A podcast about former radio professionals now thriving in another career.
In an environment of uncertainty, we want to show you what your next chapter could look like.
May your best years be ahead of you!
Firings and F***ups - Bonding, grief and nightmares on tape
Radio personalities Mary-Lou, Geoff Fisher, Matt Schichter, Cecelia Ramsdale, Simon Kennedy, and Kerryn Marlow recount firings, mistakes, grief, and career transitions, offering candid insights into the realities of the radio industry.
28 May 2025
Old skills, meet new skills! Taking radio expertise into exciting new careers
This episode highlights transferable skills that radio professionals like Matt Whittemore, Stephen Walter-Gerrard, and Mary-Lou Stephens can leverage in new careers through continued learning.
13 May 2025
"I basically gave them the finger!" Kerryn Marlow on talkback, sexism and life after radio.
Kerryn Marlow is a business owner based in Melbourne, Australia. In her radio days she was on air in music and talk shows, and was a producer and program director. These days, she owns and runs a B2B marketing company, and an online SMS platform.
30 Apr 2025
"That's a good idea, let's get it on the air!" - Simon Kennedy
Simon Kennedy is a voice artist, comedian, keynote speaker and author based in Sydney. After starting as an announcer, he had a very unique position, writing comedy imaging. These days, you'll hear Simon on promos for ABC-TV throughout Australia. He's also the President of the Australian Association of Voice Actors (AAVA). Now we didn't touch on this in our chat, but Simon wrote a book in 2014 about an atrocity that shook the all world, but took someone precious from him. It's a story about h...
16 Apr 2025
"Every experience is built on the last!" - Former Radio Content Director Geoff Fisher
Geoff Fisher is a corporate & government communications coach based in Canberra. Before that, he was a radio pro, taking the well-worn road from community radio, to small town commercial radio, then moving to larger markets. After a big light-bulb moment prompted by his young son, he left radio and realised that his skillset was ideal for communications, coaching and change management. After a brilliant and very unique career, Geoff and his wife have just retired from full-time work. But ...
2 Apr 2025
"Take The Leap!" Video Producer & YouTuber Alex Dalrymple on Life After Radio
Alex Dalrymple is a video editor, writer, producer and voice artist based in Sydney, Australia. His radio background includes working on the iconic Andrew Denton breakfast show on Triple M Sydney. His career dipped in and out of radio, both on and off air. He went to work at two other big breakfast shows, then was part of the video revolution in radio. These days he enjoys waking up at a sensible hour with a stable job out of radio, and he gets to drive awesome cars around as part of his YouT...
19 Mar 2025
"I Was Always The Radio Nerd!" - Voice actor Cecelia Ramsdale on Life After Radio
Cecelia Ramsdale is a voice actor based in Melbourne, Australia. Behind the mic, there's not much Cec hasn't done, narrating TV shows, voicing commercials, playing cartoon characters, and reading audiobooks. Cec also has made podcasts of her own, including No Books Book Club and the Wellness Collective - and works on app-based radio station Broad Radio, a station for women by women. The podcast version of Get This is available here - https://throwawaydrakey.podbean.com/ &...
5 Mar 2025
"Telling A Story Is Telling A Story" - Transferable Skills with Matt Whittemore
Matt Whittemore is a Senior Media Advisor in the New South Wales Government's Department of Customer Service. These days. His broadcast media career took him from small town radio to major-market talkback to breakfast television. In this episode we'll hear about great bosses (and bad ones), the disappointing time he met media icon Glenn Wheatley, and what life looks like for him now.
19 Feb 2025
"There's something about radio people!" - Filmmaker Matt Schichter's Life After Radio
Matt Schichter is a filmmaker based in Glasgow, Scotland. In Canadian radio, he was an announcer and music director, before he took his skills across to the screen - acting, producing and directing. He's also one of the world's first podcasters, he started in 2003 before the word podcast was invented.
5 Feb 2025
Best-selling novelist Mary-Lou Stephens on life after radio
Mary-Lou Stephens is a best-selling author. She's written Australian historical fiction novels "The Last of the Apple Blossom" and "The Chocolate Factory" and a memoir "Sex, Drugs and Meditation". All of them have received rave reviews from the media and fellow authors alike, and her latest work, "The Jam Maker" is out now. But Mary-Lou spent quite a bit of time behind the mic, both on stage singing and playing in bands, then at radio stations 2TM, Mix Townsville and on ABC Radio in Queensl...
4 Feb 2025
From radio writer and programmer to marketing exec - Stephen Walter-Gerrard
Stephen Walter-Gerrard is a former announcer, voice artist, creative writer and content director, who is now a Marketing Manager and self-confessed data nerd. After a bunch of different roles in different radio markets, Stephen took what he learned into the corporate world. Importantly though, he makes a point of working with companies that do good in the world.
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Mary-Lou
Geoff Fisher
Matt Schichter
Cecelia Ramsdale
Simon Kennedy
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