A celebration of the Aspiring Psychologist Podcast - Thank you

Dr Marianne Trent (: 00:00

Coming up in today's episode, we are celebrating the 100th

episode of the Aspiring Psychologist Podcast. We are looking at some of my

favourite memories as well as some of the things that didn't run quite so

smoothly as well as thinking about the future of the podcast. Thank you so much

for being a loyal listener. Please do tell your friends about us and I hope you

enjoy this episode.

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Hi. Welcome along to the Aspiring Psychologist Podcast. I

am Dr. Marianne Trent and I'm a qualified clinical psychologist. You join me on

what is a very monumental episode. This is episode 100, and I was just doing a

few calculations that I realised that when this episode is going live, which

th of November,: 2023

first episodes and they landed on Christmas Eve 2021.

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So we've packed quite a lot in over the last 100 episodes

and I just wanted to say a big thank you. I wanted to use today to think with

you about the future of the podcast, to think with you about some of my

highlights, to think with you about some of the things that are coming up, but

also of course to weave in some useful and interesting nuggets for your own

reflection, for your own growth. So it has felt like so long since it's just

been a solo episode, but today is exactly what that is. And of course I think

that's happened because over the summer I had loads of great guests I wanted to

speak to, but recording with them is quite tricky when I've got a house full of

noisy children. So I scheduled all of those in for September and October, which

means that I've had loads of great guests for you, but I haven't seen your

one-to-one for a while other than the Galway episode.

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But that didn't really count because that was lots of fun

and games and people that I met along the way as well. So given that today is

the 6th of November, if you are listening to this on the day that it's

released. Then tomorrow, Tuesday, the 7th of November is the third and final

compassionate q and a for the application season. So of course in psychology,

we have those two quite distinct seasons. We've got the application season and

the interview season, and I do do the FREE Q and As to support both of those.

And then of course, the other season is he's out to fallow over the summer

where you rest and recharge and I try to leave you to your own devices then

apart from obviously listening to the podcast. So yeah, you can watch live, but

that will also be available as a replay on Tuesday the seventh, from Tuesday

the seventh.

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You can watch it on replay by going to my YouTube, Dr.

Marianne Trent. Please do subscribe whilst you're there, like a few pieces of

content, maybe check me in a few comments and share any useful content with

your friends toot. That would be marvellous. But you can also join me live on

the night. You can join me from LinkedIn. You can join me from YouTube from my

Facebook page, which is Dr. Marianne Trent from X, formerly known as Twitter,

Dr. Marianne Trent. Although if you're joining me from Twitter, I don't believe

I can see your comments as you make them live. So you may want to pick one of

the other platforms, and if I can make it work on the evening, I will try to

livestream from Instagram using my phone as well. If you've got any questions

for me in advance, look out for the events that will be created on those

platforms within seven days before the event because it doesn't let you

schedule it before that unfortunately.

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So there should be events that you can duck into right now

and ask any questions in advance. Otherwise, just rock up and ask me your

questions on the day. What sometimes helps is if you want me to know who you

are and to use your name, if you go along to streamyard.com, either slash

Facebook or slash LinkedIn, then you can give it your permissions so that I can

see your name. Got to love a bit of GDPR, haven't you. It'll also be streamed

live via my Facebook group, which is the Aspiring Psychologist community with

Dr. Marianne Trent. And of course it will also be live streamed to my members

in the Aspiring Psychologist membership, which you can join by clicking on the

link in my bio on any of my social media platforms or by checking out the

description or the show notes depending on how you are watching or listening to

this episode.

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So one suggestion that I'd had for my very special 100th

episode was to include more bloopers, some of the bits that don't go right and

yeah, I guess this might be a good chance to explain that recently in the last

couple of months, I have outsourced my production of the podcast because it was

taking up quite a lot of my time. So I think until around episode mid eighties,

something like that, I edited every single episode myself. So I've learned a

lot about video and sound production over these last two years, but it's not my

forte. So I did outsource those, but it does mean that the bloopers, which I'd

started doing and now not happening, I don't get to see the bloopers anymore,

believe me, there's quite a few of them as I fluff up what I'm saying. But we

don't have the bloopers show reels anymore, which is a real shame.

