The purpose of Och, Brothers! is to host a transparent, honest space for men to explore what it means to be a man today. Positive conversations around manhood, brotherhood, parenthood, and masculinity, eschewing outdated stereotypes and celebrating a broad range of perspectives. En vogue or otherwise.
We’ll be sharing stories, building and fostering networks, and redefining strength, helping men show up for themselves and learning from each other as we go. Come with us, you’re very welcome.
Och, Brothers! Where Art Thou?
Episode 8: Success, Breakdown and the Art of Letting Go | Seb Royle
This week, we are joined by Seb Royle for a conversation about what happens when the successful life you’ve built starts to come apart and what might be waiting on the other side. Seb has built and sold successful businesses, raised three children, got sober, lived through a breakdown and a bipolar diagnosis, and four years ago suffered a cardiac arrest that left him clinically dead for 35 minutes. But the conversation goes well beyond the dramatic moments into some more ordinary questi...
2 Aug 2026
Episode 7: Building a Life You Don’t Need to Escape | PJ Smith
Our guest this month is Liverpool writer, storyteller and recovery worker PJ Smith — also known through his writing and performances as Roy. PJ was a talented young footballer who signed for Everton, but as his home life became less stable, football, school and eventually any sense of direction began to slip away. By his late teens, alcohol and drugs had replaced football as a way of finding confidence, connection and identity. What followed was a decade PJ describes as repetitive, chaotic an...
4 Jul 2026
Episode 6: Cold Water, Calm Minds and Bringing Men Together | Tim Bowles
In Episode 6 of Och, Brothers! Where Art Thou?, Pietro and Ross sit down with Tim Bowles, founder of Campwell and co-founder of Icebreakers, two projects rooted in nature, connection, cold water, fire, and the simple but powerful act of men gathering together. Tim grew up as the fifth generation on his family farm near Bath, where childhood meant open fields, rugby, bonfires, and a deep connection to the land. But after years working in advertising in London and wine distribution in Hong Kong...
8 Feb 2026
Episode 5: Rock Bottom, Recovery, and Redemption | John Arthur
This week on Och, Brothers! Where Art Thou?, we sit down with John Arthur. A community activist, recovery coach, yoga teacher and long time friend of Rosco’s, John has spent decades working with people on the edges and quietly helping build better ways forward. John talks about growing up in a tough part of Edinburgh, living in fear, learning to fight, and how early trauma can shape the nervous system, relationships and identity. We hear about addiction, relapse, and the moment things finally...
16 Dec 2025
Episode 4: From Campbeltown To Camus | David Cameron
This week on Och, Brothers! Where Art Thou? we’re joined by the other David Cameron, educator, keynote speaker, podcaster, and a proper warm, thoughtful presence from Fife. What starts as a bit of festive chat and name based mischief quickly turns into a big one: masculinity, role models, community, and what happens when society quietly stops giving young boys decent examples of what “being a man” can look like. David takes us back to growing up in Campbeltown with a single mum, a gentle gran...
20 Nov 2025
Episode 3: The Check In | Scotland, Madagascar, Sierra Leone
A long overdue check-in and catch-up between Pietro and Rosco, celebrating Scotland's qualification for the World Cup, and their trips to Africa.
28 Oct 2025
Episode 2: From War Zones to Wild Places | Colin Kirk-Potter
This week on Och, Brothers! Where Art Thou? we sit down with Colin Kirk-Potter, former Royal Marine Commando, ultra-runner, writer, endurance coach, postman, husband, and father of five, for a raw, funny, and deeply human conversation about identity, recovery, and what masculinity really looks like when the bravado falls away. Colin takes us from growing up in Derbyshire to life in the Royal Marines, serving across conflict zones and discovering the intense camaraderie of a brotherhood f...
4 Oct 2025
Episode 1: Druid Wisdom for Modern Men | JJ Middleway
In our first full episode of Och, Brothers! Where Art Thou?, we sit down with JJ Middleway for a deep, moving and often unexpected conversation about manhood, belonging and what we have quietly lost along the way. JJ is a poet, musician, druid elder and mentor who has spent decades working with boys and men through rites of passage, outdoor ritual and community based work. He joins us fresh from a powerful weekend spent helping young men step towards adulthood in a world that rarely shows the...
13 Sept 2025
Episode 0: Two Mates, One Mission | Introducings
In Episode Zero, Rosco and Pietro properly kick things off and lay down what this pod is trying to be. An open and honest space for men to explore what it means to be a man today, without the posturing, the grift, or the culture war noise. They talk about why “masculinity” has become such a hard question to answer out loud, and why that hesitation is exactly the point. This is not about having perfect definitions. It is about asking better questions, finding the middle ground, and learning in...
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