

How do you feel today?
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How do you feel today? is a series of...
Conversations between friends.
Conversations that you’re invited to overhear.
Conversations that might touch on things you're going through and make life a little easier if they do.
See how you feel with one tap a day at moodapp.io
Conversations between friends.
Conversations that you’re invited to overhear.
Conversations that might touch on things you're going through and make life a little easier if they do.
See how you feel with one tap a day at moodapp.io
Episodes
Mentioned books

Jun 20, 2024 • 1h 2min
82) Rob Poynton
Rob helps people to have conversations they don’t normally have and has just published Do Conversation, his third book for the Do Book Co. Listen in as Rob tells me about:
- feeling agitated after a mountain drive
- the setting for a conversation
- improvisation, change and uncertainty
- becoming comfortably uncomfortable
- learning to pause and slow down
- taking his own medicine
- notice, let go and use everything
- creativity from constraint
- using your body for help
Links:
robertpoynton.com
instagram.com/robert.poynton
linkedin.com/in/robert-poynton-169402
Mood app #seehowyoufeel: moodapp.io

Jun 12, 2024 • 57min
81) Fergal Smith
Fergal is a big wave surfer who gave up professional surfing to set up a 100 acre mixed regenerative farm on the West coast of Ireland. Listen in as Fergal tells me about:
- feeling good cleaning eggs
- building soil through regenerative farming
- small steps to making change
- being connected to a bigger picture
- trying to live a balanced life
- a different attitude to surfing
- discipline and hard work
- plans for the future
- being inspired by your decisions
Links:
moyhillfarm.com
vimeo.com/63647576
instagram.com/moyhillfarm
x.com/moyhillfarm
Mood app #seehowyoufeel: moodapp.io

Jun 3, 2024 • 39min
80) Siôn Brynach
Siôn recently became the vicar of Canton and Pontcanna after 30 years of working in a variety of senior public roles. Listen in as Siôn tells me about:
- feeling pretty good after a day off
- a new way of making a difference
- enjoying a varied career
- his wife Cath being crushed by a car
- overcoming her life changing injuries
- an earlier period of depression
- learnings from difficult times
- a beautiful garden
- every day we begin again
Links:
westcardiffmac.org
linkedin.com/in/siôn-brynach-8820632a
instagram.com/sionbrynach
x.com/sbrynach
Mood app #seehowyoufeel: moodapp.io

May 27, 2024 • 38min
79) Carmen Schmidt
Carmen is the owner of a specialist yarn shop that was inspired by her love of knitting and the welcoming community that came with it. Listen in as we talk about:
- feeling positive and overwhelmed
- rediscovering her love of knitting
- ending an athletic scholarship
- the reasons people knit
- living and working in Bath
- how she looks after herself
- knitting and mental health
- connecting with her community
- it will still be there in the morning
Links:
ayarnstory.co.uk
instagram.com/ayarnstory
linkedin.com/in/carmen-schmidt-270a7850
Mood app #seehowyoufeel: moodapp.io

May 19, 2024 • 45min
78) Claire Goodwin-Fee
Claire is the founder of the charity Frontline19 which provides free psychological support to people working on the frontline. Listen in as we talk about (note this chat mentions suicide and contains a little bad language):
- feeling tired but good
- helping nearly a million people
- healing after a breakdown
- support for frontline workers
- the things that keep her well
- checking in each day with Mood
- going viral on the BBC
- being an extroverted introvert
- mental health doesn’t have to be depressing
Links:
linkedin.com/in/clairegoodwinfee
instagram.com/clairegoodwinfee
frontline19.com
x.com/Frontline_19
Mood app #seehowyoufeel: moodapp.io

May 12, 2024 • 39min
77) Miranda West
- feeling not too bad
- exercise & maintaining an ability to run
- realising the need to look after herself
- living with structure & routine
- inspiring action & positive change
- from Wales to Devon to London
- sewing seeds at the Do Lectures
- changing your inputs
- having a go at writing stuff down
Links:
thedobook.co
instagram.com/dobookco
linkedin.com/in/miranda-west-6aa0b231
twitter.com/mirandwest
Mood app #seehowyoufeel: moodapp.io

May 6, 2024 • 43min
76) Bobette Buster
Bobette is an author, film writer and producer who helps people and companies to uncover and tell their own stories for themselves. Listen in as we talk about:
- feeling great after the rain
- growing up in Kentucky
- a childhood forecast for her life
- hummingbird Top Gun
- choosing not to live in negative states
- slowing down with a lemon tree
- 10,000 stories & a path through fear
- when the ordinary becomes extraordinary
- finding one thing to be thankful for
Links:
bobettebuster.com
linkedin.com/in/bobette-buster-4a1a6b6
twitter.com/bobettebuster
instagram.com/bobette.buster
Mood app #seehowyoufeel: moodapp.io

Apr 28, 2024 • 34min
75) Anne Cakebread
Anne is an illustrator and artist who manages an art gallery in West Wales after previously running a Bed and Breakfast for 10 years. Listen in as we talk about:
- feeling really good
- a sense of community
- becoming a fine artist & moving West
- from B+B owner to gallery manager
- learning to look after herself
- losing her mother and pericarditis
- coaching a girls football team
- a Welsh speaking whippet
- crying as a natural tranquilizer
Links:
cakebreadillustrations.com
linkedin.com/in/anne-cakebread-062a2a159
twitter.com/AnneCakebread
instagram.com/anne_cakebread
Mood app #seehowyoufeel: moodapp.io

Apr 22, 2024 • 38min
74) Charles Ross
74) Charles Ross
Charles is a specialist in performance sportswear design and sustainability who works with products that aim to do good as opposed to being less bad. Listen in as we talk about (note this chat mentions suicide):
- feeling better than he did last week
- working with contradictions
- from less bad to doing good
- getting taken out by a car
- highlighting a problem to make change
- 3 Dads Walking & Papyrus
- rebuilding his hip
- reflecting on ourselves a little more
- think global, act local
Links:
3dadswalking.uk
papyrus-uk.org
linkedin.com/in/charles-ross-1464714
twitter.com/charlesross
Mood app #seehowyoufeel: moodapp.io

Apr 15, 2024 • 37min
73) Barry Castagnola
Barry is a comedian, writer, producer and actor who recently returned to stand up comedy after producing his first feature film ‘Reawakening’. Listen in as Barry tells me about:
- feeling not too bad
- a sense of time running out
- the joy of impending parenthood
- being busy, priorities and mood
- producing his first feature film
- the realities of stand up
- circumstantial ups & downs
- making time to get fitter
- being thankful for the right things
Links:
barrycastagnola.com
twitter.com/BarryCastagnola
Mood app #seehowyoufeel: moodapp.io


