Phone call with a friend type podcast for friendly advice and comfort. This one focusing on positive self talk.

Hello from you internet friend Mug Mumbles.  Today I am mumbling about hobbies. Thinking about find your interests and finding your people through them. How this can improve your confidence and mental wellbeing. Thinking about has people we can start to put hobbies last and they should really be first as they are what make us happy.  All my love Mug Mumbles

Hello I am Nicole the host of Mug Mumbles. I refreshed my Podcast recently with a new name and theme. I want this podcast to make the listeners to feel like they have an online friend and some digital company when they are feeling lone or struggling. I want to be a friendly voice you can listen too while doing other task and stop you feeling like you are doing them alone.  This 9 minute podcast is updating you on the new name and where I have been and why i took a break from podcasting.  Love Mug Mumbles x

So here are my 10 tips on how to looking after your mental health in a 9-5 or shift job.

When I was younger I use to say I wanted my art work in a gallery one day ! I wanted to draw for Disney and design new characters for film. Then I moved to wanting to editing videos and photos too. I kept being told there was no money in that world unless you make it and that’s really hard to make it. I was scared to share my dreams with the world when I got to age where people wanted a really answer to the question what you want to do with your future. So I went for a more realistic goal how I haven’t sketched in Over a year. My recent live podcast was the first video I’ve edited in years. I’ve been doing high quality photos but I’ve feel I just minimised my goals and ambitions for the real world of adulthood and that is really hard.

I have been thinking lately about the fact the no two life’s are comparable. We are all going through our lives at different paces and we are all at a different stage. I feel in your 20s it is so confusing as some of your friends are having babies , getting homes and getting engaged or others are focused on serious careers and growing. others are enjoy life and being young and single travelling , drinking and partying not that we have been allowed too. It hard to know where you should be at. There are a few different topics of i wanted to cover in this podcast in relation to comparing live. Social media , mental health , life events etc.

I know for many coming out of lockdown or a least the hope of coming out slowly is the news we have all been waiting for. Sadly this won't be the chase for all of us. Especially us introverts. I have to be honest although I am definitely looking forward to coming out of this year long lockdown. To be able to see my friends and socialise again. I cannot lie I'm a little scared and going to miss a few things,I have gotten use to in this time. I wanted to do a podcast on what i am going to miss about lockdown and how i am going to prepare myself for some more normality returning and destroying my new normal. As i know i am not going to be the only one that has gotten use to the lockdown life.  Youtube video link: https://youtu.be/jGM071GxF5Q

I have been thinking a lot lately that there are things that we have to experience in our lives that aren’t always pleasant but it grows us or teaches our boundaries and limits. I have been thinking about the song from beauty and the beast be our guest. Especially the lyric put our service to the test. It got me thinking things come into our life to test us and into our minds. These things should only be guests in our lives and minds, they shouldn’t live with us rent free. Only briefly chip our mugs. Reach out to me on Instagram @teainachippedmug or twitter @chippedmugtea. Let me know if you would like to have a chat on stereo @chippedmugtea.

In the last few years I have really changed in my level of confidence. If you told me in school that i would be following my dreams of designing my own podcast and sharing out my fashion ideas on instagram I would have laughed awkwardly and walked away. I have definitely grown in confidence. It taken a lot for me to grow my confidence and it didn’t happen over night it took some time. It also took some unpredicted life events that pushed me into being more confident. I thought I would be worth sharing some of the things that have supported me in growing my confidence and learning to Express myself. A few weeks ago was child mental health awareness week and the theme was express yourself. That got me thinking about how I have learnt to express myself. I feel as i have gotten older i have just started to feel that i have my own voice. I haven’t completely changed I definitely still feel very shy in large groups of people and also feel the power in some relationships and get shy. I would still call myself a shy girl at heart.

So I am welcoming you back to other podcast. The first of 2021. Going into 2021 I have been thinking about friendships. Something i have learnt in my 23 years on planet earth is that there are a lot of different types of friendships. When I was little I would dream about having that best friend I could do anything with and I did have this but not just in one person. I am someone that really values my friends. I will treat them like family as i am a only child maybe it comes from that. But I have definitely learnt there are all different kinds of friendships out there. Some friendships can chip your chip and other friends can pour you the postivitea you needed.