The Sizzle Podcast

Welcome to Back to School, a mini series from The Sizzle Podcast.Back to School episodes see guests take a time machine trip back to their experiences of education. We discuss memories from primary school (4-11 years), secondary school (11-16 years) and 16+ years. Then we think about how these experiences might have shaped guest’s views on education and the workplace.In this episode, I talk with Bukky Yusuf. Bukky is a Secondary Science Teacher with over 20 years experience. She is a currently a Deputy Head teacher in a specialist school, as well as a teacher trainer, Consultant and Qualified Coach.We discussed a lot, including the following themes:* Expectations around achievement* The student rumour mill in school* Loving strict teachers* How to balance talking to pupils: like a child or like an adult?* Should education be fun? * Expectations vs reality x student names* Social perceptions as a child* The importance of “taking a student how they are”* The power of being seen* What a rondelle bead isYou can find Bukky here:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bukky-yusuf-teach-lead-coach/Twitter/X: @rondelle10_b This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drjotaylor.substack.com

Welcome to Back to School, a mini series from The Sizzle Podcast.Back to School episodes see guests take a time machine trip back to their experiences of education. We discuss memories from primary school (4-11 years), secondary school (11-16 years) and 16+ years. Then we think about how these experiences might have shaped guest’s views on education and the workplace.In this episode, I talk with Laura McInerney . Laura is a former teacher, education journalist, co-founder of TeacherTapp and a regular face on panel shows and news broadcasts.We discussed a lot, including the following themes:* Being an “old headed child”* A desire to be in charge of our learning* The differences between primary and secondary education* The relationship between care, boundaries and structure in school* Nail varnish remover as a token of trust* The REAL inspiration behind Laura’s personal logo* The interaction between learning from employment and school* The power and distinctiveness of “teacher voice”* Education as a tool for people, so they can stand up for themselves and not passively accept things in their lives that they're not happy withYou can find Laura here:LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/lauramcinerney1Twitter/X: @miss_mcinerneywebsite: https://lauramcinerney.com/If you are a teacher, you can find out more about / sign up to TeacherTapp here:https://teachertapp.co.uk/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drjotaylor.substack.com

Welcome to S3E2 of The Sizzle Podcast.In this episode, I talk with Alex Holmes. Alex is a mental health coach, trainee psychotherapist and author. He has written Time to Talk which explores how men relate to love, belonging and connection. Alex’s work has been featured in The Guardian and British GQ and he hosts his own podcast, The Alex Holmes Podcast.You can find Alex here:LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/byalexholmesWebsite: https://alexholmes.co/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drjotaylor.substack.com

Welcome to Back to School, a mini series from The Sizzle Podcast.Back to School episodes see guests take a time machine trip back to their experiences of education. We discuss memories from primary school (4-11 years), secondary school (11-16 years) and 16+ years. Then we think about how these experiences might have shaped guest’s views on education and the workplace.In this episode, I talk with Loic Menzies. Loic is a researcher and education policy expert, author and founder of the Centre for Education and Youth. You can find Loic here:LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/loicmenziesTwitter/X: https://twitter.com/LoicMnzsAcademic writing: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Loic-Menzies-2Loic has written and edited many reports and books, including Balancing Act and Young People on the Margins. He is currently working on another book entitled “How Education and Youth Policy Happens”.This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drjotaylor.substack.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drjotaylor.substack.com

Welcome to S3E1 of The Sizzle Podcast.I talk with Jonny Walker about education, mythology and mythology education!It was truly a joy. As always, please get in touch to let us know what you thought.You can find Jonny here:Website: https://www.jonny-walker.co.uk/Twitter/X: @jonnywalker_eduLinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/jonnywalkerotherwiseYou can find Jonny's writing here:Fiction: https://www.jonny-walker.co.uk/work/fictionNon Fiction: https://www.jonny-walker.co.uk/work/nonfiction This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drjotaylor.substack.com

Welcome to S02E03! You can join my mailing list to stay in loop about Sizzle Episodes and to receive [semi regular] emails about using psychology in your life:  https://www.drjotaylor.com/my-mailing-listIn this episode I am joined by Dr Tim Cox, Educational Psychologist and hopeful practitioner. We talk about lots of things, including:- Tim's journey to becoming an Educational Psychologist- How Tim's personal experiences helped him develop his understanding of the importance of hope- The Agents of Hope podcast- Different types of hope- Building a discipline of hope- Martial arts and love- Tim's "Five Dimensions" framework of hope- Tim's music careerFind Tim on Twitter: @TimCEducation This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drjotaylor.substack.com

