Hello You Podcast

About Hello You Podcast

The world’s best mental health podcast, dedicated to honest conversations and empowering stories. Each episode dives into practical coping strategies, personal mental health journeys, and the life experiences that shaped who people are today. Through real voices and real stories, the show provides support, connection, and tools to help listeners navigate their own mental health with confidence and compassion. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

Publisher

Dan Darwin

Category

business · education · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

27 Nov 2025

Latest episode

4 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

23 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   4 Oct 2026

   Hello You Mental Health Podcast - David Last Episode

   Content warning: this episode discusses suicide, self-harm and depression. If you're affected by anything in it, Samaritans are free on 116 123, any time, day or night. David Last was diagnosed with cerebral palsy at twelve months old. He's now 26, in Denver, Colorado, and has had eight surgeries, six of them between the ages of thirteen and eighteen — one after another, through the whole of secondary school. This conversation is less about the diagnosis than about what he did with everything he felt about it, which was nothing. David decided early on that his job was to be the strong one: absorb it, push it down, and get through in one piece. He talks about not knowing he was depressed through his teens, because he assumed everyone was miserable and he was simply on track. And he describes the particular loneliness of being surrounded by people and feeling like you're on an island. We talk about the "audition" — the sense that a visible disability puts you permanently on trial in public, having to prove yourself before anyone sees you properly. About what his parents got right, and what he'd say to any parent given a diagnosis they weren't expecting. And about the night at university when the strategy stopped working. David has written a book, Forged by Limitations, which started as an exercise his psychologist set him to get his feelings out. He's clear about why it exists: if what he has to say helps one person, it stops being an option and becomes an obligation. Support: Samaritans, 116 123, free, any time. Scope's helpline for disability support is on 0808 800 3333. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

2. 

   20 Sept 2026

   Hello You Mental Health Podcast - Adam W Barney Epsiode

   Leadership coach and author Adam W. Barney on being laid off twice, losing his mum to ALS, caring for loved ones through illness, and why resilience isn't about bouncing back. What happens when the career, the title and the future you planned are taken away? On this episode of Hello You, the mental health podcast, Dan is joined by Adam W. Barney, a transition leadership coach, author and host of the Is Anything Real podcast, for an honest conversation about redundancy, grief, caregiving and mental health. Adam spent over 20 years in corporate marketing, managing more than $100 million in ad spend across agencies, start-ups and global tech companies. From the outside it looked like success. Behind the scenes, he was made redundant twice, lost his mum to bulbar-onset ALS (motor neurone disease), supported his dad through hydrocephalus, and is now caring for his wife through breast cancer. Adam and Dan talk about how losing your job disrupts your identity as well as your income, why high performers struggle to ask for help, and the loneliness caregivers carry when all the attention rightly goes to the person who is ill. Adam shares how getting involved in a familial ALS research study gave him a sense of agency after his mum's death, and why he chose to seek support for his anxiety. He also explains the thinking behind his book, Make Your Own Glass Half Full: The Empowered Path to Optimism and Autonomy. It argues that optimism isn't pretending everything is fine. It is believing a meaningful next step is still available. Dan reflects on losing his own father and on rebuilding his identity after leaving the police. If you're facing a layoff, burnout, grief or caring for someone you love, this episode is a reminder that you're not the only one without a playbook. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

3. 

   6 Sept 2026

   Hello You Mental Health Podcast - Ashley Michelle

   Content warning: this episode discusses violent crime, homicide and suicide. In 2016, Ashley Michelle survived something most people will only ever see on the news. She spent two hours in an apartment with a man who had just killed his best friend, kept herself calm because she knew fear would get her killed, and escaped down eighteen flights of stairs. But the crime is not what this conversation is about. Ashley talks about what came afterwards — the survivor's guilt, the triggers she never saw coming, the trial two years later that undid a lot of the work she'd done, and the fact that she is still dealing with the man responsible through hearings today. She's since written a book, Finding Strength Through Tragedy, and talks openly about what actually helped: counselling, the gym, and learning which people to keep in her life. She's also clear that she'll never be the person she was, and that this is part of healing rather than a failure of it. Support: Samaritans, 116 123, free, any time. Victim Support, 08 08 16 89 111. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

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