who have been on perhaps not similar journeys, but journeys with many parallels: which you can listen to, learn from, or at the very least, hopefully hear that you’re not the only person going through this very human experience.
And right now, we’re looking for people willing to share their story.
Perhaps you’re self-employed, freelancing, or a small business owner; perhaps you were self-employed but decided to return to employment; or you’re in a job now and considering changing how you work; if you’re open to talk about your work, how it affects your mental health, both negatively and positively, and are up for a chat with me, visit leapers.co/podcast, and say hello.
We’re particularly keen to hear from people who are often under-represented, so that our stories come from a diverse and wide range of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We’re not looking for people we’ve all heard of, or heard from before. You probably won’t recognise the names of any of our guests, and we won’t be capturing stories of where people have been crushing it, or #winning - but rather real stories, from real people, with real experiences of self-employment.
You can hear the first season of No More Watercooler on your favourite podcast platform, or visit leapers.co/podcast to listen to previous episodes, or nominate yourself or someone you know, to share their story.Â
But for now, until we speak again, work well.