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But if there's any way we can bring them back in future,

we will do. There was also another suggestion about interviewing people who'd

been successful in the membership, which I love as an idea. I might absolutely

do that in future thinking about what people have found helpful because I know

it's a tricky thing to begin to imagine how helpful it might be. So I will

definitely add that to the research list for a future episode. I wanted to use

some of today's episode to tell you what it's meant to me and to share my

gratitude to you, my dear listeners or my dear watchers if you're watching on

YouTube, because it's felt like a really lovely community to be part of. I

still am genuinely kind of perplexed and bemused when people tell me how

helpful they find it and how nice it is to be able to tune into someone either

chatting to themselves about psychology or talking to other similarly

passionate people about their journeys and the things that they are doing in

the world of qualified or aspiring psychology.

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You won't have met him yet, but we've got an episode with

a lovely guy coming up quite soon called Matthew. I could have spoken to him

all day, but he's messaged me several times just to say how much he enjoyed

what we did and how helpful he'd found it, how interesting he found it, and how

he mentioned during the chat. He really likes the podcast. He really finds it

useful, and what I like is it becomes part of people's fabric of their week. So

because it's always out at 6:00 AM on a Monday, although I am playing around

with that a little bit with YouTube as I record this, I did play around with

releasing episode 98 with Jonathan Padi. I did play around with releasing that

early on a Sunday afternoon. So if you like a little early look, do check out

Dr. Marianne Trent on YouTube for a little sneak peek at the episode. It's not

a sneak peek, it's the whole thing, but it's another way to get your psychology

early, so if Sundays work better for you than Mondays as a release date,

there's potentially an option there if I do continue

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To do that. But yeah, I love hearing your feedback. I love

it when people leave me reviews, which you can do on Spotify or Apple. So

please do do that. If you've got a spare moment, you don't even have to leave a

full review. Certainly on Apple Podcasts, you can just do a rating, but if

you've got a minute more, please do leave me a review. If you are on Apple

Podcasts, go to the podcast app, find the Aspiring Psychologist podcast, then

click go to show, and then if you scroll down past about the first five or six

episodes that will come up for you, you will then get to a section for rating

and reviews, and once you've just clicked your hopefully five star review, you

can then write a review that would be so gratefully received. What do you need

to be able to be a guest on the podcast?

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Well, an interesting story helps, but in terms of tech,

it's helpful if you've got some sort of separate headphones and a mic, but you

absolutely can use AirPods or a similar brand as well because that helps cut

down any audio noise. So I tend to mute myself when I'm not speaking, so I'm

constantly pressing buttons to allow me to speak, which does of course mean

there's quite regularly a time where I'm talking and I've forgotten to unmute

myself. It's just the modern complexities of using Zoom and teams and stuff,

isn't it? I do record on a platform called Streamyard, though, which is really

very good. I do think it's a good platform if you wanted to look into that

yourself. There's a link in the show notes, so things do not always run

smoothly in the life of a podcaster. I remember one time I accidentally deleted

or hid the entire back catalogue of my podcast that was a little bit panicked,

but I did manage to find what I'd done with it again, which was a relief.

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I'd accidentally, I think hidden it into another folder.

And since then I've been backing it up as well, just in case Sound has probably

been the biggest Bug bear. We also changed from being an MP three only podcast

to being a YouTube video content podcast as well. We've tried to kind of roll

with the changes and get a bit of B roll in there. But yes, sound has not

always been our friend. I think hopefully we've generally stumbled across a

Mike's solution that works well for me as the host, but sometimes the sound for

guests just hasn't worked, and even myself with this podcast set up, sometimes

the sound has not been ideal. So I'm sorry. Thank you for carrying on

listening. Yeah, sometimes there's short notice cancellations because that is

life, isn't it? But generally speaking, things have run pretty smoothly. So let

me guide you through what being the host of the Aspiring Psychologist podcast

looks like.

