Not So Alone Podcast
🎙️Ep.1 - Friends: Join Nina, Sophie and Ella as they discuss their experiences and challenges with making friends as young people in todays world. They talk about everything including mental health, loneliness, people pleasing and being neurodivergent.
🎙️Ep.2 - Stresses of Social Media: In this episode Nina, Sophie, Bethany and Srhya talk about the effect of social media on their day to day. They discuss doom scrolling and the issues with constant and instant access to 'information' and world events and how this is impacting ability their ability to find balance in themselves and their own worlds.
🎙️Ep.3 - Importance of Theatre For Young People: Sophie, one of our Not So Alone members, is a passionate theatre maker and facilitator and through her own experience and childhood, knows the important role that theatre has made in her life. In this episode Sophie talks to Artistic Director Marie vickers from London Bubble Theatre about the role drama and theatre can play in helping young people communicate, connect and find purpose.
🎙️Ep.4 -Participant to facilitator, how theatre helps young people: Once again Sophie is delving into the world of applied theatre with London Bubble theatre Company. In this episode, Sophie speaks to Lauren who was once a participant of the Bubble Theatre Making workshop and is now a facilitator at the company.
🎙️Ep.5 - Celebrating Culture in Schools: In this episode Annanya talks to Bhini about her role in her schools Diversity Society and their upcoming 'Culture Week'. Annanya shares how learning about the different arts and cultures of her friends and other students at school has taught her to challenge her own biases as well as help her form deeper connections.
🎙️Ep.6 - Juggling the pressures of work/life/study: In this episode Sophie and Ella talk about their current experiences while studying. Ella is on placement doing her GP rotation and Sophie is writing her final dissertation. Both are experiencing the pressures of juggling work/life/study and in this episode share how they're doing this.
🎙️Ep.7 - Meaningful Connections: Join Srhya, Bethany and Roan as they talk about the importance of making meaningful connections, to people, the world around them and with themselves.
🎙️Ep.8 - Pearl and Pahal talk GCSE's: Should there be exams like GCSEs? Are they fair? Is there a better way they could be done? Join sisters, Pearl and Pahal who have just taken their GCSEs, as they talk about what it was like, what they would do differently and whether they way we 'take' exams is useful or helpful.
🎙️Ep.9 - Finding Yourself Through a Gap Year: Annanya's taking a gap year. She knows what she's doing after it and looking forward to doing it (Spoiler: it's dentistry), but she wants to make the most of her year out. Srhya, Dario and Mohamed offer their advice and tips that ensure she feels fulfilled within and without.
🎙️Ep.10 - The Dopamine Loop: Why can't we stop scrolling?:In this episode of the Not So Alone campaign podcast, Sophie, Shreya, Dario, and Mohamed dive deep into the addictive pull of social media. They explore why those quick dopamine hits keep us scrolling—and why the reward often feels hollow. Is it connection, or just a cycle we can’t break? Tune in for an honest conversation about the highs, lows, and what it means for our mental wellbeing.