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Northern Quarter Voices

Northern Quarter Voices

著者： Andy Coley & Simran Whitham
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Northern Quarter Voices explores the people, ideas and stories that inspire meaningful change. Hosted by Andy Coley and Simran Whitham, each episode features candid conversations with amazing people, some of which have been TEDxNorthernQuarter speakers, Manchester creatives or local changemakers.

Together, they unpack the personal experiences, difficult questions and hard-won lessons behind the most interesting people to have lived in, spoken at or been a part of the Northern Quarter in Manchester.


With topics including leadership, identity and creativity to technology, community and the future of how we live and work, we make big ideas human, practical and relevant. For curious minds, thoughtful leaders and anyone who believes that one idea - or one conversation - can make a difference.

This podcast is independently produced in Manchester and not affiliated with any specific group.

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  • Stop Waiting to Feel Ready | Elliot Kay | Watch Me Go!

    Stop Waiting to Feel Ready | Elliot Kay | Watch Me Go!
    2026/11/04
    What if confidence isn't something you need before you act?What if confidence is something you build because you acted?Elliot Kay has spent almost two decades helping people communicate, speak and step onto stages.He's an international keynote speaker, author, speaker coach and the Co-Founder and CEO of The Speaker Awards & Summit.But his own journey into professional speaking started with a wonderfully simple thought.He was sitting in an audience of around 5,000 people, watching somebody speak on stage, when something in his head said:"I can do that."So he decided to find out.In this episode of Northern Quarter Voices, Elliot joins Andy Coley for a conversation about speaking, confidence, authenticity, community, ambition - and why sometimes the only way to discover what you're capable of is to start moving.They explore the difference between being a great speaker and simply performing the role of one.Elliot believes speaking can absolutely be entertaining. Humour, storytelling, energy, body language and the way we use our voice all help hold an audience.But problems begin when somebody steps onto a stage and suddenly becomes a completely different version of themselves.The best style, Elliot argues, is the one that is authentically yours.The conversation also traces Elliot's own evolution.Before speaking there was dancing. At 21, he decided he wanted to become a professional dancer and pursued it until injury changed the direction of his life.Eventually he found speaking - and something clicked.Years later, after thousands of hours on stages, Elliot found himself facing a very different challenge.Not simply delivering another polished keynote.But stripping an idea back to what actually mattered.For years, "Watch Me" had been an act of defiance.Tell Elliot he couldn't do something and the response was:Watch me.But eventually he noticed something uncomfortable.If your motivation is proving somebody else wrong, they're still influencing what you do.So "Watch Me" changed.It became less about:"Let me prove you wrong."And more about:"Let me find out."That shift sits at the heart of this conversation.Elliot argues that we often get confidence backwards.We wait until we feel ready.We wait for certainty.We wait until we believe we're the sort of person who can do the thing.But action creates evidence.Evidence builds confidence.And confidence begins changing the story we tell ourselves about who we are.Sometimes you don't need permission.You don't need a guarantee of success.You just need to go.Andy and Elliot also explore what it takes to build something bigger than yourself through The Speaker Awards & Summit.What began as an idea to recognise and support the professional speaking industry has grown into an increasingly international platform.Elliot talks about purpose-driven growth, collaboration, knowing when something needs to become bigger than its founder and why he is prepared to step aside from a title if bringing somebody else in would help the organisation reach its potential.And underneath that growth is something Elliot believes every real community depends on:Trust.Not overpromising.Not misleading people.Doing what you said you would do.And creating things because they genuinely serve the people around you.The conversation also gives us an unusual perspective on speaker coaching.Elliot describes the moment he loves most: when somebody who doesn't consider themselves a professional speaker suddenly has the breakthrough where everything clicks.The story makes sense.The message becomes clear.And they realise:"I've got this."Elliot also reflects on Manchester, the community surrounding the event that brought him to the city, his ambitions for the future and why he increasingly wants the things he builds to matter beyond his own involvement in them.And, as ever, the Red Journal ends the conversation with an unexpected question:If Elliot could borrow one quality from somebody else, what would it be?His answer?The ability to disrupt and innovate at enormous scale.But perhaps the more important revelation is contained in the postscript to the question:What if the quality you admire is already somewhere inside you?Elliot later explored the central idea behind this conversation in his talk, Action Before Identity, asking what becomes possible when we stop waiting to feel confident and start creating the evidence that confidence can grow from.Watch Elliot's talk: youtu.be/Eo16cTRgBCgNorthern Quarter Voices is a Manchester-born podcast about people, stories, ideas and the conversations that stay with us long after the microphones are switched off.Hosted by Andy Coley.Recorded by THE CLUB MCR in Manchester.Connect with Elliot:Website: elliotkay.com/ and elliotkay.me LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/elliot-kay/Instagram: @iamelliotkayFind out more about The Speaker Awards & Summit: thespeakersawards.com/Send us Fan Mail
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    41 分
  • Find Your Way Back to Yourself | Aimie Skillen

