Life has a habit of interrupting your plans — sometimes quietly, sometimes all at once. And you don’t always want advice or answers, you just want to know you’re not the only one trying to make sense of it.
Life Happens* is a weekly lifestyle podcast built around honest conversation. Psychology student Michelle R Williams and media veteran Nick Hirst come together from two very different generations to talk about modern life as it’s actually lived — with uncertainty, confusion, hopes and ambitions along the way.
With warmth, banter, humanity and insight, they don’t pretend to have it all figured out, instead they explore how it feels when life doesn’t go as planned.
Because life happens*
*but you can too!
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#32 Why Do We Overthink? — Are We Looking for Answers or Certainty?
You know the situation – you have a key meeting with someone, maybe it was a date or a job interview, and afterwards you keep replaying it over and over in your head.
Overthinking it!
Why? You can’t change anything now! Yes, maybe you can learn from it, but that’s not going to give you any sort of closure over this situation.
Or you are imagining a future scenario and playing different possibilities over and over in your head. Is it helpful – or are you just overthinking it?
In this episode of ‘Life Happens*’ Michelle, a self-confessed over-thinker, and Nick discuss how overthinking gives us the illusion of control.
And listen for when Michelle comes up with a novel concept – how to ‘wait faster’!
Check it out now for a really fun quiz which will tell you what kind of overthinker you are.
Here’s the link:
https://undercoverofthewrite.wordpress.com/2026/05/12/what-kind-of-overthinker-are-you-quiz/ (https://undercoverofthewrite.wordpress.com/2026/05/12/what-kind-of-overthinker-are-you-quiz/)
Listen now to ‘Life Happens*’ and find out what overthinking is and whether it’s a good thing. Don’t think about it – do it now!
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23 Jun 2026
#31 Why do we procrastinate? Laziness, Fear or Something Else?
You know the feeling, there’s something you’ve got to do, probably really want to do, but yet you still put it off.
Suddenly, there are 14 other tasks that somehow seem more important right now. Why do we do it? And can we find ways to stop doing it and be more productive?
In this episode of ‘Life Happens*’, Michelle and Nick don’t hang about, diving straight in to a full and frank discussion on why we procrastinate and how we can prevent it. They both admit to being procrastinators and share their own stories of putting off urgent tasks.
And, as regular listeners know, there’s a related quiz that you can take – here’s the link:
https://www.tryinteract.com/quiz/what-s-your-procrastination-personality/ (https://www.tryinteract.com/quiz/what-s-your-procrastination-personality/)
Check it out and discover where you rate on the procrastination scale.
Listen to ‘Life Happens*’ and find out ways you can battle against procrastination – don’t put it off, do it now!
You will find everything about Life Happens* here:
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16 Jun 2026
#30 Why Is Saying ‘No’ So Difficult? — Boundaries, Guilt & People-Pleasing
What’s the hardest word to say in the English language?
And it’s not ‘antidisestablishmentarianism’ or one of those other tongue twisters we Brits learnt in school.
It’s ‘no’.
So why is it so hard to say no? In the latest episode of ‘Life Happens*’, Michelle and Nick take a deep dive into that strange conundrum of the difficulty in saying ‘no’.
If you have ever agreed to something you really didn’t want to, this episode is for you. Why do we do it when so often it would be healthier, safer and simply better to say ‘no’?
Listen as our hosts identify some of the reasons we do this. And they also offer some strategies to help you protect yourself when you need to answer honestly and say no!
And in true ‘Life Happens*’ style, there’s a quiz that will tell you how good you are at saying no. Here’s the link - https://www.boredpanda.com/how-good-are-you-at-saying-no/ (https://www.boredpanda.com/how-good-are-you-at-saying-no/)
Listen now and get in the ‘no’!
Because Life Happens*
(*but you can too!)
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