Best Rosie Wilby Podcasts (2024)

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S4E11 - Ray Mia 31:00

1M ago31:00

31:00

Ray Mia recounts his longest day in 1979, living above his father’s junk store in Liverpool in a household that didn’t celebrate Christmas. He outlines his experiences of growing up as an individual of color in a predominantly white society, highlighting the challenges of navigating cultural identity and belonging. Ray shares his experiences of fee…

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S4E10 - Laurie Barkman 29:30

1M ago29:30

29:30

Laurie Barkman shares her experience of the longest day when her company was acquired by a global entity. She highlights the emotional and financial significance of the event and the loyalty of the employees. Laurie discusses the challenges and uncertainties that arise during the acquisition process, including the importance of due diligence and re…

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S4E09 - Rick Torrison 31:27

2M ago31:27

31:27

Rick Torrison shares his longest day story, which involves his son's struggles with anger, identity, and self-worth. Rick discusses the importance of addressing limiting beliefs and how they shape our behaviors and outcomes. He emphasizes the need to change beliefs, not just behaviors, in order to create sustainable change. Rick also talks about th…

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S4E8 Rosie Wilby 26:48

2M ago26:48

26:48

In this episode of "The Longest Day," Rosie Wilby recounts her most challenging day, which also marked a pivotal moment in her life and career. On January 3, 2011, Rosie was abruptly dumped by her partner of five years via email. The shock and pain initially left her devastated and unable to process the breakup for years. Over time, however, this e…

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S4E7 Ashley Cox 29:39

2M ago29:39

29:39

Ashley Cox, Executive Director of Business Affairs and General Counsel, formerly interim CEO of Aquatics GB, shares the story of his longest day, which was filled with challenges and personal loss. Despite facing a series of unfortunate circumstances, Ashley remained calm and focused on his role as a leader. He credits his ability to handle pressur…

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S4E6 Emma Ballard 25:08

2M ago25:08

25:08

On this week’s episode, Leah talks to Emma Ballard, the Editor of Women and Golf – the only women’s specific golf platform in the UK. Emma’s Longest Day happened during a golf leadership development programme at St Andrews, Scotland, the home of golf. The golf industry is notoriously male dominated, so it was a big deal during the leadership progra…

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S4E5 Suzanne Knight MBA 27:08

3M ago27:08

27:08

In this episode, Leah talks to Suzanne Knight MBA. Suzanne’s longest day was when a member of her team died suddenly, and she and her team grieved together. It was a time when they became more open to each other about what they were feeling; they connected in a way they had never done before. The sharing of mutual grief was an experience that could…

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S3 E9 - How do I face the end of my pet's life with love? - with Sieske Valk 1:04:43

3M ago1:04:43

1:04:43

Today we're talking to Sieske Valk about the difficult, and often avoided part of pet ownership - the end of their life. Sieske is an End of Life Doula and an advocate for ageing pets; She guides pet guardians through the autumn of their best friend's life. Combining a background in veterinary medicine and the social sciences, she has set up Autumn…

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S4E4 Leah Wilkinson 24:51

3M ago24:51

24:51

Leah Brown host of The Longest Day Podcast interviews Leah Wilkinson, British Olympic hockey player, on not being selected to be on the 2012 GB Olympic team. They discuss their formative years at Repton and what it looks like to navigate an uncharted path. In addition to supportive parents and colleagues, in her longest days Leah has herself to rel…

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S4E3 David McQueen 32:22

3M ago32:22

32:22

On this week’s episode, have a listen to the conversation between Leah and David McQueen on his longest day and how he learnt how even if there are things beyond his control, he can manage the ones that are within it. It was a day when he and his wife, as ethnic minorities, experienced a lack of care in the maternity hospital. Calmly, he told the d…

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S4E2 Dr Lynn Robson (Oxford University) 22:36

3M ago22:36

22:36

On this week’s episode, Leah talks to Dr Lynn Robson, Dean of Regent’s Park College, Safeguarding Lead, Director of the Visiting Student Programme and Tutorial Fellow in English Literature. Lynn’s longest day encompassed the COVID pandemic, from its announcement to its conclusion by the end of which she was exhausted and unable to carry on. All her…

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S4E1 Caroline Sabourin 26:45

4M ago26:45

26:45

Welcome to our fourth Season’s first episode! Listen to Leah’s conversation with Caroline Sabourin who enjoys a 30-year career in organising Motorsports events globally while running a Sports Car Championship of 60 international teams. Caroline’s longest day was in 2000 when during the Australian Grand Prix, at the final race, one of the cars went …