Welcome to S02E02! You can join my mailing list to stay in loop about Sizzle Episodes and to receive [semi regular] emails about using psychology in your life:  https://www.drjotaylor.com/my-mailing-listIn this episode I am joined by Davie Donaldson, founder of Progress in Dialogue. During the episode we cover a range of topics, including:- The history of the Roma- Traveller culture in Scotland- Wearing masks to navigate education- Being a role model- Stories being linked to place- Traveller practices around inheritance- Culture clash and oppression- Things people can do to learn more about Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities.Find out more about Davie here: @DavieDonaldson (twitter)Find Progress in Dialogue here: https://progressindialogue.org.uk/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drjotaylor.substack.com

Welcome to S02E01! You can join my mailing list to stay in loop about Sizzle Episodes and to receive [semi regular] emails about using psychology in your life:  https://www.drjotaylor.com/my-mailing-listIn this episode I am joined by Anne-Laure Le Cunff, founder of Ness Labs. During the episode we cover a range of topics, including:- Psychological safety- Metacognition as a way to work smarter- Ikigai- Different types of burnout- PARI: a framework for personal growth - Remembering people who have diedFind out more about Anne-Laure here: https://anne-laure.net/Find Anne-Laure on Twitter: @anthilemoonFind Ness Labs here: https://nesslabs.com/See some of Anne-Laure's publications here:- Mindframing: https://nesslabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/SSRN-id3443568.pdf- Non Monogamy: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3232078Incorporate mindul moments into your work with Teeny-Breaks: https://nesslabs.com/teeny-breaks This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drjotaylor.substack.com

Welcome to episode 021! You can join my mailing list to stay in loop about Sizzle Episodes and to receive [semi regular] emails about using psychology in your life:  https://www.drjotaylor.com/my-mailing-listIn this episode I am joined by Ivor Williams, a designer and Lead for End-of-Life Care at the Helix Centre, a part of the Institute of Global Health Innovation (Imperial). His work focuses on thinking about how we can live, die and grieve better. During the episode we cover a range of topics, including:- The place of design within medicine and death- Dying and the medical profession- Archetypes, power and dying- The move from the priest to the medical profession- The transition between the specialist to the lay person, supporting people in dying- The way the pandemic has devolved responsibility for mediating death- The need for someone to say "I've seen this before" with death- The balance between distributing the role and keeping the experience needed, for helping people die.- Designers as neutral participants, between the church and the doctor- Doulas supporting with death (as well as birth)- The gendered experience of birth and death- People want different things when it comes to their death- Death as a permanent end to an attachment- At what point does the process of death start to focus on the living?- "who is a good death for?"- Drawing the distinction between avoidable deaths and deaths- How can we decide when a death is "a failure?"- Collective Grief: what can we do collectively?- Planetary palliative care: do we need to accept things are ending in a civilisational level?- Can suffering transform?- Viewing Maslow's hierarchy of needs from the perspective of 'becoming part of a collective whole' and understanding your place in time- How can we use our smartphones to grieve better?- Cove App - a musical emotional journey- "They had the best growth, the best health, the best pensions and now they want the best death. And our generation is responding by creating start ups" - Baby Boomers and the demand for 'death-tech'- How the context of can shape whether it's perceived as 'a failure'Find out more about Ivor:http://ivorwilliams.info/aboutContact Ivor:@ivorinfo (Twitter) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drjotaylor.substack.com

Welcome to episode 020! You can join my mailing list to stay in loop about Sizzle Episodes and to receive [semi regular] emails about using psychology in your life:  https://www.drjotaylor.com/my-mailing-listIn this episode I am joined by Jeffrey Boakye, teacher and author. Below are some quotes from our conversation which capture the flavours involved:"I like completing projects, that is what teaching is, my long term project, it's not over until I retire""Essentially what you are building is how kind you are to other people and how much you care about community""I wrote most of Hold Tight with a baby in my arms...""I don't put activities in a hierarchy, if something is exciting and it feels vital, you make the time, the trick is to realize what is vital""The importance of thinking about key values in relation to finding your calling""Work is good. Work in itself is the reward""I could not have written Black Listed any earlier. I had to do a lot of learning... It was really a research project""DJ'ing is deep in me. I seek approval that's one of my insecurities and a DJ seeks approval""I write like I DJ. I get people on the floor, get them energised and then I hit them with cuts they might not have heard before... It's how I teach as well.""I wanted to talk about black British history, in grime, before it got lost or moved on""Stormzy tackled Glastonbury mainstage like a GCSE... And he got an A*""If they don't understand your mission, then they are probably afraid of it"Some other topics we covered:- Viewing Wiley and Stormzy through the lens of masculinity and race- The dynamic of studying "cool blackness"- Jeffrey's experience of being a Black male author.- The process of moving from a big city to a rural lifestyle- Reflections on Kano's evolution as an artist.Find Jeffrey on Twitter at: @jeffreykboakyeHis website is: https://www.jeffreyboakye.com/Buy Hold Tight: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hold-Tight-Masculinity-Millennials-Meaning/dp/1910312258Buy Black Listed: Black British Culture Explored: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Black-Listed-Jeffrey-Boakye/dp/0349700559 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drjotaylor.substack.com