    Find Your Way Back to Yourself | Aimie Skillen
    2026/10/29
    What happens when your life looks good from the outside… but something inside still feels wrong?Aimie Skillen built a brand around helping other people feel good.Then she reached a point where she didn’t.Aimie is the founder of Feel Good Club, the Manchester-born community and lifestyle brand built around a beautifully simple mission: make one person feel good.What began with Instagram posts and T-shirts grew into events, podcasts, books, billboards, brand activations and a much-loved Manchester coffee shop.But behind the community, Aimie was going through one of the hardest periods of her own life.In this episode of Northern Quarter Talks, Aimie joins Andy Coley and Simran Whitham for an open conversation about identity, community, loneliness and finding your way back to yourself.Aimie talks about navigating divorce, closing the Feel Good Club coffee shop and trying to lead a team while simultaneously realising she had lost sight of who she was.Eventually, she stepped away.For around eight months, Aimie paused the events and the parts of Feel Good Club that required her to physically show up.She needed to fill her own cup before she could keep pouring into everybody else's.And then, during a particularly difficult period, she realised something was still missing.Community.Aimie posted online that she was going for a walk in Monton and asked if anybody wanted to join her.Two people came.Initially, she wondered whether it had failed.Instead, those two people reminded her what Feel Good Club had always really been about.Connection.Months later, when Aimie brought Feel Good Club events back, the first event sold out within 24 hours.For her, it demonstrated the difference between building an audience and building a community.An audience can watch, like and disappear.A community shows up for you too.The conversation explores the loneliness Aimie sees repeatedly through her work and why, despite being more connected digitally than ever before, many people are struggling to find genuine friendship and places where they can simply turn up as themselves.Aimie's answer isn't relentless positivity.Quite the opposite.Feel Good Club is also permission not to feel good.Some days you have 100% to give.Some days you have 10%.Give the 10%.Aimie also reflects on the pressure of becoming "Miss Feelgood" while her own life was changing, why social media rarely shows the whole story and the freedom she found in realising that most people aren't scrutinising us nearly as closely as we imagine.Her message is simple:Turn up as you are.Because when you do, the right people have the chance to connect with the real you.Aimie also talks about confronting a lifelong fear of public speaking and the belief that her Salford accent might hold her back.Instead of trying to become somebody else, she learned that the most powerful thing she could do was simply turn up as herself.Her central message is one that reaches far beyond the stage:Follow what makes you feel good through your people, your places and your things.It's okay to lose yourself.Just remember that you can always find your way back.Aimie also takes us behind the scenes of preparing for her recent TEDxNorthernQuarter 2026 talk, confronting a lifelong fear of public speaking and the belief that her Salford accent might hold her back.Instead, that very voice became one of the reasons why she ended up on the red dot.And as the final speaker of TEDxNorthernQuarter 2026, Aimie's talk brought her journey full circle.Its title: Find your way back to you through people, places & thingsIts message: Follow what makes you feel good through your people, your places and your things. Watch it now on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45KzeOYKYKoIt's okay to lose yourself.Just remember that you can always find your way back.And of course her Feel Good Club journey and life continues to evolve, this episode was recorded at the end of August 2026 and things have continued to move on since then in life, her relationships and the challenges that living in the era of social media bring.Northern Quarter Talks is a podcast about people, stories, ideas and the conversations that stay with us long after the microphones are switched off.This episode is hosted by Andy Coley and Simran Whitham.Recorded by THE CLUB MCR in Manchester.TEDxNorthernQuarter 2026 took place at Stoller Hall, Manchester on 11 September 2026, bringing together 16 speakers to share ideas worth spreading.Find out more about TEDxNorthernQuarter:Website: https://www.tedxnorthernquarter.com/Podcast: https://podcast.tedxnorthernquarter.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tedxnorthernquarter/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tedxnorthernquarter/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tedxnorthernquarterFollow Aimie:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/feelgoodaimie/TEDx Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45KzeOYKYKoContent note: This episode includes discussion of divorce, loneliness and periods of poor mental ...
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    29 分
  • Food Makes Us Human Again | Daniel Bui

