Selling Out! is the podcast celebrating queer business owners doing extraordinary things their own way. Hosted by GoSucceed co-founders Gary Salters and Jonny Monroe, each episode features real conversations with LGBTQIA+ founders, leaders and creatives about the highs, the hard lessons and everything in between. No polish. No performance. Just the truth about their experiences in the business world..<hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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Selling Out! is the podcast celebrating queer business owners doing extraordinary things their own way. Hosted by GoSucceed co-founders Gary Salters and Jonny Monroe, each episode features real conversations with LGBTQIA+ founders, leaders and creatives about the highs, the hard lessons and everything in between. No polish. No performance. Just the truth about their experiences in the business world..<hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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August 7, 2026
Selling Out! – Ep 10: Queer Bodies in Motion | Andrea Walker & Mike Ashurst / Selling Out!
<p>Selling Out! is the podcast for LGBTQIA+ founders, leaders and creatives. Real conversations about building a life and a career on your own terms — straight jackets not included. 🏳️🌈</p><p>From Tesco tills to theatre stages — two queer creatives on dance, identity, and the radical act of moving like yourself.</p><p>Episode 10 is joyful, generous, and genuinely moving — in every sense of the word.</p><p>Andrea Walker (he/him, Q) grew up in Italy, where school ran six days a week, gay wasn't a conversation anyone was having, and the closest thing to a queer role model was MTV and Britney Spears. He moved to Brighton for university and — as one does — never left. A film and TV graduate who caught the dance bug at 15, he went on to tour Europe as a performer, train at Broadway Dance Center in New York, then invest every penny of his savings into a queer dance show about a terrible breakup. That show went to Edinburgh Fringe and got four stars from the Guardian and the Times. His company, 201 Dance Company, has been going for over a decade — making politically charged short films, nationally touring productions, and for the past eight years, the annual Brighton Pride video that the whole city waits for.</p><p>Mike Ashurst (he/him, Q) grew up in Portslade — close enough to Brighton to know the world existed, far enough out to feel the edges of it. He started dancing at 17, which in dance years is practically retirement age, powered through on natural rhythm and sheer self-belief, and has spent the last four years as part of the 201 Dance Company family — assistant choreographer, stylist, creative team member, and all-round force of nature. He's also the person who turned a Tesco checkout into a mini-game and made every shift better for everyone around him.</p><p>Two people who came to their art late, found their people, and never looked back — and who between them have thought harder about bodies, belonging, and the politics of movement than most people do in a lifetime.</p><p>This episode covers the business of dance, the return of the music video, the queer coding baked into everything from K-pop to choreography, and why being visibly queer right now isn't just personal — it's political. It also features one of the warmest, most honest conversations we've had about what it actually means to find your voice and trust it.</p><p>"It's being confident enough to recognise that that is you."</p><p>🎙️ Sponsored by Legends Brighton — legendsresortbrighton.com — and Mortgage Medics — mortgage-medics.com</p><p>Video & Audio by Always Cinematic — AlwaysCinematic.com</p><p>Powered by GoSucceed®</p><p>Keywords / Tags: LGBTQIA+, queer business, dance, choreography, Brighton Pride, music videos, identity, mental health, creativity, visibility, trans rights, queer arts, Brighton, 201 Dance Company, Selling Out, GoSucceed</p><p>Season: 1 | Episode: 10 Selling Out! is the podcast for LGBTQIA+ founders, leaders and creatives. Real conversations about building a business your way, hosted by Gary Salters and Jonny Monroe. New episodes drop on the first and third Friday of every month. Follow us and never miss a story.</p><p>Selling Out! is the podcast for LGBTQIA+ founders, leaders and creatives. Real conversations about building a business your way, hosted by Gary Salters and Jonny Monroe.</p><p>New episodes drop on the first and third Friday of every month. Follow us and never miss a story.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
July 17, 2026
Selling Out! – Ep 9: Scrums, Serpents & Showing Up | Byron Todd & Sam Johnson / Selling Out!
