This is the podcast version of the book "The Advocate You Didn't Know You Could Be" by Anne King.
Whether you're dealing with a PCN, a school issue, a health dispute, or one of life's unexpected curveballs, you'll find clarity, confidence, and a voice you can lean on.
Each episode is based on the book, The Advocate You Didn't Know You Could Be, and together, we'll explore the emotional and practical side of speaking up for yourself, or on behalf of someone else calmly, clearly, and without fear.
In this episode, Anne King brings together everything covered so far and looks honestly at the reality of advocacy. By this point, listeners have learned how to pause, gather information, build a timeline, ask questions, follow up, escalate, define an end goal and stay steady. But Anne makes it clear that real advocacy is not always tidy. It can be frustrating, emotional, messy and slow. You may face silence, avoidance, contradictions, delays, defensiveness or people refusing to engage. That ...
5 Oct 2026
Defining Your End Goal and How to Get There
In this episode, Anne King brings listeners to a key question in the advocacy process: what are you actually trying to achieve? After gathering evidence, asking questions, following up and escalating where needed, it is easy to keep reacting without a clear direction. Anne explains that defining your end goal helps shape your tone, questions, evidence, pace and next steps. Your goal might be to challenge a claim, seek correction or compensation, get something removed, understand what happened...
28 Sept 2026
Escalating Calmly and Responding with Confidence
In this episode, Anne King explains when and how to escalate a situation without becoming aggressive or confrontational. After gathering information, asking questions, following up and reviewing what has been received, there may come a point where the answers are still missing, incomplete, incorrect or contradictory. That is when escalation may become the next reasonable step. Anne explains that escalation is not about causing trouble. It is about asking for the matter to be reviewed properly...
21 Sept 2026
When You've Done Your Part - What Happens Next?
In this episode, Anne King explores what happens when you have asked your questions, followed up, kept a paper trail and stayed steady, but still receive no reply. Silence can make people panic. It can lead you to doubt yourself or assume you have done something wrong. Anne explains that silence is not proof of failure. It is often part of the process. The episode looks at why organisations may stay silent. They may be disorganised, avoiding accountability, missing information, stalling, or h...
14 Sept 2026
Staying Steady Though The Process
In this episode, Anne King turns attention to the emotional side of advocacy. By this stage, listeners have learned how to pause, gather information, ask questions, follow up and keep a paper trail. But advocacy is not usually resolved in one day. It is a process, and staying steady through that process matters. Anne explains how stress can affect the way people read, respond and make decisions. When panic rises, it becomes easier to miss details, rush replies, assume the worst, apologise unn...
7 Sept 2026
Following Up Without Fear, Pressure or Panic
In this episode, Anne King looks at the part of the process many people find uncomfortable: following up. After you have asked questions and kept your communication clear, it can feel worrying when you need to chase a response. You may wonder if you are being difficult, annoying or doing something wrong. Anne makes it clear that following up is not confrontation. It is a reasonable part of the process. The episode explains why organisations may not reply straight away. Emails get missed, syst...
31 Aug 2026
Keeping A Clean Paper Trail
In this episode, Anne King focuses on one of the most important habits in advocacy: keeping a clean paper trail. When you are dealing with companies, schools, councils, workplaces, housing providers, medical services or any other organisation, details can easily become blurred. People forget what was said, systems lose information and processes break down. A paper trail helps protect you. It shows what happened, what was said, what was received, what was missing and when things took place. An...
24 Aug 2026
Asking Clear Calm Questions
In this episode, Anne King moves from noticing contradictions and gaps to turning them into clear questions. This is the point where advocacy becomes active. Not through arguing, accusing or reacting, but by asking for the information needed to understand what has happened. Anne explains why questions are powerful. They create accountability, slow the process down and move the conversation away from emotion and towards facts. A good question can reveal missing information, expose contradictio...
17 Aug 2026
Spotting Contradictions And Gaps
In this episode of The Advocate You Didn’t Know You Could Be, Anne King explains how to start noticing the parts of a situation that do not quite line up. Once you have built a timeline and gathered what you already have, the shape of the situation starts to become clearer. This is when contradictions and gaps begin to stand out. Anne explains that contradictions are not accusations or arguments. They are simply moments where one thing does not match another. A company may say letters were se...
10 Aug 2026
Gathering What You Already Have
In this episode of The Advocate You Didn’t Know You Could Be, Anne King moves on from building a timeline to the next important step: gathering what you already have. When something stressful lands in your life, it is easy to think you need to find every letter, every email, every screenshot and every missing detail straight away. Anne explains that you do not need to gather everything at once. You start with what is already within reach. This episode is about collecting information, not figh...
3 Aug 2026
Building Your Timeline
In this episode of The Advocate You Didn’t Know You Could Be, Anne King focuses on one of the most important parts of advocacy: building a timeline. When something stressful happens, it can be hard to remember what came first, what was received, what was missing and what changed along the way. Everything can feel tangled, especially when fear, confusion or pressure take over. Anne explains why a timeline is more than a list of dates. It becomes the anchor for the whole situation. It helps you...
27 Jul 2026
Now That You're Ready
In this episode of The Advocate You Didn’t Know You Could Be, Anne King moves from the first pause into the next stage of advocacy: understanding the process. Once the initial panic begins to settle, the situation can start to feel less impossible. Anne explains that most claims, complaints, disputes or unexpected problems follow a simple pattern underneath the fear and confusion. You do not need to understand legal jargon or complicated systems. You need a clear way to break the situation do...
20 Jul 2026
Before You Do Anything Else
In this episode of The Advocate You Didn’t Know You Could Be, Anne focuses on the first thing to do when a worrying letter, email, claim, notice or demand lands in your life: stop. The instinct is often to react straight away. You might want to call, pay, argue, apologise, send a long email or make the problem disappear as quickly as possible. But acting too fast can make things harder. Anne explains why the space between panic and action matters. Before you respond, the priority is to breath...
13 Jul 2026
The Moment Everything Changed
In the first episode of The Advocate You Didn’t Know You Could Be, Anne King introduces the heart of the book and the reason it was written: to help ordinary people find clarity when life suddenly becomes overwhelming. Anne begins by explaining that advocacy is not about being legally trained, knowing complicated language or becoming a professional. It is about learning how to stay calm, gather information, build a timeline, spot contradictions, ask the right questions and find your voice whe...
8 Jul 2026
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I'm Anne King, and after years of navigating everything from medical disputes, to SEN battles, to legal challenges, I've learned something important: you are stronger than you think. This podcast is where real stories meet real tools. Whether you're dealing with a PCN, a school issue, a health dispute, or one of life's unexpected curveballs, you'll find clarity, confidence, and a voice you can lean on. Each episode is based on my book, The Advocate You Didn't Know You Could Be, and together, ...
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