Backseat Positivity

About Backseat Positivity

"Able to make serious topics lighthearted and fun - I even laughed at some points!" Get your bi-weekly dose of positivity in this fun podcast with Dr Dawn Barlow, who helps you navigate all of the weird/best/worst parts of life! Dawn takes you on the self-improvement journey you didn't realise you needed... Bought to you by a doctor who hasn't had life as sweet as many of her comrades. She knows firsthand just how rubbish life can be, yet has managed to turn her life around for the better! From relationships to mental health to happiness, make sure you buckle up twice a week (Mondays and Thursdays) the join her and her guests for candid self-improvement. Don't forget of the course, the "weird thoughts" segment, where Dawn and her guests share weird thoughts from their lives. Dawn says: Sometimes life reminds me of being in a washing machine. It's a bit spinny and turbulent for a while, but then it stops and gives you a little break before spinning you into oblivion once more. It feels like the washing machine wants to wash something bad out of all of us... positivity. Some might EVEN say that positivity is shouting from the backseat and no-one wants to listen to it... [backseat positivity] More than once a week, but less than 4 times a week, you can shove me in your auditory canals and listen to me chat about L.I.F.E., self-improvement, mental health and anything else that my little monkey-mind paws can grasp onto. Sometimes other humans actually dare to join me. It's candid, it's fun. Woo!

Publisher

Dawn

Category

comedy · education · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

16 Aug 2021

Latest episode

14 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

156 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   14 Aug 2026

   How To Start When Everything Feels Too Much

   Send us Fan Mail Overwhelm can look so ordinary that you miss it until you’re stuck on the sofa, watching Netflix, feeling guilty, and still not doing the thing you actually care about. I’m back on the mic after a break to talk about that exact spiral: podcast avoidance, life overload, and the way perfectionism quietly convinces us that “not starting” is safer than “not perfect”. I share what finally got me to press record, plus the habit tools I keep coming back to from Atomic Habits: reduc...

2. 

   3 Feb 2026

   Hospital Chaos To Stable Peace: What Horses Taught My Nervous System

   Send us a text Ever had a day where everything feels too loud and your body won’t stop bracing? I swap hospital alarms for stable mornings and discover why horses make terrible liars of us: they don’t hear your words, they feel your state. That became my wake-up call to slow the tempo, regulate first, and let results follow. I share the messy return to riding—buying an ex-racehorse, facing falls, then realising I couldn’t muscle my way back to confidence. Pressure only made him freeze. Natur...

3. 

   27 Jan 2026

   Back In The Saddle, Barely

   Send us a text The mic is clipped to my coffee table, I’m under two blankets, and I’m finally ready to tell you where I’ve been: knee‑deep in mud, hay, and a kind of happiness that also leaves you wrecked. Over the last year I brought an ex‑racehorse into my life, then made the wildly optimistic choice to add a second. The podcast didn’t fade because I ran out of ideas—it paused because caring for 600‑kilo flight animals takes time, muscle, money, and a surprising amount of mental bandwidth. ...

Who has been a guest on Backseat Positivity

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• unknown
• Jeffrey Dahmer
• Peter Sutcliffe

Reach and audience

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Spotify

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 54 / 100

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Quality

84

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

60

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