<p>Selling Out! is the podcast for LGBTQIA+ founders, leaders and creatives. Real conversations about building a life and a career on your own terms — straight jackets not included. 🏳️🌈</p><p>Episode 9 is a warm one — and a bit of a love letter to the power of just showing up.</p><p>Byron Todd (he/him,) spent years believing, as many of us were quietly told, that gay men don't do sport. He proved that wrong via a paper round, a school dining hall, a dating agency, the Millennium Dome, and eventually the King's Cross Steelers — the world's first gay rugby club — where he went from nervous newcomer to team captain to co-founder of something entirely his own. In 2014 he moved to Brighton and did what any sensible person would do: started a rugby club. The Brighton and Hove Sea Serpents just celebrated their 10th anniversary and are now one of the most loved teams in the city.</p><p>Sam Johnson (he/him,) grew up in a Midlands village so remote the bus only came if you rang ahead. He survived Burger King, The Simple Life on a Subway manager's laptop, and a chance conversation with a stranger on a bridge that launched a seven-year PR career. A stint in beauty and hairdressing PR followed — during which he was regularly mistaken for a woman, largely because nobody expects a six-foot-five man named Sam to be on the other end of the phone. He joined the Sea Serpents less than a year ago and has already won forward of the match, dick of the day (twice), and a seat on the board.</p><p>Two men who found in rugby what a lot of us spend years looking for: a room where nobody judges you for who you are, only for which position you might play.</p><p>This episode gets into the real cost of being told sport isn't for you, the quiet heroism of building something from nothing, and why a team that welcomes trans women to touch rugby and fundraises to get lower-income players to Lisbon is doing something that goes well beyond the game.</p><p>"I was in the car park texting my friend: I don't think I can do it. I can't get out of the car. Then the messages just stop. Two hours later: oh my God, I loved it."</p><p>🎙️ Sponsored by Legends Brighton — legendsresortbrighton.com — and Mortgage Medics — mortgage-medics.com</p><p>Video & Audio by Always Cinematic — alwayscinematic.com</p><p>Powered by GoSucceed®</p><p><strong>Keywords / Tags:</strong></p><p>LGBTQIA+, queer sport, inclusive rugby, rugby, Brighton, Brighton and Hove Sea Serpents, King's Cross Steelers, trans inclusion, community, coming out, PR, sport and identity, Selling Out, GoSucceed</p><p>Season: 1 | Episode: 9</p><p>Selling Out! is the podcast for LGBTQIA+ founders, leaders and creatives. Real conversations about building a business your way, hosted by Gary Salters and Jonny Monroe.</p><p>New episodes drop on the first and third Friday of every month. Follow us and never miss a story.</p><p>Selling Out! is the podcast for LGBTQIA+ founders, leaders and creatives. Real conversations about building a business your way, hosted by Gary Salters and Jonny Monroe.</p><p>New episodes drop on the first and third Friday of every month. Follow us and never miss a story.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
July 3, 2026
Selling Out! – Ep 8: People, Power and Panna Cotta | Adam McHale & Ric Hayden / Selling Out!
<p>Selling Out! is the podcast for LGBTQIA+ founders, leaders and creatives. Real conversations about building a life and a career on your own terms — straight jackets not included. 🏳️🌈</p><p>Adam McHale (he/him, G) grew up in a McHale clan that upped sticks from Manchester to Blackpool to run a B&B. He carried toast racks, studied performing arts, gave up acting for people development and never looked back. From Butlins to Classic Collection Holidays, he's built L&D functions from scratch, mentored teams across the country and found his sweet spot at MPB — one of Brighton's most progressive businesses — where roughly one in three colleagues identifies as something other than straight. He once turned down Butlins before Adam got there. (Ric can confirm.)</p><p>Ric Hayden (he/him, G/Q) wanted to be a fashion designer, changed his mind at Central Saint Martins, did a master's in psychology, ended up in Sydney launching Vodafone's customer training operation and has been running LearningCog, his independent L&D consultancy, for the past fifteen years. He's delivered leadership programmes across Southeast Asia, stood his ground against homophobic regional directors and once got his entire board to fund a programme they'd just rejected — by walking back in and telling them why he hadn't explained it well enough.</p><p>Two people who've spent their careers building the conditions in which other people can be themselves — and who both know first-hand what it costs when those conditions don't exist.</p><p>This episode covers the long road from knowing you're different to knowing what to do with it, internalized homophobia in corporate life, why DEI isn't optional (it's on your bottom line), and what happened when a penis-shaped panna cotta arrived at a company offsite. It also features a serious conversation about trans rights, solidarity, and why the letters in LGBTQIA+ exist together for a reason.</p><p>"It was the trans people fighting for us at Stonewall. So let's get back and support them."</p><p>🎙️ Sponsored by Legends Brighton — legendsresortbrighton.com — and Mortgage Medics — mortgage-medics.com</p><p>Video & Audio by Always Cinematic — alwayscinematic.com</p><p>Powered by GoSucceed®</p><p><strong>Keywords / Tags:</strong></p><p>LGBTQIA+, queer business, learning and development, people development, DEI, diversity and inclusion, trans rights, corporate culture, representation, Brighton, MPB, LearningCog, leadership, Stonewall, Selling Out, GoSucceed</p><p><strong>Season: 1 | Episode: 8</strong></p><p>Selling Out! is the podcast for LGBTQIA+ founders, leaders and creatives. Real conversations about building a business your way, hosted by Gary Salters and Jonny Monroe.</p><p>New episodes drop on the first and third Friday of every month. Follow us and never miss a story.</p><p>Selling Out! is the podcast for LGBTQIA+ founders, leaders and creatives. Real conversations about building a business your way, hosted by Gary Salters and Jonny Monroe.</p><p>New episodes drop on the first and third Friday of every month. Follow us and never miss a story.</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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