Be Our Guest

Share your voices on our podcast

2025 Full Stop podcast themes

These are the topics that our listeners have requested we cover on the Full Stop podcast, if you’d like to be our guest, get in touch via the form below.

  • Childless after pregnancy loss and isolation

  • Navigating friendship including friends becoming grandparents

  • Climate crisis and childlessness

  • Childless and being an aunt, uncle or godparent

  • Childless and couples

  • Othering

Revisiting

  • LGBTQIA

  • People of colour

  • Loneliness

  • Ageing

  • Menopause

The guest experience

    • Your form goes to Sarah who looks after our bookings.

    • If we have a theme in mind, we’ll be in touch to talk about it. 

    • You may be sharing a slot with others and we’ll tell you who they are. Most of our guests become friends if they’ve not met before!

    • If it’s not a topic we’re covering right now for any reason, we will keep your details on our planning board. Promise, we don't just say that!  

    • Our podcast is recorded on Riverside (here’s our blog post on how it works). We recommend Chrome or the Riverside app to join us.

    • There will be an audience from our online community who access our podcast via chat to ask questions.

    • We record our episodes at 10am BST and require at least one hour of your time. If you are on a timezone outside of Australia or the UK, we’ll do our very best to accommodate this. We have run podcasts at 3pm GMT to suit guests in the USA for example. If this isn’t possible we will try to make as many of us available.

    • If you need to reschedule please allow as much notice as you can and be aware that this may push your guest slot to a later date in the year so we can keep to our programme.

    • We’ll have a few minutes to warm up before we hit record.

    • Do email us with any article or links that you’d like us to refer to and discuss. 

    • We welcome competitions such as book giveaways and we are flexible on how these are run as long as they are legally compliant.

    • No payment is made to guests participating on our podcast. The Full Stop podcast and all content is owned by directors of the The Full Stop Childless Community (CIC) and is not-for-profit. 

    • Before recording starts we generally have a quick check in and make sure everyone is OK. This is a bit of a warm up and it’s not recorded so you can get to know us a bit better. During this time please ensure that the location is free of background noise or distractions as much as possible.

    • Please note, we record the sessions with video on, so that we can see each other, as it makes it easier to ‘read’ people. If the video feed does feel right for you, you are welcome to turn the camera off. 

    • We like to have a relaxed and welcoming feel to the recordings, which is why you’re welcome to discuss your back story and express yourself how you see fit. 

    • You can ask us to edit out anything up to a week after the recording but once the episode is published, we cannot guarantee that we can replace the audio. Please contact Michael about this.

    • We will send you a follow up document so you the estimate date of release when we email our newsletter subscribers so you have everything in one easy place.

    • Please do share that you’ve appeared on the podcast, along with links on your social media accounts. You can tag us on Instagram, Facebook and connect to our page on LinkedIn. Here’s our bio site for all our socials.

    • You can find the episode on our website which connects to Stitcher, Spotify and Apple. Our Podbean distribution goes to Google Play and TuneIn.

    • By submitting this form you consent to the Full Stop podcast trading as The Full Stop Childless Community (CIC) using photographs, or electronic media images associated with you/your business, in promotional literature/social media/website.

    • We also reserve the right to transcribe the episode and use quotes for social media and in print or ebook form. 

    • We may use your image and video in our video content on our social media, if you do not consent to that, please tick the box below.

    • Your data is 100% safe with us, it’s never passed to anyone outside the Full Stop podcast and are UK GDPR compliant.

 

Podcast benefits

The ingredients of a Full Stop podcast

  • You will already listen to us or be familiar with our episodes.

  • You do not need to be famous, have a good voice or massive amounts of tech.

  • Our audience welcome honest conversation that includes the highs and lows.

  • We expect our guests to share their podcast episode on their social media and/or newsletter if they have these resources or channels. Promoting your interview on your social media platforms is a great way to appreciate our time together and strengthens our collaborative relationship.

  • Originality, a theme we’ve not yet covered or one that you think we need to return to. Tell us!

  • A story. We are happy to be part of a promotion but this must be balanced by a story or information to help our listeners.

  • Diversity and inclusivity. We welcome all who are childless not be choice for any reason into our space.

  • Authenticity and passion, with a dollop of compassion. There is no competition in our space, we want you to succeed.

10 benefits that we offer to you

  1. A guest slot on a respected, well-established podcast with childless not by choice, empathetic hosts.

  2. A chance to build credibility and connect with others sharing a different side of your story through your unique voice.

  3. A podcast link that you can share with others to gain more podcast or speaking slots.

  4. A platform to share what’s important to you and why it’s of interest to our listeners.

  5. You tap into our social media presence; we can create Full Stop branded assets for your popular platforms and provide a PNG of the podcast cover too.

  6. A spot in our far-reaching, well engaged (average 70% click rate) newsletter.

  7. Get backlinks from our website and listening channels including Apple and Spotify which aids SEO (search engine optimisation).

  8. Create long-form content with us that can be adapted to short-form.

  9. Record attention-grabbing content through digging deep into a topic to share anecdotes, and experiences creating short-form sharable content.

  10. Your work is in our library forever. It is shared for awareness days and inside our online community, and via the Podcast Rewind, a feature in our newsletter and social media that brings attention to our past episodes.

Diversity, and inclusion

We are mindful of diversity and the empowered platform that our podcast can bring to spaces in our community such as single, chronic illness, ageing, LGBTQIA+, faith and colour. We never close down a conversation by speaking on behalf of others. We welcome you to our space.

We do not promote religious or political themes, anti-vaccine or oppression. We are a childless podcast, so trying to conceive or alternative ways to conceive are inappropriate.

If that all sounds okay, please complete the contact form below. We look forward to hearing from you.