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S3 E8 - Ending a much-loved creative project (and the void that follows) with Kim Willis 1:00:49

4M ago1:00:49

1:00:49

Welcome back writer, journalist and strategist Kim Willis to the show! You may remember Kim from series 2 when we talked about Knowing When To Quit the desire to have children (the pod's most downloaded episode to date). Today we're back discussing Kim's decision to quit her creative project Heroine's Journey - an event series, which championed fem…

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S3 E12 - Anne-Marie Imafidon MBE (Stemettes) 26:30

5M ago26:30

26:30

This week, Anne-Marie Imafidon is Leah’s guest on The Longest Day. She is a keynote speaker, presenter, and co-founder of Stemettes, the enterprise inspiring the next generation of women into STEM roles. As a leader, Anne-Marie is all things to all people: she will never ask someone to do something she wouldn’t or couldn’t do herself. One of the ad…

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S3E11 - Professor Lucy Easthope (After Disaster Network) 25:50

5M ago25:50

25:50

In this week’s podcast, Leah welcomes Professor Lucy Easthope, the UK’s leading authority on recovering from disaster. During the COVID pandemic she advised the Prime Minister’s Office, governmental departments, and charities. She is author of When the Dust Settles: Stories of Love, Loss, and Hope from an Expert in Disaster. Her longest day was wai…

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BONUS! How to Raise a Viking audiobook extract 21:20

5M ago21:20

21:20

To celebrate the publication of How to Raise a Viking and as a special thank you to listeners of the podcast we are delighted to share this exclusive extract from the audiobook. What do Vikings know about raising children? Turns out, quite a lot… After a decade of living in Denmark and raising a family there, Helen Russell noticed that Nordic child…

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S3E10 - Professor Fiona Ross CBE 28:41

5M ago28:41

28:41

Professor Fiona Ross CBE’s longest day was the day when an accounts misconduct by a senior member of staff transpired. Because she believed that a person’s exit from an organisation is important, she safeguarded the person’s dignity, confidentiality, and boundaries even if it meant that some thought she was to blame. Fiona took it well with equanim…

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S3E9 - Zoiey Smale (Inclusive Employers) 27:04

5M ago27:04

27:04

This week’s episode’s guest is Zoiey Smale, senior inclusion, diversity, sport consultant and internationally acclaimed activist. Sport was Zoiey’s first love. She believes in what it can bring to the world. But her dilemma as a young woman in medical school at University of Oxford was whether to drop out and work in sport as a coach or carry on li…

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S3E8 - Alex Rieder (ex Wasps) 21:14

6M ago21:14

21:14

Leah talks to Alex Rieder on this week’s podcast. Alex is a retired, professional rugby player who played for Wasps. He works as an Account Manager for the IT company, Computer Centre. On Alex’s longest day he sustained a shocking and severely dislocated knee injury during a game. Thanks to the other team’s A&E specialist doctor, they were able to …

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S3E7 - Dr Charlie Easmon MBBS MRCP MSc (Your Excellent Health Service) 19:12

6M ago19:12

19:12

Leah speaks to Dr Charlie Easmon MBBS MRCP MSc Public Health DTM&H DOccMed DFPH CTH FRSPH, an experienced doctor, entrepreneur and professional speaker, about his longest day while running a private business specialising in health screening and travel vaccinations for corporate and government clients. He talks about the importance of mentorship, th…

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S3E6 - Mike Gatting OBE (Lord Taverners / Middlesex Cricket) 24:45

6M ago24:45

24:45

Join Leah as she interviews Mike Gatting OBE, former English cricketer about his longest day. It took place when he sustained injuries that forced him to question whether he would be able to play again. He wanted to get back into the game as quickly as possible after the first injury, a broken nose. So when he broke his thumb after he had just retu…

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S3 E5 - Tara Austin (Ogilvy / PAR Global) 31:21

6M ago31:21

31:21

Leah talks to Tara Austin, behavioural and brand strategist, and psychedelic medicines campaigner, in this week’s episode of The Longest Day. Tara’s redundancy was totally unexpected given that she and the Creative Director then were winning big, pitch businesses for the company. She contrasts that day with her ‘shortest day’ when she was invited t…

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S3E4 - Natalie Campbell MBE (Belu Water / London Mayoral Candidate) 23:48