    Food Makes Us Human Again | Daniel Bui
    2026/10/20
    What if one of the simplest answers to loneliness was already sitting in our kitchens?A table. A meal. And an invitation.Daniel Bui is a chef, food creator and storyteller known online as Dumpedlingss. But underneath the recipes, food science and beautifully produced videos is something much more important to him.People.In this episode of TEDx and Talks, Daniel joins Andy Coley and Simran Whitham to explore why food has an extraordinary ability to bring us together.Daniel grew up around his family's Vietnamese restaurant before following a very different career path into mathematics and becoming an actuary.Food, however, never went away.While studying, he worked in restaurants and behind bars, learning to cook, serve and host. Eventually he realised that what fascinated him wasn't simply making good food.It was feeding people.Daniel describes the dinner table as a place where the pressure of everyday life begins to disappear.Job titles matter less.People soften.Conversations become more vulnerable.And, in Daniel's words, people can "become human again."That idea sits at the centre of his TEDxNorthernQuarter talk.In a society where loneliness and disconnection are increasingly familiar experiences, Daniel believes connection often has to begin with us.Reach out.Send the message.Invite somebody over.Cook something.What starts with a message can end with a meal.The conversation also explores why family recipes matter so much.Daniel talks about his mother's cooking and why sharing a treasured family recipe means more than simply passing on instructions. You're preserving a memory, a culture and part of the person who taught it to you.Andy shares the handwritten recipe cards he still has from his grandmother, while Simran talks about recipes passed through generations of his own family.For Daniel, food is a language.Travelling through countries including Syria, Lebanon, Ethiopia and Indonesia has allowed him to experience cultures through what people cook, how they season it and - perhaps most importantly — the extraordinary generosity of strangers prepared to invite somebody into their home and feed them.They also explore the science behind Daniel's cooking.Rather than simply following instructions, Daniel wants to know why a recipe works: what temperature is doing to an ingredient, how gluten behaves, why a technique produces a particular texture and what chemical reactions are happening along the way.Faith is another important part of Daniel's life and creative work.He talks openly about Christianity, why Scripture has become a source of inspiration for his cooking and how food has always played an important role in faith, hospitality and bringing people together.For Daniel, food can represent every love language.Cooking can be an act of service.Giving someone food can be a gift.Eating together creates quality time.And sometimes the meal itself communicates something that words cannot.Daniel also reveals what he would choose for his final meal — although even then, his answer becomes less about what he would eat and more about who would be sitting beside him.Outside the kitchen, Daniel's appetite for challenge continues.A former powerlifter and bodybuilder, he has thrown himself into running, completing seven marathons in a year and setting himself deliberately ambitious goals.Finally, Daniel takes us behind the scenes of preparing to become the opening speaker at TEDxNorthernQuarter 2026 — moving outside his comfort zone, learning a completely new style of public speaking and refining one big idea into 15 minutes on the red dot.Because ultimately, Daniel says, it isn't really about the food.It's about the people you get to have around the table.TEDx and Talks is the official podcast of TEDxNorthernQuarter, taking you beyond the red dot to discover more about the people, stories and ideas behind the talks.This episode is hosted by Andy Coley and Simran Whitham.Recorded by THE CLUB MCR in Manchester.TEDxNorthernQuarter 2026 took place at Stoller Hall, Manchester on 11 September 2026, bringing together 16 speakers to share ideas worth spreading.Watch Daniel's talk: https://youtu.be/NRkHdspgnI8Find out more about TEDxNorthernQuarterWebsite: https://www.tedxnorthernquarter.com/Podcast: https://podcast.tedxnorthernquarter.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tedxnorthernquarter/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tedxnorthernquarter/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tedxnorthernquarterFollow Daniel BuiInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/dumpedlingss/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dumpedlingDaniel's writing and recipes: https://dumpedlingss.substack.com/TEDxNorthernQuarter is an independently organised event under license granted by TED.Send us Fan Mail
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    44 分
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