Posts by Just Interesting People
JIP 127: Thomas Constant
Thomas Constant: is eating insects the future of food? Thomas has the ambition to revolutionize the pet food industry by offering an alternative, sustainable solution to feed your pets: home grown bugs! Thomas is the founder of The Bug Factory. They offer a kit which allows you to create your self-sustainable source of protein for…
Read MoreJIP 126: Jordan Stanley
Jordan Stanley: his experience with first stage psychosis Content warning – this episode discusses suicidal feelings If the last couple of years taught us something, it’s that mental health affects all of us. In this episode, Jordan opens up about the mental health challenges he has been facing recently. A few years ago, Jordan started to…
Read MoreJIP 125: Gina Knight
Gina Knight: her life with alopecia Gina Atinuke Knight is a British entrepreneur, model, content creator and alopecia advocate. After years of working in the beauty & hair industry, she discovered she had a form of alopecia, CCCA (Central Centrifugal Cicatricial Alopecia). But before talking about that in detail, Gina starts by sharing about her…
Read MoreJIP 124: Eko Brewery
Eko Brewery: meet the founders Anthony & Helena Adedipe Anthony & Helena are the founders of Eko Brewery, a brewery based in England creating African-inspired craft beers. Anthony & Helena both share where their respective interests for beers come from, and how a hobby for crafty beers eventually evolved into a passion and slowly became…
Read MoreJIP 123: Eddie Marti Kring
Eddie Marti Kring: what LGBTQIA+ advocacy really means Eddie is dedicating his life as an activist to defend the people’s rights. To close this month of June & Pride month, we are very happy to have Eddie on the show to talk in detail about his personal experiences as a gay man and the challenges…
Read MoreJIP 122: Special, behind the scenes of the show
Special: behind the scenes of the show In today’s episode, Rosie & Jeremie talk about the behind the scenes of the Just Interesting People podcast. We talk about why we started a podcast in the first place, the technical side of things, how we find guests, promoting the podcast on social media, editing and then…
Read MoreJIP 121: Eleanor Watkins
Eleanor Watkins: becoming chef In today’s episode, we welcome our sister-in-law Eleanor. Eleanor is a chef based in Surrey (England) near London, founder of Educated Cooking. Eleanor is from Louisville, Kentucky in the United States. She starts by sharing with us about her upbringing: growing up in a privileged family, taking up horse riding &…
Read MoreJIP 120: Matthew Koman
Matthew Koman: finding balance through sports & helping others Matt is a professional athlete who plays for the USA Beach Handball Team and is also a holistic coach. Matt’s life has always been very “sport-centric”, growing up with athlete parents and playing baseball, basketball & (American) football himself. Matt is a very talented athlete, with…
Read MoreJIP 119: Nasser aka Mister Fuji
Nasser aka Mister Fuji: the Pokemon collector Nasser is a famous collector in the Pokemon world, also known as Mister Fuji. Like many kids on the planet, Nasser fell in love with Pokemon as a child in 1999 when the 1st game was released on the Game Boy. On top of playing the video game,…
Read MoreJIP 118: Sam Lister
Sam Lister: can you be a successful entrepreneur at 22 years old Back in 2019, in a self-development program, Jeremie met Sam who was 19 years-old at the time. When talking about what he wanted to achieve in life, he said “I’d like to create my own University”! Not the answer you expect from a…
Read More