7M ago23:48

23:48

Co-CEO of bottled water company, Belu, and University of Westminster Chancellor among many other roles, Natalie Campbell MBE decided to run in the mayoral race in the upcoming elections. For her, politics is a waiting game for everyone: we’re all waiting for positive change. It’s high time that the people who we elect should be those who know what …

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S3 E3 - George Osei-Oppong (Host Help) 22:43

7M ago22:43

22:43

In our third episode Leah talks to George Osei-Oppong Jr, the co-owner and CEO of Host Help, a cloud-based web hosting, SEO, research, and software and data services company. Although George finds the term ‘entrepreneur’ inadequate, he really is one at his core. Find out about what happened to George after navigating through his longest day, how hi…

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S3 E2 - Elizabeth Oldfield (Consultant / Sacred Podcast Host) 25:41

7M ago25:41

25:41

Join us as we hear from Elizabeth Oldfield, coach, consultant, people facilitator, and host of The Sacred podcast, about how and why she and her family decided to live intentionally in community. In the face of the challenges of obtaining a suitable, communal home in London, they learnt to acknowledge that their relationships mattered more than bri…

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S3 E1 - Naomi Smith (Best for Britain) 26:48

7M ago26:48

26:48

Welcome to our first Episode of Season 3! To start things off, Leah talks to Naomi Smith, the Chief Executive of Best for Britain. How would you feel if you experienced a crisis in which the very people you were trying to help turn against you? Naomi and her team endured attacks from a few, prominent, left-wing Guardian commentators. As a result, t…

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Live from Hoxton Hall - with Jen Ives and Emma Frankland 46:01

8M ago46:01

46:01

In a live episode recorded at Hoxton Hall, Rosie chats to comedian Jen Ives and writer / performer Emma Frankland about whether we’d go and see an ex doing a show all about their exes, actively choosing to stay in relationships (or not), growing up during the Section 28 years and not having access to information about trans identities, writing for …

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S2 E14 Sir Vince Cable MP 15:00

8M ago15:00

15:00

Sir Vince Cable MP, former leader of the Liberal Democrat party, is our guest for our final episode of Season 2! Join Leah as she talks with Vince about his longest day as an MP, how the mood changed from gloom to optimism and how he emerged stronger. Learn about what characteristic qualities are needed to lead well, and how having your family and …

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S2 E13 Clemmie Telford 20:05

8M ago20:05

20:05

After eight to ten years of working as a Creative Director in advertising, Clemmie Telford was making a lot of sacrifices, especially time with her young family. She was driven by the desire to change the discouraging statistics that only 3% of creative directors were female. But one night, at a dinner with her female friends where personal salarie…

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Live from Hoxton Hall - with Cerys Bradley and Shivani Dave 46:31

9M ago46:31

46:31

In a live episode recorded at Hoxton Hall, Rosie chats to comedian Cerys Bradley and broadcaster Shivani Dave about weddings, coming out as nonbinary, when to advise a friend to break up with their partner and the best chocolate treats to turn to after a heartbreak. We also hear some fantastic audience contributions from poet Josi and writer Katie …

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S2 E12 Sir Stephen Timms MP 20:25

9M ago20:25

20:25

This week, Leah Brown talks to Sir Stephen Timms, Labour Member of Parliament for East Ham. He tells the story of his longest day in May 2010 when he was stabbed three times by a member of the constituency he serves. Listen in on his views about forgiveness: how it can really only operate where there is personal communication. He has received three…

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S2 E11 Kimberly McIntosh (Author) 31:03

9M ago31:03

31:03

Kimberly McIntosh, a Labour councillor of Faraday, Southwark, was working on an event on the Windrush scandal in Parliament when she experienced burnout. It was also just a few weeks before her debut non-fiction book, Black Girl, No Magic was coming out. Discover with Leah Brown, how Kimberly’s reframing of her definition of success from being less…

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Live from Cheerful Earful - with Mary O’Connell, Hajar J. Woodland and Sharlin Jahan 1:02:11

9M ago1:02:11

1:02:11

In a live episode recorded at The Exhibit in Balham, Rosie chats to comedians Mary O’Connell, Hajar J. Woodland and Sharlin Jahan about the healing power of comedy, Tig Notaro, bisexuality, getting divorced in your twenties then going to LA and hitting on John Mayer, growing up Muslim, arranged marriages, sex ed lessons, giving yourself permission …

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S2 E10 Barry Stickings MBE 33:12

