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MIND CAKE The newsletter that's slightly more helpful than doing nothing 🍰 This week: How An Ewok Saved My Life Five years ago a very calm, very kind consultant sat across from me in a Glasgow hospital and told me I had six months to live. Last week I sat across from him with a cup of tea and talked about it. I wasn't sure how I'd feel recording this one. Turns out — surprisingly okay. Mostly because Omar Hilmi is one of the most quietly remarkable people I've ever met. And partly because we...

MIND CAKE The newsletter that's slightly more helpful than doing nothing 👇Click your preferred logo below to open Mind Cake instantly 👇 Not using Apple or Spotify? Click here for all other apps 🍰 This Week: Stash part two ... and it gets proper weird. “ The phone can hypnotise you... it's a sideshow of everything." — Prince Stash de Rola Hello, my fellow cakers. Wipe the crumbs from your chin for heaven's sake. It's time for another slice. And what's in the oven this week I hear you cry ......

MIND CAKE The newsletter that's slightly more helpful than doing nothing 👇Click your preferred logo below to open Mind Cake instantly 👇 Not using Apple or Spotify? Click here for all other apps 🍰 This Week: The Prince who lived with Paul McCartney “ Paul McCartney rang up and said I'm sending a car and a driver to pick you up. If they want to arrest you, they'll have to take me as well." — Prince Stash de Rola This one's a genuine departure for us. Prince Stash de Rola - friend of the Rolling...

MIND CAKE The newsletter that's slightly more helpful than doing nothing 👇Click your preferred logo below to open Mind Cake instantly 👇 Not using Apple or Spotify? Click here for all other apps 🍰 This Week: What's your battery at today? “ The hardest thing's getting through the door." — Martin Melly Every single man who walks through the doors of Men Matter Scotland in Drumchapel has to do one thing first. They don’t say "I'm fine." They have to write down a number. A genuine check-in of...

MIND CAKE Death or Dinner☠️: Tom Radfo... Jun 23 · Mind Cake: Not Self-Help... 38:20 The newsletter that's slightly more helpful than doing nothing 🍰 This week: The Mac. The Moustache. The Man. I went to Maryhill. I knocked on a door. And Michael Redmond, Father Stone from Father Ted, cult comedy legend, TikTok alien theorist appeared, put the kettle on, and told me things I genuinely wasn't expecting. This is one of those episodes I came out of thinking: that was something special. -Lee &...

MIND CAKE · Mind Cake: Not Self-Help... The newsletter that's slightly more helpful than doing nothing 🍰 This week: The Oven Is Only So Big We've been thinking about cake a lot lately. More than usual, which is saying something. Not the eating kind. The economic kind. Because this week's guest made us see the world completely differently in the space of half an hour, and she did it using a baking analogy. The economy, she said, is a bit like a cake. Everyone keeps saying we need to grow it...

MIND CAKE Death or Dinner☠️: Tom Radfo... Jun 23 · Mind Cake: Not Self-Help... 38:20 The newsletter that's slightly more helpful than doing nothing 🍰 New Episode: Death or Dinner Tom Radford left a career in corporate communications, got a campervan, and started eating things he found on Wandsworth Common. He filmed it. People watched. And somewhere between a morel mushroom and a stinging nettle, something clicked. This episode started because Tom mentioned in a social media post that most of...

MIND CAKE Mind Cake: The Trailer Nov 14 · Mind Cake: Not Self-Help... 0:59 The newsletter that's slightly more helpful than doing nothing 🍰 Next week: The Crack Is A Repair A few years ago, a Philadelphia Phillies fan made a social media post. He asked 45,000 fellow fans to do something that went against every instinct they had ... to give a standing ovation to a player they'd been booing for months. What happened next became a Netflix documentary. What happened before it - a breakdown, a...

MIND CAKE PODCAST 12th MAY 2026 MIND CAKE The Messy Truth About Happiness 🍰 Top Slice What we’ll learn this week: That happiness isn’t something you “arrive at”… it’s the whole messy buffet of life 🍗 That most of us aren’t broken — we’ve just picked up some weird beliefs along the way That therapy isn’t about fixing you… it’s about understanding how you got here That grief, anxiety, joy and chaos all belong at the same table “ Happiness isn’t just the good bits… it’s all of it." — Jo, The...

MIND CAKE PODCAST 13th JANUARY 2026 MIND CAKE What the Heck Is Neurofeedback? 🍰 Top Slice What we’ll learn this week: That neurofeedback isn’t talking therapy, meditation, or mind control… but your brain watching itself in real time and quietly sorting its life out. That sticking sensors on your head can look alarming, but feels surprisingly calm, focused and oddly satisfying. That ADHD, anxiety, depression, trauma and even migraines might have more to do with brain regulation than willpower....