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So in terms of recordings, I usually record these either

on a Monday morning or on a Friday morning, although today is a Monday

afternoon because I was already recording one this morning, and I do have to

keep some of my Monday free to be able to prepare brilliant content for the

people in the Aspiring Psychologist podcast. So I do sometimes keep the whole

Monday free, but I use Monday Sessions as a backup for people who aren't free

on a Friday session to record. How do I find the guests? So if you are a long-term

listener, you'll know that I often hang out on LinkedIn, and as part of some of

the interesting conversations I have on LinkedIn, if I think it would make an

interesting episode, I do sometimes just say, how would you fancy coming on to

discuss this as an episode on the Aspiring Psychologist podcast?

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Some people run a mile, but most do say, gosh, that would

be amazing. Thank you. I'm very excited. Once it's in the can, so to speak, I

download it and I create the little moving graphic that you will see that

appears on YouTube, which also acts as the thumbnail for YouTube as well. And

yeah, I guess I'm trying to learn quite a lot. So as I've gone along, I've

realised that you don't need to call it the title of the podcast in every

episode, nor do I need to say what episode it is on the description. Instead, I

should try and use as kind of a Click bait-y title as possible stuff that

people might actually be searching for or Googling potentially. So that's what

I try to do when I've got that ready and when I've got any social links that I

need to share for any guests that I send that to my editor, it would be really

good if in theory, we can get a little bit ahead again, because sometimes,

certainly when I was editing myself, sometimes I was only getting it finished

on Sunday and then having to get it transcribed and do the show notes.

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Sometimes it's been quite last minute, which is quite

stressful, but we're trying to move just so we're slightly further ahead. When

I had a lovely aspiring psychologist helping me, she was able to help me get so

that we were like three or four episodes scheduled in advance. And that last

happened probably, well, we did it over the summer with the summer sound bite

series. But yeah, full length episodes were scheduled over last summer, and

then she went off travelling and we never quite recovered, but she's doing

wonderful things now and yeah, I think she liked working with me as well. So

yeah, we get that back. I get it transcribed, and then someone helps me to

create the show notes because that was a bit of the process I didn't really

enjoy, which basically, if you've never checked out the show notes, do it now.

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Why not go along to the show? And then for each episode

there is show notes, which will give you the overview of what's in the episode.

You can also look at the transcript for each episode, should you ever want to,

and then the main chunks, if you just want to Skimm read, you can see what

topics are discussed at roughly what minutes. So that's what the show notes

are. We get a snippet or reel created as part of the edit, and then that goes

up when I remember onto TikTok when I remember onto YouTube shorts. But

regularly each week, my virtual assistant helps me to schedule it up on

Instagram because my scheduling tool does not seem to like me. I put in all the

effort to get it scheduled, and it just doesn't happen. It used to, but I seem

to have lost my own recording privileges. I do not know why. So let's just take

a little break here when you can hear about a little Booksy wie, and I'll be

back along very soon if help.

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Jingle AD: It's right here in this book Psych.

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How lovely it is to hear that. Again, it's been a while

since we've heard the jingles for the books because I don't tend to play those

in the joint episodes because it would be weird if suddenly in the middle of

the conversation, I just cut to the lovely jingle guys singing. So by the time

you hear this episode, the world will know whether the Aspiring Psychologist

Podcast won an award at the Independent Podcaster Award. So we were up for

three different categories, one of which was Best Jingle. Having listened to

the others, I do think it is the best. So I do hope that we may win an award

for one of the categories, but unfortunately I'm not free to go to the awards

evening in London. I would've really fancied that. It sounded quite swanky. But

yeah, I'm not free to go.

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So I guess I'll find out retrospectively if I'm a winner.

How cool would it be to be able to say award-winning podcast? So that's

something exciting. Other things that have happened that are exciting is, I

think probably mainly because of the podcast, but also to do with the Aspiring

Psychologist Collective book and the Clinical Psychologist Collective book,

along with the free compassionate q and a series. I've been invited to do some

psychology keynotes, so by the time you listen to this, so if you are listening

to it on the day it's released the 6th of November, that is the day when I'm

going live to the British Psychological Society's Careers Festival Conference

as their opening keynote speaker, which is very exciting. How cool is that?

