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TICKETY BOO

The Podcast

Real conversations about mental health, life, relationships and the stuff that keeps you awake at 3am.

No scripts. No filters. Just people who understand the human mind, talking honestly about what it means to be one.

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About The Show

Welcome to the Piece of Mind Podcast

Tickety Boo is the podcast where we talk about the things most people avoid. Mental health, men’s struggles, the thoughts that spiral at 3am, burnout, anxiety, relationships, self-doubt and the funny, the dark, the uncomfortable and the surprisingly hopeful. We cover it all honestly, directly and without the kind of polished corporate wellness speak that makes you want to switch it off after 30 seconds. 

The show is hosted by a team of practising therapists who between them have spent decades sitting with people through some of the hardest moments of their lives. They know what people are actually dealing with because they hear it every day, and they talk about it the way real people talk not the way a therapist would talk. 

New episodes every week. Over a hundred episodes available. 

Some episodes will make you laugh. Some will make you think. Some might make you feel a little less alone.

- Tickety Boo

100+

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40+

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Episodes

What We talk About

The Stuff We Actually Talk About

No two episodes are the same. But if you want a sense of the territory:

Mental health

and why it is everybody's business.

Men

and the particular ways they struggle and hide it

Anxiety

panic and the 3am spiral

Burnout

what it really feels like and what helps

Relationships

grief and the things we carry

Self-doubt

confidence and why the inner critic is so loud

The funny side

of being human because there always is one

Recovery

resilience and what moving forward looks like

Some episodes will make you think. Some will make you laugh. Some might make you feel a little less alone at the end of a difficult day. That is the point.

Feartured Episodes

Episodes 69
Why Do We Keep Punishing Ourselves?
  • 24 Min
Episodes 68
Why You Feel
Invisible
  • 31 Min
Episodes 67
How Healing Costs You People
  • 29 Min
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Ian Young

Ian Young

Training & Development

Tagline: Grounded, real and genuinely hard to forget.

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Ian is an experienced therapist whose work spans trauma, addiction, anxiety and recovery. His approach is shaped as much by lived experience as by professional training and that combination makes him exceptionally relatable to the people he works with.

People who’ve worked with Ian consistently say the same thing — he gets it in a way that goes beyond what most trainers can offer. He doesn’t just understand the subject. He understands people.

Within Piece of Mind Training, Ian also plays a key role in business and strategic development, bringing a practical, grounded perspective to how the organisation grows and evolves.

David

David Gowans

Training & Development

Tagline: He’s seen mental health crisis at its most acute. And he knows what actually helps.

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David’s background is probably unlike anyone else you’ll meet in a mental health training room.

Twenty-three years on the frontline of emergency services first as a police officer, now as an HCPC-registered practising paramedic. He hasn’t studied stress, trauma and burnout from a distance. He’s carried them, in uniform, responding to people at the absolute worst moments of their lives. He understands the culture that makes asking for help feel like the hardest thing in the world because he’s lived inside that culture.

That frontline experience sits alongside his clinical practice as a qualified hypnotherapist and accredited EFT practitioner. David works with real people navigating real challenges every single week. What he brings to Piece of Mind Training isn’t theoretical. It’s current, grounded and built entirely from the inside out.

As part of the team, David delivers training, practises as a therapist and plays a key role in the development and direction of the organisation making sure that everything Piece of Mind produces is professionally rigorous and genuinely human.

David is responsible for development and ensures that Piece of Mind Training programmes are grounded in real-world application. Not what the textbook says should happen. What actually works when it matters.

Iona

Iona Russell

Growth & Partnerships

Tagline: She’s written the book. Literally.

Iona has spent more than twenty years working at the intersection of human potential and real-world impact — across psychology, coaching, education, broadcasting, the charitable sector and social policy, in both the UK and the USA.

She is a Master Positive Psychology Coach and twice bestselling author who has supported hundreds of people through coaching qualifications and worked alongside some of the most respected names in positive psychology and personal development. As a keynote speaker and leadership advisor, she helps organisations rethink what success and human flourishing actually look like.

But what drives Iona’s commitment to mental health work goes deeper than her professional background. She lost her brother to suicide. That experience — and everything it taught her about the gap between what people are going through and the support available to them — shapes everything she brings to Piece of Mind Training.

At Piece of Mind, Iona leads our partnerships, builds community impact and drives our growth across Scotland and beyond. She brings commercial insight, deep human understanding and a personal reason for being here that no CV can fully capture.

Ann

Ann Stewart

Head of Training

Tagline: The person who makes sure the learning delivers every time.

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Ann has spent her career helping people make sense of the things that are weighing on them and finding a way forward when everything feels tough.

Her background is genuinely rare. A qualified teacher, certified hypnotherapist, coach and First Aid for Mental Health practitioner, Ann brings together an understanding of how people learn with a deep, practical knowledge of how people struggle. She still works directly with adults and young people every week supporting those experiencing anxiety, low confidence, emotional distress and the kind of quiet difficulties that don’t always have a name but make everyday life feel impossibly hard.

As a trainer, Ann knows that the best mental health training doesn’t just inform people, it changes how they see themselves and the people around them. She brings that belief into every session she delivers, whether she’s working with a room full of HR professionals or a team who’ve never talked about mental health at work before.

As a therapist, trainer, teacher and mum of three, Ann understands that most people are dealing with far more than anyone around them realises. That understanding is the foundation of everything she does.

At Piece of Mind Training, Ann leads on training quality and consistency, making sure that what we promise is what every learner experiences, every time.

Andy Griffiths

Andy Griffiths

Founder

Tagline: The man who built this because he needed it himself.

Qualifications include:

Clinical Hypnotherapy

NLP

Psychotherapy

CBT Coaching

Trauma-Informed Practice.

Andy is a practising therapist, clinical hypnotherapist and the founder of Piece of Mind Training. He’s spent over a decade working with clients across anxiety, trauma, panic disorder and complex mental health presentations not as a theorist, but as someone who has experienced many of these challenges himself.

His personal journey through mental health struggles, panic disorder and years of pretending everything was fine is the reason Piece of Mind Training exists. He built what he wished had existed when he needed it most.

As a trainer, Andy is known for his directness, his warmth and his ability to make people feel genuinely seen. He doesn’t stand behind a slide deck and talk at people. He brings the subject into the room.

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