Travelling Through... London, the World and Life

BUSTER BIRCH is an English jazz musician from humble beginnings. Jazz has been Buster's life from before he was born - as you will learn – and he began gigging at 16 years old. Music in the form of teaching and performance have been Buster's only profession, and sole form of income, so when Covid hit in 2020, and all music gigs were cancelled, schools closed, and all face-to-face teaching deemed impossible, Buster’s income stream went to zero in less than 24 hours. Buster’s response? Create and build an online presence fast, learn zoom as quickly as possible, and find a way to reach his audience and re-engage with his students. In this podcast episode, Buster talks about his journey from offline to online, the opportunities it has created, and how hard work, belief, and the consistent creation and publication of quality content has been key to him finding a presence online from where he has been able to stretch and grow in ways that he could not believe were possible before 2020. To find out more about Buster, appreciate his FREE content, join his VIP members group, BUY his books and SIGN UP to a course, please go to his WEBSITE: https://www.busterbirch.co.uk/ Or https://linktr.ee/busterbirch and find links to other events, Facebook and Instagram. YouTube Channel: @BusterBirch https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxAlq7hjO7Zao0a_yfUECIQ   To find out more about Emma - your podcast host and author of Driving Tito: Through The Balkan Backroads with a Celebrity - go to https://www.travellingthrough.co.uk   Thank you as always to Mariska Martina at: https://www.mariskamartina.com for creating our lovely travelling through podcast jingle!    

"Writing and walking are good ways to live your life." JOANNA PENN also known as J F PENN is a British author of both fiction and non-fiction. Jo runs a successful podcast called THE CREATIVE PENN, has another podcast called the BOOKS AND TRAVEL podcast - currently on hold but with loads of great episodes - and on top of all this, Jo is an international professional speaker. These collective skills earn her a six figure salary as a creative entrepreneur. I met up with Jo in Bath for a walk alongside the Kennet & Avon Canal to Bathampton. And as we walk, we talk about writing, pilgrimage, the darker side of life, and Jo reflects on the choices she took to earn herself the freedom to travel and have a career where she would no longer be tied to the office, commuting, and the stress which comes from working in the corporate world. Although Jo's six figure author's income did not happen overnight, Jo refutes "the myth of the starving artist, that’s what some people want it to be, but that doesn’t have to be how it is ..." Jo talks about writing for therapy and how it can help one process whatever it is that's going on in your head. She loves thrillers and the horror genres. In her words they are "actually about hope and the triumph over difficult circumstances which is what we all face at different points in our life." Jo's most recent publications are Pilgrimage (a non-fiction memoir taking you on a personal journey across Portugal to Santiago de Compostella in Spain), and Catacomb (an action adventure horror novel set under the streets of Scotland's capital city of Edinburgh). We hope you enjoy our podcast chat, get inspired, and reflect on how you value your creativity! "If you value yourself then other people will value you."   To find out more about Joanna Penn, listen to her podcasts and BUY HER BOOKS in whatever format you read or listen, do visit: Jo's websites: https://jfpenn.com/ AND https://www.thecreativepenn.com/ Instagram: @jfpennauthor Twitter: @thecreativepenn "We need to value creative work."   To find out more about Emma - your podcast host and author of Driving Tito: Through The Balkan Backroads with a Celebrity - go to https://www.travellingthrough.co.uk   Thank you as always to Mariska Martina at: https://www.mariskamartina.com for creating our lovely travelling through podcast jingle!

This episode is a wake up call for us as humans to consider taking more responsibility for ourselves as individuals, especially when it comes to what foods we are putting in our mouths. For example, if you think fat free products are the healthy choice, you've definitely got to listen to this podcast episode. My guest REBECCA RIVERS proves that we can reverse ill health through making the right food, exercise and lifestyle choices. She did it and reversed her Type 2 Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome diagnosis. And now Rebecca shares her story with us in this episode. Through her health and beauty shop Rivers' Remedies, Rebecca is hoping to set up a series of talks and YouTube recordings in the near future to advance the awareness of what we can do to improve our health span through food, exercise and lifestyle wherever we are in the world. In the meantime, if you are in London, do visit Rivers' Remedies in Lower Marsh, London SE1. Rebecca and her team provide one to one customer assistance with all kinds of beneficial vitamins, potions and organic products at their finger tips for you to purchase. The choices are there, and, as Rebecca says, "if you want a different outcome, you have to make different choices." The Travelling Through Podcast series continues in 2023 with the theme... Make new choices. Redefine who you are.   To KNOW MORE ABOUT REBECCA and RIVERS' REMEDIES go to: Instagram: @riversremedies Facebook: Rivers-Remedies Email: [email protected] Phone: 07780 112226 Website: https://rivers-remedies.co.uk/ TO KNOW MORE about EMMA - your podcast host and author of DRIVING TITO: Through The Balkan Backroads with a Celebrity - go to https://www.travellingthrough.co.uk THANK YOU as always to MARISKA MARTINA at: https://www.mariskamartina.com for creating our lovely travelling through podcast jingle! THANK YOU to LAMBETH PALACE LIBRARY for (unknowingly) hosting this podcast episode. https://www.lambethpalacelibrary.org/exhibitions/enslavement-voices-from-the-archives/

This episode is about self-belief and a man who through his love of travel, and particularly walking, set off along a creative writing path away from high finance and from wearing a smart suit in the City of London. I sat down with author STEPHEN MARRIOTT on the (almost) eve publication date of his third book Diego's Guitar, and through a candid discussion Steve reflects on how easily our choices can build habits both good and bad. He believes that by looking back at the choices we've made, reveals our character and that it's not always easy to break our habits. How about you? Tune in to get inspired on how you too can redefine yourself and make a choice to do it your way. Stephen R. Marriott is the author of The Reluctant Pilgrim series, a trilogy set against the backdrop of three camino routes across Spain. The story follows Diego through ten years of his life, from a directionless young man in his early twenties with a talent for playing flamenco guitar and his climb to fame followed by the challenges he faces when it all comes tumbling down. TO KNOW MORE about STEPHEN MARRIOTT go to https://www.stephenrmarriott.com To PRE-ORDER DIEGO'S GUITAR go direct to Amazon - where you can find all Stephen's books, ebooks, and audible books OR go to any good bookstore where you live. Other podcast episodes I have recorded with Steve are 067, 060, 044, 032, 022. TO KNOW MORE about EMMA - your podcast host and author of DRIVING TITO: Through The Balkan Backroads with a Celebrity - go to https://www.travellingthrough.co.uk THANK YOU as always to MARISKA MARTINA at: https://www.mariskamartina.com for creating our lovely travelling through podcast jingle!

This episode celebrates the determination of one woman to achieve her dreams through the choices presented to her at different times of her life to date. SHOBHA DAS with whom I was fortunate enough to catch up with in London last month, embraces an incredible life-changing challenge to build a house in the mountains above her Keralan homeland in India alongside her husband Chris Collinson - with whom I also recorded a podcast episode (ep. 027) over two years ago.Shobha is straightforward and unflinching in her recollection of choices she has made in life, reminding us that although some choices can be challenging ones to make, it is important to remain realistic yet not afraid of the decisions one takes. To learn more about Shobha and her housebuilding exploits in India please tune in to her YouTube channel - if this link does not work go to my website podcast page shownotes. You can connect with Shobha at [email protected] To learn more about your podcast host EMMA go to my website https://www.travellingthrough.co.uk/ or to Instagram for my Sicilian travels @ontheroadwithRhoswyn or @travelling_through And as always, a big thanks to MARISKA Martina at https://www.mariskamartina.com/ for creating our wonderful podcast jingle!