Our podcast channel Lifting The Lid is celebrating its 6-month anniversary this week. Since its launch on 30th September last year the channel has released 17 episodes, interviewed 12 guests and had over 3500 views!
Lifting The Lid is hosted by Senior Funeral Director, Andy Eeley, alongside his co-host Joe Clarke-Ferridge who is G Seller’s Head of Operations & Senior Funeral Director, and it aims to dispel myths and tackle the taboo that surrounds the funeral profession.
Episodes are released fortnightly on a Friday with the exception of additional episodes designed to support and raise awareness of national campaigns. For example, in February the channel interviewed Katherine & Simon, parents of the inspirational Isla Tansey, for International Childhood Cancer Day.
Isla was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2017 and she began a campaign to decorate 'Isla Stones’ which she gave to her friends and family to hide. Isla lost her battle to childhood cancer DIPG in 2018 and her legacy in the form of ‘Isla Stones’ made their way all over the world. The Islastones Foundation is now a registered charity raising money for research into Childhood Cancer, as well as awarding grants to affected families. The podcast episode served to raise awareness of childhood cancers, the Islastone campaign and provide support to any other families experiencing the loss of a child.
This episode has received some phenomenal feedback from the local community and other topics featured on the channel include ‘Can you plan your own funeral?’, ‘How to help young people cope with grief,’ and ‘Baby loss.’
All episodes released previously can still be accessed and listened or watched in any order.
The episodes can be watched on YouTube or the G Seller website: www.gseller.co.uk and listened to on Spotify or Apple podcasts.
For more information please visit www.instagram.com/liftingthelidpodcast and email any questions for discussion to liftingthelid@gseller.co.uk.