Launching today on all major podcast platforms, Blabla Time is an innovative podcast hosted by Dr Sandra Gaundenzi, Senior Lecturer in the University of Westminster’s School of Media and Communication.
The podcast is made to address the little and big challenges of student life. It invites students to listen to their internal 'blabla' and, hopefully, learn from it.
Mixing practical advice, coaching exercises, and visualisations tailor-made to students, it offers a moment of break and self-discovery that is soothing and deeply transformative.
The originality of this podcast is not only in its self-coaching content, but also in its format: made to be used as a toolbox, the idea is to select the topic one needs to address, take 15 to 20 minutes of time, and face it in a positive and self-caring way. It is about allowing students to relax, step out of their fears, find alternative routes and eventually, in the long term, have better chances to thrive in their lives.
The idea for Blabla Time started during the lockdown, when Dr Gaudenzi experimented with alternative ways to support her students, and found that being led by a voice into coaching exercises that create a space for self-growth was very effective. Since then, she has extensively tested the concept with students, asked about their main topics of concern and worked with students to edit and launch the podcast itself.
The first two episodes, The System of Me and The System of Us, are to be launched on Friday 27 January 2023. They introduce two techniques to visualise and enter into dialogue with the self, which is a first step into self-coaching.
The next three episodes, The Fear of Not Being Good Enough, The Fear of the White Page, and Dealing with Mild Anxieties will be released on Friday 3 February for students to pick and choose depending on their needs.
The podcast is free and welcomes students’ feedback and topic suggestions in order to grow into a meaningful collaborative project.
Blabla Time is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music and Instagram.
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