Actually, that's happening on the hundredth episode celebration, so that's cool

too. And then of course, I was invited to speak for the Irish Psychological

Society as well.

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If you think that you'd like to hear me speak at one of

your upcoming events, please do get in contact with me in terms of some of my

favourite episodes of the podcast. So I know it's fresh in my memory, but I did

just have a ball putting together the Galway one. Nick gave me quite the focus

when I was spending time by myself to record and speak to myself. I think one

of the strongest episodes is the one where I'm looking at helping you to revise

and prepare better for interviews and exams. I really, really enjoyed that one.

I also really enjoyed, well, so many of them. It's hard to pick between your

babies, isn't it? But I really enjoyed talking with Alicia Hussein about her

values and as being a Muslim, it was a lot of fun to talk with Dr. Deborah

Kingston.

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She just makes me smile. We were talking about working in

forensic settings, being a slightly older applicant, as well as I think we did

some neurodevelopmental type stuff as well. Had a real giggle when I met with

Ian Dempsey to talk about finances, and he has been invited back on. In fact, I

saw him this morning because it was a special request to get Ian back, so

you'll be able to hear him in the new year because we decided that's probably a

good time to start thinking about finances again. And it was, of course, a

complete honour and a privilege. Do you remember when I was so nervous and

intimidated that you could hear that I sounded a bit wobbly when I spoke with

Dr. Lucy Johnston all about formulation and the power threat meaning framework.

So it's hard to pick your favourites out of a hundred now, isn't it?

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But I would love to know what your favourite episodes have

been, what has resonated with you most or what's made you smile? What's made

you pick up your pen and get reflecting or what's shaped what you've written on

your form or the confidence that you've been able to bring to clinical

experiences with your clients or even with supervision for that matter? I think

the boundary setting episode, which is episode eight, is really, really solid.

All of those early ones as well are just really key foundations really for

working in psychology and what's going to happen in future. So yeah, given that

I've already told you I've recorded stuff that's taking us up to the new year

and beyond, we're not stopping anytime soon. There are no plans to end. I'm

going to keep doing this, keep inviting. Really interesting guests for you to

learn, for us to shape together, for us to grow.

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I really hope that in, I was about to say this time next

year, but it won't be this time next year because one a week is going to be

almost two years time we'll be celebrating 200 episodes. I can't quite begin to

imagine what that might look like. But of course, I guess it's also, I should

say that it's this podcast that got me the Channel five gig for inheritance

disputes. So this podcast is how they found me. So another beautiful benefits

of the podcast, which I most definitely did not see coming when I started it.

So yeah, I should be carrying on. It is quite an expensive process for me with

all of the people that I've got helping me with the podcast. So if you did want

to buy me a cup of tea to say thank you and to help cover my costs, you can do

that either directly from the Captivate Platform or by clicking my Link Tree

Link on any of my socials. And just a cup of tea would be absolutely

delightful. As you guys know, I do enjoy a cup of herbal tea.

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Cheers. So thank you, dear listener for showing up for

consistently giving me my ratings, figures that I check in at. I can see even

today, it's just a few hours since the podcast episode has dropped already. I

can see that we've had 95 unique listeners today, and that in total 111

episodes have been downloaded. So that is pretty good for the first hours of a

podcast episode. Let's keep doing what we do. But I want this also to be a

bottom up process. So if there's something you would like to see or someone

you'd like me to interview for the podcast, do let me know. And if you can help

me by introducing me to those people, that would be marvellous as well. So

yeah, come and follow me on socials. Come and connect with me. Please do leave

those reviews. Do consider coming along to my world, being part of the Aspiring

Psychologist membership, and let me really help support you on your journey in

this wonderful career that I feel so blessed and privileged to be able to say

is mine and yours. And I really try to keep this as generic as possible so that

it's not just clinical psychology, but of course there may be a slight bias

towards the old clinical psychology. But yeah, if there's another discipline

that you would like to hear me interview, please do let me know. Thank you from

the bottom of my heart, and I'll look forward to the next 100 episodes and

beyond. Thank you so much. Take care.

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