Welcome to episode 019! You can join my mailing list to stay in loop about Sizzle Episodes and to receive [semi regular] emails about using psychology in your life:  https://www.drjotaylor.com/my-mailing-listIn this episode I am joined by Jane Garza. Jane is the Managing Director of NOBL LA a company working with organisational culture and systems.Jane has spent almost a decade working in HR where she focused her time on reinventing, rebranding, and reimagining what HR does and is. She now coaches and advises world-famous organisations like Calvin Klein, Google Deepmind, and Reddit (!)We talked about many amazing things, including:- psychological safety- team performance- supporting changes in teams and organisations- the family as a metaphor for teamsFind Jane at @hijanegarzaFind NOBL at www.nobl.io and @workNOBL on twitterFind me at @jgetaylor on twitterSign up to my mailing list: https://www.drjotaylor.com/my-mailing-list This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drjotaylor.substack.com

Welcome to episode 017 of The Sizzle.To stay in the loop about episodes, things I am thinking about and resources for applying psychology to life, sign up to my mailing list here:https://www.drjotaylor.com/my-mailing-listIn this episode, among other things, Cassie and I discuss:- Tools for exploring narratives and using them therapeutically- Rituals for sharing experiences and narratives- Living systems evolving alongside technological systems- The intelligence of intuition (embodied wisdom)- Intuition as a muscle- Narratives as a way to solve problems- The narrative initiative (stars, constellations and galaxies)- Statement of Position Maps (Michael White) and using this on a community level.- Stories and "squaring" interpretations- Telling your own stories as an act of activism- The need for language around grief and loss- Creating a Farewell Fund for organisations which are no longer fit for purpose.Find out more about Cassie:@cassierobinson (twitter)https://www.cassierobinson.work/Contact me:@jgetaylor (twitter)www.drjotaylor.comResources and further reading:More information about Narrative Therapy:https://narrativeinitiative.org/about-us/Learn about the Tree of Life:https://dulwichcentre.com.au/the-tree-of-life/Michael White's Maps of Narrative Practice:https://www.amazon.co.uk/Narrative-Practice-Norton-Professional-Hardcover/dp/0393705161 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drjotaylor.substack.com

In episode 016 I talk with Greg Wootton, a 2x world champion Muay Thai fighter, personal trainer and coach. We cover topics including:- The transition from world champion to "more than just a world champion"- The wonders and dangers of driving to be the best- Using physical training to develop wellbeing- Combat sports as a way to explore identity- Meditation as a way to develop awareness- The ripple effect of training someone [on society]- Humility and being beaten- Masculinity and homophobia in school- Weight cutting- Unhelpful habits created through driving to be the best fighter possible- Warrior mindset Vs Compassionate mindset- Adapting from a drive and threat mindset.- Soothing as a fighter- The elements of fight preparation: Physical, Technical, Strategic (and psychological)- The importance of a growth mindsetContact details:If you'd like to find Greg he is on Insta (greg_wootton)If you would like to contact me, I am on Twitter @jgetaylor or @thesizzlepodOr you can join my mailing list to be notified of new episodes and other bits and bobs:https://www.drjotaylor.com/my-mailing-list This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drjotaylor.substack.com

On episode #015 we talk about wonderful things, including:- Sue's amazing writing grotto- How students recognise that teachers care about them?- The importance of laughter- Types of belonging (inclusive and exclusive)- Sue's ASPIRE pedagogy (agency, safety, positivity, inclusion, respect, equality)- Greta ThunbergFurther Reading- Visible Learning (John Hattie )- Pathways to Belonging  (Kelly Allen & Chris Boyle)- 'Ordinary magic' needs ordinary magicians: The power and practice of positive relationships for building youth resilience and wellbeing (Sue Roffey)Contact Sue:www.sueroffey.com@sueroffey (Twitter)Contact me:@jgetaylor (twitter)Sign up to my mailing list:https://www.drjotaylor.com/my-mailing-list This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drjotaylor.substack.com