9M ago33:12

33:12

Barry Stickings MBE is our guest for this week’s episode. When Barry and his wife Kelly heard that their baby was born with bilateral anophthalmia, a rare condition of the absence of both eyes, they were totally unprepared. That was 15 June 1989, their longest day – a day that did not seem promising but turned out to have a bright future. Learn abo…

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S2 E9 Lord Michael Hastings (House of Lords) 28:34

9M ago28:34

28:34

In this week’s episode, join Leah as she speaks with Lord Michael Hastings CBE, former Commissioner of the Commission of Racial Equality, chairman of SOAS and vice-president at UNICEF UK among other roles. Listen to how his story of his longest day weaves with the stories of those he serves, particularly prisoners and ex-offenders. At the young age…

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Live from Margate Bookie - with Lucy Vine, Olivia Petter and Zahra Barri 1:17:50

10M ago1:17:50

1:17:50

In a live episode recorded at Margate Bookie, Rosie chats to authors Lucy Vine and Olivia Petter plus comedian Zahra Barri about whether we all have seven archetypes of ex - the first love, the work mistake, the friend with benefits, the overlap, the missed chance, the bastard and the serious one, dating app culture, whether marriages should expire…

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S1 E8 Sophia Ukor (Violet Simon) 30:03

10M ago30:03

30:03

This episode’s guest is Sophia Ukor, the founder and CEO of Violet Simon, a media company amplifying the voices of women from all walks of life through authentic storytelling. Sophia shares her own story of suffering as a victim of abuse and rape, her suicide attempts, undergoing therapy, meeting her husband from whom she experiences unconditional …

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S2 E7 Dr Raghib Ali (My Future Health) 24:09

10M ago24:09

24:09

This week’s guest is Dr Raghib Ali OBE MD FRCP, Chief Medical Officer of ‘Our Future Health’, UK’s largest health research budget. It is recruiting a population that is representative of multi-ethnic UK to include those from deprived backgrounds. Discover what motivated Raghib during the COVID pandemic to contribute to what felt like a wartime effo…

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S3 E7 - Should I just quit and become a freelancer? With Anna Codrea-Rado 1:06:54

10M ago1:06:54

1:06:54

Always wanted to go freelance? Today I'm talking to Anna Codrea-Rado - a journalist, podcaster and campaigner, whose writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, BBC and many others. I brought Anna on as a specialist in working life and freelancing. She's the author of 'You're The Business' - a book which supports people to make it alo…

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Live from IF Oxford - with Robin Dunbar and Max Dickins 57:01

10M ago57:01

57:01

In a live episode recorded at The Bullingdon as part of IF Oxford, Rosie chats to anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar and author Max Dickins about friendship - why why we need friends, how many friends we can have, friendship breakups, the ambiguous language of friendship, the When Harry Met Sally (or when Sally met Sally) que…

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S2 E6 Lieutenant General Arundell David Leakey CMG, CVO, CBE 33:27

10M ago33:27

33:27

In this week’s episode, Lieutenant General Arundell David Leakey CMG, CVO, CBE describes the most chaotic of crises he has ever been in as his longest day. It took place during his time as Black Rod, a role with ceremonial duties such as the State Opening of Parliament and the supervision of security emergency responses. Despite one miscreant causi…

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S3 E6 - The Unexpected Joy of Heartbreak with Rosie Wilby 1:00:44

10M ago1:00:44

1:00:44

Today we're talking about Knowing When to quit relationships. We live in a society which tells us that the hallmark of a good relationship is one that lasts for a long time, but does that mean that we often stay in relationships too long? Today's guest is Rosie Wilby - an award-winning comedian, author, speaker and the creator of global hit podcast…

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S2 E5 Andy Haldane (RSA) 25:54

10M ago25:54

25:54

We talk to Andy Haldane on this week’s episode. Andy is the Chief Executive of the Royal Society of Arts. He was formerly Chief Economist at the Bank of England where he experienced his longest day. The unravelling of the 2008 global financial crisis required important decisions to be made about the big number to prop up national banks. Listen to h…

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Live from The Bill Murray - with Ria Lina, James Barr and Njambi McGrath 45:02

10M ago45:02

45:02

In a live episode recorded at The Bill Murray, Rosie chats to comedians Ria Lina, James Barr and Njambi McGrath about first loves, writing a revenge novel, finding a suspicious condom in your partner’s bin, living in a house with your ex, polygamy, Njambi’s great great grandmother’s seven wives, sex party rules, the myth of ‘exclusive’ dating apps,…

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