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FIRST EPISODES IN 2027
Life questions, not diagnosis summaries.
Good-ish. is a podcast about the life around an invisible chronic illness. The condition gives the context. The human problem is the story.
Recording through 2026 · first episodes early 2027
GOOD
-ISH.
an ISHLY podcast
WHY ANOTHER ONE
Most health podcasts stop exactly where the problem starts.
They explain the condition, interview the specialist, and end. Which is useful once, and then you are alone with the rest of it — the job, the money, the friend who says you were fine last week, the plans you keep cancelling, the person you used to be.
the guests
Someone living it, and someone qualified
In the same conversation, not in separate episodes. Lived experience without expertise turns into anecdote. Expertise without lived experience turns into a leaflet.
the questions
Whatever you cannot get answered
Episodes get built from what people actually write in. If the thing you are stuck on is not on the list below, that is a reason to send it, not a reason to stay quiet.
the format
Built around capacity, including ours
Recorded in short sessions, at times that suit the guest, camera optional. Nobody has to be upright and articulate for two hours to take part.
THE CONVERSATIONS WE WANT TO HAVE
Nothing is recorded yet. These are the questions.
The running order is not fixed. It gets decided by what people send in, which is a polite way of saying your question can become episode one.
WHAT IT WILL NEVER BE
No cures. No warriors. No yoga suggestions.
- No miracle protocols, no supplement that fixed it for somebody’s cousin, no diet with a book deal attached.
- No inspiration. Nobody on this show will be described as brave for having a body.
- No mindset lectures. Optimism is not a treatment and we will not pretend otherwise.
- No talking over the person living it, which is the failure mode of every expert panel ever assembled.
BE ON THE SHOW
Two kinds of guest, and we need both.
No form, no account, no application portal. Send an email. Both buttons below open one with the questions already in it, so you only have to answer them.
if you live with it
You, and whatever you are stuck on.
You do not need a diagnosis, a platform or anything interesting to say. Tell us three things:
- What you live with, in as much or as little detail as you like
- The question you cannot get a straight answer to
- Whether you would want to be on an episode, or would rather just send the question
if you work in this
Clinicians, therapists, physios, researchers.
Anyone whose work touches invisible chronic illness. No media training required and no CV needed. Tell us three things:
- What you do, in one line
- The thing your patients or clients keep asking that you wish had a better answer
- Anything of yours we can read, watch or listen to
Everything goes to [email protected] and lands with Stephanie. Replies take as long as they take — some days are more functioning-ish than others, which you of all people will understand. No is a perfectly good answer later, and nothing is recorded without you seeing the questions first.