Karen is a Clinical Psychologist and expert in trauma informed practice. She delivers training, creates resources and writes books. We talked about:- Her journey into psychology- The books she has written about working with trauma- How social justice is linked to psychological work- Her creative process: how she writes and creates resourcesFind her at @dr_treismanhttp://www.safehandsthinkingminds.co.ukContact me on:@jgetaylor (twitter) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drjotaylor.substack.com

Episode 013 is with Naveed Parvez, co-founder and CEO of Andiamo, a company which builds orthotics using 3D scanning and printing technology.We talk about:- How "CEO" is a nebulous title- The story of Andiamo and how it has almost made Naveed become religious.- Designing services powered by empathy- How healthcare could be better- Decision making and emotions- Mental health in medicine- Caring for family members- Driving meaningful social change- The importance of revaluing and delivering services- How close we are to a dystopian reality?If you want to find out more about Andiamo:https://andiamo.io@AndiamoHQ (Twitter)Suggested reading from NaveedDoughnut Economics (Kate Raworth)ANYTHING by Ben GoldacreIf you want to contact me:@jgetaylor (Twitter) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drjotaylor.substack.com

On episode #012 of The Sizzle I talk to Iesha, who is an edu-researcher, former teacher and senior leader. She recently published a book called The Unexpected Leader (link below). We discuss the book and much much more, including: - Unexpected Leadership - Types of Leadership - What Game of Thrones can teach us about leadership - Hip Hop as a tool for sociological examination - Facilitating mental health with photography and walking - Family - Saying what is important, not what is easy - Being "an artist" - Research and story telling Contact Iesha: @ieshasmall (twitter) www.ieshasmall.com Find The Unexpected Leader book here Contact me: @jgetaylor (twitter) Follow The Sizzle at @thesizzlepod (twitter) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drjotaylor.substack.com

Episode #011 of The Sizzle I talk to Dr Reuben Binns. Conversation topics include:- Data privacy- The ethics of artificial intelligence- How algorithms can be biased- The social issue of statistics- Using statistical models to understand intelligence- Ways we can stay safe onlineFind Reuben here:@RDBinns (twitter)https://www.reubenbinns.com/Contact me:@jgetaylor (twitter)@thesizzlepod (twitter)Please subscribe and share This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drjotaylor.substack.com

On episode 10 I am joined by Katharine Birbalsingh, Headmistress of Michaela Community School. We talk about"- Free Schools- Setting out to be different - Causing controversy through being different- Teaching from the front of the class Vs facilitating learning - Teaching content Vs teaching skills - How structures can facilitate feeling safe- Actively teaching kindness and gratitude- Working hard, being kind- The first moment Katharine realised she wanted to work in education- Giving a speech at the Conservative Party conference- The moment Katharine realised she was not Left wing anymore- Starting Michaela- Being 'a natural' at PR- The bravery required to think differently - Ms Snuffleupagus and Sesame St- Punishment as a sign of loveRecommended reading from Katharine:Battle Hymn of the Tiger Teachers: The Michaela Way (Birbalsingh)The Writing Revolution (Hochman & Wexler)Teach Like a Champion (Lemov)Thomas Sowell Contact Katharine on @miss_snuffyContact me on @jgetaylor This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drjotaylor.substack.com

- What makes a good hug- "The Tap" and men ending physical intimacy - The lack of reference points for intimacy as a man- Intimacy through combat- The balance between "your truth" and "the truth"- Navigating information - How subjectivity can be a barrier to progress- The merit of trying to find wisdom when you are surrounded by difference- The Gillette Ad- Jordan Peterson- The way "what it means to be a man" has changed over time- The 'gentleman' and the French Revolution- The balance between biological and cultural influences on masculinity- Trump as an opportunity to consider masculinity - Using Feminism and a framework for thinking about masculinity Suggested materials from Will:- Go The Way Your Blood Beats (Michael Amherst)- Mixed-Race Superman (Will Harris)- Mixed Race Faces Insta accountContact:Find Will: @willdegroot (Twitter)Find MEND: @MENDworld (Twitter)Find me: @jgetaylor (Twitter) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drjotaylor.substack.com